As it has been for a while, most companies take their time before hiring the right candidate. And it makes sense, right? As an employer, you should take time before hiring to ensure you hire top talent. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Even in a slow job market, the competition for top talent is [...]
Recruiters face fierce competition in hiring top talent, adding pressure to extend that offer or lose out to another company. It might be the "perfect storm" in the recruiting world - surging technology innovation and employee skill gaps, an increasing number of gig workers and entrepreneurs combined with unhappy employees resigning in droves. Digital transformation is [...]
An estimated 30% of C-level executives will be eligible to retire within the next couple of years. Unfortunately, researchers have found that most businesses are woefully unprepared to find and hire the right C-suite employees during these critical transition periods. Thus, costing companies billions of dollars in lost opportunities. The problem becomes even more compounded if your company is in [...]
Millions of people land on jobs pages and careers sites every day and technology companies are battling it out for talent. As a result, the talent pool is smaller and more competitive, making it more challenging to find top IT talent. It puts the onus on employers to stand out to lure in potential star [...]
The act of recruiting a new employee for your company is one of careful assessments. Naturally, you want to make the best candidate decision. You want the team to be improved by someone who is a good fit. This requires you to assess for someone with the skills to fulfill the role and the personality, [...]
Building your social media team is about more than just gaining more people to perform the tasks of a social media campaign. You want to build a team that works together, fulfilling specific roles that both compliment and check each other. This is the best way to have both harmonious teamwork and create some truly [...]
When building a strong team, it's important to recruit top-talent from every available pool. This means hiring locally and recruiting at a distance. You want to pull professionals both from your industry and experts who can bring new insights with them from different past experiences. We have recently seen a big push for welcoming disabled [...]
Social media dominates how we interact. The three media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, have 1.6 billion, 800 million, and 300 million active users respectively. As with everything else, social media has spread to the professional sphere and greatly determines how companies interact with their consumers and employees. Further, the natural offshoot of this is [...]
Deciding that you need a new employee can be a difficult process. You have to weigh the load of work your company is handling versus the cost of hiring someone new.
As a business owner or hiring manager, you've probably been through the lengthy process of trying to fill an open position at your company. From crafting and posting the job description to vetting and interviewing candidates, the whole ordeal is not only time-consuming but expensive when you consider the lost productivity of everyone involved.
