Employers and the Class of 2016 Don't Totally Understand Each Other
There have been so many millennial recruiting studies and think pieces that, at this point, we all know what millennials want from their jobs. They want to make a difference. They want to make an impact. They care about organizational values and missions. Craft a strong employer brand and show off you commitment to making the world a better place, and you'll have millennials knocking down...
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Recruiting the Best Talent from the Next Generation
More members of Generation Z and the millennial generation are living at home with their parents than ever before. In 2015, the number of 18-to-34-year-olds living at home was 31.5 percent, according to a report from the Commerce Department. The same age group is actually more likely these days to live at home than to live with a spouse or partner, says a study by Pew Research. This means...
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Don't Be Afraid to Say "No"
For many professionals, saying "No" at work can be quite difficult. Whether your employer is asking you to stay late, come in early, take on a new project, or help another employee with their own workload, sometimes you feel it's impossible to decline – even if you really should. Oftentimes, it is just easier to say "Yes!" and hammer out the details later on – or stress out...
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College Grads: Is an Unpaid Internship the Right Call?
You put in four (or more) hard years. You studied, networked, and had some fun along the way, and now you've finally done it: You've graduated. It's time to go out into the world and start that great job you envisioned in the industry of your choice. Right? We all know it rarely goes that smoothly. Many graduates find that the job they want at the pay they want just isn't available right...
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Need a New Challenge? Consider Becoming an 'Expat-preneur" [Infographic]
You're bored at work. You're unfulfilled in life. You need something more – a bigger risk with a bigger payoff, a more invigorating challenge. If that sounds like you, you may want to consider going the way of the "expat-preneur." An expat-preneuer is a person who decides to move abroad in order to find their next opportunity in life. Sure, it may seem like an unnecessarily huge step...
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3 Easy Ways to Be a Better Leader
"Sometimes, you have to take a break from being the kind of boss that's always trying to teach people things. Sometimes, you just have to be the boss of dancing." - Michael Scott, The Office As clueless and annoying as Michael Scott could be, he did grow on the people he managed – and on all of us, too. When it comes down to it, he had one part of the whole package that makes a great...
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Don't Have a Great Network? How to Use LinkedIn to Jump-Start Your Job Search:
One of the best places to start your job search is your own network. Friends, colleagues, and former bosses can all give you immediate access to some great job opportunities. But what if you don't have a very large network? Or what if you're changing careers and the people you currently know can't help you much? Thanks to LinkedIn, you can get immediate traction in your job hunt no...
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Partner With the Marketing Department to Bring Your Employer Brand to Life
In a new report, ManpowerGroup Solutions puts data to a rising trend in recruitment: the increasing influence of employer branding. According to the report's jobs data, 57 percent of candidates in the U.S. believe an employer's brand is more important now than it was five years ago. Additionally, members of the "Google generation" ages 25-34 are the most brand-driven candidates. In the...
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How to Get That Pile of Applications Off Your Desk
It's summertime again. For many, that means weekends at the beach or a drive to the cabin, or maybe a trip to Disney. For corporate recruiters and human resource departments, it means getting flooded with applications from new college graduates looking to get their feet wet and gain career experience. With so many cover letters and resumes to review and consider (many of which will turn out...
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When the Cutting Edge Draws Blood: the Dangers of Adopting Too Rapidly
Across industries, there's a belief that almost everyone from executive leadership teams on down to entry-level employees holds true: It's better to adopt new technologies faster than your competition. If you have the latest tech before anyone else does, the thinking goes, you have yourself an advantage in the marketplace. Rajeev Behera, CEO of Reflektive, would like to challenge that...
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10 Recruiting Apps You Should Download (If You Haven't Already)
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 Apps for Recruiters What are apps for...
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How to Be a Great — Not Just Good — Salesperson
A good salesperson must be confident, good at listening, and relentless – even when things are not easy. But the cream of the crop usually possess a unique ability to simplify business and communication. Those looking to classify themselves as great, rather than good, salespeople must be prepared to simplify customer interactions — and simplification can be tough. Avoid the 'Learn by...
