As a hiring manager, you’ve been tasked with fine-tuning your skills in finding the qualities of the company and candidate characteristics that match. You’ve spent enough time coaching employees to understand what works for your team, so your…

Your career website is your opening to a world of potential candidates. As one of your company’s primary sourcing tools, it provides visitors with a complete picture of your company. If done in an interesting and user friendly format, your website can act as a branding magnet.

A successfully built and committed…

To convert an area into a beautiful modern piece that is not that functional like warehouses or factories at some point of time is a difficult task. These places are quite spacious, hence they ought to be utilised in a proper manner. It is not necessary to have the essentials for an urban chic loft by hiring a professional in this field. One can add such a look with some bit of…

Here’s a recap that I’m sure you know.  Especially the different trains of thought that have been expressed over a much heard of and talked about topic such as, “How much of difference does Employee Engagement make?”

If you’ve been updating yourself then you too would have heard a considerable amount of talk flying around about Employee Engagement and its importance.  In view of this latest development we at Sourcing Adda (@SourcingAdda)…

Referral Key is a set of Business Referral Network tools, by Referral Key, lets small business owners

easily share leads with  trusted business associates. Referralkey is semi known in the community and

some have tried to source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into…

While Slideshare is now part of LinkedIn, there's not a whole lot we can do regarding searching for the Slideshare documents attached to LinkedIn profiles, because "Only your 1st-degree connections on LinkedIn can see your SlideShare presentations."

On the other hand, most Slideshare documents are public, so you can…

Maintaining good body language in a job interview is so crucial to landing that all important job.  You’ve got your two-minute speech down, 2 minute speech, you’ve rehearsed your responses to the typical questions; now you’ve just gotta work on your body language. Good body language is incredibly important in all walks of life—not just in a job interview! You have to know how to walk that thin line between confident and…

The answer to this question, as you might have already guessed, is “yes” and “no.” But let’s step back first and speak to the fact that you have actually completed a dissertation, no matter what the topic might have been.

This, in itself is a…

Whether you want it to happen or not, Millennials are taking over. No really, this isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact. Currently, they make up…

I have now been working in staffing and recruitment for a number of years and I am starting to see some interesting trends from both hiring managers and candidates.

One of the most common objections I have been coming across is ‘oh, that seems absolutely spot on, but it’s a shame about the industry’

Now I don’t…

Google AdWords is the biggest pay per click advertising platform online and is used by thousands of businesses worldwide to promote products and services to millions of individuals and businesses. It is both cost effective and targeted as you only pay for those ads that are clicked on and choose the keywords your ads are shown against.

Although AdWords is…

Steps Leading Nowhere

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about how Applicant Tracking Systems are archaic, outdated, or simply not functional for the recruiters who are supposed to use them.  A lot of these articles have come from the end users who are struggling with a system that doesn’t work.

I’ve been implementing recruiting systems for a lot of years now, but I’ve also worn the recruiter’s hat and had to use a system that someone else implemented.  When I…

Could older workers be an asset when recruiting new talent?

Older employees are often overlooked in favor of younger staff that oftentimes proves more tech- savvy, but in fact older workers offer many advantages to your business.

So just why should your business consider older employees?

Wealth of Experience

One of the first things to…

In the first article of the series, How to Attract Top Talent, we discovered that we truly are in the midst of a candidate-driven market. A trend predicted to continue in the foreseeable future. Therefore, recruiting, staffing and HR professionals will need to…

While job searches requires less shoe leather than before the Internet, a successful job search still requires clear thinking and an optimal search strategy. The number of job websites is plentiful however, for many the job hunt remains a struggle.

The most successful job searches often employ …

Imagine this. You’re 15 years old, working at an amusement park during summer break. You’re not taking tickets or working with roller coasters. Instead, you’re stuck working games. You know, cheesy stuff like Whac-a-Mole or Guess My Weight, the stuff that visitors aren't psyched to do but might do anyway as they’re waiting for their hot dogs and nachos to digest before…

Your company careers site should be at the heart of all of your recruiting. Sure it’s important to have a company page on LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus and many other platforms but these pages should be for distributing quality content. The intent of having a company profile on multiple websites is a good one. However, you must make sure all roads lead back to a…

What makes for a successful employee onboarding software? Is it a slick interface that makes everything look shiny, clean, and simple? That helps people feel better about using it, but it’s not always the most important part. Is it that it’s…

1. Be prepared to show how your personal brand is different.

“It’s important to understand what it is you can contribute professionally that no one else can,” Weinbaum said. “Identify one of your skills, and elaborate it; make it something you are an expert at.”

But what do you do if your boss doesn’t provide you with the opportunity to do that? Take things into your own hands.

“Show your employer that you are not afraid to…

Hiring a great candidate isn’t easy; ask any recruiter and even more so hiring a marketing candidate at that! As a result recruiters have a hard time landing that perfect candidate for the firm that they represent. As such even corporates that seeking out such individuals share in the brunt of inefficient employees. Therefore there are, “3 Interview Questions every Recruiter should ask a Marketing Candidate” in an effort to recruit an efficient marketing candidate that you might…