Best Practices And Tips

Virtual Hiring Best Practices

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog

Virtual hiring has become increasingly popular in recent years due to the convenience and cost-effectiveness it offers. However, it is important for employers to stay abreast of evolving best practices in recruiting in order to ensure a smooth and successful process. Here are some virtual hiring best practices that employers can benefit from when using an applicant tracking system (ATS): Clearly communicate the virtual hiring process It is important to provide clear instructions and information to candidates about the virtual hiring process. This can include details on how to access the video call, what to expect during the interview, and Read more

7 Ways Organizational Culture Affects Hiring

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Employer Branding, Hiring Trends, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

Organizational culture is often described as the glue that holds a company and its employees together. It is the magic that provides the motivation to employees to find ways to overcome challenges and get things done. How does organizational culture affect the process of hiring in a company? Can paying attention to organizational culture affect the quality of your hiring process? How can a company use its culture to improve hiring outcomes? During the hiring process, resumes and cover letters may pile up and a company may effectively screen through many candidates using established selection criteria. However, in many cases Read more

Applicant Tracking Comparison: 10 Tips To Guide Your Recruiting

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Best Practices And Tips, Features, Modern Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

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

Does Your Hiring Culture Fit Your Company Strategy

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Best Practices And Tips, Hiring Collaboration, Modern Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

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

Tracking Your Recruiting Performance Metrics

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Fast Hiring, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog

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

7 Habits Of Highly Effective Recruiting Teams

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Employer Branding, Hiring Trends, Modern Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring, Trending

To be successful at recruiting new talent, your recruiting team must do more than simply collect candidate profiles or resumes for the positions in question. Here, recruiting success is not necessarily a measure of the volume of candidates obtained. Rather, successful recruiting teams are able to utilize the most effective methods that help them quickly narrow their search to a selection of potential hires and then identify the candidates that are most likely to make a positive impact to your growing organization. This is easier said than done – for instance, it requires looking beyond a candidate’s credentials and having both the mindset and the tools Read more

A Simple Hiring Process Is A Better Hiring Process

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Fast Hiring, Hiring Trends, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

Through experience, research and the ever increasing availability of data – along with the ability to process it – hiring has become a bit of a science. With the right platform and a properly trained recruitment team, your likelihood of successful hires becomes infinitely greater. However, be wary of platform developers that attempt to dazzle you with highly complex software and processes. While your hiring process should always be well designed, the most effective results invariably come from those that are also simple and straightforward. Unnecessary and outdated functionality may make for an impressive feature list, but will disrupt the Read more

Mobile Recruiting Strategy Best Practices

Category: Best Practices And Tips, candidate experience, Mobile Recruiting, Simplicant blog

There’s no question that the way job seekers now look for and explore new opportunities has gone through a sea change and is continuing to evolve. There is also no doubt that mobility plays an increasingly important role in how information is accessed and exchanged between different stakeholders in the hiring process. In the past, job seekers sourced and applied for jobs via a limited number of channels, whereas, modern job seekers find themselves blessed with a wealth of platforms on which to advertise their skills and connect with suitable organizations and roles. Does your organization need a mobile recruiting strategy? Or does it Read more

Smart Recruiting: Start-Ups Have An Edge

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Fast Hiring, Hiring Trends, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

“Start as you mean to go on” isn’t just a famous quote; it’s also a great mantra for all start-up businesses. And there’s no better way to instill that sentiment than by implementing smart recruiting processes. After all, finding and retaining top talent is a critical need for any successful start-up. Smart Recruiting Is What A Startup Needs The good news is that start-ups often have the ability to implement modern recruiting practices faster than their established competitors, who all too often are resistant to changing a lengthy or outdated recruitment process. A quick, well-structured and well-communicated recruitment process is the Read more

7 Ways Your HR Strategy Drives Company’s Success

Category: Best Practices And Tips, Hiring Trends, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

Is your HR strategy fully integrated into your overall business plan? Or is it a bit of an afterthought, something you think about whenever you are short-staffed and looking to hire? Human resources may be but one division in your business, but if affects the entire company and how it performs. The people of your company are what drive its success, so it is critical to have the HR strategies in place to ensure that your hires fit with your company’s objectives, culture, brand and values. Here are seven ways to ensure that your HR strategy is a driving force Read more