Business Plans: 9 Things Entrepreneurs Should Know
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment- and entrepreneurship-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: Entrepreneurs are always being told they need to draft up business plans – but many entrepreneurs...
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How to Maximize the Productivity of Your Introverted Employees
Research shows that at least 50 percent of the population may be introverted. This may come as a surprise, because many people force themselves to act like extraverts – particularly in professional settings, where extraversion is almost required. Of course, the reality is that introvert/extravert isn't as black and white as we think it is. We exist on a spectrum, with "true"...
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The Recruiting Reel: How to Heat Up Your Talent Search (With Andy Headworth)
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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Four Tips for Becoming a Trailblazer at Your First Job
For four (maybe five – okay, six?) years, you've dreamed of walking across the stage at graduation, mom and dad snapping pictures, a diploma fresh in hand – that tiny piece of paper telling the world you've been stamped for approval by the Academy. And now you've done it. You're off the stage and onto the next step of adulthood. Within a few months, you'll (hopefully) start your first...
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The Recruiting Reel: Tips for First-Time Recruiters (With Greg Savage)
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! It...
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Funding Your Startup: Old School vs. New School
At the beginning of 2016, we discussed ignoring your neighbor, whose friend may or may not be a venture capitalist. Ignoring that neighbor is a great idea while you're working on your startup. Your innovative idea belongs to you, your cofounder, and the network you've chosen to help you build it – not everyone who hears about it. What happens, then, when it's time to start raising funds?...
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6 Tedious Hiring Tasks That Startups Can Automate
For decades now, if needed to automate your hiring process, you outsourced it to a third-party recruiter. This arrangement has plenty of benefits, but it's costly. Established organizations with big hiring budgets can usually afford it, but it's not economically viable for small startups, which usually hire on shoestring budgets. Thanks to the arrival of sophisticated online applications,...
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6 Professional Development Resources for Unemployed Job Seekers
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: How can unemployed job seekers stay sharp? How can they build their resumes and gain new skills when they are out of...
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5 Ways to Get the Most From an Informational Interview
Informational interviews give someone just starting their career the chance to learn from those who are already established in the field. Taking the time to understand the real expectations within an industry or organization will better prepare a job seeker to look for positions that best fit their skills and abilities. The information and understanding gleaned from rubbing elbows with those...
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6 Ways to Show Off Your Company Culture to Applicants
Gone are the days when companies looking to hire held all the cards. In today's hiring market, great talent is more in demand than ever before, and companies need to do all they can to attract the top individuals. This is true even more true in supply chain management and its related disciplines (areas in which we at Argentus specialize), where a combination of rapidly changing job market...
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Create Training Programs That Your CEO Will Love
In general, most CEOs want training to influence one of three outcomes: increased revenue, decreased costs, or both. Most training managers think more along the lines of knowledge development: They want people to learn a skill in order to do their job better. Here lies a slight disconnect: Executives want training that teaches the business of the enterprise, but training managers tend to...
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The Recruiting Reel: How to Close Passive Candidates (With Margaret Buj)
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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3 More Ways to Boost Your Freelance Earnings
Did you enter the gig economy via platforms like Fiverr, Freelancer, and Upwork? Were you full of hope, looking forward to exciting tasks, autonomy, and high levels of income? Did your dreams turn into reality – or did you quickly find yourself struggling to pay your bills? If you are a programming whiz, you probably love the gig economy – but if you don't posses skills in a...
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3 Ways to Maximize Your Success in a Recruitment Marketplace
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: Recruitment marketplaces are a new trend in talent acquisition. Employers post jobs, and recruiters vie with one...
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Behavioral Economics: HR's Next-Generation Role
If I were to describe life in 2016 with one word, it would be "distracted." Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin by Deloitte, agreed with me when we spoke via phone: "Because of all the tech we have – the mobile phones, emails, text messages, etc. – people have less time to do things well. They ignore a lot of things they normally would have done." Bersin is referring to the...
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Next-Level Job Search: 6 Great Tech Tools for Job Seekers
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on jobs data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: We talk a lot about awesome tech tools that recruiters and HR pros can use to source, screen, and hire candidates...
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Social Media Sourcers: A New Generation of Sourcing Is Born
Generally speaking, a social media team within a company's marketing department will lead the organization's social media strategy, but we've been seeing changes to this setup for a while now. Particularly, I am talking about the new partnership forming between marketing and talent acquisition. This new partnership in tapping the labor market has given rise to a new role. It goes by many...
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Ditch the Interview Litmus Test: It's Time to Figure Out What You're Really Looking For
Every company has its go-to hiring process and list of interview questions. Google made headlines when it abandoned the traditional hiring process and started asking "crazy" questions designed to challenge a candidate's ability to not only answer questions critically and analytically, but also creatively – e.g., "Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco." (In other words, a Google...
