November 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
The last Jobs Report to be released in 2019 has finally been published by the U.S. Department of Labor. With a performance outpacing estimates provided by Dow Jones economists, November’s jobs report follows an unexpected upward trend set by the previous month. According to CNBC, “The jobs growth was the best since January’s 312,000 and […]
3 Things To Consider When Integrating Your ATS With A New Technology
Combining new technology with your ATS (a.k.a. “integration”) is a way to migrate the various processes of your business and hiring into one location, which leads to a more efficient workflow for the talent acquisition team and a better collection stream for all your data. Ensuring your various technologies are compatible means you don’t have […]
4 Ways To Determine Staffing Technology ROI
Whether or not to invest in tech strategies in order to increase your staffing capabilities is one of the more consequential decisions a firm can make. In order to determine if the monetary and training costs are worth it, it’s vital to figure out if strategies are helping your bottom line: Did increasing demand generation […]
Back to Basics: The Most Effective Methods for Candidate Sourcing
You already know (probably all too well) just how limited time, resources, and fresh ideas can feel when you’re tasked with immediate staffing needs. If you’re looking for some strategic boosts in your candidate sourcing, let’s review some of the best starting places to build your candidate pipeline. Get Referrals From Trusted Sources For any […]
How Your Staffing Company Can Use Recruitment Marketing To Improve Hiring
If you’re a recruiting professional, your primary goal is clear: you want to place as many of your clients as possible in long-term, high-quality employment positions and maintain a strong employment pipeline between new and existing clients and companies in your network. This is easier said than done in this ultra-competitive job market, in which […]
3 Metrics Your Staffing Firm Should Be Tracking
Staffing agencies have a lot of data to maintain, from candidate tracking systems to job ad sites. If you’re like most agencies, the metrics that get the most attention often have to do with cost. But there are a lot of other metrics you might be overlooking in your rush to maximize results. Let’s look at […]
5 Reasons Why Technology Drives Success in Staffing
As someone intimately familiar with the hiring process, you know the needs and challenges of filling your organization’s open positions. You also know that it’s all about relationships—and that those can’t easily be replaced by an algorithm or an AI bot. But having the right tech platform can help you maximize your hiring and spend […]
2020 Staffing Trends Professionals Are Excited About
Staffing professionals have experienced a huge shift in the way the hiring process works just in the past decade, with an ever-growing landscape of technological tools and advances ready to help find the best candidates more efficiently. The main tools to be excited about now and in the year to come are once again mostly […]
4 Key Takeaways From This Year’s Staffing World 2019
With over 60 presenters and panelists speaking at Staffing World 2019, chances are that even attendees may have missed something. In addition to the tips and tricks from top leaders and innovators in the industry, several key themes emerged from the array of panel offerings this year. 1. Social Networking Remains A Vital Part Of […]
October 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
Another month, another Jobs report, this time the Department of Labor released October’s projected numbers. And despite some setbacks in the form of the GM Auto strike, job growth outperformed economist estimates. While the GM strike created a loss of 42,000, October still managed to end strong with 128,000 jobs added to the workforce. Steve […]
AI Empowerment: Turning Data Into Peace of Mind During The Seasonal Hiring Rush
As the year draws to a close, you’re probably looking for ways to make the seasonal hiring rush easier. Whether that means hiring seasonal employees or dealing with a boom period, time and resources can be in short supply. That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) and data can step in and make your recruiting and hiring […]
How Tech Allows HR To Focus On The “Human” In Human Resources
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 latter, human side of human […]
Key Talent Acquisition Changes That Have Happened This Year
Modern talent acquisition, brought to you by technology, has grown rapidly and continues to transform. But who are the little fish in this big pond making waves? HR is a burgeoning space ripe for technological innovation that has led to the rise of many small niche HR tech solution companies. The advertising slogan (now trademarked […]
Plan a world-class recruiting budget for 2020
End-of-year things like future budgets and strategy may seem far away. But before you know it, next year’s plans need to be executed -so embrace the early bird approach and start thinking seriously about what your organization’s 2020 will look like, recruiting-wise. If you’re having trouble getting started, or figuring out the next steps, we […]
