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The hospitality industry lost 2.5 million jobs in 2020, the National Restaurant Association reported. Although restaurants have added jobs in 2021, the unemployment rate for restaurant workers is …
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As we bring 2021 to a close, after another year in a chaotic labor market and working to keep up with rapidly changing federal and state guidelines around returning to work, we’re taking a look at …
While no one can fully predict the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic, it looks like one of its side effects — the hybrid workforce — is here to stay for most white collar employers. Many organizations …
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Many companies choose to ignore online employee reviews, either because they don’t think it’s necessary to respond to them, or because they dismiss negative reviews as coming from disgruntled former …
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Strategic workforce planning for hourly roles in retail and hospitality may be more about what employers don’t require from candidates than what they do. During a time when employers would usually be …
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Recruiters rely heavily on LinkedIn for candidate outreach and building talent pools through connections on the social network. LinkedIn Recruiter InMail messages allow recruiters to get in touch with …
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It’s that time of year again – the holiday season is picking up momentum, and it’s only going to get bigger, louder, and faster. Retail and ecommerce companies know what’s coming and would normally …
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The demand for residential construction has risen given low interest rates and the rapid acceleration of remote work. Other construction needs are also expected to increase as the world moves past the …
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The tighter the talent marketplace gets, the more challenging it is to speed up time to hire and to hold on to applicants before they get an offer from a competitor. Challenging — but it isn’t …
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In the restaurant industry, it’s an ongoing battle to provide support and resources to your managers. In many organizations, the store management is responsible for hiring and recruiting candidates, …
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The time for 2022 planning and forecasting has arrived as we approach the final quarter of 2021. The golden rule of business planning is the earlier, the better. It’s never too early to start …
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Healthcare staffing in general, and senior or assisted living healthcare staffing specifically, is facing an uphill battle for qualified and certified healthcare professionals. In July, The American …
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In part one of this series, we covered how the concept of psychological safety can create an environment of trust between your HR and recruiting teams and your executive leadership. Here, we’ll go …
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As talent acquisition and human resources leaders, we know how important it is to create a culture of trust in the workplace. Transparency, flexibility, follow through, and relationship building can …
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Restaurant employment rose for the sixth consecutive month in June, yet staffing levels remain well below pre-crisis levels. The industry added a net 186,000 jobs in May on a seasonally adjusted …
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Freelance writers, designers, and web developers have been using platforms like Fiverr and Upwork for years, but the pandemic created a surge in workers signing up on ODT (on-demand talent) platforms …
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In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, many large retailers discovered that their frontline employees – deemed essential workers – weren’t incentivized to put their health at risk for $8 to $10 an …
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Recruiters and employers seeking hourly workers are experiencing a sharp increase in interview no-shows, or “ghosting” by candidates who have passed a phone screening and have been scheduled for an …
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit the hospitality and retail industries particularly hard, with many restaurants and retailers shutting their doors or closing franchise locations throughout 2020. After the …
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Hourly workers have always been the backbone of the U.S. economy and the importance of the work they do has only become heightened during this pandemic crisis. Employees who are paid an hourly wage …
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Before the pandemic, the restaurant and food services industry projected it would provide 15.6 million jobs in 2020, or 10% of all payroll jobs in the economy. But the impact of the coronavirus caused …
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One of the important HR metrics to evaluate, especially when you’re working to hire at a high volume, is applicant drop off rate. This is the proportion of candidates who begin your application …
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For logistics & fulfillment companies, social distancing, health concerns, and other pandemic-related challenges made finding qualified candidates to fill increased demand incredibly difficult – …
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Some 20 percent of work in the U.S. post-pandemic will be performed remotely (compared to just five percent pre-pandemic), according to a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, …
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There are fewer candidates and more open positions in manufacturing right now than ever. According to a May 2021 report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, about 1.4 million U.S. …
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The first step in planning your next hiring event is evaluating the success of your first. The evaluation process starts when you’re setting up your first event and allows you to understand what …
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According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the month of April 2021, most industries have yet to return to pre-pandemic staffing. The lone positive standout? Leisure and hospitality, which added …
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Buoyed by 2020 growth in ecommerce and the wider economy not doing so well (compounded by low interest rates and the threat of negative interest rates), we have seen a rush to invest in ecommerce …
