Why Our CEO Personally Conducts Every First-Round Interview
Most companies today have something to say about their company culture and how it makes them unique with regard to what they do and how they treat their employees. And that's a good thing: Today's employees are not motivated solely by money, and behaving as if they are will rarely lead to good long-term recruiting results. When candidates are considering prospective employers, they have a...
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5 Reasons Why Your Recruitment Strategy Is Failing
You've invested time, effort, and money into designing your recruitment strategy — but you're still not getting the results you'd hoped for. What's going wrong with your recruiting strategy? Why isn't it attracting the top talent your business needs? To help you troubleshoot, here are a few of the most common reasons why recruitment strategies fail — and how to fix the problem: 1....
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How to Keep Your Company Culture Healthy in the Era of Remote Work
For millions of employees, the pandemic was a period of isolation and disconnection unlike anything they've ever experienced. As COVID-19 steadily yields to mass vaccination campaigns and the broad outline of the post-pandemic economy comes into view, this difficult period will prove to be instructive. Remote work is here to stay, and the past year-plus has taught companies invaluable lessons...
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Looking for Candidates in a Talent Shortage? Get Back to the Basics of Great Recruiting.
You only want to hire the best. That's a given. But so do your competitors. Your team is not going to reach the ambitious goals you've set for it — or even maintain its market share in an increasingly competitive business environment — without first-rate talent. Yet employers are battling it out for workers right now, with the Washington Post reporting that there are more open jobs...
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The 'Jerry Maguire' Moment: Why Workers Are Quitting in Droves and What Companies Can Do About It
Remember Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire? That intense moment when he's standing in front of his teammates with a goldfish in his hand, shouting, "Who's coming with me besides Flipper here?!" Well, that scene is playing out across the country right now as Americans leave employers at their highest level in more than two decades, according to the Wall Street Journal. The pandemic forced...
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Many Happy Returns: How Employers Can Use Returnships to Bring Displaced Workers Back to the Labor Force
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic loosens its grip on the US employment market, millions of people who lost their job or otherwise left the workforce during the health crisis are struggling to find pathways back to work. Women and older workers were among the groups hit inordinately hard by job loss during the crisis. Despite recent gains, women still lost 4.2 million net jobs between February...
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Make a Great First Impression on Remote Talent: 4 Things Your Virtual Hiring Experience Needs
Sourcing, interviewing, and hiring top-notch candidates always come with challenges. Then COVID-19 happened, and classic recruiting methods like in-person interviews became impossible, even as plenty of jobs needed filling. To adjust to the market and current safety restrictions, organizations have made a seismic shift and embraced virtual hiring experiences. In the process, they've...
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The Recruiter Shortage — and 4 Other Challenges Facing HR Leaders Today
If you want to find out what's on the minds of today's HR leaders, the best thing to do is just ask them. That's exactly what we did for our 2021 Findem recruiting study. We surveyed 100 high-level HR professionals from organizations of varying sizes, from under 50 employees to more than 1,000, to understand the most pressing challenges facing HR leaders today. Before we get into the...
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How to Send a Rejection Email That Job Seekers Will Actually Appreciate
Photo by Van Tay Media on Unsplash Rejecting a candidate is never fun. They've expressed interest in your company and taken the time to apply to your open role. Now, it's up to you to let them know they weren't the right fit. In reality, candidates in the employment market don't always find out when they've been rejected. According to a survey from CareerBuilder, 75 percent of job...
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12 Characteristics All Top Recruiters Share (and Why They Get Results)
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: The best recruiters all have certain characteristics in common. In your opinion, what's one of those traits, and why? 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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4 Tips to Turn Your Company Careers Page Into a Powerful Recruiting Tool
In my experience, many companies treat their careers page as an afterthought, something they just put together because others were doing it or they thought it would make them look good. However, such an attitude defeats the purpose of building a careers page in the first place. Apart from showing job seekers the current vacancies in your organization, your careers page should compel...
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A Pandemic Silver Lining: Age Discrimination Has Fallen in 2021
The past year of work has been different, for obvious reasons. While our organizations have faced their share of new challenges — and even achieved new successes — some longstanding issues remain. That includes age discrimination. However, there is some good news to be found in all of this. According to new research we conducted at SeniorLiving.org, the number of workers reporting age...
