What Is Headhunting and How Is it Different From Recruiting?
Today, more than 69% of companies in the US struggle to find the right talent for their vacant positions. To find the solution to this persisting problem, companies across the country have shifted their focus on implementing effective recruiting and headhunting strategies. Many companies rely on recruiters and headhunters to help them find their ideal candidate to fill an open...
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Valentine's Day: How to Foster Good Candidate Relationships
This Valentine's Day, many recruiters will be sending out emails to possible candidates, writing the perfect job posting to start attracting talented candidates, and rejecting a candidate who unfortunately didn't get the position. If you take a step back, the recruiting process can often feel like dating. According to one survey, about an average of 118 people will apply for one...
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9 Potential Negatives to Using Social Media to Recruit New Hires
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's one potential negative you see to companies using social media to recruit new hires? Why is it negative? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful young...
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Recruiter Jobs Roundup – Visa – February 10
Check out some great recruiter jobs at Visa. Visa is the world's leader in digital payments. Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable, and secure payment network – enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Visa's focus is the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. Visa is applying their brand, products, people, network,...
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The Most Common Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
According to some research, a bad hire could cost your business up to $240,000. That's why it's so crucial that recruiters try to refine their process and avoid making costly mistakes whenever possible. Bad hires will happen now and then, but there are ways to minimize the risk of making one. Recruiters might make some common mistakes, whether they've been in the field for two or twenty...
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The Ultimate Guide to Create a Social Recruiting Strategy
Over the years, recruiting has become competitive. These days, employers use CV parsing API to conduct recruitment using an AI tool. In addition, businesses are also taking advantage of social recruiting. Whether you want to establish a new business online or find ways to upgrade your business, a solid social media presence can help you with an effective marketing opportunity. However,...
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How COVID-19 Changed the Recruiting Process
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the recruiting process forever. With the pandemic, came the rise of the Great Resignation. Many people realized that they wanted to continue working from home, find a job aligned with their interests, or combat rising inflation with a higher salary. According to one survey, in 2022, 23% of surveyed employees said that they would look for a new job, so...
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3 Crucial Considerations Every Employer Should Consider Before Hiring a Corporate Recruitment Agency
Being an employer isn't easy in the present-day labor market, mainly because candidates have more leverage than they once did. Retaining good employees is now a more significant challenge than ever. So, what exactly can business owners do to ensure that they land the best hires and overcome the various business and resourcing challenges and manage to retain high-quality candidates amid...
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Top 6 Benefits of Working with a Specialist Recruitment Agency
Recruiting new employees can be costly and time-consuming, with no guarantee that you'll find the right individual for the role. Suppose you are an employer or a hiring manager looking to fill open positions at your company. In that case, you may be confused about finding recruits on your own and managing the entire recruitment process or working with a staffing agency specializing in...
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7 Important Strategies to Recruiting Post-Pandemic
In the past two years, the pandemic only seemed to accelerate the already growing complexity of the recruiting process. The concepts of a home office, digital nomads, freelancing, and part-time contracts, created new opportunities for employers and employees to find their perfect match. Yet, ample opportunities in the job market pose new challenges when recruiting - and keeping -...
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The Art of Recruiting Great Employees for Startups
Recruiting and retaining great employees is essential for any startup to be successful. However, it has become a tremendous challenge in the last decade as major companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others have skyrocketed. You must create a significant amount of buzz for your company and show meaningful traction to attract high-quality employees. The best candidates are never on...
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How Recruiters Can Evaluate Candidates With a Skills-Based Lens
Not only has the hiring landscape changed for job seekers, but it's also changed for hiring managers and recruiters on the business side. When managers are deciding their approach on whether or not a candidate is a right fit for a job, traditional talent management standards like college degrees or past employment experience are no longer the only applicable qualifications to consider. Instead,...
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Top Recruiting Challenges and What You Can Do to Fix Them
According to one survey, 72% of candidates have difficulty finding skilled candidates for open positions. Thanks to the Great Resignation, this problem is one of the most common recruiting challenges, but it's not the only one, especially in a competitive candidate market. Thankfully, so many tools and technology can help these HR professionals overcome these obstacles. Keep reading, and...
