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A Seat at the Table: All You Need to Know to Foster DEI in the Workplace

Companies can become more competitive and attract top talent by finding new ways to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. However, every company is different, and each needs to create its personalized plan. Andrea del Angel, Recruiter.com's marketing content manager, hosted a webinar panel with speakers from other companies on the importance of DEI and how...

Are AI Job Interviews Really Effective?

Companies are always looking for practical AI tools to make recruitment easier and more efficient. With increasing numbers of applications to screen, recruiters often struggle to streamline a growing workload, making AI recruiting tools an appealing solution. More companies are turning to automated video interview software to minimize hire time, help recruiters screen more applicants...

3 Compelling Hiring Best Practices to Scale a Small Business Quickly

Hiring is one of the essential steps in the recruitment process. To boost their performance, engagement, and retention, newcomers must successfully transition. SHRM reported that onboarding had become a big part of 72% of respondents' retention strategies in a recent survey of employers' onboarding programs. In addition, 61% of respondents have started onboarding early, focusing more on...

How to Close the Gender Promotion Gap

Women are falling behind men across nearly all industries and roles when it comes to advancing their careers. The gender pay gap is particularly prominent in the technology industry, with around five women promoted for every ten men. Even though promotions are critical for job advancement, fewer women are often at the top of the corporate ladder. But what is the issue? Is it due to a lack...

Bringing Predictive Analytics into Recruitment

It is harder to find and keep great talent. However, poor hires are easy to make and have many adverse effects on firms, including decreased productivity, harm to their brand, and high turnover rates. As a result, businesses stand to lose much more than just money. Poor employees' effects on the company frequently also give hiring managers a negative reputation. Therefore, it is imperative...

5 Incredibly Effective Strategies for Inclusive Hiring

In this revamped corporate world, new trends are thriving at a swift pace. A lot about the corporate world has changed, and it seems like the caravan of transitions will be extended. Modern organizations embrace new trends from hiring to operations and customer service. Among these significant trends, diversity and inclusion in the workplace take a substantial lead over others. In...

5 Practical Methods to Retain the Top Tech Talent at Your Company

According to LinkedIn data, employees who are new to the company are twelve times more likely to depart, or even thirty times more likely. Employee retention refers to a company's capacity to retain key personnel. Replacing a position can cost up to twice the person's annual pay, highlighting the necessity of investing in employee retention methods. According to SHRM, the number of...

Little Interest in an Open Position? 9 Tips for Increasing the Number of Applications

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: If you're facing a lack of interest in one of your open positions, what's one thing you can do to increase the number of applications coming in? Why does this work so well? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only...

10 Tried-and-Tested Tips to Elevate Your Startup Recruitment Strategy

Today, most startups have a precarious financial situation that worsens things. About 90% of startups in the country fail because of a lack of innovation, non-availability of a skilled workforce, and insufficient funding are the main reasons for the high rate of failure. This issue is considerably more remarkable in a post-pandemic environment when firms can quickly fail without the proper...

How to Support the LGBTQ+ Community Year-Round — Not Just During Pride Month

Pride Month is always full of celebrations for the LGBTQ+ community. Still, too many corporations tend to take on performative activism — in which they choose to show support only for the month. They either forget about the community once June ends or actively support organizations against equality. No business wants to fall into this category. Employers can use these techniques to...

How Much Does it Cost to Hire Internal IT Staff in 2022?

Hiring the right employee can be one of the most challenging aspects of human resource management. But if you know what to look for in a candidate and when to bring in the right kind of help, you can quickly find and go through the onboarding process with a new employee. Thinking about ways to mitigate the overall cost of hiring is one of the most crucial components of hiring...

Compensation Communication: Managing Employee Pay Expectations Amid Rising Inflation

Over the past six months, as inflation continues to impact businesses and individuals nationwide, many employees are feeling the strain of the current economy, and their pay concerns are becoming increasingly important to address. These economic hardships also allow employers to lead conversations around the importance of pay transparency and how they provide it. Most employees...

