How can you drastically improve the quality of job applicants, while improving their experience, and slashing recruiting costs? Sound like a phantom … Read more
TextRecruit Launches Virtual Career Fairs
The business of connecting with candidates via text messaging has been a clear winner in the recruitment space the last few years. Readers will remember … Read more
Need to Recruit More Applicants? Offer Them a Product Discount
Many search for jobs because they seek more buying power, so why not offer qualified applicants a product discount to meet that interest? Yes, when you’re … Read more
We Want to Tell Recruiting Stories as Well as Hollywood
Hands down, I have an excellent recruiting team, a team that is on the verge of crossing from excellent to the best in the business. We understand crossing … Read more
Make Your Automated Recruiting Messages Better
Last month I went on an epic vacation (yay me!) and I got to do one of my favorite things (don’t laugh): write my out-of-office message. I know people … Read more
Avoid Common Mistakes in Text-based Interviews
Many recruiters and HR professionals are using text-based recruiting platforms for the first time, and it can be challenging to learn how to best use this … Read more
LinkedIn Targets SMBs With ‘Help Wanted’ Sign Download Option
Historically, the LinkedIn brand is not one small businesses think of when it comes to hiring the likes of cooks, dry cleaners, and janitorial staff. … Read more
Google Enhances Job Search API to Provide Commute Info, Multiple Language Support
Of the three solutions Google launched targeted at helping job seekers and employers come together, the job search API, dubbed Cloud Talent Solution, gets … Read more
Chatbot Gold Rush Continues With Wade and Wendy Raising $7.6 Million
With messaging apps like TextRecruit and Canvas getting acquired recently, it’s no surprise that chatbots, which are a natural progression of the … Read more
Game-based Assessments for Hiring — What You Need to Know
Are game-based assessments the future of employment testing? In the podcast below, I talk about that question with Ben Hawkes. He’s an I/O … Read more
Total Wine & More Wants Job Candidates to Know It’s Not Your Typical Liquor Store
Total Wine’s reach now spans 193 stores in 23 states, as well as online sales in 14 states. The chain’s stores can be as large as 50,000 square … Read more
Checking-In With Recruiting Chatbots and Their ‘Anti-Ghosting Magic’
I first wrote about chatbots in April 2016, shortly after Facebook had announced that its popular Messenger product would open up to developers. I called … Read more
What Recruiting Will Look Like in 2029
We all know that recruiting will not look like it does now in 10 years. But what will it be like? Which skills will be useful, and which ones will be … Read more
Recruit Your Super Bowl Lineup
This article is way overdue. To be exact, it is now four years overdue. On February 1, 2015, I was sitting at a hotel lounge in Las Vegas watching the … Read more
Jobiak Says It Has Remedy for What Ails Staffing Agencies Dumped By Indeed
Back in October 2018, Indeed handed staffing agencies their very own version of a pink slip. Stating third-party recruiters must now pay to appear in … Read more
If You Really Want to Help Government Workers … Recruit Them Away
It’s not an overstatement to label the current federal government partial shutdown as the most extraordinary opportunity to recruit government employees … Read more
Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn
If you work in recruiting and you are not personally worried about an upcoming downturn, realize that many others are thinking about it. For example, … Read more
Executive Shake-Up Going Down at Crowded.com
Changes are coming to the executive suite at New York-based startup, Crowded. Co-founded by Howie Schwartz and Joe Rubin in 2015, the software … Read more
What You’ll Recruit for in 2022
The World Economic Forum has just released its annual Future of Jobs Report. Among the findings: New, emerging jobs will increase their share of all jobs … Read more
The Odds Microsoft Buys Upwork Just Went, Um, Up
Microsoft doesn’t want to lose its hold on enterprise computing. It ousted IBM from that mountaintop many moons ago, and it’ll be damned if … Read more