3 Reasons Candidates Are Rejecting Your Job Offers
You've done it! You've found the incredible candidate who is going to be your next, great hire. Now, you're ready to make an offer. Oh, happy day! You pick up the phone, but the candidate is at work. So you leave a message. And follow it up with an email. And wait. And ... nothing? No response. Or worse – a big, fat "no." What happened? How did the perfect candidate elude your...
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How AI Works: A Brief Guide for Recruiters
As the Information Age becomes the Age of AI, it leaves many of us futurecasting what's in store, particularly in recruiting and hiring. Depending on whom you ask, you'll receive different opinions on what AI is and what it isn't. According to the White House's Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, "There is no single definition of AI that is universally...
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Recruiter Top 10: Ways to Engage With Students and Recent Graduates Online
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 Ways to Engage With Students and...
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ATS/Background Check Integrations: The Next Big Trend in Recruiting Tech?
According to HireRight's 2016 Employment Screening Benchmark Report, 34 percent of HR departments strive for a more efficient candidate experience. That number may not be terribly high, but it's still a good trend to see: The more efficient the hiring process is, the better an employer will be at wooing candidates. In the effort to make hiring processes go more smoothly, some think that...
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The Case for Developing a Recruitment Website for Your Company
Recruiting is no longer an activity that only takes place when a company has a vacancy to fill. Today, recruitment happens 24/7/365. Smart employers are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to reach and engage prospective hires. How a Recruitment Website Can Help In an improving job market where candidates have increased leverage and multiple opportunities, it's the employer...
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As States Consider Retirement Plan Mandates, Small Business Must Prepare for Big Changes
Millions of Americans have used 401(k) plans to save for retirement, but one significant segment of the workforce has long struggled to gain access to these plans: employees of small businesses. Thanks to a spate of new and potential legislation in states like California, Oregon, Illinois, and others, that could soon change. "If you work for a small business, the probability that you have...
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6 Ways to Showcase Your Soft Skills
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 job seekers convey their soft skills, either on their resume or in an interview? The answers below are provided...
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Why an Emergency Fund Should Be Part of Your Career Plan
As you progress in your career, finding a new job can become harder and harder. One of the big reasons for this has to do with salary. When you first start working, you are generally open to just about any job and will happily take a tiny paycheck. However, as you rise through the ranks of your industry, your salary requirements will evolve. One challenging situation that many job...
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9 Hiring Hacks Used by Startup CEOs
Did you know that Marissa Mayer reviews every new hire at Yahoo? Google's cofounders do the same. Mark Zuckerberg also spends a lot of his time recruiting talent, which may be one of the reasons why Facebook is so successful at hiring the right people at the right time. It's clear from these examples that you don't necessarily need to hire a talent acquisition expert to act as your chief...
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'Hidden Figures' Showcases the Value of Workplace Diversity
Diversity makes teams better. Remarkable progress can happen when inclusion is at your organizational core. (Before we go any further – spoilers ahead!) Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures is the film adaptation of the incredible true story of the women who crushed stereotypes to become recognized as some of the greatest intellectual minds at NASA. When our Waggl team saw this film, it...
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Do I Really Need to Send a Cover Letter With My Resume?
Some career experts say cover letters are an absolute must and that the notion of omitting the cover letter is absurd. Others, however, believe cover letters are dead or dying slowly. Studies have shown that cover letters don't matter all that much to many employers. According to Addison Group, a Boston-based employment agency, only 18 percent of hiring managers rank the cover letter as...
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The 4 Steps of Finding a Mentor and Developing a Relationship With Them
Throughout my career, I have been fortunate to find outstanding mentors to guide me through my profession and to help me find ways to work for causes I am passionate about. If you're looking for a mentor to help you reach the next stage of your career, there are four things you should do: 1. Self-Reflect The first step in finding a good mentor involves reflecting on where you are in...
