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Hire remote employees: The 10 best remote job boards

Job boards are often recognized as the best way to hire remote employees. So knowing the best remote job boards to advertise jobs on is going to help you hire more effectively. Remote job boards are seeing a surge in popularity in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many companies are now looking for remote employees […]

Chris Platts 17 June 2020 4 min
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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 […]

Chris Platts 16 June 2020 4 min
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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 […]

Chris Platts 15 June 2020 7 min
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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% […]

Chris Platts 12 June 2020 6 min
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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 […]

Chris Platts 11 June 2020 12 min
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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 […]

Chris Platts 29 May 2020 5 min
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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 […]

Chris Platts 22 May 2020 9 min
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How to Hire for Culture Fit Without Harming Diversity

Culture fit is somewhat of an HR buzzword right now, with hundreds and thousands of articles being written about it’s importance each year. This is not one of them.

Chris Platts 7 February 2020 8 min
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Recruitment budget: 7 ways to save money in 2024

Updated: 17.04.2024 Picture this. You’ve got a rising number of vacancies that need filling. You know how to reach the right candidates, but you’ve spent all your recruitment budget. You can’t advertise, you can’t use agencies, you can’t hire more recruiters or buy the time or recruitment automation technology you desperately need.  Any of this […]

Chris Platts 11 January 2020 4 min