Most organizations that are facing a talent shortage blame a variety of external factors, even though the actual culprit is the way their firm recruits. … Read more
Amazon Is Taking D.C’s Talent Fight to a New Level
As if the multi-year boom and low unemployment in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. (where ERE’ll be this fall) weren’t enough, … Read more
Candidate Sharing: A Peace Offering in the War for Talent
Join any serious discussion with talent acquisition professionals these days, and the conversation inevitably turns to out-of-the-box ideas to hire new … Read more
Top 5 Reasons Why LinkedIn Profiles Are Superior to Resumes
A fast and simple way to improve both your speed and quality of hire is to use LinkedIn profiles for your initial candidate screening. They are superior at … Read more
Bring on Hiring Managers Earlier In the Recruiting Process
Everyone’s talking about employee engagement. But engagement really starts with the interview. And, to really get job candidates engaged, hiring … Read more
Recruit Always and Everywhere
Lorraine Ladd, associate director of talent acquisition for alliantgroup, is recruiting in an area with 2.4 percent unemployment. That’s a lot of … Read more
The Hidden Cost of Too Many Job Applicants
One of the top candidate complaints is not getting a callback, an email update, or anything after they apply for a job. This frustration is often amplified … Read more
Why Our Hiring Sources Shouldn’t Be a Secret
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