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A survey of large companies show that firms plan to increase hiring this year. Though they're starting to look outside for talent, hiring managers say it still helps to know someone on the inside.
"When asked about their hiring plans for the coming year, respondents said they plan to increase hiring in the U.S. by 17.5%, compared with 2012. In 2012, they said, they hired 8.6% fewer employees than in 2011. “This is the biggest upswing I’ve seen in ten years,” study author Gerry Crispin said"
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February 28, 2013 RESTON, VA– comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for January 2013 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service.
All three Career Services subcategories ranked among the fastest growing in January, with Job Search sites witnessing the largest increase (24 percent) with 28 million visitors. Indeed.com Job Search ranked #1 in the category with 17.3 million visitors (up 29 percent), followed by CareerBuilder.com Job Search with 9.6 million (up 20 percent), Monster.com Job Search with 9.1 million (up 32 percent) and SimplyHired.com Job Search with 4.7 million (up 40 percent).
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Not getting the qualified candidates you need? Your application process may be to blame. Learn what you can do to stop applicant drop off before it happens.
The truth is, while you might be doing everything right to attract the right job candidates and compel them to apply to your job opportunities, it might just be what happens after they hit “apply now” that’s the source of your troubles.
Research shows that 34 percent of candidates who try to apply for jobs don’t complete the application process – simply because the application process is too much of a hassle".
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Results Releases from Potentialpark's annual research within online recruiting and employer branding.
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The recruiting process is broken, and if we need evidence we only have to look at any job listing.
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Job Descriptions so easy, even a baby can read them
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Not sure how to stand out when writing a job ad? Want top talent but not sure how to get their attention? Read on for seven ways to write a better job description.
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When candidates rate their experience with your recruiting process, are you going to earn one star, or five? It's already happening to staffing firms on Yelp. And it will tip the economics decisively in favor of recruiting teams that invest in great service.
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It’s a user’s world. Forget them, or their desire to have a positive experience, and your business will die. No ads will overcome the wrath of the disspointed user. For the last decade, innovators have improved the user’s publishing tools to give them a voice.
A Harvard research paper suggested that a single one star review on Yelp, shared, can reduce your revenue by 5-9%. Try to get that back with a full page ad. The Social Realm (FB, Twitter, FourSqaure, LI, etc.) is by and for the users. Period. They can kick out, bury or flame any unwelcome voice. The users only like to talk to people. This post does not mention recruiting, but any recruiter reading it will understand, the vast majority of recruiting practices ignore the user's perspective ... at their peril.
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If you’re getting low quality hires, it’s time to realize that the blind and uneducated use of resumes may be a main contributing factor. Resumes are the currency of recruiting. Job sites, recruiters, and hiring managers all require them and use them to screen both prospects and candidates in or out. But if you are going to continue to rely so heavily on resumes, everyone involved needs to be aware of the many weaknesses and problems associated with using them.
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A warning to senior executives of companies across industries: Your recruiters could be repelling your best job applicants. Here's how to fix this problem and attract top talent to your organization.
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The best recruiting organizations do these five things well.
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"Nearly one-third of CareerBuilder.com’s traffic each month comes from mobile devices; however, CareerBuilder tracking shows that as much as 40 percent of mobile candidates abandon the application process when they are notified they are about to encounter a non-mobile friendly apply process.
Companies who are mobile-optimized have a distinct advantage. A recent CareerBuilder survey found that, of the 20 percent of companies who have mobile-optimized career sites, one in five applications come through mobile devices"
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Google owns Android, the most popular mobile operating system on earth. That’s probably not news to you. What may be news, however, is realizing Google has a window into mobile usage that few could...
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Chock full of findings: Job candidates consult nearly 15 resources per job search – including company career sites, Facebook, online job boards, employer review sites (such as Glassdoor.com), professional and personal networks and staffing and recruiting firms – before they even decide to apply to a job.
According the survey, the average job candidate started his or her search 38 weeks ago, and 66 percent of respondents said they thought about looking for a new job within six months before actively searching.
Social, Mobile and Ready for a Challenge Millennials are a very social group, the survey reveals. They are also very vocal about their job search experiences, as 92 percent say they discuss their job search experience with others, both in-person and through social media.
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“The desktop-based U.S. core search market saw its first ever signs of flattening as an increasing number of searches shift to vertical-specific searches and mobile platforms.”
"Nearly 1 in every 3 digital media minutes are now spent on smartphones and tablets as we embark on the post- PC paradigm of this Brave New Digital World. With the majority of mobile content access occurring via apps rather than the mobile web, a new dynamic has emerged among media companies and retailers in their competition for eyeballs and wallets."
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Four lessons from the CIA that can be applied in any workplace.
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You’d think employers hungry for talent would make recruiting easier and more human. But today's job candidates face a pointless obstacle course
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When is the best time to recruit? Ideally you want to be recruiting when lots of good candidates are available, paying attention and willing to talk to you. You also want to be recruiting when yo...
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One of the hardest parts of any executive search is crafting “the pitch.” The pitch is the least understood part of the search process. It is certainly the most poorly executed.
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Have you been following the continuing foolishness about whether Facebook or LinkedIn are the ‘best’ place for recruiting? It’s as if those pundits have not begun to grasp social media. Candidates don’t congregate where you want them to; they are in the places that are comfortable to them The days of recruiting by shooting fish in a barrel have been gone for a while now. Recruiting is a mostly local sport that is won in the trenches on a case by case basis. The technology and the demographics have changed the game.
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According to Glassdoor, “67% of employees say that they found their new job different than the expectations set in the interview.” This suggests that recruiters and their companies are not particularly trustworthy. If you haven’t noticed, the vast majority of employers don’t even bother to try to be the Best Place to Work. (And, you often have to squint and look in just the right way to believe that the “Best Places to Work” actually are.) Many employers have workforce problems that can’t stand the light of day. Social media will make life hard for them by introducing transparency into places that used to be very well hidden.
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Candidate experience relates to how a company handles the recruitment, interview and hiring dance and influences everything that follows. For today’s social-media empowered candidate, it’s not trivial to pan a company for a bad candidate or work experience. Sites like Glassdoor.com provide the tools to strike back at a former employer or critique a prospective employer’s hiring process. That’s why it’s more important than ever for HR and hiring executives to manage the candidate experience very closely.
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