Plan Your HR Budget For 2020
While 2020 may still seem far off (especially as you attend to what’s left of 2019’s business), chances are your organization is ramping up its strategic planning and budgeting for the year already. If you’re starting to think about your 2020 HR budget, be sure to consider these factors. What Type Of Budget Works Best […]
How To Avoid Frustration During Peak Seasonal Hiring Season
If your business relies on seasonal hiring to get you through busy periods, you’re undoubtedly aware of the frustration it can bring—it puts you in a position to have to accurately predict peak and trough cycles so that you can accurately meet your business needs without suffering the negative effects of over-or under-staffing. On top […]
4 Recruitment Trends You’re Behind On
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller’s life philosophy is a few decades old by now, but it’s more true than ever, with today’s relentless pace. It applies in life (work-life balance!), but also when it comes to taking a minute […]
The Importance Of Integrating Your ATS With A Programmatic Recruitment Vendor
You probably already know that an ATS or applicant tracking software houses a lot of organizational data that can help you keep tabs on the information you need throughout the hiring process. For large companies with multiple branches, this type of cloud-based system offers a centralized location for this information, which can be beneficial when […]
Making The Case for Recruitment Automation in 6 Steps
The value of automation for recruiters is well-documented. From a more effective job ad posting to streamlined resume screening, automation can handle a lot of the busy work for talent acquisition professionals, which allows the team to handle the real work of matching the best talent to open positions. But recruitment automation is more than […]
September 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
Despite multiple signs of a global economic slowdown stemming from the trade war, today’s published September jobs report shows some bright points in the darkness. The labor market proved its strength last month with an unemployment rate not seen since 1969. With a decrease of 275,000, the national unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. Meaning, buy-and-large, […]
Why Hiring Managers Can’t Find Skilled Candidates
Everyone seems to be hiring right now, making it a buyer’s market for qualified job seekers. Yet more than 80% of actively-hiring companies are saying that there aren’t just enough skilled candidates to go around, according to a survey by Challenger, Gray, & Christmas. And this isn’t likely to improve anytime soon: LinkedIn projects that […]
Robotic Process Automation vs. Artificial Intelligence: Exploring The Difference
Regardless of the industry you’re in or your job title, there’s a wave of technological innovation sweeping over the work world, and it’s creating an ever-expanding gap between those who stay current and those who let themselves fall behind. What side of this gap do you want to be on? Without a doubt, it’s to […]
[Product Dive] How pandoIQ is Using AI to Deliver More Quality Job Applicants
[Product Dive] How pandoIQ is Using AI to Deliver More Quality Job Applicants Today’s job market has slowed down significantly, with the tech sector seeing layoffs and other businesses freezing hiring altogether. But with unemployment holding at 3%, there are plenty of companies still looking for high-quality talent to fill key positions. This dynamic landscape […]
How pandoIQ Can Prepare Retail Companies For Seasonal Hiring
The busy season is upon you, and the unread emails in your inbox are piling up. As fall and winter approach, HR teams can expect a lot more resumes to scrutinize, interviews to conduct, and onboarding processes to undertake during the seasonal hiring push to help companies prepare for the busy retail season. But before […]
4 Ways To Build A Better HR Tech Stack
With an excess of available technology and its rapid rise in the last decade, it can be daunting for the HR team to determine what they actually need. What will be most effective, and what tech will work best together? There is technology available to assist you at any point in the hiring process, from […]
How to balance AI with decision-making in HR
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; after all, the sum total […]
[Product Dive] Why You Should Look for Native Apply in a Programmatic Recruitment Vendor
Choosing the right programmatic recruitment vendor is not an easy task. When adding new technology to your existing tech stack, evaluating its features while making sure it integrates seamlessly is of utmost importance. A good programmatic recruitment vendor will offer technology that supports intelligent job ad targeting, dynamic budget allocation, campaign optimization, and big data […]
4 Ways to Change Your HR Strategy in 2020
It might still feel like there’s a lot of 2019 left, but the reality is that it’s going to move fast—and before you know it, it’ll be time to put your 2020 strategies into motion. There’s no question that 2020 will be a big year in HR. Tech and strategies are evolving quicker than ever. […]
3 HR Trends On The Horizon That Will Transform The Industry
