Hiring Talent

Why Candidates May Reject Your Job Offers?

Hiring the best candidates doesn’t always come down to selecting the best of the best. Often, it’s ensuring that the very best select you! In this post, our author spells out how to get the best talent to make sure they select your company in a competitive environment.

How to Use Pinterest in Your Recruitment Strategy

Nowadays, it feels like everyone is incorporating social media in their recruitment strategy - from LinkedIn, to Facebook and Twitter. In this post, our author explains one potential social media tool your business is perhaps ignoring to attract candidates: Pinterest! Read below to learn how to use Pinterest to your advantage!

Promoting Diversity: Why the Videogames Industry is a Microcosm of the Problem

If you’ve ever considered how the gaming industry could better promote the need for more diversity in the workplace, then this post is for you! Here, our author explains why the games industry is emblematic of a problem that exists across a variety of industries and businesses.

How Technology Helps HR Professionals, Recruiters and Hiring Managers Secure Top Talent

Hiring practices have changed dramatically over the years, in large part thanks to the introduction of technology specifically designed for HR professionals. Read below for a description of technologies that offer the most benefit to recruiters.

Sales Recruitment: 8 Skills to Look out for in a Sales Manager

We all know the classic adage “sales are the lifeblood of any business,” so when it comes to hiring a new sales manager, it’s important to get the hire right! In this post, our guest author explains 8 competencies any business should look for in a potential hire.

Avoid These 8 Mistakes When Recruiting for Remote Teams

The days of being required to work in an office, at your desk are long gone. The environment and expectations have changed - remote work is expected to replace office work as the norm in the coming years. In this post, our return guest author discusses how to recruit in this evolving, remote landscape.

How to Successfully Gather and Manage a Remote Team

Most of us love the idea of being able to work from home. In the last few years, the traditional “workplace” has evolved and the concept of “remote work” has exploded into the mainstream. In this timely post, our author explains how to overcome the challenge of managing team members working remotely.

14 Examples of Successful Referral Email Campaigns [Infographic]

Referral emails are a powerful way to allow your valued customers to do a large part of your marketing for you. Check out this infographic created by our friends at CleverTap that includes referral and campaign tips and strategies from companies like Uber, Venmo, and Chase.

How to Assess Candidates Through Their Communication Style [Infographic]

There are four main communication styles, which can be easily sussed out during an interview. For a more in-depth look at these specific styles, check out the infographic created by our friends at Nextiva.

The Future of Technical Support Outsourcing [Infographic]

There has been a growing need for technical support outsourcing. To learn more about the current status of this growing sector and what the future holds for it, check out this highly informative infographic created by our friends at IntelligentBee detailing what you need to know.

How Staff Leasing Works for Your Business [Infographic]

In this infographic created by our friends at Booth and Partners, you will learn the actions needed to outsource specific business functions, as well as pick up some suggestions on how to make staff leasing work for you and your business.

5 Ways You Can Use Instagram for Better Hiring

While most companies still use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as their main sourcing channels, some are starting to utilize Instagram as a sourcing platform. Here are 5 ways that Instagram is also gaining traction as an efficient recruiting platform.

Stick to Your Knitting: Why Recruiters Should Recruit and Sourcers Should Source

Anaesthetists will never pick up the scalpel. Master Chefs will never work in the dining room. So why do we expect recruiters to source?

7 Clear Signs It’s Time to Hire Your First Employee [Infographic]

Do you work crazy hours, day after day, week after week? To become familiar with the signs that it might be time to bring on your first employee, check out this infographic created by our friends at Fundera.

How the Rise of AI has Made Your Human-Centric Skills all the More Valuable

Humans remain the best and most powerful tool for certain areas that technology and AI simply can’t replace. Here are a number of aspects that are better off left for the humans of a company to judge.

8 Ways You Can Overcome Being a Biased Recruiter

While we would all like to think that we are impartial and screen candidates without an iota of bias, truth is that unconscious bias is a reality and there is no denying that. Here are 8 ways to overcome biases in your recruitment process.

5 of the Smartest Ways to Build Trust with Your Top Candidates

Establishing trust with a candidate can be tough. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to proactively improve your brand reputation and create a better candidate experience that builds trust over time.

Social Media Screening: What You Need to Know as an Employer [Infographic]

If your business wants to make social media screening part of its hiring process, check out the checklist below produced by our friends at Grant Cooper. It contains some pros, cons, and useful guidelines you should know.

14 Tips For Choosing The Best Candidate For Your Business

The value and the contribution of your next employee will far surpass the effort it took to hire them. Look at the bigger picture and consider these tips from Charles Phan when hiring your next employee.

6 Uses of AI in the Recruitment Process

Recruiting new employees can be a challenging task. With AI performing the tedious paperwork and other repetitive admin tasks, you’ll have more time to focus on picking the right candidate for the job.

Content Tips And Other Tools For Recruitment Marketing

To succeed in your recruitment marketing efforts, you need to create engaging content, so that you can attract the ideal talent. To get started, check out these content tips and other recommendations from guest blogger Luisa Brenton.

