There are an endless amount of metrics recruiters can use to determine whether they are recruiting effectively or not, such as referrals per call or email conversion rate.
But for those that don’t have the time to measure every little thing, here are the top 5 metrics to measure the success of your recruiting process: Read the rest of this entry »
In just over a month, we’ll be hosting our Global Conference for NPAworldwide members. This is our first event of the year, but we’ve got a busy calendar with events happening all over the world. While a primary goal of all of our meetings is to enhance networking and relationship-building among our members, professional development is also in the mix. Since I have conferences on the brain AND am always looking for great training, here is a list of recruitment skills you may want to sharpen: Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks back, we attended a webinar by Dave Baker of the Palmetto Leadership Center called “Human Resources & Corporate Recruiter Relationships,” which was an overview of assessments, effectively coaching clients and candidates, and tips for recruiters from a corporate HR manufacturing perspective.
Working with HR people in the field can present several challenges – one of which Baker noted is having an objective assessment to remove the interviewing bias. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you recently hired, or are planning to hire, a new recruiter? I stumbled upon a thorough glossary of terms that is a useful addition to your recruiter training program. Published by Qualigence International, The ULTIMATE Recruiter Handbook defines more than 150 terms that are frequently used within recruitment. Many of the terms are quite basic, so this is probably best-suited to recruiters who are brand-new to the business. The glossary is somewhat US-centric. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it is valuable to compare your business or your plans to recruitment benchmarks. HR Magazine published some stats from the Society of Human Resource Management 2016 Human Capital Benchmarking Report that are excellent measures of what employers, candidates and recruiters might experience in the workplace. Items like costs to hire, tenure and span of control were addressed in the report. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s guest blogger is Bill Benson with WilliamCharles Search Group located in Grand Rapids, MI. WilliamCharles is an executive search and professional recruiting firm specialized in finding managerial and executive talent in finance, HR, operations, sales/marketing as well as president/CEO roles. They have a concentration of clients in Michigan but they also work across the US. Bill is the secretary/treasurer of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors. In this post, Bill shares some tips for new recruiters that he wishes he’d learned earlier in his career!
Do you sometimes wish you could go back in time and apply what you know now? I’m not talking about high school dating! Let’s help the newer readers in the audience by sharing some tips for new recruiters. Here are a few of mine: Read the rest of this entry »
Hundreds of thousands of IT jobs go unfilled every year, because demand for talent exceeds the supply. The challenge in IT hiring is often that recruiters need to find candidates with both the talent AND the personality to thrive in the role – they want someone who will fit culturally.
So what does a recruiter do when they have a ton of job orders to fill, but their candidate well has run dry? This article describes a solution that is on the rise with tech firms – hiring veterans. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent Staffing Industry Review article listed the top criteria buyers use when evaluating recruitment suppliers. It is no surprise that the top items on the list of criteria are worker quality, speed, service/quality and cost. Others that made the list were geographic coverage, relationship focus, skills breadth, and industry knowledge, to list just a few. Read the rest of this entry »
Today’s guest blogger is Rick Maré with JXT. Rick is the founder and CEO of JXT, the number one provider of cloud-based digital marketing solutions for recruiters and corporate recruiters. Rick has coached thousands of recruiters, empowering them to take their businesses and careers to the next level. Connect with Rick on LinkedIn.
Here at JXT we work with a large number of recruitment agencies. Over time, what I’ve noticed is that some decide to invest in a new website then leave it there, whilst others kick on and continue refining and tweaking their online footprint. Although both of these groups have a recruitment website that looks and feels world-class, more often than not the second group’s digital results will far outstrip the others. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s the end of the third quarter (wow, this year is *flying* by!), which means there has been a lot of recruitment news being shared. In case you missed them, here is a round-up of some of the recent headlines:
Effective November 1, 2016, Randstad announced the completion of its acquisition of Monster Worldwide for US $429 million. As a result, Monster Worldwide is no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Monster will continue to operate under its own name, as a separate and independent entity. Read the rest of this entry »