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Does Your Company Take Too Long to Hire?

One would think it a simple enough question to answer: What has your experience been? How long does it take your employer? Opinions differ greatly when answering this question, even when the number of days a "fast-hiring" organization takes to hire may be the same amount of time that it takes for a self-confessed "slow-to-hire" organization. How does this occur? There's a wealth of factors...

4 Ways to Be a Great Boss

When you finally reach the level of management -- or perhaps even senior management -- the sense of personal validation can be so strong that you mistakenly believe your professional-development journey is complete. The problem, of course, is this means you'll be a manager with the same skills that got you to the top in the first place -- but not a manager who continually develops their...

4 Tips To Convince a Hiring Manager to Listen to You

When you first got into HR, I'm guessing there was nothing written in the script about hiring manager indifference or resistance to your suggestions and opinions as a recruiter. You probably thought that with your qualifications and training -- and the fact you are part of your firm's center of hiring excellence -- you could moonwalk into the business department and have them eating out of your...

3 Ways to Gamify Your Business — and Make Employees Happier

By now, you're well aware of the deplorable state of employee engagement in the U.S. To wit, slightly less than a third of workers (31.5 percent) say they are engaged in their jobs. Sure, this represents a 14-year high, but it's still pretty dismal when you consider that 51 percent of employees are not engaged and 17.5 percent are "actively disengaged." But lets not belabor the point....

10 #WorkHacks to Get You Through the 9-5

No matter what you do, working the 9-5 can be a drain on your energy, motivation, and social life. We've aimed to tackle this inherent life drain by providing these 10 essential #WorkHacks to increase your productivity and make your day a little bit easier. These tips are provided by Lizzi Hart from the Graduate Recruitment Bureau. 1. Plan Your Day the Night Before Plan your outfit, prepare...

3 Ways to Create a Company That People (Especially Millennials) Want to Work For

A company that maintains a thriving company culture is a successful one. Great culture is much more than an enviable vacation policy or an office-wide ping pong tournament -- or a frequently misconstrued buzzword. It's an environment in which employees feel a sense of purpose, engagement, and growth. This is true even for companies like mine -- DSi, a national eDiscovery and data forensics...

4 Easy Ways to Improve Boring Meetings

There are many reasons a meeting can be boring: the culprit may be the configuration of the venue itself. It's possible that your surroundings aren't conducive to developing new ideas or having profitable discussions, and it may be time to make some changes to your meeting settings. Creating a setting for inspiration and creativity is not as hard as it sounds. A few simple changes can...

10 Tips for People Stuck in Toxic Workplaces

Welcome to Recruiter Q&A, 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 Q&A! This Week's Question: "A toxic workplace is a work environment that is poisonous and harmful and potentially damaging to the people that work...

5 Myths of Social Recruiting

July is Social Recruiting Month at Recruiter.com, and we're kicking it off by busting some myths, courtesy of Alexander Ruggie. Myth No. 1: LinkedIn Is the Best Place to Find Candidates LinkedIn is a great site for finding certain candidates and for posting jobs in general, but in terms of finding the people who are right for a given position, it is definitely not the only social...

Why You Probably Shouldn't Handle Your Own Payroll

On the face of it, it seems like a great idea. If you're an entrepreneur or small-business owner, your young and/or comparatively tiny company may not be able to afford hiring a payroll specialist. Outsourcing your payroll operations may also be off the table, for the same reason. So, what's a business owner to do? Well, you could just handle the payroll yourself. You don't have that many...

How Candidates Can Impress Influential Colleagues Who Aren't at the Interview

Have you ever been sure that you aced an interview -- certain that you and the interviewer shared a great rapport -- only to find that the company has decided not to move forward with your candidacy? There are many reasons why you may have been rejected, and one possibility is that you failed to impress the "secret interviewers" -- that is, those people who have influence on the hiring...

How to Find a Job When You Already Work Full-Time

Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose. I am a speaker, an author, and an expert in time and project management. I help busy professionals and entrepreneurs create effective systems so that they can comfortably delegate to others, be more profitable, and have time to enjoy life. At the end of the day, I transform the way you run your business into a business you love to run. This week's question...