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While we’re still in the midst of a global pandemic, all signs point to recovery as the restaurant and retail industries begin to scale up to pre-pandemic staff levels. In retail, which includes …
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After dropping sharply last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession, manufacturing activity has rebounded, production is likely to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the next couple …
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Workforce planning support means that you and your team are responsible for the forecasting that allows you to properly plan for your recruitment advertising and marketing spend, requisition workload, …
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Whether you set up a booth at a university event or hold your own open house for candidates, it's important to look for the optimal face-to-face engagement with job seekers that gives you the …
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In the United States, the majority of the approximately 11 million college students work 20 or more hours per week (according to The Century Foundation, a progressive public policy organization that …
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National Hiring Day isn’t one we traditionally celebrate, especially in the world of recruiting where every day is a hiring day. And it doesn’t fall on a specific date on our calendar. What it is, …
Healthcare recruiting has been challenging for years. Recruiters and employers worked to attract and retain talent in one of the fastest-growing sectors and the largest employer in the U.S. 2019 …
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In industries that must hire hourly workers, many of them high volume, recruiters are working to compete with companies that are raising minimum hourly wages to fill open positions. While a blue …
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While many employers have pivoted to holding virtual or drive-through hiring events during the pandemic, many others in industries like logistics, retail, food service, and hospitality that are hiring …
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Evaluating new applicant tracking system (ATS) software is the first step in a successful implementation project plan. While it seems like an easy task (just get better than what you have now!), a lot …
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Your no-show segment should be treated differently than the attendees after a successful hiring event. Candidates that registered and showed up have made it through the awareness and consideration …
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Talent acquisition encompasses talent procurement, forecasting, pipelining, assessment, and development as strategic functions within a large organization. Leveraging tools, technology, and …
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Employee Appreciation Day is annually celebrated on the first Friday in March. It was created for all companies as the day when bosses can thank their employees for their hard work and effort …
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The two primary challenges for talent acquisition leaders in supply chain—specifically the logistics, manufacturing, and distribution industries—as the pandemic reaches nearly a year of marketplace …
While U.S. restaurants continue to face the challenges brought about by COVID-19, many of the changes of 2020 are here to stay. According to research from Technomic, 40 percent of Americans took …
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Shipping and logistics organizations faced steep human resources challenges in 2020, when demand for warehouse labor was at an all-time high. In September, for example, warehouse employment reached …
As we continue to feel the impact of this year’s unprecedented global health crisis, some of the biggest organizational changes are happening in the healthcare industry. From essential worker safety …
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Based on data from Square, the share of the retail businesses that continued operating throughout the pandemic and accepted an online payment went from 38% in February, before the pandemic, to 51% in …
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You and your team are probably thinking about how to improve your company’s diversity and inclusion efforts for the long-term now more than ever before. Given the current climate, even companies with …
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When you want to recruit diverse candidates, it’s important to follow some best practices for creating job postings and job descriptions. We have to remove barriers of entry that are preventing a …
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To build candidate funnels that drive results, we have to think about our candidate experience and our employer brand. How well does our brand perform and how does it support our recruiting team …
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In these uncertain times, it is not enough to simply have one strategy. You must be prepared with alternate strategies and plans in order to pivot from one to another. We’ve had to make a lot of …
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One primary factor that HR and Talent Acquisition leaders face in the midst of a global pandemic is that it’s difficult to plan and set up a recruiting strategy when we don’t know what next week or …
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When you are recruiting for future opportunities, you have to work that much harder to build trust with potential candidates. You are engaging in more meaningful conversations to gain perspective on …
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Nearly all states have allowed dining rooms to open, albeit limited capacity, which means several brands have brought back furloughed employees. Fast casual chain Chili’s has reopened more than 600 of …
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In the current talent marketplace, you may be working with a smaller team or a smaller budget, so finding ways to do more with less is key to streamlining your hiring processes. In the talent …
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In recruitment marketing, we want to increase the visibility of the strong employer brand we’ve worked so hard to create. However, we have to remember that visibility and reach isn’t the same thing as …
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What happens in retail reflects the broader economy. The sector accounts for more than one in 10 U.S. jobs; only health care employs more. Retail stores generate billions of dollars in rent for …
