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Beyond Active and Passive Candidates: Learning the Art of 'Talent Rediscovery'

Back in 2014, LinkedIn bought Steve Goodman's data science company Bright. It was easy to see why LinkedIn made the purchase: By aggregating and analyzing roughly 40 million resumes and 100 million job descriptions, Bright was able to make predictions about which candidates were worth interviewing and which were better left with a polite rejection email. Who wouldn't like to speed up the...

All You Need to Know About Employer Branding to Attract Young Talent

The job market is continually flooded with new waves of valuable talent, and growth opportunities are important to a large number of these workers, especially recent grads and young professionals. The Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement report from SHRM found that 40 percent of the 595 employees surveyed said their organization's commitment to professional development was "very important" to...

How to Find Your Ideal Career Path, Part 2

In my previous article, I told you about a job seeker I was working with who had been in retail and sales since high school in order to help support his family. Now, at age 25, he is ready to discover his own career path and move into a field that excites and satisfies him. Our first step was an in-depth discussion, and then he completed his JUMP by eParachute profile. It's been two weeks...

Even in the Executive Ranks, Women Face Inequality [Infographic]

Pop quiz: How many companies in the FTSE 100 and the SP 500 are led by women? Given the overall demographics of the UK and the US, it should be close to 50 percent – about 300 companies. In reality, however, a scant 33 companies are led by women. That's only 5.5 percent! How do we account for such a disparity? There's no short answer, but there are a lot of factors at work here,...

Career Experts: Helpful or a Hindrance?

There are so many websites out there with information on careers – and most of them, let's be honest, bore you to death! Sifting through all of the rubbish to get to the information that's relevant to you is extremely tedious! It's similar to when you're trying to book a vacation, scrolling past deal after deal and hotel after hotel. After a while, they all look the same and you give...

What You Need to Know About Interviewing Millennials

You've probably noticed that more younger candidates are applying for your job openings – and not just for the entry-level gigs. Millennials are now the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, and while the youngest millennials are still in high school, the oldest are 34 years old and making the move into middle management. Just as Gen. X-ers were quite different from their baby...

4 Ways to Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities

Article by Smita Singh Michael Jordan is a basketball legend, but he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Out of seemingly unending obstacles, he built a career so many can only dream of. When his high school's varsity team needed more players for the approaching playoffs, Jordan tried out but didn't make the cut. It was a major disappointment, and he vowed to become the best...

$650 Million Spent on Rewriting Job Postings Annually

Writing is a tough job and a surprisingly costly line item in your recruitment budget. According to newly released research from MightyRecruiter, American companies spend a total of $650 million annually on simply rewriting job postings. MightyRecruiter released an infographic based on the research, which you can see below, in which the company took the liberty of comparing the cost of...

50 Interview Questions and How to Answer Them (Part 1)

Interview preparation doesn't have to feel vague or intimidating. Just like studying for a test or rehearsing for a play yields the best results, the surest way to ace your next job interview is to research a comprehensive list of interview questions and answers. For that reason, I've collected 50 interview questions you're likely to face in your next interview. Over the course of a...

14 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Work Over the Weekend [Infographic]

You're the hardest-working person in the office. All your slacker coworkers clock out at 5 P.M. sharp, but not you! You're still grinding it out well past dinnertime. Vacation? You don't have time for that. Heck, you don't even have time for a relaxing weekend – you're always bringing work home to occupy your Saturdays and Sundays. That's why you're the best. Or so you might...

Everyone Sees You: Employee Engagement in Our New Transparent World

"You can build a much more wonderful company on love than you can on fear." – Kip Tindell, CEO, The Container Store One of the biggest reasons so many workers are disengaged is because they believe no one sees them. Similarly, employers sail ahead with mediocre cultures because someone assumes talent isn't paying attention. The delusion behind all of this thinking is exposed by the fact...

How to Find Your Ideal Career Path, Part 1

Recently, I was in a Skype meeting with a job seeker. This job seeker is 25. In order to help support his family, he has worked in retail and sales since graduating high school. Now, he is ready to do something for himself and find a career path that excites him and brings him satisfaction. He asked me: How do I figure out what I want to do in my career? I have never spent much time...

