12 Ways to Make Hiring a Priority — Even When You're Swamped
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: Your company is slammed with work — but you also need to make a hire or two to keep the team running at full capacity. What do you do to ensure hiring doesn't get put on the back burner? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an...
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8 Key Ways to Leverage Video While Recruiting and Hiring
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: Video is a powerful product marketing tool — but what about marketing your company to potential hires? In what way can companies effectively leverage video during the recruiting and hiring process? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council...
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Top 7 Questions Not to Ask Candidates During a Job Interview
LinkedIn found that 42% of recruiters believe that interview bias is a big problem in traditional interviews. The questions you ask candidates in interviews have an impact, and some are even illegal to ask. But what illegal interview questions (and useless ones) should you avoid asking? For some questions, there are even ways that you can rephrase them to get better answers. Keep...
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Top 9 Qualities to Look for When Hiring Employees
According to one survey, 74% of people say they have made the wrong choice when hiring an employee. With the Great Resignation and the rise of the candidate market, many companies wonder how to hire employees to fill open positions. This is why many companies have started looking for candidates with soft rather than hard skills. Soft skills relate to how an employee works and...
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3 Crucial Considerations You Need to be Mindful of Before Starting In-house Recruitment
Talent shortages in America have risen to record levels in more than a decade, with 69% of employers having difficulty filling jobs. This is the exact reason why skilled recruiters are significantly in demand right now. Many companies are looking at getting an in-house team to ramp up their hiring efforts. However, for those businesses that have been solely relying on recruitment...
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Effective Remote Collaboration: The Tools, Tech, and Training You Need to Support Remote Teamwork
Within the past year, we've seen significant changes in how employees work with each other and their employers, most obviously in the shift to remote work. Some companies may make remote work permanent, while others may adopt a hybrid structure mixing remote and in-person arrangements. Regardless, remote work and the flexibility it affords will likely be part of companies' policies in some...
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Data-Driven Recruiting: The Secret for Hiring Top Talent
Talent acquisition is one field that was primarily based on guesswork until recently, in part because with candidates, a hiring manager could never really be sure if they would do a good job. It is no surprise that close to three in four employers are affected by a bad hire today. After all, gut feeling and manual resume screening can only take you so far. Hiring through a hit-and-miss...
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The Recruiter's Ultimate Guide to Diversity
According to the latest research, diverse companies have a 2.3 times higher rate of cash flow for each employee than companies that aren't as diverse. If you aren't currently focusing on diversity hiring, there are even more benefits to improving your recruiting process. But what do you need to know when you want to hire for diversity? Keep reading to discover all you need to know...
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Want to Boost Innovation? Cultivate Employee Networks
Ninety percent of executives claim that long-term organizational success depends on developing and implementing new ideas. But innovation is difficult, especially in large organizations designed for efficiency and consistency. Most proactive innovation efforts fall short of expectations. Few programs result in the ongoing innovation needed for business growth or adapting to rapidly shifting...
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How Your Small Business Can Hire Top-Tier Freelance Talent
If you're not already hiring freelance and contingent talent, you probably will be soon. The use of contract, freelance, and otherwise flexible labor — as opposed to full-time employees — has been on the rise for years. Partly, it's a matter of agility: Business moves fast these days, and working with contingent talent allows an employer to scale up or down as needed at a moment's...
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A Guide to Selecting a Recruiting Agency or Staffing Firm
In today's increasingly competitive business landscape, 40% of companies have chosen to outsource their hiring processes to recruiting agencies. The evolving job market dynamics and the escalating competition for top-tier talent largely drive this trend. Businesses engage with two primary types of recruiting agencies: staffing and recruiting agencies. This article delves into the differences...
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This Women's History Month, Cut Unconscious Bias From Your Interviews With These 6 Tips [Infographic]
March is Women's History Month in the US, which means many companies are rightfully taking the time to reflect on how far working women have come — and how much further there is to go. The danger, however, is that the discourse can quickly become self-congratulatory. Between all the flashy tweets, enthusiastic press releases, and searching think pieces, you might start to wonder whether...