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How to Make Your Recruiting Email More Effective
Cold emailing isn't a simple process. You gather and process the data of multiple individuals, search the highs and lows of the internet for suitable talents, and finally, you send your mails. But most of the time, your email gets no response, or even worse, it bounces back (invalid email) — all in the day's work of a stressed talent acquisition manager. Don't worry; this article will...
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The Ultimate Guide on How to Pursue a Recruiter Career
In June 2021, over 380,000 open recruiter positions were posted on LinkedIn. The number keeps growing as recruiters become more in demand as companies try to grow post-pandemic. The BLS also anticipates that there will be a 9% increase in recruiting jobs from 2020 to 2030. Right now, with a competitive market, there's never been a better time to switch careers or find your dream...
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Top Places for Recruiters to Source Candidates
According to some research, 63% of recruiters say there is a talent shortage, and it's their biggest challenge. Especially during the Great Resignation, where the market is very competitive, recruiters need to find new places to source candidates for their recruitment process. If you don't have multiple places to find qualified candidates, keep reading to find inspiration on sourcing...
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7 Strategies to Be a Successful Recruiter
According to some research, there is a 90% recruiter turnover rate within the first year. If you're a recruiter who wants to do the best in their position, there are some strategies you'll need to use to do a great job. Keep reading to discover seven strategies that you can implement into your process to recruit the most experienced candidates. Be Personal Whether you're trying to...
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Candidate Experience: The New Watchword for Businesses Targeting Growth
Life is relatively sweet for the job seeker in today's job market. A record number of jobs are being created, and employers struggle to fill open positions at their companies. That means the pressure is on for talent acquisition leaders and their teams! So how do you stand out among all the noise and convince candidates that your organization is the perfect workplace for them? Close...
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How to Leverage Short-Term Recruiting to Scale Your Business
The COVID-19 pandemic not only wreaked havoc across the globe and created a health emergency, but also disrupted how candidates perceive employment opportunities today. What followed was "The Great Resignation." According to one recent finding published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as many as four million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Jobs data from other sources...
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The Ultimate Guide to Conducting Effective Screening Interviews
Recent statistics show that nearly 80% of candidate resumes don't get past the initial screen after applying to an open job description. Currently, screening interviews have undoubtedly gone down to become an integral part of the hiring and interview process, be it high-volume recruiting, filling in positions for specialized roles, or recruiting impact hires. Rapid changes happening...
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3 Types of Candidates to Identify So You Can Fill Sales Roles Fast
Leaving roles open in any industry means lost income for the company, particularly in sales. According to the most recent job openings survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the number of job openings in November 2021 was 10.6 million. The hiring in retail and sales has decreased as well. It's clear what this means for sales recruiters. There is a gap to fill! Fortunately,...
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7 Ways to Manage Your Recruitment Budget
According to one report, 40% of recruiters say that their recruitment budget increased in 2021. Many HR departments are dealing with extra money or are just wondering how to even start the budget in the New Year. With the Great Resignation and a competitive candidate's market, many people wonder how they can navigate this with a limited budget. Keep reading to discover a few ways to...
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5 New Year's Resolutions Every Recruiter Should Make
According to some research, there is a 90% recruiter turnover rate within the first year of starting the job. After the chaos that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the job market, many recruiters are starting to feel burnt out. But the New Year can be a great time to start fresh, set new goals, and make resolutions. So what are some good resolutions or goals for recruiters to...
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6 Crucial Questions to Ask Recruitment Agencies When Outsourcing Hiring
As the economy continues to recover from the losses caused by the pandemic, more and more organizations are looking to hire. And even as some employers may try to do it themselves, many others are looking to partner with an established, successful recruiter to help quickly fill the open positions at their company. This is one of the key reasons why the demand for recruiters has rapidly...
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How to Create a Job Posting Template to Attract the Best Hires
Creating a compelling job posting is a crucial prerequisite to finding the perfect candidate for an open position at your company. Not only will the right job post reduce your time-to-hire and cost-per-hire, but it will also accelerate your recruiting process by manifolds. Since 2018, the number of job openings has exceeded unemployment. Therefore, it is now more important than ever to...