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MBH Architects Built Collaboration and Employee Well-Being Right Into Its Office Space
When Alameda, California-based architecture firm MBH Architects' lease was up, the company decided it was time for a change. Rather than renegotiate, MBH found a former biological manufacturing laboratory a mile away from its existing office, gutted the space, and created an office tailored to its business practices, organizational values, and company culture. "At first, we realized it...
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Do You Really Need a Four-Year Degree?
In 2013, the pay gap between college graduates and everyone else reached a record high: Americans with four-year degrees made 98 percent more per hour on average than people without a degree did. But college degrees still aren't the norm: only 46 percent of people ages 25-29 had completed an associate's degree or higher as of 2015. Plus, it seems like everywhere you look, someone has a...
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5 Tips to Keep Top Talent at Your Small Business
Employee turnover is expensive. For example, SHRM estimates that "direct replacement costs can reach as high as 50-60 percent of an employee's annual salary." That's not to mention the indirect and hidden costs, which must be considered as well if we want to deduce the total cost associated with turnover and replacement. One thing is clear above all else: Retaining employees will always be...
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Love Is in the Air – Bring Some Into the Office
It's Valentine's Day. Love is in the air – and if there's one thing people love, it's love itself. After all, romance novels are a billion-dollar industry. Billions of dollars in flowers and gifts are being exchanged between significant others as you read this. But what does that have to do with Recruiter.com, you ask? There should be love in the workplace, that's what. Not between...
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Career Reputation Management: Creating Positive Content
When someone does a Google search on your name, you want them to be inundated with positive content about you. Whether it's an employer, an admissions board member at your grad school of choice, or even a significant other, the searcher should find nothing but content that paints you in a good light. Positive, relevant content that highlights who you are, what you know, and what you do...
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3 Companies That Nailed Content Marketing to Recruit Top Candidates
Wouldn't it be great if you had the time, energy, and resources to personally speak with every prospective employee who took a quick look at your careers page? Yes, if you could just find a way to personally connect with each candidate to share what life is really like at your company, you're confident you'd be able to attract top-quality talent perfectly suited to your unique culture and...
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Is Bias Undermining Your Hiring Process?
I've interviewed a lot of people in the course of my career. As a former recruiter for a growing Chicago Inc. 500 recruiting firm, I could practically interview people in my sleep! I conducted so many interviews it got to the point where I could "read" someone and determine whether they were right for the role and client in just a few minutes. At that time, one could say I was very...
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Recruiter Top 10: Tech Tools to Help You Boost Your Personal Brand on the Job Hunt
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 Personal Branding Tools for Job...
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3 Ways Ongoing Feedback Pads Your Bottom Line
We know the drill: You're a manager with tons of tasks on your to-do list. You already have so much on your plate. The thought of adding even one more thing seems a little insane. Meanwhile, you keep hearing about this "ongoing feedback" thing. Would it really be worth your time? Is feedback that important? Actually, it is! Giving employees feedback and direction is one of the best...
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3 Recruiting Tips to Make You Rethink How You Fill Roles With Internal Talent
Kevin scours the list of applicants to his recent posting for a marketing representative. Underqualified. Overqualified. Not enough experience. Every candidate misses the mark by a long shot. Kevin is not alone: According to the 2015 Talent Shortage Survey from ManpowerGroup, 38 percent of employers are finding it difficult to fill jobs. It's not surprising that companies like Kevin's are...
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4 Experts Weigh in on What You Need to Know About Working With a Staffing Agency
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 tips do you have for getting the most out of a relationship with a staffing agency? What kind of organizations benefit...
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The Introvert's Job Interview Toolkit [Infographic]
As an introvert myself, I know the struggle is real. Meeting new people is hard enough as it is. When those new people are also evaluating you as a potential hire, it's practically torture. Luckily, we introverts are not prisoners of our personalities. There are plenty of things we can do before, during, and after the interview to ward off anxiety, maximize performance, and make a...
