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Fluent in Hiring: How Language Skills Boost Talent Acquisition Success

By Andres Moreno, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Open Education In today's global market for top talent, businesses that fail to invest in attracting, retaining and developing bilingual talent are leaving money on the table. For employers, language gaps cost opportunities, erode profitability and hinder growth. It's no secret that actively recruiting bilingual candidates leads to improved...

Employee Referral Programs and the Future of Recruiting

From the way we find jobs to the way we find love, from the way we connect with our friends to the way we connect with colleagues and customers, technology has fundamentally altered the very foundations of how we work, how we live and how we experience the world around us - for better or for worse. Except, of course, for when it comes to talent sourcing or recruiting, where the legacy of...

Back to the Future: A 2024 HR Technology Conference Preview Post

The 2024 HR Technology Conference is coming to Las Vegas, and like every year, pretty much every one of the myriad vendors, consultants, pundits and practitioners in the industry descend upon the desert, bringing with them an arsenal of booth accouterments, branded swag, buzzword-dense marketing collateral and, as always, a litany of overinflated promises and underwhelming products. This is...

Uneven Bars: Diversity, Inclusion and Age Discrimination

When we think about the issues associated with "ageism" in today's job market, we largely tend to first think of older, more experienced workers who live their lives - and livelihoods - in a somewhat precarious position, plagued by the widespread misperception that they are somehow past their professional prime. Older workers should be valued for their extensive experience and proven...

Are Job Boards Dead? A Look Into The Future of Recruitment Advertising

Last week marked the end of an era, as Monster and CareerBuilder announced they were entering a marriage of equals, more or less undermining most of their sales messaging over the last two decades of this once powerful duopoly. Not so very long ago, of course, such a move would have been unthinkable. When I first started out in this industry, Monster was an SP 500 index stock (NYSE: MWW)...

Score Points With Young Talent by Developing an Effective University Marketing Strategy

They're motivated, they're eager to make a difference, and they bring a breath of fresh air to every team. I'm talking, of course, about college students and recent graduates. Young talent is a real asset for a company, which is why competition for these candidates is so high. To attract qualified young professionals, you need a solid university marketing plan. Understanding University...

Escape Rooms and Recruiting Have a Lot More in Common Than You Think

Remember the '90s horror hit, The Blair Witch Project, which shocked audiences with its groundbreaking found-footage style? More than 20 years after its release, audiences are going to be able to step inside the house where it all took place — except it will be happening just steps off the Las Vegas Strip. Immersive experiences are a hit in the entertainment world, whether it be the...

Don't Hire Based on Job Title — Hire Based on Business Strategy

In today's business environment, where millions of open positions remain unfilled and labor shortages abound, hiring right is more critical than ever. Yet, many organizations are woefully shortsighted in their hiring decisions, ignoring the very business strategies that differentiate their companies in a competitive market. Hiring is so much more than just filling empty seats, and hiring...

Onboarding Remote Employees: Best Practices and Tips

Key takeaways As the remote work landscape has become increasingly popular, businesses have had to adapt to virtual onboarding and training methods to offer a positive onboarding experience Communicating business expectations and job requirements and sharing vital information is key to integrating a new hire Other best practices, such as fostering a positive company culture and...

Why Our CEO Personally Conducts Every First-Round Interview

Most companies today have something to say about their company culture and how it makes them unique with regard to what they do and how they treat their employees. And that's a good thing: Today's employees are not motivated solely by money, and behaving as if they are will rarely lead to good long-term recruiting results. When candidates are considering prospective employers, they have a...

Your Terrible Application Process is Costing You Big Time

Job seekers hate the application process. I can make that claim without citing a source, and no one will contest it. We just accept it as fact at this point. The folks at Jibe, an HR software company that provides a set of cloud services for recruiting and managing talent, recently conducted a survey to find out just how much job seekers actually hate filling out applications. According to the...

5 Reasons Why Your Recruitment Strategy Is Failing

You've invested time, effort, and money into designing your recruitment strategy — but you're still not getting the results you'd hoped for. What's going wrong with your recruiting strategy? Why isn't it attracting the top talent your business needs? To help you troubleshoot, here are a few of the most common reasons why recruitment strategies fail — and how to fix the problem: 1....

