6 Indications You Need to Hire More Team Members
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: When should a startup scale its hiring? How do you know it's time to bring on more team members? The answers below are...
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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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3 Areas Where Your Communication Skills Matter the Most
One story I tell in my workshops is about how a former customer of mine improved communications between two warring departments. He told me that these groups were almost literally at war with each other and just couldn't play well together. He further explained that he would call members of the groups together and make them talk to each other. "I also observed their body language and...
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Why It's Sometimes a Good Idea to Break Your Career Rules
Life lessons seem hard to grasp at first, but so obvious once you get them. I recently spoke with a former client who completely transformed his career. He went from working at a university in administration to working in corporate strategy at a Fortune 500 company. I asked him, "Looking back, how have you changed the most in the last few years?" He said something I wasn't expecting: "I...
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Why Diversity Recruiting Leads to Company Growth
Think diversity recruiting is all style and no substance? Think again. According to numerous studies, more diverse workforces lead to more profitable, thriving organizations. McKinsey Company reports that women account for a quarter of U.S. GDP, which suggests that a diversified workforce that allows more people to participate in labor leads to economic growth in general. On the...
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3 Tips to Help You Retain More Millennial Employees
Millennials have a reputation for being job hoppers. That reputation isn't entirely unearned: By some estimates, the average millennial job tenure is as low as two years, though other sources challenge this. But regardless of whether or not millennials really are frequent job hoppers, the fact remains that a lot of organizations have trouble convincing them to stick around. Millennial...
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Break Your Email Addiction in a Few Simple Steps [Infographic]
On the morning of July 5, 2016, shortly before I prepared this article for publication, I spent some time checking my email. By "some time," I mean two straight hours. This is not a rare occurrence. In part, that's because my inbox somehow seems to triple in occupancy overnight, every night. But it's also because I just have to know what's in those email messages. For all I know, the...
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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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5 Tips on Building (or Rebuilding) a Great Team
New to leadership? Did a top performer just quit your team? Don't worry. Here are five surefire steps to help you build (or rebuild) a powerful and productive team: 1. Assess Quickly It is critical that you assess your team within the first 90 days of accepting a leadership position. Look carefully at each employee's workload and individual strengths. Then, look at the team as a...
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9 Tips on Improving Your Company's Culture
Before we dig in to the tips themselves, we should address a more basic question: What exactly is "company culture"? Defining company culture is not as difficult as people make it out to be. Just bear in mind that culture and brand are two sides of a coin and share a definition between them. If a company's brand is the feeling created by the collective thoughts, words, and actions its...
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Steps You Must Take If You Want to Stop Making Bad Hiring Decisions
When a hiring manager reviews a list of job applicants, they hope to see resumes from highly qualified individuals in the job market. But what happens when many applicants don't even the minimum job requirements? Or worse, when the majority of the candidates are totally and completely unqualified? Should HR settle for the best of the worst, or start the recruiting process all over...
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Job Hopping: The New Promotion
When a recruiter looks at a resume and sees that an applicant has had a handful of jobs in a short amount of time, their first reaction is often to toss that resume in the trash. But times have changed, and it might be a good idea to give those resumes a second look. When the economy took a dive in 2008, some companies took drastic measures to stay afloat, including benefit cuts and...
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10 Ways to Find Your Ideal Mentor
Article by Benjamin P. Hardy Your ability to find mentors and harness those relationships is a key factor in the success you'll have in life. With a mentor, you can save years by skipping conventional career steps and walking through rare doors opened for you, giving you opportunities that few ever have access to in life or business. Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle Is the Way,...
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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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10 Resume Experts We Love
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 Resume Experts Everyone needs a...
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Millennials Should Avoid These 5 Ways to Choose a Career
Sometimes, we focus on the right way to do a task. But other times, it is helpful to look at the wrong way to do something. As a career coach, I have worked with students and adults of all ages, and I have seen some troublesome patterns in the ways that people attempt to choose their career directions. Rarely do these approaches work. Today, I want to take a look at those bad...
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Is Company Culture Overrated? [Infographic]
The answer, which you may have seen coming a mile away, is "No." That's good news; otherwise, a lot of us would have wasted many, many hours of our lives talking about, writing about, building, and maintaining organizational cultures. According to a new infographic from commercial real estate leasing marketplace TheSquareFoot, company culture is every bit as vital to business success as...
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How Millennials Are Changing the Job Market
The "Greatest Generation" went from the war to the workplace, taking advantage of rapid post-war growth in the late '40s and '50s to nail down jobs for life with pensions upon retirement. Today's millennial generation has never known that type of work environment, and the stick-with-one-company mentality of the June Cleaver generation is not as common as it once was. During the brief span...
