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HR Roundup: Week of September 4

How to Make Recruiting Content that Really Works The Rule of Thirds is the design theory that one third of people will love your work, one third will be neutral and one third will hate it. It’s...

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Back to School: Campus Recruiting for Small Businesses

In the last several weeks, millions of students across the country have returned to school. It’s an exciting time for everybody: There are old friends to catch up with, new friends to make and lots of...

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Actionable Interview Tips to Identify Great Candidates

Every company’s hiring process is a little bit different. Some businesses take days to evaluate a candidate while others take months. Some require candidates to take a skills assessment or personality...

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3 Top Qualities of Collaborative Recruiting Processes

When it comes to staffing, one bad hire is expensive. In fact, 41 percent of respondents reported that it costs more than $25,000; another 25 percent said it exceeds $50,000. Traditionally, hiring has...

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Recruiting on Instagram: 4 Companies Crushing It

Using social media for recruiting purposes goes way beyond LinkedIn. Facebook and Twitter are popular channels, of course. Some companies trying to attract younger employees find that Snapchat is an...

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How to Create a Killer Recruiting Content Strategy

Content. You’re probably sick of hearing about it, but it matters. One of the best ways to attract great candidates is to create awesome recruiting content. Recruiting content can take many forms....

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The Ideal Millennial Work Environment

There are a number of things that guide millennials in the workplace. They want to be happier than their parents, find more purposeful work and work with better companies. Millennials want their...

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6 Vital Qualities of Startup Workers (Plus 1 That’s Overrated)

Startup Institute is an eight-week immersive program that helps career-changers make the transition into the world of startups. Founded in 2012 and now operating five locations worldwide, Startup...

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5 Steps to Onboarding Great Team Members

Onboarding your first hires is a challenge. The most important thing at stake – especially for small organizations – is employee retention. You’ve surmounted one big hurdle by recruiting great team...

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The Pitfalls of Hiring for a Newly Created Role

Your business is growing, and your needs are expanding. You’re hiring for a newly created role. You post a job advertisement and collect dozens of promising candidates. After a thorough application...

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Hot Topics in HR Data Analytics

Big data. The subject is inescapable and it’s changing the operations of almost every industry, from hospitality to healthcare to yes, HR. It’s why data scientist–the person that collects, organizes,...

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#FirstInHR: Resume Red Flags to Look For

Given that the cost of a bad hire can exceed $50,000, no one wants to make a hiring mistake. Poor hiring decisions–including misjudging candidates’ cultural fit, competencies and goals–can account for...

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Hiring Secrets from the World’s Best Boss

For four years, Cole Lindbergh had one of the most fun jobs you can imagine. But it was also pretty tough. In overseeing the games department at the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Mo.,...

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What to Do When a Candidate Declines Your Offer

  When a candidate makes it through your applicant tracking system, interviews well, and fits your corporate culture, hiring them might seem like a no-brainer. But sometimes it’s not that easy....

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5 Tips on How to Improve Employee Retention

Employee retention is a top concern for 57 percent of employers, according to a 2015 PayScale report. Hiring and training processes cost time and money, and as a result, turnover costs time and money....

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How to Screen Candidates for Culture Fit

Hiring for cultural fit has become a praised and controversial topic throughout the years. Some experts believe identifying candidates who share the same values and methods as the organization to be...

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4 Reasons Why an Employee Referral Program May be Your Best Recruiting Tool

Employee referral programs are gaining in popularity and for good reason. Referrals have been shown to reduce the time to hire by almost 50 percent compared to candidates who come from a company’s...

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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Win at Seasonal Hiring

Many folks look forward to the holiday season or the summertime as a time to kick back and relax, catch up with family and ease themselves away from the daily grind. But for others, the work is just...

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Why Small Businesses are Investing in Recruiting Software

Large or small, companies are beginning to see the benefits of HR technology. A survey found that when it comes to companies of more than 1000 employees, 53 percent planned to invest in software for...

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5 Beautiful Careers Pages Designed to Attract Candidates

If a prospective candidate has landed on your careers page, congratulations: You’ve won 90 percent of the battle. More so than candidates who simply happen upon your openings through a job board or...

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How to Give Thanks to Employees Without Breaking the Bank

Employee recognition is crucial to retaining top talent. According to the Globoforce Mood Tracker Survey, 80 percent of employees who have been appreciated by their employers are staying put. When you...

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Degree Not Required: When Higher Ed is Immaterial in Hiring

When it comes to hiring, degree inflation has been on the rise for decades. College graduates are occupying roles that once required only a high school education. Positions that once called for a...

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The Evolution of Recruiting [Infographic]

From the time that humans first began creating organizations, groups have been working on ways to be more effective at recruitment. In the 21st century, of course, most of an organization’s recruiting...

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Talk About a Bad Recruitment Strategy…

Recruiterbox is an integral aspect of the recruitment strategy of more than 1,500 organizations. Our software is designed to guide companies in setting up their hiring process, with enough flexibility...

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CVs Just Not Cutting It? 3 Resume Alternatives to Consider

How many times have you interviewed a candidate only to find huge discrepancies – either negative or positive – between the information you glean during the interview/assessment/reference check and...

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Hiring for Diversity: 6 Reasons Baby Boomers are Great for Business

When you hear “hiring for diversity,” you likely think about efforts to hire more female employees, or members of underrepresented minority groups. Another important way to diversify your team,...

