3 Recruitment KPIs and What They Mean for YOUR Business

The variety of recruitment agencies in terms of size, speciality, and strategy ensure that regardless of individual market positioning, all organisations will face stiff competition from all corners of the industry. Low barriers to entry for the industry as a whole leave firms vulnerable to new competitors exploiting their inefficiencies or weaknesses and stealing market share. Completely understanding your firm’s business performance, both internally and relative to other members in the industry, provides the insight necessary to identify weaknesses before they result in the downfall of the organisation.

More information: https://www.bullhorn.com/au/blog/2019/01/three-staffing-kpis/

3 Major Marketing Trends that Will Transfer to Recruitment in 2019

Keeping on top of new marketing trends is extremely beneficial to recruiters, but not everything that comes out of marketing is going to be relevant to our industry, and it can be hard to predict which trends will stick and what will fade away.

We’ve dug out the proven marketing golden nuggets recruiters can’t afford to ignore in 2019!

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/marketing-trends-that-will-transfer-to-recruitment

5 Reasons Every Recruiter Should Love Blue Monday

Blue Monday may be pitched as the most depressing day of the calendar year, but for recruiters, it’s the best day of the year to pull in new candidates and get the new year off to a great start. Here’s our two cents on how you can turn Blue Monday into a positive and use it as an opportunity to fill up your recruitment pipeline for the weeks and months ahead.

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/why-recruiters-love-blue-monday

How Should Recruiters Measure Success?

Have you ever found yourself walking into a quarterly review unsure of what the outcome will be? Rather than leaving your performance review to chance, we’ve outlined some of the key KPIs that every recruiter should measure themselves against. Staying on top of these key performance indicators is a great way to ensure that you stay on track week to week, and know what you’re doing when your review comes around. Phew!

More information: https://www.socialtalent.com/blog/recruitment/how-should-recruiters-measure-success

Revamp Your Hiring Process for 2019

What better way to spend the last of your budget than on investments to improve your hiring processes in the new year? Considering we are at a record breaking unemployment rate, high volume hiring will likely continue well into 2019, so it should be a top priority. Below, we will discuss three areas to consider investing in to ensure your hiring process is top-notch in 2019.

More information: http://www.crawfordthomas.com/2019/01/15/revamp-your-hiring-process-for-2019/

15 recruitment techniques to consider in 2019

With the new year upon us, you’re probably starting to think of different recruitment techniques that will help move the dial for your company in 2019. Looking back at the last few years, there’s been a definite shift toward the importance of employer branding, smart inbound recruitment, improving the candidate experience, and using big data and AI to find the right candidate.

As the technology needed to streamline these modern recruiting techniques becomes more sophisticated, expect each of these trends to become more prominent this year.

More information: https://blog.recruitee.com/recruitment-techniques/

5 Tips For Hiring Your First Employee

So you’ve started a business and it’s grown to the point where you need to hire other people to help you run it and grow it further. Being successful up to that point is always exciting and a cause for celebration, but hiring your first employee is a big step that may seem complicated for first-timers.

More information: https://recruitloop.com/blog/5-tips-for-hiring-your-first-employee/

AI may actually be a positive game-changer in diversity recruiting

As a discipline, recruiting is particularly buzzy, driven by innovation in strategies and technologies alike. Over the last few years, two significant trends stand out: artificial intelligence (AI) and diversity and inclusion (D&I). Both a long time coming, these continue to gain momentum, influencing the space and as the use cases roll in, demonstrating value across organizations of all sizes and industries.

More information: https://recruitingdaily.com/ai-diversity-recruiting/

Step Up Your Game with Real-Time Recruiting Analytics Dashboard

A recruiter’s value to an organization is measured by the number of open jobs they can fill and how quickly they can fill them. When positions go unfilled, organizations lose money – bottom line.

So even while candidate engagement and quality of hire grow in importance, recruiting is still a numbers game.

More information: https://www.jobvite.com/reporting-and-analytics/real-time-recruiting-analytics-dashboard/

Guest Blog: Four Flawed Recruiting Tactics To Avoid And What You Should Be Doing Instead

It’s the same thought all over: “Good talent is hard to find.”

However, why this old saw holds true for today’s employers varies. Candidates drive today’s market as unemployment is at a 30-year low, and 60 percent of job seekers are finding positions within two months of beginning their search. The truth is this: the market is tight for companies looking to attract and retain the best employees possible.

More information: https://ideal.com/blog/flawed-recruiting-tactics/