Creative Keystones to Building the Best Team

Good marketing comes from building great teams. Honestly, good creative work — marketing or no — relies on both talent and teamwork. In a world where freelancers, gig-style deals, and online help are all too easy to come by, why even fuss over assembling your own crew anyway? The answer is simple: creative collaboration rests […]

3 Major Drawbacks of Hiring for “Culture Fit” Alone

Finding new talent and filling vacant positions is a major undertaking for any team. Although the job market is highly competitive, many companies are still struggling to find adequate candidates to bring onboard. According to CV Library’s report, nearly three out of four hiring teams state that finding qualified talent to fulfil their job openings […]

5 Recruitment Technology Trends to Watch Out For

As the digital economy expands its reach and influence, more and more industries are feeling its transformative impact. The world of recruitment and talent acquisition knows this impact all too well. Immense changes throughout recruitment have been taking place for the past few years. Recruitment used to be defined by a culture of bulk emails […]

Are Traditional Recruitment Techniques Becoming Obsolete?

With just a few moments’ thought, you can probably list at least five or six recruitment methods that you’ve used during your time as a hiring manager or an employer. Do you still use all of these methods? If the answer is no, then why not? Did you find one method to be ineffective after […]

Internal vs External Recruitment: Weighing up the Pros and Cons

Are you looking for your next employee? Sometimes the process can seem endless, can’t it? For every two or three great candidates you interview in the final stages, you can recall the scores of resumes and cover letters that you’ve dropped into shredders. Some of those candidates missed your shortlist only marginally. Others possessed none […]

7 Writing Tricks to Level up Your Cold Recruiting Emails

Cold recruiting emails can be a great tool for hiring prospective candidates – assuming you know how to use this tool right. This definitely isn’t always easy: basically, you’re asking a candidate to join your company and you have to do your best to spark their interest. However, while it isn’t easy, it’s still possible. […]

5 Reasons Why Remote Workers Are Perfect for Startups

One of the hardest things for any startup to do is to find people to come help them get off the ground. Most startups can’t offer the same compensation packages as other companies, and they also carry with them a certain level of risk that people aren’t comfortable with. Can you blame them? If you […]

20 Critically Important Skills and Traits that Recruiters Seek in Entry-Level Candidates

Recruiting is probably the most challenging yet one of the most important skills that a founder, CEO, hiring manager, or HR manager of a company must master. If you hire only the best possible candidates, you’ll have the best possible company. Once you realize how important the recruitment process is, you will know why your […]

How Blockchain Technology Will Find You the Right Employees

You might have thought that blockchain technology can only be used for bitcoin, but, in reality, there is so much more to it. One unexpected use is in employment and recruiting. Blockchain can play a role in your finding valued employees and ensuring that the recruiting and hiring process goes smoothly. Choosing the right employee […]

4 Surefire Ways to Attract Stellar Talent

While recruiting in this hyper-connected world gives HR teams the ability to find candidates from across the globe, the workplace is still suffering from a severe talent shortage. An alarming four out of every ten companies are unable to connect with candidates that possess the necessary skills and talent to fill available job positions. The […]

7 Ways Recruiters Can Create Engaging LinkedIn Profiles

The headline of a LinkedIn profile is critical. This is because it’s not only an excellent place for a person to add career-targeted key terms, but it also shows up many times in countless important LinkedIn locations like messages, search results, connection invitations and employee listings. It goes without saying that your LinkedIn profile can […]

9 Reasons Good Employees Quit

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Elizabeth Heron. Her opinions are her own.  Employers may be more out of touch with their workers than they’d like to admit. That is, every year most employers are losing about a third of their best employees. Employee standards are changing and for those who have many options on […]

HR is Moving Very Fast. Are You Keeping up to Date?

Recent whitepapers and studies are showing just how fast HR is now moving. With the increased adoption of technology and people analytics by leading organisations, the role of an HR professional has been expanded to making sure they are aware of recent studies and actively researching new technologies. Over the last couple of months there […]

4 Things to Consider Before Investing in Recruitment Analytics

Worldwide recruiting processes are currently in a stage of significant change. No longer is the process merely in the hands of a solo recruiter, but, instead, data analytics are playing a substantial role. Recruitment analytics is one of the best ways for a firm to use big data, as it makes it easier to assess […]

7 Signs You May Be Hiring the Wrong Candidate

“To be or not be, that is the question.” These are the famous words the indecisive Hamlet moaned. They are also the words that many recruiters ask themselves when interviewing a candidate. Is this candidate the right one? Here are some unpromising signs. Remember, these are just signs, (and candidates must be evaluated in totality). […]

12 Video Marketing Trends That Will Skyrocket In 2018

The evolution of video marketing isn’t likely to slow down during 2018. We can expect to see more captivating content than ever with the current rate of creativity and technological innovation. Marketers are putting more time and effort into their video content from live streaming to virtual reality. Consumers can experience both the real world […]

How to Hire a Marketing Dream Team

When you start your own business, there is really only you (and perhaps a few mates) who wear all the hats. Like some sort of supreme being, you have to play the role of an accountant, public relations representative, marketing rep, web developer, IT manager, finance, secretary. Get the picture? For years people go to colleges […]

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Way we Search for and Acquire Talent

Editor’s Note: This post is by Paul Slezak, Cofounder and CEO of RecruitLoop – the World’s largest marketplace of expert Recruiters and Sourcers available on-demand. Last week we held our first RecruitLoop Roundtable Panel Q&A for 2018. We chose to kick off the year with a pretty hot topic – How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Way we Search for and Acquire Talent. […]

What Talking to 88 Recruiters in 28 Days Taught me About Recruiters and Marketing

In this post Zack Gallinger, President of Talent Hero Media reveals how recruiters think about marketing their business and how to stand out from the crowd.

