How is Big Data Changing the Recruiting Game?
Forbes reported that big data isn’t just for corporations with billions of dollars in annual revenue. There’s increasingly a place for the practice in small businesses.
How Do You Prepare to Recruit a New Employee?
Where does the search for a new hire begin? One might argue with the outreach effort. However, there is a significant amount of work that must go into the process before you even post about an open position.
INFOGRAPHIC: Employers Hiring Strategies Effected by Obamacare
Now that the Affordable Care Act has gone into effect, you may be able to see the ripple effect of the law from the way it has sparked changes in businesses’ hiring practices. So-called “Obamacare” has mandated that companies with more than 50 full-time employees offer their staff members affordable health care options, or else…
Filling Creative, Marketing or Interactive Positions
If you hire efficiently and effectively, you can see higher profits, lower rate of turnover and increased revenue growth. However, the trick is balancing the two parts so you don’t waste time on sub-par hires.
Attracting Millennial Talent For Tech-Heavy Marketing Jobs
Businesses should direct their attention to milliennials, a group of applicants who may be the answer to their tech-dependent marketing departments’ prayers.
Networking: IT Recruiting in Real Life
Within the world of business, it’s all about who you know.
Project Management & The Road To Successful Vendor Relationship Management
Are You a Good Client? Having an in-house Digital Marketing Manager or Project Management job you are a client in some form. Aren’t you? You outsource to an agency or freelancer; you delegate; you signed contracts binding a vendor relationship. You have a tough gig as the hub to all the resources around you. As…
Salary Isn’t Everything in Successful Recruitment Strategies
Developing recruitment strategies doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to promise high salaries and make other promises you can’t keep. In fact, rather than focusing on compensation, it might benefit you more to turn your attention to the aspects of the job that make people want to come to work. For instance, ask yourself if employees…
Social Recruiting: How Social Media and Recruiting Go Hand-in-Hand
If you’re having trouble connecting with the right people, you might not be using the appropriate tools for the job. The same way a contractor wouldn’t approach a building project with a toolbox full of pool noodles instead of the hammers and wrenches that will put a house together, you’ll be hard-pressed to do a…
Don't Cancel the Interview
As a recruiter the last thing you would expect me to say is, “Don’t cancel your interview.” Whenever I have a candidate in final stages of an interview process I always commit them to saying that they will cease all search activities, cancel all upcoming interviews and conversations when an offer is extended. In my…