Why More Candidates Are Doing Reference Checks on Potential Employers

Employment references are one of the oldest tools in the book. Companies rely on them to vet candidates and assess the stability, competence, and reliability of possible employees. At Argentus, we conduct reference checks on all our successful placements, and it's always a great feeling when we hear the enthusiasm in a reference's voice as they speak about a great candidate we're...

Why You Are Still Giving the Wrong Answer to This Common Interview Question

I've interviewed a lot of people in my career. I've also been on the other side of the table as an interviewee. Whereas some interviewing strategies and approaches come and go, there is one question that seems to have stood the test of time, for better or for worse: "What's your biggest weakness?" Early in my career, I wasn't a huge fan of the question. I was scared to answer it for fear...

John Wooden's Legacy Is a How-To Guide for a Successful Life

Article by Don Yaeger He was the greatest coach of all time and a mentor to many. At the University of California-Los Angeles, John Wooden won a record 10 NCAA men's basketball championships, but he considered his legacy to be as a teacher. Although Wooden's last on-court victory was secured more than 40 years ago and he passed away in 2010, his lessons are as relevant today as ever....

Do millennials ever stop their job search?

12% of candidates that sign up for Scouted's job-matching service already have full time job offers. This finding comes from survey responses from 2395 of Scouted's millennial candidates. At the time they signed up, candidates were asked, "Do you have a full-time job offer?" They could choose one of three responses: Yes, No, or Maybe (if they were in the process of interviewing with other...

5 Ways to Jump-Start Your Job Search If You Want to Change Careers

I am a recruiting consultant and career coach. One of the main reasons candidates seek me out is because they don't just want to switch jobs – they want to switch careers. I recently had a candidate reach out to me because she wanted to leave her legal career after spending 20 years in her position. She knew this was not going to be easy because her role is very niche and only found in...

Have You Been Out of the Job Search Game for a While? Here's How to Get Back in It:

You have just finished a long and much-needed employment hiatus, and now it is time to get back to the grind. Where do you start? You have a plan, right? Still, you should remember that Robert Burns quote: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." In other words – you need to prepare for the unexpected. Your strategy may appear seamless on paper, but let us take a look at...

Recruiter Top 10: Ways to Stay Productive When You're Unemployed

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 Ways to Stay Productive When You're...

Election 2016: No Matter Who Wins, Employees Are Scared [Infographic]

Election day is right around the corner – and it looks like very few employees are happy about it, according to a new infographic from employee feedback platform Quantum Workplace. While 24.9 percent of the employees surveyed for the infographic said they would vote for Trump and 40.2 percent said they would support Clinton, a sizable portion – 23.8 percent – said they weren't huge...

3 Major Ways AI Is Augmenting the Recruiter's Role

After being the dominant theme at last month's HR Technology Conference, AI for recruiting suddenly seems to be everywhere. Artificial intelligence for recruiting is an emerging category of HR tech designed to automate some part of the recruiting workflow – usually low-level, high-volume tasks. One reason for the rise in AI's popularity is the growing pressure on recruiters to "do more...

4 Ways to Assess Your Candidates' Hard Skills

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: Cultural fit and soft skills are important in the hiring equation – but so are hard skills, which are often glossed over...

5 Simple Ways to Create a Productive Home Office

Do you work from home? You're not alone. Research published just last year found that 45 percent of U.S. employees work from home and 53 million people work as freelancers, contributing $715 billion to the entire economy. Wow! With the traditional 9-5 becoming a thing of the past, home working and flexible work schedules are the new norm. But if you're finding it hard to stay motivated...

Strategy and Leadership Aren't the Same Thing – But You Do Need to Learn How to Integrate Them

Every so often, it's a good idea to step back and reanalyze concepts we've grown accustomed to. When you've fully absorbed ideas into your vernacular and behavior, you can sometimes lose sight of the critical nuances. The ideas become automatic, touted with little self-reflection from even their most ardent proponents. The Strategic Leader's Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and...

