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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TAtech Tip: Don't Put Talent Into the Wrong Box
Brought to you by TAtech: The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions Amid all the talk about optimizing the candidate experience, one topic has been all but ignored. The vocabulary we use has a significant impact on the perceptions of those we are trying to recruit, and one widely used term in particular conveys a message that turns off top talent -- or, worse, drives them away...
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7 Tips on Negotiating Your Promotion
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 are your best negotiation tips that employees should know when they're trying to land promotions? How can they convince...
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5 Surprising Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur In the Making
Are you an heir apparent with a billion-dollar surname? Do you hold a degree from an elite university? Are you the wunderkind at your illustrious firm? Heck, do you have friends or family members in high places? Then congratulations: You have a good shot at being the next big thing in your industry. For those you who can't say "yes" to any of these questions – which is probably most of...
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7 Types of Employers From Whom You Should Run
Nearly everybody who has been in the workforce for more than a few years has a bad boss story. Sometimes, in retrospect, these experiences make for good tales to tell your friends and family members. However, when you are in the thick of trying to extricate yourself from a bad employment situation or a toxic boss, things can be quite miserable. It would be wonderful if bad employers were...
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4 Ways to Hire Employees Who Mesh With Your Company Culture
Creating the perfect culture within your company and then hiring for that culture is nothing if not tough. People mess it up as much as they get it right. That said, you should try these easy fixes if you want to hire more people who will thrive at your organization: 1. Watch Your Tone in Your Job Ads Your job ad is the first thing a prospective applicant sees. That means it should...
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6 Social Media Tips for Recruiters
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 do recruiters need to know about social media? How can they turn platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook,...
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The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical Agency Fees in 2016
When talent is in high demand, open positions often get sent to search. That's because direct hire recruiting agencies have more bandwidth, connections, and niche experience filling roles for industries with high levels of competition for top talent. At BountyJobs, we work with 40 percent of the Fortune 1,000, and we are seeing several trends in direct hire recruiting for certain...
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Make Your Employer Brand More Than Empty Talk in 2016
Branding: creating a differentiated name and image in order to establish a presence of attraction. Often mistaken for a strictly marketing tactic, branding has actually become a key component to an organization's long-term recruiting success. Some businesses competing in today's talent market have made employer branding an integral piece of their recruiting strategies. Curiously, however,...
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10 Phrases to Drop From Your Vocabulary
Researchers believe that the earliest spoken language was Mayan, which arose around 7,000 years ago. Imagine, in 70 centuries, we've progressed to, "... and I was like, really?" Whether you are leading a team meeting, presenting to a prospective client, or delivering a keynote speech to a global audience, verbal mistakes will undermine your credibility and distract from your...
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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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10 Stats to Help You Drive Better Teamwork Initiatives
What does it take to build a successful team? One organization's method of achieving this goal will be different from another's, and the shifting composition of the workforce combined with rapid technological innovation means that all employers will have to sit back and rethink their teamwork tactics soon. Looking to build an excellent team and drive powerful teamwork initiatives? Start...
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Why Your Best Hires Come From Mobile Recruiting
Believe it or not, the world's greatest authors and recruiters share a common secret that has driven their work over the centuries. They both follow the rule of "Show, Don't Tell." The thought is that ideas are communicated more powerfully when presented through actions, rather than direct descriptions. When it comes to the recruiting process, "Show, Don't Tell" is the difference between...
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Improve Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With Workplace Wellness
We're well into the new year, which means some people are still chipping away at their resolutions, while others have already abandoned them completely. The struggle to keep wellness resolutions has become very real. Believe it or not, employers can play a role in helping their employees keep their resolutions. Job seekers want support from their employers when it comes to both personal...
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The Recruiting Reel: Adapting the Hiring Process for Millennials (With Jacob Shriar)
Effective communication between different generations can be tough. Millennials, for instance, are unlike any generations before them because they grew up alongside technology. The problem is that many baby boomer employers struggle to attract younger employees as a result of the differences. Today, we bring in Jacob Shriar as our featured expert. He has a lot to say about how to create a...
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Entrepreneurial Bloggers: 10 Writers Every Entrepreneur Should Read
Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned. This Week: Top 10 Bloggers Every Entrepreneur Should...
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How to Reap the Benefits of Remote Employees – and Avoid the Pitfalls
On Recruiter Today, we've written often about remote work, strong company cultures, and how those two things intersect – but now it's time to take a step back and look at the benefits and logistics of integrating remote workers. A recent article from Fast Company predicts that 2016 will see a large shift toward remote employees and entirely remote businesses. Companies both large and...
