On the biggest day of love each year, Valentine’s Day, the focus is on all the things that we care about in our personal and professional lives. Yet, as human resource professionals and business owners, oftentimes we forget just how important it is to share this love with our employees – the very people who make our organization the success it is. Perhaps one of the best ways to do this is by evaluating and increasing the current employee incentives that are offered. Read more..
Recruitment is much like speed-dating. You meet someone briefly, try to make small talk over a table, and find what you can about them in a short period of time based on what they tell you about their background. This first impression causes you to either agree to meet with them again or do some more checking before considering the impact they may have as a permanent part of the scenery. The major difference here is that the decision to bring a new person on board as part of a recruitment strategy can be a costly one if the candidate is a poor fit for the company. Read more..
Is your business on “the cloud” yet? If you are like the millions of businesses out there that are connecting in real time using social recruitment networks, web-based customer management systems, and online business tools, then chances are you are already part of the cloud technology movement. Read more..
What does corporate brand have to do with recruiting talent? It actually has a lot more to do with developing a steady pipeline of great candidates than you can imagine. In fact, this year more employers than ever before are focusing in on their corporate brand strategy to become candidate magnets. Read more..
Is your organization ready for what experts believe will be the most active hiring season of this decade? If you want to stay on top of your industry, then you need high performing employees to get the job done and lead innovation in the workplace. Investing in talent management solutions can be the single-most important aspect of this process. Read more..
Much discussion has gone into the role of social media in the world of recruiting, particularly when it comes to connecting with passive candidates. Who are passive candidates? These are folks who are highly qualified individuals who aren’t necessarily looking for a new job, but whom would be interested in learning about new opportunities if the right one appears. Read more..
What’s your mobile recruiting strategy for 2013? If you are not already using this powerful technology to reach the best candidates, then you should be. With some 77 million people around the world using smart phones to connect with friends, family, and potential employers, it’s surprising that only 20 percent of the world’s top companies actually have a mobile-friendly website.
Surely, this number is growing as more companies realize just how simple it is to convert online content and recruitment tools into mobile applications. Read more..
Although it’s a little early in the year, the talent experts are already predicting that there will be above average growth in businesses around the nation in 2013. Last year’s State of Recruiting report advised that over 63 percent of a polled group of companies across several major industries were noticing signs that the Great Recession is slowly, but surely easing up. Read more..
Social recruiting has become the leading way that today’s recruiters connect with quality candidates. In a 2012 Jobvite Social Job Seeker Survey, it was revealed that 92 percent of employers are using social networking to source candidates. Likewise, high numbers of candidates are looking to social media as a way to land great career opportunities, with 88 percent currently having at least one social media profile. Read more..
Is your recruitment strategy based on your objectives, or on the needs of top performance candidates? This is a question to start asking yourself if you want to stay ahead of the trends in recruiting for 2013. According to a LinkedIn recruiting survey conducted by Qualigence International, a global recruitment research and recruiting organization, there is a renewed focus this year on attracting candidates by appealing to their needs and treating them better overall. Read more..