How A "Work in Any Way" Approach To Recruitment Drives Global Company Success

The recent global shift to remote and hybrid work models allowed many employees and companies to reevaluate how and where they work, fueling fundamental shifts in the workplace. In addition, many employees realized that "work-from-home" could expand to "work-from-anywhere," permanently changing the traditional dynamic around where work happens and opening up new possibilities for employers...

Why Should Talent Acquisition Managers Hire Sourcers and Recruiters?

The process through which corporations seek, track, and interview job candidates and train new employees is called talent acquisition. A talent source looks for and finds suitable candidates. They do this by employing a variety of proactive recruiting tactics. Sources seek applicants who are both active and passive. The human resources (HR) department is normally in charge of this. What Is...

4 Ways to Advance in Your Industry Without an Internship

Working an internship is good for more than just earning college credit — it's also an opportunity to make valuable connections in your preferred professional field and gain real-life work experience. However, many college students have a tough choice to make this season: accept an unpaid internship to get a foot in the door of their target career, or find a summer job to help pay for...

Simple Yet Effective Ways to Build a Robust Candidate Pool and Mitigate Time-to-Hire

One of the most critical performance factors for hiring teams is time to hire. Only 30% of organizations can fill a position within 30 days. The remaining candidates take anything from one to four months to get hired. Why should you try to shorten the hiring process? Taking too long to fill a position increases the risk of losing fast-moving (high-quality) prospects. It's not easy to...

Keeping Employees Connected and Projects on Track in a Remote Work Environment

Before the pandemic, 17 percent of US employees worked remotely full-time. Now, it's closer to 44 percent. More businesses than ever before are operating without physical headquarters or offices, giving their employees lots of flexibility around their work schedules and workplaces. And it is safe to say that these remote work policies are here to stay, with 73 percent of workers saying...

How — and Why — to Track Your Employee Training Program

Training is a vital part of any business's long-term growth plan. In fact, a study from the American Society for Training and Development found that organizations that invest the most in employee training have 218 percent higher income per employee. And to make matters even better, employees actually want to be trained. In a 2017 Randstad US survey, 82 percent of employees said lifelong...

How to Build Positive Working Relationships with Remote New Hires

Building positive working relationships with your employees is critical for enhancing engagement and productivity. As a company, we have realized that fostering these relationships from when the employees join the organization yields tremendous results. However, it is not as easy as it sounds. Forming these bonds takes time, dedication, and a lot of work. Moreover, when employees are...

How Recruitment as a Service Turbocharges Your Talent Acquisition Efforts

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, companies require top talent to keep up with the competition, innovate, and, ultimately, succeed. At the heart of every successful company lies an efficient and effective hiring process. With the recruitment industry becoming increasingly specialized and advanced, many companies are turning to Recruitment as a Service (RaaS) to...

Mastering Candidate Sourcing: Unlocking the Full Potential of Talent Acquisition with Recruiter.com

In today's highly competitive business environment, finding the right talent is more critical than ever. Candidate sourcing, a key component of the recruitment process, is pivotal in identifying and attracting top-tier candidates to an organization. This guide delves into the concept of candidate sourcing and how Recruiter.com's on-demand recruiting solutions can revolutionize your talent...

Unleashing the Power of Contract Recruiting with Recruiter.com's OnDemand Platform

In today's dynamic world, hiring is an activity that happens around the clock. It requires flexibility, skill, and the right resources. Recruiter.com Group, Inc. has delivered a powerful solution to these challenges with its OnDemand Recruiting platform. This marketplace stands as a revolutionary tool that connects employers directly with a pool of skilled contract recruiters, empowering...

Global Expansion Simplified: 5 Key Benefits of Onboarding Via an EoR for Startups

Many startups desire to expand overseas. While this is certainly a lofty goal, it is often easier said than done — especially when onboarding remote employees from outside your home country. Fortunately, there's a key solution that can simplify global expansion for startups: an employer of record (EoR). An EoR is an in-country partner who hires employees on behalf of a startup, so the...

