With teacher shortages reported across the country, ensuring your school is doing everything possible to attract and retain quality educators is more important than ever. Teachers not only play a …
On-Demand Labor Fills Staffing Gap for Restaurant Industry
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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Top 10 Recruiting Trends for 2022
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 …
How to Ace Recruitment Marketing in a Hybrid World
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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How to Respond to Negative Online Employee Reviews
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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One Key Factor to Improve Your 2022 Retail & Hospitality Hiring Strategy
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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Best Practices for Candidate Recruitment Outreach
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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Improving Staffing Agency Hiring with Recruitment Metrics
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty, chaos, and obstacles for employers across most industries. It’s hard to find candidates, it’s hard to keep them, and it’s so hard to meet …
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Why Seasonal Hiring for Retail and Ecommerce is Lagging This Year
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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How to Strategize Your 2022 Construction Hiring Planning
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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Five Ways to Improve Your Job Application Process
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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Restaurant Recruiters: Set Up Your Store Leadership Team for Success
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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How to Plan Your Recruiting Budget for 2022
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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How to Optimize Your Senior Living Healthcare Staffing
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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Guide to Building Trust Between TA Leaders and the Executive Suite, Part 2
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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Guide to Building Trust Between TA Leaders and the Executive Suite
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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Qualifying Talent for Remote Call Center Roles
Demand for call center employees is on the rise, as the global pandemic has accelerated trends toward online shopping, working from home, and use of digital tools such as video chat and messaging …
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How the Hospitality Sector is Adapting to a Talent Shortage
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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On-Demand Talent Platforms Are Your Competition for Hourly Roles
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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Why it’s So Hard to Hire Retail Workers Right Now
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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How Companies Are Incentivizing In-Person Interviews
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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Hospitality Hiring: Optimize Your Job Postings
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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Localizing Your Recruiting Outreach for Hourly Roles
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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Four Recruiting Bottlenecks to Avoid in Restaurant & Retail
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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Your Applicant Drop-Off Rate and How to Improve It
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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How to Use KPIs to Improve Your Recruiting Process in Logistics
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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Creative Ways Companies are Incentivizing Employees to Return to the Office
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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Four Recruiting Bottlenecks to Avoid in Manufacturing Hiring
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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Top Hiring Event Metrics for TA Pros
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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How to Use KPIs to Improve Your Hospitality Recruiting Process
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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Ecommerce Hiring: Optimize Your Job Postings
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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Creative Strategies for Hiring in Restaurant & Retail
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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What HR Tech to Use for Hiring Events
Hiring events are a great way to fill your candidate funnel quickly because they allow you to set up an event to see a high volume of candidates in a short period of time, personalize the experience, …
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Best Practices for Job Postings in Manufacturing
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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How to Ask Company Leadership for a Higher Recruiting Budget
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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In-Person Hiring Event Best Practices
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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How to Build a Strategy to Recruit Student Workers
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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How to Host a National Hiring Day
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, …
High Volume Hiring for Essential Healthcare Workers
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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Rising Wages for Essential and Frontline Workers?
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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How Companies Are Hiring at a High Volume During Covid
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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What to Consider When Upgrading Your ATS Software
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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Hiring Event Follow-Up That Engages No-Shows
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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How Talent Acquisition Teams Work with Recruitment Agencies
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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How to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day During a Global Pandemic
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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Recruiting Metrics Essential for Logistics & Distribution Hiring Effectiveness
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 …
What’s Next for Restaurant Industry Talent Acquisition?
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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2021 Predictions: What’s Next for Talent Acquisition in Manufacturing & Logistics?
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 …
2021 Predictions: What’s Next for Talent Acquisition in Healthcare?
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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2021 Predictions: What’s Next for Talent Acquisition in Retail & Grocery?
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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Diversity and Inclusion Planning Basics for TA Leaders
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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Where to Start With Diversity and Inclusion Recruiting Efforts
Whether it’s recruiting methods, culture, or problems with bias, it’s time for companies to look at what they’re doing in the area of diversity and inclusion – and potentially make some significant …
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How to Make your Job Postings More Inclusive
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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Five Employer Branding Metrics TA Leaders Must Know
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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Preparing to Pivot your Talent Acquisition Strategy
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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How to Plan a Recruiting Strategy in Uncertain Times
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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How to Build a Talent Funnel with Automation
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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How to Hire Restaurant Workers During a Crisis
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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Why Automated Funnels Are Essential for Recruiting
Whatever the type of position you are recruiting for, automation and streamlined processes can help build funnels for the top talent your company needs. Your recruiting funnels are important in order …
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Metrics to Improve Talent Acquisition
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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4 Ways to Boost Candidate Engagement
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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5 Hiring Considerations for Retail Re-Opening
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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How to Improve Candidate Quality during a Crisis
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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Drive-Thru Hiring Events Can Scale Your Hiring Post-COVID
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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Revamping Retail Hiring: Lessons from Amazon and H-E-B
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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7 Ways to Streamline Healthcare Recruiting with Automation
When you have to fill requisitions quickly, hiring in tight talent industries like healthcare can be uniquely difficult. In the current talent marketplace, it’s even more so. While many industries are …
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How to Use Candidate Touchpoints to Hire Post-COVID
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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3 Recruiting Strategies for Post-COVID Hiring Success
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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How to Build Talent Funnels in Healthcare
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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How to Prepare for Recruiting Success After a Crisis
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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How to Protect Your Recruiting Brand During a Crisis
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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How to Hire During a Crisis
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 …
How to Conduct Video Interviews at Scale
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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How to Host Online Hiring Events
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 to Attend (Virtually) in 2020
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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Reach Retail Workers with Online Hiring Events
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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What Type of Hiring Event Should You Host?
