Candidate Engagement

Continuous Candidate Engagement: The Key to Successful Recruiting

If your HR department is using an outdated recruitment strategy, you could be losing top talent to the competition. Today’s recruiting process is all about candidate engagement. Your company needs a new strategy to ensure that communication is continuous and gives applicants a positive impression of what it’s like to work for you. What Makes…

Ways to Make a Good Impression in the Recruiting Process

In an effort to attract, engage, and land top talent, many employers are looking to improve their company’s reputation as an excellent employer—and that means providing a good candidate experience before, during, and at the end of the recruitment process. According to research, 84% of job seekers say the reputation of a company is important…

5 Ways to Engage Candidates at Every Stage of the Recruiting Process

It’s no surprise to today’s recruiters that talent acquisition is increasingly difficult — with low unemployment rates and a record-breaking number of unfilled jobs, we’re undoubtedly in a job seeker’s market. When candidates have their veritable pick of the litter when it comes to jobs, it’s up to you to differentiate your organization so that…

Transform Your Recruiting Process with Continuous Engagement

Candidate engagement includes all interactions with candidates throughout the hiring process. Today’s candidates are shopping around for jobs and influencing how companies communicate. When you’re looking to attract top talent, you need to go beyond standard procedures and embrace continuous engagement. A New Paradigm for Recruiting During a routine hiring process, communication is often sporadic.…

Start Anywhere: 4 Candidate-centric Recruiting Strategies to Reduce Time to Fill

The recruiting world is changing. Candidates expect to engage where they live – on their mobile devices and through whatever channel they’re currently engaged with, from video to chat platforms to social media networks. But it’s not just about the channel; it’s about the approach. Candidates expect fast, personalized, one-on-one communication that mirrors authentic conversation.…

Requirements for a Continuous Candidate Engagement Strategy

When it comes to attracting—and keeping—top talent, it’s a jungle out there. With near perfect unemployment, candidates have more choices and are increasingly in control; they choose you, not vice versa. As we talked about in last month’s blog, The New Model for Modern Recruiting: Continuous Candidate Engagement™, the recruitment model of the past, which…

The New Model for Modern Recruiting: Continuous Candidate Engagement

Talent is the lifeblood of your company, but there’s not enough of it. Chances are you’re already feeling the impact of a declining workforce, not to mention mounting pressure to communicate in new ways that will appeal to Millennial and Gen Z candidates. And it’s not getting any easier. According to the 2017 Recruiter Nation…

What is the Difference Between Candidate Experience and Candidate Engagement?

Looking back on 2017, the big buzzword in recruiting was ‘candidate experience’—and rightly so. In this hyper-competitive market for skilled talent, that’s the right conversation to be having. The days of ‘post and pray’ are long gone and candidates are in control. Forward-thinking talent acquisition executives and recruiting pros need to think more broadly and…

What to Know About Submitting Resumes to Applicant Tracking Systems

Applicant tracking systems are here to stay: some surveys put the number of companies using them at 75% or higher. Applicant tracking systems provide an immense help in all aspects of talent acquisition and recruiting. The first step, where job applicants will encounter them, is in the entry-level task of reading resumes. While these systems…

11 Red Flags to Watch for During an Interview

Interviewing is a fine art. Some questions, answers, and strategies are straight-forward, while other aspects of meeting with job candidates are more nuanced. Sometimes an answer or attitude sends up a huge red flag. Other times a comment or omission that seems insignificant can have much bigger impact, and it’s important to know what to…