As an HR professional, you’re undoubtedly aware that your ability to consistently hit your target performance goals and be successful is tied to a number of key variables—and chief among them is your ability to stay on top of the latest and greatest trends in the job market. Sure, not every new trend is going […]
Why You Should Choose a Programmatic Recruitment Vendor Over a Recruitment Agency
It’s no secret that today’s job market is candidate-driven and highly competitive. For the first time in a while, the job seeker has the advantage. Employers are finding it increasingly difficult to lock down top-notch talent and are seeing their hiring numbers suffer as a result. This candidate-driven job market has caused many employers to […]
August 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
The U.S. jobs growth falls short of estimates as this week’s August jobs report has been released. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 mostly due to the federal government’s increase in temporary workers. As the 2020 Census draws closer, the fed ramps up its hiring and of those 130k at least 28,000 were newly hired federal […]
4 Ways to Improve Your On-Demand Hiring Strategy in 2020
In virtually all aspects of our lives, we’ve started to expect to have everything on-demand—information, food, entertainment, you name it. It makes sense that we’d want to have that digital responsiveness available to us professionally, as well. When it comes to hiring and recruiting, many organizations are embracing an “on-demand” model, where talent is sourced […]
Setting Effective Job Advertising Campaign Objectives
Like with every aspect of your recruitment strategy, you want to get the most out of your job advertisements. It’s one of the most important ways to reach potential candidates, and you want to make sure you’re maximizing your ROI and staying on track for your recruitment goals. The best way to wring every bit […]
Setting Up Your Recruitment Budget for Seasonal Hiring
Thanksgiving and Black Friday used to mark the starting line for the retail seasonal rush. But over the past few years, holiday buying has seen a shift—retail stores and buyers alike seem to nudge that line earlier in the calendar each year. That means for retail, the competition for seasonal hiring may start earlier. Large […]
Why Having Your Recruitment Data In One Tool Can Streamline The Process
There’s an unspoken cost to being “datacentric” in today’s data-heavy, digital world. While having numbers to back up your assumptions is always helpful, the dark underbelly of data is something that until now wasn’t really a problem. We’re talking about data silos. Data silos, as defined by PC Magazine, are “separate databases or files that […]
What is On-Demand Recruiting?
As an HR professional, you live and breathe at the vanguard of change and new trends in the work world, and have undoubtedly felt the seismic shifts in how people work and approach the concept of employment in recent years. In fact, if you’ve been in the business long enough, your job today may barely […]
5 Steps to Writing Better Job Posts
If you’re looking to step up your recruiting game, it might surprise you that one of the most effective ways to boost your outreach is also one of the simplest: writing a better job description. It’s a step that doesn’t require a huge amount of resources or time, but it can help ensure that you’re […]
How to Prepare Your HR Tech Stack for 2020
As you build your strategic plans for the future, one of the looming issues is likely to be “where does tech fit in here?” As HR continues to evolve as one of the most data-forward fields, having a reliable, innovative tech stack (an underlying technology platform that automates processes) is crucial. As you try to […]
Here’s Why The Biggest Job Ad Sites Aren’t Always The Best For Your Recruitment
Recruiting isn’t one-size-fits-all. Yet, most employers use this approach when they post all their jobs on one of the big job advertising sites. These sites (like Monster, Glassdoor, Indeed or LinkedIn) each have a substantive reputation and can get you a lot of visibility for your job openings—they just don’t work for every type of […]
July 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
A record-setting July sets the stage for the year to come as the U.S. Department of Labor releases its 7th jobs report of the year. Last week, the government entity reported a growth rate of 164,000 jobs added to the workforce last month; only 1,000 less than Dow Jones estimates. While nowhere near an increase […]
Why Centralizing Your Recruitment Will Be A Better Use Of Your Spend
Talent Sourcing involves a multi-pronged approach, from developing alumni pipelines to targeted internet job ads. No matter your approach, the best sourcing strategy can come through centralized recruitment with a core team keyed into the process. Centralizing the recruiting process involves creating a dedicated hiring team that works with hiring managers and candidates alike through […]
Effective Budget Planning for Recruiters
Even though it may feel too early to start worrying about your recruiting budget for next year, trust us—it’s never too early. And later, when deadlines are looming and you have even more pressure to get it done, you’ll be so thankful you put in the time now to make the process more effective and […]