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In-House Hiring Vs. Outsourcing Recruiting Services: Which Option Should You Choose to Scale Your Business?
With unemployment rates at a 50-year low in the United States, one of the biggest obstacles small and medium businesses face is finding the right talent to join their organization. Small businesses and startups need talented, reliable employees who will help contribute to business success quickly with their own ambition more than established players within any niche. Usually,...
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Should Employers Stalk Candidates on Social Media?
When a company is looking to employ someone new, it is common for the recruiter to stalk a candidate's social media. The question I'm posing today is whether or not this should be a common practice? The Harris survey discovered that 67% of recruiters employ social media platforms to research candidate profiles. The same survey found that 70% of people felt it was necessary to screen...
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The Gift That Keeps Giving All Year: Why the Holidays Are a Perfect Time to Recruit Talent
In December 2021, the current unemployment rate hovered around 4.2%. The Great Resignation is not helping companies either as many people are looking for a change. Many candidates capitalize on the holiday break to get ready for their New Year resolutions. This is only one reason recruiters, hiring managers, human resources, and companies should capitalize on this time to recruit...
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Just-in-Case Recruiting: How to Build More Resilient Talent Pipelines for the Post-Pandemic Era
As the holiday season kicks into high gear, many are fretting over the supply chain's ongoing woes, and understandably so. The logistics sector was among the hardest hit by the pandemic. Because of its fundamental role in the global economy, the supply chain's challenges are causing headaches for companies and consumers alike. But product shortages and shipping delays aren't the only things...
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4 Innovative Recruitment Marketing Strategies for Startups
People are vital to the success and growth of any company, and building a team of complementary yet diverse personalities, skill sets, and passions is one of the most challenging aspects of growing any business, especially when it is a startup. The process of finding exceptional candidates and convincing them to apply on your job boards is quite similar to how marketers attract and convert...
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Restructuring the Recruitment Industry Post-Pandemic
The globe is facing uncertainty in all areas due to COVID-19, and recruiting is no exception. Businesses are looking for strategies to be productive in the face of enormous hurdles as COVID-19 continues to sweep the country and the world. For many firms, managing staff operations, growing or lowering headcount, and sustaining workloads have become a remote process as they strive to protect...
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5 Best Practices to Follow in 2022 for Acing Recruitment and Landing the Best Hires
With the recruiting landscape getting highly competitive day by day, talent acquisition teams have an ever-increasing expectation of landing the best hires. This is because employers also spend a substantial amount on hiring - an average of $4,129 per job in the United States alone, according to recent estimates from the Society for Human Resource Management. Given that the national...
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It's Time to Wrap Up 2021 and Set Your New Year Recruiting Goals
That's a wrap! With 2021 coming to a close, you're ready to hang your sales recruitment cap by the fire and enjoy the holidays. But something is nagging at you. There are probably a few loose ends you could tie up to make the new year just as successful as the last. You're right! There are a few steps you can take to set your 2022 goals in line and rest at ease over the holiday...
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3 Effective Tips to Augment Your Talent Acquisition Strategy in 2022
Finding the right people with the right skills at the right time for open positions at your company can be daunting. Throw in workflow shifts occurring because of a pandemic of the scale never seen before, visibly low unemployment rates, and rapidly transforming candidate expectations; things only get more difficult for talent acquisition leaders. "In my opinion, the greatest obstacle...
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Changing Trends in Recruitment: What to Know for 2022
According to Jobvite's 2021 report, there have been many shifts in priorities in the recruiting industry. 80% of recruiters say that their priorities have changed over the past year. Some of these recruitment trends are interesting and even surprising. For example, some recruiters say that their priority on improving the candidate experience has decreased. On the other hand, more...
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What to Look for When Hiring a Freelance Recruiter for Your Company
Today, freelancing and remote work are gaining popularity across all industries, both for organizations searching for specific talent and for professionals wanting to work with greater flexibility and looking for a broader range of potential clients. "Businesses really find a lot of value in flexible talent in a variety of situations," said Upwork's Chief Economist Adam Ozimek in one of...