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The Recruiting Reel: Attract More Qualified Job Applicants (With Rikka Brandon)
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! Every...
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5 Expert Opinions on Pay Transparency
Compensation isn't always easy to talk about. In fact, it's one of the most closely guarded topics, even among family and friends. While we're reticent to discuss how much we make or how much we pay in our personal lives, we have to be a bit more open when it comes to managing people. In fact, compensation (due to its social taboos) is likely one of the least understood areas of HR. Here,...
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5 Ways You're Making Great Employees Quit
Are you mystified by the number of employees who have resigned from your company? It's true that not every employee will remain with your company for the duration of their career, but it's important to do everything you can retain your best employees. One way you can do that is by putting an end to some organizational or managerial practices that may be driving employees to quit. Let's...
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Staffing and Recruiting Startups: 10 Young Companies to Watch
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 Staffing and Recruiting Startups Has...
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4 Ways You'll See the Power of Employee Recognition
During my company's early days, an NBA CEO hired us to send unique gifts to some of his key partners. I coordinated with the CEO's secretary often during the process, so when we sent thank-you gifts to the client, I included a custom piece for her. She was so thrilled to have been appreciated that she became my internal advocate at the organization. She helped me land highly coveted...
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How to Effortlessly Build Your Talent Pipeline Via LinkedIn
I still remember the first time I got my hands on LinkedIn Recruiter. That new link appears on your dashboard and brings you to a whole new world of LinkedIn. You get to see – gasp – more than 100 results! And you get to access the full functionality of the search filter. This is gonna be good, I thought to myself. I am so gonna be the next recruiting superstar! But then, in...
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4 Ways to Boost Your Freelance Earnings
The gig economy is now a major source of income for many workers: 22 percent of Americans have offered their services up in the gig economy, and 42 percent have used at least one gig-economy service. And while the gig economy is an attractive alternative to traditional work for many Americans, it is not by any means a bed of roses. As the U.S. Government Accountability Office has pointed...
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Dream Team: 9 Ways to Build Your Company's Most Important Asset
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: How do you develop talent and communicate expectations in a startup? The answers below are provided by members of...
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Recruiting Women: Lessons From Major Sports League Sponsors
Don't underestimate the power of the purse. That's what major sports league sponsors have learned from the data about women, their spending power, and their desire to tune into sports. And recruiters, it turns out, can learn a lot from how sports advertisers have begun to tap into female consumer markets. Super Bowl and NFL sponsors have recently made concerted efforts to advertise to...
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3 Things to Do When Your Jobs Ads Don't Get Enough Responses
Research from ManpowerGroup shows that talent shortages in the U.S. are easing, with 32 percent of employers finding it hard to fill vacancies in 2015, down from 40 percent in 2014. However, the U.S. is not out of the woods yet. Plenty of professional and industrial areas in the U.S. are still experiencing serious talent shortages. Nurses, teachers, middle managers, and other...
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The Death of the Cover Letter?
Have you heard the rumors? They say that everything important about your career is listed within the pages of your resume. Why would you possibly want to waste your time putting together a cover letter these days? Applying online is easy. All you need to do is upload your resume and click submit. If you're qualified, the company will call you. Right? Wrong. As you can imagine, this...
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Does Your Recruiter Build Databases – or Relationships?
As it has changed so many other industries in the 21st century, big data has altered recruiting. Social media sourcing has allowed recruiters to quickly tap into networks of candidates that would otherwise be more difficult to contact for open roles, and recruitment firms now create and advertise large databases of candidate profiles, selling them as competitive advantages over other firms....
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Job Hopping Vs. Long-Term Employment: A Common Struggle
I was sitting with a friend the other day, discussing the subject of job hopping vs. long-term employment, and I've come to realize that this is a common struggle for many people in today's economy. The reality is that there is no right answer that works for everyone; this is something we each need to decide for ourselves. Personally, I took a third path and became self-employed. I love...
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6 Ways to Shorten Your Job Search
I'm not writing to advise you of the six guaranteed ways to find work in less than three weeks. People who make a promise like this are raising your hopes and making a mockery of the career development field. However, I will tell you how to make your job search shorter. By how much? That's up to you – and some timing. I work at an urban career center, where I've helped...
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eDiscovery for Human Resources: A Basic How-To Guide
In today's digital world, many businesses have gone paperless, choosing to keep important files and documents stored on computers rather than in file cabinets. Among these digitized files are, of course, the documents that HR departments prepare and maintain – e.g., company handbooks and policies, employee reviews and disciplinary actions, payroll documentation, OSHA records, and...
