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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...

Big Data Points to Who Is Leaving and Who Is Staying

The use of data analytics could help you identify who might be prime for the picking for your recruitment efforts. The next time you cold call a prospect, consider asking them questions that could help them recognize the need to move onto greener pastures. A recent Wall Street Journal article entitled "The Algorithm That Tells the Boss Who Might Quit" focuses on how employers can spot which...

'It's Quite Wonky': the Real-Life Market Value of Good Company Culture

It's a story we in the HR and recruiting communities tell ourselves every day: a great company culture leads to happier, more engaged employees; happier, more engaged employees are more productive and perform better than their less satisfied counterparts; when employees are more productive and perform better, the company performs better overall; therefore, great a company culture leads to a...

4 Ways to Get Reluctant Staff to Adopt Your New HR Software

We live in an exciting world of business software, one in which it seems there is a new exciting piece of technology coming out every day. It's a world where consumers and journalists are constantly raving about the next big thing. As an HR professional, however, you may find yourself brought down to earth with a bang when you invest in and deploy some new HR technology only to find that...

How to Land a Job at the Startup of Your Dreams

Jeff Ball knows startups. In 2013, he founded Visio Financial Services, an online lending platform for residential real estate investors, and the company has grown quickly since then. (Ball currently serves as president and CEO of Visio). Ball is also the president and one of the founders of Econohomes, which buys and resells "distressed" investment properties, and which has earned Ball a spot...

5 Tips for Leading Your MultiGenerational Workforce to Success

Research shows that in 2015, the millennial generation -- people between 18 and 34 years of age -- will become the largest generation in the modern workforce, even bigger than the baby boomer generation. This finding highlights how the overall generational makeup of the workforce changes each year as boomers retire and more millennials enter the workforce. The multigenerational workforce is not a...

Do You Know How to Assess EQ?

When assessing a candidate's potential, its easy to focus solely on verifying their technical and functional skills -- probably too easy. In the world of hiring, there is definitely a tendency to emphasize assessment criteria that are tangible, easily measured, and readily verifiable. It's the path of least resistance. The irony is that these "tangible" skills have only a small bearing (11...

Ask Away: I Was Fired — Now How Do I Get Hired?

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new weekly column! Every Monday, we'll 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: When you're fired from a job, it leaves a black mark on your resume -- one...

5 Tips to Break Out of Middle Management and Into the C-Suite

Middle management is an important stepping stone on the road to becoming a senior vice president, executive vice president, or C-level executive -- but it's also an unforgiving and fairly precarious place to be, and you shouldn't hang around there too long. Research shows that middle managers are not exactly held in the highest regard by senior managers, and, subsequently, it's one of the first...

5 Ways to Sharpen Your Competitive Edge With Video Interviewing

You've just received a new job order, and you have the perfect candidate in mind. Unfortunately, after viewing the candidate's resume and looking over your notes, your client isn't convinced this person is right for the job. As the competition for top talent grows, recruiters and staffing pros must strive to set themselves apart in an effort to find quality talent and retain happy...

"Do the Decent Thing": Candidates Are People, Too

There's a lot to complain about when it comes to the world of recruiting: shoddy tools, obscenely high volumes, a shrinking talent pool, etc., etc., ad nauseam. But for Chris Hague, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) director at TempWorks Staffing Software, the single biggest problem in recruiting today is the lack of follow-up. "My bugbear is really what happens to afterwards, when...

3 Steps to Ace a Lunch Interview

If count yourself a foodie, the idea of a lunch interview may seem like a dream come true. You know that the employer will be looking to make a good impression on you, so you can expect a lovely setting, haute cuisine, and fine wine. (I exaggerate only a little). Of course, there is no reason not to enjoy the interviewer's hospitality, but you should also remember this is, in fact, an...

Will Face-to-Face Interviewing Die Out?

Face-to-face interviewing is under attack from video interviewing -- just look at the statistics. Aberdeen Group has shown that while only 10 percent of companies used video interviewing in 2011, 42 percent were using it by 2012. As of January 2014, CNBC reports that roughly 63 percent of companies use video interviewing. Given the trends, it's likely the number is even higher today. As video...

Is It Time to Introduce a New Class of Employee?

There are currently 16 million "freelancers, consultants, and other independent workers" in the U.S., according to a study conducted by MBO Partners. Moreover, this same study predicts that, by 2020, these workers will account for the majority of the U.S. workforce. Within the next decade, MBO's study says, the U.S. will have between 65 and 70 million independent workers in the workforce. That...

Have You Upgraded Your Talent Strategy to Version 2.0?

The traditional workforce, the one that we all know and love, has until recently been largely composed of colocated workers. By this, we mean mostly full-time employees working in the same building and collaborating on projects face-to-face. Call this "Workforce 1.0." As we can see, however, the world -- and the workplace practices of the world -- is quickly evolving. Many modern-day...

