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Tag: Recruiting

  • 80% of employers use social recruiting

    Think  this social recruiting thing is a fad? 80% of employers are using it in some form or fashion to find talent, so that theory doesn’t fly. Check out the video below for more observations from the new Jobvite report on the state of social recruiting. Email subscribers need to click through to view the…

  • 4 Things I Wish I Had Known About Recruiting

    My recruiting duties ebb and flow in my days as an HR generalist, but there always seems to be a new lesson to learn with every candidate I come in contact with. Working in a small HR department means that I get to learn by doing more often than not, so here are four things…

  • Recruiting family members

    No, I’m not talking about recruiting your family members! I’m talking about going the extra mile and working to make the candidate’s family members more comfortable with the new company and job. I had a great experience a few days back when I brought in a new candidate and got to spend some time talking…

  • Recruiting your candidate’s family

    I had a great experience this past week. I have been recruiting pretty much 24/7 for some urgent hires, and I asked one of the candidates who accepted to stop by so we could get some paperwork out of the way. He said that his wife would be in the car since they were headed…

  • 3 HR and Recruiting Tools I’ve Used Lately

    In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been bombarded at work lately (hence the low number of posts!). Some of that busyness is driven by projects I’m working on (recruiting, baby!). Other parts of it are self-imposed, because once I have an idea I have a hard time letting it go. The good part for you,…

  • Define corporate culture for candidates to make better hires

    Define corporate culture… is part one of a series on culture. It’s one of the reasons I love where I work (and we have almost 100% retention over the life of the company). I’m hoping to shed some light on my philosophies when it comes to culture and its role in the workplace. One of…

  • Recruiting internally vs externally

    Do you recruit your stars or grow them from within? Do you build talent pools and pipelines or just run out and “grab” whatever you need from the market? Subscribers may need to click through to view the video below