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Life After Law School: What You Need to Know About Starting a Career in Law
Take the LSAT. Go to law school. Pass the bar exam. Become a lawyer. Sounds straightforward, right? However, if you ask law school students close to graduation about their future careers, you'll get a much different reaction. Those approaching graduation have just dedicated three years of their lives to grinding away with high hopes and aspirations of becoming the next big lawyer. Now,...
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Top CEOs Know Trust Is Key to Employee Recruitment and Retention
When prospective applicants are looking at your company, they want to know a thing or two about your corporate culture. It's not just benefits packages and salary averages that are going to catch their eyes. They want to know who they will be working for. They'll likely be looking at your CEO and their interactions with the media. Consider taking some advice from one of these...
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How to Recruit for Virtual Teams
Virtual teams are becoming even more commonplace than they were in 2013, when Harvard Business Review covered the three waves of virtual work, or 2014, when a Forbes article described telecommuting as the future of work. You now have a global talent pool at your disposal. In 2015, Fast Company predicted the ways in which businesses would adapt to the growing contingent of freelancers in...
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Campus Recruiting Trends: A Quick Refresher
Today, companies need to approach campus recruiting not as a brochure or a quick visit, but as an experience – something memorable for the students. Increasing your company's visibility and relevance through social media is a great first step, but consider the optics. Staged photo ops are not going to get the traction that genuinely engaging students will. So think back to when you were...
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8 Ways to Write the Best Job Advertisements in the World
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: The fastest way to lose a prospective candidate's interest is to plop a list of job requirements into...
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The One Interview Answer All Employers Are Looking For
The interview is an imperfect way to evaluate talent. Companies are trying to find out how well you'll be able to perform a variety of tasks at work through a series of questions. If they were allowed to, the average company would have you work for them for a few weeks to determine whether or not you have what it takes. But companies can't do that. All they have is a few hours to ask you some...
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Why Is Everyone Unhappy At Work?
What goes up must come down, and employers may not be ready for the next shift in the talent market: top performers leaving en masse. Americans workers are cranky, disengaged, and looking for something better. Overworked and reeling from watching their coworkers clean out their cubes, these employees are the survivors of the Great Recession. The Statistics of Discontent In January...
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How to Recruit and Retain the Best of the 2016 Graduate Pool
With summer well underway, 2016's college graduates are deep into their searches for the perfect jobs to launch their careers. Many will end up anxiously grabbing the first job offer to come along, while others are working their way through internships to gain practical skills and make themselves more marketable. Employers that want to attract the best of the best 2016 has to offer need to...
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The 24 Things Every Great Recruiter Does
Here is a checklist – not definitive, but still pretty comprehensive – of 24 things that great recruiters do. If these items describe you, you're on the right track! If not, it's time to make some changes if you want to be truly great at your job: In the run-up to joining the company you now work for, you wrote a document outlining how it could improve its career site. You...
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Turning Good Work Into Great Work
When the nation faced an economic crisis, many companies tightened their belts. Benefits were reduced, raises were frozen. Employees took to job hopping every year or two to get pay increases and benefit improvements. Now that the economy is recovering, companies need to focus on providing the right incentives to retain employees and keep them working to their full potential. The majority...
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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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One Is the Loneliest Number in Onboarding
How many people does it take to onboard a new employee? Your answer is probably something along the lines of, "One -- the onboarding manager." While it's true that some companies (most, I'm willing to bet) take that unfortunate approach onboarding, the fact is that if you want to maximize a new employee's success and overall value to the company, you need more than an onboarding...
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TAtech Tip: Forget Relationships; Build Allegiances
The received wisdom these days is that relationships are the key to recruiting top talent. As anyone who's been in a relationship knows, however, establishing such a strong connection with someone is both time-consuming and hard work. Luckily, there is a more manageable alternative: Build candidate allegiances instead. Allegiances can be just as powerful as relationships, but they require...
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10 Tips for Writing a Professional Resume
Last on many people's lists of things to do is writing a resume. But a powerful resume is what gets you to the next stage – the interview. Writing a resume that will land you an interview can be a daunting task, but if you follow these 10 rules, you will succeed. 1. Readability Is Key When you write your resume, put yourself in the reviewer's shoes and imagine having to read many...
