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3 Tips to Better Manage Multiple Candidates

When high quality talent is scarce, finding several qualified candidates for one job opening is like hitting the Mega Millions jackpot. Yet even when you are lucky enough to find several compatible IT professionals for one role, that luck presents its own challenges. Hiring processes run longer and candidate falloffs increase. However, recruiters can bypass … Continued

Texting Candidates Will Streamline Your Recruitment Process

How common is it for you to text a candidate verses sending them an e-mail? Is it normal for you to send a text or does it seem out of place?  If you aren’t regularly texting candidates, you may be missing out on a big opportunity to streamline your recruitment process!  95% of texts are … Continued

How Recruiting Software Automation Frees Recruiters to Place Candidates

Identifying high-quality candidates is a time consuming process. Investigating referrals, social media, and job boards diverts recruiters from where their efforts matter most: in candidate interactions and submissions. Those routine candidate sourcing duties squander the creativity and intelligence of a recruiting team on robotic tasks. Recruiting software automation empowers recruiters to focus on productive tasks … Continued

How Your Staffing Software Solution Wins Candidates’ Trust

Candidates have a choice about which staffing firm represents them. Every touch point with your company does one of two things: convinces candidates to trust you or to move their search elsewhere. Your recruiters are obviously part of that equation, but what about your staffing software solution? You better believe it. When the staffing experience … Continued

Goodbye Dud Candidate, Hello Stellar Recruit!

How to recruit stellar candidates! EVERYONE has trouble recruiting good candidates.  Where are they?  Where did they go?  How do you find them?  That’s the million-dollar question that all recruiters find themselves asking at one point or another.  There are four key denominators, however, that can help you get rid of the dud candidates and … Continued

Write Better Recruiting Emails that Candidates Will Respond To

Recruiting emails and messaging are usually the ice breaker in contacting and connecting with candidates. However, many emails go unnoticed. How can recruiters tailor the perfect email with a high response rate? If you’re looking for a a straight forward solution, or an easy fix, this is not the blog post for you. This blog post … Continued

8 Strategies for Building Talent Pipelines in a Changing Market

Where will you find your next great candidate? That’s a question that’s getting increasingly difficult to answer. Continued talent shortages and a staffing industry that is growing 2.5 times faster than the U.S. economy are changing the market for good. Keeping talent pools plentiful will require greater ingenuity from recruiters and even wider funnels to … Continued

The Dos and Don’ts of CRM Recruiting

Most companies and staffing organizations have internal databases filled with rich and actionable information on thousands of applicants, candidates, and professionals. You would think that this private internal database of people that an organization has tactically and strategically collected over the years would be viewed as a prized possession. However, most agencies have are not … Continued

How to Ensure Candidates Don’t Get Lost in Your Database

I just found an applicant in my database that I could have placed a month ago? How can I make sure candidates do not get lost in my database? There is nothing more frustrating than losing opportunities that you could have won. In order to minimize this lost business make sure that you can find … Continued

Keep Up With Internet Savvy Clients and Candidates

In speaking with some college grads you may hear, “Let me follow your Twitter® for a while so I can see what types of jobs you offer”. When that happens does a “thinking cloud” appear above your head that says, “Follow me on Twitter®? I don’t post jobs on Twitter®! What do I say?” How … Continued