7-Step Strategy for Building an Evergreen Talent Pool

A talent pool is a list of applicants considering working for your company. It comprises applicants who have previously applied for a position with your business, applicants you have found, and applicants others have recommended who would be a good fit for your company's competencies or mission values. Around 97% of the companies have the procedures to find next-generation leaders, but...

4 New Trends in Effective Recruiting

The Great Resignation has created a paradigm shift in how companies recruit. Employees have captured a significant degree of momentum and have created a booming job market for themselves. Job-seekers — particularly those with a high degree of talent and experience — can have their pick of the litter when considering their next career move. This new reality means traditional...

4 Compelling Benefits of Recruitment Automation that HR Leaders Shouldn't Overlook in 2022

Automation technology is rapidly transforming the talent acquisition landscape today. According to HubSpot's recent "Recruiting Automation Trends" report, nearly 75% of recruitment agencies believe that technology will play an essential role in their talent acquisition strategy in the future to expedite their hiring processes. According to a recent study, 90% of businesses already use...

The Ultimate Guide to Acing High Volume Hiring

How many employees, on average, do you onboard every month? While there may be enough to hire one to five individuals, organizations may need to hire high-volume and double these quantities. This phrase describes the process of searching for lots of individuals at once. More than 40% of American workers are looking for work or intend to do so soon. When Should High-Volume Hiring Be...

Navigating Background Screening Compliance Amid Regional Disparities

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, many employers now have a greater talent pool to choose from. They can hire from (almost) anywhere. While this is a massive win for recruiting efforts, it impacts the background screening process significantly because most employers must comply with layers of different regional regulations. For instance, if an employer is headquartered in Pennsylvania,...

The Only Startup Recruiting Guide You Need in 2022!

Finding and hiring the right people to help your company grow is critical to its success. And it all begins with a well-managed hiring process. After all, hiring the wrong person can leave you with extra hiring costs. According to the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), it takes thirty-six days to fill an open vacant position. When done correctly, an efficient employee...

6 Reasons to Hire Conscious Leaders

Finding the right leadership team is critical for any organization, but it's no secret that identifying, retaining, and developing exceptional leaders can be challenging. As the workplace has changed, what employers and employees expect from leaders has shifted, focusing on open communication, employee well-being, fair and transparent decision-making, and the ability to inspire and empower...

How to Handle Microaggressions in the Workplace

According to one survey, 60% of people said they had witnessed or almost witnessed a microaggression in the workplace. There's a good chance that you could be dealing with microaggressions at your workplace. However, this can destroy your company culture and employer brand and make it an uncomfortable place for your employees to work. If you want to know how to address...

Businesses May Be Missing Out on a Second-Chance Talent Pipeline

According to The Sentencing Project, the United States sends a staggering number of people to prison, 639 per 100,000 of the population. That is far more than any other country globally, including the most repressive regimes on the planet. Most prisoners aren't serving life terms, which means they're released when they've finished their sentence. According to the Department of Justice,...

Everything You Should Know About Quiet Quitting

According to one survey, at least half (52%) of the respondents said they had experienced burnout in 2021. This was up 9% from before the COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout is just one of the reasons that many people, including younger employees, are now quiet quitting, a new trend that gained traction on TikTok. But what is quiet quitting, and is it affecting your company? Keep reading to...

How to Recruit for an Ambassador Program: 3 Steps to Know

When looking to expand your nonprofit's reach, consider the impactful role your supporters play in your awareness efforts. Your supporters are passionate about your cause and can broaden the reach of your mission. Leveraging them through an ambassador program is a surefire way to engage donors and creatively widen your organization's network. Ambassador programs allow donors to...

Three State-of-the-Art Technology Innovations that are Transforming the Recruitment Landscape Rapidly

According to the State of Talent Acquisition 2019 annual report, one of the most significant problems organizations confront is talent acquisition. With technological advancements sweeping the market and a greater emphasis on skill evaluation, identifying high-potential talent before the competition has become a marathon. Additionally, as the employment process evolves from newspaper ads...

How AI Can Actually Humanize the Candidate Experience

According to research by Forbes, 84% of business leaders believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the best way for businesses to acquire talent going forward. However, many people are still concerned that using this machine learning technology will dehumanize the recruiting process. But on the contrary, it can help human resources (HR) improve the hiring process and offer a...