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New Year’s Reflections

At the beginning of 2015, Recruiterbox set some company goals: I think it’s safe to say that we’ve fulfilled them. It’s been a big year for us. Here are some numbers that reflect our growth: 34 The...

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5 Totally Achievable Hiring Resolutions for the New Year

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Invest more. Drink less. If you made a new year’s resolution, you’re in good company: An estimated 45 percent of people regularly make one. But what about your business...

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How to Motivate Your Team to do its Best Work

Getting the best out of employees is hard work. Burnout, silos, poor communication and a lack of engagement are just a few of the reasons why your staff might not be firing on all cylinders. A...

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Is Direct Message the New InMail?

Earlier this month, the news that Twitter is planning to expand its tweet character limit from 140 to 10,000 rocked the web. This comes on the heels of the company’s elimination of its character limit...

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What We’ve Learned in a Year of Being a Remote Company

It’s undeniable: Working remotely is on the rise. According to Global Workplace Analytics, the number of employees who work regularly at home has grown by 103 percent since 2005 and by 6.5 percent in...

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12 Recruiting Stats that Will Change the Way You Hire [Infographic]

I recently came across this infographic with some pretty eye-opening recruiting stats. One of the statistics that jumped out at me was that 66 percent of candidates believe interactions with employees...

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The Biggest Hiring Mistake: 4 Key Takeaways From Our Expert Interview

Raj Sheth, the CEO and co-founder Recruiterbox, was a recent guest on the B2B Nation: HR Edition podcast. The series, which is hosted by TechnologyAdvice, explores a variety of HR trends and challenges...

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Spread the Love: How to Retain Employees Through Appreciation

You’ve taken the time and resources to develop a thorough hiring process. You’ve collected and interviewed candidates. You’ve identified the best fit and hired and onboarded them. You’ve trained them...

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Paid Family Leave: Why It Matters [Infographic]

The benefits of paid family leave are numerous, as shown by a wide range of studies. Yet the United States lags behind every other developed country when it comes to providing paid family leave. Only...

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3 Steps to Create a Hiring Process to Identify the Best Candidates

Developing an organized hiring process is an essential aspect of successful recruitment. By establishing a thorough hiring process, you’ll ensure that all of your candidates are evaluated using the...

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7 Common LinkedIn Mistakes for Recruiters to Avoid

There’s no denying the power of LinkedIn. With 414 million users across 200 countries and territories, the career-oriented social network is a valuable tool in every recruiter’s arsenal. But it can...

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6 Ways to Remove Hiring Bias from the Recruitment Process

“The funniest thing I heard recently was I had heard for a part that I was too sophisticated. And I was like, ‘Oh, that sounds nice.’ I like that feedback. I didn’t get the part, but I’m a very...

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4 Ways Hiring Practices Evolve as Companies Scale Past Startup

As organizations grow, they mature. Founders and employees learn what works and what doesn’t. They put systems in place to become more effective and efficient. This happens across all functions, and...

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10 Signs You Should Hire a Candidate [Infographic]

Finding the right job candidate can be a daunting process for employers. On average, a corporation will receive 250 applications for an open position. Out of these, normally an employer will narrow...

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8 Talent Management Strategies for Fast-Growing Companies

“For a startup, growing too quickly can produce just as spectacular a failure as growing too slowly,” observed New York Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo. Growing pains are inevitable for any...

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5 Steps to Make Hiring More Predictable (No Crystal Ball Needed)

Hiring a new employee can feel like a crapshoot sometimes – and indeed, for many companies, it kind of is. According to Equifax, more than 41 percent of employees who quit their job in the last year...

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3 HR Technology Integrations to Get Excited About

A few months ago, I met with a professional acquaintance of mine during happy hour. He’s in HR at a Denver-based technology company, and his organization had just implemented their first applicant...

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In a Recruiting Rut? Here are 4 Ways to Climb Out of It

Ruts, funks, dry spells, slow seasons… whatever you want to call them, they happen to the best of us. Maybe you’re going through a time of organizational change and it’s a tough adjustment. Maybe you...

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Small Business, Big Opportunity: 5 Ways SMBs Can Recruit New College Grads

If you’re an employer looking to hire on new college graduates this commencement season, you’re in good company. According to a CareerBuilder survey, two-thirds of employers plan to hire from the...

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3 Ways Facebook Recruits and Hires the Best Candidates

Facebook receives somewhere in the ballpark of 250,000 job applications each year. With so many applicants, narrowing down the candidate pool is no easy task. But Mark Zuckerberg’s litmus test is...

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How Glassdoor Changed the Hiring Landscape [Infographic]

Glassdoor is an employment job site that offers a host of features and options for prospective job seekers, as well as employers. This job site has more website traffic compared to other job sites like...

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Recruiterbox Named Most User-Friendly Applicant Tracking Software

Business software reviews website Capterra recently released its inaugural list of the most user-friendly applicant tracking software. “We’re already specialized in recommending applicant tracking...

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Transform the Way You Hire with PARE

Saul Colt is an award-winning marketer who has worked for brands like Ebay, Zipcar and the Just For Laughs comedy festival. He’s doing a webinar with us to discuss PARE, a hiring method used by...

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Dress Codes: Do They Matter? [Infographic]

Corporate dress codes can enhance the public image of a business, as well as improve employee attitudes and sense of buy-in with their employer. They can also negatively impact morale and get...

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