Hack Your LinkedIn Profile to the Top of Employers' Search Results

LinkedIn has 450 million members from around the world. If you have a LinkedIn account, you face intense competition to get your profile noticed by potential employers or headhunters. Don't worry, though: There are ways you can hack your profile to the top of recruiters' LinkedIn search results. What Do You Want Headhunters to Know You For? First, you should know what your keyword...

5 Interview Don'ts

You polished your resume, wrote a killer cover letter, and landed an interview. Don't blow it now! Here are five big interview don'ts you should steer clear of: 1. Arriving Late You only have one chance to make a first impression, and showing up late gets you off to a terrible start. It's rude and implies that you don't respect your interviewer's time, don't value the job opportunity,...

How Applicant Tracking Has Evolved Over the Last 40 Years [Infographic]

Back in 1976, the best way to find talent was to publish an ad in the newspaper classifieds, wait for people to mail their resumes, and hope that one of those resumes belonged to someone was a good enough fit. Thankfully, times have changed: Advances in technology have made it easier to advertise jobs, find candidates, screen candidates, and make the right hires. And candidates, too, have...

'Work-Life Balance' Makes No Sense

The term "work-life balance" is past its expiration date. It served its purpose by bringing to the forefront a conversation that needed to take place because of the all-consuming nature of work in our hyperconnected world – but the discussion associated with it needs to evolve. "Work-life" implies mutually exclusive choices. "Life" is an overarching umbrella comprising obligations,...

8 Great Questions to Ask Your Candidates

As a recruiter, it's your job to get to know your candidates like the back of your hand. Otherwise, you run the risk of matching the wrong candidates with the wrong roles. That, of course, leads to unhappy candidates and unhappy clients (or unhappy bosses, if you're a corporate recruiter). No one wants that. Getting to know you candidates is a matter of asking the right questions. Resumes...

11 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online [Infographic]

By some estimates, 77 percent of recruiters research candidates online before making any decisions about whom should advance in the hiring process and whom should ultimately be hired. Often, these recruiters balk at what they find after punching a candidate's name into Google: 35 percent of them have rejected candidates based on information uncovered during their research. So, how do you...

Don't Annoy the HR Manager: Avoid These Common Pet Peeves

Searching for a job can be exhausting. Applying and interviewing require nerves of steel, impeccable social skills, and the ability to think on your feet. Having the human resources manager as your ally can go a long way in reducing your stress. The HR manager will likely be the first person to read resumes and recommend who should get an interview. They also may have a big influence on the...

The Inside Scoop: 3 Tips for Landing a Killer Startup Sales Gig

I know what you're thinking: "What person in their right mind would earnestly pursue a sales gig at an unproven startup?" It's a fair question, but believe it or not, some of the best of the best sales mavericks prefer working for startups over working for larger, more established businesses. Yes, the financial uncertainty, late nights, and coffee binges are enough to repel droves of...

Not looking for a Job Right Now? You Still Need a Personal Brand!

One of the most common assumptions that people make – and that we find ourselves refuting day in and day out as recruiters – is the assumption that personal branding and networking are tasks you only need to focus on when you're looking for a job. Our lives are busy and only getting busier between work, family, and all the myriad forms of entertainment competing for our attention....

The Top 5 Unspoken Interview Questions Every Hiring Manager Wants Candidates to Answer

Many people feel that if they only had some way to preview the interview questions before walking into a job interview, they'd surely ace them all and land their dream job. After all, it's when you're caught unprepared by a question that you are most likely to look unprofessional, uniformed, or less skilled than you really are. While no one can predict the future, we actually can...

When It Comes to Retention, Your Employees Are Worth the Risk

There was a time when workers stuck with one company for their entire career. Employers are lucky these days if they can hang on to top talent for more than a couple of years. From the business side, it seems like employees can always find a better offer at some competitor or another. The truth is, many companies worry about taking risks by offering higher salaries and better benefits....

