To Make New Hires Into New Leaders, Develop Tech-Enabled Social Learning Programs
The recruiting process doesn't stop when a new hire shows up on their first day of work. No matter how well educated, experienced, or in tune the new hire may be, the idea that any brand new employee will be at full capacity and ready to lead on day one is a myth. In a recent interview in Harvard Business Review, actor Kevin Spacey said, "With every job, you should have something to...
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9 Tips on Using Social Media and New Technology for Recruitment
In today's fast-paced world, it is important to consider which channels people use to consume information. If you understand how these channels work, you can apply them to your recruiting programs. Here are nine tips on using social media and new technology for recruitment: 1. Look for New Approaches The world of recruiting changes constantly. In order to keep up, you must constantly be...
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How to Improve Your Job Application Forms Using Logical Flow
Today's typical job application form is straightforward, but also lacking in personalization and detail. It will ask for an applicant's resume, cover letter, social media profile(s), and possibly a portfolio website. In many instances, this information is sufficient. However, some companies may want to put candidates through a more thorough screening process and may need customization...
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7 Ways to Recruit Star Talent Using Social Media
One of the biggest challenges for recruiters in recent years has been figuring out the most effective ways of attracting talent and making hires through social media. There are so many approaches you could adopt that just staying on top of the options is a struggle – let alone actually mastering any of them. As a sanity check, I'm here today to cover briefly the seven key ways you...
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What's Next for Recruiting Software?
Recruiting software has evolved significantly in the last ten years. As we've gone from spreadsheets and hard copies of resumes to automated applicant tracking; mobile, social, and video capabilities; and even predictive analytics, the fact is that innovation has been the only constant in HR and recruiting technology. Advancements in HR software have reshaped the day-to-day activities of HR...
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Network Now for Less Work Later: Why It's Time to Start Building Talent Communities
One of the most important things that recruiters can do in the job market is maintain valuable networks. Social media websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter can be great places to source candidates for these networks, but many recruiters aren't going far enough. Instead of just spamming the Internet with jobs and hoping somebody qualified bites, what if you had an interested...
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TAtech Tip: Run Toward, Not Away From, 'Workmageddon'
There's been no end to the commentary about the impending arrival of "workmaggedon" – the end of work as we know it. Every day there is another article, news report, or blog post on the relentless spread of machines in the workplace and their ability to take on more and more of the tasks we humans have historically performed. Some see this development as a disaster in the employment...
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Automating the Healthcare Industry's Credentialing Process Cures Hiring Headaches
Who hires the best medical professionals shouldn't come down to who can verify credentials the fastest, but unfortunately, that is often the case. The truth is medical facilities that have the latest technologies for onboarding new employees often beat their competitors to the punch and hire top talent first. The companies that adopt digital verification early will likely maintain an...
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The Secret to Better Hires Might Just Be Digital Immersion
"The recipe for success for companies today is to build the absolute most talented teams they can," says Karl McDonnell, CEO of continuing education provider Strayer Education. That's a sentiment I'm sure we can all get behind. So, too, is this one, also from McDonnell: "Many companies struggle with hiring good people, particularly companies in industries with high turnover rates and...
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The Evolution of the Recruiting Industry and Where AI Fits Into the Picture
Not too long ago, recruiters had to sift through stacks of paper resumes and use tedious filing systems to manage their applicant pools. They'd call job seekers on their home phones over landlines – often at inconvenient times – to explain the duties of a role. Later, the application process came online. The ATS was created to help recruiters sort through large quantities of resumes...
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Customer Service Employees, Artificial Intelligence Is Your Friend
Star Wars is probably the highest-profile advertisement for the helpfulness of artificial intelligence ever created. We've seen those droids carry out a myriad of functions during the last seven movies/39 years, but what's most interesting is how the droids did their best work when they collaborated with humans. Though we may not yet able to build droids as smart as those from a galaxy...