10 Questions to Consider Asking During a Candidate Interview

In this post we showcase 10 questions that you might want to consider asking during a candidate interview.

The Cost of a Bad Hire [Infographic]

Did you know that the average cost of employee turnover is about 1/5 of the employee's salary? Our friends at EBI looked at the factors that are at risk with their awesome infographic on the true cost of a bad hire. 

13 Tips For Recruiting Tech Talent Using Social Media

Although most companies are using social media to find tech talent, some of them aren’t making the most of it. In this post, we show you how to connect with the best tech talent through social media.

5 Secrets to Successful Recruiting in a Hyperconnected World

The prevalence of smartphones and social media networks means that how you attract and recruit talent is continuously changing. Here are five secrets to successfully recruiting in a hyperconnected world.

7 Things to Consider Before Engaging a Freelancer

Here are 7 questions to ask in every freelancer interview to help you spot the right one for you and your business.

Hired By Robots: Why Most Americans Are Unhappy About Hiring Process Automation

Why is it that so many Americans are against automated hiring processes and how can we turn them into our benefits instead?

Criminal Background Checks: What Employers And Recruiters Should Know

Unfortunately, some candidates lie. And your interview skills may not be enough to get them to tell the truth. Criminal background checks can reveal what type of people have applied for your position.

5 Things to Look for When Hiring Your Startup’s First Employee

For every startup founder, hiring your first employee can be a double edged sword. Here are 5 things to look for while hiring your startup’s first employee.

10 Skills You’ll Need to Consider for Your Business in 2020 [Infographic]

Check out this infographic by our friends at Guthrie-Jensen, and find out the different skills that you'll need to consider incorporating into your business by 2020 and how you can prepare for them, as well as the careers that will dominate the in the future.

9 Ways to Improve Your Email Communication to Candidates

When it comes to recruiting candidates, communication is critical. Here are 9 tips to ensure your email communication to potential candidates is more effective.

How Recruiters Can Stay Focused During The Holiday Season

I’ve always believed that from a recruiter’s perspective anyway, having a flat or ghostly quiet Holiday Season can often become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s a mindset thing. Remember … it’s only “dead out there” if you allow it to be.

Attitudes you (absolutely) have to focus on when assessing potential candidates

Attitude is everything. But what are the exact aspects of attitude you have to focus on when dealing with potential candidates?

When a Startup Grows: How to Recruit New Team Members

For any startup, finding the best talent can be difficult as other more established companies are competing to fill their own roles. Here are some tips for startups to improve their hiring processes.

5 Surefire Ways to Find the Right Candidate

Whether you are a small business or a Fortune 500 firm, here are five surefire ways to find the right candidates.

Outsourcing HR: Big Savings for Small Businesses

This post will delve into the benefits of outsourcing HR and why it contributes to huge saving for small businesses.

Bridging the Talent Gap – Snapshot of the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Roadshow

For our recruiter audience (agency, internal, and independent alike) I wanted to share some of the many interesting facts and tips that the speakers shared at the recent Jobvite Recruiter Nation Roadshow.

5 Dehumanising Recruiting Practices to Avoid

Here are 5 'dehumanising' recruiting practices to avoid if you want to take a more emotionally intelligent approach to making better hiring decisions.

What’s Different About Hiring Recent Graduates?

Hiring graduates into your organisation is a smart business move in today’s competitive climate. Here are a few tips that will help you in the process.

Recap: In-house Recruitment LIVE! London 2017

In this post I wanted to share a few of my learnings from some of the sessions I attended at In-House Recruitment LIVE! 2017 in London.

How to Decode a Resume [Infographic]

Given that the bulk of resumé tips out there lie in favour of job seekers, this interesting infographic from our friends at EBI contains some great tips for all those employers and business owners out there on how to decode a resumé.

12 Questions You Should Consider Asking a Candidate During an Interview

In this post we highlight 12 questions that you should ask in an interview to obtain the necessary details that will allow you to choose the best candidate.

Creating a More Effective Hiring Process [Infographic]

Ron Emery, CEO and Founder of icrunchdata has put together this awesome Infographic and using the steps outlined below will undoubtedly help create a more effective hiring process.

5 Reasons Face-to-Face Communication Helps Build Client Relationships

Whether you choose to use Skype, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Hangouts or any of the other host of video-based chat tools out there, here are 5 reasons why face-to-face communication helps to build client relationships.

7 Reasons Why Hiring Motivated Employees is the Key to Customer Happiness

If 74% of consumers are prepared to pay more for products and services from companies with outstanding customer service, it makes sense that you should hire motivated and enthusiastic employees.

7 Tips For Building a Winning Marketing Team

This post will provide you with some powerful insights around the foundation, structure and the growth of your marketing team.

What to expect in 2027? Predicting the Future of Recruitment

It is often widely accepted that the sphere of recruiting is more about the human element than it is about technology. Do you agree? What will recruitment look like in 5 or 10 years?

6 Tips to Secure Top Talent for Your Startup

No matter where a startup is at, talent is a critical issue. Here are 6 ideas that could save a startup from poor recruiting.

