Recruitment Strategy: 18 Ways to Recruit Top Talent
Businesses grow and thrive as a result of contributions from teams and individuals. To achieve this in competitive industries, securing top talent is crucial. Whether it’s managers or frontline personnel, organizations benefit from adding the best and brightest professionals to their ranks. Attracting and retaining them, however, requires a well-crafted recruitment strategy. To help you build the cornerstone of your talent acquisition efforts, I’ll discuss how to formulate a plan of action and share some [...]
The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Strategies for HR and Recruitment
LinkedIn currently boasts over 950 million users across more than 200 countries. With 16.2% of its users logging in daily and 61 million job seekers using it weekly, the platform can easily serve as a powerful component of your HR and recruitment strategy. From forming connections and posting job listings to building a following and accessing learning and development opportunities, any company can reap many benefits from LinkedIn’s offerings. To realize its full potential, I’ll [...]
Social Media Recruiting: Finding Top Talent Online
When approached strategically, social media is a powerful tool for building a strong workforce. Since a whopping 79% of job seekers use it to find employment, your next star employee may be actively seeking opportunities right now. However, with numerous platforms to comb through, it can be overwhelming to recruit via social media. To ease your online search for top talent, I’ll walk you through its ins and outs, including this channel’s strengths and weaknesses, [...]
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. [...]