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Before COVID-19, the rate of unemployment in the U.S. was at a historic low. In a candidate-driven market, recruiters became highly tech-savvy and creative to reach a passive candidate audience. …
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While many companies have scaled back hiring efforts due to the novel coronavirus, companies in need of essential workers are struggling to reach candidates. Staffing agencies and companies that are …
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Although the recent global health crisis has hit our economy hard, and unemployment filings have reached record numbers, companies in the retail industry are struggling to hire at scale for essential …
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This talent marketplace is a challenging one, especially for essential industries that have always been highly competitive, like healthcare. It also impacts companies that might be scaling back on …
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Recently we reviewed important areas talent acquisition teams should focus on to prepare for ramping hiring back up after a crisis, no matter what the new normal will look like for the talent …
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While many industries are scaling back on their recruiting due to closures from COVID-19, healthcare recruiters are struggling to fill essential positions in a marketplace that already had a worker …
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The worldwide impact of a global pandemic will create a new normal for hiring and recruiting, but we don’t know exactly what that looks like right now. There’s no playbook for something like this, we …
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As I’ve spent time in online job seeker communities recently, I’ve begun to see a number of posts from new job seekers joining a community because they are one of the millions laid off due to a …
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Whether your company is ramping up hiring for essential services or downshifting to adapt to shelter-in-place advisories, it’s not only important that HR has all hands on deck, but we also have to …
While video interviews are not likely to completely replace in-person interviews, many employers are using them in combination with online hiring events to engage candidates at scale. In circumstances …
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Career fairs have been a go-to for high-volume hiring for decades. In the past decade, we’ve seen an increase in online marketing that allows us to reach candidates through targeted online campaigns. …
Recruiting conferences give you and your team a great opportunity to invest in professional development and success. These conferences offer learning sessions, panels, and education about new …
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When you’re recruiting for high-volume positions in retail, your requisitions can exponentially increase seasonally or based on data like in-store sales and traffic. Retail recruiting is almost always …
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Once you’ve decided to host a candidate hiring event, the next step is to determine what type of hiring event will work best for you and your company. Whether you set up a booth at a university event …
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Quality content is part of all forms of recruitment marketing, whether the format is digital ads, social media posts, emails, or any other method of candidate communication. Content marketing is a …
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Hiring events have been a go-to for high-volume hiring for decades. When we hold open houses for candidates, our goal is to get the maximum face-to-face engagement with qualified applicants. Before …
Hiring events, also known as career fairs, have been a go-to for high-volume hiring for decades. When we hold open houses for candidates, our goal is to get the maximum face-to-face engagement with …
Tax preparation is big business. In 2018, there were 300,000 people employed at 109,000 firms, generating $9 billion in revenue. Additionally, because it is required, tax preparation tends to be …
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Today’s candidate is super savvy, meaning that by the time they apply for a position with your company, they’ve already done their research which according to the most recent Candidate Experience …
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I’ve talked about how recruiters can take a playbook directly from corporate marketers to develop a solid recruitment marketing strategy, and content marketing is at the heart of it. In its simplest …
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As a consultant, I am often asked this question in my recruiting strategy and employer brand work: How do you prioritize where to direct your company resources and which should be first, developing …
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As our need for employment branding and recruitment marketing grows, it’s important to have a presence in a variety of online communities and audiences to engage the qualified candidates we all want …
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With the launch of Google Cloud and Google for Jobs, job postings are appearing higher in indexed search engine results. What does this mean for you? Job posting optimization and SEO is critical in …
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As the economy sits at near zero unemployment, the role of candidate experience in the hiring process has become a crucial one. It’s a struggle for recruiting and HR teams to find ways to improve …
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Your employer brand is a key element of your recruitment marketing strategy, and your employee value proposition (EVP) is at the heart of it. At a very basic level, your EVP is the unique set of …
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It’s a tight talent market out there, and sometimes we need a quick boost to bring an influx of candidates into our hiring funnel. These tactics used to be “just in case,” but considering that current …
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The social media and digital world is shifting. We are moving from a world where everyone shares everything via digital channels like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram to a siloed world that …
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Candidate engagement is at the heart of our recruitment marketing efforts and, as we have shifted to a marketing mindset with campaigns and funnels, understanding how marketing automation and nurture …
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Recently I had the pleasure of attending the UNLEASH conference where I moderated and participated in several panel sessions, including a candidate experience panel (How HR Technologies Empower …
