Candidate experience has become a major focus for companies large and small as they work to shape their employer brand and garner a reputation for being a desirable place to work. In fact, I regularly talk about candidate experience being a keystone habit for recruiting teams. It’s the one metric

Bringing in outside recruiting services has long been used as a way to supplement, or sometimes completely fill, the need for recruiters in an organization. In the same way that other areas of the business might hire temporary help, outside recruiting services can be the perfect solution for

When I was working for a large Silicon Valley software company, our VP of Product Marketing showed me an Inmail that he had received from one of our internal recruiters saying that he was a “perfect fit” for a role on our QA team. He thought it was hilarious, but told me to tell my colleague that

If you’re recruiting in 2017, there’s no doubt that social media is part of your plan. There’s really no way around it, whether you are actively sourcing and recruiting through unique social networks, or simply using an auto-share option to post job openings to more common social sites. Either way,

Data has been driving decision making in business for decades, but it’s just started to become an important part of HR and recruiting in the last several years. As companies started being able to gather meaningful data through new technologies and automated processes, it proved to be valuable in

Last week we showed our readers how to build a successful recruiting strategy, but with any good strategy you need the perfect set of tools in order to hit deliverables and obtain results. Make sure to check out last week's article before you read this one in order to build your strategy first and

A fly by the seat of your pants approach might work for some things, but social recruiting isn’t one of them. In fact, successful social recruiting requires the complete opposite. It thrives on structure, consistency, reliability and frequency. And the foundation for it is a strategy that answers

The way companies recruit has changed greatly over the years, but there’s at least one more area in which recruiting has room to grow. While the tools and methods have evolved, the role recruiters play within organizations tends to be stagnant. Like many support departments, HR and recruiting are

There are a lot of ways you can measure university recruiting success, from the volume at which you are able to recruit, to the strength of your relationships with universities, to the performance of college grad new hires, and far beyond. But out of all the elements you can evaluate, which are the