How can you drive more quality traffic and top candidates to your careers site? Here are four basic tips to help get you started with SEO for recruiters.
Do we allow our first impressions to always impact our decisions for who is ultimately the best person for the position? No. At least, we like to think we don’t.
As your company recruits for challenging positions you may find that local talent in the area is tapped out and you aren’t in a position where you can have this person work remotely. At this point, it often makes sense to open up the search for talent nationally. However, as your search expands across the…
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer recently announced that remote employees would no longer be permitted to, well, work remotely. Telecommuting, she said, is not in the current best interests of the company. Ever since then, it seems like every link I click on takes me to someone waxing…
Doesn’t it seem like recruiting has been around forever? Well, it pretty much has been. Recently I have found myself curious about how this industry that I am a part of came to be. So, I searched around the Internet to find out more. Surprisingly, there are very few resources on the topic. However, I…
As with most anything, expectations have a significant influence on outcomes. In recruiting, it’s no different, which is why it is very important that both companies and candidates have realistic expectations. Managing candidate expectations should begin during the initial stages of the recruiting process. That will ensure that both parties are on the same page,…
Recruiting and dating have many parallels that I can’t help but notice on a daily, or even hourly, basis. More accurately, recruiting these days seems a lot like online dating. After all, recruiting is performed mainly through online resources like LinkedIn. You check out a profile, maybe a person’s picture, and assess or judge how…
Onboarding. For a word not recognized by the dictionary, it sure gets bandied about quite a bit in companies. Onboarding is the process by which an employee gets all the necessary information and training to take on a new position and/or become an effective member of an organization. Onboarding is a fancy word for getting…
In this day and age, the Internet fuels a lot of what we do in recruiting, and posting jobs is not as straightforward as it was when you simply placed an ad in the newspaper. Today, there are hundreds of job posting sites out there. So how do you decide which site is the best for…
In recruiting, it is important to implement a project management methodology. How else are you going to manage your time and keep track of your work? Here at OpenView Labs, we use Scrum and my colleague Katy Smigowski recently wrote a post about why and how Scrum can work for your talent team. To build off of…
