Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We talk a lot about the concept of ‘auditing’ your own candidate experience; that is, taking a step back and actually seeing what it’s like to apply for a job at your own company. We all can agree that looking for a job kind of sucks. Why do you need to know every applicant’s social security number?

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Yello

JULY 30, 2018

For every new position that opens, recruiters spend countless hours posting job listings, attending career fairs, searching applications and screening candidates before finding the perfect match. As a recruiter, here’s why automated interview scheduling software makes your life easier: Interview scheduling software saves time.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2014

My very first job title ever was as a “sourcing analyst,” which had the necessary gravitas at the time to make me not feel bad compared to my B-School buddies who selected, rather than scrounged, for their gigs. The employer value proposition : give up a cushy corporate gig and go into project consulting. True story. I got a placement.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 12, 2015

You know the feeling – those mornings when you seem to be taking a page from Pandora, unleashing all the evils of the world simply by opening up your inbox. Every single one of these manifold messages want me to do something, and most of the time, this consists of doing a demo or setting up a time to speak to some sales guy (as if).

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Social Talent

APRIL 22, 2015

Last Friday, we decided to post the photo story of a girl who quit her job via 33 VERY telling whiteboard messages in our usual Friday Funny slot. It matched out usual criteria for a Friday post – a primarily image based recruitment/employment/job seeker related story with a humorous element to it. Why was the story so popular?

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Which makes you wonder why recruiting still sucks so badly at both mobile and candidate experience. Since studies repeatedly show online search strategies to be similar for consumers and candidates, this means that about 3 out of every 5 candidates are reading your job descriptions or viewing your career sites on a mobile device.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

Because you just can’t get enough of people who don’t do your job talking about how damn bad you are at yours. I take pride in my job, have a passion for this line of work and dedication to being the best possible resource for my clients and candidates. Another post bashing recruiters. We’ve all been there.

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 14, 2021

Fletcher Wimbush talks with Shaun Martin, author of " Hack Your Hiring: The Tactical Playbook to Find, Evaluate, and Hire A+ Talent" on how to attract and find the best talent using the right job ad. With that said, tell us, how did you end up going from software engineer and executive to hiring guru? Spotify : [link].

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 9, 2015

Have you ever actually applied for a job that’s posted on your careers site? In fact, the only time most end users actually audit the front end of their application tracking system or recruiting software is when a new system or solution is initially implemented, and even then it was likely only to make sure that it was working.

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Breezy HR

AUGUST 9, 2018

They’ve read all about resume keywords, sized up your ‘About’ page and have been approached by plenty a rockstar recruiter. But with roles to fill and no time to spare, how can you provide a candidate experience to end all others? But with roles to fill and no time to spare, how can you provide a candidate experience to end all others?

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 8, 2020

Once you’ve done a thorough analysis, create a job description that explains the role in detailed Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Time-bound terms aka a SMART Job Description. Maybe you have an HR department that can work together on posting ads, screening all applicants, and handling the interviews.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s no secret that applying for jobs sucks. The fact is, most candidates have pretty much consigned themselves to these processes that too often entail more work than the actual job to which they’re applying. Last time I checked, that was pretty much what a resume was for.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MAY 4, 2017

From lengthy, redundant applications to outdated interview methods to lousy candidate experiences, we still have a very long way to go before we truly “disrupt” or “innovate” our industry. Some of you even send email reference forms for references to fill out themselves because they have nothing else to do with their time. I beg you).

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Recruiting Blogs

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s his job to pay attention to rising tech trends and how they relate to new digital products in TA and HR. Sign up for our newsletter to be the smartest person in the room when it comes to HR tech. But don’t vendor integrations already fill that use case? Why use RPA instead? (14:00) “Don’t wait, the time is now.” .

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Which makes you wonder why recruiting still sucks so badly at both mobile and candidate experience. Since studies repeatedly show online search strategies to be similar for consumers and candidates, this means that about 3 out of every 5 candidates are reading your job descriptions or viewing your career sites on a mobile device.

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Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Oh, “time to fill.” This means that, finally, the “time to fill” metric has become more or less obsolete, a hand-me-down from the olden days of recruitment that’s about as old and archaic as most enterprise ATS systems. Why Time To Fill Is Such A Stupid Metric.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 28, 2015

This is why no matter who you are, you’re going to stop whatever you’re doing and sing along the moment the chorus for Piano Man just happens to come on. They don’t care what it takes to close a requisition and fill a role, so long as it pads their pocketbooks. Because it’s always been a matter of trust.”.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 2, 2015

Why Are We Still Talking About Mobile Recruiting? And while internal mobility and employee referrals make up a lion’s share of source of hire, we’d rather dedicate ourselves to “talent networks” or “career communities” instead.

