CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE: DEFINITION, IMPORTANCE, AND TIPS TO IMPROVE

THE QUESTION IS: ARE YOU DELIVERING A GOOD CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE?

I am going to talk about how you can improve your candidate experience. After all, effective recruitment depends upon how happy the candidates are who will eventually become your employees.

Sound interesting?

The Era of Recruiting Automation

Increasing demand for talent creates intense pressure on staffing companies to constantly look for better ways to hire. Staffing leaders agree that the most challenging part is identifying the right candidate from a large pool of candidates as quickly as possible. Many staffing companies are currently doing this and other mundane tasks manually.

Thanks to new technologies that prove effective in streamlining some of the complex and repetitive recruiting efforts, automation helps recruiters become more efficient and increase the speed-to-hire.

12 HRTech Tool Recommendations From A Talent Acquisition Veteran

We recently caught up with Jay Curry of TalentRobot to ask him what his favorite HRTech tools are and why. Jay is an experienced recruiting and HR leader who’s spent a lot of time in house, and recently launched his own business where he’s gotten to see the insides of many different companies.

We thought it’d be interesting to get his insights on the tools he uses on a day to day basis. Some of these we’ve heard of, and we’re excited to say that some are new to us.

How To Connect And Convince A Passive Candidate To Join You

Recruiting a candidate is not an easy effort; especially, a passive one. It is very difficult to find, connect and convenience passive candidate to join you. These candidates are happily employed and aren’t actively looking for job opportunities & neither do they respond to recruiter outreach. Passive candidate sourcing, as a result, becomes one of the key challenges for recruiters.

How to Build Smart Job Descriptions

As a busy HR professional, think about all the technology you use every day that was unfathomable not so long ago.

You post jobs online; track and analyze candidates with AI; measure the pulse of your organization; provide real-time feedback to employees – all in a bid to be more productive, strategic and stay ahead of the huge demands on your shoulders.

8 Must-Offer Benefits That’ll Attract & Recruit Working Moms

There is a lot of female talent out there, and if you know which benefits to offer, you can hire that talent to work for your company. Finding female talent is easy, but making your company attractive enough for them to want to work at is another ball game altogether. For instance, many women are also mothers who are trying to balance their home life and their careers. When you are able to offer them benefits that help them to succeed in their careers and enjoy a healthy home life, you are going to find more and more women who want to work for you.

Thinking Outside the Box to Source a Diverse Candidate Pipeline

In a recent webinar titled Inclusion in Action: How to Source Diverse Talent, our speakers shared their best strategies and tips to build a more diverse candidate pipeline. They reviewed some tried-and-true platforms tactics, like using LinkedIn’s People Also Viewed section and recruiting from underrepresented communities on GitHub. But they also shared some phenomenal out-of-the-box ideas to source a diverse candidate pipeline. With so much competition for talent, we wanted to share some of those ideas to help you stand out.

Five Reasons Why Recruiter Monogamy Is A Good Thing

Recruitment fidelity is a thing. So much so that recruiters have been known to drop their rates and extend the guarantee period just to be in a monogamous relationship with the client. There is something to be said for exclusivity, much like swans, finding a partner who is with you and you only makes for a strong union. Between the company, recruiter and candidates there are many interests that need to be served, throw in multiple recruiters and things can get messy. In a marriage between client and recruiter, two’s good company, more and the marriage can get crowded.

Your careers page doesn’t have to be one of the poorest parts of your site

It’s understandable that you may not wish to spend a huge amount of time even thinking about your company’s online careers page. It’s one of those pages of a site – such as the terms and conditions, privacy policy or accessibility page – that might not exactly seem like a great frontier for brand-building.

However, that doesn’t mean it’s a part of your site that should be ignored. After all, it may well be one of your site’s most frequently visited pages, especially if you’re a prominent local employer or are presently undergoing strong growth.

How To Recruit Successfully in a Mobile World

The fact that 78 per cent of job candidates apply for jobs using their mobile devices, and 55 per cent of mobile users look for jobs using their phones means you need to start to think about the do’s and don’ts of mobile recruiting. Mobile recruiting is a strategy that allows you to attract, connect with, and ultimately hire qualified candidates for your organization in a way that’s optimised for the mobile world we live in.