The Power of a Unified Brand

If you align employer and consumer branding, you'll see benefits that impact every level of a company. Universum conducted a survey of over 2,000 senior executives, including CEOs, HR and recruiting heads, and marketing professionals, on the topic of employer and consumer branding. The insights Universum gained point to new shifts in marketing and branding that will impact companies for years to...

Does Unconscious Bias Damage Your Hiring?

In light of the continued challenges organizations face in their talent retention efforts, I was drawn to a recent study from Korn Ferry. The study found that an overwhelming 84 percent of respondents believed that a lack of attention to diversity and inclusion is a key driver of employee turnover. We have always known that lack of diversity is a problem, but the link between diversity and...

Knowledge Is Power: Tips on Data-Driven Decision-Making For Job Seekers and Employers

You'd be forgiven if you think of "data" as just another one of the recruiting industry's favorite buzzwords, meant to add a dignified sheen of "hard science" to processes that often rely on (unfairly maligned) softer skills. Think "big data," "data-driven," and similar, somewhat annoyingly overused phrases. You'd be forgiven, really -- but you'd also be making a terrible mistake. Data really...

The 4 Worst Ways to Start a New Job

Caught up in the excitement of a new job, it's easy -- and somewhat foolhardy -- to take success in your new position for granted. Come back down to earth, and you'll find that success in a new role is far from guaranteed: studies show that 46 percent of new hires fail within the first 18 months. Statistics are hardly on your side. It's vital, then, that you handle this new-hire period...

Does the State You Live in Affect the Kind of Job Seeker You Are? [Infographic]

Back in late January, we posted an infographic from personality assessment and career test providers Truity Psychometrics that explored how people's personalities may play a role in their career paths. Now, Truity offers another infographic, one that dives into how the state a person lives in may shape their personality. "Is there any truth to the stereotypes of the hospitable Southerner,...

Harness the Power of Online Forms to Boost Your HR Efforts

It's hard to get excited about online forms, especially when your focus is on finding and retaining dynamic talent for your company. But by executing high-quality online forms, your HR department will become perhaps the single most indispensable asset to your company. And the great thing is that upping your form game will not only help you attract employees, but hang on to them as well....

Is Passive Recruiting Dead?

For many years, the headhunting process was a dark art, performed by high-powered private-investigator-type recruiters. Their weapons of choice were little more than landline telephones, corporate directories, endless cups of coffee, and private networking meetings. They were elusive creatures: you couldn't find them, but they found you. Social media and mobile technology changed all that....

Ask Away: How Do I Ask for a Raise?

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new weekly column! Every Monday, we'll pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question on employment data 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: While many people may feel like they deserve a raise, they...

Will the Future Still Need You? How to Ensure It Does

It's probably fair to say that discussions surrounding the rise of robot workers and the subsequent displacement of human workers have mostly been confined to futurology seminars and science-fiction films. Nowadays, however, these kinds of conversations have been moving into the mainstream. Just recently, both the esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking and the global philanthropist Bill...

Choosing the Best Employee Training Software for Your Business

Often, when businesses implement training programs, they use tools like PowerPoint, shared binders, and spreadsheets, making it difficult to track and verify the results of training programs. Fortunately, creating a robust training program does not have to be an impossible, time-consuming task. There are three major considerations you should take when you begin to vet training-software...

Basic Digital Skills Can Lead to a Middle Class Life

Odds are if you are reading this article, you have some digital skills. The real question is: do you have the right ones? A new report shows a growing divide between those who have certain digital skills and those who are falling behind. A study of job postings by Burning Glass Technologies and Capital One found that middle-skill jobs that require digital skills are outpacing those that do...

Reduce Job-Seeking Anxiety, One Session at a Time

According to the Department of Numbers, 8,979,000 people were unemployed in January 2015. Everyone needs to make money in order to survive in society, so what is it that keeps some of the population from obtaining jobs? The answer varies from person to person. According to Demetrius Cheeks, writing for Forbes, some job seekers limit their opportunities because they have low self-esteem,...

Making Your Employee's First Day Their Best Day

An employee's first day on the job can sometimes be their worst. It's often filled with paperwork and onboarding activities, and they rarely get a chance to actually work. The first day of a new hire's job is often not indicative of what it's really like to work at the company. Despite the highly developed skill set a new hire may have -- say, a highly skilled programmer entering their...

5 Screening Questions That Candidates Should Ask Before Applying for a Job

It takes a lot of time and effort to send out a job application, and for this reason, you need to make sure that every application you send out counts. You can do this by being highly selective in your job search and only applying to jobs for which you know you are a great fit. You should assess the suitability of any role by asking yourself a set of screening questions that will sort the good...

A Perfect Storm, but in a Good Way: Millennials and the Rapidly Modernizing Workforce

Generally speaking, whenever I discover that yet another company is releasing a study on "millennials in the workforce," I roll my eyes. Great, I think to myself. Another chance for a bunch of bored researchers to tell me about what kind of person I am purported to be. Not so with IBM's latest report, "Myths, Exaggerations, and Uncomfortable Truths: the Real Story Behind Millennials in...

