Incredibly, we’ve seen a couple of situations lately where a new hire walked off of the job after or even during the first day.

One of the hiring managers asked, “who does that?”  The answer, of course, is someone that you don’t want to employ.  Walking off the job without having a conversation with your supervisor says a lot.

Character matters and it’s impossible to hide from.

Todd…

How do you go about retaining tech talent when the turnover rate is aggressively high? That’s the question companies nationwide are asking. We’re at the point where some highly skilled IT professionals are being approached multiple times a week by tech recruiters, and many of those offers…

International hiring has been a part of the recruitment industry for a long time but has become the center of attention as well as concern in the recent years. It is a known fact that foreign countries are outsourcing jobs at a higher rate and have also been hiring candidates from different locations all over the globe. Some employees are working from their respective local places in an international company whereas some have moved travelled…

Inbound and outbound recruiting strategies are two major recruiting methods used in Talent Acquisition. There has been a lot of buzz around these terms lately, but what do they really mean? And which form of recruiting is better for your company and…

Sadly there is still a huge stigma attached to …

The drastic changes in the placement and posting system have shifted the gears of how the recruiting firm works. The recruiting firms are one of the essential mediators in the entire pipeline of the job market. There are not only tremendous and unpredictable changes in the recruitment and placement industry but the internal functioning system of maximum organizations, where the specific candidates are placed to have undergone massive changes. There are multiple reasons to the fact, and some…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Purple Squireel Sessions.

First up Angie Verros- Band Mates Wanted. In this session, Angie talks about attracting top talent and the war for talent. She talks about first impressions, messaging, keeping it real, being unique, and more. TOOLS; Canned responses, and Clinch.

Next up is Tangie Pettis – were in…

Truck driving is a job that can be suitable for people who are calm and who can focus for extended stretches of time. If you’re a recruiter who wants to find capable truck drivers, you need to look for professionals who are licensed and qualified. Hiring high-quality truck drivers is all about paying attention to the details.

Understand Truck Driver Certifications and…

If you work at a recruiting agency, the following Boolean Strings would be useful for generating new business.

1) Find people who have recently started new jobs:

site:linkedin.com…

Whenever we take on a new employee, we all aim to keep them for the long run and provide them with a bright future. We want to give employees the freedom to control how they work and the autonomy they deserve, especially for employees with many years of experience.

However, what happens if this autonomy starts to fade? Or worse yet, was…

There are more than twelve industry-based recruitment methods which differ completely from all ends. The process of recruitment can hold crucial importance in case of each organization and even more when it comes to the type of businesses they carry out. Well, most of the company follows certain hiring process and keeps the best analyzed on the running list. But there are also procedures that are often personalized by today’s industrialists and even established in order to meet the exact set…

You and I constantly hear the comment that our organization human capital assets are no longer engaged. Dale Carnegie Institute in a recent survey states that among the 1,500 employees, only 29% are fully engaged and 26% are disengaged. Almost half (45%) are partially engaged. One of…

One of the biggest trends in recruiting over the past few years has been the use of Facebook to attract and convert talent. This practice even got its own…

Writing your first CV or updating an old one probably feels like a daunting task that will take hours or even days to complete.

There is a massive amount of advice you can find about writing CVs, whether it’s how to make your CV stand out or five different templates that will get you an interview. We’re spoilt for choice online – but this can make it even more…

As recruiters, our ultimate goal is to help companies source the best talent to fill their open positions. While technology has sophisticated the avenues we can take to find and secure these persons for the task, it doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day, we’re responsible for making those two puzzle pieces fit seamlessly…

Building a great team is not easy.  There are no shortcuts.  Recruiting plans tend to be more fly by the seat of your pants in nature.  I need this, get it for me now.

A great recruiting plan focuses on continuously finding the best talent you can for all of the roles you need to fill.  If you can’t be patient on a given role, you may have to settle.  But overall, the effort needs to be sustained and resilient.  Top talent doesn’t always move easily and doesn’t always move now. …

Back before the oil price crash there were a lot of engineering companies and consultancies that offered engineering services for the standard rate to engineer + 50% overhead cost + 15% profit margin. They didn’t construct or install anything, just focussing on engineering deliverables. These were the source of a lot of good and…