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10 Steps to Secure Executive Buy-In and Budget to Brave the New Workforce Frontier

Most executives understand in broad strokes that there has been a clear change in workforce expectations over the past year — and, like it or not, that employees now have the bargaining power. People are leaving their jobs in record numbers, but not for a better salary. Instead, they're seeking purpose, belonging, and balance (something I call PB2) from an employer who supports their...

Following Up After Interviews: The Art of Making a Lasting Impression

Following up after a job interview is an important step in the job search process. It shows that you are genuinely interested in the position and willing to take the extra effort to stand out from other candidates. Here are some tips to help you follow up successfully after an interview: Send a Thank-You Note: Sending a thank-you note within 24 to 48 hours after the interview is a great way to...

Find Fall Hires Fast With These 10 Tips to Streamline Your Recruiting and Hiring Efforts

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: Fall is one of the busiest times of year for hiring, so what's your top tip for how to streamline your recruiting and hiring efforts during this busy time, and why? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only...

Webinar: Overcoming Recruiting and Sourcing Challenges

With a possible recession on the horizon of the economy, many companies are pausing, leading some to dub this the "Great Hesitation." This can be the perfect opportunity for some companies to start building up their pipeline and finding and sourcing talent that can help your company weather this storm. Katie Kline, the Customer Success Associate at Recruiter.com, and Neeta Maliakal, the...

Three Antiquated Hiring Tools – and How to Uplevel Them for the Future of Recruitment

Talk to any recruiter or hiring manager today, and you'll hear the same refrain: It's harder to hire now than ever before. It may seem counterintuitive, considering the tumultuous year most employees just experienced. Still, the numbers tell all: A survey from CNBC reported that 95% of CFOs have found it harder to find and hire workers for job openings in Q3 of 2021. This figure was just...

Halloween Horrors: The Scariest Recruiting Stories

After a year with a scary tough job market for companies looking for new hires, the Great Resignation, a looming recession, and anything else that could create a horrific situation for recruiters, Halloween is finally upon us. While most people hear horror stories from job seekers, we decided to share some stories from the other side of the recruiting process. Keep reading to learn...

How to Ace Rapid Hiring Amid the Current Race for Talent

Each open position costs the average company $500 a day. Businesses are trying to quickly fill these positions to avoid losing money, but finding the right people for your company is never easy. The current race for talent in the labor market makes it even more difficult. However, rushing a hire can lead to other damaging issues such as having to settle for a bad fit – or worse,...

The Great Hesitation: What Companies Need to Know About Hiring

Many businesses have been waiting for the end of the Great Resignation, but now they find themselves amid the Great Hesitation. Many companies are closely watching the economy and the job market to determine what the next step should be for their company. Should they have a hiring freeze? Take advantage of this time to hire new talent? Or lay off some employees? If this sounds like...

The Recruiter's Guide to Different Types of Workplace Diversity

In the present times, companies across the United States have started to embrace diversity and inclusion (DI) initiatives to enhance company culture and attract job seekers. Rightly so, workplace diversity essentially plays a massive role in helping build people-centric and result-driven workplaces in the long run. As many as 80% of workers who participated in the latest...

Working Remotely: How to Navigate a Virtual Recruiting Process

According to some research, 73% of departments will have remote workers by 2028. Thanks to COVID-19, virtual recruiting has exploded as recruiters, hiring managers, and job seekers are all looking for remote positions. Virtual hiring and remote working show no signs of slowing down. Some companies are still hesitant about doing it correctly and wonder if it even offers any...

Why Multiple Companies Aren't Requiring College Degrees Anymore

According to the latest September 2022 Recruiter Index results, 22% of jobs that recruiters are working on don't require a college degree. However, 78% of jobs still need a bachelor's degree. However, this trend is shifting to large companies like Apple and Google. Nordstrom, Bank of America, and Costco are big names moving toward skills-based hiring. These companies are following...

How to Write an Effective Job Posting to Attract the Best Candidates

In the United States, there are 10 million job openings, but only 8.6 million people are unemployed. That means that there are 1 million more job openings than available people to fill them. With so many job postings out there and not enough people to fill them, employers are wondering how to attract job seekers who are starting their job search. Battling the Great Resignation and...

