Talent Acquisition

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

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

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

Facebook Recruiting: 4 Do’s And Don’ts

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

As of December 2012, Facebook, the largest social media network, passed the billion mark with 1.06 billion monthly active users. This includes 618 million daily active users and 680 million users of Facebook’s mobile service. With a potential candidate pool this large, it is obvious you cannot ignore Facebook recruiting in your overall social recruitment strategy. Great candidates are taking to Facebook every day to find out more about equally great companies and connect with top employers. Ignoring this space in your social recruitment plans is clearly not an option. But how do you ensure you are using your recruitment Read more

Social Media Recruitment: Hiring For The Right Fit

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

When it comes to your talent acquisition strategy, recruiting the best should be your top priority. Using social media recruitment as a key aspect of your recruitment and talent acquisition strategy is a great way to quickly and cost-effectively reach top talent. This might explain why 91 percent of recruiters use social media to source and screen prospective employees. The digital information available from social media can be the difference between recruiting a great candidate and an applicant who may not be a good fit at your company. So, when using social media recruitment as a strategic sourcing method for Read more

3 New Ways To Use LinkedIn In Recruitment Plan

Category: Employee Referral, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition

Are you looking to connect with your next great candidate? Combining professional social media giant LinkedIn with a great recruitment platform and applicant tracking system such as Simplicant makes a smarter recruitment plan for finding the best talent. LinkedIn can be a great resource for finding top quality candidates, especially passive candidates. Once you have located these top-notch candidates, you can use Simplicant to build an impressive talent pipeline for your company. Here are some tips and tricks for your recruitment plan to leverage LinkedIn more effectively in your overall talent acquisition strategy.