Category: Blog articles
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Is Your Application Process a Chore?
In today’s competitive job market it’s hard enough to catch the attention of top talent, let alone turn them into job applicants. You need an engaging website, buzzing social platforms, to-die-for job ads and an employer brand that has candidates falling over themselves to apply. You can have all of this and more but it’ll…
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Top 6 Interview Tips
At some point in their careers most managers or HR members make the transition from their regular duties to interviewing, and just like a first date it can take a few times before you get over those jitters. For those of you who are still getting used to it, here are our top 6 interview…
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The Right Choice of Candidate
There are some positions out there that just aren’t easy to fill – weeks and months can go by and somehow the right candidate just won’t appear. You’ve tried every marketing tactic there is, posted on all of the mainstream job boards, shouted about it from the rooftops, and still nada. It’s just not happening.…
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Recruiting Passive Candidates
In the business world, passive recruitment is by no means a new phenomenon. It’s well known that sometimes the best employees are those who need chasing, and more often than not passive candidates are desirable because they are already performing a role that a recruiter needs to fill. They may need a little more persuasion…
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Crazy Candidate Tactics
A couple of weeks ago we posted an article on Impossible Interview Questions, some of the brainteasers that have been reported over the last year were just outright bizarre and quite honestly, made you feel a bit sorry for the poor candidate in the interview seat. This week however, we’re going to take a look…
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Hiring Employees Who Stay
For most companies a new employee is an investment that takes time and resources to obtain, and naturally employers want their new hires to be in it for the long run to make it worth their while. However statistics show that the average staying power of an employee has dramatically lowered in recent years, and…
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How to Engage Your Employees
In a recent Gallup study figures showed that over 52% of American workers are “not engaged” with their work, indicating that under half of the entire American workforce aren’t actually committed to their jobs. With studies proving that engaged workers have significantly higher productivity, less sick leave and far fewer safety accidents than their less-committed…
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Top 5 Hiring Tips
With so many job seekers in today’s job market it ought to be easy to find the right candidate for a role, but for some employers it can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Luckily there are some sure fire ways that recruiters can ensure they end up hiring the right employee.…
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HR Suite or Recruiting Software: a guide for businesses
The choice between an HR suite and a software for recruiting lacks both the emotional pathos and the philosophical depth of the famous “To Be or Not To Be” monologue from Hamlet. However, this decision can be a decisive factor for the success of your recruitment efforts. On one side there is a holistic HR…
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Recruiting in startups: tipps for hiring rockstars with only little budget at hand
A groundbreaking idea, a limited budget, a non-exisiting brand awareness and missing people that push on the idea to success. This situation is the same in most of the startups in their early stages. When a few (or even just one) have a groundbreaking idea and would like to start their own business, there are…
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The perfect job advertisement
Who is still publishing job ads in print media? Right, scarcely anybody. The nearly unlimited scope of online job boards substituted print media as efficient posting channel for already quite a while now. However the job ads still look like they were designed for the pre-digital world. As follow up to our session at the…
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Candidate experience & technology: It’s all about the human being
Technology is great, it facilitates several everyday tasks and speeds up uncountable processes – it starts with your laundry and continues with your applicant tracking system. We at softgarden love the technological advance so much that we completely dedicated ourselves to it. Our passion is a recruiting software which solves recruiters‘ problems they haven’t been…