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Recruiters, is Juggling Daily Tasks a Struggle?

Today, most recruiters are in the thick of a war for talent that keeps them busy and in demand. There’s a lot of pressure to fill roles, and a lot of work to be done every day, so staying organized and working efficiently is an important part of meeting your goals. Recruiters struggling with time management of their myriad admin tasks can use these strategies to improve their productivity and give themselves a needed boost to win more candidates faster. Tips on Task Juggling Tip #1 – Make a plan One of the best suggestions for managing administrative tasks on [...]

August 20th, 2019|HR, Management|

Want More Placements in a Candidate-Starved Market? Use These 4 Tips to Nurture Passive Candidates

In a 4% labor market, we are all candidate starved. Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 7.4 million job openings with a hire rate of 5.9 million, falling far short of fulfilling all the roles available. For the first time in two decades, the U.S. economy simply doesn’t have enough workers. This is across all categories, from STEM to blue-collar skilled workers. We are no longer struggling just to find computer software engineers; Vox reports home health aides, restaurant workers, and hotel staff are highly in demand. With so many challenges facing recruiters seeking new talent, [...]

August 13th, 2019|HR, Management|

6 Recruiting Basics

Defining the Job and Not the Person is more important: Sourcing the best candidates must start with a compelling vision of what the job entails. Don’t rely on a traditional job description to source candidates. Instead, ask hiring managers what the person needs to do in the job to be successful, and get a description of at least three or four major projects. The best candidates will only explore a job if it offers growth opportunities. Having a Strong Basic Pitch will help engage Candidates more: Would you be open to exploring a situation that’s clearly superior to what you’re [...]

August 8th, 2019|HR, Management|

Are You a Hunter, or Gatherer? The Difference Between Sourcing and Recruiting

Recruiters need a variety of skills in today’s market to find candidates. Unemployment is at a 50-year low, so the process of finding the right talent is, literally, like finding a four-leaf clover in a football field of grass. That’s why the necessary skills and techniques professional recruiters use should include the process of sourcing candidates. But what is the relationship between recruiting and sourcing? Why is sourcing so important today? Can recruiters hunt for candidates today without using sourcing techniques? Here’s how to understand the difference and why you need both. What is Recruiting? Recruiting is the process of [...]

August 6th, 2019|HR|

Here’s How Staffing Industry Leaders Are Handling the Candidate Shortage

The candidate search and hiring process is very different today than it was a decade ago. With record levels of unemployment, it has become a candidate-driven market. Staffing industry leaders have had to change up their tactics to focus on the passive candidate. While always a targeted audience, with only 4% of the labor market unemployed, staffing teams must now focus on the 70% of employees that are thinking about a better job but not actively looking. What are some of the biggest challenges staffing leaders face in this candidate-driven environment and how are they coping with the new realities [...]

July 30th, 2019|HR, Management|

5 Ways to Use Social Media to Fill More Open Reqs You Can’t Fill With Job Boards

Social recruiting seeks to maximize free social media to reach passive candidates. It is one of the biggest and newest trends in the recruiting field and it leverages marketing to reach candidates on social media, like Facebook or Twitter. It’s a process to reinvigorate the traditional posting of job ads and turn it into a more proactive way to reach candidates who haven’t applied yet. Social recruiting is widespread; 92% of recruiters use the technique. Social media recruiting is different from other forms of candidate finding, because hiring teams can use these channels to connect with people in new ways. [...]

July 25th, 2019|HR, Management|

Small Business Success: How to Build a Customer Service Strategy That Outpaces the Nationals

Customer service remains the heart of every business. This is particularly true in an era when social media usage is so widespread. Customers of all ages are internet-savvy enough to leave a comment on social media, whether it’s Yelp!, a Google review or a Facebook post. The ripples from a positive or negative review by your customers can go a lot further today; which is exactly why customer service is so important to your brand and marketplace image. Here’s how your company can use proven techniques that will help you keep the customer satisfied. On the Front Lines of Customer [...]

July 12th, 2019|Management|

Find Matching Candidates in Exelare

The Exelare Find Matching Candidates feature gives your recruiters a simple and easy way to search from a job in Exelare. They immediately see if there are any suitable candidates to submit to the client. When a job is created in Exelare, whether automatically through one of our integrated VMS partners, or manually by a user, there is a search criteria area to build a search. A user can build their own Boolean search, build a search using our search builder, paste from their library of very specifc Boolean search strings or select from a list of saved searches. Anyone [...]

July 19th, 2018|New Features, Tips & Tricks|

Ways to Avoid Cookie-Cutter Recruiting

When it comes to executive recruiting, we all want to find those dynamic, creative, impassioned individuals who know how to promote growth and excellence within an organization. What we don’t want is the middle-of-the-pack careerist who may have satisfactory credentials on paper but can’t really deliver the goods in a corporate environment: a cookie-cutter candidate, so to speak. Yet, how can you, as a recruiter, avoid settling for mediocrity in your executive search? We have a few suggestions. Consider “Off-Center” Candidates – The most logical approach to recruiting is to find candidates who have a proven track record of carrying [...]

September 18th, 2017|New Features|

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|