Recruiting Process

Efficient Hiring Process: The Key to Recruiting Success

Category: Fast Hiring, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog

There is no doubt that when it comes to making tough hiring decisions, you don’t want to skimp on the due diligence process. However, taking all the time in the world to find a good fit does not always lead to a very efficient hiring process. Keep in mind that the great candidates you may have short-listed will not wait around for you if a better opportunity came their way. Let’s take a look at some of the common characteristics that contribute to an efficient hiring process. Well-written Job Description A common shortcoming of most job descriptions is that they Read more

What Does The Cost Of Hiring Really Mean

Category: Applicant Tracking Software, Interview Management, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog

Do you know your company’s total cost of hiring? Once you are aware of the breakdown of your company’s cost of hiring, you can evaluate how well your process is working, compare your costs to those of other companies, uncover where you are spending the most money and identify areas with room for improvement. When your recruiting is organized with the help of modern applicant tracking software, you can quickly have critical data at your fingertips, providing you the decision-making information you need to create the most effective hiring process for your company. Identify Your Cost of Hiring Hiring a new employee can cost you thousands Read more

The Advantages Of Good Interview Planning

Category: candidate experience, Interview Management, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog

You need to find a new employee. Before launching full speed ahead in recruitment, take the time for interview planning. A good hiring plan will help your growing business streamline the process to finding and hiring the employee that best suits your business. What’s in a plan? A good interview plan maps out each stage of the hiring process. First, identify the major milestones for before, during and after your interviews. You can then create a hiring workflow to help you streamline the process to fit the job and keep your recruitment process on track. Here are some things to 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

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

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

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

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