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The 9 Best Recruiting Podcasts in 2024
Tired of hearing about the same old recruitment tips and tools? Need to freshen up your recruitment skills with new ideas, techniques and technologies? Even though in-person events are ramping up again (with a vengeance) we’ve all developed a love for podcasts. So it’s time to get inspired by listening to the best-recruiting podcasts out […]
Crafting the perfect job description [step-by-step guide]
Writing an engaging (and accurate) job description is a time-consuming process, but it’s worth the extra effort. On average it takes nearly 28 days to hire a new employee. Attracting the most suitable candidates with a compelling job description and persuasive job advert can help to reduce time to fill and improve the quality of […]
Hiring Millennials: 7 Important Things To Look For
Hiring millennials is a great way to boost generational diversity. However, the complexities of this generation are often misunderstood. Understanding how to attract and motivate millennials is critical to making the best of their invaluable skills and experiences. Millennials are classified as the generation of people born between 1980 and 2000. They now comprise 50% […]
Recruitment Metrics: 15 Every Recruiter Should Track
In order to gauge the effectiveness of your recruitment process, you must keep an eye on your recruitment metrics. They are an essential part of effective, data-driven hiring, but in order to ensure efficiency in the recruitment funnel, it’s vitally important to get the right metrics in place to monitor performance. You need to make […]
Recruitment Operations: What is RecOps?
There is no perfect formula for finding the right talent, but the job of Recruitment Operations is to help you find them as efficiently and effectively as possible. The task is complex, challenging, and at times frustrating. It is made all the harder by fierce competition for talent and the fact that by 2030, Korn […]
How to Create a Seamless Virtual Interview Process
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has provided many of the answers, allowing millions of employees to work remotely and allowing new employees to be recruited virtually. Virtual interview processes have been growing steadily in popularity, but delivering a great candidate experience has always been a challenge. This step-by-step guide will take you through […]
Attrition and Employee Turnover: How To Reduce Them
Most vacancies arise because of bad employee attrition. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 95% of hiring is filling existing positions. This makes reducing attrition a key objective in any recruitment plan. Just as it’s important to hire the best possible talent into an organisation, it’s crucial to pay attention to which employees leave […]
Pre-Employment Test Validity vs Test Reliability
Test validity and test reliability are measures that ensure pre-employment tests are both fair and accurate. These measures are especially important in the field of candidate testing where the results have a direct impact on someone’s ability to secure a new job. These terms are unhelpfully vague so this post aims to give you a […]
Hiring Discrimination: 6 Tips to Reduce It
Unfortunately hiring discrimination is on the rise. A recent study on employee charge trends found that 12% of U.S. businesses have had an employment charge filed against them. In this article, we’ll discuss 6 tips to reduce hiring discrimination, explain why it’s important and why fairer hiring leads to increased employee diversity. What is hiring […]