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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

Social Media Recruiting: Beyond Sourcing

Category: Recruiting, Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

While social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter have become some of the key social places where talent-seeking companies and recruiters look for sourcing top talent, HR teams and recruitment professionals also understand that the recruiting process is far from completed by simply going to a source such as LinkedIn and doing a search or posting a job. In this article we will highlight why an enterprise level recruitment software platform and applicant tracking system are critical enterprise solutions with social media recruiting capabilities that any growing organization must have to get their recruitment organized and managed in Read more

Making Your Employee Referral Process Work

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

As competition for talent continues to get intense, so does the need for better employee referral strategies and the pivotal role played by next-gen social recruitment software technology. There is real hiring potential within your current employee base – unlocking this employee referral process with an integrated recruitment software platform can help you find great new talent. Unfortunately, plenty of companies with or without an applicant tracking system that recognize the importance of an employee referral process let this potential opportunity slip through the cracks. In this guide, we will show you five simple steps to help you springboard your employee referral Read more

Employee Referral Process: Powered By ATS

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

As competition for talent continues to get intense, so does the need for better employee referral strategies and the pivotal role played by next-gen social recruitment software technology. There is real hiring potential within your current employee base – unlocking this employee referral process with an integrated recruitment software platform can help you find great new talent. Unfortunately, plenty of companies with or without an applicant tracking system that recognize the importance of an employee referral process let this potential opportunity slip through the cracks. In this guide, we will show you five simple steps to help you springboard your employee referral Read more

Recruitment Process Streamlining: Need To Simplify

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Applicant Tracking System, Recruitment, Recruitment System, resume management, Simplicant blog

You want to find the best people for your open positions, but your recruitment process can be unwieldy and time-consuming. Part of the problem might stem from the very same technological tools your company is using to improve hiring. Not every recruitment software was built as an all-in-one solution. You might find your company needs to use several different tools in the recruiting process, costing you precious time and making hiring the best people more difficult. You want your company’s recruitment process to run smoothly and quickly, which means you need to streamline. First, however, let us take a look Read more

Your Recruiting Process Is Incomplete: Fix It!

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

In spite of the availability of a ton of candidate data and analytics from various sources, developing a successful recruiting process and strategy still requires going beyond data and analytics, because at the end of the day recruiting is about people – and people are more than just a number. It is also an art, because finding the right people is not always about what appears on a resume. A potential employee’s future performance in a company cannot be inferred only from select samples of work or the quality of the code they may have written. To build a successful Read more