How to Use This Looming Recession as the Perfect Opportunity to Hire New Talent

The job market has felt like a rollercoaster over the past two years. From the start of the pandemic, riddled with layoffs and people working remotely, to the Great Resignation, where everyone was quitting and realizing new priorities. Then, we came to the Job Hopper economy, where employees decided they would only stay for a year or two, maybe even less. Companies were rapidly hiring and...

A Seat at the Table: All You Need to Know to Foster DEI in the Workplace

Companies can become more competitive and attract top talent by finding new ways to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. However, every company is different, and each needs to create its personalized plan. Andrea del Angel, Recruiter.com's marketing content manager, hosted a webinar panel with speakers from other companies on the importance of DEI and how...

Are AI Job Interviews Really Effective?

Companies are always looking for practical AI tools to make recruitment easier and more efficient. With increasing numbers of applications to screen, recruiters often struggle to streamline a growing workload, making AI recruiting tools an appealing solution. More companies are turning to automated video interview software to minimize hire time, help recruiters screen more applicants...

3 Compelling Hiring Best Practices to Scale a Small Business Quickly

Hiring is one of the essential steps in the recruitment process. To boost their performance, engagement, and retention, newcomers must successfully transition. SHRM reported that onboarding had become a big part of 72% of respondents' retention strategies in a recent survey of employers' onboarding programs. In addition, 61% of respondents have started onboarding early, focusing more on...

How to Close the Gender Promotion Gap

Women are falling behind men across nearly all industries and roles when it comes to advancing their careers. The gender pay gap is particularly prominent in the technology industry, with around five women promoted for every ten men. Even though promotions are critical for job advancement, fewer women are often at the top of the corporate ladder. But what is the issue? Is it due to a lack...

Bringing Predictive Analytics into Recruitment

It is harder to find and keep great talent. However, poor hires are easy to make and have many adverse effects on firms, including decreased productivity, harm to their brand, and high turnover rates. As a result, businesses stand to lose much more than just money. Poor employees' effects on the company frequently also give hiring managers a negative reputation. Therefore, it is imperative...

5 Incredibly Effective Strategies for Inclusive Hiring

In this revamped corporate world, new trends are thriving at a swift pace. A lot about the corporate world has changed, and it seems like the caravan of transitions will be extended. Modern organizations embrace new trends from hiring to operations and customer service. Among these significant trends, diversity and inclusion in the workplace take a substantial lead over others. In...

5 Practical Methods to Retain the Top Tech Talent at Your Company

According to LinkedIn data, employees who are new to the company are twelve times more likely to depart, or even thirty times more likely. Employee retention refers to a company's capacity to retain key personnel. Replacing a position can cost up to twice the person's annual pay, highlighting the necessity of investing in employee retention methods. According to SHRM, the number of...

3 Things Recruiters Should Do to Boost Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity has become an urgent topic of discussion over the last few years, thanks to social movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. Naturally, this is an issue that extends to the workplace. We spend so much of our lives at work — and our ability to live comfortably is tied directly to the paychecks we receive from our employers. There's an obvious need to ensure that everyone is...

Little Interest in an Open Position? 9 Tips for Increasing the Number of Applications

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: If you're facing a lack of interest in one of your open positions, what's one thing you can do to increase the number of applications coming in? Why does this work so well? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only...

10 Tried-and-Tested Tips to Elevate Your Startup Recruitment Strategy

Today, most startups have a precarious financial situation that worsens things. About 90% of startups in the country fail because of a lack of innovation, non-availability of a skilled workforce, and insufficient funding are the main reasons for the high rate of failure. This issue is considerably more remarkable in a post-pandemic environment when firms can quickly fail without the proper...

How to Support the LGBTQ+ Community Year-Round — Not Just During Pride Month

Pride Month is always full of celebrations for the LGBTQ+ community. Still, too many corporations tend to take on performative activism — in which they choose to show support only for the month. They either forget about the community once June ends or actively support organizations against equality. No business wants to fall into this category. Employers can use these techniques to...

We Don't Have a Labor Shortage. We Have a Respect Shortage.

