The current economic conditions present a unique challenge for recruiters. Only a few years ago, recruiters were tasked with filling a surplus of job openings. Now, the exact opposite is happening, and they need to pivot. As companies adjust to this new market, with some unfortunately resorting to layoffs, recruiters...

Decreasing Cost and Time To Hire with AI The old-fashioned hiring approach of manually sorting through cover letters and resumes, and then conducting in-person interviews is fading away. Businesses are shifting to a new AI-centric era of hiring that is cheaper and faster.  Learn About Next-Level Talent Acquisition: How AI...

How You Can Lower the Cost of Operating a Franchise One of the most common questions we hear is, “What are the costs associated with operating a franchise?” As with any business, there are a number of expenses associated with owning a franchise with hiring costs being one of them....

Are you struggling to manage the high volume of applicants for your job openings? You’re not alone. High-volume recruiting can be a daunting and time-consuming task, but streamlining the process can save time, reduce costs, and ultimately lead to better hiring decisions. In this post, we’ll explore some practical tips...

The interview process can be time-consuming and expensive. After all, top talent is hard to come by. The job market is more competitive than ever, which means that employers need to find ways to streamline their interview process to attract the best candidates and keep them interested. With a little...

Commitment, loyalty, and connection to the company. These three concepts joined together to form the concept of employee engagement. Keeping your employees engaged and satisfied is the key to high productivity and a stellar retention rate. People who are engaged with workplace culture and the success of your business tend...

The recruitment industry is shifting faster than many of us expected. Slow, traditional recruitment puts you at risk of missing the mark.  Speed and efficiency are both becoming necessities in order to snag top talent—and avoid bad hires. Automation has become the recognized solution, with companies like Amazon, Google, and...

Recruiting for one or more open positions, with such an enormous talent pool spread across dozens of websites and forums, has become more difficult than ever to navigate in the age of remote working. Potential candidates now span from local job seekers to global digital nomads, and while that means...

Building a talent pool can save you time and money during recruitment — and is essential for growing organizations. As retention rates reach record lows and talent gaps widen, talent pool development becomes a more valuable resource for HR teams. In this article, we’ll be defining the types of talent...

Interviews take a lot of time and resources if done the traditional way. Getting the recruitment plan approved, selecting candidates, and securing a location for the interview are just a few of the preparatory steps. The current talent gap has made the traditional interview process often too costly to be...

For a process as finicky as hiring, organization can be the difference between a dream candidate and settling for someone based on need. Creating a hiring process checklist is a good way to prevent miscommunication between HR and upper management.  A good hiring process checklist will have every step of...

Implementing recruitment software into any hiring plan can save a lot of time — and just as many resources. AI chatbots that can take over interactions with potential employees, job distribution software that can diversify your candidate pool, and other processes each save hours of work. With the tedious tasks...

There’s a reason that artificial intelligence (AI) software has become increasingly popular in a variety of work situations—including to help meet productivity goals. From weather predictions to travel directions to smart banking, many of us interact with AI on a daily basis. Sometimes even without realizing it. These self-learning machines...

The first step to achieving your organization’s diversity goals? Setting them. It’s an important process—and the sooner you start, the sooner you can begin taking the necessary actions to bring your diversity goals to fruition. This post outlines how to set diversity goals, how to achieve them, and a refresher...

A common sports saying goes “Your team is only as strong as its weakest player.” There’s a reason the saying has stuck around—while it may seem cliché, it’s also true. In the analogy of a company as a sports team, the same mentality holds up. Your organization will only perform...

As a talent acquisition professional, you know how important it is to develop a recruitment strategy that takes into account your seasonal needs—well in advance. Although this can be challenging to accurately forecast at times ( especially during periods of extreme volatility, which many businesses are currently facing), there’s nothing...

In such a volatile work environment, it can be a challenge for today’s businesses just to stay viable and afloat, to lead their respective industries, and outpace the competition. That said, despite unprecedented levels of change in today’s work world, the primary goals of companies both large and small remain...

The primary component of George Jetson’s job was to sit in front of a giant machine and push a button over and over again. And looking around today’s office, as we answer emails or download information from one type of tech to another, you can see that we have invented...

Folks in the Talent Acquisition (TA) field, from seasoned veterans to new recruits, know that it’s a highly specialized industry that’s undergoing a rapid evolution of sorts—the result of a tsunami of technological innovation alongside a tidal wave of social, cultural, and economic forces that have hit the work world...

The finance industry thrives on data because dollars are very much about the numbers. Marketing teams require data analytics to effectively understand their reach and their audiences. But people don’t often think of HR as data-centric, because it is primarily people-centric. HR, however, is an industry uniquely poised to benefit...

One way of measuring employee engagement is through surveys and data collection—creating spreadsheets and examining trend lines using a variety of HR tech tools. Another is by making your way around the office to check in with employees and have real conversations with them. Most Human Resources employees enjoy the...

Some artificial intelligence (AI) tech companies would have you believe that you no longer need to make any decision after purchasing their product—let the AI run and figure everything out for you; take the decision out of decision-making and out of human hands. That doesn’t sit well with most people;...

In most industries, when employees are not engaged, they may be less efficient at work, more likely to leave a position, and have overall job dissatisfaction. But in the healthcare industry in particular, employee engagement can be the difference between life and death. In this field, where turnover is high...

For most jobs, whether you’re hiring a marketing director or a software engineer, the experience and skills specifically necessary for a position are categorized as “hard skills”—while it is the additional “soft skills” a candidate possesses that often make them stand out in an interview and have lasting success at...

The recruiter acts as a liaison for organizations and prospective candidates—part matchmaker, part sleuth. As the first face that may greet your next hire, a recruiter should be well-versed in your brand, your corporate culture, and your organization’s needs. This integral role can help you grow your organization as you...

Creative solutions. Fresh perspectives. New energy. These are all things you want from your employees and from your organization as a whole. In hiring, more HR teams are discovering the benefits that bringing a greater diversity in age, gender, ability, and ethnicity to your organization can have. To name just...

The end of the year can be a busy time for any organization: year-end financials, more products and services offered, holiday parties, everyone wrapping things up on their way out the door for holiday vacations. But if your organization is looking for activities more substantial than the annual holiday party,...

You know what they say: managing ain’t easy. Being the leader your team needs has never been a walk in the park, but today, with all of the data, pressure, resource crunches, and incredibly fast pace, well…it’s harder than ever. If you’re a manager and you’re feeling stymied or held...

When you’re operating a business or responsible for its HR, regardless of size or sector, there are a number of key performance metrics that you pay close attention to in order to gauge whether or not you’re meeting your goal targets—and whether or not you need to retool your strategic...

When it comes to your company’s brand, you probably know it pretty well-what it is, where you fit within your industry, and how you define your brand strategy. But what about your employer brand? Just as marketing is a different animal from recruitment marketing, so, too, are company branding and...