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Recruiter Top 10: New Year's Resolutions for Recruiting and Hiring Professionals

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 New Year's Resolutions for Recruiting...

Managing Through Mergers and Acquisitions: It's All About Trust

Managing through a merger or acquisition is one of the most complex challenges a business leader can face. Business models can change, market focuses can shift, and established organizational cultures can cease to exist. All around, the effects can be profound. "It's the people in a business that make the culture, and it is cultural differences that are at the top of the list when it...

Recruiters Must Take Action to Protect Private Data

It doesn't get much attention in the corporate recruiting field, but hacking is on everyone's mind these days. The CIA claims that Russian hackers influenced the outcome of the U.S. election. Last year, Twitter, Reddit, and Spotify suffered hacks that took them offline for unprecedented amounts of time. In February 2016, hackers stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank. Even the National...

4 Ways to Zero in on Your Unique Company Culture

Potential employees are looking for great company cultures – so much so that many candidates are accepting or refusing offers based on how a company's culture is portrayed through various channels. Today, company culture is just as important as tactical performance management or recruiting strategies, and nearly one-third of people in North America believe corporate culture needs...

6 Ways to Make Applicant Tracking Systems Better

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 improvements, new functionalities, or new technologies would you like to see incorporated in your ATS? How can we make...

How to Create a Successful Infographic Resume

Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager for a moment. You're looking through applications for an open position at your company. Odds are, you're looking at somewhere around 74 applications – maybe even more. What would help you screen these applications more quickly and efficiently? How about a visual resume? In a poll conducted by Beyond.com, more than 57 percent of HR...

New Year, New You – and New Career?

No matter what your personal religious, political, or social views are, we can all agree on one thing: 2016 was a tough year. Friends and families were pulled apart by political differences. Workers went through difficult corporate layoffs and restructurings. Violence and death appeared daily in the news. It's been rough – very rough. In fact, many people are opting to take breaks...

The 5 Worst Types of Resumes

As a professional resume writer and career counselor, I've helped thousands of clients improve their resumes. In that time, I've also identified five common types of resumes that actually prevent people from showcasing their best selves. Are you using one of these self-sabotaging resumes? Find out below: Resume No. 1: The Task Rabbit Signs that your resume falls into this...

Getting a Job in PR: How to Stand Out in the Public Relations Industry

You want to get into the public eye and relate. Do you have what it takes to get hired? You may have a basic idea of what P.R. positions call for, such as writing press releases and having good communication skills. However, there's more to it than that. Discover below the traits and skills necessary for you to excel in your chosen field: Traits of a Genuinely Talented P.R....

How to Attract and Retain Happy, Loyal Employees

Does it seem like a lot of your employees are jumping ship? According to the Global Workforce Happiness Index from employer branding experts Universum, they're probably leaving for one of the following reasons: better compensation and benefits, better opportunities for advancement, professional development and learning opportunities, or improved work/life balance. But of course, the...

Glassdoor Launches New Recruiting Tools

Once upon a time, corporate recruiting was largely based on intuition. Recruiters had to go with their guts, trusting opinions they had formed based only on short interviews and background checks. Thanks to modern technology, guesswork is much less prevalent in the hiring process. Today's recruiters are able not only to reach more candidates than ever before, but also to target specific...

A Call to Action: Practice Optimism for Career (and Life) Success

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." – Vaclav Havel, writer and philosopher I believe in optimism, and I believe that hope usually does more harm than good. Hope requires very little action. On the other hand, optimism is an...

5 Ways to Effectively Up Your Email Game and Get Hired

More than 2.5 billion people in the world use email today, and more than 2.5 million emails are sent every single second. In fact, 61 percent of people report email to be "very important" for their job – compared to 54 percent of people who express the same sentiment about the internet. More likely than not, you will have to use email in your next job search. Whether you're reaching...

Employees Want Better Workplace Communications

According to a recent survey conducted by Survata, more than 70 percent of employees want their companies to improve how they communicate information. "Companies are investing substantial resources to create great corporate cultures and employee experiences, yet they are using outdated and ineffective methods to communicate with their employees," Keith Kitani, cofounder and CEO of workplace...

7 Ways to Bounce Back After a Mistake

Article by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) Mistakes – especially those that leave us cringing long after they've happened – can make us feel as if we've taken one step forward only to take 20 steps back. It's easy to cripple yourself analyzing why you made the mistake, your mind tricking you into thinking it's irreversible, that you can't move past this. But here's the...

4 Simple Steps to Answering the Weakness Question

A conversation I had with my daughter in the past aroused in me emotions of both concern and relief. Yes, two conflicting emotions, but the feeling that stays with me is the relief. Relief because she was truthful about her faux pas, her display of bad judgement. All was forgiven, although not forgotten. "This is what the truth accomplishes," I told her. This is what you get when you...

Remote Way: It's Like Studying Abroad, But for Remote Workers

Wouldn't it be nice to work from Buenos Aires for a month? Maybe hop across the Atlantic to Valencia after that? Sadly, few of us have had that sort of opportunity – until now, that is. Enter Remote Way, which is currently accepting applications for its study-abroad-style remote work program. The program, which is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Michele Romanov, Anatoliy Melnichuk,...