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7 Ways to Support Employees During Times of Crisis
One Deloitte survey found that 64% of surveyed employees said that the information and communication from their employers during any crisis would affect whether or not they would want to go to work. There has been no shortage of crises in the past few years, from the COVID-19 pandemic to protests, rising inflation, changes in the job market, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With all of...
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11 Signs of a Great Candidate, Based on Their LinkedIn Profile
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What particular elements do you pay close attention to when evaluating candidates' LinkedIn profiles? Why are these things reliable signs of an impressive candidate? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization...
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Too Connected to Concentrate? 7 Ways to Find Focus When Working Remotely
It's noon and you've been working on a project since 9 a.m. The deadline is looming and you're barely a quarter done. Relentless emails, texts, alerts, and meeting invitations — all meant to keep you connected while you work remotely — keep pulling your attention away. Every time you settle in and regain your focus — ping! Sound familiar? You're not alone. Remote workers are...
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Zoom Fatigue: A New Phenomenon and How to Combat It
It's the end of a long day of calls after calls after calls. You notice your back is tight, and you are physically and emotionally exhausted. You decide to cancel your plans since you're too tired to go out that night. And when you try to unwind for the evening, you notice that you're angry and find yourself snapping at everyone around you. Have you ever found yourself in a similar...
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How to Scale Your Recruiting Process for Accelerated Team Growth
Growth can be an exciting phase for any company. However, it can also be a chaotic and challenging time of transition. According to one recent report, each corporate job offer attracts close to 250 resumes on average. Of all the qualified applicants, only four to six candidates get called for an interview, and only one gets the job under most circumstances. Talent acquisition leaders...
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Aliens Among Us: Anyone Can Be an Innovator. You Just Have to Think Like an Outsider.
A few minutes into our interview, Michael Wade, a professor of innovation and strategy at IMD, asks me how I would define the opposite of déjà vu. The question takes me aback, partially because it's always a bit of an unexpected thrill when the interviewee turns the mic back at you, metaphorically speaking. But I also struggle to string a coherent sentence together because, well, that's...
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Company Intranets Play a Surprising Role in Keeping Employees Engaged and Connected
A modern intranet can align an entire workforce behind a company's mission and bring new levels of efficiency to collaboration and knowledge sharing. Yet, intranets still bear the stigma of being clunky and unintuitive. The old intranet was often a stagnant repository for information, but the intranet's capabilities have evolved since then. Today, many companies use the alternative term...
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What is On-Demand Recruiting and How Can Businesses Benefit from it?
No matter what industry or niche your business belongs to, like every other organization that's trying to establish itself, it is bound to experience fluctuations in hiring needs - from times when hiring spikes at an accelerated pace to times when it slows down or even halts completely. As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and life returns to normal, your internal recruiting resources might...
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Are Online Degrees Worth It? What Hiring Managers Think
Even before COVID-19, online degree programs were growing increasingly popular. The ability to earn a college degree without being tied to a physical campus opened doors for many students with existing commitments, like families and jobs. Plus, online degree programs and other educational options, like short-term coding boot camps, are often — though not always — more affordable than...
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4 Ways to Win Talent With Transparency in Recruitment
First impressions matter, particularly during the recruitment process. From your initial touchpoint with talent, you're setting an example of what they can expect from your relationship. One unintentional stumble might leave you with disgruntled applicants. Although many factors can contribute to a stellar first impression, transparency in recruitment can top them all. For candidates,...
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When Recruiters Act More Like Salespeople, Companies and Candidates Both Benefit
In many organizations, the sales team is valued as having the greatest impact on the company's bottom line. They use tactics such as sourcing leads through social media to garner interest and keep in touch with past clients, in the hopes of eventually turning prospects into buyers. If you stop and think about it, recruiters are more or less salespeople. In fact, many people believe...
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4 Mistakes Every Company Makes When Recruiting Generation Z — and What to Do About Them
A new generation is now entering the global workforce — one that Deloitte calls the most educated generation to date. How will the arrival of Generation Z affect your recruiting strategy? Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind right off the bat is that, like any generation, Gen. Z has its own unique tendencies, priorities, and needs. That means the hiring strategies that used...
