Category: Magazine
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The basics for setting up a great career website: part 1
The career website is the key element of your recruiting strategy. Different surveys show that a career website is essential for getting in touch with high potential candidates. And still there are career websites which should get more than a face lift. Therefore we have some basics for you how to optimise your career website…
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The career site as the main gate to your applicant tracking system
When we take a look at recruiting innovations such as social recruiting, mobile recruiting etc. some of us become dizzy. Every month there is a new recruiting innovation on the horizon with the mission to solve all recruiting problems at once. But the main question is still which information and communication channels do the candidates…
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How candidates and recruiting software become friends
Everybody knows the battle between candidates and recruiting software! You fill out endless application forms just to realise in the middle that the system didn’t save your data! We do not close our eyes to reality but we are still trying to make the online recruiting world a little better! The german blog Karrierebibel just…
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Use the full potential of your applicant tracking system – some advices
Do you remember back in the days driving a car without a navigation system? It was ok if you knew the way, but shame on you if not. 😉Nowedays your navigation system knows the easiest way to your destination which makes driving much more comfortable and efficient, don’t you think?!? So why don’t you use…
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Automatic reminder for your candidates
New information technologies provide a huge range of possibilities to get reminded about things on your to-do list. Since the introduction of the iPhone, push-messages have become ubiquitous. So why don’t we use such useful messages during the recruiting process? Let’s get to the point! Surely you put a lot of effort in your online…
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Fight your time-to-hire!
Not finding the right candidate for the required starting date is a big problem within recruiting. We admit that a professional recruiting software cannot guarantee that the required deadline is met but we are sure that it can reduce the time-to-hire enormously. The main reason for missing the deadline is that many different people are…
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Email chaos: now like water under the bridge
Do you have documents from your candidates scattered in different e-mails? It’s normal for candidates to not send their complete documents with the first e-mail: in many cases something is missing which means that you or your HR associates have to ask for it. Out of this situation the problem arises that many documents are…
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Central data storage within the recruiting process
E-recruiting systems provide you with an overview of the entire recruiting process. In practice, it happens that many documents belonging to a single candidate are scattered in different mails and folders. It quickly becomes complicated if you have to sort through documents and messages to store them in one main folder so that other people…
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Smoothly integrated job board on your career website
We already wrote about the career website before. Nowadays companies still invest a lot of money in their career websites and ignore the importance of the job board which is integrated in the career website. Therefore we now would like to discuss why the job board and the career website are so often separated. Let’s…
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Looking for a job at your company should be easy
Put yourself in a candidate’s position. You are looking for a job and are searching different websites for interesting vacancies. You find an exciting company and you click through the complicated criteria list. Very often you have to choose criteria which do not really suit you. At the end, you are get a message saying…
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Recruiting Experience: It’s worth it to change perspectives
Although the war for talent is an ongoing topic in the human resource department, the topic of e-recruiting is still neglected. The authors of the current study „Recruiting Trends 2011“ note that online application forms and applicant management systems can reduce processing time and cost per application. Employers that pay more attention to this aspect…