At iRecruit we love looking at lists and making lists, so we dug into our website statistics (also love statistics) to find out what our most viewed, and most popular blog posts of the year are (so far):
Tips for Hiring Summer Interns
Spring is in full bloom, which means Summer is not too far off, and that means Intern Season is almost upon us. To help you make the most of your interns we reached out to our iRecruit customers for tips.
10 Things to Ask When Purchasing Applicant Tracking Software #10thingsATS
If you’ve been tasked with researching your next online recruitment software, we have a few questions you should ask during your next demo. This list compiled from frequently asked questions we have received from people attending iRecruit’s demos (Tuesdays, or Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time).
Improving the Candidate Experience
A recent article from ERE discusses the frequent buzzwords we hear relating to the candidate experience (culture, employment brand, employer of choice, relationships) and what it actually means from a candidate perspective.
How Candidates Are Finding You
Wondering what's the best way to get the word out that you're hiring? Track the candidate's referral source in iRecruit. Knowing and tracking this important information can help you plan your advertising budget for the year ahead and make informed choices.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Job Postings
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for job postings? Keywords, that make your job searchable. Think like an applicant. What are you looking for when you're searching for a position? In job aggregators like Indeed.com, that iRecruit posts your positions to automatically, applicants will use keywords, and locations to find positions they're interested in.
Spring Cleaning Your ATS
It's the first day of Spring (finally) and after a long, long winter we can look ahead to warmer days. The first day of Spring always puts me in mind of spring cleaning, being an orderly person who loves lists, I like to look ahead be cleaning out the clutter.
iRecruit Customers on A&E TV's Reality Show Be The Boss
iRecruit customers Signal 88 Security appeared on an episode of A&E TV's Be The Boss this past weekend. The new reality show is a competition-based series that pits two employees of a franchise-based company in the battle of a lifetime, competing for the chance to become the owner of their very own franchise.
Engage and Attract More Candidates with Social Media
If your company uses these three most prominent social networks for consistent branding, marketing and public relations, you should take advantage of this built-in network of contacts when recruiting new candidates.
Creating a Custom Job Application for Online Recruitment
Creating a custom job application form for online recruitment is simple with iRecruit. iRecruit's application forms are extremely flexible and customizable. Forms are broken down into sections:
iRecruit and Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC)
Learn why there has never been a better time to take advantage of the Work Opportunity Tax Credits – WOTC, with our WOTC expert Brian Kelly. iRecruit has integrated with CMS' WOTC processing service since 2009 providing a simple and easy to use interface, and reporting. Learn about new legislation, what’s upcoming and how much you could potentially save using the WOTC in our upcoming free webinars.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a hosted, web-based recruitment software designed to
provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way
to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with a
custom career center that will allow your applicants to select the
position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time, or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week video is on the rise in recruiting, and interviewing, Indeed.com announce 100 million visitors used their site in January to look for jobs
and more...
How 100 million unique visitors use Indeed to find jobs
We created Indeed to help as many people as possible find jobs. In January, over 100 million unique visitors came to the site to do just that! Indeed is the starting point for more job searches and the source of more hires than any other site. Last month alone, visitors to the Indeed network performed over 3 billion searches, more than 1,000 searches every second. People use Indeed to search for jobs in over 50 countries and in 26 languages. Traffic continues to grow worldwide, with the most rapid growth occurring in Russia, Japan, South Africa, Australia and India.
Do You Post Salary in Job Postings?
Do you put the salary for the job in your job postings, either your online job postings or in other venues? This debate about putting salary in job postings becomes more important as job applicants are willing to settle just to have a job. This could cause retention chaos as jobs become more available or motivation damage for people who are under-employed, under-utilized, and bored.
You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings
Are a few gender-themed words in your job descriptions signaling women, unconsciously, to not apply? A scientific study of 4,000 job descriptions revealed that a lack of gender-inclusive wording caused significant implications for recruiting professionals tasked to recruit women to hard-to-fill positions underrepresented by women.
