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Best Ways to Conduct Successful Virtual Interviews

The world has experienced a significant shift in how we work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, virtual interviews have become the norm for hiring processes, enabling employers to connect with candidates remotely. Successful virtual interviews require careful planning and execution to ensure a smooth and efficient process. This blog will explore the best ways to conduct successful virtual interviews and maximize your chances of finding the right candidate for your organization. How Can You Conduct a Successful Virtual Interview? Prepare and Test the Technology Don’t assume your tech will always work. Prepare and test your video conferencing [...]

July 20th, 2023|HR, News & Announcements, Recruiters, Tips & Tricks|

Strategies to Build Strong Connections with Job Seekers

Building strong connections with job seekers helps attract and retain top talent. By implementing effective strategies to make strong connections; employers can create a positive candidate experience, enhance their employer brand, and ultimately secure the best candidates for their organization. Let's explore strategies to build strong connections with job seekers and establish your reputation as an employer of choice. How Can You Build Strong Connections with Job Seekers? Enhance Employer Branding A compelling employer brand helps attract and engage job seekers. You can improve your brand by communicating your mission, values, and unique selling points through various channels, such as [...]

July 6th, 2023|HR, News & Announcements, Recruiters|

Understanding Your Recruiting Competition

If you’re a working recruiter, you’re unquestionably aware that you’re not the only hired gun around. There are other individuals and agencies out there who are also trying to find top candidates and place them at companies that have a use for these applicants’ particular talents. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to be aware of what your competition is doing—and this is an area where many recruiters simply fail to put in sufficient effort. It’s not really difficult to get a solid sense of what the other guys are doing, however. In fact, most of the tips [...]

July 18th, 2017|New Features, News & Announcements|

Keeping Your Staffing Company on Top of Best Practices

Make sure you stay the cutting edge of your field—that tends to be sound advice pretty much everywhere. At least it can be said that you seldom hear vocational counselors advise anyone to fall behind prevailing trends. Yet, as with so much advice of this nature, the devil is in the details. What can you do, exactly, to stay at the front of the recruiting pack? Here are a few simple suggestions for today’s enterprising recruiter. Watch Webinars – Web seminars and conferences are becoming increasingly popular as technological advances make these events more easily accessible (and less prone to [...]

June 1st, 2017|News & Announcements, Tips & Tricks|

How to Recruit Recent College Graduates

In May of every year, thousands of college students bedecked in elegant robes attend a graduation ceremony where they finally take possession of a diploma that they have spent the last four or five years working toward. Shortly after this happy occasion, most of these bright young hopefuls begin contacting potential employers and flooding company email inboxes with resumes—amounting to a deluge of data that recruiters must sift through. Recent college grads can be an invaluable asset to an organization, but they also pose unique recruiting challenges due to their inexperience. Generally, they do not have a significant track record [...]

May 25th, 2017|New Features, News & Announcements, Tips & Tricks|

Best Times to Upload a Job Ad

Crafting a job ad is an art that you should master if you expect to maximize your chances of attracting prime talent, but there’s more to this particular art than just thinking of colorful adjectives. As with so many business endeavors, timing is important here—that is, figuring out exactly when to “go live” with the job description you so lovingly wrote with your ATS software. In the morning or at night? Early in the week or later? Believe it or not, some people have done research into this topic, and they have arrived at conclusions that may surprise you. Let’s [...]

March 25th, 2017|News & Announcements, Tips & Tricks|

Facebook and Job Postings: What This Means for Recruiters

In recent years, social media has assumed an increasingly important role for recruiters, in a trend that parallels the growing prominence of these platforms in everyday life. It seems as if everything we do these days is filtered through our social media accounts, so it makes sense that a lot of job hunting takes place there as well. That’s why modern applicant tracking systems like Exelare come with social media integration. Recently, Facebook implemented a new feature that promises to enhance the hiring process for recruiters and job hunters alike. As a recruiter, you need to know about this feature [...]

March 18th, 2017|News & Announcements|

New Exelare Features – 1.8

We are excited to announce a brand new integration with RingCentral this month, as well as a few other extremely useful features & updates.  Keep reading to learn more, and make sure to follow the ‘Learn More’  hyperlinks to view text & video overviews of each feature! RingCentral Integration Exelare now integrates with the industry leading Cloud Hosted Phone system, RingCentral!  As recruiting & staffing professionals, we spend a lot of time on the phone.  That means a lot of time spent picking up the phone and manually dialing phone numbers.   With the new Exelare + RingCentral integration, those [...]

March 13th, 2017|New Features, News & Announcements|

How to Prevent Discrimination When Searching for Candidates

As a recruiter, your goal is to locate and develop professional relationships with talent. Any experienced recruiter knows that qualified individuals come from a wide range of backgrounds, but, in practice, some people run into prejudices and discriminatory practices that deny them a chance to realize their career aspirations. It’s important to do what you can to ensure that your candidate search is as fair and free of bias as possible—this is not only the right thing to do but a matter of law. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can and will impose serious penalties on organizations, including recruitment [...]

March 11th, 2017|News & Announcements, Webinars & Training|

How to Optimize Your Job Description

The modern recruiter has access to a wide assortment of time-saving technology—like Exelare applicant tracking software. Be that as it may, one old-fashioned recruiting tool is still very much with us: the job ad. These days, job ads tend to be found not just in the classified section of the newspaper but also on the internet, with online career sites like Monster.com accounting for a large share of this sort of traffic. In addition, many companies have dedicated career sites where they post their current openings. Like it or not, recruiters can expect to continue devoting a significant portion of [...]

March 4th, 2017|New Features, News & Announcements|