Recruiting & Hiring Insights Blog
The Problems With Relying on Resumés
Resumés are the most universally used and accepted methods for screening applicants for job positions. Although they have been widely accepted for many years, they are also inherently flawed. The information included and...
What motivators, besides compensation, can make an employee stay?
Once you’ve hired your ideal team of employees, the last thing you want is for them to find a job somewhere else. Increasing their pay is not always an option; so what else can you offer your employees to incentivize them to...
How to Improve Recruitment Practices and Eliminate Skills Mismatch
January 2022 dawned with high hopes for many employers. While thousands of jobs remained vacant and millions of Americans out of work, many remained optimistic about their prospects for filling positions with highly qualified...
7 Steps to Sealing a Deal with Top Talent
Recruiting is challenging under the best of circumstances. Sorting through resumés and scheduling interviews can grow monotonous, especially when the candidates all come up just shy of expectations. On the other hand, what...
How can you fight your own prejudice and biases when assessing applicants?
You can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can’t judge an applicant simply by their demographics. How do you avoid personal prejudice during the hiring process? We reached out to some hiring experts to see what policies they...
Are Your Employees Overworked?
In 2018, Gallup enrolled almost 7,500 full-time employees in a study to determine the pervasiveness of burnout in the workplace. 67% of their study participants reported feeling burned out at work. While many jobs come with high...
What unprofessional attitudes suggest an applicant is challenging to work with?
Interviews are small snippets of time where interviewers catch only a glimpse of the life of each applicant. That glimpse, however, can be very telling. We reached out to human resource professionals to find out what red flags...
Recruiting Top Leaders: Are You Asking the Right Questions?
The average employee changes jobs pretty frequently - every 4.3 years for men and 4 years for women according to a 2018 survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These statistics clearly indicate that employers should expect...
Why EQ May be More Important Than You Think
In May of 2021, news outlets across the country reported the story of a young 2-year-old who became the youngest person on record to be admitted to Mensa, an exclusive society reserved for those that score in the top 2% on a...
How to Overcome 5 Common Volume Hiring Missteps
After months of business meetings and tough negotiations, your company finally wins a new contract, and the executives pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Down the hall, HR department employees swallow hard and...
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