Candidate experience is becoming more and more important when attracting talent to your organization. With the learning curve of social media starting to flatten and candidates doing more research on organizations, the recruiter and hiring manager need to be conscious of this component of hiring. It is not hard to provide a good candidate experience.… Read More: 023 Candidate Experience »
What’s the deal with Talent Jockey? Oh, and I’m going back to frontline recruiting. I have contemplated how to approach the Talent Jockey podcast. Do I do it every week? Is there a passion to put it out there? I don’t know, is the quick answer. I started Talent Jockey to do a few things.… Read More: 020 Going Back to Recruiting, Recruiting »
Screening veterans can be a challenge. Even if recruiters and hiring managers are themselves veterans, it is not always easy to interpret how a veteran’s skills and experience transfer to a civilian job. They may tell you about their military occupation specialty, rank, and job duties. Knowing they’re a 13 echo, fire direction specialist, with the… Read More: 018 Screening Veterans, Things to Know »
Substituting recruiter phone screen with a recorded video interview. I was skeptical at first, but then there are quite a few advantages for job applicant, recruiter and hiring manager. I am involved in a pilot program. My first thoughts were, “ooh, no personal touch by the organization and recruiting? That’s not good.” But we are… Read More: 017 Video Interview, Good and Bad »
Personal branding will set you aside from something as brief as your resume. A guide to personal branding can be an entire book on itself, but I start out with a simple starting point to conveying more of yourself in today’s job market. Sure, your resume is what it is. We’ve talked about how to format… Read More: 016 Guide to Personal Branding »