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Top Talent Looks Different Today. Here Are the 4 Skills Your Next Great Hire Needs.
The war for talent appears to be getting fiercer by the day as the U.S. economy stirs back to life in the wake of the pandemic. Supermarkets are handing out bonuses in their desperation to hire and retain frontline staff; franchise owners at 7-Eleven are pushing the company to drop its round-the-clock service pledge because they can't find anyone to work night shifts; major cereal producer...
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Bootcamps Could Be Your Solution to the Talent Shortage
The pandemic has caused significant shifts in the workforce, driving a growing skills gap. According to a recent report by McKinsey Company, before the onset of the pandemic, it was estimated that 7.9 percent of US workers would need to transition to new occupations due to job loss. Now, McKinsey estimates 10.1 percent of American workers will need to change occupations. The shift...
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Build High-Performing Teams by Hiring, Empowering, and Developing Employees
When companies attempt to build high-performing workforces, they often rely on antiquated measures of assessment and development that put them at a severe disadvantage in an increasingly complex and hyper-competitive global economy. Human capital has never been more indispensable, but many hiring managers and HR professionals aren't leveraging the resources at their disposal to build and...
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Employee Retention in the Post-Pandemic World: Health and Safety Come First
After more than a year of soaring unemployment rates, America is ready to get back to work. As COVID-19 cases continue to dwindle throughout the country, companies are eager to welcome staff back to the office. However, things aren't necessarily going according to plan. In what has been called "the turnover tsunami," companies are bracing for a colossal wave of resignations. According to...
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What's in a Name? Understanding Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior Developers
I have been working in recruitment for over 14 years, four of which I have spent running my own IT recruitment agency. Clients regularly contact us for help building candidate profiles. Our key task at this stage is to help the company construct a portrait of the candidate they need. A big part of that entails determining the level of tech talent they need. Is a junior-level developer...
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How Events and Other Industries Hit Hard by the Pandemic Are Staffing Back Up
As the economy begins opening back up in earnest, many companies are struggling to fill their open roles. The industries hit hardest by the pandemic, like hospitality and entertainment, are among those struggling most to find the right candidates. Event staff are proving particularly hard to find. These people are the face of your event, the first and the last people your attendees...
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Attracting and Retaining Purpose-Driven Tech Talent: 6 Tips and 2 Red Flags
If your company is in the market for tech talent, you're no doubt aware the current landscape is a challenging one for employers. Great technologists are hard to find, attract, and retain. Understanding the changing wants and needs of candidates is more important than ever. For younger Generation Z and millennial tech workers in particular, a sense of purpose and a focus on corporate...
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With Employees Losing Trust in Employers, It's Time to Hit the Reset Button on Talent
While the economic recovery has been anything but straightforward over the last few months, overall outlooks for 2021 remain relatively optimistic. One projection foresees 73 million hires taking place by the end of the year. But there's a complication. As the economy opens up, many employees are considering changing jobs. Why? Because they've lost faith in their bosses. A recent Buck...
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These Minor Tweaks to Your Job Ads Can Give Your Apply Rates a Powerful Boost
The war for top talent is in full effect as US employers ramp up hiring efforts at a record pace. To attract qualified candidates and ensure business continuity post-pandemic, an effective job advertising strategy is key. Recruiters must learn the factors playing into candidate behavior and recruitment outcomes if they wish to boost ROI and meet hiring goals in the current talent...
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3 Simple Steps Every Company Can Take to Start Closing the Gender Wage Gap
The gender wage gap isn't new, but it continues to hold women back from reaching their full earning potential. In 2020, women's annual earnings were just 82 percent of men's, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The wage gap is even more pronounced for women of color: Black women with advanced degrees earn 70 percent of what their white male counterparts make. Large companies and...
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The New Model of Hiring: If You Want to Attract Top Talent, You Need to Create an Attractive Opportunity
Log in to LinkedIn, and you'll find an abundance of coaching and advice for job seekers on every topic from resume tips to offer letters. I can scroll down my newsfeed on any given day and 5-10 people will have tips to help me stand out to attract the job I want. In fact, for many years now, I've been one of those people, coaching job seekers on much of the same stuff. I even wrote an...