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Gigs are more common and more organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements than ever before. Freelance writers and journalists, technical staff, creatives roles designer …
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We’ve seen the explosion of the gig economy in the workforce coming for years, and now as recruiters we are trying to engage, recruit, and hire those same gig workers. Hiring for the gig economy is no …
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Labor gaps are not new to the hospitality industry, but the magnitude of the current workforce shortage is. In 2009, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated 353,000 job openings across the leisure …
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There are a number of metrics we should track in our recruiting efforts, as mentioned broadly in Must-Have Recruiting Metrics to Show Off to Your Boss. When it comes to recruitment marketing, it’s …
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A recent PwC report, “Workforce of the Future,” indicates that candidates are the most responsive to a potential employer’s outreach efforts at a sweet spot between seven and 11 engagements or …
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Financial services is more than just banking, insurance, and investing. As more services in the financial industry are automated, financial services recruiters are working to fill higher value and …
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As staffing companies are looking for different ways to target, engage, and increase traffic with job seekers, creating engaging and targeted content is critical in this competitive job market. We’ve …
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As more services in the financial industry are automated, financial services recruiters are working to fill higher value and more advanced roles. Financial services is more than just banking, …
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Evergreen jobs are positions at your company that are always open, either because they are high turnover positions or because they are positions for which you have many employees in the same role. As …
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When it comes to attracting talent, your career site is a powerful tool. Many companies set up a page, integrate it with their ATS, and link their job postings to the page. In this candidate-driven …
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Recruiting has historically been reactive process, especially for agency recruiters. We act based on requisitions or requests, and struggle to find the right candidates for the open positions as …
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Like most employers today, banking and other financial organizations are struggling with intense talent competition and a lack of qualified candidates. Automation, mobile technology and big data …
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As recruiting leaders, we want our recruitment marketing to perform so well that we can demonstrate ROI year after year (and don’t have to press our company leadership for a budget). One of the …
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Good hiring is no game, but elements of gamification can be used to improve your talent acquisition and applicant screening. In this program, Jamie Winter, vice president of consulting and hiring and …
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In the manufacturing sector, recruiting employees is harder now than at any time during the past nine years, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Leading Indicators of National …
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Attracting sales talent in the financial services sector is no easy feat. In January of 2019, the unemployment rate stood at 4 percent, up from 3.9 percent in the previous month and following a …
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A tight talent marketplace means that recruiting employees is harder now than at any time during the past nine years, specifically in skilled labor industries like manufacturing. According to the …
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As our work in recruitment and hiring becomes more digital, we need tools, reporting, and metrics that help us understand the needs, interests, and activities of our candidates for the positions we …
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Since using staffing in manufacturing is a common practice that is often an expensive one, costing companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in staffing fees, companies need to measure the cost per …
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Marvin Smith, strategic talent sourcing and talent community strategist at Lockheed Martin, led an interactive webinar on “A Matter of Metrics - Measuring for Success” March 6 with ERE and we have a …
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In our earlier post on email and InMail benchmarking, we discussed the importance of quality of quantity through recruiting outreach. Quality over quantity can seem contradictory to what sales gurus …
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Email engagement and social messaging on sites like LinkedIn continue to be a recruiters tool of choice in terms for direct candidate outreach. Platforms like LinkedIn have made it easy to search and …
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Basic email and InMail outreach are really the bread and butter of great recruiting and recruiters. The challenge in this day and age is that qualified candidates are being inundated with messaging. …
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Your career site is your company’s most important recruitment channel and the top resource candidates use during their research process. A report from LinkedIn says that your company website is the …
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One of your 2019 resolutions in the new year should be focusing on video in your recruitment marketing. Video has long been used by product marketers and in traditional marketing, and innovative …
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Text messaging is part recruiting and talent funnel and part communication tool used to engage a large and segmented audience quickly and more effectively than emails or phone calls. For a …
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In order to reach the candidates needed to apply to open requisitions, staffing companies must focus more than ever before on improving visibility for job postings. With changing algorithms in search …