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Rise of the Machines? How A.I. Can Help Employers Be More Responsive in the Recruiting Process
By now, creating a great candidate experience is more than a suggestion; it's a flat-out command. Bad candidate experiences lose talent, they harm your company's employer and consumer brands, and they hurt the bottom line through lost business. But creating the sort of highly responsive and engaging experience that candidates crave is no mean feat, especially for recruiters and HR pros...
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Little Love Lost: Startups on Recruiting Through LinkedIn
"LinkedIn makes people look good on paper, but not in real life." -Karan Gupta, cofounder and CEO of Mammoth Time and time again, employers and startups run into this problem. A candidate seems great online, well qualified with applicable work experience. They boast about their language skills and have racked up dozens of endorsements. But how often does this translate into a good...
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Attracting Millennial Candidates With Live Video
Unless your company offers in-person, all-access tours of your office to potential new recruits, nothing can beat video for getting across your employer brand promise. Video brings to life things like corporate culture, employee experience, and the work environment better than any job description or advertisement could ever hope to. And as we know, today's hard-to-please millennials place...
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How to Scare Off Candidates With Recruiting Technology
Recruiters are getting mixed messages from job seekers. A 2016 Jobvite survey found that 74 percent of employees are open to new jobs. However, the 2016 Global Recruiting Trends report from LinkedIn found that 46 percent of recruiters are having trouble finding candidates in the labor market. If so many people are willing to think about new employment opportunities, why can't recruiters...
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Take a Break and Let Technology Narrow Down That Candidate Pool for You
Are you tired of sorting through huge piles of resumes long after the work day is supposed to be done? Do you get stuck in the office sending out interview requests on the weekend, only to later find yourself pushing through to the ends of interviews with candidates whom you knew were wrong for the job from the moment you shook their hands? In the age of technology, it's no longer...
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6 Tools to Boost Your Employer Brand
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: What tech tools, websites, social media platforms, or other things does your company use to create, maintain,...
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4 HR Trends Blowing Up Talent Acquisition, Part 4: Online Staffing Engages Contingent Workers
Read part one of the series here, part two here, and part three here. Online staffing companies are leveraging technology to disrupt the traditional staffing model. Unlike staffing firms, these companies deliver talent through marketplace transactions. These Web-based platforms let individuals buy and sell various services and provide those individuals with features that enable online...
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What Happened to Your Employee Referral Program? 4 Ways the Right Tech Can Spice It Up:
More companies are looking to hire more and more people, which is good news for job seekers. A 2015 iCIMS study found that 85 percent of the 107 HR professionals surveyed expected hiring to increase or stay the same at their companies in the coming years. But are employers using the best available methods to meet their growing needs? Fortunately, many companies have gotten savvy and...
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The Future of AI in HR
Everywhere you turn today, someone is making a wild claim about artificial intelligence. If you aren't deeply technical, you may struggle to separate fact from fiction. Is AI going to make us all more productive, or will it take all our jobs? In what areas will AI most affect human resources in the near term and in the long term? My goal in the next few paragraphs is to provide you with a...
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Could You Just Text Me That Info?
When the world moves on, savvy companies have to move with it. In today's business environment, everyone has a cell phone in their pocket. Most people use them for email, quick Web searches, and a dozen other functions in their daily lives. So why shouldn't recruiters use the convenience of that technology while in-processing new employees? Solutions in the marketplace now allow recruiters...
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4 HR Trends Blowing Up Talent Acquisition, Part 3: CRMs Enhance the Candidate Experience
Read part one of the series here and part two here. Companies in the candidate relationship management (CRM) segment focus on the top of the candidate engagement funnel. They give employers better ways to interact with potential hires and build talent communities. Now that more and more companies emphasize the candidate experience, effective CRM solutions have become critical for...
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4 Reasons Why You Should Leverage Strategic Analytics in Your Hiring Strategy
For decades, HR and talent acquisition departments have been trying to get seats at the executive table. Often, however, they were prohibited from doing so because they lacked the quantitative data they needed to prove they could be strategic partners in the business. But now, thanks to advances in technology, these departments have access to the kinds of strategic analytics they need to...
