When a candidate applies for a job, the main part of the experience is the application form itself. And yet, even though everything else is just extras around it, this is the part that some companies fall down on!

The most important thing with regards to candidate experience from an application form is usability.

Is the form: difficult to read? Badly set out? Very long?

If your form is in an unusual font, a very bright/faded colour or is in a similar colour to the…

Editor’s note:  Every have a bad writing day?  I think v1 of this post fell into that category.  This is a revised and expanded version of previous post. 

How do you build a talent community? Is there a step by step method of creating and building a community? Today, I answer those questions differently.

In the past, I described the approach to building community as a recipe.…

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Last week I posted a blog (Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room) that received a great many well thought out and passionate comments. It is the goal of any blogger to draw attention to some topic that is relevant and sparks a good deal of give and take. Needless to say…

I’m a big advocate of staffing technology (of course!), but I also promote using social media in recruiting and staffing. After all, recruiters and staffing professionals need to go where candidates are, and candidates are on the web, checking their email, Facebook accounts, LinkedIn connections, and Twitter feeds.

In this post, I’ll focus exclusively on Twitter and 6…

Within every recruiting process you have specific moments in your recruiting process where candidates fall off.  They may fall off for a variety of reasons: they may be unqualified for the position, be uninterested in the position, the apply process could be too long or broken, they may drop off to return later and a number of other reasons.

It’s important for recruiting organizations to track and identify at what stage in the recruitment process these candidates are dropping…

Hello All:

I have been using LinkedIn the last few years- both as a job seeker and a recruiter. I have always used the basic account type- a.k.a FREE.

Is anyone currently using LinkedIn as a paid site/upgraded account?

Do you feel it is a worthwhile tool?

On average do you feel you are able to access significantly more applicants?

Thank you for your time!!

There have been a lot of blog posts here over the years – 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn’t. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup of what I consider to be the most interesting and useful (if not always successful) posts. Hope you like them!

• People, Balance & Technology: The…

Resourcing Circle has launched an enhanced version of their software which enables companies to build internal talent pools of reviewed contractors and temporary staff. Resourcing Circle automates the process of capturing reviews of contractor performance, storing up-to-date contractor CVs and sharing this information throughout an organisation.

The…

Early on in my career as a recruiter, after the initial call with any candidate, I'd always wonder whether I had learned enough and asked the right questions. I still don't like to think that I know everything.  I'd like to hear what questions recruiters here think other recruiters should be asking more often or even at all.

I haven't been visiting RB as regularly as I'd like to, so if this has been asked and answered before, feel free to move on. :)

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There are probably not too many people who would turn down the chance to work from home. But how many do you know who would take a pay cut to do so?

Well, according to a recent NetworkWorld article, 35 percent of information technology workers would accept a lower salary to telecommute. In fact, they would take a cut of up to 10…

We've discussed in previous blog posts about how members of Generation Y, who are often called Millennials, make great contract candidates. But if you hope to attract the best talent from the upcoming crop of college graduates, you may run into trouble if you rely solely on traditional recruiting…

The E-Verify Self Check system we reported on a couple of weeks ago has now been launched, but only for users in specific states.

E-Verify Self Check gives individuals the ability to check their own…

A client and I have been having this ongoing discussion about what kind of first impressions Recruiting Professionals are making when they send an email from an AOL, GMAIL or Hotmail account.

As a candidate, client or as a Recruiting Professional ~

Is it important to have a company email address? Why or Why not?

What kind of impression does a Recruiting professional give you when they send an email from a NON-COMPANY email address?

Having to put together your CV can be a daunting task.  Especially if you haven't got one and are starting from scratch, or do have one but it needs the dust and cobwebs blown from it.

In a couple of previous posts I've taken you through what I believe to be …

You are in the job market. Either you are not working and actively applying for jobs, your working but for whatever reason the writing is on the wall or you got a call from a pro-active recruiter. 

You start chatting about the general details of the job and then the question comes up, what are you looking to make....

You try to give an answer like negotiable, market rate or "we can come to an agreement" but the conversation is stalled without an actual data…