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Are You Overpaying Your Staff?

Deciding how much to pay your staff members can be a very complex decision, especially if you operate in a niche sector or you hire for niche roles, which leaves you with few organizations against which you can reliably benchmark your salaries. Similarly, small companies may run into compensation issues when they have multiple employees sharing roles multiple roles, or one employee fulfilling a...

The Importance of Personal Branding in Your Job Search

How can you make a name for yourself online and on paper? In honor of Name Yourself Day -- which will be observed on April 9 -- we're taking a look at five ways you can build your personal brand while searching for a job opportunity. 1. Anchor Statement According to branding strategist Karen Leland, a good place to start is your anchor statement, which Fast Company writer Chris...

Why Tuesday Is a Job Seeker's Favorite Day

... or, at least, Tuesday should be a job seeker's favorite day, according to new research from SmartRecruiters. After analyzing data from more than 270,000 U.S. and Canadian jobs posted in its system, the company found that: Tuesday is the most popular day in the hiring world: more companies post jobs on Tuesdays, more job seekers apply to jobs on Tuesdays, and more people get hired on...

Drip Marketing Best Practices for Recruiters

How to Automate Ongoing Candidate Outreach to Create More Touch Points, Build Authentic Relationships, and Fill Up Your Recruiting Funnel With Top Talent (Without All the Work) More companies are coming to the realization that sales and recruiting have quite a bit in common. Outside of the obvious audience variation -- potential customers vs. prospective employees -- the two fields share a...

The Cover Letter Is Dead

Recruiting is a fast-paced and ever-changing industry in which we have to constantly keep up with the latest hiring trends and anticipate future shifts in the job market that are effected by various complex factors. Especially in my field of recruiting for technology industry sales, marketing, and business development positions, we have to stay at the forefront of the latest innovations so we...

Claim Your Tax Credits From 2014: What Employers Need to Know About WOTC's 'Transitional Relief Period'

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is "a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring individuals from certain target groups who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment," per the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. "Target groups" include certain veterans, recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), ex-felons, and...

The Gap Between What Managers Want and What Candidates Have [Infographic]

Let's kick this off on a cynical note: are you a job seeker looking for entry-level employment? Then you should know that there's a good chance you don't have the skills and competencies that your potential managers want you to have. This is according to new research from software company Instructure, the maker of popular learning management system (LMS) Canvas. The company surveyed 781...

The Position Description: a Poor Starting Point in Defining the Ideal Candidate

As with most of us, I've been on both sides of the table when it comes to the recruitment process. I've searched for and interviewed for positions myself, and I've been responsible for recruiting the right candidate as a hiring manager. It seems that this "flip-side" experience should provide us with important insights into how we ultimately direct and improve our efforts in recruiting new...

How a More Open Mind Can Help Employers Find Star Talent

With talent shortages looming across (almost) every industry, employers are looking for new and innovative ways to locate and attract talent. However, innovation means more than using the latest social media platforms or HR technologies -- it means opening the mind and abandoning an outdated and perfectionist approach to the talent market. This dusty outlook can be highly intolerant of...

Sticking It to 'the Man': Why Millennials Are Going Freelance

Steven Cox, CEO of teaching and learning marketplace TakeLessons, knows a guy. More specifically, he's a young guy, 24 years old, which places him squarely in the millennial demographic. What's interesting about this guy is what he does for a living: he drives for Lyft during the day; he teaches French lessons via TakeLessons at night. He also works as a part-time pet sitter through...

3 Ways to Take Your Recruitment Outside the Box

You've screened the applicants, held the interviews, and given company tours. And yet, finding a quality candidate to fill your position still feels like an uphill battle. You're not alone: 75 percent of business and HR leaders say they are struggling to attract and recruit the top talent they need. Sometimes, the basic recruiting techniques can seem a little ... bland. Spicing up the...

5 Ways to Reduce Costs of Corporate Training

Corporations must now pile more and more pressure on their internal learning and development (LD) processes in order to train underqualified and under-skilled workers. Why? Because the hiring process is failing to bring fully qualified talent through the door, thanks to chronic global talent shortages. A CareerBuilder study found that 49 percent of employers are planning to hire...

