It is well known that the unemployment rate is at a record low and the economy is healthy. While smart business leaders are focusing on growth due to these positive indicators, there is a bigger challenge these leaders will need…
Corporate Recruiting
4 Steps to Recruiting With Purpose
Every business enters the battle for top talent, whether you are fighting to recruit recent grads or top senior management. It’s not easy for anyone when trends are showing widespread talent and skill shortages across generations and around the globe….
Making the Case for Recruitment Marketplaces
Technology has improved efficiency of many recruiting processes, but despite undeniable progress the process of finding great people is still really difficult and time consuming. If only there were a perfect algorithm to instantly find the best candidate for every…
Diversity, Interviewing, Analytics and AI are the Top Global Recruiting Trends
Each year, over the past few years, I look forward to reviewing LinkedIn’s annual recruiting trends report. The 2018 version is no different! It’s 60 pages of insight and case studies, and really digs into the hottest trends in recruiting…
What’s Best for Chains: Centralized or Local Hiring? It Depends
There’s a trend in the marketplace these days to go local. Restaurants and grocery stores are touting locally sourced ingredients while Small Business Saturday (tomorrow, Nov. 25) offers a local antidote to the mad Christmas shopping rush at the mall….
Are Your Recruiters Wasting Time Or Providing Value?
I had a conversation the other day with a corporate HR director and we were talking recruiters, corporate recruiters. My friend had a dilemma, a classic corporate recruiting scenario. The problem is she has recruiters who are doing a decent job, but…
Improve Your Recruiting By Knowing What Your ATS Knows
According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the ability to deliver on recruiting has a larger impact on revenue growth than all other HR areas, including onboarding and retaining new hires, managing talent, and developing leadership. Yet despite the importance…
AI Is the Buzz, But Your Old Tools Might Be Just Fine
One of the great promises of AI in recruitment is automatically screening candidates. The hope is that we’ll just hand off the job specs to a computer, it will screen the resumes, do some automated interviewing with a chatbot, and…
Best of TLNT 2017: The War for Talent Is About to Go Nuclear. Here’s Why and What You Can Do
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 6 of 2017. You can find…
Google Launches a Powerful New ATS For SMBs
On the heels of its May announcement of a powerful job search tool — Google for Jobs — the company today publicly released an ATS designed for small- and mid-sized businesses. Google Hire integrates with its widely-used G Suite, enabling…
The Most Important Question You’ll Ever Ask a Hiring Manager
How are those hiring manager “intake” meetings going? You know, those meetings you have with a hiring manager every single time they have an opening. You sit down with your hiring manager, face-to-face, and ask them a page full of…
How to Use Data to Make Better Hires
There has been a lot of buzz around the use of people analytics, but the evidence for its impact has been sparse. Now, though, we have emerging evidence that people analytics can successfully be applied to improve hiring. This new…
Read This Before You Buy a Recruitment Marketing Platform
“Over 70% of companies are planning to invest in solutions with recruitment marketing capabilities over the next 12 months.” This is one of the opening observations in Aptitude Research’s Recruitment Marketing Index 2017, a comprehensive review of the world of…
To CEOs and CHROs: This Is What You Need to do If Talent Really Is a Priority
Dear CEO and CHRO, After years of reading those McKinsey and Gartner ‘what are the CEO’s priorities’ survey results, I felt I needed to send you this note. Chances are, you may have also read and possibly participated in those surveys…
Best of TLNT 2017: Improving Employee Engagement is Good for Recruiting
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 21 of 2017. You can find…
Best of TLNT 2017: Flexibility Is More Important to Employees Than Almost Anything
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 17 of 2017. You can find…
TA Grades: Only 4% of Fortune 500 Get An A
A recent SmashFly publication, the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2016 Fortune 500, came across my desk a while back. If you’re involved at all in recruiting talent, you’ll find it interesting. It’s easy to assume that the…
Best of TLNT 2017: Moving Past Culture Fit to “Culture Add”
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 8 of 2017. You can find…
How a CRM Can Help You Hire Faster and Better
Today’s labor market has become candidate-driven. With multiple job opportunities to choose from and easy access to information about companies and their employment brand, candidates act more and more like consumers. At the same time, there’s a strong demand for…
Best of TLNT 2017: The Hiring Secrets of Top CEOs
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 13 of 2017. You can find…