Why Video? 6 Benefits of Making Video Part of Your Recruitment Mix
Not only is video a dominant form of communication; it is proven to be influential, as well. Consumers are not just viewing content, but absorbing it, and letting themselves be swayed by it. When it comes to recruiting, potential and current employees are the customer, and the companies they choose to work for are the products they invest in.
Seventy-Five Percent of Job Applicants Do Not Hear Back From Employers
Job hunting can be a frustrating process especially if you have no idea whether the employer made a decision or even saw your application. The vast majority (75 percent) of workers who applied to jobs using various resources in the last year said they never heard back from the employer, according to a nationwide CareerBuilder survey.
63 Percent of Companies Use Video Interviews
A new OfficeTeam survey has revealed that 63 percent of HR managers said their company often uses video technology to conduct employment interviews. This is a stratospheric jump from 2011 when just 14 percent reported the same. Over the next three years, 13 percent of respondents said their organizations would more aggressively pursue video interviews while 85 percent predict the number of video interviews to remain the same.
iRecruit Webinar Dates March 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
How 100 million unique visitors use Indeed to find jobs
We created Indeed to help as many people as possible find jobs. In January, over 100 million unique visitors came to the site to do just that! Indeed is the starting point for more job searches and the source of more hires than any other site. Last month alone, visitors to the Indeed network performed over 3 billion searches, more than 1,000 searches every second. People use Indeed to search for jobs in over 50 countries and in 26 languages. Traffic continues to grow worldwide, with the most rapid growth occurring in Russia, Japan, South Africa, Australia and India.
Do You Post Salary in Job Postings?
Do you put the salary for the job in your job postings, either your online job postings or in other venues? This debate about putting salary in job postings becomes more important as job applicants are willing to settle just to have a job. This could cause retention chaos as jobs become more available or motivation damage for people who are under-employed, under-utilized, and bored.
You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings
Are a few gender-themed words in your job descriptions signaling women, unconsciously, to not apply? A scientific study of 4,000 job descriptions revealed that a lack of gender-inclusive wording caused significant implications for recruiting professionals tasked to recruit women to hard-to-fill positions underrepresented by women.
Why Video? 6 Benefits of Making Video Part of Your Recruitment Mix
Not only is video a dominant form of communication; it is proven to be influential, as well. Consumers are not just viewing content, but absorbing it, and letting themselves be swayed by it. When it comes to recruiting, potential and current employees are the customer, and the companies they choose to work for are the products they invest in.
Seventy-Five Percent of Job Applicants Do Not Hear Back From Employers
Job hunting can be a frustrating process especially if you have no idea whether the employer made a decision or even saw your application. The vast majority (75 percent) of workers who applied to jobs using various resources in the last year said they never heard back from the employer, according to a nationwide CareerBuilder survey.
63 Percent of Companies Use Video Interviews
A new OfficeTeam survey has revealed that 63 percent of HR managers said their company often uses video technology to conduct employment interviews. This is a stratospheric jump from 2011 when just 14 percent reported the same. Over the next three years, 13 percent of respondents said their organizations would more aggressively pursue video interviews while 85 percent predict the number of video interviews to remain the same.
iRecruit Webinar Dates March 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week a six things you should include in every job description, streamlining the interview process, how to interview interns
and more...
12 Tricky Interview Questions For Interns
Internship seekers should prepare for common interview questions like “What are your strengths,” or “What are your weaknesses,” but they can also expect less conventional queries.
What Do You Want In An Applicant Tracking System?
At CMS we speak with employers every day who are looking to make a change to their recruiting and applicant tracking system. With budgets in place for the new year, we see a lot of volume and a lot of questions at the beginning of the year.
3 Out of 4 Hires Fail: How to Beat the Odds
The Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams famously said baseball is “the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of 10 and be considered a good performer.” Maybe not the only one: The same could be said for hiring.