The Pros Of Using AI In Your Recruiting Process [Infographic]
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There will always be a need for human intervention when it comes to recruiting, but why not get a little help from technology? AI can help make your recruitment process less grueling and more effective for you and your team. But how? We’ve created this simple infographic depicting just exactly what an AI-enabled job advertising […]
The Path to Improving your Time to Hire KPI
There are a ton of factors that affects your hiring and hiring speed. While you can’t change the location of your latest job vacancy or control external factors that affect the overall hiring market, you can improve the efficiency and speed with which your talent acquisition team finds and hires the right candidates. The key […]
5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Post Jobs Manually
In your role as a talent manager, your goal is likely to hire high-quality talent ideal for your open positions as quickly and efficiently as possible. The key to this task is to conserve your time and spending, which is hard to do when you want to reach the perfect candidates at their preferred spaces […]
The Steps to Creating a Data Driven HR Talent Acquisition Team
The moment of matching a perfect candidate to an open position can be very rewarding, like fitting two puzzle pieces together. It is task-oriented and goal-centric. But, while that final goal is obvious, and while your talent acquisition team may already contain dedicated individuals passionate about what they do, there are a lot of markers […]
How To Be More Productive As A Recruiter
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: It’s not about recruiting more, it’s about recruiting right. Sure, that’s all well and good as a philosophy, but it doesn’t offer much in the way of guidance. If you’re looking to increase your productivity and efficiency as a recruiter, there are some easy strategies you can […]
Critical Tactics That Will Make High Volume Hiring Successful
High volume hiring is the process of hiring for a large number of open positions during a specific period. The number of jobs being hired for depends on the company, but it can range anywhere from hundreds to thousands of positions. Typically, the need for high volume hiring arises as a result of organizational growth, […]
The Pros of Using AI in the Recruiting Process
It’s no secret that we’re big believers in the power of AI when it comes to recruiting and hiring the best talent. If you have amazing, organization-changing powers at your disposal, why not use them to make your hiring decisions and processes smarter, better, and more efficient for all involved? Your resources are precious, and […]
What The Next 5 Years Will Look Like For Retail Hiring
As an HR professional in the retail industry, your success depends on staying on top of news and trends in the field. After all, in order to reach your target performance goals and ensure that your hiring strategies are effective, you need accurate information. Hiring forecasts are particularly useful when preparing both short- and long-term […]
5 Reasons You Need Programmatic Recruitment Advertising [Cheat Sheet]
Experts predict by 2020 over 80% of all recruitment advertising will be based on programmatic campaigns. Programmatic recruitment advertising is the process of automating the decision-making of where job ads are displayed as well as how much you need to bid to target specific audiences, demographics, and sites. It’s a recruiter’s best friend – saving […]
5 Questions To Ask Your Job Ad Vendor [Checklist]
Every company and every recruitment team has its own unique goals and objectives. At PandoLogic, we believe your recruitment technology should support you in your mission to achieve those goals and objectives. Whether you have a job advertisement vendor or you’re shopping around for the best recruitment solution on the market, ask any vendor the […]
June 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
Today the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report, detailing the past month’s gains and losses. After a rough May, analysts were relieved to see some major improvements in the job market. Around 224,000 jobs were added in June surpassing estimates, the largest gain seen since January of this year. Unemployment saw […]
How Programmatic Answers Healthcare Recruiting’s Data Silo Problem
Much like the grain silo on a farm, the data silo houses a lot of information in one location. But unlike the farm silo, where you don’t want your wheat mixed with your barley, information-sharing between “silos” can be truly beneficial to an organization. Often unintentionally siloed, information-sharing between departments or team members can provide […]
How Your Staffing Agency Can Thrive and Close More Deals
You can promise excellent customer service and faster results, but the best way to really sell your staffing agency’s value is by actually delivering these results and building trust over time. Having data to provide to HR managers that backs up your sales pitch can help. After all, chances are the competition is promising the […]
Is HR the Most Analytics Driven Function?
