Employees are the lifeblood of any company, which means finding the best talent is critical to your organization’s continued success. As we wrap up Q1 of 2021, it’s wise to ensure your organization is following the latest top trends in recruitment best practices. This...
With the power of the internet, mobile apps, and social media platforms - it is only going to get harder to recruit top talent with all of the demand being generated. Long gone are the days however of putting up paper job ads or leaving your inbox open for hundreds of...
The number of job openings have reached a 15-year-high, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, there are an estimated 15 million active job postings on LinkedIn alone. With so many postings online, it can be a challenge for yours to stand out—especially...
It’s understandable why recruiters or hiring managers fall into the habit of posting job descriptions the minute a position becomes vacant. Having a position to fill causes anxiety: There’s more pressure on the rest of the team to pick up the slack, and there’s no telling how long it’ll take to replace the exiting employee, let alone how long it’ll take to train the replacement and get him or her up to speed. Slapping a job description onto Indeed.com feels like a quick win. read more…
Today, just about everyone is interested in how to recruit and retain millennials, i.e., the population born between 1981 and 1996. This year, millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living population cohort, with more than 73 million of them in the marketplace. With the unemployment rate at its lowest rate since 1969, recruiting millennials should be an important part of any company’s hiring strategy.
In early 2019, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) confirmed that America will face a critical shortage of clinical providers by 2032. The news forced a collective sigh from healthcare recruiters around the country, who were already facing historic unemployment levels for non-clinical teams.
Bringing new employees into your company is exciting – after a thorough application, interview, and vetting process, it’s time for their first day. New employees are ready to learn about the company; they want to meet their new team and learn about a new job. So, why ask employees to start their first day by filling out a pile of forms? Furthermore, modern employees often work remotely or apart from where the HR team works, so filling out a pile of new-hire documents and getting them to the right place is even more of a challenge. read more…
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is a division of the U.S. Department of Labor. If you have a government contract, you’re likely already familiar with it. Its role is to ensure that employers who work with the government are compliant with laws against discrimination; its purpose is to protect employees, or potential employees, from being excluded from being hired or receiving raises based on things like race, color, religion, gender, and age.
For many applicants, today’s online application process is the black hole of the job search. Candidates wade through a bureaucratic employment portal that requires a login, a resume upload, and redundant manual entry of the same data already found on the CV. Often, these portals have technical problems that cause hiccups in the application process. If you do make it through, the automated system may discard you immediately because you don’t have enough keywords to fit the job.
This is exactly why 60% of applicants abandon their applications. The modern labor market is impatient with the time and energy it takes to apply online, and most often – or never – hear anything back at all.
As an employer, you’re probably more than familiar with the requirements of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). You may be a bit less familiar with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which governs employers with government contracts. Being compliant with the OFCCP means that your hiring practices are up to established standards from the very beginning, which means starting with the correct job postings.
When it comes to job boards, you have many options. If you’re like many HR professionals, you use a variety of them as a way of casting a wide net. Unfortunately, some job boards can end up cluttering your inbox, or even disrupting your hiring workflow, with confusing metrics or redundant add-ons.
As many people have embraced applicant tracking software (ATS) technology as a day-to-day necessity, certain aspects and expectations around human behavior have begun to change. HR professionals can take advantage of these changing behaviors in the recruitment process, specifically when it comes to conducting interviews.