As a digital specialist I spend a lot of time online looking at the digital channels of businesses. In preparation for some industry workshops & webinars I recently reviewed 20 recruitment websites from various locations and of various sizes to see how they compared and any common issues that stood out to me.

This is what I found:

• CEO’s that don’t have a digital profile (or a LinkedIn profile)
• Social media feeds that were just job posts
• Lack of story…

The Anonymous session of day 2 consisted of several presentations to include-Underground Old School Hacks by Kevin Walters and Hacking a Conference Attendees List by Aaron Lintz.

Underground Old School Hacks by Kevin Walters. He discusses doing a Talent Level Mapping, in other words, competitive Intel. He used Linkedin to gain a lot of this…

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“We went to SourceCon last year.” Interrupting him mid sentence, I asked, “How was that?”

I always wanted to know if it was worth the cost. “Would I gain anything by attending the conference?”

His face hardened a bit, I could see from the tightness in his face muscles that he had not been impressed.…

What is the candidate experience, and why does it really matter?

Recruiting.com defines the candidate experience as the series of interactions that a job seeker has with your company throughout the recruiting process. These interactions include any communication that a candidate receives from your brand messaging, software systems and/or…

The diversity of a recruitment website is vital to its survival in the digital ecosystem, but for recruiters who are already pressed for time to contact clients and candidates, maintaining that habitat can be more than impractical. It can be impossible. This is why we so often have clients…

It’s become an age-old question for IT professionals across the country. At conferences, in email inboxes, and through conversations with peers, the topic of how to further one’s technical skill set is practically inescapable. The mentality has become so ingrained into tech culture that …

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Kimberly Horan, Executive Search Recruiter at OneWire

After seeing a number of teams still relying on the “post and pray” model, I wanted to share some tips this week on how hiring managers and recruiters can source candidates faster. One of…

Leaving a business card may not erase the joke you cracked at the most inconvenient time nor improve your way of conversing with your client, but it inevitably leaves a striking impression.

If you present your contact information poorly,…

For human resources departments, getting through a peak hiring season can feel like running a mental marathon. Without the right preparation, it's easy to fall behind.

From posting jobs and reviewing résumés to making screening calls and sitting in on interviews, the list of to-dos is seemingly infinite. And with no end in sight, it's easy for HR pros to fall into a state of chronic stress. To be sure, new technologies have streamlined the hiring process, but sifting through 100…

There is nothing scarier for a recruiter than loosely-designed recruitment software. Screening candidates can be a nightmare if your applicant tracking system is not having all the important features that are in line with modern recruitment processes. An ATS is aimed at streamlining the process of hiring candidates for a recruiter and making the communication with the potential candidates easier. However, all the recruitment software are not the same and differ from each other in many…

Many companies hire freelance writers because they want to increase their website’s traffic with spiced up landing pages and winning blog posts. The organizations that make writing and publishing content a regular part of their routine hire the writers that can provide meaningful essay writing help. If…

Business is all about competition among companies selling a similar product. It’s no different in recruiting. You have to stay ahead of the competition to snag the prospects that you want. Marketing plays a key role in beating out the competition, even though it may not be the way we typically think about a job search.…

Workplace diversification is the financial boost tech companies overlook. McKinsey & Co. identified that companies with a higher representation of women or ethnic minorities in their workforce financially outperform less diverse competitors by 15%…

1. What is Enterprise Resource Planning Software?…

A popular question within the recruiting world.  

It is important for candidates to understand why this is a critical part of the hiring process and why it’s an important part of the recruitment triangle in determining whether the agency is worth dealing with.…

The pressure to hire top talent for companies is now bigger than ever, trying to find potential candidates and fill positions quickly can lead to a bad hire and in turn to a series of negative repercussions for the company. It has become well known that there is always an element of risk when hiring a new member of…

Transitioning from secondary school to university can be very stressful as it is the biggest educational shock you’ll ever experience. Regardless of how great of a student you used to be in high school, there is no guarantee you will easily continue to excel during your studies, too. Yes, you can keep some of your studying habits, but the amount of studying material increases significantly at this level. In order for you to keep up with the workload, some things will probably have to change.…

According to the United Nations, along with food and clean water, education is one of the trinity of basic human rights. It is so central and necessary to our development that we tend to take it for granted.

For migrants, and for those coming to a new country where they may not speak the de-facto…