How to Translate Your Military Service Into a Civilian Resume

Transitioning from military to civilian life is tough enough. Throw in a job hunt, and it can feel almost impossible. As career coach Matt Berndt writes, "How can you translate what you did in the military from military jargon and context into language meaningful to civilian employers?" That's the question Grammarly aims to answer today. Pre-Resume Prep Before you can write an...

3 Ways to Decrease Your Company's Turnover Rate

The dreaded turnover rate. That's one of those percentages we don't like to see increase regularly. Losing employees and onboarding new ones is costly and exhausting. Here are a few ways to halt your growing turnover rate: 1. Offer Employees the Opportunity to Grow No employee wants to feel stuck. Have a conversation with your employees about their roles and goals during the...

4 Ways to Hunt Down Your Next Purple Squirrel

Recruiting is constantly changing, which means recruiters must adapt in order to be successful in the big hunt. At the recent recruitDC conference in Arlington, Va., I learned all about how to develop a keen eye for these mythical creatures often referenced in recruiting culture. 4 Tips to Find That Purple Squirrel The hunt for purple squirrels begins with building out a sourcing playbook....

3 Reasons to Work in Sales for a Tech Startup

When Fliptop CEO Doug Camplejohn looks at the state of Silicon Valley today, he's reminded of earlier times. "To me, it's no different from what I saw back in the late '90s and early 2000s, in terms of the funding, the companies, and the competition for talent," Camplejohn says. "That just makes everything across the board difficult." According to AngelList, there are currently 18,403...

UTO Spotted at Indianapolis Startup

No, that's not a spelling error. UTO stands for "unlimited time off." It's the same policy, or lack thereof, of unlimited vacation, but we like the acronym coined by our marketing rep, Matt. In this era of cost-cutting, companies increasingly focus on the bottom line. To many managers, it seems reducing the number of employees is the way to go. Others try to limit the benefits of those...

How to Find Your Dream Candidates — on the Cheap

Building a recruitment advertising strategy that brings your dream candidates to your company's door doesn't have to be expensive, nor does it have to be handled by a full-service recruiting team. It can be planned and executed in house with a very small budget -- or even no extra budget at all. Where Should You Look for Your Dream Candidates? You won't need a ton of media exposure to...

Will Algorithms Soon Make All the Big HR Decisions?

For a long time now, HR has enjoyed a relatively unchallenged position. It makes sense, of course: if you have questions about or issues regarding hiring, firing, employee engagement, or retention, who else would you go to but HR? But things are beginning to change: HR departments suddenly have competition, thanks to algorithms that can use big data to make decisions -- decisions that...

Preparation and Practice Are the Keys to Networking Success

I am an active networker, but I acknowledge there are a number of challenges that I need to address in order to be successful when working a room. Top of the list for me is that I'm not particularly comfortable in crowds or unfamiliar settings. That's why I'm always on the lookout for tips, tricks, or advice that can help me meet my networking goals. It's also why I'm inspired to share...

Meet the Talent Acquisition Technology Ecosystem

The world of talent acquisition technology is a wide one. Applicant tracking systems; candidate relationship management tools; employee referral platforms; psychometric tools: the list of talent acquisition technologies seems ever-lengthening, winding through the industry like the sleek body of a never-ending python. And the landscape of this wide world is always shifting: new tools arise in...

How Much Does Pay Level Affect Motivation?

If you're a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR professional, you'll have to deal with the question of payment at some point -- as in, "How much should I pay this employee/candidate?" Because pay levels and salary budgets are such thorny issues for employers and employees alike, it's easy for everyone to become a little obsessed -- but to treat pay as if it were the "Alpha and Omega" of...

How to Cut Travel Expenses and Make Your Employees Happy About It

If business travel has become a zero-sum game at your company, you're not alone. Travel is usually a company's second or third largest expense, after payroll and perhaps rent, which means travel managers are often under intense pressure to reduce costs. However, if you impose tough travel policies and cost restrictions, they will likely backfire. Business travelers will resent the red...

Want to Give Holacracy a Shot? Get the Right People on Board

By now, you're likely familiar with Zappos's latest push of the envelope -- or whacky stunt, depending on how you feel about the company's approach to organizational culture: instituting a holacratic management philosophy. And how has Zappos's radical transition turned out? The company is still in the process of fully implementing holacracy, but word is that 14 percent of Zappos's employees...

