Top Recruiting Blogs

It Takes a Village to Give Job Candidates a Good Experience

Post Author:Rick Girard
Post published:October 25, 2019
Post Category:Candidate Experience / Featured / Interviewing

A recruiter’s role in the candidate experience is just the top of the iceberg, says Marie Norman, director of talent acquisition Adobe. Norman leads the corporate functions team, which includes global marketing, finance, employee experience, legal, and corporate strategy In the podcast below, we cover how everyone from a manager to a coordinator to a receptionist […]

How Can I Transform My Talent Acquisition Capability When I Don’t Have X?

Post Author:Coby Schneider
Post published:October 24, 2019
Post Category:Candidate Engagement / Corporate Recruiting / Featured / Passive Candidates / Strategic Sourcing / Talent Acquisition

This question in the headline has been posed to me several times. For context, we are driving a transformation of the way we do talent acquisition. In a nutshell, we want to focus on meaningful candidate engagement vs. a transactional approach to hiring. Through meaningful engagement, hiring managers get better quality talent, and candidates are […]

Stop Being Scared of Remote Workers

Post Author:Brad Wayland
Post published:October 23, 2019
Post Category:Virtual & Remote

For many, “telecommuting” is still a dirty word. For all the anxieties surrounding remote work, its potential to empower your workplace cannot be ignored. Ten years ago, the Internet of Things was little more than a theoretical concept. Twelve years ago, modern smartphones did not exist. Twenty years ago, cloud computing was a nascent, barely-realized […]

Hiring for Culture Is Stupid

Post Author:Tom Weinert
Post published:October 22, 2019
Post Category:Culture / Diversity / Featured / Interviewing / Screening

Culture is one of those “trends” in HR/recruiting that we just need to let die. It’s stupid. The whole idea behind it, although well intentioned, seems to be tainted with bias. It has gone way too far. For years we have been talking about reducing bias in the hiring process. We’ve made great steps forward […]

Collaborative Recruiting — Making ‘Every Employee a Recruiter’ Improves Hiring Results

Post Author:Dr. John Sullivan
Post published:October 21, 2019
Post Category:Corporate Recruiting / Featured / Hiring Process

Top firms use collaborative recruiting because it “turns every employee into a recruiter” and a brand ambassador. Expanding involvement also improves hiring results and lightens recruiter workloads. If you haven’t heard about this increasingly popular approach, collaborative recruiting (aka team hiring) is where you purposely expand both employee and manager roles throughout the recruiting process. […]

Minnesota Recruiter Jobs

Post Author:Minnesota Headhunter
Post published:October 18, 2019
Post Category:General / Recruiter Jobs

The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers. Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand - Summer 2019 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring. NEWS… check out our regions new talent...

The Challenges and Benefits of Hiring Refugees

Post Author:Rick Girard
Post published:October 18, 2019
Post Category:Niche Searches

Refugees: it’s a group of potential employees you may not have thought of. People who’ve seen them in action, including their ability to learn quickly, have hired them and added a ton of value to their companies. My podcast with Chris Chancey goes into more detail below, with suggestions about making refugee-hiring work for you.

Rainy Mondays and Chilly Economics — Recruiting in a Downturn

Post Author:Zoe Connolly.
Post published:October 17, 2019
Post Category:Career & Job Fairs / Featured / Hiring Process / Interviewing / Layoffs / Retention & Engagement

There was a sales manager who used to say he “loved rainy Mondays.” It was a little crazy to hear, since no one was excited about Monday in general, and most folks were even less so when Mother Nature was being uncooperative. However, there may have been some genius in his philosophy … since it […]

The New Potential: Should You Look for Shy-pos?

Post Author:Marc Effron
Post published:October 16, 2019
Post Category:Featured / High Potentials

A new conversation is happening in talent reviews globally that is confusing leaders and their HR partners alike. That conversation references what we call hidden ghems. A hidden gem is an individual who isn’t identified by the organization as a high-potential leader but supposedly has high potential to advance. If you’re recruiting for top talent, […]

Hey Google, Your Job Board Needs a Lot of Work

Post Author:Nick Leigh-Morgan
Post published:October 15, 2019
Post Category:Featured / Google / Indeed / Job Boards

Google for Jobs was launched to much fanfare. I lost track of the number of commentators saying … ”This is the moment Indeed has dreaded blah blah blah” and “Indeed is dead in the water yada yada yada.” Really? Not from our stats, it’s not. In fact our clients are getting more applications from Indeed […]