Much-Debated Overtime Rule Faces Uncertain Future Under Trump

As you've likely heard by now, a new overtime rule was set to go into effect on December 1st, 2016, that would have expanded the number of people eligible for overtime pay by millions. Currently, workers who make less than $23,660 are automatically eligible for overtime pay; the new rules would have extended overtime benefits to anyone making less than $47,476. However, the measure was...

What Makes a Recruiter Stop Reading Your Resume? [Infographic]

Recruiters claim to spend five minutes reviewing each resume they receive, but they actually only average six seconds per resume, according to MightyRecruiter (full infographic below). That's a 5000 percent discrepancy. Clearly, recruiters want to be perceived as being thorough when reviewing resumes. However, many recruiters don't have enough time to be as thorough as they'd like to be...

It's an Exciting Time to Be in Recruitment

It seems pretty clear that the recruitment industry has reached a major tipping point. The battles we face in the coming years are quite different from those we have toiled with to date. Reflect on this for just a moment. For decades, we have battled with how to reach the right candidates with our recruiting messages. Newspaper advertising, job boards, resume databases, Google AdWords – all...

What Business and HR Leaders Must Focus on in 2017

It's the beginning of a new year, a time traditionally reserved for reflection and self-analysis – not only for individuals, but for businesses as well. Many of us spend January pondering our resolutions for the coming year, but in boardrooms around the world, executives are looking back over 2016 at what they did right and what they could have done better. A number of issues seem to have...

Should I List My Hobbies on my Resume?

You have many talents! You can pull off a triple axel during your weekend figure skating meets. At last month's lunker competition, you used your well-honed fishing strategies to snag an 18-pound bass. And your mixology skills are to die for – just wait until people try your latest invention, the Double Cranberry Tom Collins! No question, your mother's proud of you. And she should be,...

Recruiter Top 10: Recruiting and Hiring Trends to Pay Attention to in 2017

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 Recruiting and Hiring Trends in...

Candidate Assessment: How Candidates and Interviewers Can Get the Most Out of an Interview

The interview stage of the hiring process in the job market can be stressful for both the interviewee and the interviewer. For human resources professionals, the pressure to ask the right questions to help inform a potential job offer can be overwhelming. Here, Alexander Mann Solutions' Fiona Adams, head of internal talent acquisition for North America, offers insights into the best...

Do You Have the Extra Oomph to Make Things Happen in 2017?

January – the time of year when we push the restart button and do all of the things that we promised we'd do last year but didn't! It's a little bit cliché, isn't it? Have you ever written down your goals in January and then reviewed them later in the year to see how many of them you actually achieved? I have. I won't say that I've always completed all of them, but generally, I do...

Got Millennials? How to Attract Top Talent – and Keep Them

Over the past few years, millennials have developed a negative reputation as the lazy, self-indulgent "me-me-me generatiom." However, when you look at the facts, that picture couldn't be further from the truth. It turns out the majority of millennials are actually workaholics with no plans to "job hop" who don't even take their allotted vacation time. Millennials have moved past Gen. X...

9 Employee Engagement Tips to Kick the New Year Off Right

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: Here's a New Year's resolution we can all get behind: Solve the employee engagement problem plaguing organizations across...

How to Start a Career in Payroll

Every business needs to pay its employees accurately and on time, which means achieving a suitably high standard of payroll performance. Beyond wage calculations, payroll staff have a range of critical professional duties, including tax payment, data analysis, regulatory compliance, pension forecasting, HR operations, and more. Jobs in payroll require a talent not only for math, accountancy,...

Work in a Small Town to Experience Big Perks

During a job hunt, many job seekers find themselves considering a possible move to a new city. A list of questions comes up when evaluating their options: Are there many jobs available in my current city? Am I near my family and friends? Would I rather be on the coast or near the mountains? Very often, I hear from job seekers who have always dreamed of living in a large city, such as Los...

Want to Boost Company Profits in 2017? Get More Women Leaders

The next time the executive leaders at your organization get together, take a look around the room. (Or, if your position on the corporate ladder means you don't attend these meetings, navigate to the section of the company website where executive bios are listed.) How many women are in the room (or on that webpage)? Chances are the number is pretty slim: According to the Center for...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board: Women Leaders in the Fortune 500 [Infographic]

As 2017 begins, we hope and expect to see more equality in the workplace and more equal representation in the upper ranks of companies – but is this just aspiration, or is it a real possibility? According to a new infographic from eCard Shack, a digital card company specializing in business eCards, equality is still a long way off in the boardroom. At least, that seems to be the case...

Do the Right Thing: How One Boss Changed My Life

Today, a dear friend and I are getting together with our former boss, Gail Angel. I have not seen her in twenty-three years! Gail owned one of the most successful staffing companies in California. Gail also taught me the greatest lesson of my life on the first day I showed up as a new general manager at her firm. The year 1985 was an absolutely terrifying time in my life. People were...