Lessons from J.T. O'Donnell at recruitDC

As a novice recruiter on the scene, I was trying to absorb everything like a sponge. The Spring #recruitDC event was a great one for both novice and seasoned recruiters to attend. The common thread throughout the various sessions at recruitDC? Building both your personal brand and your company's brand. First up, J.T O'Donnell, founder and CEO of CAREEREALISM and CareerHMO, kicked off the...

The Recruiter's Guide to Inbound Marketing

According to a study of 300 career sites, carried out by TMP Worldwide Advertising Communications, LLC, the time it takes for candidates to move from the top of the sourcing funnel -- i.e., being totally unaware of a company and its job openings -- to the bottom -- i.e., taking action and applying for a job at the company -- has increased by roughly 41 percent in the last two...

Recruiting and Marketing Tie the Knot — Are You Invited?

These days, recruiting is much more complex than it has ever been. Posting jobs on job boards can't be the only way you let candidates know about your openings anymore. Relying only on social media updates to spread your open positions isn't enough, either. Having a strong employment brand is becoming increasingly crucial. Organizations that come out on top in the recruiting game will be the...

How to Start Building a Better Employer Brand

Earlier this year, employer branding firm Universum released a four-part study, "2020 Outlook: the Future of Employer Branding." Based on a survey of more than 2000 HR professionals and CEOs from around the world, the study looks at where employer branding is today and how employer branding may evolve over the next five years. In the course of the next few weeks, we'll be...

Are Job Hoppers the Problem — or Are Some Employers Behind the Times?

For years, being a job hopper -- that is, a candidate who has held a high number of jobs in a short span of time – was liable to get you dismissed as a candidate by most employers. In the old world, where the job-for-life was the norm and where contingent work really was a radical, new-age philosophy, job hopping was seen as an involuntary act, a sure sign of a candidate who was both unstable...

How to Kill a Career

The president of a large financial services company went on a fact-finding tour of regional offices. When he got to Illinois, the local management carefully handpicked several veterans and a couple of promising new recruits to attend the fact-finding dinner. The new recruits were the most gung-ho in the office. The veterans could be counted on to behave with discretion; they understood company...

Teach Your Employees About Career-Boosting Email Habits

If there's one element of the workplace that is common to us all, it is email. From CEOs to interns, we are all email users. In fact, the recent "FewClix Email Time Suck Survey" conducted by Kelton Global found that the average American spends 90 minutes with email every day! Pew Research found that 61 percent of professionals view email as a "very important" workplace...

Programmatic Advertising: a Better Way to Place Job Ads?

Over the past seven or eight years, programmatic advertising has become the marketer's best friend. Compared to other methods of buying ads, programmatic advertising delivers dramatically higher returns on investment, and it allows for a more targeted approach to placing ads in front of the right audiences. It should come as no surprise, then, that more and more marketers are turning to...

3 Tips to Reduce Your New Hire's Time-to-Productivity

A few years back, we noted an that the recruiting industry was moving its focus away from speed-of-hire, emphasizing quality-of-hire instead. But, despite this shift -- an perhaps unsurprisingly -- speed-of-hire has not disappeared entirely as a KPI. If anything, it seems that the combination of an increasingly competitive corporate climate and a somewhat justifiable paranoia about finding...

Colorado Says Medical Marijuana Can Get You Fired

The mixture of medical marijuana and employment just got a lot murkier in Colorado. The state's Supreme Court ruled that an employee can be fired for using medical marijuana because it's, well, illegal. That's the basic reasoning behind the decision handed down on June 15. The problem is that medical marijuana use is legal under Colorado state law, but it's not legal under federal law....

3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Embarking on a Management Career

It used to be that all employees would, at some point or another, have to consider a tough question: "Is my useful life as a worker coming to an end, and is it time to move into management to make something of my career?" In truth, however, this question may be on its way out. Moving into management is no longer the only way out of a potential career dead end. In many companies today,...

3 Tips to Help You Win the Workplace Game of Thrones

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." -- Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones Thankfully, the stakes are not quite so high in the workplace: failure does not lead to death. You can actually just move to another company if things go south. Still, though, you have to do a fair bit of maneuvering in the workplace if you want to ascend the corporate...