What Should You Do With C Players?

Research from the Harvard Business Review found that a company's success is not only dependent on the careful management of A and B performers: it also depends on how effectively C players (defined for our purposes as "the bottom 20 percent of performers") are pruned. Its clear that C players should shape up or ship out -- that is, they need to be energized, re-energized, or fired. Even...

Compensation and Recognition: Workplace Lifelines

Owning a car means accepting the fact that your car will need continuous fixes, updates, and servicing. As frustrating as it is, filling the gas tank, changing the oil, and putting on new tires are all completely necessary to the healthy life of an automobile. Similarly, if you want your organization's employees to work at their most effective capacities, those employees will need...

The Right and Wrong Ways to Do Background Checks

Chris Dyer is the CEO of the national background check company PeopleG2. His company handles an average of 40,000 transactions each month for clients ranging in revenue from $25-60 million, using "private eyes" to review each file. PeopleG2's clients include Turners Outdoorsman, Clean Energy Corporation, and Care Ambulance. We asked him recently about the changing world of background checks...

5 Habits All Successful Employees Have

Finding a job is hard enough, but maintaining one can be just as challenging. Luckily, it doesn't have to be terribly difficult, as long as you understand the ins and outs of proper conduct in any employment setting. Below are five habits that every successful employee should have if they want to thrive in their role: 1. Be on Time Punctuality might seem like an obvious prerequisite for...

9 Tips for Recruiting Veterans on College Campuses

A few months ago, I spoke with military veteran and director of Genesis10's veterans program Nick Swaggert for a two-part series on veterans in the workforce (part one; part two). I mention it here because 1.) I'm a self-promoting cad, and 2.) I think these articles serve as a good introduction for today's piece. Tom Borgerding, CEO of college-marketing agency Campus Media Group and creator...

Need More Applications? Check Your Job Advertisements

On average, 118 people apply for any given job. Having trouble getting that many candidates to apply for open roles at your company? The job itself may not be the problem; rather, the requirements and job description may be driving candidates away. Framing the job in a way that is relatable, realistic, and true to your company can turn a vacant position into a position worth clamoring for in the...

10 Employee Referral Program Fast Facts

Employee referral programs can be the lifeblood of the recruitment process. The quality of the candidates -- as well as the retention rate -- is higher for applicants recruited through employee referral programs than it is for employees recruited through other means. Your employees know the culture in the office and what kind of work ethic it takes to perform above par at your company, and...

4 Tips to Remove Unconscious Bias From the Hiring Process

Unconscious bias and negative stereotyping can do serious damage to the equality and fairness of the modern hiring process. For example, a recent study found that men are twice as likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women, even if the men and women appear equally qualified. This is likely only the tip of the iceberg, and unconscious bias is thought to negatively impact hiring right...

3 Reasons to Invest in Posting and Promoting Job Ads on Social Media

Posting job advertisements to social media channels has become increasingly popular as networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter make it easier to reach passive candidates in the job market. Active candidates look to job boards and career pages for available positions, but social media job posts attract a broader audience. Ninety-three percent of recruiters are already using or plan to use...

Why Recognizing and Rewarding Your Employees Matters Most

Many of us have heard the expression, "They didn't quit their job, they quit their boss." While this holds true for 3 out of 4 employees, we have to ask: aside from addressing a terrible boss, what can be done to keep employees in the office engaged, motivated, and inspired? Let's start by looking at what enticed the job seeker to come to your organization in the first place: 94...

Ask Away: Is It Ever Okay to Say 'No' at Work?

Welcome to Ask Away! Every Monday, we pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This Week's Question: You have a job to do, and you answer to a boss -- but is it ever okay to say "no" at work? When, if ever, do you have...

4 Important Things to Do Before Your First Day at Your New Job

What should you do in that strange limbo period after you've accepted a job offer and before you have started your new job -- apart from congratulating yourself and indulging in a few celebratory drinks, of course? Should you be settling old scores with your boss or coworkers? Should you badmouth your employer on social media? Should you do absolutely nothing but wait? I probably wouldn't...

