How to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
Saying that your organization welcomes diverse candidates is easy. But actually promoting diversity and inclusion requires effort, and attention to detail.
Category: Recruiting
Recruiting is changing at a rapid pace. Some organizations are abandoning traditional methods for social media; some think software can do a better job than people.
3 Steps Serious Companies Are Taking to Fill the Tech Skills Gap
It’s no secret that the market for hiring technology talent is competitive and the pool of qualified candidates is limited. In the last few years, the IT industry has been plagued by an ever-growing skills gap. This gap is so prominent, that over 77 percent of organizations believe insufficient digital skills are a key obstacle […]
Filling Summer Job Openings
Summertime and the living is easy, unless of course you can’t find candidates to fill summer job openings. This year, why not make it a point to target teens for some of those summer jobs?
More Tips on Communicating Your Employee Value Proposition
In part 1 of this article, we were discussing the employee value proposition (EVP), which is the set of things that employees value that are received as part of working there. It’s essentially the reasons employees should work for you rather than the competition. Every organization has an EVP, but not every organization takes steps […]
New Rating Site Focuses on LGBTQ Employees
A new site, OutBüro, aims to fill the void in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer working and professional community by offering a Glassdoor-like service where LGBTQ employees can rate their employers.
3 Tips for Getting Candidates to Respond to Your E-Mails
In today’s competitive candidate market and with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), aka “the robots,” we tend to forget about the human elements of recruiting. With the emergence of sourcing tools, finding top talent today is easier than ever. The hard part is getting them to respond. Can we create a compelling enough message […]
RecruitCon2018 Speaker Offers 3 Tips for Politely Rejecting Job Applicants
You’ve spent countless hours poring over résumés and interviewing job candidates. You’ve finally found the perfect fit, so you offer that person the job. But now it’s time to let the other candidates know they were not accepted. Here comes the hardest part of the hiring process: rejection.
Why Employees Are Quitting
When turnover rates start increasing, the question on every HR professional’s mind is: Why? Why are employees quitting more now than before? And what can be done about it?
An Overlooked Recruitment Tool
The emphasis these days is often on the latest and greatest technological tools for employee recruitment. There’s an app for this and a cloud solution for that.
The State of the Remote Job Marketplace
Research from job site Indeed finds that “remote/work from home” was the fourth most popular job search term in 2017, up 385 percent from 2016. More workers are looking for remote work, and companies are providing work from home employment opportunities.