Busting 5 Myths About Full-Service Recruiting Firms

Is your company's hiring policy a means to an end, or a means to a beginning? In other words: are you hiring simply to fill positions, or are you seeking the right individuals who can help the company improve its overall performance and exceed its goals? We live in an era when employees across the board are being stretched thin as companies balance productivity with pressures on the...

Bragging About the Negatives

This article originally appeared at BarryMaher.com. Republished here courtesy of Barry Maher. "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw It's 3:30 on a hot Friday afternoon. The room is stuffy, and we've drawn the blinds against the direct sunlight so it's dark, almost cave-like. The three people I'm with have been...

5 Ways to Make Quora Work to Your Advantage

The era of social media, online communities, and self-publishing platforms has made it easier than ever for HR-tech companies to connect with their audiences. One site that's rising in popularity with everyone from job seekers to company CEOs to your grandmother is community-fueled question-and-answer site Quora. While question-and-answer websites aren't anything new, Quora's creative...

6 Things You Should Know BEFORE Your Next Job Interview

Want to ace your next job interview? There are a few things you should know first. We asked a group of successful entrepreneurs and business owners for their thoughts on the what every job seeker should know before they walk into the interview room. The answers below are provided by members of BusinessCollective, a virtual mentor-ship program powered by America's most ambitious...

4 Ways to Efficiently Schedule Candidate Interviews

Are you available Wednesday at 9? No? How about Thursday at 2? Scheduling an interview time that works best for you and your candidate is kind of like playing a not-so-fun game of tennis. You lob a time over to them, they lob a time back over to you, and so on until you come to a mutual agreement. In the current candidate-driven job market, competition for the market's top talent has...

Building a Better Onboarding Process, One Employee at a Time

Before proceeding, stop for a moment and ask yourself: How do I onboard employees? Do you have a planned and carefully executed onboarding process, or do you just give new hires a few forms to fill out, issue their computers, and tell them to go figure things out on their own? If the latter describes your onboarding process, then Connie Bentley, U.S. general manager at Insights Learning...

5 Great Tools to Turn Your Resume Into a Visual Masterpiece

Visual information is important. Some sources say visuals may account for as much as 90 percent of the information transmitted to the brain, though other sources question the validity of this stat. Still, we can't deny that visuals are a powerful way to communicate. So, if you want to make a lasting impact on an employer, you may want to consider making your resume visually attractive. Word...

5 Important Questions You Need to Ask Global Talent

Recruiters are feeling the strain of a tough hiring market. Skilled talent is hard to come by, and employers are looking to new talent pools to fill positions. In fact, 25 percent of respondents in ManpowerGroup's "2014 Talent Shortage Survey" said they are searching for new talent sources. To find the talent you need, it's time to start thinking globally. That being said, hiring...

Use Your Office Environment as a Way to Retain Top Talent

Advertising-technology startup AdBoom Group, Inc., has only been around for about three years now, but in those three years, the company has moved offices three times. It's not that AdBoom can't commit -- just that the company was outgrowing its offices quickly. As more and more employees joined the staff, the company found itself needing bigger and bigger spaces. In the midst of all...

Think a Poor Hiring Process Is Harmful? Here's the Proof

We've all shared our stories of bad service experiences with friends and family members. It starts after you've hung up a customer service call or walked away from a retail organization, miffed and aggravated at the poor treatment you received. No place is immune to these stories -- not the doctor's office, not even Starbucks. And, here the thing: people have choices after poor service...

Forget Kindergarten! I Learned About Workplaces From Batman!

Some people learned everything they needed to know about life in kindergarten -- but I learned everything I needed to know about life -- and the workplace -- from Batman! I'm not talking that Dark Knight guy; I'm talking about Adam West's Batman -- that fun, campy Batman from the 1960s. So slide down the Batpole with me, and let's explore! There Are Villains in Our...

8 Qualities Every Entrepreneur Must Have

Lots of people dream about starting their own business, but wonder if entrepreneurship is right for them. Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and backgrounds, so it can be tricky to nail down any particular formula for success. However, who better to ask them a group of already successful entrepreneurs? We asked a group of successful entrepreneurs and business owners for their...