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4 Ways to Adopt Skills-Based Hiring in Retail

Vervoe

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an incredible impact on labor markets right across the world — particularly in the retail industry. In the US alone, there were 878,000 job openings in retail in March 2021, a 53% increase from the same period the year prior , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Screen candidates.

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In the Trenches: Seasonal Hiring with a Retail Store Manager

Employment Metrix

a store manager at a popular body care and home fragrances retailer at a mall outside Philadelphia, PA. MB: Our company just started requiring that all candidates fill out an application online, which is great for seasonal hiring, because we ask screening questions like, “Have you ever worked in a goal-driven retail environment?”

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How to Build a Successful Retail Recruitment Strategy

Yello

It’s hard to imagine a day in which the average person doesn’t make a retail purchase. And whether you’re buying a cell phone, car or can of paint, retailers depend on qualified employees to assist customers, manage the business, and keep stores safe. Retail workers make up a significant portion of the U.S. labor force.

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Text Recruiting: One of Your Best Tools for Improving the Candidate Experience

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Whether it’s establishing first contact with a candidate or continuing to nurture the relationship, text recruiting has a wide range of benefits: It gives candidates a way to get information quickly and efficiently from anywhere. It provides businesses with an effective way to schedule and confirm phone screens and interviews.

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When you pay a recruiter, what are you REALLY paying for?

NPA Worldwide

Raw materials are mined, crushed and screened; diamonds are discovered and sorted. They are then shipped and sold to retailers, who buy them, insure them, and hold them as inventory in fancy retail stores which demand high rents, overseen by staff who are paid to be there for whenever you decide you want a diamond.

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A Guide to Shortlist Top Candidates: A Checklist

Ideal

The purpose of this scorecard is to list out each criteria so that you can assign a rating for each screened candidate. Option #1 Manually screening resumes According to industry stats, 75% of applicants are unqualified and 88% are not strong enough to move forward to an interview.

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3 Key Challenges in Retail Recruiting (and How to Tackle Them)

Recruiting Blogs

Learn how to tackle 3 key challenges in retail recruiting! Changes in retail recruiting. Retail recruiting is is a term used for finding and hiring the right job candidates in retail industry, from kiosks and small groceries to supermarket chains and large department stores. The technology is changing the retail industry.

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