In today’s competitive job market, a strong employer brand is crucial for attracting and retaining top talent. An employer brand represents how your company is perceived by potential and current employees. It’s the image that comes to mind when they think about working for your organization. But how do you formulate an employer brand that …
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Employer Branding – The Key to a Talent Pipeline
Introduction The process of attracting and retaining the best talent in today’s market goes beyond competitive salaries and traditional recruitment methods. It delves into the realm of effective employer branding – how your company is viewed by prospective employees – that tells a story of why employees would want to work for you, especially in …
Building an Effective Talent Pipeline: Strategies for Long-Term Success
Introduction: In the realm of strategic talent acquisition, building an effective talent pipeline is a key component that can significantly influence the long-term success of any organization. Moving beyond the reactive nature of traditional recruitment, a well-structured talent pipeline ensures a steady flow of qualified candidates, ready to step into roles as they arise. …
Strategic Talent Acquisition vs Recruitment
Introduction: In the dynamic world of human resources, the evolution of talent acquisition stands out as a pivotal transformation. Gone are the days when hiring was just about filling vacancies. Today, talent acquisition is a strategic approach, aligned with an organization’s long-term goals and deeply integrated into its growth and success. This evolution from traditional …
Welcome to Our New Series: Talent Acquisition Insights for 2024
Happy New Year! As 2024 begins, we find ourselves at the forefront of an evolving workplace and the increasingly strategic realm of Talent Acquisition. This year marks the launch of an insightful new series of articles, leveraging my 20 years of experience in Talent Acquisition and Recruiting. This series aims to provide business owners, HR …
Inside Tips: How to Create an Interview Process That Lands Top Talent
The interview process makes or breaks your ability to hire top talent. Too many interviews and drawn out decision-making drives away quality candidates. But move too fast and you risk bad hires. Walk this tightrope successfully by following these inside tips: • Set SLAs for each interview stage and stick to them. Don’t leave candidates …
Evaluating your Recruiting Agency
Does Your Recruiter Really Understand Your Needs? Not all recruiters are created equal. The best go beyond just submitting candidate resumes and really aim to grasp your specific hiring needs. But how can you assess if a recruiter gets your role requirements, company culture and challenges? Ask these key questions: • How will you source …
Decoding the Latest Job Market Statistics: What’s Ahead for Hiring in 2023?
The job market is showing signs of cooling off from the red-hot conditions of 2021-2022. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveals declines in both job openings and quit rates. What do these trends signal about the state of hiring as we head into the latter half of 2023? In this post, …
How to Keep Your Best Employees
Stop losing your best employees As a recruiter, I speak to hundreds of people looking to change jobs every month. Based on thousands of conversations, patterns emerge. Happy employees generally don’t look for new jobs, but you can keep your best employees and avoid the costs and business disruptions caused by them quitting. Most employees …
It’s Still a Tight Hiring Market
With large tech companies announcing layoffs and the Fed continuing to tighten, the narrative has been focused on a pending recession in the US. But employment numbers keep coming in higher than expected. What’s going on? With unemployment rates pushing lower than they’ve been in almost 50 years, the labor market has fully recovered from …