Risky Business
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If you are not using Facebook to help build your employment brand, you are missing out on attracting potential hires to your organization. Employers use Facebook to put themselves out there to the masses (or targeted) audiences to find that elusive "passive" candidate that everyone desires.
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If you are in the middle of a job search and really need to work, the COVID-19 is going to disrupt this already stressful process.
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I am in the middle of interviewing candidates for a sales account manager. Like many companies (all sizes), it is very reasonable for the recruiter or human resource professional to call a potential candidate and do an initial phone interview. Seven out of ten phone interviews I had this week did...
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In helping many companies with job marketing strategy, one of the best ways to increase applications is to treat each job your posting like its own website. For example, at GreatIsuranceJobs.com, you have the ability to make your job posting stand out by adding pictures, your social media, video,...
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Interviewing is challenging. Interview preparation usually starts by searching for good answers to typical interview questions. This is where many of you make your initial mistake.
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If you have a ton of open jobs and come into work every day praying the right person will walk through the door, this strategy will not work. Here are my top three ideas on how to ramp up your recruiting efforts for 2020.
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I can only imagine the stress you would feel if your company asked you to research, find, and purchase the best artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting product. My goal is to give you three areas in AI talent acquisition that are the things to watch because they may help you get the best talent.
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In the future robot recruiting world, the hope is the job seeker may not even have to worry about optimizing their resume since the robots will “compile” it using all your data points it finds in anything you have ever done on the internet.
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What is the best job posting strategy in 2019? The simple answer is to post on job sites where your qualified audience hangs out. The challenge is to understand what this means.
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For most people, they have a tough time networking for jobs. It usually goes south because the people you meet cannot directly help you. But you want to convert these people into your personal “job angels”.
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Clickbait Job Titles Rock!
8/23/2019
The job title you select when posting jobs may be more critical than the actual job itself. The infamous “passive candidate” is the person who you should be writing the job titles and descriptions for, to get them to click. -
If you were the employer and had 100 resumes to select from, how would you do it? To understand how your background is evaluated, here are just a few employer “sorting” techniques companies use to decide who gets an interview.
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If you were not one of the 22,000 attendees at the national SHRM conference in Las Vegas last month, don’t worry, I was and I’m very excited to give you the expo hall rundown on the latest recruiting products.
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It’s tough out there. Low unemployment, buzzing economy... if you want to find more candidates, it’s time to try these three techniques.
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I predict in less than five years; the resume will be replaced by a compilation of your online presence organized by some recruiting technology.
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Since the beginning of time, word of mouth is still the number one way to find new talent. That still holds true today.
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Many are leaving very stable jobs for greener pastures in a red-hot economy. Is this a good idea? Yes. Well, for some, maybe not.
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The 2019 Insurance Industry Employment Outlook Can Help Job Seekers Understand Why They Are Not G...
4/25/2019
We spoke with 54 insurance companies which in total employ 285,871 employees and found out some interesting information that would help many in a job search. -
Record Insurance Industry Employment and Impending Retirements Is Creating Serious Issues for Emp...
4/22/2019
After a survey of 54 insurance companies, one of the questions we asked employers was to share with us their greatest hiring challenges. While there were many, we compiled a list of the top responses. -
Do employers read cover letters? Should you even include a cover letter when you apply to a job? The answer to both questions is a big yes!