Managing Employees Who Value Quality
Those who value quality have an eye for craftsmanship. They appreciate expertise. These individuals believe attention to detail matters, and they are bothered when details go underappreciated or ignored. They expect their employers to set high standards, and they thrive in such environments. How to Spot a Quality-Oriented Employee Those who value quality will focus on the smallest...
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The Biggest Mistakes Candidates Make in Cover Letters
When it comes time to write an introductory cover letter, job seekers often find themselves staring woefully at blank computer screens and wondering how to boil down all their career experiences into a few meaningful sentences. Countless books and articles have been written on the subject of effective cover letters, but one way I have found to take the sting out of this important part of...
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4 Secrets to Creating a Great Candidate Experience
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: As a recruiter, how do you give your candidates great experiences? What is your trick, tip, or secret that produces the best...
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10 Company Culture Experts You Should Pay Attention To
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 Company Culture Experts Company...
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The 3 Best Ways to Retain Job Hoppers
Generally speaking, a healthy economy is a good thing. That being said, it does bring a new challenge for employers: When the job market is strong, workers have more opportunities to choose from. This promotes job hopping and makes it harder for employers to retain their employees in the long run. It costs an average of $4,000 – not including salary and wages – to hire a new employee,...
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Cloud Computing: What Startups Should Know
Cloud computing offers small businesses and entrepreneurs a wide range of benefits. A recent study found that approximately 40 percent of today's small businesses use the cloud for all or most of their information technology (IT) needs, and this number is expected to grow to 80 percent by the year 2020. There are several reasons why so many businesses have transitioned to the cloud. The most...
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How to Get Promoted Quickly – Without Destroying Your Work-life Balance
Millennials tend to care more about work-life balance than Generation X does, but it's not because millennials are short on ambition; they just have a different kind of ambition. Resarch from Bentley University tells us that millennials actually want successful, high-paying careers. In fact, three-quarters of them want to strut their stuff in major corporations at some point. However,...
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It's Time to Tell Truth About Social Media as a Sourcing Tool
I remember, about four years back, when certain individuals – normally ones who worked for social media consultancies – were trumpeting social media as the next big thing in recruiting. In fact, it had gotten to the point where it wasn't even called "social media" anymore. It was just "social." Job boards were going to die because everyone would start sourcing through social. Well,...
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Dear Job Seeker: Be Very, Very Wary of One-Click Applications
As CEO and cofounder of ZipRecruiter, Ian Siegel has watched more than 25 million job seekers and tens of thousands of employers go through the recruiting process. As a result, he's seen plenty of perfect matches – and also a hell of a lot of mistakes. But of all the job seeker mistakes Siegel has witnessed in his time, the one that he finds most problematic – and it's a pretty...
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The Art of the Resume
Job seekers tend to spend quite a lot of time perfecting their resumes. From the tiny details like fonts and margins to the major components like experience and education, everything on a resume can be mulled over for days – if not weeks or months. Unfortunately, this means that resumes can become paralyzing presences that actually hinder your job search, rather than help. It makes...
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4 More Ways to Reduce Work Overload
Yesterday, I talked about the unfortunate state of professional life for many workers today. The majority of Americans are putting in 47 hours a week or more, which has led to poor work-life balance and increasing levels of burnout for many. To help workers combat this state of affairs, I offered four tips that can go a long way in helping you lighten your workload. In case those tips...
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Your Side Hustle May Help You Land Your Dream Job
When I say "side hustle," I'm not only talking about a side business. I'm also talking about all of the little things you do aside from your day job or career. This includes volunteer work, freelance work, hobbies, and even part-time work. I spoke with two separate clients last week who didn't mention the extra work they'd been doing because they didn't think it would benefit their...
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8 Entrepreneurs Talk About the Biggest Challenges They Faced in Getting Their Startups Off the Ground
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 entrepreneur's life is not an easy one. It's difficult – if not downright impossible – to find a single entrepreneur...
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4 Ways to Deal With Work Overload
At a time when work-life balance is all the rage, many unfortunate workers are still locked in depressing, overburdened grinds. The average work week today is 47 hours, and 21 percent of Americans work between 50 and 59 hours a week. A further 18 percent of Americans work 60+ hours a week. As if that weren't bad enough, increasing numbers of workers are not taking their paid time...
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Unproductive Meetings Got You Down? Technology Can Help
We've all sat through at least one meeting that left us thinking, "Well that was a waste of time." It happens to the best of us: One thing leads to another, and then another, and eventually, someone's unrelated tangent goes on for the whole hour. Unfortunately, this isn't only a common problem – it's also a serious one. Unproductive meetings don't just waste your and your...
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6 Resume Tips You Haven't Heard Yet
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 about the employment market? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: You've heard all the generic resume advice a million times: Tailor your resume, keep it to a page,...