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on businesses across the globe. As companies attempt to reopen or rebuild, many are struggling to find workers. Since March 2020, employees have dealt with shutdowns and layoffs and — for those who retained their jobs — remote work. Driven partly by the fear of being infected by vicious variants and the availability of extended unemployment benefits, job...

Compensation Communication: Managing Employee Pay Expectations Amid Rising Inflation

Over the past six months, as inflation continues to impact businesses and individuals nationwide, many employees are feeling the strain of the current economy, and their pay concerns are becoming increasingly important to address. These economic hardships also allow employers to lead conversations around the importance of pay transparency and how they provide it. Most employees...

7-Step Strategy for Building an Evergreen Talent Pool

A talent pool is a list of applicants considering working for your company. It comprises applicants who have previously applied for a position with your business, applicants you have found, and applicants others have recommended who would be a good fit for your company's competencies or mission values. Around 97% of the companies have the procedures to find next-generation leaders, but...

Find Recruiting Jobs with New Recruiter Job Platform

Recruiter Job Platform Recruiter.com today announced the launch of a new job platform for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, to support the rapid growth of the company's on-demand recruiting solutions and capitalize on the strong hiring trends for recruiters. The new platform will feature full-time and contract recruiting jobs, as well as contract recruiting...

Recruiter Job Description Template – Sample Recruiter Job Post

Are you an employer looking to fill a recruiter position or a recruiter looking for their next job? If so, this job description template is for you! It includes a sample recruiter job post that you can use as a starting point for writing your own job ad. Read on to learn more about what recruiters do and what qualities are important in a good recruiter. Plus, use this template to find the best...

4 New Trends in Effective Recruiting

The Great Resignation has created a paradigm shift in how companies recruit. Employees have captured a significant degree of momentum and have created a booming job market for themselves. Job-seekers — particularly those with a high degree of talent and experience — can have their pick of the litter when considering their next career move. This new reality means traditional...

Recruiting Jobs – Recruiter Job Description and Responsibilities

Recruiter.com is the leading source for recruiting and talent acquisition talent. We help employers small and large find full-time, part-time, and project-based recruiters. Join our job platform today to search and post recruiting jobs. Recruiting Jobs Recruiting involves the search for, assessment, attraction, and hiring of qualified applicants for open positions at businesses. Recruiters...

Why Fair Chance Hiring Could Give You a Leg Up in the Post-Pandemic Talent Market

Human resource professionals and recruiters are having a tough time navigating the post-pandemic job market and the Great Resignation. Despite a record-high 10.9 million job openings in the US, 8.4 million Americans are out of work. Why are HR leaders having such a hard time finding and hiring talent? Part of the problem is the stringent and outdated "ideal candidate" checklists HR...

3 Ways to Promote Employee Engagement Amid the Great Resignation

Gallup's State of the Global Workplace: 2021 Report has troubling news for employers: 48 percent of American workers are actively looking for new job opportunities or at least keeping an eye on the market. Gallup also reports that only 34 percent of U.S. workers are engaged, signifying widespread discontent in the workplace. With many employers facing candidate shortages, replacing...

Businesses May Be Missing Out on a Second-Chance Talent Pipeline

According to The Sentencing Project, the United States sends a staggering number of people to prison, 639 per 100,000 of the population. That is far more than any other country globally, including the most repressive regimes on the planet. Most prisoners aren't serving life terms, which means they're released when they've finished their sentence. According to the Department of Justice,...

Precarious Balance: How to Keep Women Workers From Leaving

My 6-year-old walked in again. I was on camera and not on mute. Everyone chuckled and seemed happy to see her. I was, too, but I also felt stressed. Everyone was polite, but surely this was disruptive. When my husband and I had no childcare support in those early days of the pandemic, sympathetic colleagues and flexible, remote hours kept me afloat. I wasn't sleeping very well in March of...

11 Tips for Conducting Video Interviews That'll Impress Your Candidates

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's your top tip to help hiring managers and recruiters conduct successful interviews over Zoom and other video software? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful...

The Traditional Talent Market Is Gone. Has Your Company Adapted?

There is no such thing as a traditional job market anymore. In the wake of the pandemic, many candidates are rethinking their career goals and personal priorities. They're looking for something new. With an abundance of open roles and job seekers looking to make a change, it's a buyer's market. Like it or not, companies need to adapt their recruitment and retention tactics to this new...

