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Social media has become a core component of recruiting for most businesses. Even if you don’t use LinkedIn every day, you probably still occasionally post job openings to Facebook or Twitter (or your employees do without your knowledge!). And social media is an important part of developing a successful HR brand. But it can be hard to keep up with the latest, greatest new service. Consumer brands like 16 Handles have experimented with marketing on emerging social networks. Why not try it with recruiting? So, should you invest your time in smaller services, like Tumblr, or up-and-coming services, like Snapchat? …
So you’ve decided to be nice to your employees (not naughty). But what about your job applicants? As winter kicks it into high gear and people go into hibernation, it can be tough to find quality candidates. How do you decide who goes in the "nice" pile, and who you’re going to leave out in the cold? Will your candidate turn out to be the top talent you need, or turn into the office Grinch? The infographic below, compiled by online video resume and interviewing platform Spark Hire, provides a festive quiz with 16 key indicators of engaged job …
As recent recruitment trends have shown, a highly competitive labor market and easy access to technology can make it difficult to differentiate between job candidates.While in the long run this is probably a blessing for recruiters ("too many good prospects" isn’t a bad problem to have), it can make the selection process a daunting task for many human resources personnel. To salvage the situation, lots of managers have shunned the traditional panel interview style by adopting more creative selection techniques that are suitable for the changing times. Some of these creative interview styles include:1. The Audition Interview This …
Anyone who has helped usher a business through a period of rapid growth can attest to the fact that expansion is often challenging. While injecting new capital and launching new products are often crucial to kick-start growth, sustained change will never take place unless the right people are hired to keep the company innovating. No amount of capital will grow a business if its staff are not up to the task. HR’s role in recruiting capable staff members and new talent is absolutely vital.When Recruiting, Remember That ‘Time is Money’ Recruiting and training new employees requires a significant …
When deciding how to hire a contractor, businesses should first determine which responsibilities they can handle in-house and which responsibilities should be outsourced. Generally, you’ll want to retain close control over your core services, while outsourcing tasks that fall far outside of your expertise—perhaps accounting and IT. With only a few exceptions, if it’s a core service, you should seriously consider hiring employees instead of contractors. In general, long-term relationships with only a few contractors is better, as your communications will grow more efficient over time, and the contractors will be more familiar with the needs of …
So you want to attract the best candidates to your business, but you’re not sure where to draw the line between “good employer” and “outrageous over-spender.” Maybe you want enough applicants to have some choice, but you don’t want to spend hours filtering through incomplete and under-qualified submissions. Fear not. You can find and capture the best candidates by remembering three basic requirements: Compensation, recruitment, and selection. Compensation Compensation is sometimes left as an afterthought for the very end of the hiring process. That’s a mistake you shouldn’t make. Give due consideration to compensation as you …
Every organization needs to recruit new employees from time to time. Hiring the right team can help the business grow and make things run smoothly. Hiring the wrong team can be a catastrophe. This post isn’t about either of those things. You’d be surprised how often businesses work hard to find the perfect person—only to fall flat on their faces and hire no one. Could they have made a recruiting mistake? Here are 11 awful recruiting strategies that you should definitely never try out: 1. Have a Recruiting Fair at a Ridiculous Time of Day To make things interesting, …
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 8.25 percent—including 5.2 million "long-term unemployed"—it’s no surprise more job-seekers are retaining the services of freelance HR professionals. There are countless career coaches, resume writing services, and job hunt consultants offering their services online, in classified ads, and on billboards and telephone poles all over the country. While this is mostly harmless, it can distort your candidate pool when a contractor writes on a candidate’s behalf. As proven by the case of former Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, virtually anybody can perpetrate resume fraud. While retaining a contractor to write a resume …
How to Know When Your HR Needs More Help Once you’ve figured out what roles your company needs to fill, you create a job description, post it to a few job boards, screen with cover letters and resumes, interview by phone and in-person, then hire the perfect candidate. Simple, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. If you’re only hiring for entry-level or low-skill positions, you might be able to squeak by with the bare minimum. But even then, you’re probably neglecting past applicants, people who speak English as a second (or seventh) language, the recent-grad market, walk-ins, referrals, headhunters, …
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