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Applicant Tracking System Upgrade: Why a modern platform matters

In today’s competitive job market, organizations are increasingly relying on applicant tracking systems (ATS) to streamline their recruitment processes and identify the best talent. However, as technology evolves and new solutions emerge, it becomes crucial for businesses to evaluate their current ATS and consider an upgrade or replacement when necessary. An ATS upgrade can offer significant benefits, including improved efficiencies, leveraging advanced technology capabilities, and reducing costs while maximizing value. In this article, we’ll explore these key reasons in detail, helping you understand when it’s time to make the switch. Enhancing Efficiency One of the primary reasons to consider replacing Read more

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Hiring Process Alignment: ATS for Strategic Success

The success of any organization relies heavily on its ability to attract, recruit, and retain top talent. However, the hiring process can often be complex and disconnected from an organization’s broader strategic objectives. To bridge this gap, companies are increasingly turning to applicant tracking platforms to implement and monitor alignment between their hiring process and strategic goals. In this article, we will explore how leveraging an applicant tracking platform can streamline the hiring process, enhance strategic alignment, and drive organizational success. The Importance of Hiring Process Alignment Before delving into the role of applicant tracking platforms, it’s crucial to recognize Read more

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Rethinking Talent Acquisition: The Case for Active Candidates

In the competitive landscape of modern recruitment, employers often default to focusing on passive candidates—individuals who are not actively seeking employment but may be open to new opportunities. However, as the dynamics of the job market evolve, it is crucial for employers to challenge this conventional approach and consider the benefits of actively pursuing candidates. This article explores why focusing on active candidates can be a more effective strategy from an employer’s perspective, highlighting the drawbacks of the passive candidate approach and emphasizing the potential for fresh energy and motivation that active candidates can bring to a role. Breaking Free Read more

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Social Recruiting Strategies: Get Talent By LinkedIn

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This year companies are expected to use social recruiting strategies for an impressive 80 percent of all job openings. Social media outlets are changing the way recruiters source, engage, and hire great candidates. One of the bigger social networks is LinkedIn, where nearly 98 percent of recruiters turn to look for talent. Realizing the power of its social network, LinkedIn has opened the doors to recruiters looking to use the platform more strategically. But can you really replace a good recruitment platform with LinkedIn’s solutions alone? Or does it make more sense for your social recruiting strategies to utilize both Read more

Social Media Sourcing Tips To Find Top Candidates

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Social recruiting is making it easier than ever for recruiters and hiring managers to find and hire great candidates. Considering companies are now using social media sourcing to fill 80 percent of all openings, social media sourcing and recruitment tools are here to stay. The social media profiles for talented job seekers now tell employers more than ever before about a candidate’s personality, qualifications, and ambition. This added information assists during social media sourcing in making better and faster hiring decisions. Once you have determined exactly what kind of candidate you need for your open positions, you can then evaluate Read more

4 Ways To Help New Hire Start With Positive Outlook

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Starting a new job is never easy. It is often full of uncertainty and learning what seems like a million new things all at once. This is why it is so important for a new employee to go in to a new job with a positive outlook. Unfortunately, many job seekers cannot let go of the negative experiences they encountered in their old job, which prevents them from having the positive outlook they need to really succeed when beginning at a new company. So what can recruiters do to get candidates to stop holding on to bad memories from former Read more

Job Candidate: 3 Signs Your Relationship Is Failing

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Forty-seven percent of workers are thinking about making a change in their workplace situation. Social recruiting is paving the way for recruiters to easily reach out to this wide pool of job candidates faster and more effectively than ever before. This does not mean, however, that recruiters should ignore establishing positive relationships with potential employees. The following are some signs your candidate relationship management might be failing, and how to fix these communication misfires to keep job candidates engaged:

Facebook Recruitment Tips That Really Work

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Is your Facebook page adding value to your company? Getting people to “like” your page is a great way to engage with customers, partners, and current employees. Facebook recruitment is also about building relationships with potential job seekers interested in your company. Using Facebook recruitment as part of an overall social media recruitment strategy is a smart way to connect with an audience of interested job seekers. Most businesses have adopted the Facebook company page as part of their company’s extended web presence, but are they using Facebook recruitment effectively to get the most value out of this exercise? Facebook Read more

How To Tap A Talent Community

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Here at Simplicant, we want to help you find the best candidates for your open positions. We also want the process to be a fun, collaborative and useful exercise for you. We often get a lot of questions from readers about how to combine the Simplicant social networking and recruiting platform with best hiring practices. This column addresses some of these questions about all things hiring! We often receive questions about talent communities. Our readers want to know what a talent community is, how to find one, and how to best utilize these talent communities in the hiring process.

LinkedIn Recruiting: Do’s & Don’ts For Recruiters

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As one of the largest professional networking sites out there, LinkedIn is one of the prime platforms where talent hangs out and cannot be ignored when it comes to social recruitment. With over 774 million members in more than 200 countries, LinkedIn recruiting is a necessary activity for both recruiters and job seekers. While LinkedIn recruiting should be a very important part of the process in the realm of social recruiting, it is equally important to be aware of certain do’s and don’ts to avoid misusing the professional networking service. LinkedIn has been around the Internet space long enough for Read more

Hiring Strategy: 4 Reasons To Use Same Day Job Offer

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When your company is feeling the pain due to unfilled critical positions, finding a great candidate who is a good match could be the lucky break your team has been looking for. Not only does this person have great qualifications and experience, but they just nailed the job interview. Everyone involved feels really great about the candidate’s future with the company. Still, your hiring strategy includes a lot of red tape to work through before the hiring is finalized. When your company finally puts forth an offer, you receive terrible news..that your superstar candidate has already taken a job with a Read more

5 Cringe-Worthy Recruiting Mistakes & How to Avoid

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There is no shortage of blogs and articles that highlight the recruiting mistakes job seekers make and how they can better impress recruiters, informing them of all the things they do that keep them from getting hired. Job seekers, however, are not the only variable in the recruiting equation – recruiters and hiring managers play an equally important role in bringing an outcome to the process. They sometimes make recruiting mistakes that can prove to be quite costly for their company’s hiring process. 

Simple Ways To Getting Past Job Gaps

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It’s no surprise that hiring managers and recruiters spend very little time doing a first pass on the deluge of candidate applications they receive. In fact, they typically spend no more than six seconds scanning a candidate’s resume. With that in mind, a candidate must pay attention to those areas in a resume or profile that the employers and recruiters are most interested in.

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