How to Bring Your A-Game and Why It's Important

Today's landscape has made it challenging to consistently bring our "A-Game" to the table. Lack of employee engagement is a vast reality and a real threat to business. Having a positive mindset and continually adding value when everything is going well is easy, but it can be a heavy lift in challenging times. "Bring Your A-Game" is a phrase we have heard frequently and means to bring...

The Top 6 Hidden Recruitment Costs Your Team Should be Looking into Immediately

Unemployment is at its lowest level in 50 years, making hiring difficult for businesses of all sizes. In addition, as firms compete for elite people, hiring expenses are rising. According to the Society of Human Resources Professionals (SHRM), the average cost per hire in the United States is a little more than $4,700. This can involve, among other things, the prices of purchasing job board...

8 Key Ways to Leverage Video While Recruiting and Hiring

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: Video is a powerful product marketing tool — but what about marketing your company to potential hires? In what way can companies effectively leverage video during the recruiting and hiring process? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council...

Top 7 Questions Not to Ask Candidates During a Job Interview

LinkedIn found that 42% of recruiters believe that interview bias is a big problem in traditional interviews. The questions you ask candidates in interviews have an impact, and some are even illegal to ask. But what illegal interview questions (and useless ones) should you avoid asking? For some questions, there are even ways that you can rephrase them to get better answers. Keep...

How to Redesign the Job Description to Attract Gen Z Grads

As recent Gen Z graduates work through the post-grad job search, employers are planning to hire almost 30% more recent grads than in 2021, according to NACE, and are looking to grow talent for the long term. Gen Z, however, is the most likely generation to switch jobs and also most likely to receive the most considerable pay increase when changing jobs, according to the Bank of America...

5 Ways to Reduce Recruitment Costs for Your Company Without Impacting Results

When sourcing and hiring talent, cutting the costs can lead to higher long-term expenditures, employee burnout, and the subsequent high recruitment costs of replacing your worn-out team could result from refusing to recruit and halting employment entirely. In the United States, the average cost of hiring a new employee is $4,700, while the price of a bad hire is estimated to be 30% of...

Introducing the Recruiter.com Shortlist

Recruiter.com Shortlist is Your Simple Hiring Solution We've heard just how difficult it is to hire talented people. But, this rumor is absolutely incorrect. In reality, hiring is actually pretty simple and straightforward. The candidate wants to find meaningful employment. Their objectives align with the employer, who is interested in hiring that candidate. A job offer is made and...

The Recruiter's Ultimate Guide to Diversity

According to the latest research, diverse companies have a 2.3 times higher rate of cash flow for each employee than companies that aren't as diverse. If you aren't currently focusing on diversity hiring, there are even more benefits to improving your recruiting process. But what do you need to know when you want to hire for diversity? Keep reading to discover all you need to know...

3 Exceptional Technological Innovations That Can Help HR Leaders in Hiring for Culture Fit

If you're wondering why most companies struggle to acquire top talent — and why keeping top performers often becomes a losing proposition — the answer could be as easy as hiring for culture fit. According to a Cubiks survey, 82% of respondents thought gauging cultural fit was an essential aspect of the hiring process. Yet, just 54% stated their companies had a clearly defined business...

4 Compelling Tips for Recruiters Wanting to Work with Job Seekers Amid the New Normal

Today, the US job market has become a highly volatile and competitive place for job seekers and employers. Looking for a new job has become uniquely challenging for job seekers amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the looming recession. Many companies are still conducting age-old, lengthy interview procedures when they should instead be doing the exact opposite since conventional ways of hiring...

AI-Powered Recruitment: The Case for HR Efficiency

Talent acquisition teams are under increasing pressure to hire diverse, high-quality candidates, but existing traditional recruiting methods aren't effective, scalable, or sustainable. The latest advancements in artificial intelligence are transforming hiring practices and how candidates are sourced. How Startups Changed the HR Landscape with AI Finding and recruiting...

