Does your applicant tracking system pass the 3E test?

The problems recruiters face are threefold: resumes keep piling up, there are interviews to be conducted, and there’s always a constant pressure to outperform the competition. In this environment, recruitment solutions must not only save time, but also ensure quality. 

More information: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/blog/does-your-ats-pass-the-3e-test.html

Why a Career Site is Your Ideal Recruiting Solution

Recruiting challenges aren’t just threatening the success of HR professionals—they are hindering the success of organizations as a whole. In fact, Business News Daily reports that finding and hiring talent is the biggest challenge for CEOs in 2016.

If you don’t want your recruiting challenges holding you back any longer, you need to find a solution. And more likely than not, your ideal recruiting solution is an effective career site. Career sites are incredibly valuable because they can resolve various recruiting pain points, including the following:

More information: https://www.recruiting.com/blog/why-a-career-site-is-your-ideal-recruiting-solution

How Can We Attract More Women to Become Recruiters?

By no means is the recruitment industry lacking women. It is an industry that is made up of a fine balance of both men and women.

What we want our experts to discuss in this panel is more about the tangible and intangible benefits of taking up a career as a recruiter, and why women have all the characteristics to succeed as recruiters.

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/more-women-recruiters/

3 Answers to Know Before Buying HR Recruiting Tool

So, are you also in a race of purchasing tools that make your HR job quick and easy? Oh! it’s a big yes. Great, such tools really make our job easy. But do you know nearly 8 out of 10 HR professionals regretted their software purchases? According to a report, only 24 percent of HR managers and employers feel that their hiring software is having a positive and the productive effect on their business.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/3-answers-to-know-before-buying-hr-recruiting-tool

RECRUITERS – HERE ARE THE TOP TEN MISTAKES YOU SHOULDN’T EVER MAKE WHILE HIRING

What worries you the most right before you go looking for recruits?

For most recruiters who have answered this question, the response has boiled down to one point- initial recruiter mistakes are the costliest.

Is your job description plain and vague? Are you too focused on the degrees? The credentials? What are your filtering questions? How many are there? Are you rejecting overqualified clients automatically?

More information: http://multirecruit.com/blog/recruiters-here-are-the-top-ten-mistakes-you-shouldnt-ever-make-while-hiring/

Social Media Fails Every Recruitment Agency Should Avoid

We all know how important social media is to recruitment nowadays, and you need to be using it right. One small slip-up can really kill off your recruitment brand’s credibility, but unfortunately there are a few common blunders that we still see recruiters making time and time again…

So what are these social media fails to avoid in recruitment? Read on to find out.

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/social-media-fails-every-recruitment-agency-should-avoid

How to Set Personal Recruitment KPIs to Become a Top Biller

There’s nothing more demotivating than being assigned generic ‘make more placements!’ recruitment KPIs. We all want to be making more placements, but what clearly defined actions can you be putting in place to ensure you’re reaching that ultimate goal?

It’s also equally unproductive to be assigned over-inflated KPIs that you know deep down are totally unachievable, as unrealistic targets will only stress, frustrate and demotivate you.

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/how-to-set-personal-recruitment-kpis-become-a-top-biller

5 New Year’s Resolutions Every Recruiter Should Make

To help improve your practice and boost your billing, we’ve come up with 5 New Year’s resolutions every recruiter should be making in the new year. It’s time to reflect on the year just passed, and start thinking about how you plan to up your game in 2018!

So what are these New Year’s resolutions every recruiter should make? Read on to find out!

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/5-dos-and-donts-of-recruitment-sales-at-christmas

5 Tips For Startup Recruitment

Founders care for start-ups like it’s a baby. Of course! You need to put in your time and efforts 24/7 to get the best. If you have a baby, wouldn’t you want them to have the best of things? Exactly. That’s the same case while handling a startup. You really wouldn’t trust your baby to someone who wouldn’t care for them the way you do, right? They should be able to understand how your baby is and work towards making them a better person. That’s exactly the kind of treatment you’d give your startup as well.

More information: http://anzycareers.com/blogs/5-tips-startup-recruitment/

A Brick in the Wall – Education and a Diverse Workforce

This is part three of a three-part series exploring the future of work and what true diversity can mean for you, the organisations you work in and society at large. Click here to read part one.

Let’s take you back roughly fifty to sixty years. It is the mid-19th century. The Ivy-League colleges in the USA have become a thing. (For those that don’t know the USA context, the Ivy-League refers to a group of prestigious universities which are often associated with academic excellence and social elitism)

More information: https://weirdlyhub.com/brick-wall-education-diverse-workforce/