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Candidate Experience
It’s time to lose the iFrame in your Career Site design
(This is the second post in a series on the Candidate Experience and Career Site Design by Mary Grace Hennessy. You can view the first post here.) When most organizations begin building their Career Site, they concentrate on their recruitment marketing messaging, ensuring that it shares their consistent web brand and making sure it hooks … Continue reading
Do the 60% of applies that opt out matter?
(This is the fourth post in a series on the Candidate Experience and Career Site Design by Mary Grace Hennessy. You can view the first, second and third posts here.) In my last post, I discussed the apply process and ways to reduce the friction in hopes of increasing applicant completion rates. We reviewed that … Continue reading
5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 4.7.12 to 4.13.12
Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about talent sourcing, recruiting being worthless, culture at Rackspace, a CTO with a heart, social network statistics, does of crazy … Continue reading
Where does the Candidate Experience start?
Yesterday, I had a brief but great conversation with Kyle Lagunas on Candidate Experience (which he’s going to be tackling on his awesome blog over the next few weeks). We talked about some cool things organizations are doing as well as major problems that exist in the industry with regards to Candidate Experience. What became … Continue reading
Why do candidates try, but not always apply?
(This is the third post in a series on the Candidate Experience and Career Site Design by Mary Grace Hennessy. You can view posts one and two here.) Many organizations, caught in the cross-hairs of compliance, have inadvertently made the online apply process a real chore for candidates. Taking somewhere between 20 minutes to over … Continue reading
Candidate Drop-Off: The good, the bad and the ugly
The recruitment marketing funnel is like any other funnel, it’s wide at the top and continually narrows with each step of the apply process. From reading the initial job ad to clicking to apply to finishing the job application, there are a number of key steps where a candidate has to either move forward with … Continue reading
5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 3.31.12 to 4.6.12
Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about talent communities, promoting within, source of hire, thoughts on HR Tech and Google semantic search. I’d also like to … Continue reading
How to Staff Your Organization Like an Apple Store
Today’s post is a guest blog post by Kyle Lagunas. You can view his bio below. Anyone who has stepped into one of Apple’s retail stores can attest to the smooth operation they’re running. The store is a well-oiled machine of many parts, presented in a sleek and sexy package with a smile. What’s Apple … Continue reading
The Resume: Is it alive, dead or just another data point?
With the rise of social recruiting, online profiles and alternative resume solutions, the resume has long been resumed dead by many. However, while the concept makes some sense, much of the recruiting technology out today is still tied to the resume as the main source of information needed from candidates in the apply process. This … Continue reading
5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 3.24.12 to 3.30.12
Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about what a CRM is, ERE Expo 2012, ways to piss off candidates, common sourcing mistakes, candidate experience and what’s … Continue reading