Top 10 Scariest Things You Can Do During the Hiring Process

Attention job candidates: If you missed your chance to get a costume this year, don't worry – you don't need one to be scary. Hiring managers see a lot of frightening things on resumes, applications, and even their office doors during the hiring process. Candidates need to know what those terrifying behaviors are in order to avoid them. In all seriousness, the recruitment process is one...

How to Nail a Job Interview

While a new class of college students navigates their first semester this fall, many members of the most recently graduated class are still looking for their first big opportunity. It seems easy enough. Submit application. Attend interview. Attend second interview. Get hired. Profit. Simple, right? Not so much. What many don't realize is that interviewing is a skill. You can't just...

They're Not Soft Skills – They're Courage Skills

Depending on whom you ask, today's college graduates will change careers an average of 4-6 times during their lives. Note that I did not say "jobs." Industries will rise and fall in months rather than years. That means the single most important skill for success in today's and tomorrow's professional landscape is the ability to change continuously. In our career and engagement programs...

Who Should Be Your Reference?

Getting to reference-checking stage of the interview process is exciting. You are so close to landing the job you can almost smell it! But if you want the process to go smoothly and quickly, you need to be sure you provide the right references. Recently, a job seeker reached out to me with a question: I've been asked to provide references for an interview I attended last week. Whom...

Why Does My Resume Keep Getting Rejected?

At ResumeSpice, we've seen a lot of resumes and counseled a lot of job seekers. One of the biggest issues our clients face is that they're submitting resumes, but they're just not getting any calls. Here are a few common reasons why that happens: 1. You're Not Following Directions This has less to do with your resume and more to do with your reading comprehension. Make sure you read...

5 Ways for Leaders to Build Trust in Their Organizations

Warren Buffett once famously said, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." While that may be true of public perceptions held by those outside of an organization, a leader's reputation within their company should be far more stable – as long as that person is working daily to build a reputation among team members as dependable and trustworthy, that is. Trust...

Hang on to Employees to Boost the Bottom Line

Many companies hemorrhage money in ways they can't seem to control. High employee turnover is one of these areas in which many businesses struggle. While attractive benefits programs and incentives are the more obvious costs of most organizations' retention efforts, oftentimes, those expenses could be easily offset by lowering the number of employees who need to be replaced. Getting the...

11 Things You Should Assess in Every Cover Letter You Read

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: We've written before about what employees should include in their cover letters, but today, we want to approach it from a...

Don't Be Afraid to Bend the Rules in Your Job Search

Inevitably, when I'm meeting with a new job seeker, I'll ask a question that makes them pretty uncomfortable. Most of the time, that question is along the lines of, "Why don't you send the hiring manager a message on LinkedIn?" Often, this job seeker has found a posting for their dream job at a great company – but they don't have any connections at the company. So, I will suggest that...

The Differences Between Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile Experience Sections (Part 3)

In the second part of this series, we looked at the differences between the summary sections of your resume and LinkedIn profile. Today, we're going to look at the differences between the experience sections of the two documents. But first, it's worth noting the similarities between these sections. Similarities Between the Two Documents Although there are important differences,...

Benefits on the Fringe: Portable Benefits

Welcome to Benefits on the Fringe, a new column from Recruiter.com writer Jason McDowell. Every month, McDowell will cover the most unique benefits that today's employers are using to woo talent, as well as advances and innovations in the employee benefits realm. With 50 percent of the workforce expected to be engaged in contract or freelance work by 2020, according to a study jointly...

Data Analytics: What Recruiters Can Learn From Sports

For a wide range of organizations, data-driven decision-making is the key to success. In particular, the world of sports – including the MLB, the NFL, and the NBA – has embraced data analysis, leaving behind the days when decisions were made according to hunches. Now, coaches and managers regularly use data analysis to see which players are truly helping them win. Businesses can...

How to Figure Out What You Should Do With Your Life

Job satisfaction: We all want it, but we're not exactly sure how to secure it. Partially, that's because we believe our satisfaction is dependent on factors we don't control, like the work/life balance at our current organization, the way a manager chooses to motivate us, or the specific tasks our supervisors delegate to us. And while it is true that some of the job satisfaction factors...