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Overcoming Past Legal Issues to Land the Job
Questions around past legal trouble have come up multiple times recently, so it's worth addressing. A reader writes, "I'm a job seeker with a felony record and a college degree. I can't expunge the record, and I'm not sure what to do. Where should I begin?" First, I'm sorry to hear that this is a common issue people face in the work world. It can be difficult from both the employee's and...
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How to Help Your Employees Manage Stress [Infographic]
Employees like being challenged at work – but so stressed out that they start losing sleep and eating poorly? That's a bit too much. According to a new infographic from employee assistance program LifeWorks, about a quarter of employees say their job is bad for their sleeping and eating habits. Forty-four percent of employees say thinking about work keeps them up at night. If your...
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The Most Important Part of Your Employee Referral Program? It's Not the Candidate Experience
No, the most important part of your employee referral program is not the candidate experience – it's the referrer experience. If you want to create a culture of referrals for hiring both inside and outside your company, it will depend entirely on this. Your product brand depends a lot on customer referrals and, by extension, the customer experience. Similarly, your employer brand...
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Your Company Can Get Top Talent for Less – by Earning Great Reviews
When it comes to employees, you get what you pay for. Offer competitive salaries, and you'll have a better chance of attracting the best. But those salaries don't necessarily have to be higher than everyone else's if your company earns great reviews on Glassdoor, according to a new study conducted independently by academics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain. Not...
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Building a Company Culture That Can't Be Denied
"Culture is like a hairstyle: Everyone has one, even if they're bald." – Drew McLellan, head of Agency Management Institute "Company culture" may have only recently caught on as a workplace buzz phrase, but the idea itself is as old as the workforce. A culture is developing in your business right now, gaining life simply through the actions and beliefs of the people who clock in every...
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Employer Branding 101: Why Employers Are Dissatisfied With So Many of Their Hires
I recently saw the alarming (but not shocking) statistic that 95 percent of companies say they recruit the wrong people every year. Albert Einstein allegedly once said that insanity is "continuing to do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result." On that note, I have a message for employers: For the love of G-d, if 95 percent of you are making bad hires,...
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How Office Decor Can Help – or Harm – Productivity [Infographic]
So what if your office isn't the chicest place in town – it's just a workplace, right? Not exactly. As a new infographic from Pots, Planters More outlines, your work environment can have a big impact on your company's overall performance. Take desk chairs, for example. The U.S. economy loses $81 billion in productivity due to pain every year – pain that can be caused by old,...
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U.S. Travel Woes Could Drive Top Talent Out of the Country and Into Canada
By now, you've likely heard about the U.S. travel ban implemented by President Donald Trump. In short, on January 25, President Trump signed an executive order that banned nationals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen – even nationals with the proper visas – from entering the U.S. The move sparked widespread protest and condemnation from several major companies,...
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Professional 'Ghosting': What Is It, and Why Is It So Horrible?
Urban Dictionary defines "ghosting" as "The act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone." While the term originated in the dating world, it seems to be slithering into the workplace, too. Professional ghosting is horrible when you're on the receiving end, but it can also be disastrous for your reputation if you're the one doing the ghosting. According to a study done at the...
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Not Getting Enough Employee Referrals? Time to Think Outside the Box
According to LinkedIn's 2016 Global Recruiting Trends report, employee referral programs are a top priority for many organizations. This is because employers realize that structured and well-executed referral programs attract more qualified candidates, reduce turnover rates, improve employee morale, and lower both cost-to-hire and time-to-hire rates. These benefits ultimately impact the...
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Winter Blues Bumming Out Your Workplace? Appreciation Can Help
Now that we are fully into 2017 and facing the long, dark winter days – with few holidays to look forward to – leaders need to take a hard look at how they can best support and encourage team members. This is the time of year – especially for those who like sunlight – when people essentially drag themselves through their days. As a psychologist who trains leaders and colleagues on...
