Despite the recession, recruiting remains an important activity for HR professionals. Survey results found that 39.4 percent of respondents’ HR departments spend 11 percent to 25 percent of their time on recruiting; 19 percent spend 26 percent to 49 percent of their time on this activity. Slightly under a third (32.4 percent) invest 10 percent [...]
I expect that anyone reading this article already understands the necessity of running background checks on applicants during the recruitment process… However it is just as important to have policies and procedures in place to perform annual background checks on current employees to continue to protect your organization.
A couple of weeks ago, I was providing some interview coaching for an Ivy college Junior. He is searching for a summer internship on where else? Wall Street. This isn’t exactly open season for hiring in Financial Services, so he has to have every edge over the competition. After explaining that interviewers are often tough, I began a series of questions that “searched for limitations”. One of them, “Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss” led to a response I hadn’t been counting on.
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Recruiters today are being pulled in more directions and being asked to do more with less and at the same time being asked to demonstrate their value to their organization and clients.
That is why the understanding of how metrics are best used to demonstrate the value of recruitment within the organization is becoming even more important now.
This webinar featured exclusive results from Tarsus Group plc in corporation with Sumner Grace & Associates recruiting metrics research that determine how, leading organizations synthesize data to make it meaningful to the organization.
To anyone reading this who has a child, nephew, niece, friend or acquaintance contemplating a legal career I have a suggestion: consider immigration law. Why immigration over other areas of legal practice? Recruiters familiar with international employment trends can no doubt supply one answer.
Work force planning is a vital process to help organizations ensure that they have the right "buy, build, or borrow" strategy for talent. In the first two articles in the Getting Started with Strategic Work Force Planning series, we discussed how to begin a work force planning effort by organizing and supporting the team, and how to establish and embed the process. In this final article, we will discuss best practices for developing the tools and techniques that enable effective strategic work force planning. The findings and examples are derived from APQC’s 2009 Collaborative Research study, "Strategic Work Force Planning: Anticipating and Filling Talent Gaps."
My hunch is that most companies have started to use social networks for their recruiting, but it is most likely happening more by accident than strategy. Recruiters are setting up their own personal profiles – rather than corporate accounts – and manually building their contact networks using the social sites to source candidates and market their jobs by tweeting, wall posting, or sending group updates with each job requisition.
Register to view this recorded webinar as we explore some of the latest strategies and approaches being utilized today–from simulation and resume–aligned interviews to leveraging EQ and psychological assessments, to video and Skype. It’s a chance to learn how to hone your interview process so that you get the best possible ROI on your investment of time and resources.
You may, or may not know that the adoption of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) provides the means to alleviate unnecessary expenses currently embedded within the hiring process. An ATS can also greatly streamline the hiring process, multiply the efforts of a small recruitment staff, and give valuable performance feedback to managers.