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When working as a hiring manager in retail, you are allotted so many payroll hours for the number of sales you drive, which is why many stores and locations scale hiring for seasonal staff during the …
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Many staffing companies do not have a strong brand and are representing clients often anonymously, which makes the candidate experience even more important. The experience that an agency recruiter has …
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In the staffing world, we operate in a “just in time” staffing model, whereas recruiters and agencies that support businesses in their hiring efforts are often reacting to the needs of the clients. As …
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Your company career site should be the center of your recruitment marketing and digital recruiting activities. When evaluating your digital recruiting efforts, it’s important to think about the …
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Automation is going to take our jobs, according to a lot of articles about the talent marketplace and the future of work. A lot of people are making the claim that artificial intelligence (AI) is the …
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There are a number of metrics we should be following in our recruiting efforts, as mentioned broadly in Must-Have Recruiting Metrics to Show Off to Your Boss. Each metric has specific benefits when it …
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As part of our recruiting metrics series, we’ll dive deeper into the difference between time-to-fill and time-to-start, outline why they are important, and explain how you and your recruiting team can …
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When considering the most important metrics for your recruiting team, most of us will want to place a priority on the KPIs that show the revenue saved by the company in order to demonstrate value. As …
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In order to focus on improving your employer brand, it’s important to go beyond pure recruiting metrics and look at marketing metrics in the areas of employment branding that you should be thinking …
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The nature of hiring for hospitality positions has always been high-volume, but in today’s talent marketplace, recruiters for restaurant and hospitality jobs must be able to move even faster, work …
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As a recruiting leader, you have done the work of auditing your team’s recruiting and hiring processes, made recommendations based on your audit, and have a rough plan of action. The real challenge …
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The National Restaurant Association reported restaurant industry sales of nearly $799 billion last year, which represents four percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, and nearly 48 percent of …
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It’s that time of year again for retail employers. Autumn brings cooler temperatures, and back-to-school sales, so retailers are suddenly knee-deep in holiday hiring and pre-planning activities. That …
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We’ve discussed recruiting like a marketer in previous posts. Here, we’ll build on that concept and focus on targeted marketing campaigns specifically intended to improve candidate quality. …
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The very nature of seasonal hiring, specifically in the retail industry, means that you must be able to move quickly, engage candidates, and communicate with a large potential candidate pool in order …
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The role of recruiting and talent acquisition is firmly in the spotlight as companies struggle to fill roles within their organizations. With that spotlight comes the added pressure of communicating …
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Recruiting dashboards provides talent acquisition leaders with a quick snapshot of important recruiting metrics and trends that are customizable to the individual and the organization. …
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As part of SHRM’s webcast series, Talroo sponsored a webinar hosted by Tim Sackett, author of The Talent Fix: A Leader's Guide to Recruiting Great Talent. …
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Scott Schaffer, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at West Monroe Partners, spoke on a webcast titled Think Like Your Candidate hosted by ERE and sponsored by Talroo. We wanted to share highlights …
In early July, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate increased to four percent in June, as hundreds of thousands more Americans sought work. For the first time in recorded …
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As recruiting evolves, we are becoming more of a high-touch, high engagement and relationship driven function that operates more and more every day like a marketing department, focused on touches, …
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Today’s near-zero unemployment job market combined with social media turns anecdotal recruiting mistakes into #recruitingfails. It’s a candidate’s market and they have multiple platforms to broadcast …
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As consumers, we are shopping online now more than ever. While we’ve seen a direct impact on the retail space in companies like Blockbuster, Barnes & Noble, and even some big box retailers …
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While recruiting Millennials is still a warm topic in human resources, the first wave of the next generation is beginning to enter the workforce. Most millennials are now in their late 20s and 30s, …
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As consumers become more and more pressed for time, concierge shopping services offer a great value to retail customers on the go. Traditionally, retailers forecasted their sales and staffing needs …
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As a recruiter, your career site is one of the most important tools for branding and attracting candidates to your job postings. However, simply setting up a page with job listings means that you …
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In retail, restaurant and hospitality, it’s an ongoing battle to provide support and resources to your managers. In many organizations, the store management is responsible for hiring and recruiting …
Continue Reading about 5 Ways to Make Hiring Easier for Your Hiring Managers and Store Leadership →
While recruiting metrics are important for human resource practitioners to perform their jobs well, they’re even more crucial when it comes to high-volume recruiting. Particularly in industries like …
Continue Reading about 5 Metrics You Must Measure When Recruiting High Volume →