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Should You Automate Your Performance Appraisal Process
Thanks to advances in technology, we've been able to expedite many HR processes. These tools give us the power to facilitate, ameliorate, and automate a number of critical HR functions. But how do you automate those functions that depend on human interactions – functions like performance appraisals? For as long as there have been performance appraisals, the process has relied on...
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The Mindset of the Modern Recruiter: Creating a Positive Candidate Experience
When a person loves what they do, they are naturally better at doing it. Recruiting is a job that requires passion, good communication skills, and the ability to handle rejection. Recruiters don't always have the best reputation, and only we can change that. Our goal should be to minimize rejection, and creating a positive candidate experience can definitely help with that. Candidates...
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4 Ways to Get Back Into the Workforce After You've Been Fired
Getting fired can be one of the best things to ever happen to you. Sure, it rarely feels good at the time, but in many cases, being fired can be the kick in the pants that you need. Think about it. Were you disengaged, bored, and/or frustrated prior to being fired? If this was the case – and it's likely that it was – being fired is a chance to drag yourself out of a career hole you...
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'If You Create a Great Place to Work, Great Work Takes Place': BambooHR's Rusty Lindquist on Rewards and Recognition
As the old saying goes, "Money isn't everything." Sure, it pays the bills and gets you Hamilton tickets (if you're lucky), but when it comes to happiness in the workplace, salary isn't the only factor. In an effort to shed some light on what really drives employee satisfaction, BambooHR recently conducted a survey of more than 1,000 U.S.-based employees. To learn more about the survey and...
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7 People Every Entrepreneur Dreams of Hiring
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 about the employment market? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: Let's say you can hire anyone you want, for free. Who do you hire, and why? The answers below...
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How to Successfully Implement a Remote Work Program
When it comes to flexible work programs, company policies can run the gamut. There are organizations that recognize the tremendous benefits of remote work and advertise their flex policies in their job descriptions and on their company pages. Then, there are other organizations that take the loosey-goosey approach to flex work. These companies have policies, but only some people are...
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7 Ways to Find the Best Talent for Your Company
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What are your favorite tools and resources for recruiting? Why do you use these resource? The answers below are provided...
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If You Want Your Company to Thrive, Treat Your Employees Like Customers
Excellent customer service is a primary factor behind the success of Echo Global Logistics, a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. We're not only talking about business success – we're also talking about talent acquisition and management success. To keep up with the evolving millennial-driven workplace culture, Echo implemented some of...
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Managing Employees Who Value Commerce
"Commerce" doesn't typically come to mind when we think about the things people value at work, but for some some employees, it means everything. Employees who rank high on the commerce spectrum have a strong drive toward the bottom line and prefer to focus on growth above all else. This is because they want to see the company they're working for gain market share over time. Team members...
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5 Design Tips to Help You Invigorate Your Office Environment
If you have generous financial backers and overflowing coffers, office design is a piece of cake. Just hire some designers and consultants, and presto: a brilliant work environment. Problem is, only about 15 percent of entrepreneurs secure funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Most startups operate on shoestring budgets financed by personal savings and bank loans. That...
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Domino Effect: The Results of a Bad Onboarding Process (Infographic)
More than half of all disengaged employees say they received little or no training when they joined their companies. It should be no surprise, then, that almost a third of employees have quit jobs after less than six months: Given that so many employers put their new hires through shoddy onboarding and training processes, we only have ourselves to blame for rampant employee...
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Want to Be a Better Entrepreneur? Start Traveling (Infographic)
According to Mark Twain, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Turns out it's also fatal to bad entrepreneurs. Sort of. According to a new infographic from Expedia Canada, trekking around the world can make you a better entrepreneur. Traveling abroad can build maturity, self-confidence, and resilience in the face of uncertainty – all important...
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Congratulations, Graduate! Now Go Find a Job
Dear Seniors, This is it. You submitted your last paper, gave one final presentation, and handed in your 100th exam. Grades are in (okay, you can breathe now), Mom and Dad are on their way, and dinner reservations have been made. A celebration is in order. Congratulations! In a few days, though, when all the pomp and circumstances fade and you've stopped listening to "Good Riddance"...
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How Much Time Do Recruiters Spend Not Filling Jobs?
Despite the fact that I've run a successful recruitment agency for more than a decade, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time recruiters waste on non-essential activities (that is, things other than registering job opportunities and filling them). As recruiting becomes more competitive, keeping your consultants laser-focused on the activities that lead them to placements is the...
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Want to Be Happy at Work? Find a Job With a Great Boss
It's great that we now have powerful job search engines that allow us to look for positions that meet all our desired criteria. From titles to required skills, locations to salaries, you can punch in almost all your needs and find the job that's right for you. However, there remains one vitally important criterion that job seekers can't search for: the personality of their future...
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I'm Comin' Home: The Boomerang Employee's Manifesto
Sometimes in life we can't make up our minds. It's ok. We're human. We think the grass is always greener or the other office might have better coffee – something is pulling us in a different direction to a different job. And then we're at the new job, but it just doesn't feel right. "I want my old job back," we whisper into the superior coffee. Ever heard of the term "boomerang...
