Active vs Passive Candidate Recruitment Strategies

Just because more people are open to new career opportunities now does not mean they are actively looking for them or even immediately applying. Back in 2013,LinkedInshared that as many as seventy-five percent of job candidates were only passively considering a career change. 

Sadly, this statistic appears to be changing. Yet, if your recruitment strategies are only

Essential Guidelines for Conducting a Social Media Background Check

Is a social media background check part of your verification process before hiring a new employee?

We seem to verify quite a bit in our everyday lives. We double-check that our alarms are set to wake us up at the appropriate time each morning. Airline flights, car rentals, and hotel reservations are confirmed, often repeatedly before we depart. Signatures are authenticated

How to Craft an Offer Letter that Gets Accepted

Can you feel it? Those feelings of excitement and achievement that you are pretty confident mirror theirs. The last few weeks of planning, discussing, and evaluating are about to close.

Just one piece of this process remains: having your perfect-fit candidate accept your offer letter. Are you prepared?

In 2020, Glassdoor published anextensive studyanalyzing eleven years

9 Actionable Ways to Attract More Job Applicants

It should be relatively easy, right? Multiple reports and studies continue to highlight the growing number of talented individuals open to new career opportunities. So if you just create a job posting and place it in highly trafficked areas like your website, social pages, andreputable job boards, the surge of attractive job applicants should be flooding your inbox at any

How to Write a Job Posting That Gets Results

Are you having trouble attracting the right talent to fill an open position at your company? If most job seekers who have applied for the opening seem unfit for the role for one reason or another, you should consider revisiting your job posting. Although it may look innocuous at first glance, there is a good chance it may be causing your organization to miss out on quality

Recruiting Solutions for Common Hiring Challenges

Hiring the right individuals can help your organization meet its goals and scale new heights of success in no time. However, the highly competitive job market and the tightening pool of qualified candidates pose unique hiring challenges for HR professionals and business leaders alike. To keep up with their staffing needs, an increasing number of hiring companies are now

Should You Reference Check a Recruitment Firm?

For hiring managers and human resource professionals, reference checking top talent during the recruitment process is more than just a formality. However, have you ever wondered if you should also reference check your recruiting partner to ensure they are qualified to select the best candidates for your organization?

Reference checks are a key process that allows hiring

Recruitment Fees: What Are You Paying For?

Recruitment fees aren’t often discussed or explained. The common understanding is that agencies charge hiring companies a contingency fee based on the first-year earnings of the hired candidates. Retainer fees come into play in specific situations, such as for executive-level searches or organizations that proactively remain in a constant hiring mode. While true, not all

What Transparency in Business Means Today

Transparency. We generally understand what this means in the products we purchase and use. Federal regulations require manufacturers to include a plethora of details regarding the ingredients and nutritional levels of the foods we eat. Clothing has fabric content and washing instructions clearly listed. However, transparency in business still seems to be comparatively new.

Should a Search Firm Know Your Industry?

Sometimes companies will ask the question directly when considering our search firm for their hiring needs.What is your experience in our industry?Other times it’s a bit more subtle.What industries do you work in?Prospective clients often use this information as a qualifier when evaluating a potential partnership with a search firm.

Conventional thinking is that working