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Online Recruitment: Tips For Selecting Right System

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Applicant Tracking System, Employee Referral, Online Recruiting Software, Recruiting Software, Recruitment Management System, Simplicant blog

All online recruitment systems are not created equal. Selecting and implementing the right cloud-based hiring software platform is critical to the success of your company’s recruitment process. When reviewing your organization’s recruitment and technology capabilities, it is important to focus on those features and capabilities that will help your company effectively compete in the war for top talent. It is also important to look for an online recruitment system that is built with modern hiring practices in mind and can help your company take full control of its recruiting process and advance its talent acquisition capabilities to the next level. Read more

Employee Motivation Begins With Hiring Process

Category: Employee Referral, Employer Branding, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition

Motivated employees strive for more, take chances, and are a valuable asset to every company.  Building a team that demonstrates the qualities of a successful organization begins with the hiring process.  Knowing what qualities to look for and which questions to ask can help in making the screening and interviewing processes more effective. In addition, involving your current employees in the hiring process can further increase employee motivation, while providing an excellent means of evaluating a candidate’s suitability for the job. The following are some powerful tips to improve your recruiting process and turn it into a strategic activity to Read more

More Recruiting Metrics To Improve Hiring Process

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Recruiting, Recruiting Metrics, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

A successful company is made up of top-performers that collaborate regularly and work effectively as a team. Regardless of what recruiting metrics a company uses, hiring managers understand that acquiring such individuals, who have the necessary traits and qualities to integrate and function in their team, is vital to the success of their company. In order to successfully find and acquire the top talent you need, your organization needs to put a hiring process in place that helps you easily grasp some of the key recruiting metrics that you should care about.  To ensure that you are getting the most Read more

User Management For Enterprise Recruiting

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Employee Referral, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

As a company grows its operations, the recruiting process evolves from an isolated small-scale activity to one that requires many stakeholders to participate. User management capability of a recruitment software platform allows for different levels of access for the various team members who will be involved in the hiring process. Management of user permissions represents an access control function for managing access for certain people during different stages of hiring. Though often overlooked in recruitment software and applicant tracking selection, user management is an extremely important part of the recruiting process. It helps employers and human resource personnel to easily, Read more

3 Tips To Power Your Recruiting Strategies

Category: Employer Branding, Hiring Trends, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog

A targeted and effective recruiting strategy is crucial to hiring quality employees.  Recruiting strategies can benefit a lot by streamlining the company operations with a recruiting software platform. Growth hacking techniques are designed to expand the user base of a specific product or service that the company sells.  These techniques when applied to recruiting strategies result in a powerful combination of creativity and innovation aimed at increasing brand awareness and exposure. Adopt and integrate these key growth hacking strategies as a component of your overall HR and recruiting strategies to enhance the effectiveness of locating and hiring high quality employees. Read more

Employee Referral Program: Key To Smart Hiring

Category: Employee Referral, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring

Recruiting and hiring new employees involves so many different components that it can sometimes feel overwhelming to determine who is best for the role and who can have the biggest positive impact on the company. Smart hiring involves streamlining the processes and utilizing strategies that will prevent, or at least alleviate, any feelings of a rushed or uncertain hire. In the long-run, bad hires end up costing the company a lot more in terms of time, money and missed opportunities. Therefore, it’s advisable to create a system that mitigates the potential of hiring an employee who won’t be a good Read more

Interview Tips For Hiring The Best Candidates

Category: Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition

Attracting and hiring the best talent into your growing organization requires putting smart and effective candidate interviewing methods into practice. While the web is full of interview tips for job-seeking candidates, employers also need interview tips to optimize their recruiting. When determining the recruiting process that you will implement, consider what makes your company unique. Make a list of the qualities necessary in an employee to maintain the image and values that are important to your company. What are the characteristics required to be successful in the position you are hiring for. Recruiting top talent that will become a vital Read more

Finding Talent: Best Ways To Attract Quality Hires

Category: Recruiting, Recruitment, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

Finding talent doesn’t have to be a mystery. With a few simple and well-executed practices, you can optimize your talent sourcing and recruiting process to attract the best candidates to your company. Recent shifts in the job market have created a situation where a higher number of people are looking to enter the job market than there are people retiring or new vacancies being created. For companies focused on finding talent for their growing teams, it is becoming increasingly important to source from this pool of potential employees. The following are just a few tips on some of the best Read more

4 Ways To Innovate Your Hiring Process

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Recruiting, Recruiting Metrics, Recruiting Process, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog

The rapid adoption of cloud computing, social media connectivity and always-on mobile access mark the beginning of the new year and continue to fundamentally change how businesses and individuals interact. With the newer paradigms becoming more prevalent and mainstream, many industries are realizing that older and traditional hiring methods are quickly becoming irrelevant and ineffective. Employers must get creative and innovative with their hiring regiment. Without implementing and integrating these enhanced techniques into the hiring process, your company may not be be able to connect with the highest quality job candidates. Utilizing advanced hiring tools doesn’t have to be complicated Read more

Candidate Profile: Qualitative Characteristics

Category: Hiring Trends, Recruiting, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing>Candidate Screening

Qualitative personality traits are one of the more difficult aspects of a candidate profile to fully grasp. The extent to which a candidate displays qualitative characteristics like resourcefulness, independence and dependability isn’t immediately clear during the interview process, for a variety of reasons. To begin with, the interview process only mimics the experiences one may have within the job itself in a very tangential manner. A fleeting moment of cooperation during the interview doesn’t necessarily mean that the candidate takes direction or constructive criticism well. This is especially true when you consider that, during an interview, the majority of candidates Read more