Five Tips to Retain Your Top Millennial Talent

Why do companies, large and small, spend so much time worrying about how to retain millennial (aka: Gen. Y) employees? Well, aside from the big expense they incur for recruiting and training millennial talent, there's something else. According to the Employment Policy Foundation (EPF), our country is at the beginning of a labor shortage of approximately 35 million skilled and educated...

The One Word Your ATS Can't Find: Potential

The skills gap, millennials, ill-preparedness: what other problems are you facing in today's talent-sourcing landscape? Seventy-five percent of business and HR leaders are struggling to attract and recruit the people they need -- but are those leaders overlooking a crucial candidate trait? Have recruiters and hiring managers forgotten about potential? According to Fast Company, "companies...

Here Are the Secrets That Will Make Your Employees Stay

A new poll from Right Management reveals that 86 percent of employees intend to actively seek a new position this year. The recovering economy has renewed job confidence, which inspires career mobility. If employees can find clear paths for advancement, training, and learning opportunities in their current careers, you can expect they will be more likely to jump ship. How do you keep your...

5 Key Benefits to Negotiate in Addition to Your Pay Package

Many of you have probably heard that it's very important not to accept the first slary offer a potential employer makes; rather, you are supposed to negotiate the package. Generally, that's sound advice, as research from CareerBuilder found that 70 percent of firms will leave some wiggle room when making salary offers, and if you don't negotiate, you are literally leaving money on the...

Growing Pains: How to Streamline Workflow in an Expanding Startup

Startups -- especially in the tech sector -- occupy a semi-magical place in the cultural imagination: we tend to think of them as little workplace utopias, small communities in which everyone wears jeans, lounges on designer furniture, and -- somehow -- disrupts the market while, at the same time, basking the day away in the glow of their super-hip offices. But the laxity of the startup...

Applying for Roles in Niche-Market Companies

While aiming to work for big brands and recognizable names is commendably ambitious, you should be sure to keep your options open and explore the possibilities in the job market offered by smaller, independent outlets, too. Smaller companies can offer new graduates more responsibility and a wider range of experiences as they develop employees into long-lasting members of close-knit teams....

Do You Recruit in a Telecommute-Friendly State?

Whether or not your organization is a leader in its industry, it can stand out by having a robust flexible work program. What work flexibility policies does it have in place already, if any? Many of the top companies in the country are offering flex to their employees, and with good reason. It's estimated that over 80 percent of people would work from home if their companies offered it to them...

3 Tips to Actually Reach Your Recruitment Goals in 2015

It's one thing to dream up a goal, it's another to set one, and it's a whole different ball game when it comes to the process of actually reaching a goal. Now that we are entering Q2, you have probably already set your recruitment goals for 2015. Whether your goals are departmental, for your professional team, or address the entire organization, there are steps you can take now to ensure...

New Rules for Recruiting and HR: How Content Marketing and Video Are Transforming Talent Acquisition

Over the past year, HR thought leaders have embraced and adopted marketing techniques and strategies -- with good reason. The short supply of skilled laborers in many markets has forced organizations to aggressively identify and target both active and passive candidates, essentially promoting and differentiating their organizations and open positions from the competition. HR must now "act like...

Will Computer-Automated Hiring Ever Become the Norm?

Last week, during a networking group discussion about the rise of robot workers, I was introduced to the seemingly innocuous but strangely portentous phrase 'below the API'. It seems that, in this high-tech world, jobs are split into two classes: those above the API, and those below it. Above-the-API jobs are jobs related to writing software applications that perform tasks, and below-the-API...

4 Great Hacks to Get Your Boss to Invest in HR Technology

We are in the midst of a technological boom, with new gadgets and tools constantly arriving to refine, improve, and elevate existing processes. While it's exciting to see all this progress, there are many frustrated HR professionals out there who struggle to get investment in HR technology initiatives. These pros must sit and watch from the sidelines, working with a confusing mix of hard-copy...

Do Your Job Titles Drive Away Younger Candidates?

It wasn't too long ago that I was on the job hunt that would eventually lead me to Recruiter.com, and I can still vividly recall toiling away at my laptop for hours every day, scouring job boards for jobs I was qualified to perform. As we all know, the job hunt frustrates in myriad ways. For me personally, one of the most annoying things was the fact that I seemed to repeatedly come across job...

