How Important Are Those Years of Experience?
A significant number of job postings include years of experience as a hiring criterion. Is this a best practice?
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Should Your Employees Be Bringing Babies to Work?
Senator Tammy Duckworth recently brought her newborn daughter to work. It was the first time a baby has been allowed on the Senate floor.
Are You Focusing Too Much on Employee Retention?
It’s been said that companies tend to focus on recruitment, and overlook retention. But in today’s tight labor market, it turns out retention may be getting too much attention.
When Recruiting, Don’t Forget to Share Information About the Work Environment
Recruiters and hiring managers typically provide job candidates with details about the position, benefits offerings, and the company. But work environment sometimes gets overlooked.
Video and Candidate Attraction
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth? When it comes to candidate attraction, more than you may realize.
Are You Ignoring the Strengths of Introverts?
They sometimes come across as shy, aloof or even disinterested. In comparison to extrovert job candidates, they may seem less likely to take charge, less inclined to aggressively pursue goals.
Hiring for Soft Skills
So-called soft skills are sometimes hard to quantify. Perhaps that’s why recruiters and hiring managers focus less on these skills in comparison to others.
How to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
Saying that your organization welcomes diverse candidates is easy. But actually promoting diversity and inclusion requires effort, and attention to detail.
Filling Summer Job Openings
Summertime and the living is easy, unless of course you can’t find candidates to fill summer job openings. This year, why not make it a point to target teens for some of those summer jobs?
An Overlooked Recruitment Tool
The emphasis these days is often on the latest and greatest technological tools for employee recruitment. There’s an app for this and a cloud solution for that.