Traditionally, HR is very people-oriented (after all, it’s in the name). People drawn to HR have a talent for finding people, hiring people, and helping people thrive in the work environment. It’s all very focused on the human element of work life and company productivity. But HR has also stealthily become one of the most […]
The Staffing Agency’s Guide To Programmatic Recruitment
Staffing agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to help their clients find the best candidates. Concerns of a diminishing talent pool coupled with a highly competitive market for top candidates makes for some difficult terrain. But that’s not where your troubles end, on top of this we’ve noticed a trend of major job boards cutting […]
How AI Uplevels the Staffing Agency Process
How AI Uplevels the Staffing Agency Process Everywhere you look, you’ll see the word artificial intelligence (AI). We are amidst a technological revolution with AI as the driving force. Its impact is significant across the talent acquisition landscape, particularly for a staffing agency. These advancements in AI have empowered hiring agencies to connect more easily […]
May 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
Last week, The U.S. Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 2019’s May jobs report, and there are more signs of a sluggish market. According to CNBC, Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. chief economist for S&P Global Ratings said, “We had expected a slowdown after several years of job gains holding around […]
Best Practices for Onboarding Healthcare Talent
So much of your organization’s focus is on finding and recruiting the best healthcare talent in a crowded field. Once you’ve hired a great new team member, it can feel like the hard part is over. But you shouldn’t coast on your status quo onboarding procedures, and here’s why: 15% of new hires leave within […]
What Are the Steps in Effective Workforce Planning?
Workforce planning is usually at the top of the to-do list when it comes to strategy, but when it comes to assigning resources, it often falls below more pressing needs. Still, given that your employees are arguably the most valuable asset your organization has, it’s worth prioritizing. Part of the problem is that many organizations […]
How to Prepare for the Upcoming Healthcare Talent Shortage
As the Baby Boom generation enters retirement age, recruiters will have a lot of vacancies to fill. This is particularly poignant in the healthcare industry, where the retiring Boomers will also require increased medical care as they age, vastly expanding the demand for healthcare services. Talent acquisition is already facing the squeeze of the talent […]
Why Your Organization Needs to Prioritize People Analytics
Many HR professionals chose their field because they are good at dealing with people. “People analytics,” on the other hand, may sound daunting, or like an oxymoron, but it is how HR teams can move beyond the day to day process of dealing with people at the individual level to really analyze their organization in […]
How Programmatic Recruitment Helps Healthcare Recruiters Meet KPIs
There is a shrinking talent gap in the healthcare industry. As the Baby Boomer generation enters retirement age (with longer life expectancies than previous generations), the demand for healthcare services is growing fast. While the Millennial generation presently entering the workforce rivals the Baby Boomers in size, educational institutions designed to produce our future doctors […]
Why Big Data Should Be Part Of Your Healthcare Recruitment Suite
So much of the healthcare industry is based on absolutes and exact science. Why not apply similar principles to recruiting, too? Analytics have cropped up as a vital tool for marketing departments and businesses to gauge their website traffic and better learn how to promote their brands—and talent acquisition teams can also hop on board […]
How Automation Can Change Your Recruitment of Healthcare Specialists
What is automation in HR, exactly? It can sound like companies are trying to take the “human” out of human resources. But really, automation is about finding an efficient way to help HR teams navigate the ever-changing platforms and technologies across the internet to find the best candidates for hire as efficiently as possible. In […]
Why Healthcare Recruiters Need AI to Find Passive Candidates
It’s no secret that in healthcare recruiting, one of the biggest challenges is finding the best talent in an ever-changing field. The healthcare industry is heading toward a serious talent gap in the coming years. By 2030, the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that there will be a deficit of more than 100,000 doctors. […]
How AI Eliminates Hiring Bias in Healthcare Recruiting
Recruiting in healthcare already has several baseline challenges as it is, like finding and hiring top candidates from a pool that can feel limited. And despite the best intentions of attracting and bringing in the best people, no matter who they are, these recruiting efforts can be further hampered by an insidious enemy: bias. Sometimes […]
How AI Will Make Healthcare Sourcing Strategic
The healthcare industry is predicted to be one of the fasting growing industries over the next decade, and HR professionals are already facing the strain of finding quality candidates to fill open positions, from nursing staff to hospital administrators. With this growing demand, HR teams need to increase efficiency where they can—and the first step […]
How Healthcare Organizations Can Pick the Right AI Recruitment Technology
HR professionals in the healthcare industry face multiple pressure points, from high turnover rates to a lack of qualified candidates in one of the fastest growing industries. With an increasing demand for healthcare services in the aging population, the talent acquisition landscape for healthcare industries looks bleak—unless healthcare industries embrace the technology that can help. […]
How to Celebrate Earth Day 2019 in Your Office
