It's no secret that small businesses have a daunting task when competing with big companies for talented employees. Apart from vying with widely known reputed organizations that ... Read More
Archives for 2017
How to Avoid Candidate Email Follow-up Fails
With 156 million emails sent every single minute, we all have out-of-control inboxes, yet email is still the most common method used by recruiters to communicate with candidates, ... Read More
Find Employees for Free: 7 Experts Spill Their Free Sourcing Secrets
If you are sourcing on a budget – and let’s face it, who isn’t? – you are likely scouring the internet searching for sourcing tools and strategies that can help you find employees ... Read More
Social Media Hiring Q&A with Recruiting Expert Katrina Collier
It’s no secret that social media is a hiring leader’s El Dorado, laying claim to millions of active and engaged potential candidates. According to a study by the Society ... Read More
FlexJobs Founder Sara Sutton Fell on Hiring Workers for Flexible Jobs
As the adage says, necessity is the mother of invention. Just ask Sara Sutton Fell. Known as the "Queen of Remote Work," she’s the founder and CEO of FlexJobs, an innovative career ... Read More
Tips for Hiring Senior Leaders for Your Small or Medium-sized Business
Perhaps the good news is that your business grew quickly, achieved record-breaking revenues, expanded its customer base, and hired more team members. Because of that, it’s time to ... Read More
4 Ways To Keep Candidates Engaged During The Interview Process
In this candidate-driven market, companies are now investing more in attracting top talent to open opportunities. But once you’ve got great candidates in the door, how can you keep ... Read More
High-volume Seasonal Hiring Made Easy: 7 Tips from the Pros
Despite all of the apocalyptic talk about the demise of some retail giants, seasonal hiring is in full swing for the 2017 holidays. With Macy's, the iconic department store, hiring ... Read More
7 Resume Database Software Tools to Source Hard-to-find Candidates
As the U.S. economy continues to create over 150,000 jobs per month and basks in 4.4 percent unemployment, the consensus among recruiting professionals is that we are firmly in a ... Read More
How to Find Candidate Email Addresses Online
For years the most popular way to reach candidates with an unknown email address was through LinkedIn InMail. However, as early as 2014, users started berating this recruiter ... Read More
EQ: The Two Little Letters That Could Change Your Hiring Process
Dr. Travis Bradberry, the award-winning coauthor of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, believes that there is a major oversight happening on the part of many recruiters. The cofounder of ... Read More
SMB Hiring Tips: Why I Love Using an ATS (And You Should Too)
Many small businesses feel applicant tracking systems (ATS) are for big companies with a recruiting staff and many open positions. That belief can cost you time and may cause you ... Read More
Struggling to Recruit Passive Candidates? Try Using this 3-Letter Word
The last time you received an unexplained invite to connect on LinkedIn, did you sigh deeply and think, “Ugh, what do you want?” Or perhaps your reaction was even worse? Truly, ... Read More