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How to Develop Professionally in Companies Without Formal Programs
Regardless of whether or not an employer provides a formal employee development program, every individual is responsible for their professional advancement. Your organization might not have the budget to send you to conferences or pay for certification tests, but that does not mean you can afford to ignore development altogether. Here are a few tips to help you advance your skills and...
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How to Launch a More Targeted Recruitment Marketing Strategy
As we're constantly telling our clients, one of the best ways to engage existing and potential candidates is to be a great storyteller. A big part of powerful storytelling is understanding your audience. If you want to hire the right people, you first need to make sure that you're targeting the right audience. "The first – and most important – step is to know what talent you'll need,"...
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How to Establish a Successful Internship Program
At Badger Maps, we've successfully developed an internship program that prepares young professionals from various countries and backgrounds for lifelong careers. It trains interns and exposes them to real responsibilities, helping them figure out what areas are good fits for them. We believe that more companies, especially startups, should launch such intern training programs. The right...
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10 More Staffing and Recruiting Startups 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 to...
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To Ensure a Diverse Workplace, Recruit More Future Women Leaders
Recruiting more women as potential leaders is the first step toward building a more diverse and inclusive organization. That's a lesson from a recent study that found companies with women in executive leadership roles are more confident in their ability to foster diverse cultures. When it comes to diversity and inclusion, there are differences between female- and male-led organizations....
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The ROI of Continuous Performance Feedback
No matter your job title, all deliverables boil down to return on investment: How can this project be most beneficial and profitable for the company? When real-time, continuous feedback enters the conversation, it's almost always in the context of millennial talent or how modern workforces need regular check-ins. We can't argue those points. In fact, we support them. That support,...
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The Real Reason the Company Didn't Call You Back
Interviewing for a job is an incredibly personal process for job seekers. And every job seeker knows how frustrating it is when a company you applied to – or even interviewed with – never calls you back. The rejection stings. It leaves your reeling and wondering, "What's wrong with me?" First, let me say that I don't think many employers truly understand what this experience is like. If...
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5 Perks Your Employees Will Actually Care About
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: Much has been written about unusual and inventive job perks (in-office haircuts, massage chairs, free beer, etc.), but do...
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What Does 2017 Hold for the World of Flexible Work?
Will 2017 be the year that flexible work finally becomes the norm? While flexible work arrangements have been steadily gaining acceptance over the past few years, standard schedules still prevail. However, that could change this year, according to Sara Sutton Fell, CEO and founder of flexible work job board FlexJobs. The eight-hour workday seems to be on its way out, with 63 percent of...
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4 Tips for Targeting Millennial Candidates (and Convincing Them to Stay)
One goal for many businesses, regardless of industry, is to reach and attract millennial talent in the job market. As with all generations before them, millennials are driven by many factors that are unique to their particular age group. According to Deloitte's Millennial Survey 2016, the best way to recruit members of this group is to tailor outreach efforts to match their...
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Working From Home and 'Homing' From Work: Why Corporate Social Responsibility Matters
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is "in" right now – but it's not a trend so much as an important evolution of the business world. As employees and consumers alike demand more responsible citizenship from organizations, companies are learning why it matters to invest in CSR. "You can approach it from a few different angles," says Peter Dudley, senior vice president of community...
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What is The Product Development Process?
Do Ninja Coders Write in Invisible Ink? Maybe it's just us, but sometimes we feel like job descriptions for software engineering roles are, well, indecipherable - both for those inside outside the tech world. This is our first post in a series that seeks to untangle the web (see what we did there) of programming jobs and how the product development process works, written by our Chief...
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The Best Places to Work in Medical Sales 2017 [Infographic]
Medical sales reps tend to be pretty happy at work, with 70 percent reporting they are either somewhat or very satisfied with their jobs. If you're a salesperson looking for a more fulfilling career, then medical sales might be the field for you. On the other hand, if you're already in medical sales, it still may be time for a change. Medical sales job board MedReps recently released a...
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