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Online Shopping Spurs New Recruiting Trend in Retail

SmartRecruiters

E-commerce forces retailers to elbow into the ever-steepening competition for tech talent. If you look to LinkedIn you’ll see that the number of profiles identified as retail associates shrunk from almost 200,000 in 2013 to just under 116,000 in 2017, and you may be able to guess why. percent of retails sales to 11.9

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5 Careers Blog Tips from Rally Award Winners

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Giant Eagle is an American supermarket chain with over 400 retail locations and over 3 4 ,000 employees. . Giant Eagle’s careers blog is seamlessly integrated into their careers site, making it easy for candidates to make the transition from learning about employment opportunities to applying for them. . Giant Eagle.

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7 Digital Marketing Recruiting Tactics to Increase Your Conversions

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Digital marketers in every industry are focused on creating experiences that feel personalized and seamless to encourage people to take action. However, it’s not enough to just create a stand-alone, personalized experience. 2 – Aim for a personalized candidate experience at every touchpoint. 74% versus.51%).

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7 Digital Marketing Tactics to Increase Your Conversions

Rally Recruitment Marketing

In addition, the team is now using a chatbot that helps to deliver a candidate experience that feels personal at scale. Further, 75% of the candidates who interact with their chatbot end up converting into applicants. 3 – Conduct user experience testing to streamline your careers site experience.

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Here’s Where You Need Recruitment Marketing Content — Outside of Your Careers Site

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Another crucial part of your recruiting and employer brand strategy, social media platforms give your company a way to connect and engage with candidates on one of their preferred channels.

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Reject With Respect: How to Decline Job Candidates

ExactHire Recruiting

Not only does this damage the company’s employment brand (and likely the consumer brand), but it also impedes its ability to source a sufficiently stocked candidate pipeline in the future. In fact, according to The Candidate Experience Study ( WorkplaceTrends ), candidates are 3.5 9 – What can we do better?

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4 Innovative Strategies For High Volume Hiring

Ideal

If large, established companies like McDonald’s are innovating their application process and candidate experience, it’s clear we all need to step up. Common in industries such as retail and hospitality, the need for a large volume of new employees can be due to seasonal hiring, new store openings, or rapid growth in the organization.