Dear Job Board or Sourcing Tool Salesperson -

Thank you so much for your call today.  Your message let me know that you could help me increase traffic to my website by anywhere from 25 to 50%.  Well, unfortunately, you just lost me.  We currently are fortunate enough to get over 39,000 applications a year - while hiring only 1,200.  So, the last thing I want to provide my recruiters is more…

Recently, my organization went down the path of researching various vendors that can take our job application and make it accessible on a mobile device.  There is only one problem - and it has us stuck!  Our application (like many I have seen) is a long one with many required fields and lots of legalese at the bottom. 

Some questions we are struggling with - would love your input and thoughts:

1) Would you complete a long application from your phone or mobile device?  I don't…

Today is Friday and often my thoughts turn to the what if!  This week, I have been thinking about how it would be to break the requisition to application connection. Let me tell you why.

One of my biggest fears is that a uniquely qualified candidate comes to our website and searches for jobs and doesn't see one that fits them and then clicks away and I never know they were even there.  We can solve for some of it with "mock" postings but what if...

An candidate could come to…

As a follow up to last week's look at what we are doing to combat the "black hole" perception, we also began to survey the candidates that we do not hire.  My opinion is that those that are selected are happy and their feedback on the application, interview and selection process may be skewed to the positive.

Since beginning this back in August of last year, over 1,800 candidates have taken the time to give us feedback on how we are doing.  Here is a sampling of our feedback and some…