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Tech Innovations That Should Be on Every Entrepreneur's Radar
The most successful companies stay abreast of technological advances. Disruptive innovations can completely transform existing practices and create brand new paradigms, and history is replete with once-great industry leaders who fell from grace when they failed to adapt to changing business models. Organizations that fail to respond to new technologies do so at their own peril. With that...
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The Recruiting Reel: How to Promote Your Company Culture (With China Gorman)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great show! One...
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9 Reasons Why First-Time Job Seekers Fail
A job search has two phases. In the first phase, you identify open positions in your career field and craft resumes to the ones that interest you. The second phase, of course, is the interview phase – if you are one of the chosen few, that is. In either phase, you can blow it for a variety of reasons. But before we talk about the fails, let's talk about the position you are in as a...
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How to Combat the IT Turnover Plague
The average tenure of an IT employee is only three years, according to recent employment data from PayScale. In September 2015, James Kenigsberg, CTO of 2U, spoke with Fortune about why IT workers leave their jobs. In addition to monotony, many of Kenigsberg's employees cited a disconnection from the company's larger purpose as a major reason why they left past jobs. Since the IT...
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What the Heck Is Recruitment Marketing, Anyway?
To keep up with today's technology-savvy job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are using recruitment marketing tools to proactively attract and engage passive candidates and build pools of talent for future hiring needs. iCIMS recently released a new study – "Recruitment Marketing: Fad or Future?" – that provides in-depth, data-driven insights on the relevance of recruitment...
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Millennial Allegiance: How My 2-Week Temp Job Turned Into an 11-Year Career
In the business world, the millennial reputation is mixed. We're known for our talent – but also our turnover. The median job tenure for a Gen. Y employee is just two years, according to a PayScale report – a far cry from the seven-year average for baby boomers. Another study from Elance-oDesk found that 53 percent of hiring managers found it difficult to find and retain millennial...
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How to Deal With a Narcissistic Boss
Narcissistic. Bully boss. Jerk. Toxic leader. Employees use these terms to describe a supervisor or manager who creates workplace havoc through the dysfunctional way they relate to others. As a psychologist, I am cautious about using psychological diagnostic labels (no, "jerk" is not a diagnosis), but sometimes terms find their way into the general culture, and the relevant issues need to...
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The Recruiting Reel: The Top Qualities of Social Recruiters (With Katrina Collier)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great...
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Get the Salary You Deserve [Infographic]
According to a new infographic from financial company Dollars Direct, less than half of us have ever asked for higher salaries in our current jobs. That's a major bummer: How are we supposed to earn more if we never ask for it? It's nice to think that our bosses will award us with raises when they see how great we've been doing, but that's just not the case. Your boss is a business man,...
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What's Your Exit Strategy? A Job Seeker's Guide to Jumping Ship
Given the unusual job market we've been experiencing for years now, it is imperative that every job seeker keep an exit strategy in mind. Do you have yours nailed down? If your exit strategy is dependent on hope and crossed fingers, it's time to rethink some things. Ideally, you shouldn't wait until signs of trouble show up to plan your next career move. At a minimum, when those signs...
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Work Values, Working From Home, and Personality Tests
Remember the excitement you felt as a kid when you had a snow day? If you live in an area with four seasons, you may have even experienced something similar as an adult. It's a wonderful feeling! Even though you know you'll have plenty of work to catch up on when you get back, there's still that thrill you get when you have an unexpected day at home. As days at home become the new normal,...
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Use Team Building to Create Lasting Bonds
Company culture is incredibly important for small businesses. When you're consistently working with the same group of five, 15, or 40 people, minor issues between coworkers can cause significant problems during office hours. Because everyone works so closely together at all times in these environments, small business owners want to make sure all employees feel respected and valued by their...
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The Recruiting Reel: 2016 Recruiting Tech Trends (With Janine Woodworth)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great...
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3 Steps to Improving Client Retention Before It's Too Late
Entrepreneurship is not all roses and unicorns. Sometimes, it's tough. In fact, there are times when it has to be tough in order for your employees, your business, and even you, young padawan, to grow. Sometimes, you lose clients. When it happens – and it does happen – business owners may wonder if sub-par performance, a lack of leadership, or the worst clients ever are to blame. I'm...
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Fear of Failure? How to Beat the Odds and Build a Thriving Business [Infographic]
By some estimates, a full 8 out of 10 businesses fail within their first 18 months of existence. The deck may be stacked against entrepreneurs, but that doesn't mean failure is a guarantee. In a new infographic, the folks at Towergate Insurance explore the topic of business longevity – and how to make sure your business beats the odds and thrives. The infographic outlines some of the...
