Text Message Recruiting Software: A comprehensive review of the best platforms available

According to FinancesOnline , 48% of global consumers prefer SMS as their source of brand updates. With the increased development of mobile applications comes the upgraded originality of the recruitment strategies. Proactive talent scouts should not miss the chance of text recruiting as an…

Google Developers Groups (GDG) is a site designed for and around the developer community. This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of recruiter do not search here. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old…

TechTalks Is a community of engineering, design, product and UX experts. Watch and discuss talks. Get involved with a community.  This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of recruiter do not search here. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into…

Candidates are 365% more likely to drop out of your application process if it takes more than 15 minutes to complete.

Depending on the size of your talent pool, that could mean a few dozen - or hundreds of applicants who are deterred from applying to your job. This poses a huge challenge for recruiting teams who are looking to fill multiple…

One of the main reasons for getting an intranet is to optimize the organization and sharing of information. A small company can generate a tremendous amount of knowledge, which can get chaotic much too soon.

According to research from McKinsey, the typical employee spends 20% of their time looking for internal information or tracking down teammates to…

Traditional recruiting is great, but what if you could achieve more efficiency, and attract even more talent?

Text messaging is a fast and efficient form of communication, especially in recruiting. The average open rate sits at 99%, with 97% of messages read within 15 minutes. It's a no-brainer why SMS is such a valuable tool for recruiting teams.

Text-to-Apply, in particular, is an…

Showwcase lets developers and designers share what they're working on, stay updated on what's happening, and find new opportunities within the tech community.  This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of recruiter do not search here. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this…

I’ve fielded not less than a dozen calls from clients, recruiters and investors in the past month. All with a common question – what is going on with the market? All are dealing with competing offers, ghosting and outrageous salary demands from candidates. We came out of the blocks on January 5 with a higher volume of open roles than any other January…

COVID-19 presented companies with a multitude of challenges in 2020, exposing process inefficiencies in many areas of business, not the least of which being HR.  Is your HR file management strategy keeping up with the times?

When it comes to recruitment articles, there’s a great deal of emphasis on what the candidate should avoid saying. Not much content at all, however, can be found on phrases that recruiters should avoid uttering.

Since anyone who works in recruitment knows (alas!) that we’re only human and therefore just as capable of saying something silly as candidates, we’ve…

Code Project is a community for computer programmers with articles on different topics and programming languages such as web development, software development, C++, Java, and other topics. Code Project is not very well known to us in staffing, but can be a good resource for candidates. Well to do this you need go no further than into your bag of…

Hairbrained is a global community of passionate hairdressers & colorists, supporting each other in

elevating our craft. Hairbrained is a little-known site and few have tried to source in it. Well to do

this without you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true

tool, called…

Recruiters spend a long time on LinkedIn, and if you are looking to start a recruitment business, you’ve likely asked yourself if you need to pay out for a LinkedIn Recruiter licence. In my Essential Checklist for Your New Recruitment Business blog, I questioned whether upgrading to LinkedIn Recruiter is worth the money. So, I wanted to examine the options in more detail and find out what…

AllPeople is the largest free directory of business contacts for America. Find leads for companies

including name, position, email, address, phone number and more. AllPeople is a little-known site

and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without you need go no further than into your bag

of tricks and pull out an old…

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that

distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional

information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share

your information…

Is setting up interview easy? Some people may say that it only takes minutes to send an email or pick up the phone to invite candidates to join interviews. But, what if you have to handle hundreds of candidates, multiple communication channels, and dozens of open vacancies?

Here is Rakuna’s list of top mistakes to avoid when you set up interview so you can ensure productive and flawless interviews with pleasant…

Here, we highlight the difference between growing and scaling your recruitment business, along with tips on ‘smart marketing’ and new technology suggestions to help you achieve growth.

Rhys Jones

Written by Rhys Jones Managing Director – Davidson Gray

Rhys sold out of his previous recruitment businesses in 2012 to focus solely on helping recruiters set up and build recruitment businesses. Follow Rhys on LinkedIn or contact him direct …

LeadCandy is a lead generation and sales intelligence solution for B2B sales and Marketing teams.

LeadCandy is a little-known site/tool and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without

you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool,

called…

Once upon a time there was a period of time in the staffing world were post and pray was the way. There were a large group of “staffing professionals” who only knew how to post a job, and pray they get what they want. As you can imagine this gave staffing a bad name with their hiring managers(HM) as, they rarely were able to give the HMs what they…

Stackshare is a Open Source Software as a Service (SaaS) and developer tool site. By developers for

developer ranked by developers. Stackshare is a little-known site and few have tried to source in it.

Well to do this without worry you need gono further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an…