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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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