6 Unlikely Tech Tools for Recruiters
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on employment data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What are some tech tools that recruiters may be surprised to learn they could really benefit...
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Cracking the Code of Social Analytics: Universum Presents Inside Social Media
Editor's Note: Employer branding firm Universum recently released its Inside Social Media report, which surveys the "current state of the social media landscape for employer brands and the trends shaping how and where you engage talent today." This is the first in a series of articles based on the report. Introducing Iris: Crowd-Sourced Social Content Analysis Engagement metrics are...
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Keep Your Managers Mobile With These 4 Apps
A generation ago, workers would smile when the boss announced plans to be away for a few days. That generally meant a few unsupervised days during which employees wouldn't have to worry about management breathing constantly over their shoulders. Today, however, the boss's vacation time doesn't provoke such euphoria. That's because managers have learned to go mobile, thanks to a slew of...
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Email Is Antiquated: All Aboard the Automation Train
In the 1980s, everybody thought that by 2016 we'd be driving flying cars, riding around on hover boards, and making conference calls on video screens. We've accomplished two of those so far – and even though our cars don't fly yet, they are learning to drive themselves – but why have we been so slow to adopt similarly advanced technologies in the realm of business processes? There...
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6 Ways to Bring Tech Into Your Employee Engagement Efforts
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: Have you used technology to help engage your employees? If so, what tech did you use? How did you use it? Did it...
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Does Anybody Actually Know What 'Big Data' Means?
Big data. Say what? Ask anybody in HR or recruiting what big data is, and you're likely to get a response like, "Hmm ... well ..." It's truly a minefield of a topic among industry insiders. A quick Google search returns "Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate," courtesy of Wikipedia. Okay. Seems simple...
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Social Media Sourcers: A New Generation of Sourcing Is Born
Generally speaking, a social media team within a company's marketing department will lead the organization's social media strategy, but we've been seeing changes to this setup for a while now. Particularly, I am talking about the new partnership forming between marketing and talent acquisition. This new partnership in tapping the labor market has given rise to a new role. It goes by many...
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Next-Level Job Search: 6 Great Tech Tools for Job Seekers
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on jobs data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: We talk a lot about awesome tech tools that recruiters and HR pros can use to source, screen, and hire candidates...
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8 Awesome Presentation Tools Every Professional Should Check Out
Whether you're an entrepreneur, small business owner, HR manager, or recruiting leader, you know the importance of creating successful presentations. The amount of work that goes into planning and executing a presentation is staggering. Because of that large commitment, it's essential that your presentations generate income, improve productivity, and/or increase customer loyalty. Whatever...
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4 Ways to Bring Big Data Into Your Recruiting Process
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on jobs data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: We're looking for real-life examples of big data in action. How do you use it in your recruiting process?...
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Why HR Tech Is a Supplement – Not a Replacement
For most of us recruiters, technology is our partner in crime. As we become more strategic in our methods, the technology we need becomes more advanced, too. And yet, for those recruiters who are still heavily dependent on the antiquated manual ways, new technologies can seem unnecessary or (gasp!) as if they are here to replace us all. But nothing could be further from the truth....
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7 Innovative Tech Tools Recruiters Should Leverage Today
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on employment data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What recruiting tech tools are you most excited about? What general trends or specific technologies do you...
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6 Things Recruiters Need to Know About Big Data
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: It's become fashionable to talk about big data, but many recruiters and HR pros still feel uninformed about what, exactly,...
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Press Play on Your Video Recruitment Efforts
In 2016, you're reading these words. But if it were 2019, chances are you'd be watching me tell you this story. Cisco predicts that video will make up 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic just three years from now (in 2014, this number was 64 percent). This trend will also impact the way you engage with talent, if it hasn't already. Failure to press play – now – on a strategy to...
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Recruiting Is Marketing – But What If You're No Good at Marketing?
By now, it's basically a truism: "Recruiters need to be more like marketers." The funnels are similar; the goals are similar; even the strategic functions of both departments are similar. But there's one huge problem: Recruiters aren't marketers. They're recruiters. As such, they haven't been trained as marketers. How can we expect recruiters to become marketers – and not just...
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4 Creative Ways to Use Your ATS
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: The applicant tracking system is the workhorse of recruiters everywhere – but is everyone taking full advantage of this...
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3 Experts on How to Get Leadership on Board With a New Tech Tool
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask about employment data? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: Let's say you're an HR pro or recruiter who wants to convince the company to adopt a new recruitment...
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Say Goodbye to Recruiting Events, Resumes, and Traditional Job Applications
I recently wrote at length about some of the unique hurdles that companies hiring for service and support workers are faced with. In conversations with many retail, restaurant, hospitality, and service companies, we hear how defined hiring processes are often bypassed for the company's hourly and store positions. This is not terribly surprising, given the nature of the positions in the...
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6 Things to Look for in a New ATS
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What would you say is the most important thing for a recruiter to look for in an ATS? Advanced search capabilities? An...