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'Where Do You See Me in Five Years?': Job Seekers Are Turning the Tables of Professional Development
Employee engagement is a huge factor in retaining skilled talent in your organization. Increasingly, it's also becoming a big part of the recruiting process. Employees today, especially younger job seekers, tend to place more value on training and professional development than previous generations did. Enterprises that want to stay competitive and attract the best and the brightest need to...
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In the Battle for Talent, Corporate Sustainability Can Give You the Advantage
As the world has shifted to a knowledge economy over the last 20 years, the battle for talent has intensified. The search for quality candidates has become more competitive than ever as employers vie for top talent, who are now looking for more than just a job. These days, the best candidates on the market seek meaning in their work and purpose in their career paths. They want to...
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Look Beyond the Resume: How to Assess New Grads With Limited Work Experience
The graduating classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 will likely have significantly less experience with job shadowing, volunteering, and interning due to the restrictions brought on by the global pandemic. Of course, this will impact how their resumes stack up against the competition. However, there are ways in which these candidates may have advantages over other talent. The world of work is...
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13 Common Hiring Manager Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's a common faux pas you see hiring managers committing during the hiring process, and what should they be doing instead? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful...
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Interviewing a Remote Software Developer: Questions and Best Practices to Find the Right Fit
According to an estimate from Evans Data Corporation, the number of software developers around the world is expected to reach nearly 29 million by 2024. Despite this sizable talent pool, souring and hiring a software developer is rarely easy. In fact, with more companies now embracing remote work in the wake of the pandemic, hiring the right developer has gotten even harder. Hiring remote...
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Transferable Velocity: A Forward-Thinking Way to Close the Post-Pandemic Talent Gap
While the picture is improving, unemployment remains high thanks to changes in the specific skill sets employers need today. The pandemic spurred dramatic shifts in our lifestyles, business practices, and consumer preferences, creating gaps between what organizations need and what candidates have to offer. As is the case in all economic recoveries, recruiters are on the front lines as...
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The 3 Most Important Traits You're Overlooking in Candidates
In the more than four years that Inter (formerly Junto) has been in business, we've hired over 50 people for full-time and freelance roles. Thirty-five of those people are still part of the team. The rest either quit or were let go. For us, 2019 was a particularly difficult year for hiring. We let go of a few people who weren't the right long-term fit, and a few other employees quit. In...
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The Brave New World of Work: What Employers Can Expect After the Pandemic
As we turn the corner on the first year of the COVID-19 national health crisis, the fog is beginning to clear. We can finally catch a glimpse of how the world of work might look by this time next year. Several workforce trends that had emerged before the pandemic have exponentially accelerated over the past 12 months, including the mass adoption of remote working by previously office-bound...
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More Candidates Are Listing Lockdown Hobbies on Their Resumes. Don't Dismiss Them Outright.
Often, when candidates don't have a lot of job experience that is directly relevant to the role at hand, they'll apply with a resume that focuses heavily on transferable skills. For example, a candidate who has never worked in sales before might use their experience managing a fundraiser for their kid's sports team to show off their customer service skills. Honestly, transferable skills...
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Hire Better: 10 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips on Finding the Right Candidates, Fast
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: How do you develop effective, targeted hiring programs that turn up exactly the kinds of candidates you're looking for? 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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Global Talent Acquisition in 2021: How AI Is Changing the Game
Global talent acquisition is changing. The pandemic has accelerated the transition to remote work, meaning many companies are looking further afield at overseas talent pools as they recruit. Businesses that want to successfully compete for talent in these international markets will need to rethink their recruiting and onboarding strategies. While the tried-and-tested methods of hiring...
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Collaborative, Curious, and Connected: 7 Reasons to Hire New Graduates in 2021
A tough job market is making the class of 2021 — from undergrads to MBAs — nervous. Between an uncertain economic recovery and competing with more experienced professionals who lost their jobs during the pandemic, the newest members of the professional workforce have a lot to worry about. But, as always, youth has its advantages. Here are seven reasons why hiring a newly minted grad...
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3 Science-Backed Tips to Get More Out of Your Employee Referral Program
Employee referrals are a game-changer in the field of recruitment. What's not to love about higher-quality candidates, lower cost per hire, reduced employee turnover, and bonus goodwill with your current employees? And yet, while two-thirds of companies have referral programs, only 24 percent of employees are hired through referrals, according to a report from iCIMS. But that doesn't mean...