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7 Steps to Optimize Your On-Demand Staffing Strategy
As the on-demand economy has grown, it has become common for businesses to rely on freelance talent to complement their full-time staff and address fluctuating business needs. Yet, as more and more companies consider how on-demand workers might fit into their broader talent acquisition strategies, many are often left with questions. There are a lot of technology-enabled services that help...
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Salesforce for Recruiters: The Benefits of a Totally Integrated Recruitment Software Solution
You've been working through the hiring process with an employer that you absolutely love. Every new bit of information you uncover during your research makes you more and more excited about potentially joining. Each interaction you have with the hiring team has solidified your belief that this is the place for you. After a few rounds of successful interviews, you get the job offer!...
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4 HR Trends Blowing Up Talent Acquisition, Part 2: Job Advertising Gets Outsourced
Read part one of the series here. Job advertising is a component of talent acquisition that has always and will always be necessary, but until recent years, it required little upkeep. The mid-2000s proved a tough job market for candidates, which made recruitment easy for talent acquisition teams. Today, the job advertising vertical is one of the largest in terms of both market size...
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How to Get That Pile of Applications Off Your Desk
It's summertime again. For many, that means weekends at the beach or a drive to the cabin, or maybe a trip to Disney. For corporate recruiters and human resource departments, it means getting flooded with applications from new college graduates looking to get their feet wet and gain career experience. With so many cover letters and resumes to review and consider (many of which will turn out...
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When the Cutting Edge Draws Blood: the Dangers of Adopting Too Rapidly
Across industries, there's a belief that almost everyone from executive leadership teams on down to entry-level employees holds true: It's better to adopt new technologies faster than your competition. If you have the latest tech before anyone else does, the thinking goes, you have yourself an advantage in the marketplace. Rajeev Behera, CEO of Reflektive, would like to challenge that...
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Getting Smart With Advanced Recruit Analytics
Many modern-day recruiters are responsible for more than just hiring. It isn't enough to simply fill as many job openings as possible with the most talented candidates. Recruiters now have to simultaneously think like recruiters, marketers, and salespeople if they want to be – and stay – competitive. From maintaining a social media presence to utilizing an ATS and working remotely on...
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TAtech Tip: Using Video Job Postings
A picture shouldn't be worth a thousand words– at least not if you're using "moving pictures" to advertise an open job. Video job postings are a powerful medium for connecting with top talent, but only if they're crafted as trailers rather than full-length feature presentations. There are two important reasons for adopting video job postings. First, the medium itself is compelling....
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What to Expect From Your Video Interviewing Partner
If you've never been through a cloud technology implementation before, you're in for a pleasant surprise with your new video interviewing solution. Most purpose-built video interviewing platforms these days are software as a service (SaaS), meaning they're deployed via the Internet with speed and simplicity. What an improvement over old HCM legacy systems or off-the-shelf software! And,...
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A Look Into the Future: Virtual Reality Interviewing
Companies are constantly looking to reduce costs and integrate new technologies into their operations. For example, a lot of companies have stopped conducting face-to-face interviews with candidates who are not local. Instead, they've switched over to video interviews, which can save them thousands of dollars in travel expenses and working time. However, new technologies can have their...
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4 Powerful Trends Changing the Assessment Industry as We Know It
The assessment industry has been alive and thriving for a long time, and it's not hard to see why. The idea of using science to understand people and predict what they will do is an enticing one, so it's no surprise that everyone from the U.S. military to your average retail outlet has made assessments a key component of their operations. But despite the industry's long history,...
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Boost Your Productivity by Booting a Few Old Tactics and Technologies
Human beings don't like change. We like to be comfortable and in control. Businesses, on the other hand, need change. A business can't afford to stay comfortable. Change helps it stay in control. Nowhere is the impact of change on businesses more apparent than in the day-to-day technologies we use. Unfortunately, comfort with traditional tools and technologies can conflict with the...
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How to Hold Remote Meetings That Aren't 90 Percent Day Dreaming
They say 9 out of 10 people daydream in meetings. The figure is bandied about the Internet a fair bit, and it's not hard to imagine it's true. It's natural that the mind wanders when presented with information that doesn't directly affect us – or simply when meetings are long enough. Hillary Ferguson has already explained in a previous post the best way to host productive workplace...