Six Things You Need in Every Job Description
Your job description is a sales pitch for your company and the position. Writing an effective job description is essential to attract the right applicants, and can cut your time to hire by attracting more qualified applicants to the position.
Streamlining the Interview Process
Many recruiters have experienced the knock-down drag-out fighting of going through many rounds of in-person interviews. The main problem with having rounds upon rounds of these interviews is that new information about the candidate is rarely uncovered. Plus, the individuals involved in the interview process are taken away from their jobs to conduct these time-consuming interviews.
These 5 Trends Are Shaping the Future of Pre-hire Assessments
2013 is going to present the start of a major tipping point in the way people find and are evaluated for jobs (and vice versa), and a blend of technology and assessment content will play a big role in these ongoing changes.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
12 Tricky Interview Questions For Interns
Internship seekers should prepare for common interview questions like “What are your strengths,” or “What are your weaknesses,” but they can also expect less conventional queries.
What Do You Want In An Applicant Tracking System?
At CMS we speak with employers every day who are looking to make a change to their recruiting and applicant tracking system. With budgets in place for the new year, we see a lot of volume and a lot of questions at the beginning of the year.
3 Out of 4 Hires Fail: How to Beat the Odds
The Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams famously said baseball is “the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of 10 and be considered a good performer.” Maybe not the only one: The same could be said for hiring.
Six Things You Need in Every Job Description
Your job description is a sales pitch for your company and the position. Writing an effective job description is essential to attract the right applicants, and can cut your time to hire by attracting more qualified applicants to the position.
Streamlining the Interview Process
Many recruiters have experienced the knock-down drag-out fighting of going through many rounds of in-person interviews. The main problem with having rounds upon rounds of these interviews is that new information about the candidate is rarely uncovered. Plus, the individuals involved in the interview process are taken away from their jobs to conduct these time-consuming interviews.
These 5 Trends Are Shaping the Future of Pre-hire Assessments
2013 is going to present the start of a major tipping point in the way people find and are evaluated for jobs (and vice versa), and a blend of technology and assessment content will play a big role in these ongoing changes.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week one of America's largest retailers plans to add 80,000 seasonal workers, what happens when your applicant can't apply, how to alienate potential employees
and more...
ATS & the Candidate Experience
Our customer service department received an interesting phone call yesterday, from a job seeker. This is pretty unusual for our customer service to hear from applicants. What really stood out about this call, was that it was an applicant for a company that was not an iRecruit customer. They were using another Applicant Tracking software!
Saying You Can’t Find Talent Is Like Saying You Can’t Find Anything to Watch on TV
As a child living in a rural area, I had but three, maybe four channels when the weather cooperated, to watch. Installing cable down our very long lane was not economically sensible, and my father sure wasn’t going to install one of those monstrous satellite dishes in the yard.
The Future of Talent Is in Clusters
An effective team is a powerful thing. Many of us have participated on teams where the members complement each other, trust each other and find ways of working that are not only effective, but also enjoyable. For teams like this, performance is typically much higher than might be expected of the sum of individuals.
Home Depot to hire 80000 seasonal workers
Home Depot said Wednesday it will hire more than 80,000 seasonal workers for this year's spring selling season — up from about 70,000 a year ago. It cited expectations of sales growth.
2 Interview Questions I Can't Stand
These two questions should be banned from job interviews. Yet they're perennial favorites. Now that I’m the CEO of an asset management firm, I often view myself as an escaped refugee from traditional Wall Street. I can tell you firsthand that there is a big problem with the way most financial companies interview job candidates. When you structure interviews around clichés, you either end up hiring by stereotype, or you wind up with a staff full of people who think just like you. Memories of the stale responses of interviews past still make me shudder. More importantly, they can’t generate a vibrant team with energy and fresh perspectives.
How to Lose Candidates and Alienate Prospective Employees
Like the date who wears too much AXE body spray or the Kardashian sister who chooses the wrong dress to host the ‘X Factor’ in, we do not always make the wisest choices in our attempts to come across as attractive, engaging and professional.
