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Friend Me, Follow Me, Recruit Me: The Rise of Social Media in Talent Acquisition

Guess who nabbed one of the greatest social media hires of all time? What I'm talking about happened way back in 2007, when YouTube was only two years old, you still had to be invited by a friend to create a Facebook account, and Twitter was in its early infancy -- when people didn't even really use social media as a means of recruitment because, well, what were all these platforms...

In the Age of the Candidate, Does Your Hiring Process Still Cut It?

Candidates' expectations have put the traditional hiring process on notice. Today, 90 percent of recruiters believe the job market is candidate-driven. Just five years ago, only 54 percent of recruiters said the same. This shift in perceptions signals that candidates are now in the driver's seat when it comes to recruiting and hiring. Fortunately, these candidates are also clear about...

4 More Serious Pricing Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make

Yesterday, I talked about one of the major reasons why startups fail: financial incompetence, which is responsible for 46 percent of new business failures. One of the major realms in which entrepreneurs struggle is pricing. That makes sense: Pricing is a complicated issue with which many of us have little experience. In my previous post, I outlined four pricing mistakes that many...

Talent Communities: 7 Ways to Make the Most of Them

Welcome to Recruiter QA, 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 QA! Today's Question: What do recruiters need to know and do in order to build effective, valuable talent communities and get the most out of...

6 Unlikely Tech Tools for Recruiters

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on employment data you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What are some tech tools that recruiters may be surprised to learn they could really benefit...

Cracking the Code of Social Analytics: Universum Presents Inside Social Media

Editor's Note: Employer branding firm Universum recently released its Inside Social Media report, which surveys the "current state of the social media landscape for employer brands and the trends shaping how and where you engage talent today." This is the first in a series of articles based on the report. Introducing Iris: Crowd-Sourced Social Content Analysis Engagement metrics are...

Choosing the Right Job: It's About More Than Money

Millennials are criticized for a lot, but when you start to analyze what is being said about them, often, the criticism translates into, "These people are neither compliant nor docile (like we are). They won't fit in." While millennials may overestimate their abilities, they do have one big thing right about their careers: They want to do meaningful work. I don't know anyone who,...

4 Serious Pricing Mistakes Entrepreneurs Often Make

Why do so many startups fail? There are a lot of reasons, including weak products and zero innovation, but it's important to note that one of the major causes of startup failure is the poor financial abilities of many founders. In fact, a full 46 percent of startups fail due to "incompetence" in the areas of financing, accounting, record-keeping, tax payments, and pricing strategies....

10 Career Blogs for the Millennial Set

Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned. This Week: Top 10 Millennial Career Bloggers Originally,...

The Silver Bullet for Successful Interviewing

You are a professional in your field of choice. To get to where you are today, you've had to participate in countless interviews with numerous employers. As a result, you know what it takes to be successful during an interview: You know that appearance matters, that you must do your homework, that you must be relaxed and engaged, and that you must prepare for the challenging questions...

The 9 Habits of Highly Effective Recruiters

A recruiter's job is about more than hitting quotas, building up databases, and beating out the competition. Increasingly, recruiting is about building relationships, nurturing talent, and creating best-fit connections for candidates and clients. To do these things, you have to be at the top of your game. We talked to some top recruiters in the industry to find out what sets highly...

3 More Types of Interviewer – and How to Impress Them, Too

Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that not all interviewers are the same. Proper interview preparation requires more than anticipating the types of questions you'll be asked – it also requires anticipating the types of interviewers with which you will meet. In my previous article, I explained four types of interviewer – the C-level executive, the hiring manager, the agency recruiter,...

Job Boards and Big Data: Christian Malpeli on the Past, Present, and Future of Recruiting Technology

Christian Malpeli is the founder of JobBoard.io, a job board software that gives employers the ability to create their own branded job boards in 30 seconds flat. Sound too good to be true? Trust us: It isn't. To learn more about JobBoard.io's striking approach to the recruiting tech industry, as well as Malpeli's personal entrepreneurial journey, we connected with Malpeli for a QA...

Keep Your Managers Mobile With These 4 Apps

A generation ago, workers would smile when the boss announced plans to be away for a few days. That generally meant a few unsupervised days during which employees wouldn't have to worry about management breathing constantly over their shoulders. Today, however, the boss's vacation time doesn't provoke such euphoria. That's because managers have learned to go mobile, thanks to a slew of...

The Recruiting Reel: How to Recruit for Diversity and Boost Inclusion (With Kelly Dingee)

"Diversity" and "inclusion" are common buzzwords in the hiring and recruiting world today. That's not just because calling your company "a diverse organization" earns you good PR: Diversity and inclusion have real, tangible impacts on company productivity and performance. How can your organization improve its diversity and become more inclusive? Tune in to hear what our featured expert,...

8 Accurate Ways to Assess Your New Hire's Performance

Welcome to Recruiter QA, 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 QA! Today's Question: How do you gauge a new hire's success during their first three months on the job? The answers below are provided by...

How to Create a Culture of Innovation From Day One

"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." These simple words, often attributed to a number of sources, are a reminder that, if we want to succeed and move forward, we have to do things differently. But that's easier said than done. Many companies struggle with innovation because the journey toward new ideas is often painstaking and wrought with...

