Recruiters strive to keep stats measuring which online sources yield the most applicants and ROI when considering job posting costs. Is there a way to also measure which sources yield the best applicants?

The following ResuWe Employer ATS screenshot views applicants who have applied for a VP Sales position. The left highlighted column lists the applicants' ranking based on keyword matches according to the job description. The right highlighted…

The number of companies recruiting online has risen in the last quarter, according to data from online recruiter Jobsite.

The research shows that the number of firms hiring rose by 4% on the last quarter to 48%, while 11% more SMEs advertised vacancies compared to the

last quarter.

The research also shows an 8% increase in candidates using between three and five job boards.

Online job boards remains the most popular source for jobseekers…

It's obvious that how your boss feels impacts how you feel at work. Are they jumpy, hyper, and it's due to their nature and not the economy?





If they micromanage out of fear and nervousness,…

Every decade brings a new buzzword with itself. This one brings – “Social Media”…

Early-users has definitely started calling it ALA “Dot Com Bubble” of internet. We have to remember that it merely serves as a “Tool” and not as an entire “Strategy” with a stand-alone usage.

Well, with this post I would like to highlight a big “Don’t” in Recruitment as far as social media goes. Social media does give a large visibility on internet with it’s advance tools…

My definition:

Audit – A word that brings fear to every person and organization.

For a…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment…

I just received a call from a young lady seeking some advice on how to "break" into the restuarant business as a manager...although she possesses no restaurant management experience. This is not the type of call that we field often at Martin and Associates PeopleSource...since we work with seasoned restaurant management professionals. But it got me thinking and I thought I'd share my "sage wisdom" as a restuarant…

I saw a tweet recently complaining that a candidate hadn’t placed the traditional methods of contact on his resumé (telephone number, email address). I think the case concerned, I believe it to be a valid complaint. However, it lead me to think more about the kind of roles we recruit for today – and more specifically, the way we…

I still can't believe people have email address on there resumes like.

partygirl @aol.com

Playboy@gmail.com

Please get a hotmail account and use your name

peter.smith@hotmail.com

Talk to you soon.

chris

Originally posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog.

I competed in my first triathlon this past weekend and overall I was really happy with the results. I walked off the course, knowing that I put…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Intern Blog.

I recently read a great article that discussed helpful pointers for people interested in strengthening the quality of their resume on ERE titled, …

Believe it or not, there are ways to survive working with these characters, keep your sanity and still…

We all have our bad days. Whether it is having to deal with that annoying co-worker who keeps stealing your pens or an overly aggressive customer who is disappointed with the product or service you have provided. The reality is most of us don’t have the courage to tell them exactly how we feel, let alone the…

Many companies have held off hiring new employees for quite some time. The question is how much longer can they continue to do so?

From all indications, not too much longer.

On Tuesday, the Labor Department released its worker productivity numbers for the second quarter. The numbers weren’t that pretty, since they indicated productivity fell 0.9% during the second quarter. That represents the first time that productivity has…

The networking event I attended last night had an unusually low turnout. I appreciate that people are on holiday,but even taking this in to account I still expected there to be more people to a very regular event.

This morning I had an email from a business associate who I had expected to see at the networking evening, so I called…