Nationwide Job Openings Continued to Grow in January
Simply Hired, a technology company that operates one of the world's largest job search engines, released its February 2013 U.S. Employment Outlook report which highlights the job industry and employer trends in national and regional U.S. markets.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
ATS & the Candidate Experience
Our customer service department received an interesting phone call yesterday, from a job seeker. This is pretty unusual for our customer service to hear from applicants. What really stood out about this call, was that it was an applicant for a company that was not an iRecruit customer. They were using another Applicant Tracking software!
Saying You Can’t Find Talent Is Like Saying You Can’t Find Anything to Watch on TV
As a child living in a rural area, I had but three, maybe four channels when the weather cooperated, to watch. Installing cable down our very long lane was not economically sensible, and my father sure wasn’t going to install one of those monstrous satellite dishes in the yard.
The Future of Talent Is in Clusters
An effective team is a powerful thing. Many of us have participated on teams where the members complement each other, trust each other and find ways of working that are not only effective, but also enjoyable. For teams like this, performance is typically much higher than might be expected of the sum of individuals.
Home Depot to hire 80000 seasonal workers
Home Depot said Wednesday it will hire more than 80,000 seasonal workers for this year's spring selling season — up from about 70,000 a year ago. It cited expectations of sales growth.
2 Interview Questions I Can't Stand
These two questions should be banned from job interviews. Yet they're perennial favorites. Now that I’m the CEO of an asset management firm, I often view myself as an escaped refugee from traditional Wall Street. I can tell you firsthand that there is a big problem with the way most financial companies interview job candidates. When you structure interviews around clichés, you either end up hiring by stereotype, or you wind up with a staff full of people who think just like you. Memories of the stale responses of interviews past still make me shudder. More importantly, they can’t generate a vibrant team with energy and fresh perspectives.
How to Lose Candidates and Alienate Prospective Employees
Like the date who wears too much AXE body spray or the Kardashian sister who chooses the wrong dress to host the ‘X Factor’ in, we do not always make the wisest choices in our attempts to come across as attractive, engaging and professional.
Nationwide Job Openings Continued to Grow in January
Simply Hired, a technology company that operates one of the world's largest job search engines, released its February 2013 U.S. Employment Outlook report which highlights the job industry and employer trends in national and regional U.S. markets.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
ATS & the Candidate Experience
The applicant called the company he was applying to at first because he was having trouble navigating their online application form. They told him “We can’t help you. Call iRecruit.” So he did. When we realized he was not applying to one of our customers and we couldn’t help him, we advised him to email or contact the other ATS for support in completing his application.
Though unusual, this is not the first time we’ve received calls from applicants using another software. In that situation we always let the company know that their applicant had reached out to us in error. I also let them know how iRecruit can help them simplify the recruiting experience.
We always talk about the “candidate experience” and being the “employer of choice”. Number one on that list is to make it easy for interested parties to apply for your jobs.
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online.
iRecruit is easy to use for Recruiters and hiring managers. Most importantly, it’s also easy for applicants to use. In addition, iRecruit has a built-in Applicant Help Menu that covers most of the frequently asked questions about completing an online application.
Learn more: Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week why some recruiters will always be successful, how to recruit if you work for a "lousy" company, improving the candidate experience and more...
Don't Hire the Right Person for the Job: or, Why Some Industries Can't Be Fixed from Within
Workers often choose professions known for a certain dark side -- in particular, violence and aggression -- precisely because they already exhibit those darker qualities. That's why broken cultures, from Wall St. to the gridiron, cannot be fixed from within.
Why Some Recruiters Will Almost Always Be a Success
There is nothing like a good controversy to stir up one’s feelings and subsequently a fierce debate. One of my favorite things about reading articles on ERE is how some of its contributors have a wonderful ability to write articles that generate comments a mile long because of controversial subjects covered.