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Full Cycle Recruiting: Everything You Need to Know
If you are a talent acquisition leader, you might have come across the term "full-cycle recruiting." And while full-cycle recruiting isn't easy, when executed correctly, it can benefit the recruiter, the candidate, and the company as a whole and help attract high-quality candidates within no time. In this piece, we'll take a look at full-cycle recruiting, the various ways in which it...
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What is On-Demand Recruiting and How Can Businesses Benefit from it?
No matter what industry or niche your business belongs to, like every other organization that's trying to establish itself, it is bound to experience fluctuations in hiring needs - from times when hiring spikes at an accelerated pace to times when it slows down or even halts completely. As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and life returns to normal, your internal recruiting resources might...
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The Missing Step in Hiring
It's often easy to be a critic. That presentation uses three different fonts and looks wonky. This candidate is missing the required experience on their resume. This sales email comes off pushy. Put another way, we can often see clearly what's wrong with what we're doing. If hindsight is 20/20, our vision of what's in front of us is still pretty good. It's much harder to see what we're NOT...
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The Great Recruiter Resignation: Why Talent Acquisition Teams Might Drive the Next Wave of Mass Turnover
Recovering from a global pandemic is hard enough as it is. With millions of Americans quitting their jobs every month, many organizations find it difficult to staff all their roles, much less return to business as usual. Luckily, C-suite leaders can always count on recruiters and HR pros to come to their rescue. Talent teams have been among the heroes of the pandemic. They've supported...
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Why Flexible Recruiting Has Become the New Watchword for HR Leaders and How You Can Excel At It
Hiring flexible recruiters is one state-of-the-art hiring model that's gaining a lot of popularity among talent acquisition leaders and employers in the United States lately. This is unsurprising when you consider all the benefits it has to offer. But what exactly is flexible recruitment? Why has it become the new watchword for HR leaders across the globe? How can recruiters leverage...
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How to Achieve a Diverse Workforce Through Recruitment
According to some research, 57% of employees say that their company could do more to promote diversity in the workplace. But, according to that report, 41% of managers say that they're too busy to take the time to focus on diversity and implement initiatives to promote that culture. That's where recruitment comes in. According to Linnea Bywall, the head of people at Alva Labs,...
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9 Ways to Leverage Data to Make Better Recruiting and Hiring Decisions
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's one way you use data to inform and back your recruiting efforts, and how does this help you make the right hire? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful young...
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Why Job Ghosting Is on the Rise and What HR Leaders Can Do to Counter It
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot of the corporate landscape. As a large part of the workforce embraced remote work, a vast sea of global opportunities that were restricted by location also opened up. As candidates continue to steer the job market and maintain an edge over employers, job ghosting has become common. Ghosting can hurt your company's reputation internally and...
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The Ultimate Guide to Hiring and Recruiting Veterans
According to some reports, as of November 2021, 552,000 veterans were unemployed. If you're looking for ways to fill positions at your company during the Great Resignation, hiring and recruiting veterans is a great place to start. Military veterans could be an untapped talent pipeline for your company. However, some businesses face challenges when trying to hire military veterans....
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Find Fall Hires Fast With These 10 Tips to Streamline Your Recruiting and Hiring Efforts
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: Fall is one of the busiest times of year for hiring, so what's your top tip for how to streamline your recruiting and hiring efforts during this busy time, and why? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only...
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3 Effective Sourcing Strategies To Accelerate Your Recruitment Process
Attracting the right candidates in the job market is a crucial first step to achieving business growth and establishing your employer brand. Naturally, if you want to come out ahead of your market counterparts, you first need strong individuals on your team who will help you get there. The problem, however, is that nearly 52% of candidates who apply for an open position are...
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Is Compensation No Longer King? It's Complicated.
It's a seller's talent market, and the question on every recruiter's mind is: How do you get candidates to choose your roles over all the rest? If you believe the hype, financial compensation isn't the answer. But is it true that candidates now value the intangibles — like flexibility, a positive culture, personal development — more than cold, hard cash? The answer...
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