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5+ Great Conferences for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What are the best conferences, meetups, trade shows, etc., for entrepreneurs to attend? 1....
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How to Proclaim Email Debt Forgiveness (or Email Bankruptcy, If Things Have Gotten Drastic)
In today's workplace, email is a fact of life. Gone are the days of predictable phone calls and regular in-person chats to check in. The bulk of communication now happens through email. Often, one message may contain 10 more or recipients – all of whom seem to "reply all" to share the smallest of details. This can leave your inbox jam-packed with unread and unanswered...
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How to Put Your Video Interview Face On
Thirty percent of employers now use video interviews during some part of the interview process, which means modern candidates need to be ready to communicate effectively in this format. Sadly, you can't rely on your face-to face-interview skills to excel during video screening. Studies show that video interviews have a "personality-dampening" effect, so candidates need to work harder...
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3 Ways to Get Employees and Clients to Spread the Word About Your Startup
It's easy to be sucked in by the allure of cutting-edge online marketing methods, especially given the fact that 59 percent of small businesses get their clients via SEO activity and 33 percent get them through social media. However, while online marketing is an important way to market your business, it's not the only way. Actually, it's not even the best way. In fact,...
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5 Employee Development Stats That Will Scare You (in a Good Way)
Hiring new employees comes with a mix of emotions and pressures. Emotions? We're talking nerves: You finally found the perfect candidate for the job; they're talented qualified, and personable! Pressure? We're talking night sweats! You want to retain this new talent, but you aren't so sure your employee development processes are sturdy, innovative, and attractive enough for all of the...
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A Business Owner, a Dyslexic, and a Scientist Need to Hire ...
A business owner, a dyslexic, and a scientist need to hire the best talent available – that sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? To me it's no joke at all. I am dyslexic. It turns out that about 15-20 percent of the general population, 35 percent of entrepreneurs, and many scientists and engineers are dyslexic, so I'm not alone. I am currently an entrepreneur/business...
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9 Signs It's Time to Find a New Job
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: A lot of people out there are not totally happy in their jobs – but many of them hesitate to go look for new job...
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HR for Trump? How the Industry Feels About Election Season 2016:
First things first: Sorry about that clickbait. I just couldn't resist. The good news is, there's no reason to believe the HR industry is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. There is, however, reason to believe that most HR pros want to see a republican take the White House this November. (Whether that's good or bad news depends on your own personal political leanings.) This is according to a...
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Recruiting Career Advice: Agency or Corporate?
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: If you want a career in recruiting, you'll have to choose between walking the corporate path or joining a recruiting agency....
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The Recruiting Reel: Bad Recruiting Habits You Should Stop Right Now (With Elizabeth Becker)
We all have bad habits. For example, some of us chew our nails, and some of us check our phones too many times in a day. But when your hiring process suffers from counterproductive, harmful tendencies, it's time to make a change. This week, our featured expert, Elizabeth Becker, shares her insights on the topic of bad recruiting habits. Elizabeth is the client partner at PROTECH, a...
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Is Your Open Role Just Another Job? How to Make Candidates Love Your Culture
Your candidate pool loves your job posting – or else they wouldn't have applied. But what about the company itself? Are they passionate about your values? Do they think it's a great environment for them? Maybe not. In a survey of medical sales representatives conducted by MedReps, 72 percent of respondents said they were happy at work, yet 47 percent said they might leave their...
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It's Week One, and You Hate Your New Job. What Do You Do?
It sucks, doesn't it? You started your new job with off-the-chart expectations, only to find that it was one huge mistake. Maybe the work is not what you expected, or you don't get along with the boss, or you just hate the company culture. Whatever the cause of your woes may be, you have a problem. Fortunately, it's a surmountable problem – one that you may be able to solve...
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10 Tech Tools for Entrepreneurs
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: What are some of your favorite tech tools that help entrepreneurs start and run their...
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Dos and Don'ts of Employer Branding on Social Media
Editor's Note: Employer branding firm Universum recently released its Inside Social Media report, which surveys the "current state of the social media landscape for employer brands and the trends shaping how and where you engage talent today." This is the fourth and final piece in a series of articles based on the report. Read the first installment here, the second installment here,...
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5 Things You Can Do If You Are Not Getting Interviews
Talent shortages get a lot of press these days, but we should not forget that, despite all the talk about dwindling numbers of candidates, there are still plenty of job seekers out there who find it hard to get interviews. It's well documented that unemployed applicants find it much harder to get jobs than their employed counterparts do. It can also be a struggle for people returning...
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3 Places You Probably Aren't Looking for Talent (But Should Be)
Traditional channels for sourcing talent, like job boards and LinkedIn, are flooded with competition and full of dead ends. It's hard for companies to get noticed in all the noise, and many of the best candidates ignore these online hubs completely because they don't want to waste time sifting through all the junk. According to Jobvite, 94 percent of recruiters are active on LinkedIn,...
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