How to Sell Your Job Ad with Video
Job descriptions can be a hassle. You know the kind of person you want at your company and what you want them to do. You have a picture in your mind's eye, and it's perfect. But when you sit down to write out the responsibilities, requirements, and qualifications for the job, something happens: suddenly, the job ad you've written doesn't feel like a proper representation of the job...
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Building a Better Funnel: Screening Applicants With 360Candidate
The hiring process, as it has been said before, is a bit like a funnel. In the initial stages, scores of candidates enter through the funnel's wide mouth as the company collects resumes. The funnel grows narrower as fewer and fewer candidates make it through the rounds of qualification assessments, interviews, background checks, and so on, until, finally, the company is left with (hopefully)...
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Convincing Your Boss: We Need Video Interviewing
As a recruiting professional, you know all the levers to push and pull to improve hiring metrics and achieve a more candidate-centric hiring process. You've likely encountered stories about video interviewing and its effectiveness, and perhaps you want to implement video interviewing in your company. However, in enterprise organizations, it's not always easy to introduce change, even if...
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No More Stalling: Get a Better Mobile Website Now
If you're looking at your applications folder and wondering why it's a little slim, the reason might be your mobile website -- or lack thereof. Given that just one in four Fortune 500 companies even has a mobile-optimized website, it's tempting to think your corporation is ahead of the game simply by having one. Wrong! Seventy-two percent of job seekers want to receive job...
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What to Expect From HR Software in 2015
According to Human Resources Software UserView 2014, the latest report from technology consultants Software Advice, 89 percent of HR software users are either "somewhat satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their software. This is good news for the HR software industry: people, it seems, are happy with their products. It should also motivate HR professionals who have yet to get with the times:...
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Modernizing Recruiting: Automation and Other Tools
Automation: the core of the modern recruiter's processes. Without it, recruiters would not be able to handle the sheer number of candidates and resumes that cross their desks. Modern recruiting tools -- such as applicant tracking systems -- work by taking candidate information and parsing it before the recruiter sees it, thinning the candidate pool by up to 70 percent. Aside from...
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The New Age of Applicant Tracking Systems
My 19-year old son was recently applying online for a department store position. In discussing the outcome of his pursuit for a coveted job, I found it interesting that he applied at only two of the four companies he was targeting. When asked why, he said two of the employers had outdated steps that made the process too long and too much of a hassle. Wow! A 19-year-old eager to find a job...
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8 Tips to Get Staff to Adopt Your New Hiring Software System (Part 2)
Thanks to the modern tidal wave of IT consumerism, the average worker has become more technology enabled than they have ever been. One would of course imagine that this newfound technophile status would translate to corporate recruiting teams, their mouths watering at the prospect of new hiring software systems to replace their legacy processes. Recent anecdotal evidence reported on the...
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8 Tips to Get Staff to Adopt Your New Hiring Software System (Part 1)
In the old days, when team principals tried to take corporate recruiters from legacy hiring systems and processes to new software-based integrated hiring systems, the culture shift was so great that it met with resistance from staff. However, with social media, smartphones, and other smart technologies (figuratively) coming out of their ears, the modern corporate recruiter is almost as...
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ATS Changes? Why Now Is the Best Time to Shop for a Video Interviewing Platform, Too
If you're part of the 60 percent of companies that planned to change HR/Human Capital Management (HCM) systems in 2014, we know where a lot of your time and attention has been focused this year. The last thing on your mind may be researching and purchasing a video interviewing solution. However, a change or upgrade to your applicant tracking system (ATS) is really the right time to acquire a...
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