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How to Win When Your Candidate is Your Customer

SmartRecruiters

For companies like LinkedIn, the relationship between candidate and customer is a delicate balance, hinged on employer branding and hiring experience. LinkedIn then asks its recruiters to promote the company brand in conversations with candidates, in a way that goes beyond job descriptions.

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Weave “Why” Into the Hiring Process, Or Don’t Bother Recruiting!

ExactHire Recruiting

I’m seven years late to the party as it was first published in 2011. Job description language I support Sinek’s suggestion to be brutally honest about the realities of a job. After all, you want to hire people that want the job that you actually have, not one that you bait them with in an airbrushed job description.

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7 Benchmark Metrics to Help You Master Your Recruiting Funnel

Jobvite

If your conversion rate is less than 11%, you are below the industry benchmark, so you should prioritize improving your employer brand and optimizing your career website. In the last 5 years this number increased from an average of 34 applications per open requisition in 2011 to around 59 in 2014. Top-to-bottom: 0.2%.

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7 Benchmark Metrics to Help You Master Your Recruiting Funnel

Jobvite

If your conversion rate is less than 11%, you are below the industry benchmark, so you should prioritize improving your employer brand and optimizing your career website. In the last 5 years this number increased from an average of 34 applications per open requisition in 2011 to around 59 in 2014. Top-to-bottom: 0.2%.

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How ATS Optimizes Your Recruitment Management

Manatal

From writing job descriptions to distributing job advertisements on various channels like job boards or social media platforms to ensuring the first day pans out smoothly. Job descriptions can be written faster with ready-to-use templates. Job advertisements can also be published across online sites at once.

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Moments That Matter in the Candidate Experience

exaqueo

Today, it’s more important than ever to build a strong employer brand and provide a positive experience for candidates to compete for top talent. And that means you have to be just as detail-oriented and scrutinize every element of the employment experience. So, what does this mean for recruiting and employer brand?

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3 Simple Rules for Using Inclusive Language in Your Job Ads

Breezy HR

even before an employment contract is signed. A 2011 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that masculine and feminine-themed words were an “unacknowledged…institutional-level mechanism of inequality maintenance.” or any other factor that simply shouldn’t play a role. Pew Research Center Only 24.2%