Tag: best practice

Why it’s so important to keep communicating with your pipeline candidates

How often, after applying for jobs, have you been left frustrated and disappointed by a prospective employer ceasing all communication with you and vanishing at a certain point, not even telling you whether your application was a success or failure?

Now, fast-forward to the current work of your hiring managers and HR staff, and you can probably begin to realise precisely why that situation comes to pass so often.

More information: https://www.webrecruit.co.uk/blog/recruitment-insights/why-its-so-important-to-keep-communicating-with-your-pipeline-candidates/

3 Key Challenges in Campus Recruiting (and How to Tackle Them)

Campus recruiting is the term used for hiring students and recent graduates straight from college or university.

The process of campus recruiting has completely changed in the last few years.

If you want to attract the top young talent, you have to stay up to date on accounting and finance employment trends and challenges.

More information: https://recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/3-key-challenges-in-campus-recruiting-and-how-to-tackle-them

Best-Practices in Structuring Recruitment Funnels

A correct understanding of the application funnel helps employers to improve recruitment efforts by optimizing every stage of the process.

Looking at how to improve the recruitment process, this lesson will explore:

  • The candidate experience and how to leverage it to attract the right talent
  • The application funnel and how to optimize it for conversions
  • Best practices to improve conversions

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/structuring-recruitment-funnels/

10 of the best sales email templates for recruiters

Is your recruitment email strategy working for you?

Whilst it’s always a good idea to get your prospects on the phone whenever possible, sending a kick-ass email also has its merits in certain situations.

But we all know getting a good reply rate on emails can be tough! To make your life that bit easier, we’ve put together 10 response-worthy email templates for the most common scenarios in recruitment sales, including…

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/best-sales-email-templates-for-recruiters

3 Unconventional Strategies for Recruiting Machine Learning Talent

Don’t call it a buzzword: machine learning is already one of the most in-demand skills, according to LinkedIn data—and demand for it is growing at an extremely rapid pace.

That means you’ll be facing fierce competition if you’re one of the many recruiters on the hunt for machine learning (ML) talent.

It also means you may have to get a little creative in your sourcing strategies. So we’re bringing you three actionable insights from LinkedIn data that can help you find machine learning skills by looking just a bit off the beaten path.

More information: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2018/recruiting-machine-learning-talent

How Top Recruiters Are Applying “The Toyota Way” to Talent Acquisition Part 2

Top recruiters are applying The Toyota Way — the famed comprehensive management approach practiced by the Japanese carmaker — to talent acquisition to help them deliver the talent that their organizations need in this tight labor market.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we showed how to apply Principles 1–7 of The Toyota Way to create an effective, always-improving and holistic recruiting methodology. Now let’s do the same for Principles 8–14.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/how-top-recruiters-are-applying-the-toyota-way-to-talent-1

A Surprising Practice That Can Help You Both Hire and Retain Talent

What is this mystery practice?

One word – onboarding!

Well, I bet you didn’t expect this answer, right?

But bear with me – I’ll explain exactly how a great onboarding can help you achieve 2 most important HR goals:

  1. Recruit the best people for your company
  2. Reduce turnover rate by retaining them.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/a-surprising-practice-that-can-help-you-both-hire-and-retain

5 future-ready recruiting skills you need to know

Whether you are a recruiter working as an employee or run your own recruitment agency, you need to make sure you and your team are future-ready.

Many of today’s recruitment experts note that in the not-so-far future, technology will automate almost all monotonous, manual aspects of recruitment, technically doing away with human effort in the process.

More information: https://www.peoplematters.in/blog/recruitment/5-future-ready-recruiting-skills-you-need-to-know-17469

5 Unconventional tech recruitment tactics that fared spectacularly well

Hasn’t there been at least one instance with an open role where your sourcing chops have stared at you, blank? You follow the prescribed norm – dive into your ATS, drop InMails, sponsor that LinkedIn post and email active candidates on job boards – only to hit a wall with all the outreach that you trigger.

More information: https://doselect.com/blog/unconventional-recruitment-strategies/

4 Mistakes to Avoid When Motivating Your Tech Recruitment Team

On the surface, the concept of managing employees seems simple. You set their goals, help them work towards hitting them, and make adjustments whenever necessary. Of course, it’s much more complicated than that. Jeff Haden of CBS MoneyWatch once wrote, “Managing is straightforward; leadership is not. You really earn your management stripes when the right answer is, at times, also the hardest answer.”

More information: https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/blog/4-mistakes-to-avoid-when-motivating-your-tech-recruitment-team