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Getting Smart With Advanced Recruit Analytics
Many modern-day recruiters are responsible for more than just hiring. It isn't enough to simply fill as many job openings as possible with the most talented candidates. Recruiters now have to simultaneously think like recruiters, marketers, and salespeople if they want to be – and stay – competitive. From maintaining a social media presence to utilizing an ATS and working remotely on...
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Hiring on a Budget: 10 Tips for Cash-Strapped Startups
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: Hiring can be expensive – but few entrepreneurs have the money to spare, especially in the early stages of their business....
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LinkedIn Isn't Facebook: 6 Tips to Help You Grow Your Network and Your Career
Social media has taken over our lives. A good chunk of our communication occurs through these channels. Relationships and friendships are built and destroyed on social media. And that leads me to my point. There is one social platform that is dramatically different from the rest: LinkedIn. I see plenty of people posting on LinkedIn about their political views or what they ate for...
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Hiring a New Grad? Top 5 Tips to Find Diamonds in the Rough:
The current crop of graduates may be entering the best job market in 10 years, according to a recent SHRM article. Two out of three employers plan on hiring new college graduates, which is great news for the economy and job seekers alike. But for the folks doing the hiring, evaluating candidates who are fresh out of school can be a challenge. Most of these candidates won't have long lists...
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Informational Interviews: Your Job Search Secret Weapons
When looking for a new job, most of us spend all our time perfecting our resumes and applying online to random openings. These tactics can sometimes work, but not always. Isn't there a better way? There has to be – especially for those times when you're ready for a career change, but aren't quite sure where to look. In fact, there is a great way to boost your job search strategy....
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5 Tips for Smarter Hiring
There is a definite art to finding the right person for your open job. When a person walks into your office for an interview, you're talking to someone who may be your colleague for years to come, someone who could one day play an integral role in your business. When hiring, you need to pay careful attention to every potential employee who crosses your path. Here are some tips to help you...
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10 Things You Should Know Before You Go Freelance
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: More and more people are becoming freelancers these days. What are some not so commonly known things about the freelance...
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Avoiding Disruption: What Do You Know for Sure That Just Ain't So?
Mark Twain wrote, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." This witty quote can serve as an excellent reminder for your executive leadership team when building or refining your organization's strategy. They're the ones who are charged with the direction of your company, and if they don't know what they're doing, you risk the...
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What's Your Return on Employee (ROE)?
Talent. Employers can't survive without it. Yet, as if the war for top talent weren't bad enough on its own, many sectors and cities are now struggling with rock-bottom retention rates as well. Lifetime employment has gone the way of the fax machine: Fewer than five years at a job is the new normal overall, with millennials lasting just under three years. "With attractive and flexible...
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Why Women Are Naturally Effective Leaders
In the wake of Hillary Clinton securing the Democratic nomination for president, some observers have decided rekindled the debate over whether a woman president will be an effective leader for the country, and by extension, whether women make for good leaders in general. Of course, bunching half of the population into a single category raises inevitable stereotypes that don't apply to all...
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Employee Referrals: 6 Ways to Build a Program That Works
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: The best hires tend to come through referrals, but not every organization has a solid employee referral program (ERP) in...
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Never Fight Complexity With Complexity: Tim Sanders on the New Way to Succeed in Sales
Tim Sanders, author of Love Is the Killer App, former chief solutions officer at Yahoo!, and cofounder of Deeper Media, Inc., is the kind of person you should know about if you don't already. This past February, Sanders introduced us all to "dealstorming," a new sales strategy with a 70 percent average closing ratio. If you weren't interested in Sanders before, you definitely should be...
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3 Times a Payroll Loan Might Be Right for Your Business
Employee compensation and benefits make up a major portion of the budget for most businesses. In the service industry, payroll may even make up the majority of an organization's expenses. If an employer cannot fund a given payroll cycle, that could lead to deteriorating relationships, low morale, and employee defection. A cash flow challenge might cause you to consider a payroll loan,...