Each year we celebrate Earth Day and take a moment to appreciate the world around us. Born out of the counterculture of the 1970s, Earth Day demonstrations led to the creation of United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. With such an impactful holiday […]
How Programmatic Can Help Staffing Agencies Deliver Results
Staffing agencies manage numerous job ads, in a variety of industries, with vastly different organizational hiring needs. It’s not just that a staffing agency has a lot of jobs to post; it’s that each of those job types requires a different strategy in order to optimize results. Your average truck driver searches for jobs differently […]
How Staffing Agencies Can Build A Stronger Client Network
As a hiring and staffing professional, you’re well aware that your results are your bottom line—your success depends on your ability to effectively place the right individuals with the right employment opportunities. But are you doing absolutely everything you can to ensure that you’re getting the best results? If you’re unsure, or just want to […]
Use These AI Recruitment Tools To Find Top Talent
As HR goes more digital, the buzzwords seem to be piling up. Metrics! Analytics! Machine learning! But when it comes to implementing these new digital tools to make your own work better and more efficient, it’s important to know just how the new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) can work to help you improve your […]
Five Recruiting Mistakes You’re Making Right Now
No matter how tight your hiring strategy is for the year, there’s always the potential for recruiting mistakes or unforeseen challenges. And there is always room for improvement. Let’s look at some of the most common recruiting mistakes, and how to deal. 1. Not Having A Deep Social Recruiting Strategy Social media tends to feel […]
How Technology Can Help With High Volume Hiring
Whether opening a new office location or expanding for a busy season, companies that aim for high volume hiring face a vast undertaking. One organization may be hiring dozens over the course of a few months, while another could be hiring more than 100 employees within a year—and larger organizations may even set out to […]
The Healthcare Recruiter’s Guide To Programmatic Recruitment
Healthcare is growing at such an exponential rate that it has become a highly competitive market. An aging Baby Boomer population coupled with an increase in life expectancy has led to increased demand in healthcare professionals. And, in true form, that’s never the only problem. On top of that, turnover rates are sky high industry-wide. […]
The Healthcare Recruiter’s Guide to AI Recruitment
One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare today is widespread talent gaps and shortages. A study conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Center for Workforce Studies has cited that there will be 45,000 fewer primary care physicians and 46,000 fewer surgeons and medical specialists in the next decade. This means that healthcare organizations […]
March 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
The U.S. Department of Labor has released the March jobs report numbers today and it seems as though we can collectively breathe a sigh of relief. For now. After a slow February, experts were concerned that the economy was showing signs of a downturn but after this report’s release economists remain optimistic. Despite the fact […]
8 Ways to Retain Your Best Employees
Job dissatisfaction can happen for many reasons, whether an employee feels undervalued, or they don’t get along with their boss, or they feel a general lack of purpose in their position. When the job market is thriving and opportunities open up, what will prevent your best employees from jumping ship? There are a few practical […]
How Hospitals Can Improve Their Quality Of Hire
The more efficiently a hospital runs, the better services it can provide to the public—it seems simple, but anyone in the industry knows it’s a complicated task. Still, it’s worth stating what seems obvious: when the ship runs smoothly and patients receive quality care, metrics like costs, patient satisfaction, and efficiency markers within a hospital […]
Healthcare Industry Statistics to Improve Recruiting
Recruiting is a hard game in general, but even more so when you look at the healthcare industry. Healthcare recruiters continue to face an uphill battle in the competition for talent to staff clinical positions and non-clinical support staff positions across the industry. Healthcare industry statistics show an increased demand for healthcare workers—and a shortage […]
5 Things College Graduates Look for in Employers
It’s common to wonder what employers are looking for in their entry-level employees. Employers want capable candidates with potential leadership skills, critical thinking skills, problem solving abilities and preferences for a collaborative work environment. That’s a tall order and HR teams work tirelessly to recruit recent college graduates that fit these expectations. But hiring isn’t […]
Using Recruitment Advertising To Recruit And Retain Top Talent
Recruitment advertising is a proactive talent acquisition strategy to market your organization to potential job candidates and build a talent pipeline. The main idea is that you lay the groundwork to cull talent and develop connections, as well as promote your organization’s brand—even before you have an open position. Then, when you need to hire, […]
5 Things You Should Know About Employee Engagement In The Healthcare Industry
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 and recruitment is competitive, retention […]
All You Need To Know About Creating Successful Job Posts
Today’s recruitment game is tougher than ever before—in addition to stiff competition for key talent with everyone from lean startups to giant multinational companies with global operations, grabbing the attention of job seekers amidst a labyrinth of endless job search and corporate websites is no easy feat. But that doesn’t make achieving your recruiting goals […]
What Will Your Talent Acquisition Look Like During an Economic Collapse?