What to Look for When Hiring Your First Recruiter

Your company is growing, and that means more business. More business means it's harder to handle everything yourself -- including hiring new team members to share some of the burden. You don't have the time to search for talent yourself, so you'll need a recruiter. You can't just choose any old person to be your recruiter. No, there are certain skills and traits you need to look for. Here...

Want to Take the Fear Out of Hiring? Build More Trust

Right after video interviewing was introduced, recruiters in the contingent staffing world -- especially those recruiting technical talent -- saw a clear, if unexpected, benefit to the technology: they could now prevent the dreaded "bait-and-switch." Before video interviewing hit the scene, most technical verification occurred by telephone, and anybody could stand in and pretend to be a...

Rise Above the Shortcomings of Your ATS

The ATS is the weapon of choice for many in the recruiting and hiring processes. And while it offers a lot of important functions -- cataloguing resumes, tracking candidate progress, measuring metrics like time-to-fill, etc. -- the ATS needs some supplemental help if recruiters are to compensate for its shortcomings, says Andrew Jacobson, founder and CEO of 360Candidate. According to Jacobson,...

Marketing to Millennials: the Power of 'Authentic Interactions'

We don't normally write about issues of B2B vending. We are, after all, a website dedicated to the world of recruiting. But IBM has an impressive track record when it comes to studies on everyone's favorite hot topic, the millennial, and the company's latest effort, "To Buy or Not to Buy: How Millennials Are Reshaping B2B Marketing," is no different. But more than just being thorough and...

3 Tips to Re-Engage Yourself at Your Work

Do you struggle to find reasons to come to work on Mondays morning? Do you sleepwalk through the week at work and simply live for the weekend? Then you might be one of the millions of disengaged employees across the world. According to Gallup, such disengaged workers account for 62 percent of the workforce -- so you're far from alone. While some of the blame for this disengaged state of...

How to Manage Freelancers

"I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he refused them ... thanks to the bustling times, a man of action will always find employment," Sir Walter Scott wrote in his classic novel, Ivanhoe. Scott (allegedly) coined the term "free lances" to mean people with no particular allegiance who would sell their services to anyone -- and thus, we get the modern word,...

Ask Away: What Do I Write in My Cover Letter?

Welcome to Ask Away! Every Monday, we pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This Week's Question: There's no way around it: cover letters are a pain. When applying for pretty much any job, you need to include one...

How to Attract Talent With Effective Storytelling

In a job seekers' market, employer branding is important. In fact, among executives and HR professionals surveyed for a December 2014 Brandemix report, 80 percent said they believe employer branding is effective. But employer branding is more than just promoting a company online -- like marketing and advertising, it relies on effective storytelling. When done right, telling the company's...

7 Tips on Social Media for Job Seekers

We've all heard the horror stories: a careless tweet, a thoughtless photo, and suddenly your whole life comes crashing down. While we hope that you'll never face an online scandal of such epic proportions, the fact is that employers may check your online presence along with your references before they hire you. Social media has the potential to make or break your job search, so use it...

4 Ways to Find Star Performers in the Underqualified Candidate Market

With talent shortages affecting many areas of the talent market, employers now have to utilize new and innovative ways of finding and attracting talent. One unfashionable -- but potentially effective -- tactic for dealing with talent shortages is hiring underqualified staff and training them on-the-job, with the goal of making them into competent employees or even high-performing superstars....

How Recruiting Analytics Takes Talent Acquisition From Gut to Great

The days of making recruiting decisions based on gut instincts alone are fading fast. An article published last year by the Harvard Business Review says that "humans are very good at specifying what's needed for a position and eliciting information from candidates -- but they're very bad at weighing the results." The authors found that simple computer algorithms outperform human...

How Business Acumen Can Help You Grow Your Career

Business acumen is defined as the behavior that produces a keenness and quickness in dealing with business situations. Good outcomes are the result of business acument. In order to manage effective business operations or to be an effective employee, a person must possess strong business acumen. It precedes leadership, and leadership takes time to cultivate. While there are numerous traits that...