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For a Talent Acquisition Strategy That Delivers on Hard-to-Fill Roles, Think Globally
It's no secret that today's HR leaders face unprecedented recruiting challenges. The skills gap is starting to seem more like a canyon. More and more organizations are watching their jobs go unfilled, which means they're losing tens of thousands of dollars a year per open position. Productivity is stretched thin in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. HR pros and...
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Clean Up Your Career, Part 4: Your Job Search
Your job search can go from hopeful to helpless about as quickly as Tesla can go from 0-70. In an instant, your excitement about the possibilities can turn into insecurity and angst. The truth is that you can't expect your job search to leave you feeling secure if you're letting forces beyond your control manage the process. Attribution theory is alive and well when it comes to job...
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TAtech Tip: Using Video Job Postings
A picture shouldn't be worth a thousand words– at least not if you're using "moving pictures" to advertise an open job. Video job postings are a powerful medium for connecting with top talent, but only if they're crafted as trailers rather than full-length feature presentations. There are two important reasons for adopting video job postings. First, the medium itself is compelling....
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How to Manage Employees Who Value Stability
Employees who value stability desire to be part of a well-respected organization. They do their best work when their employers have established histories and great reputations. How to Identify Employees Who Value Stability: These individuals will work to gain the organization recognition from their peers and colleagues by providing clear examples of the quality of the product or...
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Should You Tell Your Manager You're Looking for a New Job?
You've updated your resume. You had that new suit tailored. You've even been in touch with some contacts. You're ready to start interviewing for a new job. There's only one problem: You haven't told anyone at your current job. Should you? It's a difficult decision, one that can have a major impact on your career, and there are arguments to be made on both sides. Here are four questions...
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Job Posts That Work: 10 Great Software Solutions for Advertising Your Jobs
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 Job-Posting Software Solutions So,...
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Calling It Quits? Do It the Right Way!
You've been unhappy for some time in your present position. It could be due to conflicts with your manager or coworkers, to lack of advancement opportunities, to salary concerns, or to any number of other issues. You've considered all of your options, have weighed the pros and cons involved with each, and have even considered the impact on your personal and family lives. You have finally...
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How to Conquer Misconceptions and Learn to Trust New Hires
Hiring a new employee can be exhausting. Paperwork, training, and onboarding responsibilities overwhelm many employers. But that's no excuse for not taking the time to build a solid foundation of trust with your new hires. Trust plays a major role in setting the tone for your employee/employer relationship, and it's critical to setting new employees up for success. Here are five reason...
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Clean Up Your Career, Pt. 3: Your Morning Ritual
We're all looking for ways to be more productive in our lives and careers. But before redesigning your workflows and task lists, it's a good idea to start at the very beginning: your morning. Your morning sets the tone for the rest of the day and can have a big impact on your mood, effectiveness, and productivity. Us the three Rs to identify what's working for you and to help you make...
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What to Expect From Your Video Interviewing Partner
If you've never been through a cloud technology implementation before, you're in for a pleasant surprise with your new video interviewing solution. Most purpose-built video interviewing platforms these days are software as a service (SaaS), meaning they're deployed via the Internet with speed and simplicity. What an improvement over old HCM legacy systems or off-the-shelf software! And,...
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A Look Into the Future: Virtual Reality Interviewing
Companies are constantly looking to reduce costs and integrate new technologies into their operations. For example, a lot of companies have stopped conducting face-to-face interviews with candidates who are not local. Instead, they've switched over to video interviews, which can save them thousands of dollars in travel expenses and working time. However, new technologies can have their...
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Four Ways to Kill Your Job Search
I talk with my workshop attendees about a variable in the job search that is very important to their success. This variable is not their resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, or interview technique. It's their attitude. I've written about the importance of demonstrating a positive attitude, but this concept is hard for some to embrace. Let me be clear that I'm not implying that people in...
