As with almost every other aspect of the business world today, people are being asked to do more with less. Recruiters are in the uncomfortable position of having to deliver skilled candidates to an organization, and they must do so in increasingly creative ways in order to locate and attract the best and…

Traditional methods of Recruitment are gradually being replaced by Social Media, seeing as it is a new era that is evolving at a fast pace. The task of a Recruiter just got easier and more fun. Never before has obtaining contacts been so simple and acquiring Candidates of calibre is now easy too.

If you thought that…

Over the past several years we’ve all embraced the technological advancements. It was just 23 years back we accessed first multimedia browser and now we are about to enter in the visual world with technologies such as Virtual Reality. According to tech giant IBM, every day…

The Merriam Webster Dictionary says a keyword is “a significant word from a title or document used especially as an index to content”.

Well, the keyword in this definition is “significant”.

There are three questions:

1. Which keywords to use?

2. How significant do keywords need to be (tail length)?

3. How many significant keywords do we…

Your Rookie HR Leader Guide to Surviving the First 60 Days On the Job Successfully

Congratulations, freshly minted HR Leader.

Your star has been rising as an individual contributor to the business’ HR function.

Perhaps, you…

So this is the 6th presentation of the conference and the first Lab. Titled “Lose the Fluff: Gain Authority & Credibility through a Deep understanding of your Reqs” By Carmen Hudson. 

First she goes into the fact that sourcing is more than just Boolean search. She specifies you also need to be good at marketing, Internet, Data retrieval,…

It goes by many names: high-touch customer experience, personalized recruiting experiences, “artisanal” recruiting—but the idea is the same. Modern recruiting methods are getting back to their tried-and-true roots, based on creating deep personal relationships.

Many successful, high-profile…

A Company is nothing without its employees, making recruitment is an essential process for your organization. It’s about finding top talent, and today the best way to do that is by establishing a strong talent brand. Every recruiter seeks to find the best talent to develop their organization and take it ahead of its competitors. When it comes to…

In 2016, the recruitment industry finds itself at a fork in the road. For years, people have predicted the demise of the industry - but despite the rise of LinkedIn and other online resources, these predictions have proven to be false. Year upon year, recruitment has continued to thrive.

But it is easy to see that many people have become increasingly…

Communicate and Engage

In just the last few years, Mobile communication has become one of the most effective channels of conversation––particularly in the staffing and recruiting industry and it’s marketed sectors. Not just communication, but we see a skyrocketing trend in using mobile to access anything and everything through applications and the cloud. TargetRecruit’s platform leverages this technology to offer its clients a fully integrated platform that…

There comes a point in time when a Recruiting Manager will have to sit down with an individual recruiter, or a team of recruiters and assess their strengths, weaknesses and areas of improvement in order to hit quotas and attain business goals.  We are presenting 4 Easy Ways to Improve Recruiter Performance. 

1.  Data Support:  The proof, as they say,  is in the pudding.  Tracking employee tasks and activities real time and sharing with recruiters is a best…

The campus recruiter is in charge of building a pipeline of talented up and coming candidates. The job spans many departments, walks the line between online and offline recruiting, as well as being driven by key seasonal booms (mostly commonly occurring during late spring and early fall) as students transition into the next phase of their budding careers. 

I had the…

Telling a candidate that they have not been chosen for an opportunity is never easy. When you do have to inform a candidate that the company will go in another direction every recruiter should handle the situation just as they would want to be treated. Yes, the advice is simple, but it’s also good business. The candidate-focused interview process should not cease at the…

Game of Thrones season 6 finally returns on Sunday, for what seems like an eternity, it is now only a few days away!

Is Jon Snow actually dead? What will happen to Daenerys now she is a prisoner to the Dothraki's? Will Cersei seek retribution on the High Sparrow? All will be revealed hopefully soon...

Before that however, let's us look at some of the…

During October 2015, David Cameron announced that ‘name blind’ recruitment will be introduced into the processing of University admissions and apprenticeship applications.  This is a key weapon in the fight against admission discrimination and will be introduced by 2017.…

You want to hire the best people. Always.

But the next time you try to project a “superstar” in your job description, think again.

In a Harvard Business School publication called “Toxic Workers,” Michael Housman and Dylan Minor point out that avoiding candidates with ‘toxic’ behavior provides much…

I am continuing to discover new job boards, recruiting sites, and other interesting recruiting startups. The last roundup was over a month ago, so I guess I'm due for a new one - and here it…