9 Ways to Become a Resumé Reviewing Pro

If you’re swamped with candidate applications, it’s important that you can quickly sort the wheat from the chaff and become a resume reviewing pro.

6 Ways Recruiters Can Use Resumes and Cover Letters

Candidates will often stretch the truth when applying for jobs. Here are 6 ways that you can validate a candidate's resume and cover letter.

Why Workplace Flexibility is Good For Business

More and more job seekers are choosing a flexible role over one with more money because of the quality of life that it provides them. What’s stopping you from offering workplace flexibility?

How to Write the Perfect Job Ad [Infographic]

An effective job ad is not just a job description. It is a carefully crafted message with the aim of attracting the best qualified candidates for your job.

6 Tips For Finding The Best Talent For Your Startup

Finding the right talent is essential for any startup. Here are a 6 tips to help you acquire the best talent for your startup.

The 7 Most Annoying Habits of Recruiters

Recruiters want to find the best candidate, right? Well here's how to do it ... without really irritating them with these nasty habits!

The Top 5 Reference Check Questions You Want to Ask But Shouldn’t

Reference checks are an essential part of the hiring process. However, reference check questions require a professional code of conduct, both unwritten and by law, that you should follow.

The Top 10 Answers to “How Do You Recruit Today?”

During our sales process, we ask the question, "How do you recruit today?" The answers remind us of why we started RecruitLoop in the first place. We thought you might enjoy them as well.

9 Interview Hacks For Every Hiring Manager

There are so many facets to the hiring game, but here are 9 interview hacks to perfect the art of the interview and find the ideal candidate.

6 Essential Metrics For Recruitment Consultants

Although recruitment consultants are typically focused on meeting their KPIs, here are 6 key metrics that they should also keep a close eye on.

8 Steps to Design the Perfect Business Card [Infographic]

The key for recruiters is to design a business card that sends a powerful branded message and makes candidates want to reach out to you.

6 Tips For Gaining Candidate Exclusivity

Gaining candidate exclusivity is gold. After all there’s ‘power’ in having an A-grade candidate only wanting to work with you.

10 Essential Qualities to Spot in Effective Remote Workers

How do you identify truly committed remote workers? Here are 10 essential qualities to identify during the recruitment process.

Why Rejecting Candidates is Actually Good for Your Employer Brand

Rejecting candidates and providing feedback should be considered part of the recruitment process and can ultimately improve your employer brand.

Who Really Needs to get Involved in the Recruitment Process?

Having too many decision makers in the recruitment process can become a hindrance to the point that you might never actually make the hire.

How Social Media Can Become Your Recruiting Weapon

Apparently 50% of employers who use social media recruiting strategies find an issue on a profile that influences them to reject a candidate. Where would you fit on the spectrum?

3 More Reasons SMBs Should Engage an External HR Specialist

Here are 3 more common scenarios where an external HR specialist can help your business overcome unnecessary workplace obstacles.

The Future of Recruitment: 7 Tips on How to Best Recruit Gen Z

Gen Z-ers are becoming adults and smart business leaders are acknowledging their contributions to their company’s greatest potential. Here are seven tips on how to best recruit Gen Z.

Recruiters are Now Marketers (So Start to Think Like One!)

As a recruiter you need to stand out, be different and use new or different channels to engage with your audience. Just like a marketer!

6 Must Read Books for Every Recruiter

On Amazon alone, you'll find more than 7,000 books and publications related to the recruiting profession alone. Here are 6 must read books for every recruiter.

5 Ways to Discover That Recruiters Aren’t Wizards

Here are few things you can continue doing as a hiring manager to quickly discover that your recruiter is not actually a wizard.

7 Unconventional Social Recruiting Channels To Find Potential Job Applicants

More than 50% of initial recruitment screening is happening through unconventional social media channels. So how can recruiters get the best results?

6 Ways to Attract a Rockstar Employee

Here’s a comprehensive checklist to work through the next time you need to hire somebody to ensure you can attract a potential rockstar employee.

8 Reasons to Hire a Graduate

Thinking about hiring a graduate? It might seem like a leap of faith, but this could be the best decision you ever make for your business.

10 Reasons Not To Ignore Active Job Seekers

Unfortunately some say, ‘If they are looking for a job, they can’t be any good.’ Here are 10 reasons why you can’t afford to ignore active job seekers.

6 Tips On Reaching Out to Candidates Like a Rockstar

While technology has certainly changed the recruitment industry in many ways, the magic of recruiting still happens in relationships.

5 Things You Should Consider When Hiring a Marketing Expert

Here's a list of what you should consider when hiring a marketing expert to design a strategy that will make your products and services more alluring to prospective customers.

How to Build a Candidate Shortlist in 3 Simple Steps

Finding the person that will be a true asset to your company is never easy. It requires being innovative to attract and obtain the right candidate.

Why A Poor Candidate Experience Can Destroy Your Business

Far too many candidates are starting to feel disrespected and even resentful during the recruitment process. Whether you’re a hiring manager, or internal recruiter, it’s up to you to ensure you treat your future potential employees with the respect they deserve.

3 Ways to Slash Costs if You’re Running a Recruitment Agency

Here are 3 tried-and-tested ways for anyone running a recruitment agency to slash their operational costs while maintaining a high-quality of work.

5 Ways to Guarantee You Won’t Fill Your Open Roles

If you're having a problem hiring - with a recruiter or not - here are five possible reasons you can't get butts into your seats.

