Recruiting & Hiring Insights Blog

Have you ever been shown the door for being too good for a particular job? It means you were rejected for being overqualified. What gives? Shouldn’t having more skills, education, and experience than the company requires be a...

Job searching can be a struggle. There are often hundreds or thousands of people applying for the same role at the same time. And although there’s nothing more frustrating than an unsuccessful job hunt, accepting a temporary...

When you start a business, it’s just you (the owner), maybe another partner, and a small, tight-knit team. You handle all the tasks, and work isn’t so complicated that you need a helping hand. But once you start landing bigger...

Customer service recruiting is a whole lot different than staffing for other positions within a company. Hiring the wrong personnel to interact with your valued customers will turn people away, hurt your reputation and...

Pre-employment background checks can be a critical and eye-opening tool for businesses of all sizes. They can reveal detailed insights about your hiring choices, such as past salary, credit history, and driving and criminal...

Looking for work? Pondering taking a temp job? If so, you may wonder how the pay will measure up against a regular position. We asked others about temporary staffing and polled professionals in the field to get a feel for how...

You’ve probably had the experience of interviewing someone for a position in your organization, liking them, and adding them to your team—only to find out that they’re nothing like you hoped they would be. The interview can be a...

The hiring process can be pretty intensive, draining time and resources from your staff. Is it time to hand the process over to a professional recruiting firm? Will they find better applicants? Will they expedite the process...

Your resume is one of the first things that a potential employer will see so you want to make sure that it makes a dazzling impression. Remember that employers may be looking at hundreds of resumes so small mistakes or...

Whether you’re looking for a CEO, COO, or CIO, you want the best of the best. But how do you go about recruiting when competition for attracting top talent is so stiff? We asked business and HR leaders to share some surefire...