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The 4 Keys to a Winning Mobile Hiring Strategy
By now, you've probably seen the statistics. Depending on which study you consult, between 25 and 40 percent of all job seekers are incorporating mobile technology into their job hunt. Among those job seekers who own smartphones, the numbers are even more impressive. According to a 2014 Glassdoor report, 9 in 10 job seekers reported they would use mobile to search and apply for jobs in 2015....
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How Automating Your Review Process Can Save You Thousands
Many companies have recently begun to reevaluate how they review employee performances, coming up with all sorts of potential improvements to the traditional performance review. But no matter what, most business leaders can agree on one thing: They need to know how well their employees are fulfilling company objectives. Increasingly, these two goals – more efficient, cost-effective...
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Do You Love Your ATS? Your Candidates Probably Hate It
According to research from Capterra, which offers software-buying advice for businesses, roughly 75 percent of recruiters and hiring professionals use some sort of ATS or similar recruiting software. For the most part, recruiters and hiring pros are happy with their software: Capterra also found that 94 percent of them say their hiring software has been a net benefit for the hiring...
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How to Use Mobile Apps for Your Recruitment and Candidate Marketing
Thanks to advances in the tech sector, the process of finding, recruiting, and hiring great candidates in the labor market has been accelerated in recent years. Social media, for example, has made it a lot easier for companies to identify and reach out to candidates. The adoption of social media in the recruiting process has gone hand and hand with another development: the rise of mobile...
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The New Age of Onboarding: Why It's Time to Ditch the Classroom
If you're looking for new ideas about how to onboard your employees, you may need to take a step back. This is especially true if you're still onboarding in a classroom or classroom-style setting. Many companies still like to run their new hires through a number of classroom exercises before they get down to work, but this process is outdated and costly. There are newer, better methods for...
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Turn Your Smartphone Into a Professional Development Powerhouse
Professional development opportunities are important to today's workforce, especially the millennials who comprise a significant portion of the contemporary talent market. When it comes to such development, more and more employers and employees are pushing for self-directed, informal learning opportunities instead of the more rigid formal programs that used to be the standard. Indeed,...
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Can't Afford Competitive Health Benefits? Now You Can
For large companies, identifying the right health plans and benefits options to offer employees can be pretty simple: Just bring in an HR and benefits consultant to collect and analyze the right data, and – presto! – your expert consultant will help your organization pick the right plans in no time. If, on the other hand, you run a startup or small or medium-sized business (SMB),...
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5 Hiring Experts on Their Favorite Hiring Software
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: There are plenty of software solutions out there. From the trusty ATS, to psychometric assessments, to talent pipelining...
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How to Measure Your Organization's 'Velocity'
"Ten years ago, you hired the top people from the top schools," says Deidre Paknad, CEO and cofounder of Workboard, which offers tech-based goal-management solutions. "Your design strategy for organizational advantage was IQ." According to Paknad, this strategy just isn't going to cut it in today's business climate, where it's all about "sprinting." "In the world we live in now, the very...
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Is Text Messaging a Viable Way to Recruit?
In today's hyper-competitive talent market, many recruiting teams are starting to think outside of the box. Thanks to rising quotas and shrinking budgets, more and more recruiters are looking for creative ways to leverage existing technology to improve their recruiting efforts. Consider, for example, how recruiters turned social media into the hottest new talent acquisition tool just a few...
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4 Business Benefits of Using a Job Matching System
You keep hiring the candidate in the job market who looks great on paper and does very well in the interview. Sounds like the right way to go, doesn't it? But as soon as the hire begins their new role, you realize they were definitely not the right choice. What did you miss? How did this happen? What you need is a tool that can fill in the blanks for you so that right candidate – in...
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9 Tools to Improve Your Business Writing Skills
There is one thing that job hunters often neglect: The way you express yourself in written form can determine the course of your career. You don't have to be a writer, blogger, or content marketer to be interested in boosting your business writing skills. You'll benefit from these efforts regardless of the career you're committed to. One way of improving your written communication skills is...
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How One Company Is Helping GED Students Find the Jobs They Want
According to the GED Testing Service, 65 percent of those who pass the GED took the test to "further their education." The problem, however, is that only 43 percent of these students actually go on to enroll in postsecondary education programs, and a scant 12 percent actually complete those postsecondary programs. Aaron Michel, cofounder and CEO of career navigation and education software...
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Are You Using HR Technology the Right Way?
The recruiting industry has been rather welcoming to new HR technology, but in the rush to reach candidates, have we forgotten that technology should enhance -- not replace --human connections? Candidates don't join organizations because their HR technology replaces a personal experience; they join organizations because of connections. These connections are formed during the candidate...
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Does Your Startup Have the Right Software to Really Kick Butt? [Infographic]
Can a startup succeed in 2015 without the right software tools? Probably not, to be honest. Given that the average employee checks email about 50 times a day, you'll need a solid email client. You'll probably need an instant messaging program, too, because most employees use instant messaging 77 times a day. And what about managing sales leads? You can either ask your employees to juggle...
