Don’t recruit blind when you can use data to make informed decisions and optimize your recruiting strategy. The benefits of tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) for recruiting go beyond allowing hiring managers and recruiters to make more better decisions, however. “KPIs set expectations and improve…

All too often historically, recruiting has been carried out without any sort of rigorous analysis. Even when metrics are applied to recruiting, traditional recruiting metrics miss the mark when it comes to measuring what really matters to impact return on investment…

One of the hottest trends in recruiting, and for good reason, is recruiting videos. “While a picture may speak a thousand words, a video has the potential to reach millions” …

Telecommuting is a pervasive workplace trend with no sign of going out of style anytime soon.According to US Census Bureau data, there has been an 80 percent increase in telecommuting in the United States since…

In a market where competition over top tech talent is fierce and top companies don’t think twice aboutpoaching develo

pers and engineers from other companies, it’s incredibly difficult for startups and…

It’s time to debunk what may be the costliest myth in recruiting - that active candidates are inferior to passive candidates. When recruiters consider candidates who are gainfully employed, but also actively applying to new jobs, they have traditionally seen disloyal future deserters, the chronic complainers and slackers that aren’t nearly as desirable as the loyal employees who are contentedly chugging away at their daily work without considering moving on to something…

If your career site is tacked on to your company website as an afterthought, or if it looks like you designed it in 2000 and never revisited it, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to sell your company to potential candidates. The Talent Board’s 2015 Candidate Experience Research found that 64% of candidates consider career sites the most…

As recruiting trends towards marketing, incorporating successful inbound marketing strategies is becoming the standard. Smart companies know that the customers who are currently interested in purchasing their product aren’t their only valuable customers. It’s important to make the sale today, of course, but it’s also important to have future customers lined up who will be ready to close a deal…

Despite improvements in gender equality in the workplace, the tech industry continues to lag behind. Women make up over 50 percent of today’s workforce in the United States, but they’re still noticeably absent in the tech…

The internet has changed how we do so many things, from how we shop to how we make doctor’s appointments to how we study. According to a Zendesk study of consumers’ use of online reviews, 88% of consumers have been influenced by an online customer service review. Since consumers and candidates are the same people, it’s no wonder that the internet has changed how we find jobs, as…

Strong teams are productive, innovative, satisfied, and collaborative. Strong teams lead to low turnover and high results, making them a valuable asset in becoming a cost-efficient company. Toxic teams, however, are expensive and unproductive. They damage corporate culture, making it harder to attract great new…

The tech industry is infamous for talent poaching, especially of top talent. In an attempt to reduce the constant swinging door in Silicon Valley, Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Pixar signed…

In an innovation-driven economy, where new companies are constantly being born and a great number of those companies are centered around a software product, tech talent can be very hard to come by. Exacerbating the problem, once you’ve managed to find and hire a developer, you’re…

According to a recent …

One of the most effective recruiting strategies, in terms of time invested and future employee retention, is also one of the cheapest ways to hire. Employee referrals bypass high agency fees for successful introductions, while increasing employee investment and strengthening company culture. Even so, many companies underutilize the power of employee referral.…

The problem with top talent is that there are fewer of them than there are open positions. Any employer would love to fill their team with the best of the best (and perhaps replace Tardy Tom while they’re at it) so when a highly skilled, highly driven candidate enters the job market, they aren’t…