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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5 Candidate Resources Every Recruiting Team Needs
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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Is a Hiring Event Right for You?
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 …
How to Promote a Hiring Event
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 …
Creative Recruiting Strategies to Hire Seasonal Tax Workers
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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How to Protect Your Digital Recruiting Brand
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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6 Ways to Repurpose Recruitment Marketing Content
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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Reporting or Recruiting Processes – Which Comes First?
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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4 New Candidate Communities to Reach Qualified Talent
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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How to Optimize Job Postings for Candidate Search
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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4 Fixes to Improve the Online Candidate Experience
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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The Role of Employer Brand in Recruitment Marketing
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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5 Recruitment Marketing Strategies to Fill Your Funnel Quickly
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 Importance of Community Building in Recruitment Marketing
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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What Does a Candidate Nurturing Campaign Look Like
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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How to Scale Your Recruitment Marketing Efforts
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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Recruiting Strategies to Engage Gig Workers
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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How to Recruit Gig Workers with Your Job Postings
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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How to Create a Hospitality Job Post That Converts
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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Source of Hire and the Role of Touchpoints in Recruitment Marketing
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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How to Measure Source of Hire in Recruitment Marketing
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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How Text Messaging Works to Engage Candidates in Financial Services
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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Staffing Essentials: How to Make Your Job Post Go Viral
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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Recruiting Predictions 2020
It is no secret our workplaces are changing especially in how we engage, recruit, train, and plan for the human capital that supports our businesses. Whatever the reason, talent is top of mind not …
How to Reach Out to Financial Services Job Candidates
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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How to Create Buzz for Evergreen Manufacturing Job Postings
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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How to Recruit Entry Level Talent in Manufacturing
When it comes to recruitment marketing, one sector that needs an upgrade is manufacturing. We’ve talked about staffing challenges in the manufacturing space previously, specifically related to the …
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5 Career Site Features to Showcase Your Employer Brand
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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Staffing Essentials: Candidate Nurturing Strategies
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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High Volume Recruiting Strategies for the Financial Services Industry
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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5 Things You’re Not Doing in Recruitment Marketing but Should
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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Gamification in the Talent Acquisition Space
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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How to Recruit Spanish Speaking Candidates for Manufacturing Jobs
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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Secrets to Attracting Sales Talent in Financial Services
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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4 Staffing Challenges Manufacturing Faces in 2019
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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Recruiting Analytics Must-Have – Google Analytics
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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Five HR Metrics the Manufacturing Industry Needs to Know
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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A Matter of Metrics – Measuring for Success in Recruitment
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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How to Increase Your Inmail and Email Open Rates
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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Benchmarking Email and InMail Open Rates
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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How to Write the Perfect Candidate Outreach Email
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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How to Use Recruitment Marketing to Reach Manufacturing Candidates
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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Best Practices to Optimize Recruitment Landing Pages
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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How Video Can Transform Your Recruitment Marketing
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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How to Use Text Messaging To Improve Candidate Outreach
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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How to Optimize Job Postings to Reach More Qualified Job Seekers
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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How to Keep Your Best Talent After the Retail Holiday Season
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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How Automation Increases Your Candidate Experience
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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How Metrics and Recruiting Forecasting Can Drive Margins
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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5 Candidate Resources to Add to Your Company Career Site
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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Demystifying AI in Recruitment and Hiring
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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Recruiting Metrics: Understanding Source of Hire
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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Recruiting Metrics: Applicant and Interview to Hire Ratios
As part of a series on recruiting metrics that drive results, in this post we’ll focus on applicant (or candidate) and interview hire ratios, particularly important for high volume and seasonal …
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Recruiting Metrics: Time to Fill vs. Time to Start
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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Turning Recruitment from Cost Center to Revenue Center
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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7 Employment Branding Metrics Recruiters Need to Know
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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How to Use Text Messaging to Recruit in the Restaurant Industry
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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Going Beyond Basic Recruiting Metrics to Drive Results
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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Scale Recruiting for New Restaurant Openings
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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Holiday Hiring 101: Plan Ahead to Beat Your Competition
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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Think Like a Marketer to Attract Better Candidates
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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Snag the Holiday Workers You Need with Texting
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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Must-Have Recruiting Metrics to Show Off to Your Boss
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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How to Use Recruiting Dashboards to Drive Business Results
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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A Leader’s Guide to Recruiting Great Talent
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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Think Like Your Candidate
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 …
Your Employment Brand is a Marathon
While an important function in your recruiting strategy, candidate nurturing is just one part of a longer and more complex recruitment marketing program and strategy. Candidate marketing consists of …
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Candidate Nurturing Best Practices for High Volume Hiring Part 2
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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Candidate Nurturing Best Practices for High Volume Hiring
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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Avoid Recruiting Fails and Reach the Best Gen Z and Gen Y Candidates
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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How the Amazon Economy Affects the Retail Industry in 3 Years
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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How to Compete for the Next Generation Workforce
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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How Retail’s Concierge Service is Changing Workforce Composition
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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Using Landing Pages to Recruit From Diverse Communities
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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5 Ways to Make Hiring Easier for Your Hiring Managers and Store Leadership
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 …
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5 Metrics You Must Measure When Recruiting High Volume
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 …
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