5 Mobile Apps to Help You De-Stress at Work

It's only 11:00 A.M., and you're ready to go home, get a drink, and put your feet up in front of some nameless sitcom on TV. Here's what you've dealt with since arriving at the office this morning: Your computer gave you the blue screen of death, and you lost three days' work on a report that is due tomorrow; a coworker called in sick, and you have to finish a spreadsheet they were...

4 Types of Interviewer – and How to Impress Them All

When preparing for interviews, it's typical to anticipate the questions you will be asked and ready your answers to these questions. That's a sound strategy, but it it's important to remember that the questions you will face – and the answers you should give – will depend, in large part, on the type of person interviewing you. For example, agency recruiters will ask different questions...

Read Your Candidate Like a Book: The Secrets of Body Language

Here's an interviewing situation that you've probably faced before: The candidate has the skills needed for the job and everything looks great on their resume – but something is just off about them. Maybe, at the time, you thought it was just your intuition telling you that this was not the perfect person for the company. Maybe you don't believe in intuition, so you decided to follow...

Business Simulations: How College Recruiters Are Mining Young Talent

Recruiting top college students can be challenging. Gaining a future employee's attention, differentiating your company from the competition, and learning the candidate's real skills are no easy task. That's why many Fortune 500 companies have begun to implement business simulations into their college recruiting and internship programs – and they've found that these simulations are paying...

Can't Get a Full-Time Job? Try a Portfolio Career Instead

Do you feel like it's harder than ever to find a good, old-fashioned 9-5 job these days? Does it seem like the market is overrun with freelance work, short-term gigs, temp positions, and part-time opportunities, but woefully short on full-time employment? You are not imagining things: The job market has shifted dramatically. As companies look for ways to stay flexible and...

Why Building a Strong Recruiting Team Is So Hard (and How to Succeed Anyway)

Your recruiting team is the backbone of your organization. Unless you have the right talent to drive innovation and success, wider company initiatives can't succeed. Building a recruiting team that can help you find the right talent is no easy task. The biggest problem that talent acquisition leaders run into when building their recruiting teams is that company leadership isn't...

6 Ways to Hire the Right Person – on a Budget

Welcome to Recruiter QA, 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 QA! Today's Question: How do you keep hiring costs under control? The answers below are provided by members of FounderSociety, an...

Lessons on Sales From the Worst Recruiter on the Planet

I went to school to be an accountant. On day one of working for Price Waterhouse, I thought to myself, "WTF have I done?" (Who knew how ahead of the curve I was in 1985 with the use of "WTF"?) So, 18 months later and after finding out I had enough public accounting experience to earn my CPA designation, I resigned – staying about one minute longer than necessary. Of course, I had...

How Your Attitude Can Land You a Job You Aren't Even Qualified For

Most, if not all, job seekers have been turned down by an employers because they were unqualified for a role at least once in their lives. This may seem like the natural way of the hiring world, but some new research is challenging the practice of making hiring decisions based solely on technical qualifications. As it turns out, most bad hires are not candidates who lack the necessary...

The New Working Class: Author Tamara Draut on Restoring Economic Security for All

Tamara Draut, author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead and vice president of policy and research at U.S. think tank Demos, grew up in a working class household. However, her family was able to live what she calls a "middle class life" thanks to the wages that her parents earned. Draut's family took vacations to Myrtle Beach every year; she was able to go to...

The Truth Behind 5 Recruiting Urban Myths

Thanks to the viral, gossip-laden, and overloaded nature of today's information ecosystem, much of what you take as truth in recruiting may actually be urban myth – and that could be undermining your search for talent. By uncovering the truth behind these urban legends and making sure your hiring process is built on reality, you can create a more effective hiring process. Here are...

TAtech Tip: Renew Your Analog Networking Skills

Brought to you by TAtech: The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions Despite the dominance of digital technology in our culture these days, there has been a resurgence of interest in old-fashioned analog technology. Rabbit-ear T.V. antennas, vinyl records and (OMG) video cassettes are regaining some of their lost popularity. As it turns out, this is a trend worth considering as we...

Addressing the Millennial Madness

By now, we've all heard about the many ways in which millennials have changed the workforce over the past few years – and we've all heard about how our companies need to mold expectations and modify the way we do business if we want to attract and retain millennials. In fact, we've heard it all so much in the job market that most of us are probably rolling our eyes right now. At...

The Pros and Cons of Hiring 'Challenging' Employees

Today, sixty percent of workers are asked to take workplace assessments by their employers. This means more managers than ever have insights into how their employees work in a given team and what to expect when a new hire walks into the office on their first day. These insights can be exciting when we're talking about the "fun" traits, like creativity and extroversion – but what...

5 Questions to Ask Yourself When Hiring for Leadership Positions

Effective leaders get things done. They drive and sustain high levels of performance in their organizations, provide positive reinforcement, offer constructive feedback, are self-aware, and excel as visionaries, communicators, and motivators. Moreover, their coworkers respect them. While they exude strength and take decisive action, the best leaders also know how to be patient. They...