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Don't Leave Networking Up to Employees — Your Business Can Network, Too
"It's all about who you know." It may be the most shopworn piece of career and life advice of all time, but there's good reason why this little aphorism gets tossed around so frequently and with such confidence. If you want to succeed in life in any capacity, you need to make the right connections. See, for example, the fact that roughly 80 percent of jobs are landed through...
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5 Ways to Get Your Reluctant Boss on Board With New HR Tech
You're ready to try some new HR tech, but your boss isn't listening. Every time you bring it up, they brush it off, tell you they'll "think about it," or flat out shut you down. Low-quality leadership is an industry-wide problem that's stunting the growth of recruiting and HR departments around the world. A recent survey of 1,000 employees conducted by Approved Index found that the...
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7 Practical Ways Gamification Can Help Your Business
Given that more than two-thirds of U.S. employees are disengaged, engagement initiatives remain high on most corporate agendas. While there is nothing particularly new about this engagement problem -- it's been around and unsolved for quite a while now -- one thing has changed: the tools available to combat disengagement. The arrival of new motivational technologies -- especially...
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Is Your Company Making These 5 Crucial Mistakes on Social Media?
"If you don't like what is being said, then change the conversation." -- Don Draper, Mad Men The number of ways in which one can market a company is limited only by the imaginations marketing professionals. Despite the best intentions of mailers, flyers, commercials, spots, billboards, and other promotions, far too many companies are tuning out newer media channels, thereby running the...
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5 Easy Ways to Make Your HR-Tech White Papers More Exciting
You've created what you believe to be an awesome white paper on the latest trends within the human resources industry. It's informative, insightful, and an overall good read for anyone in HR -- and even people who aren't! But is it really? In a world of data-overload, the time spent researching and drafting content for white papers can sometimes go to waste. So, why bother? Well, as it...
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Digital Interviews: How to Attract, Engage, and Retain Top Talent
In today's candidate-driven market, 75 percent of candidates identify themselves as passive candidates. Very few candidates are knocking on recruiters' doors, looking for work. Recruiters must now work extra hard to attract, engage, and retain top talent. Digital interviews can help recruiters identify top talent in the applicant pool and push those candidates through the interviewing...
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Recruiting Tools: Spend a Little, Gain a Lot
The American economy is in recovery, but if you're in a sector that requires heavily skilled workers, you could be facing long-vacant positions and a lack of qualified workers. According to ManpowerGroup's annual "Talent Shortage Survey," employers in industries such as construction, IT, and engineering are having trouble recruiting the right candidates. This talent shortage is costing...
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How to Make the Most Out of Your ATS: What You Need to Know
There are a lot of reasons you love your applicant tracking system (ATS). It makes things easier on your HR staff, it helps you find candidates from an array of sources, and it keeps the hiring process organized. But, if you're like many others -- that is, fighting to find the most talented candidates in today's competitive job market -- you may also have reason to hate your ATS. In Jibe's...
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3 Social Media Myths Made True by Video Interviewing
It's been almost a decade since social media hit its stride, and companies are still grappling with how to get the most out of this multi-faceted mode of communication. Now, another technology -- video interviewing -- is also hitting its stride. What happens when these two technologies collide in the employment market? Some interesting synergies, that's for sure. Some video...
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3 Smart Ways to Build Links That Won't Make You Look Spammy
You want to drive more traffic to your site, but you also don't want to your Web content to look spammy. Search engines like Google are striving hard to help searchers find what they're looking for by filtering out all the nonsense -- and if you and Google are on the same page, your SEO strategy will go much more smoothly. You can build inbound links with integrity and boost your Web...
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How the New York Times Is Keeping Print Job Ads Relevant in 2015
Honestly, that's not a headline I ever expected to write. Amid the clamor of the champions of today's most tech-savvy recruiting tactics -- from programmatic ad-buying to growth hacker marketing and inbound recruiting -- I and plenty of others have long assumed that newspaper "help wanted" ads were pretty much dead. I wasn't surprised when the New York Times announced T Jobs. A...
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4 Leaders Influencing HR Technology Today
The leaders of HR technology run in a tightly knit circle, and together, they are constantly shaping the way technology impacts everyday HR practitioners. The following four leaders in HR technology dominate the social sphere through their active blogs, columns, and talkshows, and they all guide and influence the ways we think about technology in HR. 1. Bill Kutik Bill Kutik is a...
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Talent, Tools, and Time: Why So Few Companies Act on Big Data
In a recent survey, Scout Exchange found that 57 percent of HR professionals "felt that using big data principles was better than relying on their 'gut'" -- and that only 16 percent of these same HR professionals were actually using big data to review hiring trends. According to Scout Exchange CEO Ken Lazarus, there are a few reasons for this disconnect -- not the least of which is the fact...
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3 Secrets of Video Interview Software
There are many reasons to adopt video interview software in your hiring process, but some of the hidden benefits don't seem to get much airtime. Having watched thousands of organizations modernize their hiring processes, we'll unveil the hidden benefits that aren't always talked about. The Two-Minute Disqualification Ever meet a candidate whom you knew would disqualified from the hiring process...
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