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15 Common Mistakes Job Seekers Make – and How to Fix Them
Your job search comprises a few different processes that all have to come together in harmony for you to land that desired job offer. Resumes, networking, cover letters, interview skills, and your communication with recruiters are all critical to your job search. With so much for you to do, it should come as no surprise that there are a lot of potential pitfalls you might encounter...
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Recruiter's Top 10 Tools for Building a Strong Talent Pipeline
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 Talent Pipeline Tools In today's...
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10-Step Guide to a Career Makeover
Like it or not, the year is halfway over! Don't spend another moment unhappy in your job. Here are a few quick tips to help you sort out your career: Begin With a Few Simple Questions 1. Do you like what you do? 2. Do you like the people you do it with? Now, Dig a Bit Deeper 3. What do you really want to change? Write your answers down, and then ask yourself, "Are these...
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Company Culture's Role in the Remote Workforce
These days, you can't open up the page of an industry magazine without seeing at least one article extolling the benefits of creating a strong company culture. From Google's massive campus in Mountain View that offers chef-prepared gourmet meals to Amazon's free Wi-Fi enabled buses that shuttle employees to and from the office, tech firms have been leading the way in many of these...
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4 Workforce Solutions to Help You Attract the Best Candidates
The workforce has rapidly changed over the past several years. Employers have faced challenges recruiting and retaining employees because of two primary reasons: the skills gap and a growing gig economy. What's clear is that candidates are increasingly taking control of their careers, redefining the terms of how and when to engage employers. This in turn has caused many employers to miss...
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5 Ways to Make Sure a Candidate Is a Good Cultural Fit
Staff mobility is the rule rather than the exception these days; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the average worker will hold 10 different jobs over the course of their career. As recruiters and HR professionals know, employers have a stake in minimizing turnover because finding replacements for departing staff and onboarding new employees are expensive...
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The Next Time You Have a Great Health Care Experience, Thank a Recruiter
Twenty-five years ago, Congress designated the first Tuesday in June as National Health Care Recruiter Recognition Day. Though these lawmakers couldn't have predicted the extent of the challenges faced by health care recruiters today, they still got it right: The link between health care recruiters' daily performances and the quality of patient care is stronger and more direct than ever...
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Planting the Roots for Greater STEM Growth
Two-thirds of service sector jobs today are low-paying positions in retail, food service, and customer support. More of these types of manual jobs are being eliminated by robotics and automation all the time, and not just on factory floors. Forget about smartphone payments that will eventually do away with cashiers: Some restaurants are now testing tablets that allow diners to order...
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5 Areas Where Job Seekers Should Focus on Improvement
Finding that first job or making a career change in today's competitive employment market can be quite the challenge. The higher the level of job you seek, the pickier the hiring manager or recruiter is going to be. Maybe no applicant will ever be an exact fit, but there are steps job seekers can take to make sure that they stand out from the crowd during the job search. Brushing up on...
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Cover Letter Tips: 9 Ways to Stand Out
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question about the employment market 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 know that cover letters are important – but they also happen to be one of the hardest...
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Want to Work in a New City? How to Land the Job and Make the Move
With the summer here, you may be planning a fun vacation. That vacation to a faraway, relaxing location might leave you dreaming of moving to a new place altogether. The further along you are in your career, the trickier moving can feel. At times, it's hard to know where to even begin. If you're part of a unique profession where companies struggle to find candidates, you're one of the...
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The Interview Project: A Crowdsourced Documentary That You Can Be a Part of
If there's one thing I've learned in my years as a recruiting blogger, it's that slipping the word "interview" into the title of your post is a surefire way to get some clicks. That sounds really cynical, but there's a good reason for this: Job interviews are weird. They seem to operate according to their own rules and protocols – rules and protocols that are totally removed from the...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Recruiters Get Creative
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the national unemployment rate decreased from 5.0 percent to 4.7 percent in May 2016. While this is great news for our economy, it presents some unique challenges for human resources professionals who need to recruit and retain top talent. It's time to get creative when it comes to recruiting. Relying on the "post and pray" job boards is not...
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Working in Your Pajamas Might Happen Sooner Than You Think
It seems quite possible that the era of the nine-to-five workday might be winding down. The next generation of employees wants flexibility in their schedules. A study of millennials from Deloitte shows that a good work-life balance is a top priority for what Pew Research says is now the largest generation in the workforce, and that generation wants to pick their own hours and working...
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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 Help Your Employees Innovate
Employees who value innovation tend to be highly creative. They want to do things in new and different ways – ways that may be better than the existing methods. Those who value innovation thrive in organizations where they are given the chance to apply their inventiveness and ingenuity. What does that chance look like? It looks like allowing the office manager to try out her new...
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