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How to Get Employees to Actually Use Your Wellness Program [Infographic]
So you've instituted a world-class employee wellness program at your organization. Great! Any day now, you'll be reaping the benefits of a happier, healthier, more engaged workforce and an improved employer brand, right? Maybe. But maybe not. According to a new survey from corporate wellness tech company Limeade, building the program isn't necessarily the biggest challenge that...
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Modernize Your Recruitment Strategy With Interactive Video
The war for top talent is on, and one of the most compelling weapons in your recruitment arsenal is the content you create and share with prospective candidates. Driven by mobile connectivity and social media, today's increasingly advanced digital landscape is the battleground for recruitment and talent acquisition. As new channels emerge and attention spans shrink, recruiters must find...
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Brands You Should Know: An Oral History of SkillCheck
The SkillCheck company arrive on the scene 25 years ago in 1991. A short while later, in 1999, SkillCheck debuted its online testing platform. It was one of the first of its kind, offering employers a way to dive deeper than candidates' resumes allowed and get accurate pictures of how their potential hires might perform on the job. At this point, you may be a bit confused. "SkillCheck?...
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It's Time to Tell Truth About Social Media as a Sourcing Tool
I remember, about four years back, when certain individuals – normally ones who worked for social media consultancies – were trumpeting social media as the next big thing in recruiting. In fact, it had gotten to the point where it wasn't even called "social media" anymore. It was just "social." Job boards were going to die because everyone would start sourcing through social. Well,...
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Unproductive Meetings Got You Down? Technology Can Help
We've all sat through at least one meeting that left us thinking, "Well that was a waste of time." It happens to the best of us: One thing leads to another, and then another, and eventually, someone's unrelated tangent goes on for the whole hour. Unfortunately, this isn't only a common problem – it's also a serious one. Unproductive meetings don't just waste your and your...
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Should You Automate Your Performance Appraisal Process
Thanks to advances in technology, we've been able to expedite many HR processes. These tools give us the power to facilitate, ameliorate, and automate a number of critical HR functions. But how do you automate those functions that depend on human interactions – functions like performance appraisals? For as long as there have been performance appraisals, the process has relied on...
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If You Want Your Company to Thrive, Treat Your Employees Like Customers
Excellent customer service is a primary factor behind the success of Echo Global Logistics, a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. We're not only talking about business success – we're also talking about talent acquisition and management success. To keep up with the evolving millennial-driven workplace culture, Echo implemented some of...
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10 Tech Tools for Entrepreneurs
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 of your favorite tech tools that help entrepreneurs start and run their...
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The Next Big Thing in Recruiting Tech: 6 Expert Predictions
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: ATSs. Job boards. Social recruiting. Mobile recruiting. Big data. We've all seen hot trends come and go in the recruiting...
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5 Bad Ideas That Came Out of the Recruiting Tech World
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: In many ways, the proliferation of new technologies in the recruiting and hiring world has been an absolute blessing...
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Leveraging Technology to Keep Job Candidates Attracted to Your Brand
We all want to hire the best talent possible. To do so, we need to remember that it's not about moving people through the process – it's about how the candidate feels while going through the process. We are in a competitive talent market right now, and there aren't many ways to differentiate your brand from your competitors. Salaries and benefits are already competitive and on par for...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Should Be a Part of Your Employee Engagement Strategy
As a blogger in the HR and recruiting space, I've seen a lot of employee engagement solutions – but I haven't seen anything else quite like BlackBaud's AngelPoints, which tackles employee engagement from a corporate social responsibility (CSR) angle. How It Works AngelPoints offers two platforms inside of the overall software: AngelPoints Volunteering and AngelPoints Giving. As the...
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Why Your Text Messaging Campaign Bombed
Many companies tell us, "We've tried texting our clients, and it just doesn't work." But not all text messaging is created equal. There's a big difference between this: and this: There are two kinds of business text messaging. Short-code texting is about interruption, promotion, and mass marketing. The first message, you probably guessed, is an example of short code. The...
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