The Insiders Guide to Passive Candidates [Infographic]

Here's a fantastic infographic highlighting how and why attracting passive candidates is often the best way to find to find your next employee, rather than waiting on the ideal candidate to come to you.

Why Allowing Social Media At Work Can Help Attract Top Talent

When it comes to recruiting top talent, candidates are happy with fewer perks provided you allow them a reasonable amount of social media time at work.

What You Need to Know When Recruiting Generation Z

You thought the Millennial crowd was an alien breed, and now you’re about to meet an entire generation that will tip the scales. Welcome to Generation Z.

5 Recruitment Alternatives for Small Businesses

There are a number of serious alternatives small business owners and hiring managers can consider when selecting new employees. This post offers a brief overview of five major alternatives to the traditional job interview.

5 Secrets to Hiring the Right People

Finding the right people goes beyond the perfect resume or stellar interview. Here are some other considerations to keep in mind when hiring the right candidate.

7 Ways to Stand Out to Passive Candidates

A passive candidate is someone who is not necessarily looking for a new job, but would be open to taking a new job if the right offer comes along.

6 Ways Recruitment Consultants Piss Off Their Clients

I thought I would share a few of the more common responses I received from a recent survey I conducted with hiring managers … a snapshot of what they are actually thinking.

Recruiting a Superstar: 5 Ways to Engage Candidates

Candidates today want you to treat them like you’d treat your customers. It all starts with your first impression - your job description.

Top 50 Hadoop Developers In The Bay Area

Here's a list of the Top 50 Hadoop Developers in the Bay Area based on their experience, qualifications and digital footprint.

10 Not-So-Conventional Ways To Attract Talent

Putting an ad in the local paper might not do for a business what it used to. Check out this list for some innovative ways to attract talent.

10 Tools for Sourcing Candidates by the Hundreds

With the right tools, you can save time by automating a lot of the sourcing process. Here's a list of tools to help when it comes to sourcing candidates.

Top 50 Female UI/UX Designers, Austin, Texas

In an effort to bring some more positive news to the issue of women in tech, and highlight the positive impact so many women are having in this space, last month we sourced the top female engineers in New York. This month we’ve moved to Austin, to source the top UI/UX Designers in tech.

Why Sourcing Needs to be Key to Your Recruitment Strategy

Here's a recap of our recent RecruitLoop webinar - Why Sourcing Needs to be Key to Your Recruitment Strategy

6 Smart Moves to Help You Recruit the Best Talent

Don't expect recruiting to get easier anytime soon. Here are 6 smart moves to help you in recruiting the best talent out there.

Top 50 Female Full Stack Developers in New York City

n an effort to bring some more positive news to the issue of women in tech, and highlight the positive impact so many women are having in this space, last month we sourced the top female engineers in San Francisco. This month we’ve moved to New York City, to source the top full stack developers […]

7 Ways to Engage Top Talent

It doesn’t matter whether your company is a small business or large corporation – talent is key to achieving your business goals. Needless to say, there are many companies competing with you for acquiring talents, so if you keep on relying on recruiting methods which aren’t adjusted to this target, you might simply lose them […]

How Recruiters, Sourcers, and Hiring Managers See Each Other

Twenty years in the recruitment game is a long time. The industry has transformed incredibly, and over the last 2 decades I’ve also been on the receiving end of some pretty strange assumptions (sometimes perhaps more like ‘accusations’) about exactly what I did. I’ve got thick skin so when a prospective client once told me to my […]

6 Reasons Why Recruiters Really Can Find Better Candidates

There’s a growing feeling that hiring companies and recruiters are on a level playing field. Can recruiters really find better candidates?

How to Expand Your Reach in a Global Environment of Talent Diversity

Sourcing Thought Leader Jim Stroud shares his thoughts on how to expand your reach in a global environment of talent diversity with a focus on autism.

5 Tips For Getting Into Bed With A Recruiter And Enjoying It

  Recruiters aren’t selling a product that is made to a prototype that can be mass produced and have bells and whistles added to it at will. We are people recruiting people for people. And people are the most unpredictable animals on the planet so it goes to reason that with this many people in […]

How Non-Techies Can Find the Right Tech Talent [Infographic]

Last week I went along to GitHub’s “Universe” conference here in San Francisco. It was certainly an event of epic proportion. I really wasn’t sure what to expect. However one thing that became very clear to me was that even after playing in the recruiting game for 20+ years now, recruiting in the tech space […]

5 Simple Hacks to Find Candidate Email Addresses in Under 5 Minutes

Here are 5 ways to find candidate email addresses in less than 5 minutes, so you can easily get in touch with them about your amazing opportunity.

Model Warren Buffett’s Strategy. Hire Based on Strengths.

How can you model Warren Buffett's strategy and hire based on strengths only employing candidates in the top 20% and know this, even before you interview?

How to Assess Candidates Using the STAR Interview Technique

The best way to assess how a candidate will perform in a role, is to use the STAR interview technique to see how they performed a similar task in the past.

How to Avoid a Churn and Burn Approach to Hiring

Have you ever really stopped to think just how important it is to find the best person for the job and not just someone who happens to be immediately available?

6 Tools That Will Change The Way You Reach Out to Candidates

Time isn’t always on your side as a recruiter. Here are 6 tools that will change the way you can access candidates' contact information at scale.

