We (JobSync) had Dr. Solange Charas on one of our roundtables last year (if you don’t know about those, check them out, it’s worth your time). There is a specific line at minute 28:38, in which she says ‘recruiting is the most inefficient process at organizations’.Wow. The MOST inefficient process at organizations. Two things that… Read more »
Will you accept this rose? Why do companies still think they are on the Bachelor, and they are the ones giving out the roses? The Great Wake-Up Calls upon us, (the term being borrowed from the great Rayanne Thorn Krueger). And it’s a true Wake-Up Call because the companies that are driving these top employees… Read more »
Indeed, the job board we love to hate. Indeed’s ability to drive candidates is unmatched in the US market, but for every good candidate, you often get too many unqualified ones.For most businesses your relationship with Indeed is a bit of a pendulum – use the click-off feature to your ATS and you can’t get… Read more »
It’s the most wonderful time of the hiring year when you can outmaneuver all the slow pokes out there and get the newest, juiciest, ripest, freshest candidates on the market.How?A picture from our friends at Indeed is worth a thousand words:Why do candidates apply for jobs right after the New Year?Typically it really hits full… Read more »
Easy Apply is the one size fits all solution to increase the volume of applicants to your jobs – and it works. Regardless of the job site, jobs with Easy Applies are optimized to be shown to candidates more often than jobs that send the candidate off to the company website.Job sites do this for… Read more »
Recruiting Reflections: Too Many Yet, There are None – A Tale of Two Recruiting Worlds The great resignation yet there are no candidates….how can both of these statements be true? In the US in September 2021:There were 128 million full-time working AmericansUnemployment had fallen to 4.8% or 7.7 million peopleThere were 10.4 million open jobs The… Read more »
As mentioned in a previous post, Google for Jobs (GfJ) is making a notable change in how it prioritizes job results on the Google for Jobs algorithm. Employers will be rewarded if they provide a DirectApply experience, meaning one of two things must happen next:The candidate applies on the site they land on after they… Read more »
On the heels of the Google for Jobs change, where Google has thrown down the gauntlet to remove barriers to get a person who has an interest in a job to the application process – Indeed has countered by throwing up a new “feature”. This feature forces all potential candidates to register with Indeed –… Read more »
Can you legally ask candidates and make hiring decisions based on a person’s vaccination status?The short answer is yes. Does that mean that you will hear all sorts of reasons from candidates, employees, hiring managers, and others that you can’t? You sure will. Here are a few resources that can help you. For starters –… Read more »