6 Job Interview Warning Signs

You did everything right -- wrote a stellar cover letter, proofread your resume until it was 100 percent error free, and networked until your hands were sore from all of that handshaking -- and your efforts finally paid off. You've scored an interview. Press your best suit and get ready to describe your greatest strengths and weaknesses. You've got this. But make sure you want it. Remember...

Should You Fire That Bad Hire?

It may seem like the tempting and practical solution, but quickly firing bad hires may not be a sustainable solution when you look at the figures. For example, the typical hiring process using structured interviews and tests is perhaps 50 percent reliable, and that statistic is borne out by a Leadership IQ study which found that 46 percent of new hires fail in the first 18 months. If you...

Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace: Are You Doing It Right?

Most people can text, tweet, and fire off emails practically in their sleep. In fact, one in four people spend more time socializing online than in person. What does this mean for our in-person communication skills -- especially at work? Allen Webster, author of Applied Statistics for Business and Economics, says, "Without communication and the team effort it permits, the successful...

Reworking the Modern Office

If you're thinking about redoing your office, you have quite the task ahead of you. The vast, drab cubicle farms of the Office Space era still reign supreme: 40 million Americans are surrounded by modular walls as they work, and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon. Not only are workers who work within the confines of the cubicle more likely to get sick from bacteria...

Ask Away: Do Company Dress Codes Matter?

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new weekly column! Every Monday (we know, we know: today is Wednesday. But usually we do Mondays!), we'll pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question on jobs data 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...

Improve Your Video Interview Technology; Understand Your Candidates Better

The candidate looked great on paper. The resume was stellar, and she had all the right qualifications. So, you arrange to have her flown in from halfway across the country. You're excited to finally meet with her – but when you do, you know within five minutes that she's not the right fit. What's more, the candidate has already met with four or five other people before sitting down with...

How to Find Tech Talent in a Shortage

Recruiters in the IT space are feeling the strain of a skills-based talent shortage. More and more IT professionals with specialized skills are needed, and there's not enough talent to go around. Although tech talent may be hard to find, recruiting the best is possible by leveraging the power of big data and analytics. Predictive analytics use statistics, data, and algorithms to determine...

'Sometimes, Entrepreneurship Is Thrust Upon You': Guy Kawasaki on Art, Hard-Boiled Eggs, and Why Business Plans Don't Matter

Near the end of our conversation, Guy Kawasaki starts talking to me about hard-boiled eggs. If you had asked me just yesterday morning to guess what kinds of things the author, speaker, chief evangelist of Canva, and former Google advisor and Apple evangelist would bring up in our interview, hard-boiled eggs would not be on the list. But there he was, talking about hard-boiled eggs. Except, of...

Who Runs the World? Freelancers!

In a survey of over 200 organizations, the Aberdeen Group found nearly 22 percent of their employees would be considered freelancers by the beginning of 2015 -- and the numbers are only climbing. But what exactly is freelance work, and should you, as a job seeker, become a part of this growing sector of the talent market? Essentially, "freelance work" means one can pursue as many or as few...

3 Recruiting Claims You Shouldn't Believe

Associate Professor Emeritus of Baruch College Aaron Levenstein once said, "Statistics are like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." Between manipulating sample sizes, asking leading questions, and presenting findings in a deceitful way, people have plenty of tactics for making statistics say whatever they want them to say -- and sometimes, the stats are...

A Sorority Sister's View on IT Recruiting

Melanie Batenchuk is the chief of operations and brand management for a boutique IT firm in the Washington, D.C., area called Scope Group. She wrote an article recently for a national sorority website that prompted us to do a QA with her about millennials, recruiting, and the IT field in general. Recruiter.com: Describe Scope Group and your role there. Melanie Batenchuk: I joined...

4 Tips for Feeling Powerful at Job Interviews

If you want to perform to your maximum at interview and leave the best impression, you'll need to deploy strategies that actively boost your confidence. Research shows that confident candidates have an advantage over less-confident candidates in interview settings. The study in question asked one group of participants to write about a previous experience in which they had a lot of power and...

How to Create a Company Blog That Attracts Talent

You've tried every tool in your recruiting toolbox to attract talent to your company. You've added candidates on LinkedIn, attempted to recruit talent on Twitter, and even spruced up your job descriptions. Unfortunately, none of these tactics have helped you attract the talent you desire for your open positions. However, there is a solution that many recruiters forget when attracting...

When It Comes to Determining 'Fit,' It's About What You See and Hear — Not What You Ask

With apologies to Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a recruiter in possession of a role to fill must be in want of a candidate who "fits" that role. But "fit" is such a strange thing -- a pressing concern in any hiring matter, but also a vaporous notion, a concept we all kind of know and understand but can't always articulate. It has something to do with skills and...