CoderWall is the Software tips, tricks, community site. 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 tried and true tool, a simple search with some…

Should your resume be one page or two? Well, that kind of thinking is soo... 1999. If you want to be in line with what’s happening in 2020 and beyond, start thinking about your biometric resume. What’s a biometric resume you ask? Well, imagine proving you are the best qualified person for the job based not on your past experience but instead,…

Performance Management can be defined as a process focuses on aligning your employees with goals and competencies, creating development plans specific to an individual employee, and driving better business results. 

An effective Performance Management System helps to unlock employee’s talent full potential and turn your small business into a major competitor to the…

SCGUILD is the Software Contractor Guild and as it implies is a place for software contractors. 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…

An experienced HR fully understands the struggle of competing for talent while being efficient.

Whether you need seasonal workers, have recrudescing projects requiring skilled people, or cannot maintain a big in-house recruitment team, at some point, you may need to hire more employees. If you want to refine the whole recruitment…

Employment & Unemployment

• Employment Rate: 60.4%
• Unemployment Rate: 3.6% 
• Underemployment Rate: 12.5% 
• Youth (16 to 24) Unemployment Rate: 7.9%

 Job Openings & Labor Force Participation

• Job openings were at 7.02 million on the last…

The economy in the U.S. right now is shaped by several key factors. These chiefly relate to global issues such as the trade war with China and the UK’s prolonged expectation of departure from the E.U; all of which affect the future of our recruitment…

When it comes to recruiting, business professionals often speak in terms of “selling the job” to prospective candidates. It is true that effectively recruiting involves somewhat of a sales approach. How you put this into practice, however, depends on how you define the term “selling”.

If you think of sales as convincing someone to take a position, you may want to rethink your definition. The goal is to find the right person for a job, and the right job for the person.…

Creating a diverse workplace should be at the top of mind for businesses of all sizes. A diverse workplace includes employees with remarkable thoughts and backgrounds in the world. The decision to hire a candidate would be based solely on their skills and ability to perform. Bias occurs when a person's brain makes a quick judgment based on a person's experience and background. Even the recruiter often doesn't know that he/she is making such a quick biased decision.…

DoYouBuzz is an app that helps you create a web, PDF, mobile formatted resume. 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 tried and true tool, a…

The “build vs buy” decision is a hot topic when I speak with staffing agencies. Pros and cons are weighed, time and costs are measured, and more and more it’s a decision that may determine the future health of your business. And since TargetRecruit is built upon Salesforce, I encounter this topic more than in my past roles because Salesforce encourages developers to build on its platform. In other words, rather than building a homegrown solution from the…

The number 1 reason I hear from business owners for not actively marketing on digital channels is this – I don’t know what content to create and I don’t have time to do it anyway!

I am going to take away that excuse right now. Creating content, just like all your marketing should be simple. There are 3 main types of content and my favourite is repurposed content.

Repurposed content is the existing content you are repeating or reusing. It sounds simple enough because it…

Whether you work for an SME or a large corporate enterprise, strong employee retention rates are highly desirable. Quite simply, it makes economic sense. The recruitment process can be costly to your business and retaining old employees is more efficient than bringing in expensive new…

Over the years, recruitment and HR landscape have changed massively. Nowadays, organizations need to deal with talent competition, game-changing developments in technology, and changing workforce dynamics consistently.…

Day 3 of Sourcecon and the tracks.

First up Jan Tegze and Is Technology our Friend or Our Enemy. Tools mentioned: Github, Stachoverflow, Plagerism Checker, Linkedin. Lost of talk of comparison thoughts on emails, inmails etc, All done form a European stance.

Mike Chuidian and the Cognitive side of Sourcing. Key…

About 97 percent of companies are investing in artificial intelligence and Big Data, according to New Vantage Partners' executive survey.   

 This unexpectedly large statistic is enough to scare us about the future of work. Dependency on machines is increasing. It is no surprise that artificial intelligence is taking over jobs. Several reports have already predicted how robots will take over human jobs. Is it something to be concerned about?  

Definitely. Today more jobs are…

I've been asking recruiters about how they use texting in recruiting. In this post we hear from Josh R. who has a theory that messenger apps may surpass texting.

He writes;

I started texting candidates in 2016. I was a little hesitant at first. Is this an invasion of…

Nowadays, it doesn’t matter if you have a great vacancy up for grabs, if you don’t know how to sell it then people won’t be interested. In fact, you need to make the most of your job adverts to ensure that they stand out in an overcrowded market. Especially as…