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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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The Recruiting Reel: 2016 Hiring Predictions (With Nicole Dessain)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great show! The...
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7 Qualities of People With High Emotional Intelligence
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far." That's what Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., well-known writer and researcher on leadership who wrote the bestseller Emotional...
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How to Welcome New Hires Into Your Startup Family
Small businesses are like families, both literally and figuratively speaking. From a literal standpoint, family businesses account for 64 percent of U.S. GDP and 78 percent of all new job creation. But even if your business isn't a family affair, your startup probably shares a lot of similarities with families. For example, you may have launched your startup in your own home -- and even...
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The Biggest Names in Hiring Want to Help You Find Your Dream Job
For hiring professionals and job seekers alike, the Internet is a blessing. Never before have we had such access to so many high-quality insights into the world of recruiting and hiring. The downside is that this unfettered access can easily turn into information overload. Combing through LinkedIn homepages, Twitter feeds, thought-leadership blogs, and industry publications can quickly...
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Talent Selection Brackets: March Madness Comes to Recruiting
It's that time of year again: March Madness is here, which means many among us have filled out our brackets and made our predictions about which team will reign victorious in this year's tournament. (Or something – I'll be totally honest: I had to do a lot of Googling just to write that sentence. I am not an avid sports fan). More relevant to our publication, however, are OutMatch's...
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3 Keys to Building a Business Case for RPO
You're thinking about hiring an RPO firm, and you have a wish list for all the ways the company could improve your talent acquisition: best-in-class tools, a more consistent process, improved candidate experience, better candidates, happier hiring managers – all valuable things an RPO firm can bring. Yes, those are great goals, but if you can't prove just one thing, I guarantee you that...
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The Recruiting Reel: What to Hire for Other Than Skill (With Sarah Dabby)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great show! The...
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How to Start a Career in SEO
I remember graduating undergrad with a decent finance degree, ready to take on the world. I was under the assumption that I had a golden ticket to a cushy, high-paying job. Dreams of being the next Wolf of Wall Street danced around in my head. Then reality hit. I applied to hundreds of finance jobs with no real promise. Sure, I was offered a few jobs working 70-hour weeks selling...
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5 Ways to Build Trust During Onboarding
When we think of new employee onboarding, we picture paperwork, email setup, and training. While those things are essential for onboarding, the impressions that managers and team members make on new employees are equally important. Relationships are what drive us to produce great results, build the best teams, and leave our footprints on the industry. The one undeniable and absolutely...
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10 Must-Buy Books for Job Seekers
Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned. This Week: Top 10 Books for Job Seekers A few weeks ago,...
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The Recruiting Reel: How to Build a Successful Recruitment Brand (With Alison Hadden)
Editor's Note: The new recruiting-focused video series The Recruiting Reel is the brainchild of host and Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan. We are pleased to announce that, going forward, Tolan will be publishing new episodes of The Recruiting Reel here on Recruiter.com. In the meantime, we're sharing past episodes with our audience. So sit back and relax – you're in for a great...
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5 Waiting Room Mistakes Candidates Make
You've done all the heavy lifting required to get the interview, so it's easy to see the interview waiting room as a kind of inconsequential space – the next round of real action doesn't happen until you actually get into the interview room, right? Wrong. The waiting room is more important than you might think. In fact, there are many was in which a candidate's actions in the waiting...
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'If You Want Remarkable Results, You Have to Hire Remarkable People'
Dr. Randy Ross is a nationally renowned consultant and speaker. Along with David Salyers, the vice president of national, regional, and local marketing for Chick-fil-A, Inc., Dr. Ross is coauthor of Remarkable!, a book that guides readers through the building of an inspiring workplace culture. The book uses a narrative structure to explore the concept of business values – and what that...
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Building a Strong, Stress-Free Talent Pipeline
Nothing makes life difficult for HR professionals and recruiters like a lack of a strong talent pipeline. It's hard to recruit when there is no talent pool to recruit from. Employers can't blame the talent for this state of affairs. Rather, they should blame the stale pipeline strategies that have been used over and over again. Companies have to adapt their strategies to follow...
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How to Turn a Temp Job Into a Permanent One
A volatile global marketplace has forced the typical company to become more adaptable and agile, but this has also led to a loss of job stability. Firms are cutting back on permanent employees and making more use of contingent workers, including freelancers, part-timers, and temps. Forty percent of workers in the U.S. now have contingent jobs. This is not as bad as it may sound. Many...
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