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 26, 2016

We’re looking for an answer to the question: How do we build a candidate experience that doesn’t suck? You didn’t provide all the information I want to know about the job (e.g. Did you get my application? Is the job filled? But the real question is: why do these things keep happening? There are the parts.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 23, 2015

There is no single piece of technology that’s more universally despised throughout recruiting’s rank and file than applicant tracking systems. Applicant Tracking Systems Are. They got wined and dined, but you were the one who ended up getting screwed. Recruiting Isn’t Broken. Funny how that all works.

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The biggest talent challenge reported by survey respondents was that fully 8 out of 10 were unable to find the professionals they need in order to fill the open positions and mission critical roles their organizations need to survive today – and thrive tomorrow. You Don’t Have An Employer Brand.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

This is why I’m consigned to getting solicited for my opinion by manifold parties, all wanting me to impart some sort of sage advice or pat answer when I’m pretty sure no such thing exists, at least from my experience in this business. Pick Up the Phone and Call Candidates. They just somehow work, is all.

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Capterra

APRIL 4, 2017

Is free applicant tracking software really free? Sometimes the trials can last for months or even years, but in the end, the price shows up. Free but be careful where you click The only way to run a good, free-forever, no-limitations software is to fill it to the brim with ads. Are the pros enough to make up for the cons?

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 6, 2015

With so much money pouring into HR and recruiting software at the moment, there’s never been a better time to monetize your confirmation bias, take up that cliched chorus of “ recruiting is broken” and release a tool that takes any element of “human” out of Human Resources. They’ll shut up.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 20, 2015

And as you can imagine, our shared experiences slid quickly from swapping war stories to lamenting how friggin’ frustrating the entire job search process is. I mean, rejections suck – and there’s nothing more dispiriting than finding yourself more or less discarded. This is a whole other level of rejection.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

“The longer your job application process is online, the fewer people are going to finish it” doesn’t require surveying tens of thousands of job seekers or doing a webinar or writing a case study to prove this fact. So I thought I’d audit one for them.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 11, 2015

o positions that are filled internally. coming from “pipeline” (or talent network) activities, which is less than those much maligned traditional job boards , which still accounted for a full 15% of all successful searches last year. Those represented only 12% of all hires, with another 3.1%

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 13, 2015

Seriously – the last one showed up in my timeline just last week, and I thought to myself about just how busy our “Phone a Friend” line has gotten, of late. Hell, why wait for a doctor when diagnosis has become so damn easy? Hell, why wait for a doctor when diagnosis has become so damn easy?

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Crelate

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sign up for The Full Desk Experience updates! And all of these things are so equally applicable to the business world. We all have great tactical and technical and some of us physical and intellectual methods and knowledge, and we stack all those things up. We were practicing at like 06:00 A.m. And at 10:00 p.m. And I said yes.

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Whether I see yet another pointless Facebook discussion on this topic, or another asinine headline show up in my Twitter feed, I bite my tongue and do my best to withhold my snarky comments (although my editor does a good enough job on his own, frankly). So why the hell does it matter where those new hires are coming from?

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2015

That’s not to say tools can’t help; in fact, they can make all the difference when it comes down to converting a passive applicant into an active candidate or new hire. The only way to do that is by knowing what your candidates are actually listening for, which, again, is why big data is such a big deal.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Of course, nothing changes – which is why, at this point, with the daily deluge of new product announcements, you can’t help but feel the software fatigue settling in in the industry. If your system of record sucks, no point solution or systems integration in the world can truly make shitty recruiting software shine.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 19, 2015

I’m sure that, were things a little different, I’d be out there test driving sports cars, signing up for skydiving lessons or whatever the hell it is men of my age generally do when they hit the big 4-0. The Come Up. Seriously. Things Just Ain’t the Same for Gangstas. Who are you keeping score against?

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 29, 2016

There’s a reason, unlike the resume or on-premise software or the manifold other job search standbys, the interview has remained more or less above the fray, universally accepted and unilaterally adopted as an inextricable part of the employee screening and selection process. The Massacre: Why We Still Suck At Job Interviews.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 7, 2016

This might explain why it was one of the rare comedies to cross the $100 million mark at the box office, score a sequel and a big payday for the participants in the project and portray work in a way anyone can relate to. Talk about stepping up my content game, right? Of a Jason Bateman comedy. I call it a Sling Blade, mm hmm.

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Staffing Talk

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Why Certain Recruiters Will Hate It. Some will love it, but others will think it sucks and use LinkedIn and Career Builder,” Fenstermaker said. On the flip side, it doesn’t work well for people looking to fill high-number orders, or the kind of talent easily found on job boards (which the site doesn’t search).

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 2, 2016

Why we brag about our inability to source the hardest-to-find candidates is hard for me to fathom; that we openly broadcast our inability to source the highly experienced, highly skilled talent our employers pay us to find is a bit asinine, honestly. OK, hold up a minute. The Saga of The Purple Squirrel. I figure there’s like a.01%

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