Talent Acquisition

Writing Job Descriptions To Fit Your Hiring Needs

Category: Hiring Trends, Simplicant blog, Smart Hiring, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

If you’re experiencing a pattern of finding the wrong candidates, whether they aren’t meeting minimum qualifications or don’t seem to “fit” within your culture, how you are writing job descriptions might be the culprit. Often overlooked, writing job descriptions properly plays a crucial role in attracting talent to a company’s open positions and hence deserve special attention. They help to build a talent pipeline that suits the needs and goals of an organization. A common problem while writing job descriptions is that they fail to properly articulate the requirements and the specific characteristics of the job that would make it Read more

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Employee Engagement & Empowerment Help Recruiting

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

Profits, funding, structure, marketing, expansion…these are perhaps some of the most sought after elements of business success that most C-level executives crave and typically tend to focus on…and it makes sense. Where does employee engagement and empowerment fit? One of the most critical ingredients is perhaps also the most overlooked and underestimated need – hiring the right talent for the organization and building a great team to start with. Employee engagement and an empowered workforce can boost your recruiting efforts.

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Online Recruitment System: Collaborative Hiring Tips

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruiting Process, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

Attracting and acquiring the right talent is a critical and strenuous task that involves many people who contribute, via an online recruitment system, in the various aspects of the hiring process. These could be internal employees, hiring managers, executive management, contract recruiters, social media contacts and many other internal/external stakeholders. Most of them will need to review the status of candidate applications, in the recruitment system, at various points in the process. In addition, many of these stakeholders will have valuable input and information that will need to be recorded in the online recruitment system and shared with others at Read more

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Manage Recruitment Process In Volatile Job Market

Category: Applicant Tracking System, Hiring Collaboration, Recruitment, Simplicant blog, Social Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Sourcing

More people than ever before, in the currently recruited workforce, are considering leaving their jobs for better employment opportunities. Recruitment process surveys and research results from various sources estimate that the number of people looking to switch their jobs is upwards of 60%. Under normal circumstances, people wait for their annual bonuses before starting a new job search. However, the slow economic activity has made it unnecessary for many to wait, as people are less optimistic about bonuses getting paid on time – or paid at all. As a result, the number of potentially available candidates, active and passive, is Read more

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