Will the Future of Work Rest on the Next Generation? [Infographic]

Here's an awesome infographic which shows the HR sector why the future of the modern workplace rests on the shoulders of the next generation.

Why HR Analytics Can Help Improve A Company’s Bottom Line

Given the hype about how HR is shifting from an administrative department to one that plays a crucial role in outlining business strategies, should HR analytics be more widespread across HR departments?

5 Reasons Why Content Marketing Can Help Your Recruiting Efforts

Far too often there is nothing to distinguish between a job posting and a job description. So does it really always make sense to trust HR to find the right person to fill that job?

How Gamification Can Help You Attract The Best Talent

Here's a guide to 'all things gamification' that could be of value to both internal and agency recruiters who are always on the look out for ways to stay ahead.

Psychometric Testing: Is It Really Comparing Apples With Apples?

When it comes to Psychometric Testing, nearly everyone thinks they know what it is and has an opinion about it. But most of us can't actually explain the fundamental principles or myriad variations of either.

7 Social Recruiting Mistakes You Should Avoid

If you're planning to incorporate social media into your recruitment strategy, here are some mistakes you should try to avoid if you want to ensure are top of mind with the best candidates.

Passive Sourcing: You’re Doing It Wrong

Like many folks in the Bay Area, I get a fair number of messages from recruiters and hiring managers who are passively sourcing candidates. And after a while of getting these messages and talking to these people, I've come to a conclusion: you're doing it wrong.

Why You Should Consider Hiring “Boomerang Candidates”

Rehiring former employees, also commonly known as 'boomerang candidates', is a growing trend, especially in industries with limited or extremely specialized workforces.

Why Hire an Overqualified Temp?

Two important studies have shown that overqualified staff perform better than those who have average qualifications. The case is even stronger when it comes to temporary workers, since they aren’t necessarily looking for a long-term future with your company.

7 Ways to Avoid Being a Trust-Buster

If your actions are sending trust-busting messages, then what you're communicating is that those relationships don't matter to you. Here are 7 easy ways to quickly build trust.

Finding Candidates on Google: Picking Which Keywords to Use

Google can be an excellent tool for folks who know how to construct the right search. It all comes down to finding the right keywords and creating a search that leads you to the right candidate.

[Infographic] Video Interviews: The New Frontier of Job Interviewing

Take a look at “Video Interviews: The New Frontier of Job Interviewing” for a great look at how video conferencing technologies are being used today to conduct interviews by HR reps all over the world. You’ll learn how to prepare for a job interview in the modern video-interview world as well as how your online social activity can impact the chances of landing your dream job.

Recruiter Tips: Are You ‘Consciously Incompetent’ Or ‘Unconsciously Competent’?

Whether you’ve been recruiting for one minute, 18 months or 5+ years, you need to recognise where you’re sitting along the ‘recruiter competency axis’ and remember you’re not alone.

Casual Fridays, Clock Watchers, Smoke Breaks & Other Culture Defining Moments

Here are few memorable questions and comments from candidate interviews over the years which very quickly helped me sort the yesses from the nos when it came to assessing cultural suitability for my own teams.

5 Ways to Create an Attractive Company Culture

According to a study recently done at Software Advice, job seekers prefer an honest and transparent company culture. What does that mean if you're trying to recruit top talent?

Target Job Ads to the Right Candidates – Think Like an Online Marketer

If you've got open positions in your company, start thinking like a marketer. Your job ads are just that -- advertisements.

Get Your Job Ad Message Across – Think Like an Online Marketer

Here's a secret for you: stop behaving like a job recruiter. Stop thinking that you can post an ad online and your work is done, because it isn't.

Attract Candidates to Job Ads – Think Like an Online Marketer

The most perfectly crafted job ad is completely useless if the job seeker either can't find the ad, or the title isn't interesting enough for him/her to click on it. Take a close look at your job ad title and put your marketer glasses on in order to make it shine.

Get Your Jobs Found – Think Like an Online Marketer

By continuing to engage in ongoing SEO best practices, future job postings will benefit from a historically strong search engine ranking and incoming applications should continue to improve over time.

Do Your Employees Suck? Check Your Job Descriptions.

Research tells us uncertainty around performance expectations and lack of feedback are major contributors to job stress, low job satisfaction and staff turnover and clearly spells out the cost to productivity and profit when these negative conditions are present in the workplace.

An Open Letter To Hiring Managers … On Behalf Of All Recruiters

On behalf of my fellow recruiters, I feel compelled to share my thoughts to help employers realise that we really can make life easier … if you’re willing to partner with us.

7 Interview Tips From Bob The Builder And Five-Year Olds

Drills, tunnels, torches, monsters, ghosts and bogeymen. Is this an episode of Bob the Builder meets Scooby-Doo? No. I just wanted to share a few interview tips to ensure you don’t accidentally miss out on your next rock star.

Is a Recruiter Worth More Than Your Lawyer?

Recruiting is a professional service (when done properly). Like other professional services, hourly pricing can make complete sense.

8 Hiring Stories You Couldn’t Make Up Even If You Tried

I’ve hired hundreds of people over the years but here are a few classic examples of when my grand illusions of a perfect fit were somewhat shattered.

Why Is Startup Hiring So Damn Hard?