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Why Are People With Disabilities Left Out of Conversations About Board Diversity?
According to the CDC, 61 million Americans — about 26 percent of the population — have some type of disability. Yet I was not surprised when Nasdaq's recent board diversity proposal failed to reference people with disabilities. I had the same reaction to a study published recently in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which found 75 percent of nonprofit boards don't have people with...
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Dig Deep: How to Find the Hidden Leadership Potential of Your Employees
Behind every great leader is a team of professionals who first saw their potential. Managers and executives don't suddenly gain leadership qualities when they become leaders. Rather, these traits and skills are within your employees at every level of the organization. The 4 Signs of Leadership Potential Certain indicators of leadership, like communication, confidence, and honesty, are easy...
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COVID-19 Shifted Job Seekers' Priorities. They Want Careers, Not Jobs.
It's no surprise the COVID-19 pandemic upset many people's careers. Working parents have had to manage their job and family responsibilities in the same space and often at the same time. With our homes becoming our new offices, our physical workspaces are often less than ideal. Boundaries have blurred as "work life" and "home life" have grown less distinct. Amid the chaos, many have made...
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6 Simple Ways to Make a Good First Impression on Candidates
As the US economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and the unemployment rate drops, things are looking up for the job market. More job opportunities are opening up, and Americans are eagerly applying. And they know that, if they want to land a new gig, they need to make a good first impression during the interview. According to a 2015 study published in the Journal of Occupational and...
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Candid, Consistent Communication Is the Key to Attracting Candidates in Today's Market
Candidates want to impress hiring managers. That's the name of the game — it's how they get hired. However, the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a shift in the talent market, and companies are no longer holding all the cards. Today's top candidates have options, which means employers have to do some impressing of their own. How do companies navigate this changing landscape, particularly during...
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Diversity and Data: Why DE&I Efforts Should Start With the Numbers
I am the father of mixed-ethnicity children. I started my career around the same time I had my first child. Diversity and inclusion have always been important in my personal life, and this focus naturally carries over into my work. As I've taken on roles with more leadership responsibilities and broader scopes, I've made it a point to bring that focus with me. But awareness of diversity,...
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From Hybrid Jobs to Empathy at Work: 12 Recruiting Trends to Watch in 2021
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: As 2021 ramps up, so does hiring. What's one recruiting trend you predict we'll see this year, and why? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs....
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Need to Hire a Digital Marketing Manager? Here's What to Look for in a Candidate.
If you want to grow your online presence, you need a skilled digital marketing manager — but finding a great digital marketer is hard. There are many talented people in the job market, but few can execute the specific growth strategies you need to take your company to the next level. However, if you know what skills to look for, you can make your hunt a little easier. Here are the five...
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Employee Turnover Is on the Rise. Here's How to Make Them Stay.
If organizations thought employee engagement was a challenge before the pandemic, they've now seen what economic turbulence can do to company culture. Disrupted work/life balance, companywide disconnects, and rising rates of disengagement are just a few of the hurdles HR leaders and their organizations face in the post-pandemic world. Engagement initially rose during the pandemic, thanks...
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Retaining Talent in a Virtual World: It Starts With Really Knowing Who Your Employees Are
Over the past year, employees everywhere have had to rapidly adjust to the demands of a virtual workplace. Of all the challenges employers have faced while transitioning from in-person to remote work — and potentially back again soon — one of the most glaring has been determining how to make smart and informed decisions related to talent development and employee support. In a KPMG...
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The Pandemic Taught Us What Really Matters in a Workplace Culture
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us what the essentials of good workplace culture really are. When offices are closed and employees work remotely, perks like award-winning coffee bars and napping pods no longer mean much. Wherever they are and however they work, employees need to feel they are part of a strong, focused, connected, and supportive organization. Companies, in turn, are...
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Employee Expectations Have Changed Since 2020. Has Your Company Kept Up?
In March of last year, everything we deemed normal changed overnight. Around the globe, we found ourselves redefining how we work and how we live. And while the light at the end of the tunnel has finally come into view, there are still plenty of challenges and uncertainties for us to navigate in the months ahead. One of those challenges entails defining what, exactly, the future of work...
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