How to Make Your Job Search More Productive

We live in an age where the volume of requests for our time far exceeds our ability to handle them all. Emails, text message, phone calls, and social media notifications interrupt us all day long if we let them. How can we stay focused on something as important as a search in the job market? We must acknowledge the gap in our time management systems. Most systems tell us how to organize and...

Unveiling the Power of Contract Recruiting

In the highly competitive talent acquisition landscape, how your company approaches recruiting can be a make-or-break factor in your overall business success. In a constantly changing world, your ability to scale your talent acquisition efforts up or down quickly and efficiently is not just a luxury; it's a necessity. This is where Recruiter.com's specialized contract recruiting services shine,...

How Outdoor Work Can Benefit the Lives of Your Employees

If your business is like most, your employees likely spend a lot of time indoors. The average American worker spends 90% of their time inside. During this time spent indoors, 86% of American workers sit all day long. Spending an extended amount of time indoors can cause adverse health effects, including a higher risk of diseases including colon, endometrial, and lung cancer. To combat...

Many Happy Returns: How Employers Can Use Returnships to Bring Displaced Workers Back to the Labor Force

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic loosens its grip on the US employment market, millions of people who lost their job or otherwise left the workforce during the health crisis are struggling to find pathways back to work. Women and older workers were among the groups hit inordinately hard by job loss during the crisis. Despite recent gains, women still lost 4.2 million net jobs between February...

Make a Great First Impression on Remote Talent: 4 Things Your Virtual Hiring Experience Needs

Sourcing, interviewing, and hiring top-notch candidates always come with challenges. Then COVID-19 happened, and classic recruiting methods like in-person interviews became impossible, even as plenty of jobs needed filling. To adjust to the market and current safety restrictions, organizations have made a seismic shift and embraced virtual hiring experiences. In the process, they've...

5 Ways RPO Helps Support Your In-House Recruiters

In today's competitive market, attracting and retaining top talent is more critical than ever for businesses looking to stay ahead of the curve. While an in-house recruiter can offer a high level of continuity and depth of understanding of your business, partnering with an agency, such as Recruiter.com, can provide invaluable expertise and access to a network of highly skilled recruiters for your...

AI Hiring Regulations Unraveled: NYC 144, AEDTs, and Bias Audits

The recent enactment of New York City's Local Law 144, a pioneering regulation revolving around the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in hiring practices, has ushered in a wave of complexities and opportunities for businesses, not just in the Big Apple, but potentially across the globe. To unravel this intricate web, we recently conducted an insightful webinar titled "AI Hiring Regulations...

The Best Guide to Recruiting Outbound Messaging for Startups

We've talked about job postings and sourcing candidates, but you also need to know how to do outbound recruiting effectively. Posting a job where active candidates are searching for a position, or leveraging social media or referrals for sourcing, will, in essence, take care of itself. However, you have also sourced a list of potential passive talent, so you need to start "marketing" the...

How Recruiters — and Job Seekers — Can Improve the Recruiting Process

I want to share a recent incident our CEO, Amit Mishra, experienced while interviewing a candidate for the role of business development executive. Let's call the job seeker "Mr. X." Just before the interview session, our company arranged coffee for Mr. X. After finishing the coffee, Mr. X stepped in Amit's office and greeted him. Then, the interview began. Amit: So, what have you...

Where to Find the Best Talent: 5 Tips for Recruiting Globally

The United States labor market is in a state of unprecedented disruption. In November 2021 alone, a staggering 4.5 million professionals resigned. Many left to start companies of their own. Others snagged more lucrative positions. The unemployment rate crept down to below the four percent mark, reaching 3.6% by March 2022. If you're a recruiter or hiring manager, you may have given up...

12 Characteristics All Top Recruiters Share (and Why They Get Results)

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: The best recruiters all have certain characteristics in common. In your opinion, what's one of those traits, and why? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful young...

11 Tips to Attract Gen Z Professionals to Your Company

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What advice would you give to companies trying to attract more Gen Z professionals to their team, and why? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful young...

Fostering a Thriving Talent Acquisition Environment: A Maslowian Approach

In the dynamic business landscape, attracting and retaining top talent is a critical differentiator. The talent acquisition team is at the heart of this process, whose role has become increasingly complex and multifaceted. To create an environment that promotes their productivity and well-being, one can turn to the psychological framework of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Though originally...