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Recruiting Secrets: 7 Things Job Seekers Should Know About Recruiting and Hiring
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: So much depends on a job seeker's interactions with recruiters. And yet, many job seekers lack knowledge...
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How to Keep Your Medical Sales Reps Happy at Work [Infographic]
According to a new report from niche job board MedReps, medical sales professionals are a "fickle bunch." Despite high levels of job satisfaction among these professionals (72 percent of medical sales reps surveyed by MedReps said they were "satisfied or very satisfied" with their jobs), 47 percent of them say they may leave their jobs for other opportunities in 2016. That's bad news...
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3 Ways to Build a Strong Employment Brand From the Ground Up
When people think about why companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix sort through hundreds of thousands of job applications per year, they often attribute the success of these organizations to massive name recognition and over-the-top perks. And sure, those don't hurt. But at the end of the day, the reason those companies attract candidates in droves isn't napping pods or free massages...
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8 Awesome Presentation Tools Every Professional Should Check Out
Whether you're an entrepreneur, small business owner, HR manager, or recruiting leader, you know the importance of creating successful presentations. The amount of work that goes into planning and executing a presentation is staggering. Because of that large commitment, it's essential that your presentations generate income, improve productivity, and/or increase customer loyalty. Whatever...
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Education and Experience Don't Guarantee Success – Attitude and Habits Do
Professional success is the culmination of many factors. Your education matters – maybe not as much as you think, but a degree in your field can really jump-start your progress. Your experience certainly matters, but that can only come to you after years of dedication. Your talent matters, too, but aside from skills (which develop from experience), most of your talent is innate, meaning you...
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Add a Little eHarmony to Your Recruiting Tactics
If you really want to make great hires, you may want to do a little less recruiting and a little more matchmaking. Stop taking your cues from Google and start taking them from eHarmony. That's what Tricia Sciortino, president of virtual assistant service eaHELP, recommends. "For us, is kind of our secret sauce," Sciortino says. Of course, it's not exactly online-dating-style...
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8 Signs an Employee Is About to Quit [Infographic]
Turnover is a fact of life in the business world. No matter how much work you put into engaging and retaining your employees, the fact is that some of them are going to leave. You'll never have a turnover rate of zero. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do everything you can to convince your top workers that they should stick around. In fact, it becomes doubly urgent that you do this when...
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4 Ways to Bring Big Data Into Your Recruiting Process
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on jobs data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: We're looking for real-life examples of big data in action. How do you use it in your recruiting process?...
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10 Best Practices for Any Recruiting Project
Successful recruiting projects are essential to all growing companies, regardless of size or industry sector. The ability to successfully and repeatedly hire the right talent for the right role will make a hard task (growing a company) a lot easier and a lot more rewarding for everyone. At Hub Recruiting, we have a solid track record of completing successful recruiting projects for many...
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4 Points to Make on Your New Hire's First Day
Being the new person isn't easy. Slowly easing new talent into your workforce through an effective onboarding program is a crucial part of actually keeping your brand new hire. Be thoughtful and actively think of ways you can incorporate your new talent into the team. That way, they feel confident and comfortable in their new position. We came up with a couple of pointers to help you make...
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5 Ways to Write a Great Resume – Even If You're Struggling
You already know an amazing resume is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal when you are on the hunt for a new job. In fact, your resume may be more important than ever. The average corporate job attracts 250 resumes. Your resume needs to be really strong to stand out in such a densely populated field! It's likely that you want to succeed in writing a great resume – but you...
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Feedback Is the Key to Employee Engagement [Infographic]
By now, we're all well aware of the dismal state of employee engagement. But here's a little good news for the HR departments and executive leaders struggling to boost engagement levels: A new report has found that communication – particularly feedback from managers – may be the key to getting employees more engaged at work. The report comes from Quantum Workplace, purveyor of...
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Employee Engagement: Top 10 Tech Solutions to Help You Overcome Your Engagement Woes
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 Tech Solutions for Employee...
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Graduate Students: Make the Most of Career Services
Graduate school is an investment with a high return. It can pay off in career advancement, increased earnings, or even the opportunity to change careers entirely. However, to really attain these goals, students must take advantage of all the resources their schools have to offer – especially the career services office. The professionals that work in career services are there to help...
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Career Transition Success: How a Shift in Your Mindset Can Help
To put it simply, a "career transition" is the process of moving within your career. This move can be a lateral move, a move upward, or a complete change of direction that brings your career into a brand new industry or type of role. The foundation for success in any career transition is not your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your network, your past experience, your certifications, your...
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