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  • Employers - Is it Time to Throw Away the Resume and Perform Blind Interviews?

    • Feb 4, 2016
    • Roger Lear

    According to from Bersin by Deloitte, US companies are spending an average of $4,000 in cost per hire in 2015. That is expensive especially when your hire doesn’t work out. It may be time to consider doing some blind interviewing.

  • Posting Jobs in 2016 and Getting Great Results

    • Nov 30, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    If all companies and recruiters had one wish it would be to make all job seekers and job curious use only one exclusive job board when seeking employment. It used to be that way in the Sunday Newspaper classifieds before the internet. If your jobs were not in the Sunday paper, you would not get any candidates except for internal referrals. On top of that, if you had an opening on Monday, you would not be able to advertise that opening until Sunday. Not very effective.

  • Top Three Reasons Why a Long Hiring Process is Rea

    Top Three Reasons Why a Long Hiring Process is Really Bad

    • Sep 25, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    According to Bersin & Associates, U.S. companies are spending and average of $3,500 per employee to just recruit them. While finding great talent is difficult, after over twenty years in the recruiting business, I think one of the main reasons this cost is so high is because employers are taking forever to make an offer to a candidate. Think about it. You spend so much time and money trying to find the right candidate and when you do, the process of hiring that person just seems to drag on.

  • Great Ways to Find Talent With the Tools You are Already Using

    • Aug 26, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    Bring back the recession! For recruiters and human resource departments, the recession made any resource you used to find talent the “best thing ever”. Sure, you didn’t have many openings and millions of great people were unemployed and looking for work. In addition, your internal referrals were at an all-time high. You were able to save money by cutting out many of your recruiting tools.

  • Your Insurance Job Titles Hold the Key For a Great Response!

    • Jul 22, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    The unemployment rate in the insurance industry hovers around 2%. When an insurance company needs to hire, they usually have a “go to” procedure that takes the job requisition and posts it to their company website as well as employment sites like GreatInsuranceJobs.com. Copy and paste is still the preferred way to post these jobs that have job titles and descriptions most likely created years ago.

  • The “Inside Story” on Finding Talent in the Insurance Industry

    • May 1, 2015

    With over 2.5 million people (all-time record) now working in the insurance industry, finding great talent is extremely difficult in 2015. In our 2015 Insurance Industry Employment Outlook, employers recruiting insurance talent openly shared very candid recruiting challenges they are experiencing.

  • Employers: Too Many Unqualified Candidates Got You Down?

    • Mar 19, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    You write a great job description. You add a world class job title with very specific information about exactly what you are looking for in the job requisition. You post it to your career site, job boards and maybe even do a social campaign to really target in on an awesome candidate.

  • The Economy is Rebounding. Your Key Employees May Be Leaving.

    • Feb 26, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    It is never a dull moment in the world of employee management. Last month, we found out that the number of people quitting their jobs...

  • Why Mobile Recruiting Will Be Huge in 2015

    Why Mobile Recruiting Will Be Huge in 2015

    • Jan 20, 2015
    • Roger Lear

    Another year and another recruiting forecast. The big recruiting topics for 2015 are pretty much the same ones for the last four years. Social, employment branding and mobile are all strategies your company must have.

  • Employers, Use This Simple Tool to Find Great Cand

    Employers, Use This Simple Tool to Find Great Candidates

    • Nov 17, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    In doing a recent site upgrade to GreatInsuranceJobs.com, I noticed one very powerful tool that many recruiters are not even using. It is the resume search agent or resume-by-email feature. This feature is easy to use and very effective.

  • Job Descriptions Are Your New Mini Career Website

    Job Descriptions Are Your New Mini Career Website

    • Oct 17, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    Employers, are your job titles and job descriptions attracting the right candidates? Here are a few tips.

  • Why Mobile Recruiting is Really Important

    Why Mobile Recruiting is Really Important

    • Sep 11, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    I bet many of you carry cell phones. If I am looking for a new Human Resources Manager in Orlando, how powerful would it be if I could text my job to all of you who qualify and live in Central Florida?

  • When Will Employers Hire People Again and Not Just

    When Will Employers Hire PEOPLE Again?

    • Aug 11, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    The dating site Match.com claims they are responsible for over 120,000 weddings in 2013 alone. They use their “compatibility algorithms” that match similar interests and behaviors so it will hopefully lead to a long-term relationship. Employers should take note. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a better hire using technology to automatically match the perfect job seeker to your opening?

  • The Journey to Recruiting Success with GreatInsura

    The Journey to Recruiting Success with GreatInsuranceJobs.com

    • Jul 25, 2014
    • Jennifer Rossetter

    What can GreatInsuranceJobs.com do for you? PMA Companies, a member of Old Republic Companies, one of the nation’s largest publicly held insurance organization, can help answer that question.

  • Employers, Want to Improve Your Recruiting Efforts? Just Fix These Four Things.

    • Jun 19, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    If your recruiting process is anything like my garage, it may be time to do a little housecleaning. Everyone knows you are receiving a lot of applications (many unqualified) for your open positions.

  • Employers - Our Annual Survey of Insurance Employers (JUST RELEASED)

    • Apr 25, 2014
    • Roger Lear

    Confirms Jobseekers Waste A LOT of Your Time! (And that you have lots of jobs!)