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Making Your Website Inviting for Volunteers and Applicants
When it comes to recruiting, nonprofits are in a unique position. While recruiting both paid employees and unpaid volunteers, your organization must make a compelling case to draw candidates into your cause. Luckily, your organization's website can work in your favor! Your organization is driven by more than profit; a mission underlines all of the work you do each day. With a few...
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New Leadership Role? Do These 4 Things
One of my clients, Allison, called me recently after receiving a promotion. She questioned whether her capability and experience were sufficient for her to perform at the next level, even though she'd been a standout performer in her previous role. Allison instinctively knew something that many leaders either neglect or don't fully understand: The job at every level is different! For a...
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3 Ways to Keep Morale High in the Era of Hybrid Work
Many businesses across the US had planned to reopen their offices this summer — but the surging Delta variant has forced many employers to postpone. Now, we're seeing a wave of adjustments as business leaders create new plans to move forward with remote and hybrid work. Some businesses, like Google, are planning to cut compensation for individuals who plan to work remotely permanently....
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5 Creative Recruitment Strategies to Attract More Good Candidates and Fill Open Positions Faster
The amount of elite talent now has a broader range of career options since the number of enterprises in your niche is constantly increasing. This means that recruiting competent applicants is more complex than ever for recruiters. Recruiters no longer choose prospects in today's candidate-driven employment market. Candidates are the ones who get to choose. According to research from...
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Your Personal Blog Can Get You a Job — If You Include These 11 Things
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's one thing a candidate could add to their personal blog or website to make them stand out to an employer like you? These answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful...
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9 Reasons Why No One Applied to Your Job Posting
On average, each job opening will attract around 250 resumes. So when you post a recruiter will post job openings to LinkedIn or your career page, you may be waiting for the floods of resumes to come in. What happens if they don't? There are a few reasons why people might choose not to apply for your open positions, but most of them are pretty easy to fix. Keep reading to discover nine...
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How to Get to Know Your Coworkers When You Haven't Met Them in Person
The global pandemic has forced countless employees to work remotely, and in doing so, it has also given people room to consider whether they're living in the best possible location. According to a recent Upwork survey, 23 million people could be planning to move from big cities to less populated areas thanks to the newly widespread availability of remote work opportunities. As more people...
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How to Find a Recruiter to Land Your Dream Candidate Quickly
When a candidate applies for a job online, their application joins hundreds, if not thousands, of others in your overstuffed inbox with absolutely no guarantee of being seen. Even if there's the best candidate with all kinds of outstanding credentials, you may never see them. One report found that while most applicants apply for jobs through job boards and career sites, less than 1% of...
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3 Ways Your Company Can Help Close the Tech Skills Gap
The digital skills gap in our country has persisted for years, and unfortunately, it's getting worse. Technology is evolving fast, and automation is sweeping across every industry. Companies are in urgent need of tech skills, but they're struggling to find qualified candidates through traditional pathways. About 225,000 computing jobs are open in America, and only about 70,000 computer...
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Why It's Important to Make Sure Your Employees Have Fun at Work
Work has historically been oriented toward the activity of, well, working. If we carried out the tasks and responsibilities we were hired to perform as expected, we were paid. If we did our work well over time, we got paid more. If we came through with good work for long enough, perhaps we got promoted. If we wanted to have fun in life, we did that in our personal lives, pursuing hobbies and...
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In the Age of Remote Work, International Hiring Is Still Tricky: Best Practices for Recruiting Global Talent
Recruitment can be complex and challenging, so it's no surprise the average hire costs thousands of dollars. The process takes time, requires organization, and can be a logistical nightmare under even the best circumstances. When you're making international hires, the headaches only increase. But sometimes, a foreign employee is the best addition to your team, and it would be a shame to...
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Why Employees Don't Know the Company Mission — and How to Fix It
The modern-day workforce is mission-driven. In fact, more than 80 percent of American workers rate meaningful work as a top priority in their careers. But how many employees can accurately describe their company's mission? Can you? According to the 2021 Mission Alignment Index (MAI) from my company, Gtmhub, about one-third of the world's largest companies fail at mission alignment....
