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The candidate experience is becoming more important than ever before as new research shows that a candidate’s experience also influences his or her buying habits. According to a new report from ManpowerGroup Solutions, more than half of respondents (54%) say candidate experience directly influences whether they choose to buy a company’s products or services.
Old hierarchies and organizational silos are disappearing—today work is often done on an ad hoc basis, based on collaboration and accomplished by teams formed and reformed to address changing priorities and needs. However, as many of us have found, forming teams is easy; forming productive, collaborative teams is hard. Our guest on Episode 66 of […]
Today, we accept distracted as the norm, says our guest, keynote speaker and author Neen James. We are so focused on technology, our never-ending to-do list, and our lack of time, we fail to pay attention to the people, priorities, and passions that are truly important to us. But it’s not a time management crisis, […]
Suddenly it’s slim pickings for top candidates—nobody’s having an easy time recruiting. And for hard-to-fill roles, it can seem to border on the impossible. But there’s hope! Our guest, Lindsay Stanton, Chief Client Officer for Digi-Me, is an expert in recruiting technology. She talked with us at BLR’s RecruitCon conference about trends and best practices in use […]
When it comes to hiring and recruitment, it’s not about acquiring the highest volume of applicants—it’s about attracting the right candidates who are a good fit for the job and the company in the shortest time possible.
Recruiting is on every HR manager’s front burner these days, yet many organizations find they can’t get candidates they want to recruit to engage with or respond to them. Today’s guest, Angie Verros, founder of Vaia Talent, is going to help—she’s got suggestions for creating compelling messages that get the responses you’re looking for. She […]
Following protests and a firestorm of controversy after two black men were arrested inside a Philadelphia Starbucks, the coffee purveyor closed its U.S.-based retail stores and corporate offices on May 29 to provide racial-bias training to its workforce. Incidents such as this one, as well as similar issues that have since involved LA Fitness, AirBnB, […]
It was in 1977 when the world was introduced to the term social learning—although the practice was discovered way before psychologist Albert Bandura coined it.
We’re all posting job openings, and our postings are competing with hundreds of others to grab the attention of top candidates. How do you fight through to be sure your posting gets in front of the kinds of candidates you seek, and then entices them to respond? Today’s guest, Elena Valentine, CEO of Skill Scout, […]
As the world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn is a must-have recruiting tool for any recruiting strategy. With over 500 million users and three million active job listings, this immensely powerful platform is one of the most valuable resources available to the recruiters of today.