There may be a disconnect between candidates and employers, an incongruence in where candidates and employers spend time searching each other. This is … Read more
Texting Candidates from Your Personal Cell Phone? Here’s Why You Should Stop
One study found that 70 percent of companies say time to fill was reduced when using text messaging as the primary form of communication. But could you be … Read more
Embracing AI Techniques in Recruiting Could Help Women
There has been a lot of ink spilled on hiring processes that use AI for end-to-end recruiting that fall short by magnifying the biases inherent in the data … Read more
5 Steps for Attracting and Keeping the Youngest in the Workforce
Your goal is to make your company indispensable to today’s “talentsumers,” who are consumers of an experience at work quite different … Read more
Facebook Jobs Moves to Beef Up Content, Combat Spam
When Facebook started offering job listings to its billions of users in 2017, the list of partners who would be providing job content was pretty sparse, to … Read more
Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esports Team
Recruiters look for job experience and then sort by skill level. But an alternative is to look for “skills experience,” which better reveals hidden … Read more
Improve Candidate Experience and Engagement by Asking Better Questions
We all love to hear ourselves talk, and we appreciate when others listen to us. In interviews, we can use this to our advantage by asking better questions. … Read more
A Buddy Hiring Program Attracts, Retains, and Increases Productivity
Gallup research found that working with your best friend was a powerful motivating factor, so McDonald’s and the Army now have buddy hiring programs. … Read more
4 Reasons Indeed Might Be ‘Crazy Like a Fox’ to Block Google for Jobs
I give Indeed a lot of grief for not participating in Google for Jobs and not letting the search giant index its job postings. For years, Indeed has gotten … Read more
Our Talent Acquisition Path at Intel, From Transactions to Relationships
Intel has been on a journey to rethink talent acquisition for the last two years. We started from a fundamental premise that the way talent acquisition in … Read more
What We’re Seeing So Far From ‘Google for Jobs’
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