How to Recruit for a Lousy Company
One time, at cheerleading camp in Texas, one of the camp counselors asked us, “What do you do if your football team is the worst in the district?” The answer was to cheer anyway, because that is your responsibility. In fact, you have to cheer louder and bigger to motivate the team, the spectators, the alumni, and the students.
Improving the Candidate Experience
A recent article from ERE discusses the frequent buzzwords we hear relating to the candidate experience (culture, employment brand, employer of choice, relationships) and what it actually means from a candidate perspective.
In Hiring, a Friend in Need Is a Prospect, Indeed
Riju Parakh wasn’t even looking for a new job. But when a friend at Ernst & Young recommended her, Ms. Parakh’s résumé was quickly separated from the thousands the firm receives every week because she was referred by a current employee, and within three weeks she was hired. “You know how long this usually takes,” she said. “It was miraculous.”
Resume draws inspiration from Amazon.com, goes viral
To most people a resume is an essential part of the job hunting process. Bur for some, it is a creative way to market themselves. Phillippe Dubost seems to belong to the second category when it comes to being creative with resumes. Dubost's resume draws inspiration from the product listing template of Amazon.com. Dubost is a web product manager based in Paris who admits that he spends way too much time on the shopping site. Little wonder, that his resume looks an exact replica of Amazon's product page.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Don't Hire the Right Person for the Job: or, Why Some Industries Can't Be Fixed from Within
Workers often choose professions known for a certain dark side -- in particular, violence and aggression -- precisely because they already exhibit those darker qualities. That's why broken cultures, from Wall St. to the gridiron, cannot be fixed from within.
Why Some Recruiters Will Almost Always Be a Success
There is nothing like a good controversy to stir up one’s feelings and subsequently a fierce debate. One of my favorite things about reading articles on ERE is how some of its contributors have a wonderful ability to write articles that generate comments a mile long because of controversial subjects covered.
How to Recruit for a Lousy Company
One time, at cheerleading camp in Texas, one of the camp counselors asked us, “What do you do if your football team is the worst in the district?” The answer was to cheer anyway, because that is your responsibility. In fact, you have to cheer louder and bigger to motivate the team, the spectators, the alumni, and the students.
Improving the Candidate Experience
A recent article from ERE discusses the frequent buzzwords we hear relating to the candidate experience (culture, employment brand, employer of choice, relationships) and what it actually means from a candidate perspective.
In Hiring, a Friend in Need Is a Prospect, Indeed
Riju Parakh wasn’t even looking for a new job. But when a friend at Ernst & Young recommended her, Ms. Parakh’s résumé was quickly separated from the thousands the firm receives every week because she was referred by a current employee, and within three weeks she was hired. “You know how long this usually takes,” she said. “It was miraculous.”
Resume draws inspiration from Amazon.com, goes viral
To most people a resume is an essential part of the job hunting process. Bur for some, it is a creative way to market themselves. Phillippe Dubost seems to belong to the second category when it comes to being creative with resumes. Dubost's resume draws inspiration from the product listing template of Amazon.com. Dubost is a web product manager based in Paris who admits that he spends way too much time on the shopping site. Little wonder, that his resume looks an exact replica of Amazon's product page.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Improving the Candidate Experience
A recent article from ERE discusses the frequent buzzwords we hear relating to the candidate experience (culture, employment brand, employer of choice, relationships) and what it actually means from a candidate perspective.
The story begins with the author receiving an impersonal auto-response when applying to a job that surprised her. As a former product manager of applicant tracking systems, she knows that these messages can be customized. She goes on to explain that the technology you use to recruit candidates and get their information into your system should be easy to navigate and should reflect your company brand. Your brand is what makes a candidate say, “I will fit in there and I want to work there!”
With iRecruit as your Applicant Tracking and Recruiting software, creating custom response messages is simple. You can create a custom auto-response message right from your application form editor under "Email Correspondence". Thank the applicant for taking the time to apply with your company and let them know what your follow up process is, when/if they will be contacted, and if you will keep their information on file for a period of time.
