Recruitment System

10 Ways To Transform Employee Referral Management

Does your company have an effective employee referral management system? According to this Employee Referral Infographic, recruitment from employee referrals has increased from 18 percent to 33 percent since 2000, and in top performing companies, nearly half of employees were hired through employee referrals. Employee referrals are one of the most effective ways to find and hire new candidates who will work well in your company culture and have the skills that you require. It’s important to the success of any business that the employee referral system in place is working to benefit your business as a whole. So, how can Read more

How SMBs Can Switch To A Better Applicant Tracking Software

It’s time for your company to adopt a modern and better applicant tracking software. You’ve known it for a while and have heard the experts say it. Your old applicant tracking software just isn’t cutting it anymore and new technologies will help your company source better applicants, screen and interview more quickly and speed up the overall hiring process. In short: you know that your organization’s talent acquisition efforts can benefit a lot if you had a great recruiting system in place. Are you ready to make the leap but not quite sure how to assure a smooth transition? The Read more

10 Qualities Of A Good Recruiting System

A modern recruiting system is a must-have for businesses that want to leverage the latest talent sourcing strategies and online recruiting tools in one user-friendly platform. There are so many internet job boards and social networks to tap into to find active and passive job candidates. The question is: How do you incorporate these resources without multiplying the work of your hiring teams? The answer: You need a good recruiting system. What makes a good recruiting system? How do you choose which system to buy? To help you explore the options out there, we’ve compiled a checklist of the 10 Read more

Recruiting Best Practices For Long-Term Success

While most growing companies and their management understand how important it is to find and retain the best talent, companies rarely spend enough time rooting out the core shortcomings of their hiring methods. They are slow to invest in recruiting best practices, and often fail to see good recruitment as a growth strategy that requires a long-term approach. Recruiting isn’t the first thing most people think of when they decide where the budget should go. And that’s a shame, because recruiting best practices can lead to a long future of successful hiring and corporate health. Too often, companies take an ad-hoc approach to Read more

Online Recruitment Systems & Talent Acquisition In Digital Age

If you are looking to hire top talent for your company, you already know how important it is (in the SURVIVOR spirit)  to ‘Outwit, Outlast and Outplay’ the competition and stay one step ahead by having up-to-date hiring standards and recruitment systems in place. Most job seekers rarely spend time sending resumes around – instead they rely a lot on applying online and through referrals. What you’ll see though are perfectly crafted online profiles ready for viewing anytime, anywhere. With just the click of a button, any candidate can now shop around for jobs while recruiters can easily browse through Read more

Does Employee Referral System Work To Your Advantage

According to HR experts, one of the most effective ways of finding and recruiting top talent is through an employee referral system.  Finding the right candidate via referrals is easier because the referring employees make sure that their referrals are qualified. Also, most prospects identified through employee referrals are passive candidates who are not aggressively on the lookout for new jobs. A study of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) by Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa in May 2014 also showed that referred candidates have longer tenures in the firm compared to non referred candidates.  This not only Read more

Interview Advice: 3 Tips For Employers & Recruiters

In today’s competitive business environment, it is just as important for the employers and recruiters to be on top of their game as it is for the job candidates.  To attract the best employees, a company must enact a powerful and well thought-through recruiting process.  The interview is a vital component in your smart hiring process to building a high-performing team of motivated employees. There are many articles offering interview advice for job seekers about how to flawlessly handle a job interview, but few focus on how the employers and recruiters should conduct the process from their end. The below tips and interview advice build further on Read more

Talent Management System & Recruitment Management

Our recent article on the role of Recruiting in the context of talent management highlighted some of the key, and in some cases subtle, differences between a recruiting software platform and a traditional talent management system.  It provided helpful information for employers looking to purchase a new system to strengthen their recruitment regiment.  In this follow up to our previous post, we are stressing the need to assess your unique talent acquisition requirements. A clear understanding of your highest priority recruiting needs will help you pick a system that is most effective in attracting, engaging and hiring top talent. As Read more

Resume Management Software: Why Limit Recruiting

The hiring process in a fast growing company is no longer the simple task of managing and organizing a resume database.  An effective recruitment process requires building a comprehensive and engaging recruitment strategy to reach the best talent. While resume management is a good start to getting all your incoming resumes in one place, systems with limited recruitment management functionality simply cannot provide the capabilities to successfully run the hiring process in your company. Modern recruitment requires your technology infrastructure to go beyond resume management. Your modern recruitment management system needs to provide the technology capabilities that will help your Read more

Recruitment Process Streamlining: Need To Simplify

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