Career Site

7 Things That Really Matter On A Great Careers Page

Category: Applicant Tracking System, candidate experience, Career Site, Mobile Recruiting, Simplicant blog

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

Candidate Sourcing Tips: 10 Ways To Find Top Talent

Category: Career Site, Fast Hiring, Modern Recruiting Software, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

Hiring and retaining top talent is as tough as it’s always been. Cultivating a company culture that attracts top talent is a practice the top 10 percent of US companies have in common and certainly one of the top candidate sourcing tips to keep in mind. Consider Southwest Airlines, which has recently received more than 50,000 applications for 500 available positions. Unfortunately, small businesses do not have much luck with traditional recruiting, thus they are required to use other recruitment means, such as trusted networks or job boards. Finding top talent can be a simple recruiting process as long as you Read more

A Great Career Site Elevates Your Employer Brand

Category: candidate experience, Career Site, Employer Branding, Recruiting, Simplicant blog, Talent Sourcing

Are you one of those companies that say that it’s your people that make your business? Are you determined to beat your competitors when it comes to attracting top talent? Then you need to make sure you have a great career site that demonstrates that your business is indeed the best place to be. In today’s recruitment world, the landscape has changed dramatically from a few years ago. Your business, like any other with a website, has the option and ability to use the internet to target and attract the best candidates for your business – from all over the world. With access to a talent Read more

10 Rules For Choosing A Good Applicant Tracking System

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Applicant Tracking System, candidate experience, Career Site, Employee Referral, Simplicant blog

As part of their recruiting regiment, most organizations understand the need to create job descriptions, post them to various job boards and social media platforms with the intent to get in front of a large and relevant talent pool. However, all this effort to catch the attention of top talent can easily go to waste when the organization is not equipped to handle incoming applicant interest in an organized way with a good applicant tracking system. This is especially true for companies that either don’t take advantage of modern applicant tracking and recruiting technology – or might still be stuck Read more

Launch Digital Recruitment Strategy With 3 Tips

Category: candidate experience, Career Site, Employer Branding, Simplicant blog, Talent Acquisition

The task of finding top candidates to hire for their open positions is a constant pain point for companies looking to grow fast. An effective way for companies to tackle this challenge is to embrace and implement a digital recruitment strategy to deal with the rapidly changing world of talent acquisition. With the proliferation of digital means of communication, the best people your company seeks to hire are now able to identify and scout their potential employers way before recruiters even glance at their online profiles. This new breed of passive, yet interested, job-seekers have the means to quickly measure a company’s Read more

Tips To Elevate Employer Branding & Reputation

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Career Site, Employer Branding, Simplicant blog

One way to drive a lot of applicants to your open positions is to ensure your jobs are getting in front of the right candidate pools by pushing opportunities out to talent communities and social media platforms via your recruiting software. As long as you are hitting targeted sources and your audience is referring these jobs to their networks, you will start accumulating applications from people who see your jobs, think they’re the right fit, and apply. How can strong employer branding help? No doubt, many of these passive candidates filtering into your applicant tracking system deserve your full attention. Read more

A Hiring Checklist For Finding Top Talent

Category: Career Site, Employee Referral, Hiring Collaboration, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting

When your business is rapidly growing, it is important to find the top talent your company needs. It is also important to hire this top talent as quickly as possible so your company can continue to grow and thrive. This is one reason why your company should be sure to have a hiring checklist to keep your recruiting efforts on track. Perhaps new funding has made it possible for your company to finally branch out and hire the employees you need to stay competitive in the marketplace. Or maybe some of your top talent has flown the coop and you Read more

How To Brand Your Company Career Site

Category: Career Site, Employer Branding, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting

Are you taking shortcuts in your recruiting strategy by limiting your talent acquisition efforts to just a handful of resources? Your organization may be missing out on many opportunities to connect with the best candidates. As a result, it would take longer to fill critical open positions and may end up costing a lot when you factor in the opportunity costs of not filling these positions in a timely manner. According to a recent survey, many new job seekers believe a company career site is an important factor in their search. So, if you were a company that did not utilize Read more