Continue reading: Dear Candidate 5a26jd7: Your Application Is Very Important to Us
Related: Treat Applicants Like Customers
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
The story begins with the author receiving an impersonal auto-response when applying to a job that surprised her. As a former product manager of applicant tracking systems, she knows that these messages can be customized. She goes on to explain that the technology you use to recruit candidates and get their information into your system should be easy to navigate and should reflect your company brand. Your brand is what makes a candidate say, “I will fit in there and I want to work there!”
With iRecruit as your Applicant Tracking and Recruiting software, creating custom response messages is simple. You can create a custom auto-response message right from your application form editor under "Email Correspondence". Thank the applicant for taking the time to apply with your company and let them know what your follow up process is, when/if they will be contacted, and if you will keep their information on file for a period of time.
Continue reading: Dear Candidate 5a26jd7: Your Application Is Very Important to Us
Related: Treat Applicants Like Customers
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week find out that 6/10 of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For don't respond to applicants, and 67% of candidates are thinking about their job search up to six months before they start the search...
this week's top recruiting stories from around the web. Happy Labor Day!
“Good Grief, Charles Brown. They Never Told You if You Got the Job?”
Charlie Brown never got much respect. Not from Lucy, who when she wasn’t snatching the football away at the last minute, was making fun of his pitching skills, nor from the Little Red-Haired Girl, with whom he was so infatuated. Now, as it turns out, Charles Brown doesn’t get much respect from Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Out of his 100 applications for a job as a marketing manager, the Charlie Brown of our story has no idea where he stands with six out 10 of the companies.
Criminal background check firm gets slammed by FTC
More reason to think twice about pre-employment criminal background checks: How sure can you be that the info you get is accurate? That question arises on the heels of a $2.6 million settlement agreed to by HireRight Solutions, which had been charged by the federal Fair Trade Commission with failing to take the proper steps to ensure the reports it provided to employer/clients was accurate.
13 More Bold and Outrageous HR Practices That May Indicate Your Approach Is Too Conservative
If your goal is to “push the envelope” in talent management, this list can give you an idea of where the average ends and the truly bold practices begin. Although every firm cannot directly adopt the practices listed here (some are reprehensible), I find during my corporate presentations that merely becoming aware of these bleeding-edge practices can create great energy and a strong desire for individual HR functions to do more and be bolder.
Sixty-Seven Percent of Candidates Think About the Job Search Six Months Prior to Actively Searching
Sixty-seven percent of job candidates think about looking for a new job within six months before actively searching, according to CareerBuilder’s 2012 Candidate Behavior Study. Throughout those six months, candidates are consulting multiple sources to research opportunities and potential employers. For example, 84 percent go on search engines like Google, 75 percent visit company websites, and 67 percent look at company Facebook pages. Again, this is just a handful of sources job candidates consult when considering a new job – before they even apply.
Employer Network Promotes Jobs for Wounded Veterans
A national network of more than 100 U.S. employers is on a mission to find, hire and accommodate injured military veterans in the workplace. The Network of Champions, which grew out of a recruiting program for wounded former service members at Northrup Grumman, has spread largely by word of mouth. And it’s still growing—as is the need.
Organizational Values: Live Them and They — the Talent — Will Come
“For us this lawsuit has always been about something much more important than patents or money. It’s about values. We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on Earth. And we do this to delight our customers, not for competitors to flagrantly copy.” This was part of the missive that Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, sent his employees after the big jury verdict that Apple won against Samsung.
Lack of Experience Leaves Half of 2012 College Grads Jobless, Underemployed
They studied for years. They met the requirements. Proudly, they walked across the stage to receive their coveted degrees. Yet, millions of recent college graduates are receiving a not so pleasant return on their educational investments: unemployment. According to a study by the Associated Press, more than half, or 53 percent, of the nation's recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed
The Recruiter-Candidate Relationship: It’s Complicated
Maintaining relationships with candidates is one of the hardest elements of the recruitment process; however, a new survey shows that it’s also one of the most crucial.
iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for September 2012
Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
“Good Grief, Charles Brown. They Never Told You if You Got the Job?”
