Category: Recruiting Products
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3 Software Solutions to Streamline Performance Reviews
While employee appraisal methods (also known as performance reviews) have had their fair share of critics, a lot of companies praise them as an efficient way to identify employee strengths and weaknesses, provide feedback and eventually, boost productivity. But the whole process can be pretty time-consuming and leave you buried under a mountain of paper.…
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Think Job Boards Are Dead? Think Again.
Rumors of the death of job boards, with apologies to Mark Twain, might be greatly exaggerated, but that hasn’t stopped their reported demise from becoming something of a ’cause celebre’ among industry pundits and influencers. A quick Google search for the phrase “job boards are dead” (no Boolean black belt required) and you’ll get around…
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Zipwhip: Mobile Recruiting Made Simple With SMS
There’s been a lot of talk about mobile recruiting technologies and tools these days, but the good news is, if you’re looking to create or optimize your mobile recruiting strategy, you can successfully leverage mobile technologies without actually using a mobile device. Meet ZipWhip, a self described “cloud texting” service which allows users to send and…
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Mom and Pop Shop: A Tech Checklist for Your Grandparents
If Gran and Gramps are choosing to opt out of retirement and want to start their own business, chances are they’ll need to embrace the current technology to stay afloat. According to a Kauffman Foundation study, approximately 63 percent of small business owners are between 35 and 54 years old. Maybe Grandma is looking to…
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The Big ‘But’: Trust & Talent Acquisition
A significant percentage of people involved with screening and selecting job candidates fancy themselves detectives, mind-readers, psychics and psychologists. They’re almost always willing to trust their own gut. But not much else slips unscathed through the scrutiny of these trust deficient evaluators of talent. When this takes place do we end up with a talent…
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Size Doesn’t Matter: Recruiting Technology for Small Business Hiring
As many of you know, Brandon Hall Group launched its first annual Talent Acquisition Benchmark Survey at the start of the year. In the time since, I’ve been slicing and dicing the data – by levels of effectiveness, by industry, and most recently by company size. Across the board, survey respondents indicated hiring better talent is their highest talent…