Are you prepared for the hiring season?

Whether you are a B2B or a B2C, you want to be prepared for your busy hiring season. Here are a few simple tips: 1. Employee Referrals: Take advantage of employee referrals. You get great results developing ways for current employees to recommend new hires. Who better to understand the culture and work load than…

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How to Engage Managers in the Hiring Process

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Help managers take an active role in finding new employees The hiring process is full of possibility. There’s the possibility of gaining a talented new employee who works well with the team—and the possibility of uncomfortable discrepancy between HR departments and hiring managers about who the new employee should be. In some hiring scenarios, HR…

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Avoid the Catch-22 of Collaborative Hiring

Get the value of a collaborative hiring process without the HR management burden Recruiting and hiring has a lot of moving parts — applications, screenings, background checks, interviews — the list goes on, and because of new trends in HR it’s getting longer. Then add to this mountain of work even more responsibility, as HR…

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NEW! ApplicantStack – Stack Overflow Careers

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ApplicantStack and Stack Overflow have now integrated. June 10, 2015 – Stack Overflow is the most active community of software developers on the Internet. ApplicantStack and Stack Overflow have now integrated allowing you access to this pool of software developers by posting your job listings to Stack Overflow Careers.  When you post to Stack Overflow Career…

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Are Your Clients Happy With You? 4 Simple Ways Staffing Agencies Can Build Better Client-Agency Relationships.

4 Simple Ways Staffing Agencies Can Build Better Client-Agency Relationships

Are your clients happy with you? Let’s face it, the recruitment business is about building relationships. As a recruiter for a staffing agency, building good relationships means increased business and client trust, so you want to make sure you’re doing all you can to make your clients happy. If you’re a staffing agency that’s experiencing strained…

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New Feature! Post Jobs on Dice.com

ApplicantStack is excited to announce the ability to post to Dice.com through your job’s Launch Tab. To start using this new feature you will need a paid Dice.com posting account. Any administrator can set this up by going to the Setup menu in the top right corner and then click job boards. Click Edit Settings…

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HR Etiquette: How to Tell Candidates They Didn’t Get the Job.

As an applicant, we’ve all been there – applying for a job, then waiting anxiously by the phone while compulsively checking email, hoping for a status update on where we stand in the hiring process. For applicants, sometimes the hardest part of the process isn’t hearing the bad news that they Didn’t Get the Job…

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What Defines the “Best” in Applicant Tracking Software?

When choosing software, many companies want to know – who’s the best? Unfortunately for the shopping end-user, all vendors claim to be the best so you’re left figuring out for yourself which system truly is the best. Here’s what you should be looking for: Efficiency. When choosing a new applicant tracking software system, or evaluating…

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Is Your Hiring Process “Scaring” People?

OK, “Scaring” might be a little intense, but some hiring processes aren’t that far off. With multiple interviews, lack of communication, and lengthy online applications processes – applicants will actually avoid filling out applications with companies if they’re too time consuming, cumbersome, or don’t receive a response within an appropriate time frame. So why are these…

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Recruitment Tools to Improve Your ROI

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How can a potential applicant look at available careers at your company? What recruitment tools do you have in place to track your applicants? Your recruitment management system should make it easy for qualified people to find and apply for jobs. The Careers Page Applicants are looking for your careers page, so don’t hide it…

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