Trucking is a big business in the United States. In 2020, there were over 1.7 million truck drivers employed in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number is only expected to …
How to Hire Teachers
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 …
Recruitment Marketing 101: Frequently Asked Questions
Looking to maximize the number of candidates you attract with your job advertisements? We recently hosted a webinar with our CEO, Thad Price, on how to use recruitment marketing …
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How to Hire Insurance Workers
A variety of factors contribute to the success of an insurance company. Product knowledge is required, as is an aggressive sales strategy. You’ll also need proper financing to get your business off …
How Video Can Drive Your Recruitment and Branding Efforts
According to HubSpot’s 2020 State of Marketing report, video was the most-used type of marketing content - beating out other heavyweight contenders like email, blogs and infographics. In fact, 20% of …
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What a Strong Employee Value Proposition Can Do For Your Retention Rate
Developing a strong employee value proposition (EVP) is a key to any recruiting and retention effort as part of a larger employer brand. At its most basic level, an EVP represents every value that an …
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How To Ensure a Fair and Transparent Recruitment Process
One of the most frustrating parts of the recruitment process for potential employees can be when companies are not honest and transparent about how and when they make hires. Fairness and honesty can …
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8 Out of The Box Creative Recruitment Ideas
With an ever-changing labor market, it can be difficult to make the hires that you need. It's important to ensure you brainstorm creative recruitment ideas that will make your potential candidates …
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Finding Gig Workers to Fill On-Demand Roles
The gig economy was growing before COVID-19, but the pandemic caused a surge in workers signing up for on-demand talent (ODT) platforms. As recruiters struggle to compete, the use of ODT platforms is …
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The Complete Guide to Restaurant Recruitment
If you're a restaurant owner, finding the right employees might be one of the biggest challenges you face. It's not enough to have a great menu, a great wine list or a great location. You also need to …
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The Complete Guide to Retail Recruitment
Every business is only as good as its employees. Whether you’re running a franchise or staffing a multinational corporation, you rely on front-line retail workers to keep the lights on and customers …
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Guide to Healthcare Recruitment Strategies
Having a sufficient workforce is the backbone of providing quality healthcare at a time when medical professionals continue to deal with pandemic challenges. There's a shortage of healthcare workers, …
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How to Find Good Employees at Scale
It's never been more critical for companies to find good employees. If you want to stay competitive in this new environment, you need the best hires. It isn't easy — there are many reasons why finding …
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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 …
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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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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Navigating the Difficulty of Hiring Essential Workers in 2021
Something very strange is happening in the U.S. job market. Despite a clear boost in post-pandemic job growth (payrolls increased by 916,000 in March 2021), and in April 2021 a record high of nine …
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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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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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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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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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10 Tips for Attracting Top Seasonal Talent
In our recovering economy, the competition for top talent is fierce. This is true for every industry right now, but especially for those recruiting for positions with an end date in sight from the …
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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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5 Strategies for a Successful Seasonal Hiring Campaign
Imagine starting off your hiring campaign on the right foot. You're getting ahead of the summer hiring rush, you’re funneling in candidates, and you're getting quality hires in a cost-effective …
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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 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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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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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 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 …
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 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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Time, Cost, Quality: 3 Hiring Principles
On the most fundamental level, recruiting is a triad. All recruiting comes down to three basic decisions: 1) time, 2) cost, and 3) quality. These are the three recruiting pillars when it comes to …
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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10-point Checklist for Job Ads that Convert
The first step to every successful recruitment campaign is attraction. Here are 10 things your job ad needs in order to convert your prospective candidates’ attention into applications. 1. A clear …
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Recruiting Funnels That Work
I half-joked recently that you don’t simply “go recruiting.” To find and land top talent, the talent acquisition ecosystem needs an integrated approach — bringing together an engaging career site, a …
What Millennials Want and How Staffing Must Adapt to Recruit Them
It seems like everyone with staffing demands is trying to solve the “millennial puzzle.” Like any generation, you can’t put 100% of a group into a single bucket, but what you can do is step back and …
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7 Companies That Took Candidate Sourcing to Another Level
When it comes to candidate sourcing, why reinvent the wheel? Write a job listing, post it online, incentivize employees with referral bonuses, then sit back and watch the resumes roll in. Simple? Not …
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22 Staffing Experts on How to Recruit for Hard-to-Fill Jobs
According to the American Staffing Association, during the course of a year, America’s staffing companies hire nearly 16 million temporary and contract employees. Additionally, Staffing Industry …
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Subject Lines: the Key to Catching the Candidate’s Eye
Too often in recruiting, candidates end up getting emails that start with phrases like “Great Opportunity with Fantastic Company.” Well, a line like that has been so overused that it can actually …
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Stuck in a Recruiting Rut? Try These Outside-the-Box Tactics to Win Candidates
When it comes to recruiting, most employers do the same things to attract talent. But sometimes it pays to think “outside the box” and try other tactics to get candidates' attention. The ideas …
Holiday Hiring Guide: How to Recruit in the Busiest Time of the Year
Fall is here, which means retailers everywhere are ramping up their seasonal hiring plans. After all, Christmas is now just 10 weeks away! 2016 is expected to be another solid year for retailers and …
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Programmatic Job Advertising = Efficiency
Talent acquisition professionals have seen an incredible move to performance-based advertising to help attract the talent needed to grow their business. Today’s definition of “programmatic job …
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Hiring now? Win candidates over with an open house!
Need to do a LOT of hiring? Consider an open house. Jobs2Careers is growing fast, so we hold them often - and we’ve come a long way since the early days. Read on to learn what’s worked, what hasn’t, …
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Build Your Employer Brand Without Breaking the Bank
Advertising your open positions on your company’s site and on job boards and aggregators is a necessary part of recruiting talent—but it isn’t enough. If you’re in a competitive industry like …
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