It seems like every company in technology is trying to hire for developers, sales, and marketing right now. Each sales candidate I've been talking to has multiple offers to consider, which makes it tough to find the right fit on a seed-stage startup budget.

Is Your Recruiter Elastic? 4 Questions You Must Ask

While it might be fun, we don't mean that your recruiter could look like Elastigirl or Mr. Fantastic here (although that would be awesome). We're wondering whether your recruiter is stretching with your needs.

How to Un-Break Recruiting

At some of my companies we justified paying recruiters exorbitant fees because we didn’t have time to do it ourselves. I worked at other companies where we had to make the opposite trade – we put in egregious numbers of hours because we couldn’t afford exorbitant fees. Does this feel broken to anyone else?

4 Questions that Make You Look Like a Numbskull Interviewer

Quite honestly – there are some dumb-ass interviewers out there. Here are the dumbest questions I’ve been asked by recruiters and hiring managers and start up owners and managing directors just three weeks into this pitiful charade we call ‘finding a job’, complete with the responses I wish I could have given.

How to Stalk Candidates Online so They’ll Never Find Out – Or Will (if you want!)

Whether a candidate has been savvy enough to manage their online reputation is only the basic thing a quick stalk online will tell you about a potential future employee. You could also find out their interests, tone of voice and other people’s opinions about them outside of a work setting.

4 Things the WhatsApp Acquisition Teaches Us about Treating Candidates

What we find interesting in this isn't necessarily the $19 billion or the rejection itself. We are more interested in what this might teach us about how to treat candidates. Here are our four big takeaways:

Why Social Snapshots Are Vital to the Hiring Process

We live in a social media world where everything can be seen and heard instantaneously. It's how candidates and organisations market themselves to one another well before the first interview. This leads to the question, what can a social footprint really reveal about a prospective candidate?

9 Ways to Avoid a One-Night Stand (With Your Recruiter)

While it’s probably not something we boast about, one-night stands with recruiters happen more often than we’d like to admit. You need a fast hire, you canvas the scene for who can jump in and help you, make a quick decision in the haze of the moment and then once it’s all done and dusted you realize… this isn’t the Recruiter for you.

7 Rules for Phone Use in Hiring

Just this week, a friend of mine sent me an email about a recruiter who made just about every phone mistake possible - including hanging up on him! So I figured I'd draft a few rules to use - both in hiring and in general.

Why Are You Such a Scaredy Cat About Approaching Candidates?

You’ve met the perfect employee after months of looking! There’s just one problem: They don’t know they want to work for you yet. So now you’re a big, puddly mess of wishing they would just come and work for you right this instance. The thought of picking up the phone or sending them an introductory email makes you more nervous than a cat on a deflating pool toy. Here's what to do.

Where to Source Top Technical Talent

Sourcing technical talent, especially in areas where many software development companies are looking for the same skill set can be… challenging. When everyone is looking for the same thing, the playing field becomes so level there’s just no way to stand out anymore. There are other alternatives, though.

9 Ways to Burn Bridges with Future Candidates

Congratulations on finding the perfect person for your role! Now, what are you going to do with all those resumes that you no longer need?Here’s some advice: Burn them.

6 Reasons to Set Success Expectations

As an employer looking to hire somebody new into your business, in order to determine whether a candidate will excel in a particular role, you should define your expectations of their success in the role before you start the recruitment process.

How To Fail at Hiring (Even with a Great Recruiter!)

You can be scoring a failing hiring grade and still do just enough to fill positions. It just takes a lot longer to fill them, and you’re probably missing the best candidates. If you’re really failing, your hires probably aren’t working out very well, either.

9 Ways Not To Look Like a Clueless Hiring Manager

You may think you can fudge it by simply asking routine questions, but the candidate knows and it will become apparent further down the track. It is crucial you have a clear idea of what it takes to be successful for the roles you are hiring for.

Are CVs and Résumés Dead?

We have a confession to make: We hired our Head of Growth without ever looking at her CV. Were we stupid? Google searches and LinkedIn Profiles are amongst the first things many hiring managers look at. But have they really replaced the traditional résumé?

Do You Really Know What You’re Hiring For?

You never want to rush the recruitment process where you write a job ad, get inundated with applications, meet a whole lot of candidates, only to realise that you're actually after somebody entirely different. That would really be a complete waste of your time.

Why I Love Hiring Working Mothers

I love hiring, managing, and being on teams with working mothers. I've managed teams for most of my career, and I can truly say that some of the very best employees I've ever had were working mothers.

How to Alienate the Best Talent

It's pretty much a no brainer that employers will do everything they can not to lose their top performers. But what about potentially losing their best candidates before they've even had a chance to interview them? Seem strange? Have a read of Charlotte's story.

4 Reasons to Love Working with Recruiters

Good recruiters MUST have fantastic people skills, or, well, they won’t be good recruiters. So you shouldn’t hate your recruiter - you should love him or her. You should like your recruiter enough to want to take his or her calls, right?

Your 10 Step Checklist for Getting New Hires up to Speed

The importance of professionally on-boarding every new employee cannot be underestimated. After all, a bad first experience can ruin a new job for anyone. Here are 10 best practices to ensure any new employees are made to feel welcome and are oriented as quickly as possible.

