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/

When the Recruiter becomes the Recruited

What kind of sly tricks and crafty machinations are wielded to spot, engage and recruit the ultimate recruiter? Turns out it’s mostly a matter of having a solid product.

As quick as you can, don’t think too much: How does one go from growing up in a remote series of airbase-adjacent Canadian towns to department-head in Silicon Valley?

More information: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/when-the-recruiter-becomes-the-recruited/

Recruitment Strategies to Improve Your Diversity Brand

In today’s competitive global war for talent, a commitment to diversity hiring could set your company apart. The candidate of today wants to see a commitment to diversity that goes beyond a sentence in the employee handbook. Here are some concrete steps your company can take if they want to walk the walk.

More information: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/recruiting-strategies-to-improve-your-diversity-brand/

The 3 Hottest Trends That Will Impact Recruiters in 2018

Effective talent acquisition and recruitment often top the list of priorities for organizations as they move into a New Year, and 2018 is no exception.

With unemployment in America continuing to decline (it’s currently at its lowest percentage since 2000), the job market is becoming increasingly competitive. In fact, a serious labor shortage exists across the United States. It’s not simply due to a mismatch in skills, but there are actually fewer employees available overall, especially in industries that most need them.

More information: http://recruitingdaily.com/3-critical-recruiting-trends-will-dominate-2018/

One Big Thing That Recruiters Really Looked For This Year

It’s a term I hear a lot even if it isn’t always clear what it means, so don’t feel bad if you’re also a little fuzzy on the definition of “soft skills.”

Lots of hiring and talent management professionals seem to be looking for candidates with soft skills, so in case you’re confused, here’s a definition I like from SearchCIO:

More information: http://recruitingdaily.com/one-big-thing-recruiters-really-looked-year/

Which HR tool to invest in? ATS or Recruitment Marketing platform?

Talking with business owners, recruiters and other HR professionals, we have realized that many of them have the same two questions: “Which recruiting tool should I buy? Recruitment Marketing software or ATS?” The problem is that many of them, besides not knowing the difference between the two, don’t know that there are 2-in-1 solutions that offer both.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/which-hr-tool-to-invest-in-ats-or-recruitment-marketing-platform?xg_source=activity

5 Key Innovations in HR Technology

HR industry has seen a lot of modernization in the past few years. Thanks to technology which keeps on creating waves in the market with its new innovations and trends. These ideas have solved the bottlenecks of traditional HR practices in order to streamline all the activities involved in recruitment and related workflow. Each process has become faster and resulted in better efficiency and productivity.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/5-key-innovations-in-hr-technology