Simplicant Recruiting Blog

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Applicant Tracking Comparison: 10 Tips To Guide Your Recruiting

Today’s recruiting landscape can appear difficult to navigate when you are looking for ways to boost your company’s hiring effectiveness. One job posting can attract hundreds to thousands of resumes, making efficiency a key concern for companies in the midst of an applicant tracking comparison. To automate the hiring process and increase the productivity of busy HR managers, many companies have made the switch to modern applicant tracking systems. Unfortunately, choosing the wrong recruiting software can drive away highly-qualified candidates instead of attracting them. This article highlights 10 applicant tracking comparison tips to effectively find and attract the most qualified candidates for your Read more

7 Benefits Of A Great Applicant Tracking Platform

What is a great applicant tracking platform? And more importantly, how does good applicant tracking software really make a difference in a company’s hiring process? Finding and hiring the best talent is an ongoing challenge for growing organizations. Stiff competition for top talent continues to be a reason for HR anxiety for large as well as small companies trying to fill their open positions.  Getting the right people on board within given constraints of time and money may sometimes seem like wishful thinking. One of the best kept secrets of organizations that have their recruiting act together, however, is the quality of Read more

10 Ways To Transform Employee Referral Management

Does your company have an effective employee referral management system? According to this Employee Referral Infographic, recruitment from employee referrals has increased from 18 percent to 33 percent since 2000, and in top performing companies, nearly half of employees were hired through employee referrals. Employee referrals are one of the most effective ways to find and hire new candidates who will work well in your company culture and have the skills that you require. It’s important to the success of any business that the employee referral system in place is working to benefit your business as a whole. So, how can Read more

Why A Long-Term Recruiting Perspective Is Necessary

In order to support a growing company, a strong business plan should include a long-term recruiting perspective, as well as a long term perspective on the process of hiring in general. The way that companies hire today is drastically different from the way it was done in 2005 or 1995. So, why is it so important for a business to have a long-term recruiting perspective today? The chain of positive reactions begins to snowball including a system for long-term recruiting in your business plan, bringing ongoing value to the growth of your business, year after year. Taking Control Creating an employer Read more

Does Your Hiring Culture Fit Your Company Strategy

When you are looking for new talent, how does your company’s hiring culture influence your recruiting process?  There are several qualities that are traditionally given more importance than others. Some of these include good time management, solid work history, being a team player and showing an overall strong resume. However, with recruiting trends undergoing major changes over the last few years, there is a whole new set of critical qualities that are now considered equally important, regardless of which industry you belong to. Along with these trends, the way in which hiring teams sort and manage candidates has also changed. How much does a candidate’s Read more

10 Hiring Tips For Sourcing Right Candidate Data

Successful recruiting in today’s job market requires that hiring managers learn to source and utilize the most relevant candidate data in their hiring process. Let’s take a look at how a complete comprehensive recruiting platform can help your company take the guesswork out of the hiring process while improving the quality and speed of getting to closure. Rapid advances in technology and ways in which people communicate and network has quickly rendered old methods of recruiting obsolete. The Society for Human Resource Management recently reported that the average job listing takes well over one month to fill. This means that recruiters using Read more

7 Things That Really Matter On A Great Careers Page

Does your company’s careers page have what it takes? Is it both attractive and efficient? Or are you turning off potential job applicants with a clunky design and process? The importance of a great careers page cannot be overlooked. It’s the first interaction a potential candidate has with your company and its internal administration. A positive candidate user-experience adds to your reputation, while a negative one may stop the candidate from completing the application process. In fact, you are quite likely to turn away some of the best talent with a poorly designed careers page. Here are 7 things you Read more

Tracking Your Recruiting Performance Metrics

When you are hiring to fill critical positions for your company, you want easy access to basic metrics that can indicate your campaign’s progress and your recruiting performance. Keeping an eye on the performance of your operational activities such as the impact of job posts, social sharing and employee referrals – is an important part of keeping the process on track. With the help of a modern SaaS recruiting platform with advanced analytics, accurate measurements of that progress can be at your fingertips. Here are five things to look for when measuring your day to day recruiting performance metrics. 1. Number of Views Read more

Build A Recruiting Brand To Attract & Hire Exceptional Talent

There is an interdependent network of components reacting with one another that establishes your company’s recruiting brand . This determines how your business is perceived by current employees and potential recruits alike. Building this employer brand in a positive way requires proactive efforts on several fronts that eventually come together as the collective personality of your business as an employer. These building blocks include your digital presence, online engagement, employee involvement, internal resources and general public relations. The Power of Perception An up-to-date digital presence and a compelling career site are essential if you are to be taken seriously by top industry talent. It Read more

How To Simplify Working With External Recruitment Agency Partners

As a growing business, you may have already worked with certain recruitment agency partners in bringing new talent on board. When you partner with agencies to help onboard new employees, you are looking to leverage their expertise, screening skills as well as networks to sample a wider pool of both active and passive applicants. In addition, you may have relationships with certain recruiting agencies or external recruiters where you prefer to have them work with you as full-time or part-time consultants, instead of hiring them as permanent staff in your HR organization. In all such cases, you want the flexibility and a robust Read more