In the world of finance, it’s a well-known fact that stocks rise and fall. Markets fluctuate, and economic booms and downturns are a foregone conclusion. The larger the financial bubble, the bigger the burst. The last three recessions, in the United States, occurred less than a decade apart, in 2007, 2000, and 1990. Based on […]
Healthcare Recruiting Stats That Will Impact Your Hiring Strategy
The healthcare field is growing. You know this. An aging population that requires more and complex care plus advances in medical technology are making this a destination career for more and more people every year. That increases the competition for the best and most qualified healthcare workers and creates the need for a deep talent […]
Why Hospitals Are Having A Major Problem With Recruitment
Baby Boomers have had a significant impact on the economy throughout their lives. And now that this large portion of the population is presently aged 55 and older, we are seeing the “boom” hit the health care industry, with a greater need for health care workers. Other factors, like longer life expectancies, the obesity crisis, […]
5 Ways To Improve Healthcare Hiring
As one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing industries, healthcare is presenting a unique set of recruiting challenges (and opportunities!) for organizations looking to ramp up their hiring. Let’s look at a few ways you can ramp up your healthcare hiring practices. 1. Embrace Diversity Virtually all industries are looking to improve the diversity of […]
The Biggest Challenges In Retail Recruiting (And How To Tackle Them)
Retail is one of the most volatile, fast-paced industries out there. Organizations need to be able to adapt to changing technology, changing customer bases, and changing seasons. Recruiting against these elements can be a major task. Let’s look at some of the biggest challenges inherent in retail recruiting and how to deal with them head-on. […]
February 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]
The February jobs report has been released by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the numbers have shocked economists. With 311,000 jobs added in January alone, February whimpered in comparison. A measly 20,000 jobs were added last month falling way below predictions. According to CNBC, “it was the worst month for job creation since September […]
How To Improve The Employee Experience
Improving employee engagement and morale can feel like an uphill battle. With so much energy and resources in an organization focused on finding and hiring the best people, it can be easy to lose sight of what happens after the job offer is accepted and the new employee is onboarded. But keeping employees content and […]
Why Talent Acquisition Needs AI To Yield The Best Results
The data available to talent acquisition teams is immense—so much so that it’s often too much to process. From past recruitment marketing campaign successes to data on the most successful hires, there are patterns to be replicated to help ensure future success. But how do you detect those patterns, or collect the data to produce […]
What Does The Future Of HR And Hiring Look Like?
Where does the future of our industry lie? Only a greater reliance on automation? A main focus on HR metrics? Surprisingly, no: according to the data collected from LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends Report for 2019, the changing nature of HR and hiring has more to do with employee-centered practices than embracing technological trends and the […]
3 Ways To Build A Superstar Employer Brand On A Budget
As an HR professional, you’re well aware of how important it is to maintain a talent-rich pipeline of passive and active candidates in your industry for the range of positions you’re responsible for hiring for at your company. After all, your team’s performance is likely tied to an array of key performance metrics that clearly […]
Top 10 Recruitment Thought Leaders In HR You Should Be Following
LinkedIn, Twitter, and even Instagram are a great way to network, but there’s also a wealth of wisdom and advice out there to take in as you make your daily perusal of blogs and other media. Whether you want to listen to a podcast on your morning commute for your daily dose of HR inspiration […]
What The Fyre Festival Fiasco Can Teach Us About Recruiting
A music festival in the Bahamas, with all the rich and beautiful influencers … what could sound like more of a dream? In April 2017, we were about to find out—though most of us, with a less Kardashian-esque level of luxury in our lives, were merely social media gawkers. As the weekend music festival approached […]
Seven Soft Skills All Hiring Managers Need
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 an organization. For hiring managers, […]
Healthcare Hiring Trends Happening Now
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s January jobs report, the healthcare industry added 368,000 jobs throughout 2018. In January alone, 42,000 jobs were filled. That is some serious growth. If trends continue then your team will be expected to fill 2.4 million positions throughout the next decade. Because, honestly, industry growth can only happen […]