Recruiting Best Practices Archives

3 Ways to Continue Recruiting During the Holiday Season

November and December can be traditionally slow times for hiring. But recruiting needs can shoot off like a cannon in January. This fact suggests that your recruiting team should continue sourcing candidates during the holiday season instead of holding back. We have three ways you can continue recruiting this holiday season, building a robust pipeline of candidates so you will be ahead of the game when 2023 starts. How to Keep Recruiting During the Holidays 1. Clean up your database from the last 11 months. An up-to-date database is a gold mine of candidate information. Keeping it up-to-date takes time [...]

December 14th, 2022|Management, Recruiters, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized|

8 Tips to Help You Become a Better Recruiter

Recruiting is hard. Recruiting is harder when there are 10 million open jobs and not enough candidates to go around. If you’re interested in becoming better at your job, we have eight tips that you can apply on the job tomorrow to help you succeed. 8 Recruiting Best Practices 1. Improve Candidate Experience When this many jobs are open, candidates have choices. So, how you treat each candidate will greatly impact your success on the job. Not only should each candidate interaction be incredibly positive, but the tools you use should also streamline the application process. Your software should automate [...]

November 23rd, 2022|Uncategorized|

How Exelare Can Change the Game for Your Recruiting Team

Applicant tracking systems have revolutionized the HR field. These software tools monitor and assist the recruiting effort in ways that create efficiencies to improve the hiring process. Over the years, our ATS tools have improved by using intelligent algorithms to speed up our teams and extend your brand. As an ATS, Exelare is one of the newest in a long list of ATS platforms. What are the benefits of using a next-generation software tool like Exelare? Here’s how we can change the game for your recruiting team. Benefits of an ATS An ATS is an incredibly powerful tool. Three of [...]

December 17th, 2021|HR, Management|

5 Effective Methods to Build a Team of Leaders

Hiring is always one of the most difficult parts of running a business. Putting together a team to do the work is the baseline for productivity. But it’s the management and leadership team that is absolutely critical to the success of your company. Here are some tips for building an effective leadership team to help run your business. 1. Empower your teams Of course, you can hire great leaders, but you should also work on building them within your existing team. You can begin to build leadership in your lower-level staffers by empowering them with autonomy on the job. Micromanaging [...]

November 5th, 2021|Management|

Tips for Sourcing Qualified, Passive Candidates on LinkedIn

In April 2021, four million workers left their jobs, and 95% considered it. That represents opportunities for recruiters searching for qualified yet passive candidates on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has 774 million members, making it the nation’s largest portal of potential candidates for you to hire. But in this market, there are a lot of jobs and not a lot of candidates looking for work. How can you overcome the job market by using the resources available on LinkedIn? The answer is the passive candidate search. Here’s how you can use this technique to your advantage and find more candidates for your open jobs. How [...]

October 15th, 2021|Recruiters|

Afraid of Hiring the Wrong Person for the Job?

Every recruiter is highly aware of the upfront and hidden costs of making a bad hire. If you’re in a staffing agency, a bad hire can ensure that you don’t get paid for your work. For an in-house recruiter losing a new hire because they were a bad fit creates repeat work and costs your organization a good deal of money. If you’re afraid of hiring the wrong person for the job, this blog can help mitigate your risk. Here’s How to Avoid a Bad Hire Start your recruiting process by imagining the perfect candidate. Look at the job requirements [...]

October 8th, 2021|Recruiters|

The Most Successful Recruiters Wear Many Hats

Recruiters have a very difficult job. That’s because finding the right hire is a constant process of building relationships with the right people to get to their hiring goals. Depending on the market, and the job, this can be literally like finding a needle in a haystack. To attract more candidates, recruiters must wear many hats and be creative in their approach to sourcing, interviewing, and hiring. That’s a lot of hats to wear. Are You Wearing All the Hats You Need for Recruiting? Marketing Hat Recruiters need to be able to write and articulate the benefits of the job [...]

August 27th, 2021|Management, Recruiters|

There is No Secret to a Great Candidate Experience – It’s Communication!

Communication is the key to managing relationships, and the 2021 Exelare Jobvite survey shows that it’s also key to managing a better candidate experience. Each year, Jobvite surveys more than a thousand U.S. workers to find out their attitudes towards work. This year we found out just how important communication is to the people we’re trying to hire. Here’s what you should know for 2021. Candidate Communication = Better Candidate Experience The number one influencer of a better candidate experience was communication, according to the survey this year. Ease of scheduling and a simple application process were also high on the list. [...]

July 16th, 2021|Recruiters|

Do Your Control Your Work Day?

Is your day running you, or are you running your day? It’s easy to feel like our schedules are running us ragged. If you’re constantly interrupted by instant messages, texting, or email or spend too much time getting caught up on the Internet, you’re likely going to be less productive than you can be. We have a few tips for how to regain control of your workday to become more effective. Plan Out Your Day in Advance If you’re still working from home, you could even consider getting up a little early to set out your schedule and goals for [...]

October 23rd, 2020|Recruiters|

Best Practices for Harvesting Niche Resumes

Niche recruiting is a precise process. Specialization can save time wasted reviewing piles of unqualified resumes. Niche recruiting is less about the job board and more about precision targeting of the best candidates with exactly the right skills. Niche recruiting is especially important now, when so many people are out of work, placing a job board ad is sure to flood your hiring teams with a lot of candidates that are nowhere near qualified. Here are some best practices for harvesting niche resumes and finding better candidates for your most skilled positions. Start with the Job Description Every job starts with a [...]

October 9th, 2020|HR|