The 7 Biggest Mistakes I Made as a Hiring Manager

Earlier this week, we posted a list of Paul’s top 10 stuff-ups (in American - screw-ups :)) he made as a recruiter. Since turnabout is fair play, Jenn decided to post her own list of massive errors - from the hiring manager end. While there may be fewer, they’re no less cringe-inducing!

The 10 Biggest Stuff-ups I Made as a Recruiter

Anyone that's been in the recruitment game as long as I have will have had their fair share of disaster moments. After all nobody’s perfect. I've decided to share my Top 10 epic recruitment blunders ... the ones that left me embarrassed, lost for words, or rocking in a corner.

7 Ways to Piss Off A Candidate

If you piss off a candidate it can have a domino-like effect. Don’t destroy your employer brand with these easy-to-avoid mistakes.

B2C Recruitment: Think Like A Marketer To Get More Candidates

Marketers know how to use social media to get people interested in their product. As a recruiter or hiring manager, thinking like a marketer can help you find and attract the best candidates.

21 Ways To Be A LinkedIn Lemon

The success of LinkedIn is also its Achilles Heel. Because among the +300 million profiles, are a bunch of people who just don’t get it. Yep, it’s time to call out the LinkedIn Lemons.

How to be the Purple Cow in Recruitment

It's getting harder to earn attention every day, whether as a recruiter or job-seeker. Take some inspiration from these awesome examples of Purple Cow Marketing in recruitment.

7 Surprising Lessons on Hiring from Google’s Big Data Research

Google is breaking new ground in hiring and management, by analyzing hard data to objectively measure outcomes of recruiting decisions over a long period of time. Check out these 7 surprising lessons

How Marriott Hotels is Beating Facebook at Their Own Game in Social Recruiting

What do you do if you want to hire a waiter ... in a country where there are no waiters? Marriott Hotels have recognised that recruitment begins with a potential employee falling in love with their brand and aspiring to work for the organization.

14 Ingredients For A Killer Recruiting Presence On Facebook

We’ve studied the leaders in Facebook Recruitment to bring you the 14 ingredients needed for a killer recruiting presence on Facebook. See how to pimp your recruiting efforts on Facebook.

Finding Great Talent Without a Dedicated Recruiting Function

We hosted the first #hiringhacks event, with LinkedIn in San Francisco this week. It was a great turnout. Here are 11 hiring hacks you can act on today.

University Graduates: The Degree of Discouragement

Hiring a graduate with little or no experience isn’t a reckless decision. You still have the power over their work performance. Why not take a risk? You never know ... the next graduate you hire with little experience could potentially astound you and become your organisation's next best employee.

Hey SMBs, LinkedIn Wants More of Your Business

LinkedIn held the first 'Hire Smart' event in partnership with Intuit over the weekend. Targeted directly at small business, it was the first major attempt to reach out to a segment that makes up a small but growing proportion of revenue.

How to Assess the ‘Soft Stuff’ When Hiring

Focusing entirely on someone’s technical skills can often result in a poor hire. And while it might take a bit more effort to assess ‘softer skills’ in a potential candidate, it can be well worth it in the long run.

2013: The Year of the Mature Worker

If 2013 is the Year of the Snake according to the Chinese zodiac, then 2013 should be the year of the mature age jobseeker on the HR calendar.

The Internal Recruiters’ Playbook

Download a free guide for internal recruiters with all the tools needed to recruit the best people, in the least amount of time, within budget, and with the co-operation of everyone involved.

101 Hiring Hacks For Startups

Hiring at a startup can be a challenge: it needs to be fast, incredibly high quality, and low cost. Here are 88 practical, actionable ideas that have worked for us (or someone else).

How to Promote Your Employer Brand to the Boomers

As we close out 2012, now is the time to review your current recruitment strategy and ask yourself if you are doing enough to attract all segments of the community.

How to Maximise the Return on Every Candidate Interview

There are five interview questions that will prove invaluable to anyone running their own recruitment process.

Are Executive Restraint Clauses Really Enforceable?

Restraint and non-compete clauses can be a useful tool in managing employees' actions once they move on, whatever the circumstances surrounding their departure.

Six Tips to Turn Your Talent Management Programme Into a Talent Magnet

A solid talent management practice is a valuable asset in the war for talent with satisfied staff promoting your organisation as an employer of choice.

4 Rookie Recruiting Errors That Let Clint Eastwood Ruin A Run for President

Clint Eastwood made a rambling speech at Mitt Romney's campaign launch that was widely ridiculed. 4 rookie recruiting errors made it possible.

Would You Hire A Smoker?

Can you refuse to hire someone because they smoke, or are you risking a discrimination case?

The DNA of a Top Salesperson

What makes a successful salesperson? It's a hunger to achieve sales targets and win new business, but also the desire to develop long-term relationships.

“No Indians Or Asians”: Avoiding Discrimination in Job Ads

A recent job ad posted in Tasmania sparked a huge outcry for using the phrase ‘no Indians or Asians please’. Written by a cleaning sub-contractor for Coles, it was clearly a case of blatant racism and condemned as such by everyone, including the management of Coles. It was probably written as the result of ignorance […]

Toughen up and assess those soft skills too

Many business owners and hiring managers are far too reactive (and rushed) when it comes to making a hire. They spend the majority of the assessment process focusing on technical skills, in the hope that the new hire will be able to hit the ground running with minimal hand-holding. However, focusing entirely on someone’s hard […]