Employee Perks: 10 Great Ways to Engage Employees

Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned. This Week: Top 10 Employee Perks Employee perks are...

4 Big Mistakes You Make Conducting Employee Background Checks

Employee background checks are essential to every hiring process. They give employers access to information beyond what is offered by the candidates themselves. Of course, the purpose of a background check isn't to dig for dirt, draw subjective conclusions, or make superficial judgments. There are certain standards and ethical practices for gathering jobs data you have to keep in...

Yes! Company Culture Can Still Thrive With Remote Teams

Let's face it: It's a digital world. Unless you live under a rock, you know what Facebook is. And since you're reading my article, my guess is you're nowhere near a cave. And if you are in a cave, reading this next to a smoldering fire, then my assertion that we live in a digital world has even more meaning, because woah! You have wifi in your cave. But anyway. Thanks to widespread...

Your Resume Counts For at Least 50 Percent of Your Success

You're on the lookout for a new job. You've purchased some nice clothes for interviews, gotten your references in order, and updated your resume with your latest employment information. You are ready to begin submitting yourself for new jobs. Well, maybe not. If all you've done to your resume is slap on some additional work history, you may be cheating yourself out of more interview...

Too Darn Slow: How to Prod Employers Into Speeding Up the Hiring Process

I have bad news for those candidates out there who have been frustrated by slow, drawn-out hiring processes: It seems like they are getting longer. Worrying research from Glassdoor shows that the average length of the interview process increased from 13 days to 23 days between 2011 and 2015. The reason for this is that employers who have been burned by bad hires are growing more risk...

10 Signs You Should Quit Your Corporate Job and Become an Entrepreneur

Today, you may have a comfortable corporate job in a company that you like. You have good colleagues and you've climbed your way up the ladder. You are usually considered a high performer, always taking the initiative to drive projects. People trust you to deliver. Despite all this, you may feel disillusioned and unfulfilled. If you have experienced any of the following signs, then you...

Say 'No' to Job-Hunt Gimmicks

There seems to be a rumor about job searching floating around. Have you heard? Finding a job is easy. It's easy as long as you format your resume in a very specific way and you include the perfect phrases on your LinkedIn profile. There's a very specific way that all recruiters want your resume to be formatted, and there are specific keywords they're all looking for. Every successful job...

4 Reasons Interns Need to Be on the Payroll (Not Just in the Office)

The era of unpaid internships is coming to an end – and despite a little grousing from the corners of some industries, that's not a bad thing at all. It's actually great news. The truth is that everyone benefits when businesses pay interns. For those hiring professionals and managers who are checking their expenses and wondering if the kid walking in the door is worth the price, here...

How to Get Your Startup Team Focused Without Crushing Anyone's Enthusiasm

In the hope-fueled honeymoon phase of your startup, your team probably has enthusiasm in spades. The challenges is channeling that enthusiasm into productive avenues. Of course you want your staff to feel inspired and motivated, but if they spend too much time on big-dream schemes with little grounding in reality, you'll burn through your funding pretty quickly with little to show for...

It's Time: 9 Signs You're Ready to Start Your Own Business

Welcome to Recruiter QA, 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 QA! Today's Question: There are plenty of would-be entrepreneurs who have yet to make the leap, simply because they don't know when to make it....

To Close the Skills Gap, Hire Contingent Workers

In talent acquisition circles, there's long been an evolving discussion around the current skills gap. This "skills gap" indicates that employers, particularly those in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) are finding it incredibly difficult to find qualified talent. But they're not the only ones affected in the labor market. Across the nation, many...

Email Is Antiquated: All Aboard the Automation Train

In the 1980s, everybody thought that by 2016 we'd be driving flying cars, riding around on hover boards, and making conference calls on video screens. We've accomplished two of those so far – and even though our cars don't fly yet, they are learning to drive themselves – but why have we been so slow to adopt similarly advanced technologies in the realm of business processes? There...

TAtech Tip: Don't Put Talent Into the Wrong Box

Brought to you by TAtech: The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions Amid all the talk about optimizing the candidate experience, one topic has been all but ignored. The vocabulary we use has a significant impact on the perceptions of those we are trying to recruit, and one widely used term in particular conveys a message that turns off top talent -- or, worse, drives them away...

7 Tips on Negotiating Your Promotion

Welcome to Recruiter QA, 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 QA! Today's Question: What are your best negotiation tips that employees should know when they're trying to land promotions? How can they convince...

5 Surprising Signs You Might Be an Entrepreneur In the Making

Are you an heir apparent with a billion-dollar surname? Do you hold a degree from an elite university? Are you the wunderkind at your illustrious firm? Heck, do you have friends or family members in high places? Then congratulations: You have a good shot at being the next big thing in your industry. For those you who can't say "yes" to any of these questions – which is probably most of...

7 Types of Employers From Whom You Should Run

Nearly everybody who has been in the workforce for more than a few years has a bad boss story. Sometimes, in retrospect, these experiences make for good tales to tell your friends and family members. However, when you are in the thick of trying to extricate yourself from a bad employment situation or a toxic boss, things can be quite miserable. It would be wonderful if bad employers were...