Category: Magazine
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The Modern Day Recruitment Industry
Since the first emails began to do the rounds in the mid 1990’s job adverts gradually began their transition from the newspaper and into the world wide web. Over the last decade the recruitment industry has lept from 100% printed media advertisements, to a mere 20% today. Not only are today’s job ads radically more…
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Multi Posting
Multi Posting When professionally done, the search for top talent and the process of filling vacancies can cost an employer a considerable amount of man-hours and monetary expense. Job advertisements must be conscientiously written in order to be posted to jobs boards, social media platforms and the employer website. According to the recent study „Recruiting…
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Rejection letter: How you can still be remembered positively
No applicant likes to hear „no“ and most HR decision-makers don’t find it easy to write a rejection letter either. It’s easy to reach for the run-of-the-mill standard text such as „Unfortunately, we have to inform you that we have decided in favor of another candidate“, but in most cases, recruiters are not doing themselves…
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Candidate market 2024 in care: High expectations and optimism despite the crisis
Our study shows: Nursing applicants see themselves at an advantage in 2024 and expect more from employers. Find out how you as an employer can still stand out in the candidate market and attract the best nurses.
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Zappos: Proving The Power Employer Branding
Zappos, the online shoe and clothing shop, recently made waves in the recruitment world by announcing that they’re not going to post job ads anymore. According to Zappos, they don’t need to advertise positions because they already have a pipeline of talent sitting on their doorstep. From now on, Zappos plan to use strategic talent…
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6 Little Known Uses of Social Media in HR
It’s no secret that social media is widely used in modern recruitment but it may mean we’re overlooking other areas of HR where it could be equally as beneficial. Researchers over at BLR examined how human resource professionals are using social media and discovered some interesting results, for example do you give your staff public…
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Unsolicited Applications, Are You Making the Most of Them?
When it comes to finding your next employee it generally pays to be prepared. More often than not, the need for a new hire crops up when it’s least expected i.e. when a key employee decides to leave with a few weeks notice. However, a little foresight can make the difference between a long hard…
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Talent Pool
In general, a talent pool can be described as a collection of potential candidate profiles (also referred to as talent) compiled by recruiters to create a pool of qualified candidates for future positions.
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E-Recruiting: Communication with Generation Y
How do you best attract the generation Y a.k.a. digital natives for your recruiting process? The generation Y grew up in the digital era and therefore there are a lot of things they do not question anymore but take them as normal. Here you find some information about what the digital natives take for granted,…
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Employee Selection
Employee selection processes and techniques When it comes to employee selection the decision making process can often be long and arduous but picking the right person for the job is essential to the future success of your company, and therefore worth investing your time in. Before advertising the position it is important to do a…
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Applicant management – definition, goals & tasks
Efficient applicant management helps companies to find and hire qualified candidates faster. In this article, we show you how to optimize your processes.
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Edit your job postings and candidates profiles
Did you miss something in the job description? Things happen… We just released a softgarden update that now allows you to edit your job opening after you have posted it – main exception is the job title. Modify your requirements, correct mistakes or add information. With one click you can repost all of your changes…