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Are Recruiting Operations Essential to Business Growth?
Recruitment is the process of attracting and hiring the right person for a job vacancy. It involves determining the requirements of a position, attracting applicants, screening and selecting possible employees, and hiring and integrating new personnel. What does employee recruitment have to do with business growth? Employees are a...
read more »Dealing with Funnel Challenges when Recruiting
A recruitment funnel is made of potential hires, both active job seekers and passive candidates. Carefully managing your recruitment funnel ensures the best and brightest candidates make it to the hiring stage. How do you ensure your funnel is filled with top prospects? Should you cast a wide net...
read more »The Onboarding Process
Onboarding, also known as organizational socialization, is the process of integrating a new employee with a company and its culture. The procedure may take from 8 to 12 months and involves helping a new hire gain the tools, information, knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to become an effective organizational...
read more »Structured Hiring Tips
Structured hiring produces a consistent method of evaluating candidates, encourages decisions based on evidence/data, minimizes interviewer bias and reduces the time and cost of hiring. This technique creates a positive experience for all involved; candidates feel their time and effort is respected, recruiters are able to predict when the...
read more »Common Elements of Successful Company Culture
Company culture is the personality of an organization. It’s comprised of the physical environment, values, expectations, goals, behaviours, attitudes and traditions of a company. Though each organization’s culture is unique, there are common elements present in all successful company cultures. A clear mission statement is a foundational element of...
read more »Generational Hiring: the benefits of age diversity in hiring practices
Discussion in boardrooms often focuses on diversity through gender and ethnicity. While this is important, age diversity is equally relevant. For the first time in history, our workforce is comprised of 5 generations of employees; the Silent Generation (ages 74 to 94), Baby Boomers (ages 55 to 73), Generation...
read more »What Is Corporate Social Responsibility?
Your business may be focused mostly on maximizing revenue and securing incremental growth, but no company exists in a vacuum. The choices you make as an entrepreneur affect and are influenced by countless social factors. This is what corporate social responsibility is all about. CSR in a Nutshell...
read more »Are You Keeping Your LinkedIn Profile Updated?
If you want to land a job that you love, with a company that brings out the best in you, you’ll need to be as diligent as possible in your search. Staying on your toes is everything, and keeping your LinkedIn profile fully updated is a crucial part of...
read more »Transforming and Revitalizing Your Company Culture
Building a business takes time, and so does developing a healthy and appealing company culture. However, it would be a mistake to assume that this process can ever be “complete.” Sometimes it’s necessary to reassess and reinvent your company culture to keep things fresh. Knowing When It’s Time Before...
read more »Getting Your Job Posting to Appeal to Great Candidates
Attracting good talent to your company is all about knowing how to build an employer brand that appeals to ambitious, dedicated professionals. One crucial factor here is how you execute your job postings. Without knowing it, you could be making an error that’s costing you a great recruit! The...
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