Here’s how Your Hiring Process is Driving Away Top Talent

Are your candidates accepting other job offers while you’re still in the process of interviewing them? Maybe you should review your hiring methods and understand if the lengthy, tedious process is the reason you’re your top notch candidates are slipping away.

Slow hiring processes and delay in making a hiring decision have a huge adverse impact to businesses.

More information: https://antalnetworksindia.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/how-your-hiring-process-is-driving-away-top-talent/

2018 healthcare staffing trends

Last month, we wrote a blog on “Trends that will shape the Staffing Industry in 2018” talking about the paradigm shift that the industry is going through. In this blog, we will be talking extensively about trends within Healthcare Staffing, which is one of the promising High Growth Sectors of the Staffing Industry.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/2018-healthcare-staffing-trends

What to Know When Hiring Recent College Graduates

As graduation season comes and goes, another class of young professionals will soon be entering the job market. Recruiters will have a whole new group of 20-somethings to hire for entry-level jobs and groom for career success.

You’re likely already familiar with how Millennials and Generation Z differ from the older professionals in your workplace.

More information: https://recruiterbox.com/blog/what-to-know-when-hiring-recent-college-graduates

6 Ways to Recruit and Hire the Best Candidates for Summer Jobs

Early reporting suggests that, compared to past generations, today’s younger workers are less concerned with money and more focused on gaining skills and having meaningful early employment experiences. They’re thinking about the long game. By making your summer workplace experience skills-focused, you can appeal to younger workers and staff up more efficiently for the summer season.

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/summer-job-candidates/

The Recruiter’s Guide to Finding Top Talent

We speak to Charlotte Clark and the Head of Talent Development at The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). She is responsible for positioning APSCo’s UK & International Talent Development division as the recruitment profession’s ‘go to’ source of high quality, credible training and talent development courses. All of which are developed and delivered by recruitment and training experts and lead to recognized qualifications which help individuals achieve their full potential throughout their recruitment careers.

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/the-recruiters-guide-to-finding-top-talent/

5 Ways to Get More Women into Your Workforce

Gender equality has been under a harsh spotlight for some time now, with pitiful percentages of women in upper management and inexplicable differences in pay. Sure, we’ve made significant progress in the last 100 years, but diversity is still a huge issue and we can’t afford to stop pushing forward.

There are many, many ways in which you can make your workplace a more hospitable place for diversity – not only women. Here are just five!

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/get-more-women-into-your-workforce/

10 Signs Your Applicant Tracking System is Stuck in the 90’s

After leading corporate talent acquisition throughout my career, I know far too well that applicant tracking systems were originally designed to automate the application and simply track applicants. The applicant tracking system (ATS) was born in the late 1990’s and over the past 15 years they haven’t evolved to meet the requirements for a competitive approach to recruiting.

More information: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/10-signs-your-applicant-tracking-system-is-stuck-in-the-90s/

What to Know Before Acquiring International Talent in the United States

When growing your company, it’s important to think about the qualities you’re looking for in a new hire, and there are times when the domestic hiring process can be exhausting and ineffective for high-level jobs.

That’s where the international market comes in. 55% of companies in the US said they were interested in finding talent abroad.

More information: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/what-to-know-before-acquiring-international-talent-in-the-united-states/

It’s not summer 2001 anymore, but we recruit like it is

Summer, 2001. Do you remember it?

2001 was the year that the first Harry Potter movie came out and delighted audiences watched Harry as he realized he’d been admitted to Hogwarts. And Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods used a homemade VHS tape to get into Harvard. Train’s Drops of Jupiter blasted through the airwaves, and orange-tan teens bounced around America’s then-bustling shopping malls in matching terry cloth track suits.

More information: https://recruitingdaily.com/its-not-summer-2001-anymore-but-we-recruit-like-it-is/

Eliminating Unconcious Bias in Hiring

Unconscious bias is a scary reality that plagues many organizations and means that the best people aren’t getting the right jobs and promotions.  We spoke with Sangita Katsuri of Action Inclusion about how companies can work to eliminate unconscious bias in their hiring process.

  1. What is your definition of unconscious bias, and how does it play out in the hiring process?

If we are honest, we can admit that we have some very conscious biases and preferences for certain kinds of people, characteristics, appearances, behaviors and even nuances of speech.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/eliminating-unconcious-bias-in-hiring