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The 2013 Candidate Experience Awards Results: Our Perspective

Recruiting Toolbox

For over 3 years now, the Talent Board has brought considerable attention to the Candidate Experience and its impact on an organization’s recruiting success. Carmen and I had the additional honor of authoring 2 sections of the 2013 Awards Whitepaper which was released a few days ago.

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5 Must-Have Traits for a Quality Career Site

CareerBuilder

More than half of companies (57 percent) have websites that are not optimized for mobile devices, which could work against them: 10 percent of candidates have searched for a job from a mobile device; yet, nearly 40 percent will leave a website that is not optimized for mobile, according to CareerBuilder’s most recent Candidate Behavior Study.

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Sending Out An SMS: Recruiting Texts From Last Night.

Recruiting Daily

With an open rate ranging from between 90-99%, and with 9 out of 10 texts being read within three minutes of being received, the most powerful weapon in mobile recruiting may have been sitting there on your phone this entire time. Don’t worry. It’s not a sign of the Apocalypse. Recruiting Texts: High Touch Meets High Tech.

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Improve Candidate Experience to Boost Hiring Performance

The Hire Talent

The issue with a negative candidate experience is that it could lose your business a lot of money – and we mean a lot – just as Sir Richard Branson learned a couple of years ago. Do you remember the story of Graeme Johnson, former Head of Resourcing at the British cable and mobile provider Virgin Media?

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MidWest TechRecruit ‘19 is just around the corner! [Recruiters can’t miss]

Hacker Earth

Lou is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007), The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench Media, 2013), and the Lynda.com Performance-based Hiring video training program (2016). Recruitment process and strategy. Will Bronaugh. Jade Votava.

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3 ways to respond to professional ghosting

Hacker Earth

This can help them “capture” the employees when they are eager and engaged. In case you lengthen the time, make sure you find ways to improve candidate engagement and build a better relationship with the hire. Investing in a candidate engagement platform can drastically reduce the application abandonment rate.

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MidWest TechRecruit ‘19 is just around the corner! [Recruiters can’t miss]

Hacker Earth

Lou is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007), The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench Media, 2013), and the Lynda.com Performance-based Hiring video training program (2016). Recruitment process and strategy. Will Bronaugh. Jade Votava.