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…

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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…

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…

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.…

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.…

At the end of last year, ERE published an article called “9 Talent-acquisition Trends to Watch for in 2017.”  I was excited to see one of the bullet points was as follows:

A/B testing will become a critical factor in the battle for talent. Do fewer candidates drop off during the application process if you reduce your number of screening questions? Is a candidate…

Ninja, Rockstar , Guru and Jedi are  just some of the buzzwords recruiters are being encouraged to use when writing  job titles.

Why ? to attract potential candidates to their jobs. Is this something that works ? Well ask no more because we have done the research for you and here are the real…

Most businesses would agree that recruitment is costly and time consuming because finding the right person can be quite difficult. The 2014 Federal Government Budget has allocated $2.1 billion over the span of ten years for recruiting and retaining Australian Defense Force Personnel alone. Even the higher end of the market,…

The morning session of day 2 consisted of several presentations to include-How to ensure you survive the Machine Learning and AI disruption by Jeremy Roberts, Its about the Human Sourcing for Soft Skills by Jennifer Shappley, and Can we automate being Human by Katrina Collier.

First up How to ensure you survive the Machine Learning and AI…

HR Tech World - the Fastest Growing Show on the Future of Work announces exclusive US show agenda for senior HR leaders in San Francisco in June

 

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2017 --  HR Tech World, the fastest growing international show on the Future of Work, announced…

Hiring the right candidate for a job opening is often a lengthy, frustrating process. In some cases, you may not find any qualified candidates despite weeks of searching. In other cases, you may extend multiple offers to candidates that ultimately are turned down. You may even hire a few professionals and quickly let them go…

Every job seeker understands how challenging it is to find a job that will fit their skills, their talents and of course, a job that will take them closer to the career that they have been dreaming of all their lives. Job-seeking becomes trial and error, often at the expense of the job seeker. On the other hand, finding the right candidate for the job is a…

CHICAGO, April 20, 2017 –SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced SAP® Fieldglass® Live Insights, a new machine learning-powered data-driven insights service that makes it possible for executives…

Sourcing right talent has been a big challenge for recruiters, with changing business needs. Either it is cherry picking or mass staffing, recruitment process eats up time and most of the budget of HR department.

If you were able to relate to the above situation, then continue reading because we have a solution for you.

An applicant tracking system can help automate the hiring process, starting from collecting job applications, parsing and…

The role of recruitment is moving away from an administrative one to that of a more strategic one. With more and more job-seekers using digital channels and devices to search for jobs as our recent survey revealed, it is vital that companies digitize every aspect of their recruitment…

We recently conducted a survey with 100 participants from across Ireland and the UK about the recently debated gender pay gap. Here are some of the main takeaways (scroll down for infographic).

Participants overview

93% females and 7 % males took part in our survey conducted on the gender pay gap. They fell into the…

This is the day 1 Purple Squirrel  Tracks. These included; How to go From Average Joe to Sourcing Pro by Matt LeBlanc and Smart Recruiting by Amy Miller.

First up How to go From Average Joe to Sourcing Pro by Matt LeBlanc. SO first up a realization all sourcers need to know; “hiring managers could care less where food candidates come from.”…