5 Ways to Avoid “Crapplications”

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My head of TA friend Marnie (name changed to protect her identity) told me this before agreeing to do business together: “Rob, I want more pipeline, but the last thing I want are more “crapplications”. By “crapplications”, Marnie meant that she didn’t want crappy (low-quality) applications. Crappy applications are often worse than having no applications at… Read more »

Tips For Recruiting Qualified Engineers & Developers

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Qualified engineers and developers are high in demand and low in supply, making them a very valuable asset. This puts your company in direct recruiting competition with every other company across the spectrum from start-ups to medium-sized to giant name-brand corporations. The desperation for employers to recruit and hire qualified engineers and developers turns the… Read more »

Layoffs: One Company’s Trash Is Another’s Recruiting Treasure

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If you’re a company that heavily relies on engineering and sales talent, keep an eye on companies who are downsizing (laying off people).    In late 2015 Twitter decided on a big layoff estimated at about 8 percent of its workforce, with particular emphasis on product and engineering departments. This sparked a huge hiring frenzy in… Read more »

Top Job Application Sources For Employers

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Earlier this week we showed you a pie graph of the top traffic sources that referred candidates to Ongig’s clients’ job descriptions. Now we’ll take a look at the last month of our clients’ job application sources (referring sources that lead to a job apply). Here are the top sources:

Top Job Traffic Sources to Employer’s Job Descriptions

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We took a look at the last month of traffic sources who referred candidates to Ongig’s clients’ job descriptions. Here is a pie chart of the top sources:   You might also want to take a look at the top job application traffic sources. [starbox]

Is Your Recruiting Process Broken?

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“Our recruiting process is broken”. I’m hearing this more and more from Talent Leaders lately. It’s usually a comment made made out of frustration. Many companies execute most of the recruiting process very well, yet nearly all employers have at least some glaring deficiencies. Here are 6 parts of the recruiting process to examine to see… Read more »

The Top 14 Job Boards in India Driving Applications

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Many of you are beginning to hire in India and the job boards/aggregators there might be new to you. If so, you may want to look at the 14 sites below — they were the leading sources of application clicks to Ongig clients over the period of May 1 through June 22nd. Much of the traffic… Read more »