Why You Need to Stop Using Ridiculous Perks to Attract Talent

Unlimited free food. In-office gyms. Hammocks. Rock-climbing walls. Personal concierges. A $10,000 workplace furnishing allowance. Modern workplace perks are getting a little bit ridiculous. When companies go overboard, they can come off looking like try-hards – which might make candidates start to wonder why they need to go to such extent to keep people happy. But at the same time,...

How to Find Your Calling

There's a difference between a career and a calling. A lucky few have aligned them with one another. When we are young, we have dreams and ambitions for our lives. However, we rarely get to follow this path to fruition. Practical concerns almost always get in the way, and we end up pigeonholed in careers entirely different from what we expected. Part of the problem is many of us...

Candidate Engagement: Will You Lead the Pack in 2017?

Every organization has its own definition of "staying ahead of the competition." For talent acquisition leaders, however, it can only mean one thing: Beating your competitors to the best hires. In 2017, that's going to happen for the companies that are able to turn up their levels of candidate engagement, and technology will play a critical role in those efforts. Is your T.A....

How to Implement the C-Suite's Vision in the Corporate Hiring Process

"Eighty-Nine percent of CEOs say that talent acquisition and management will determine the innovation outcome." - Uri Neren, Innovators International A CEO must understand all aspects of their company's talent acquisition program. At the same time, however, they cannot afford to get stuck in the weeds of the day-to-day hiring process. For a member of the C-suite to be perceived...

Go With Your Gut: The Science of Instinct

Article by Shelley Levitt "I had a feeling about it." "I just knew." "It was a hunch." "My intuition told me." "I acted on instinct." "I felt it in my gut." We've all had these experiences countless times in our lives. It happens when we're interviewing a potential hire or being interviewed ourselves. It happens when we're sizing up a potential business partner or new client. It...

Dispelling 4 Myths About Candidate Assessment Tools

As is the case with any industry in the year 2017, technology has been and continues driving major changes in the field of corporate recruiting. Talent networks such as LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor have changed the way recruiters and candidates connect; applicant tracking systems are improving the application process for candidates and keeping things organized for recruiters; data...

In His New One-Man Show, a 'People Hacker' Becomes Steve Jobs

In the pantheon of business all-stars, few resonate with our current professional moment more powerfully than Steve Jobs. While he himself was not a programmer or engineer, Jobs had a vision for what technology could be – and in many ways, the role that smartphones and mobile devices play in our lives is a result of this vision. But a vision without execution is nothing more than a...

A Recruiter's Approach to Finding Great Team Players

Finding and hiring great team players is a challenge for most organizations. One of the obvious solutions is to hire an outside recruiting firm to help you – but what if you are that recruiting firm? That was the case with my client J2T Recruiting Consultants, a successful boutique accounting and finance recruiting firm in Denver. Owner Julie Scates and her team took a unique approach...

More Things to Stop Doing on LinkedIn

It's been a long time. I shouldn't a left you without a dope beat to step to. You know you've been blogging a while when this is the second blog post you've written that references that Aaliyah song, okay? But sometimes I feel like if I don't give some people advice on the regular, they'll straight up screw everything up. And LinkedIn connectors, I am coming for you. I've previously...

Sometimes 'It's Gonna Suck': Ground-Level Insights on Remote Work From Remote Workers

We talk a lot here at Recruiter.com about remote workers, the benefits of flexible work programs, and the changing workforce. These discussions often center around an interview with an expert on those topics. But what about the remote workers themselves? What do they have to say about the situation? The folks behind Remote.co, a resource website for companies interested in or already...

How to Make the Most of a Performance Review

Do you wish you were making more money? Do you feel frustrated that you haven't received the promotion you've been waiting for? Well, now's the time to make a case for yourself – when your annual employee performance evaluation is coming up. One of the biggest mistakes people make at work is not taking performance reviews seriously enough. Many of us see them as yet another item we...

Why Your Talent Management Practices Should Center on Top Talent

In a world of multigenerational workforces and falling unemployment levels, traditional methods of attracting, retaining, and engaging employees are losing their effectiveness. Cerno, which provides adventure learning programs to organizations, recently published a white paper entitled "The Talent Challenge: How Leading Companies Attract, Retain, and Engage Top Talent." The paper outlines...

5 Smart Moves for Hiring the Best Salespeople

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's your top advice for hiring the best sales representatives? The answers below are provided by members of...

How to Survive a Pay Cut

There may come a time in your career when you need to consider taking a cut in salary. This could happen during a realignment of work and life priorities – e.g., taking a back seat in the office to get more time with the kids – or if you're making a career change and have to step down to build up experience. As much as it may pain you to see the reduction in your pay stub, it will...

Would You Rather Have a Root Canal or Go Through a Job Hunt?

There are few things more nerve-wracking than looking for a new job. Unemployed candidates have to worry about their finances and their futures, and they rarely have the time to wait for the perfect job to come along. Meanwhile, employed job seekers often fear that their current company will find out they are seeking other opportunities and let them go prematurely as punishment. Additionally,...

How Service Uplifts Individuals and Organizations

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Schweitzer Service uplifts all of us. I do not buy the dogma that service, to be legitimate, must come from a selfless place because service has the capacity to remake those of us with low self-esteem, cynicism,...