Did you know that there is a glaring hole within many companies that contributes to their overall turnover? This hole can cost your company big bucks too, but people seem content to just let it occur. Did you know that it can also be fixed pretty quickly, easily, and cost effectively?

Walk down this journey with me - and I promise - I'll make it quick. Employee Bill works for your…

Take No Prisoners is a free weekly memo from Scott Wintrip that explores how Radical Accountability prospers companies and changes lives. Instead of taking people hostage with outdated, heavy-handed, and ineffective methods of management, measurement, and motivation, Radical Accountability focuses on creating an unwavering responsibility for getting what matters most done.

When’s the last time a customer thanked you for making a mistake? If the answer is never or…

I've talked with a lot of people lately who are keen to improve their ranking on the search engines, and in particular Google.

This isn't a straight forward conversation, and truth is that Google changes it's search algorithm all the time. Unless you are a web wiz, keeping up with these changes and implementing the latest best practice is not easy. But…

Over the last 12 months I have lost count of the amount of recruiters that have told me their career’s site is responsive which is great but when you actually delve deeper the main thing I have found is very few sites are you able to complete the application process from start to finish on a mobile device. Put yourself in the job seekers shoes how annoying and time consuming it is for you to find that dream job on your device only to find out in order to upload a CV you need a laptop or…

If you have clients who want to bring in foreign workers on H-1B visas, they better act quickly.

Petitions for H-1B visas subject to the fiscal year (FY) 2015 cap will start being accepted on April 1 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). H-1B visas allow employers to hire foreign workers with specialized knowledge or technical expertise, such as scientists, engineers, or computer professions. Each year, only a…

Whether we’re talking career sites, web sites, social shares or even job listings, incorporating visual features can take each step of the recruiting process farther. The power of visual is undeniable, yet many recruiters are leaving it out of their everyday candidate communications. This missed opportunity to grab clicks, shares and engagement has to stop, and here’s…

Truck Driver is one of the most difficult to recruit transportation positions and one of the most in-demand jobs, according to WANTED analytics recruiting metrics. On average, Truck Driver scores a 59 on the Hiring Scale, indicating that Recruiters are likely to encounter moderate difficulty sourcing candidates. The Hiring Scale factors in supply, demand, salary, local and national conditions, unemployment rates, job site sources, and other factors to determine how hard-to-fill a job is…

As recruiters, there are several things we need to do our jobs.  Decent job descriptions, realistic salary ranges, candidates who do not tell lies, managers who can make a hiring decision, etc. etc.



However, there is one thing that trumps all in the process. I’ve often referred to it as the currency in which mostly all recruiters and talent acquisitions folk trade…

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S Release is built for the Cloud and promises the best of MaxHire, Sendouts and Bullhorn

Last week, the marketing team at Bullhorn sent Sendouts customers an email announcing the launch of S Release, the next…

Do you remember reading about Robert Crandall, former head of American Airlines, calculating that if they removed just one olive from every salad served to passengers, nobody would notice, and the airline would save $100,000 a year? Innovative thinkers like Crandall have made telecommuting their olive. The larger the…

Known as the “Big Three”: LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook have led the way in social recruiting. It makes sense, connections are simple to make, there are vast pools of data to be collected and these are where internet users are spending massive amounts of their time. While the Big Three are the place…

RECRUITERS WASTE THEIR TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA

BREAKING NEWS!! WMD’s FOUND!! (Weapons of Mass Distraction)

Are you trapped in an endless cycle of “likes”, “follow” and “connects’”, if so, you’re not alone. Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook and the business connectivity site LinkedIn have leveraged technology to engage customers and your target audience by…

With the wonderful World Wide Web turning 25 years old last week its only natural to reflect back on how it has touched almost every part of our daily lives. The technology has helped develop new business models worldwide and changed our economies forever. It’s predicted that by 2020 most skilled professionals career paths will be disrupted by smart machine…

A recent Dice survey reveals what tech talent wants the most from a recruiter besides a handsome salary offer. We were not surprised at all to find that the majority of those asked said that being frank about the company/culture is most important to them. How about putting those two…

Very recently Google announced their acquisition of Nest Labs, the maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion. You may be thinking, “So what, Google bought some thermostats?” Well it’s actually a pretty big deal; to be exact, it is the second largest deal in Google’s history.

eMarketer reports that the …

Considering a new recruitment system? That makes you and just about everyone else. Talent management analyst Josh Bersin projects that the $4.3 billion talent management market will grow by 11% or more this year. The landscape and everyday processes of recruiting have changed drastically,…

The career page --your best foot forward, your first impression, your handshake with the candidate. How’s it looking? You may post to it quite frequently, but that’s doesn’t mean that the page itself has been updated since dial-up times. Here is some food for thought when it comes to your career page.