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Nice Guys Finish First: Dave Kerpen on the Power of People Skills
Conjure in your mind the image of an archetypal businessperson. They're probably kind of a jerk, right? The kind of person who would do anything – and stab anyone in the back – to get ahead? Contrary to our received wisdom, being a heartless sleazebag isn't going to get you very far in life. That's according to Dave Kerpen, the CEO of Likeable Local and the author of The Art of...
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How to Start Your New Job Off on the Right Foot
In the most difficult of cases, a job search can take a year or more. The process is grueling and emotionally exhausting. You spend many days and lots of money perfecting your look, networking with new people, and trying to find the perfect fit. Once you finally find that perfect, it's easy to think that things will be smooth sailing from now on. Your went through the difficult part...
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Scared to Give Your Candidate Feedback? That Hurts Your Recruiting Efforts
Most recruiters are used to speaking to tons of people with diverse backgrounds and personalities and a daily basis. They love to tell candidates how amazing their experiences and skill sets are, how awesome their resumes reads, and that they killed it in their face-to-face interviews. If it's positive feedback that recruiters have to share with candidates, they are all over it. So why...
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9 Networking No-Nos You Should Absolutely Avoid
If you want to go places in the world, networking is a skill you need to learn. Take it from me: My career was relatively ho-hum until I began attending conferences regularly. WhileI traversed countless expo halls in heels and made small talk over spaghetti squash in banquet halls, my networking skills helped my career skyrocket. When I started Red Branch Media, I didn't have very...
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Clean Up Your Career, Pt. 2: Your Professional Network
You know that networking is critical in the professional arena – but did you know that 80 percent of all jobs are obtained through networking? Yes, the word "networking" does have a tendency to raise anxiety levels, but let's put it in perspective. Networking is something you can control. Networking is something you can do anywhere, with anyone. Networking is like a muscle: The more you...
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What Type of Office Does Your Business Need? Check Out This Flowchart:
As an entrepreneur, you have a choice to make about your fledgling business: Are you going to house your operations in a physical office, or are you going to go entirely remote? It's not an easy decision. Each option has its benefits and drawbacks. Traditional offices are great for collaboration and keeping tabs on your workers, but they also cost quite a bit of money and can limit your...
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5 Little Things That Will Cost You Your Trustworthiness
The real work of recruiting is building trust. You can't know what people need and want unless they trust you enough to open up to you – not just as professionals, but as people. As a recruiter, your trustworthiness is an asset you cannot be effective without. But trust is fragile. It's complex. It can take a long time to build, and it can be broken in an instant. Here, I can help...
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The Best Way to Lighten HR's Hiring Burden
Every business owner knows the importance of having the right people on staff. There's a reason why so much time, effort, and money go into the hiring process. But sometimes, human resources departments get so focused on scouting out new talent that they neglect another critical component of company success: employee retention. One of the easiest ways to reduce your company's hiring...
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Why You Should Be Cultivating Your Internal Talent
Happy employees are much more productive than their unhappy counterparts. And what's one thing that makes employees happy? Advancement opportunities at work. According to a new infographic from social recruiting suite RolePoint, 44 percent of employees say career advancement opportunities are very important – but 45 percent of employees are unhappy with the advancement opportunities...
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Check Out These Great New Ideas for Employee Benefits
While every employee is different, they all have one thing in common: They want great benefits. Ultimately, employees want to feel valued. When they do, they're happy. When they're happy, your business benefits. According to SHRM's 2015 Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report, 63 percent of U.S. employees say benefits are very important to them. If a great benefits package helps...
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Do These 30 Things If You Want to Be Unstoppable
Article by Benjamin P. Hardy A lot of people are good at what they do. Some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable. Those who are unstoppable are in their own world. They don't compete with anyone but themselves. You never know what they will do – only that you will be forced to respond. Even though they don't compete with you, they make you compete with them. Are...
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