As a recruiter, your job is to attract talent and make those people interested in the offer you make. To some extent, you’re successful at doing that. You present your organization as an attractive place to work at. Somewhere along the hiring process, however, you lose the…

Selecting a  quality applicant tracking system (ATS) that meets your needs is critical for improving your talent acquisition process and results. But if you don’t implement it successfully, even the right ATS technology won’t be much help.  

In this post, we provide five tips that will help you successfully implement a…

I have been a recruiter for a long time and spoken with a lot of my peers about this. In the end, I think Human Resources/Talent Acquisition has messed up the possibility of being partners to many hiring managers. We keep saying hiring managers are our primary customers. There is a difference between customers and partners.

We also all have heard the phrase, “the customer is always right.” Some of us send out hiring manager satisfaction surveys and others have them integrated into the…

Phew, that was close.  Too close for words.  I was almost one of them.  You know the ones that according to a viral video sensation are:

• "Tough to manage"
• "Entitled, narcissistic, self-interested, unfocused and lazy"
• "Addicted to social media and only interested in their own brand on Instagram"

Who are these…

AviationCV.com never stops improving and launched a new feature to its website. From now on, every visitor has an opportunity to write a review about different companies that appear on AviationCV.com. A rating system is going to be beneficial not only for recruiters but also for aviation job seekers, who would like to know which companies are rated the best and looking for pilot jobs,…

Is there any link between perfectionism and productivity? Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? Do you think that perfectionism ever hold you back from performing as you should? Does it in any way affect your productivity?

What…

There’s been a lot of talk about Pre & Post Engagement of applicants, we’ve even heard a lot about pre & post joining goodies. But have you ever thought about other areas where we can implement the Engagement of applicants? If no, then you’ve come to the right place; we’ll be exploring the areas where we can utilise this technique to improve the joining ratio of candidates shortly.

In an attempt to improve the joining ratio of the candidates we…

New Industries = New Occupations

The $21 Billion Industry

Note: This is a follow-up from a previous Did You Know. Read it here.

Whether you support or oppose…

Thinking about going paperless? Look at some of the benefits other companies have been seeing with electronic personnel files and paperless onboarding. 

It's well known that the Human Resources department has the pleasure of managing a serious amount of paper. Over the years, HR professionals…

Disqus is a site that helps you with your website, its content and so much more. Discus is not well known in the staffing world. And not a lot of recruiters try to source there . The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called…

If you’re managing marketing for a recruitment agency that has multiple branch locations, either in the same country or across multiple regions, you could be missing a trick when it comes to the results gained from your LinkedIn Company Page.

Most medium-large recruitment agencies own a myriad of LinkedIn Company Pages, some started by the marketing teams, others created by overzealous recruiters who are keen to stake ownership of their local market. This leads to many issues of…

At the current recruitment market, the campaign for the championship between the applicant tracking systems intensifies. Both the great asset companies…

Your best tool as a recruiter is your ability to step into the shoes of your applicants. What’s their experience like?

The candidate experience is a great place to start making improvements to your recruitment process, which is where Deanna began. As the Human Resource Director for Care Mountain, she knew…

When it comes to a recruiting strategy, the immediate direction companies turn to is job board advertisements, connecting with others via LinkedIn and talking to institutions like universities in the community.

And while that might be all your company needs to build a team, a little creativity to spice up your recruiting game is…

If you want to get a decent job, you’ll probably need to send an effective cover letter. You see, these cover letters are an important part of any employee selection process. The big boss wants only remarkable employees, so you have to prove yourself valuable and worth their time. After all, wouldn’t you do the same if it was your company?

An awesomely…

I remember when I was still in college and I attended an interview at Best Buy. During the interview, they asked me to describe my background, previous job duties and other normal interview questions. I was answering these questions with confidence. I felt like it was a game of tennis and I was returning every serve with precision. Until they threw me a…

Let me begin with a few premises. Whether we are talking about our personal lives or your business workplace, everything we do is based on a process of some type. Each process is constructed of a series of steps, which lead us to the end result. The second premise is that although we would like everything to run crystal smooth in reality it never happens. Along the way we…

In addition to design, a business website should offer the right features for its users. Although professional web design is important, usability of the website is crucial to its success.

AviationCV.com aims at constant improvement and expansion of its aviation job search platform. Recently, the team presented a new feature for the platform’s users – Pilot Screening calendar. It is an extraordinary feature which will help pilots find out about upcoming screenings regularly…

in an enchanted land far far away there lived some magical creatures.  These creatures were so amazing that there was nothing they could not do, everything they did was perfect.

Happily they roamed the land helping those less fortunate.  If…

The use of employee time tracking software has become increasingly popular in recent years. This sort of tracking is used to monitor the behavior of the employees in a company. Those who employ this strategy believe that it leads to better productivity. There are those, however, who raise the issue of employee privacy and a lack of…