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The 7 Golden Rules to Greatly Boost Your Online Test Score
In the following article, I will walk you through seven great, practical, and actionable tips to tackle any online test from the world's top test providers. An online test can be a very intimidating and stressful experience. Approaching it without proper preparation will seriously hurt your chances at landing your desired job. Preparing in a smart way, on the other hand, will significantly...
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How to Create a High-Impact AI Recruiting Strategy
Once believed to be the province of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a reality and transforming many industries today, including talent acquisition. As a recruiter, your strategy is the crux of your hiring process. While a robust one can help you formulate ways to reserve the top talent pool for your organization, an ineffective strategy can cost you all...
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3 Ways Tech Companies Can Embrace Apprenticeships
The United States government's Department of Labor reported 10.4 million job openings in August 2021. With so many vital positions vacant, the competition for talent is fierce, and a survey of HR professionals identified hiring as the biggest challenge of 2021. One way companies can get ahead is through apprenticeship programs. According to a September 2020 report from the Labor...
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Don't Go From the Frying Pan Into the Fire: Know What You Really Want in Your Job Search
During this time of economic upheaval, it is challenging to find a job, much less one you will really be happy in. You may be so focused on simply getting an offer that you do not realize what you are stepping into. If you find that you're often unhappy at work after starting a new role, it's probably time to improve your interviewing skills. Don't Be Like Robert Robert was searching...
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11 Ways to Be More Proactive About Your DEI Hiring Efforts
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment market questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's one way companies can be more proactive about their DEI recruiting and hiring efforts? What impact does this have? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization composed of the world's most successful...
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How to Choose the Right Recruiting Outsourcing Provider
One of the biggest recruiting challenges employers and hiring managers face today is recruiting the right talent pool for their organization. Per Aberdeen Strategy and Research, 84 percent of the top companies struggle to recruit quality talent. Poor hiring choices can often result in an unsatisfied employer and low ROI. Hence, consider hiring a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)...
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3 Ways to Leverage Automation in Your Recruitment Process to Boost Efficiency
Today, automation technology is transforming the talent acquisition landscape at a rapid pace. Hubspot's recent "Recruiting Automation Trends" report states that close to 75% of recruiters believe that technology will play a significant role in their recruitment strategy to streamline their hiring processes in the future. With most companies functioning in a remote setup amid the...
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How Recruiters Can Improve Diversity and Inclusion in the Construction Industry
Many organizations are making strides to improve diversity and inclusion (DI) in their workplaces. However, DI continues to be a problem area for specific sectors in the labor market, such as construction. According to a 2019 Building survey on diversity, only 4% of construction professionals in the UK are Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME). According to the Women and...
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7 Features Every Company Should Look For in Recruiting Software
According to some research, 98% of Fortune 500 companies use recruiting software. When many companies are struggling to recruit talent, using software to find qualified candidates could be the answer to your company's recruitment problems. But if you're going to invest in recruiting software, you need to ensure that you choose the right solution for your business. Keep reading to...
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Build Loyalty, Break Down Hierarchies, and Recruit Better Talent With Mentorship Programs
"Employees want to be part of something that is bigger than a company. The business culture is internally based, but the philanthropy is external. That volunteer ethos provides more than a quarterly return on earning — it stretches employees beyond their day-to-day jobs." — Rick Luftglass, Former Director, Pfizer Foundation's Education Volunteer Program Do executive skills primarily come...
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The Importance of Value-Based Hiring: Why It Matters for Your Business
According to some findings, 45% of new hires leave their jobs in the first year. 50% of hiring managers feel like they could have hired a better candidate. These astounding statistics encompass the sad reality during the ongoing pandemic. In an era with work from home gaining more and more traction, the importance placed on hiring has never been greater. Sourcing, recruiting,...
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How Recruiters Should Spend Their Time During a Hiring Freeze
What do you do if you are a recruiter and your company is on a hiring freeze? How do you spend your time? While it's tempting to hang out and watch Nextflix all day, there are many ways you could be improving your process. When the hiring freeze is over, the hiring managers will have all kinds of positions that they want to fill. However, you may potentially have fewer resources than...
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