Hiring has never been as difficult as it is now, and schools are under unique pressures which limit the pool of eligible employees. With nationwide demand for employees and tightening budgets, schools …
Guide to Job Offer Letter Templates
Sending a job offer letter can be challenging to navigate, whether by email or by formal letter. What should you include? How should you send it? We’ve answered all your questions below. You’ll also …
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How to Write a Candidate Rejection Email
Let’s face it, the market is ripe with talented candidates seeking new opportunities. Whether aspiring to begin a new career, change careers or simply find employment, there are many reasons why …
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How to Write Great Job Offer Emails
Imagine you found the perfect candidate for an open role at your company. Before you send a casual email offering them the position, consider how to write a good job offer email. If you slap …
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How to Write Employment Verification Letters
Someone may ask you to write or provide an employment verification letter at some point in your life. If you've never done it, writing an employment verification letter might seem like a daunting …
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How To Write Job Descriptions
Creating a job description is one of the most important parts of finding the best hires for your company but making a great one takes more than writing two paragraphs and a list of desired skills. …
What is Redundancy in the Workplace?
Reducing redundancy in the workplace is a difficult decision to make as a business owner. It can have a frustrating and sometimes devastating impact on employees. Although it might be a necessary move …
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How to Define Job Duties and Responsibilities
Maintaining a professional environment is integral to the continued success of a business, whether it is a large corporation or small business. Properly documenting the duties and responsibilities of …
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Difference Between Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lays out the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees. However, while certainly useful at times, legal jargon can be difficult for the average American to …
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Advance Your D&I Strategy with HR Technology
This year, the country faced a reckoning over systemic bias, unequal access to advancement opportunities, and if and how we can move forward and create a more equitable society for all. Talent …
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Talroo Pro: Driving More ROI for Your Job Ads
The Talroo brand was created with a mission to connect the right talent with the right recruiters. Our work had started in job aggregation, and this background provided us large data sets for both …
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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 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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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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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 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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State of the Labor Market in 2020: Washington D.C. Edition
This past year, we saw some big shifts in the labor market. From a record-low unemployment rate to wage stagnation to the expansion of Amazon, we're in the midst of some major changes that will …
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State of the Labor Market in 2020: Houston Edition
As we learned in our first blog post of 2020, the past year saw a lot of change in the labor market. From a record-low unemployment rate to wage stagnation to the expansion of Amazon, a lot …
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2020 Starts with Record Low Unemployment, Stagnant Wages…What’s Next?
Looking back on 2019, a few of the biggest stories in the US labor market were the low unemployment rate, the lack of wage growth, and big changes to the gig economy. Let’s look back at the best of …
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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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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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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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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 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 …
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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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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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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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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Recruitment in 2019: What’s Coming, and How You Leverage It Now
Happy New Year from everyone at Talroo! …
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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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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 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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Interview Techniques I Learned from Oprah
As a recruiter, there are many tools you can use to assess if a candidate would be the best fit for the role. The variable you can’t control is how authentic their participation is. To overcome that …
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Want to Improve your Talent Pool? Let Employees Work from Home
Years ago, working remotely seemed to be more of a perk to the employee than the employer. But today, many employers have embraced this paradigm shift and are realizing that the benefits are …
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What’s the Best Way to Reject an Applicant?
When you reject a candidate after a phone screen or in-person interview, do you let them down gently or just tell them they didn’t make the cut? No one likes rejection. I recently asked my …
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Phoning It In: Hiring Managers Reveal the Best Phone Interview Strategies
The phone screen is a tried and true method of recruiting as it allows you to quickly gauge a candidate's fit for and interest in the position. In my last post I wrote about better interview questions …
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Bored with the same old interview questions? Ask these instead.
Are you stuck in an interviewing rut? There are thousands of interviews happening this very second across the globe. Ever wondered what other companies are asking during those interviews? I did, so I …
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Content Marketing for Employers: 15 Things to Share that Candidates will Love
There’s an old saying in our industry that recruiting is marketing. For many employers, marketing your jobs and company culture does not come easy. This makes sense, considering those in recruiting …