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…

Replacing an employee can cost up to 200% of that employee’s annual salary. “Even during a time of high unemployment, top salespeople are always in demand, and their skills are easily portable from one sales environment to the next,” says Katherine Graham-Leviss, founder of XB Consulting. “Losing them to a higher bidder or a more lucrative sales opportunity is too easy to be taken…

Anybody can tell you that the secret of sourcing is to be resourceful, that social media feels important, and that all you really need to do for your career is center your chi. In lieu of more unspecific adjectives,…