The History of Labor Day and Why Employers Should Care

According to the latest research, 40% of businesses will be open on Labor Day and have some employees working on the holiday. However, employers should consider giving employees the day off to celebrate the holiday. Not only will this help improve employee morale, reduce burnout, possibly improve productivity, and boost your employer brand, but it also shows that you care about your...

4 Ways to Turn Candidates On to Return-to-Work Options

Most companies have introduced their return-to-work plans as the country moves toward restoring workplace normalcy. Granted, many employers are open to hybrid work settings, and the new state of ordinary will look very different from before the pandemic. However, the work-from-home experience employees garnered in safely maneuvering the pandemic's impacts has shifted candidate...

Making Your Website Inviting for Volunteers and Applicants

When it comes to recruiting, nonprofits are in a unique position. While recruiting both paid employees and unpaid volunteers, your organization must make a compelling case to draw candidates into your cause. Luckily, your organization's website can work in your favor! Your organization is driven by more than profit; a mission underlines all of the work you do each day. With a few...

How A "Work in Any Way" Approach To Recruitment Drives Global Company Success

The recent global shift to remote and hybrid work models allowed many employees and companies to reevaluate how and where they work, fueling fundamental shifts in the workplace. In addition, many employees realized that "work-from-home" could expand to "work-from-anywhere," permanently changing the traditional dynamic around where work happens and opening up new possibilities for employers...

Simple Yet Effective Ways to Build a Robust Candidate Pool and Mitigate Time-to-Hire

One of the most critical performance factors for hiring teams is time to hire. Only 30% of organizations can fill a position within 30 days. The remaining candidates take anything from one to four months to get hired. Why should you try to shorten the hiring process? Taking too long to fill a position increases the risk of losing fast-moving (high-quality) prospects. It's not easy to...

5 Creative Recruitment Strategies to Attract More Good Candidates and Fill Open Positions Faster

The amount of elite talent now has a broader range of career options since the number of enterprises in your niche is constantly increasing. This means that recruiting competent applicants is more complex than ever for recruiters. Recruiters no longer choose prospects in today's candidate-driven employment market. Candidates are the ones who get to choose. According to research from...

9 Reasons Why No One Applied to Your Job Posting

On average, each job opening will attract around 250 resumes. So when you post a recruiter will post job openings to LinkedIn or your career page, you may be waiting for the floods of resumes to come in. What happens if they don't? There are a few reasons why people might choose not to apply for your open positions, but most of them are pretty easy to fix. Keep reading to discover nine...

How Outdoor Work Can Benefit the Lives of Your Employees

If your business is like most, your employees likely spend a lot of time indoors. The average American worker spends 90% of their time inside. During this time spent indoors, 86% of American workers sit all day long. Spending an extended amount of time indoors can cause adverse health effects, including a higher risk of diseases including colon, endometrial, and lung cancer. To combat...

5 Recruiting Hacks You Need to Know Now

According to the Recruiter Index, the job market is still very challenging, and recruiters are still busy. Some of the surveyed recruiters said they are working on filling an average of twenty-two positions each month. With how challenging the job market has been the past year, recruiters are looking for easy ways to try and snag the best talent. Thankfully, we have the best hacks...

6 Extraordinary Recruitment Technology Trends Shaping Talent Acquisition

According to the State of Talent Acquisition 2019 annual report, one of the most significant problems organizations confront is talent acquisition. With technological advancements sweeping the employment market and a greater emphasis on skill evaluation, identifying high-potential talent before the competition has become a marathon. Additionally, as the recruiting process evolves from...

How White Normative Recruiting Fails: Increase Your Diversity Performance

The Problem Organizations are intent on committing to diversity and set out to hire diverse talent. They put out a job description, but their efforts fall flat. They receive no contact from diverse candidates — or receive communication from diverse candidates who don't fit the bill. What can they do? The Cause For starters, it's essential to understand that we live in a White...

Challenges of Using AI in Recruiting and How to Work Around Them

According to some research, 84% of business leaders anticipate that artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment will help make companies more competitive when it comes to hiring. However, even though these leaders think that AI is the way of the future, many people are still concerned about AI's challenges. While these concerns are essential, there are ways to address them. Keep reading...