The reason for including hiring manager recruitment videos on your job description is easy. It helps your job description stand out and gives transparency to the candidate (something all candidates (especially millennials) tell us they value). Here are a few easy tips for creating hiring manager videos: 1) Make the Video Less than 60 Seconds… Read more »
Every one of you has a free recruiting ad at your disposal: your LinkedIn profile. The best candidates are looking for every extra piece of info about your recruiters, managers and company they can get their hands on! Here are 3 easy ways to treat your LinkedIn profile like a recruiting billboard. 1) Experience Section… Read more »
Workday has risen to become one of the top applicant tracking systems for enterprise employers. However, If you’re one of these many Workday clients (like Walmart, McKesson, Target) you’ll need to customize your Workday career/job pages to really make them sing. Enter: Job page overlays (aka CSS overlays). It’s a solution you can integrate with Workday… Read more »
Job ads are becoming more creative and dynamic. Employers are giving more robust content on job descriptions rather than just listing requirements and qualifications. Here are some features we’re seeing in job ads that were hardly used just a few years ago (all of these features are possible through Ongig’s Branded Candidate Experience Software) :… Read more »
Audra Knight recently recommended you treat your job description like a “mini career site“. For many employers, more candidates will land on your job pages before they see your front door career page, because they are coming from sources like job boards or LinkedIn. And if they don’t like what they see on your job… Read more »
Here’s a list of top upcoming Human Resources, Talent Acquisition and Recruiting conferences, events and expos of 2018. We’ll update this as new conferences and dates are announced. Social Recruiting Strategies Conference (Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in San Francisco, CA) Future of recruiting with AI Cool and new tools for recruiting in 2018 Driving… Read more »
Wow, I just listened to this podcast interview of the self-proclaimed “Employment Brand Boundary Breaker” Audra Knight (her real title is Recruitment Operations Manager for Tenable Network Security). And a shout-out to TA/Innovation consultant Matt Alder of the Recruiting Future Podcast who interviewed her — I enjoyed your interview style and am now checking out your other… Read more »
iCIMS is a top 10 applicant tracking system in market share for employers. If you are an iCIMS ATS client (like Microsoft, General Mills, Foot Locker) you’ll need to customize your iCIMS career/job pages to really make them awesome. So let’s talk about iCIMS job page overlays. What is Job Page/CSS Overlay for iCIMS? A… Read more »
Formatting is a top priority in job description writing because formatting affects readability which impacts the candidate experience. Making a job description easier to read exponentially increases the probability of a job seeker reading the entire job description — and that increases the chance of an apply. Note: Check out our free Job Descriptions Guide — it… Read more »
There’s a big disconnect between what candidates and employers think is important, according to the Hinge Research Institute’s Employer Branding Study, a survey of 800+ professionals. They split up the audience into 2 camps: Talent-Evaluators (aka Employers): Professionals involved in their firm’s recruiting and hiring process. This group responded to questions about how they search for and… Read more »
The Talent Management Alliance puts on a handful of talent, people, and recruiting conferences every year. Last week was the 2017 Talent Acquisition Summit which covered the following topics: Employer Branding Best Employer branding tools Employer branding strategy Recruiting and Sourcing Strategy Sourcing high quality talent Internal mobility strategies Employee referral programs Streamlining and Automation… Read more »
Make sure to avoid these 5 common mistakes on your career site — doing so will vastly improve your digital candidate experience: 1) No Category and Location Pages (Candidate Experience) If you could make the job search easier for a candidate, wouldn’t you? You’d be surprised how many companies, large and small, don’t have department and/or location specific… Read more »
According to Google Trends, Employer Branding interest has tripled over the last decade. Roles have been reversed in the recruiting world. Now the employer is the seller and the candidate is the buyer, forcing employer’s to explore new ways to engage candidates. One of these new ways is Employer Branding, the process of presenting a… Read more »
Job descriptions are evolving and turning into a one-stop shop for candidates; giving them as much information as possible to make the decision to apply or not. A key aspect of any job description/opening is location. We’re not talking about listing the city and state in the job req title, but actually providing a map… Read more »
Indeed Interactive 2017, one of the top talent acquisition conferences of the year, just concluded. Here are some top #IndeedInteractive tweets including valuable insight and data on the current outlook of the talent acquisition industry. There’s gold in these, enjoy! Think of candidates as consumers and focus your job postings more on selling them the… Read more »
