Recruiting Strategies

Sending an interview confirmation email

Finding qualified candidates to fill an open position at your company is like having another full-time job. You have to determine exactly what your needs are, write a compelling job description, sort through dozens — sometimes hundreds — of resumes, and then set up interviews with your top picks. But even if you feel like […]

Talent acquisition strategies for your company

When you need to fill a vacancy at your company, whether it’s a backfill or a newly created position, your focus should be on recruitment. But when you’re taking a step back and planning for your company’s future staffing and leadership needs, you’re engaging in talent acquisition. This is an ongoing strategy that involves long-term […]

How tech recruiters can overcome the new H-1B visa changes

Changes to the H1-B visa program are putting tech companies in a tight spot and making it hard to find talent. Here’s what you can do to keep filling those crucial roles despite these new challenges.

Today’s candidates want flexibility and autonomy — here’s how to hire them

Over 40% of today’s workforce is considered contingent, and more than 90% of candidates say they want to work for employers who are open to flexible and open work arrangements—including part-time and remote work. Where employees 20 years ago were committed to the traditional nine-to-five schedule, today’s workers value flexibility and the ability to get their work done on their own time. Here are four recruitment strategies to help you hire today’s alternative workforce.

What you need to know about hiring blind and visually impaired workers

At a time when recruiters are facing a hiring shortage, and it’s harder than ever to find qualified workers, you can’t afford to make your jobs inaccessible to anyone. You’re not only legally mandated to make sure your hiring practices are ADA compliant, but if your website, interview practices, and office itself aren’t accessible and friendly to disabled applicants, you’re doing your company a disservice by essentially eliminating an entire pool of potentially immensely talented candidates – just like that. These strategies can help recruiters and low-vision candidates see each other better:

Monster’s new survey says if you're hiring new grads, you need to offer more than perks

Monster’s Graduation Survey 2019 polled new college grads to get a sense of their job search priorities, how they search for jobs and how they’re feeling about their prospects. If you’re a hiring manager or HR professionals planning to tap into this young millennial (aka Gen Z) talent pool, their responses provide some valuable insights.

How to be a company that attracts LGBTQ professionals

We’ve come a long way as a nation when it comes to LGBTQ rights and acceptance, but we surely have more work to do, especially in the workplace. In 30 states, it’s still perfectly legal to not hire someone or to fire them due to sexual orientation or gender orientation. But most forward-thinking companies actually have strategies to step away from that attitude, and are becoming more inclusive. But becoming a company that welcomes LGBTQ talent requires more than just not discriminating against them – it’s recognizing that diversity can be a growth strategy. We spoke with experts to learn concrete steps you can take to make your company more attractive to LGBTQ workers.

5 tips for hiring manufacturing workers

Fully 89% of manufacturing executives agree there’s a talent shortage in the industry, according to a study by Deloitte LLP and The Manufacturing Institute. And there’s a skills gap that could leave 2.4 million positions unfilled between 2019 and 2028. Try these strategies to get good labor in the door.

How to handle hiring in a tight labor market

In a time of record unemployment, the skills gap and a growing talent shortage for key positions, it’s harder than ever to find the right fit for positions you need to fill. Before you set out to make your next round of hires, look at our updated list of great hire best practices.

How the human cloud could shape the future of the staffing industry

In case you haven’t heard, online staffing models, aka “the human cloud,” have begun to permeate the staffing industry. In fact, talk of this tech trend was a recurring theme at the Staffing Industry Association’s SIA Executive Forum in February 2019. So do staffing professionals have a real worry on their hands? Industry leaders don’t seem to think so – at least for the time being – but it’s not a topic that can be ignored.