Category: Recruiting Products

  • 3 Software Solutions to Streamline Performance Reviews

    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.…

  • Think Job Boards Are Dead? Think Again.

    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…

  • Zipwhip: Mobile Recruiting Made Simple With SMS

    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…

  • The Top 5 Tools Every Recruiter Needs To Succeed

    The Top 5 Tools Every Recruiter Needs To Succeed

    First there were conferences, then there were blogs, followed by apps and today we’re sharing the 5 Tools Everyone in the Recruitment Industry Should Be Using. And yes, that does include recruiters, sourcers, researchers, HR professionals, directors, hiring mangers – everyone. We’ve compiled a list of the online recruitment tools we find most useful when it comes to performing…

  • Mom and Pop Shop: A Tech Checklist for Your Grandparents

    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…

  • How To Spot A Lazy Recruiter on LinkedIn

    How To Spot A Lazy Recruiter on LinkedIn

    RECRUITERS – admit it: have you ever sent a LinkedIn connection request to a cold candidate and inside that little 200-character message box told them you may have a job opportunity they’d be interested in? Yes, of course you have. Yet again this week, I received LinkedIn connection requests where the recruiter was so lazy and…

  • The Big ‘But’: Trust & Talent Acquisition

    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…

  • Best Represent: Entelo Diversity, Bigotry and Big Data

    Best Represent: Entelo Diversity, Bigotry and Big Data

    Sure, only 47% of the American workforce over the age of 16 are women (a gender disparity that’s been gradually closing over the past decade), but you wouldn’t know that from the looks of your average HR department. There’s a reason we often refer to the profession, collectively, as HR ladies (see left, coming soon in…

  • The Five Elements of A High Performing Sourcing Strategy

    The Five Elements of A High Performing Sourcing Strategy

    Of all the stages of talent acquisition, sourcing is perhaps the most dynamic – and this is evident in how rapidly the use cases for sourcing technology are evolving and changing. The emergence of social technology has had an especially profound impact. The Source Stage is the culmination of all efforts to find and engage…

  • Size Doesn’t Matter: Recruiting Technology for Small Business Hiring

    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…