How to Use Social Media for Candidate Screening
Social media is a prime opportunity to showcase one’s professional endeavors, interests, hobbies, strengths, weaknesses, and even personality. A person’s Instagram profile, for instance, lets you spot their favorite places and ways of spending time; Twitter displays one’s views on modern trends and culture; LinkedIn highlights their work experience, thoughts on their industry, and how they connect with peers. However, you can’t predict how a candidate will fit your team based on their social media [...]
How to make your recruitment and assessment processes mobile-friendly
Mobile devices dominate both our professional and private lives. In the U.S. alone, 85% of adults own and use a smartphone, while 53% own and use a tablet computer. That popularity has been highly influential in marketing and web design, but organizations still struggle to make their offerings accessible on smaller screen sizes. That difficulty extends to HR, which has to adapt to tablets and smartphones together accounting for over 70% of all internet traffic. [...]
How to Implement Skills-Based Hiring and Compensation
Company’s today face increasing challenges when hiring and retaining employees. Job roles change quickly, with one study from LinkedIn showing skill sets for jobs have changed globally by an average of 25% since 2015. That fluctuation is attributed to the implementation of new technology, automation, and new roles — and it’s only expected to accelerate. Hiring people for specific competencies requires investing (often significantly) in re-training them to meet the requirements for your role. One [...]
How employer branding can boost recruitment success
One of the biggest challenges for employers is attracting top talent and differentiating themselves from the competition. When job seekers begin hunting for new roles, they might search for things like "best companies in XYZ city" or "top companies in the XYZ industry." Why? Because reputation is everything. What is employer branding? Employer branding is a communication strategy focused on a company's current and potential employees. It pulls together elements of branding and communication to [...]
6 Signs your company needs HR and recruiting help
If you're reading this article, chances are that you are wondering whether or not your company needs support in human resources (HR) and recruiting. Properly managed people operations are imperative to a company's success. When teams are well-balanced and company cultures healthy, productivity and revenue take a positive bump, too. Managing people operations and navigating the many regulations of HR and people operations are both time-consuming and difficult tasks. Hiring new employees, managing payrolls, fielding [...]