How to Celebrate and Recognize Juneteenth in the Workplace

In 2016, about 1 in 8 people in the labor force were black/African American employees. While the number has been growing throughout the years, there is a good chance that some of them work at your company. If they do, it's even more critical that you recognize and honor Juneteenth at your company. But what should you do for this holiday? If you aren't sure what the holiday...

Is a Four-Day Work Week Right For Your Business?

According to some surveys, 92% of employees would support having a four-day workweek. They say it would improve productivity, mental health, and work-life balance, but many companies are still hesitant to implement a four-day workweek. With many companies struggling to find a way to attract talent without offering more compensation, a four-day work week could be the key to your employer...

Talent Acquisition Services: An In-Depth Look at Recruiter.com's On-Demand Talent Solutions

Learn how a forward-thinking talent acquisition approach can boost your recruitment results and elevate your organization. Explore how effective talent acquisition services can reshape your organization's recruitment strategy, driving conversions and fueling growth. Organizations must be nimble and adaptive in today's rapidly evolving business landscape to secure the most skilled and dedicated...

Father's Day: Top 10 Ways to Celebrate Dads in The Workplace

Happy Father's Day from Recruiter.com! According to some research, 81.7% of fathers were also working. You likely have some fathers at your company who will celebrate Father's Day soon. It can boost your employee brand, culture, and retention when you show appreciation to these fathers on this special day. But what can you do to show that you care about your employees? Keep reading for...

Ultimate Guide of AI Recruiting Terms and Why You Need to Know Them

According to the latest research, 24% of businesses use artificial intelligence (AI) in their hiring process. However, it's becoming more common as companies try to find better hiring methods. But even though it's becoming more common in the employment market, recruiters and hiring managers are still confused about what AI is and how it's used in recruiting. Keep reading, and we'll break...

Most Leaders Lack Visibility Into Their External Workforces. Here's How to Get It.

While businesses have long acknowledged the importance of the external workforce, COVID-19 shone a spotlight on that workforce's remarkable capacity to lend businesses flexibility in times of profound disruption. External workers — often referred to as "contingent workers," "gig workers," "freelancers," "contractors," and "temporary staff" — constitute a growing portion of the overall...

4 Tips to Turn Your Company Careers Page Into a Powerful Recruiting Tool

In my experience, many companies treat their careers page as an afterthought, something they just put together because others were doing it or they thought it would make them look good. However, such an attitude defeats the purpose of building a careers page in the first place. Apart from showing job seekers the current vacancies in your organization, your careers page should compel...

Learn Tech Recruiting with TechMap

Are you in the world of tech recruiting, trying to bridge the gap between your knowledge and the tech world? Feeling like you're on the back foot while dealing with technical hiring managers and candidates? You're not alone! Thankfully, there's a solution tailored just to help you learn tech recruiting: TechMap. We're going to dive into what this platform is all about and how it can be the...

Empowering Organizational Growth: The Power of Innovative Staffing Solutions

In the contemporary business landscape, recruiting is the driving force behind an organization's growth and development. Assembling the perfect team is often one of the most formidable challenges businesses face, necessitating a strategic approach to talent acquisition. Implementing innovative staffing solutions is crucial for any company's success, enabling them to...

The MBTI® Has Many Uses... Hiring is Not One of Them

I've written quite a bit about the incredible value of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment for team building, leadership development, lifelong development and how to honor your MBTI® preferences when interviewing for a job. Hopefully, you have noticed that I have never written or spoken, for that matter, about using the MBTI® assessment as part of the selection process. So,...

Learning to Trust Your Remote Employees: 7 Routines That Help

Let's face it: COVID-19 has changed the relationship between offices and knowledge workers forever. Companies that think they're going to force employees to revert to pre-pandemic work arrangements really need to think again. Of course, an employer can choose to be heavy-handed and reinstate mandatory office attendance — but those that do will experience a lot more turnover. And if your...

9 Qualities to Look for When Making the Right C-Suite Hire for Your Business

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: When hiring for a C-suite position, what's one quality you'll want to look for in your candidates that might differ from other positions? Why? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the...