Charlie Brown never got much respect. Not from Lucy, who when she wasn’t snatching the football away at the last minute, was making fun of his pitching skills, nor from the Little Red-Haired Girl, with whom he was so infatuated. Now, as it turns out, Charles Brown doesn’t get much respect from Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Out of his 100 applications for a job as a marketing manager, the Charlie Brown of our story has no idea where he stands with six out 10 of the companies.
Criminal background check firm gets slammed by FTC
More reason to think twice about pre-employment criminal background checks: How sure can you be that the info you get is accurate? That question arises on the heels of a $2.6 million settlement agreed to by HireRight Solutions, which had been charged by the federal Fair Trade Commission with failing to take the proper steps to ensure the reports it provided to employer/clients was accurate.
13 More Bold and Outrageous HR Practices That May Indicate Your Approach Is Too Conservative
If your goal is to “push the envelope” in talent management, this list can give you an idea of where the average ends and the truly bold practices begin. Although every firm cannot directly adopt the practices listed here (some are reprehensible), I find during my corporate presentations that merely becoming aware of these bleeding-edge practices can create great energy and a strong desire for individual HR functions to do more and be bolder.
Sixty-Seven Percent of Candidates Think About the Job Search Six Months Prior to Actively Searching
Sixty-seven percent of job candidates think about looking for a new job within six months before actively searching, according to CareerBuilder’s 2012 Candidate Behavior Study. Throughout those six months, candidates are consulting multiple sources to research opportunities and potential employers. For example, 84 percent go on search engines like Google, 75 percent visit company websites, and 67 percent look at company Facebook pages. Again, this is just a handful of sources job candidates consult when considering a new job – before they even apply.
Employer Network Promotes Jobs for Wounded Veterans
A national network of more than 100 U.S. employers is on a mission to find, hire and accommodate injured military veterans in the workplace. The Network of Champions, which grew out of a recruiting program for wounded former service members at Northrup Grumman, has spread largely by word of mouth. And it’s still growing—as is the need.
Organizational Values: Live Them and They — the Talent — Will Come
“For us this lawsuit has always been about something much more important than patents or money. It’s about values. We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on Earth. And we do this to delight our customers, not for competitors to flagrantly copy.” This was part of the missive that Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, sent his employees after the big jury verdict that Apple won against Samsung.
Lack of Experience Leaves Half of 2012 College Grads Jobless, Underemployed
They studied for years. They met the requirements. Proudly, they walked across the stage to receive their coveted degrees. Yet, millions of recent college graduates are receiving a not so pleasant return on their educational investments: unemployment. According to a study by the Associated Press, more than half, or 53 percent, of the nation's recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed
The Recruiter-Candidate Relationship: It’s Complicated
Maintaining relationships with candidates is one of the hardest elements of the recruitment process; however, a new survey shows that it’s also one of the most crucial.
iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for September 2012
Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Introducing our newest blog feature: Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web. We read so many different articles online in our favorite HR blogs and news sites about human resources, compliance, payroll, recruiting and business, that we thought it would be a good idea to share them with you every Friday. We'll also be sharing a weekly Human Resources news roundup on our CMS HRMS Blog. This week, learn about the candidate experience, interview questions and 5 things recruiters don't want to admit they hate!
The Impact of the U.S. Skills Gap and Vacancies on Revenue and Turnover
Ask the Best Interview Questions
Job search for veterans on Indeed
How Your Job Description May Be Excluding Potential Candidates
What They Tell You to do about Candidate Experience
It’s So Simple!
5 Things Recruiters Loathe But Hate to Admit
The Impact of the U.S. Skills Gap and Vacancies on Revenue and Turnover
Ask the Best Interview Questions
Job search for veterans on Indeed
How Your Job Description May Be Excluding Potential Candidates
What They Tell You to do about Candidate Experience
It’s So Simple!
5 Things Recruiters Loathe But Hate to Admit
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