The History of Labor Day and Why Employers Should Care

According to the latest research, 40% of businesses will be open on Labor Day and have some employees working on the holiday. However, employers should consider giving employees the day off to celebrate the holiday. Not only will this help improve employee morale, reduce burnout, possibly improve productivity, and boost your employer brand, but it also shows that you care about your...

Professional Guidance Where You Least Expect It: The 5 Types of Mentors You're Missing Out On

Throughout her career — from her days as a young professional working in pharmaceuticals to her roles in higher education and her return to medical sales — Lisa Swift-Young has repeatedly turned to one thing to help her gain experience and accelerate her growth: mentorship. Now an executive business coach in her own right, Swift-Young told MedReps.com in an interview in August that...

Employee Mental Health: What Employers and Recruiters Need to Know — and Do — Now

Across the country, businesses of all sizes are striving to adapt their recruitment and retention practices to the new normal of the post-pandemic job market. Several factors precipitated the ongoing Great Resignation and mass movement of employees to new jobs, and they are invariably tied to the effects of the global pandemic on employee mental health. When the pandemic started, leaders...

Why Well-Being Is a Business Imperative in the Hybrid Workplace

The resolution of the ongoing pandemic seems increasingly difficult to anticipate. Hopes of an end are glimpsed and dashed in turn, with restrictions and precautions constantly changing. But there is one prediction we can safely make: The future of work is hybrid. Not only are global conditions ripe for the rise of a hybrid workforce, but employees are also vocally expressing their...

How to Hunt for a New Job When You're a Primary Benefits Holder

If your family relies on your current position for health benefits, that could put extra weight on your shoulders when you're looking for a new job. Even if you're unhappy in your current role, you might talk yourself out of leaving to meet your family's needs. Roughly 157 million Americans depend on employer-sponsored health insurance, according to research from the Kaiser Family...

Want to Attract Gen. Z to Manufacturing Careers? Do This.

The manufacturing industry is in a state of flux. On one hand, the Biden administration is working to pass an infrastructure bill that could potentially create half a million new manufacturing jobs by 2024. On the other hand, analysts predict a manufacturing skills gap will leave 2.1 million jobs unfilled by 2030. With a large number of baby boomers now retiring, could Generation Z — soon...

How White Normative Recruiting Fails: Increase Your Diversity Performance

The Problem Organizations are intent on committing to diversity and set out to hire diverse talent. They put out a job description, but their efforts fall flat. They receive no contact from diverse candidates — or receive communication from diverse candidates who don't fit the bill. What can they do? The Cause For starters, it's essential to understand that we live in a White...

Why Are Hiring Managers Struggling to Recruit Hourly Talent? They Don't Have the Right Tools.

The reopening of society means nothing if businesses don't have staff. The US reported a record 9.3 million job openings in April, but industries like hospitality, manufacturing, logistics, and retail may not have enough employees to keep the lights on. Last year, 55.5 percent of the workforce was paid an hourly rate. But 2020 also saw mass layoffs and furloughs of hourly workers who have...

How Artificial Intelligence is Refining the Process of Hiring on a Low Budget

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the current buzzword in the business world. AI—or clever robots that can reason instinctively and make intelligent sense of massive data—is the new battleground that is churning many sectors, disrupting enterprises, and fueling new rivalries in the networked digital era amid a proliferation of smart gadgets and surge of Big Data. It's severe enough...

6 Healthcare Recruitment Strategies to Draw in High-Performing Workers

Healthcare companies have encountered tremendous challenges in the previous two years. Since February 2020, hospital employment has dropped by roughly 94,000 jobs, according to Emsi statistics, which predicts a severe shortage of 3.2 million healthcare employees by 2026. Healthcare recruitment is becoming more difficult as the population ages and job seekers have ample options at their...

Is AI the Key to HR Success? How Automated Tech Helps Business Hire Faster and Fairer

After two turbulent years, businesses struggle to adapt to the post-pandemic workforce. Job openings are at an all-time high as Americans leave their companies in droves. In fact, 47.8 million workers quit their jobs throughout 2021, and in January 2022 alone, 4.3 million employees quit, leaving U.S. businesses with more than 11 million job openings. The job market continues to...