As the holiday season approaches, some recruiters might start eating mashed potatoes early. But wait! This time is an opportunity to prepare your recruitment agency for the coming year. We’re here with five recruitment strategies for December that you can use to make your start of 2025 perfect. Read the…...
How Social Media Can Help You Find and Hire the Right Candidate !
Employee recruitment has changed markedly over the past decade. Organizations must drastically expand their human resource in a progressively competitive atmosphere. Accordingly, social media recruiting strategies are essential to attract the best candidates. Social media recruitment describes identifying and hiring talent through social media. Businesses can use this employee recruitment strategy…...
Why Now Is the Time to Think About Building Your A-Team
As businesses begin to open their doors after the COVID-19 shutdown orders, many are thinking about not only where their business is heading but what people they need to get there. At Affinity HR Group, many of our clients have been making hard decisions about retaining staff in a down market.…...
Best Practices for Hiring During COVID-19 (and Beyond)
These are far from normal times, and organizations are finding they have to navigate virtually every aspect of their business operation differently, including—perhaps especially—the hiring process. Despite many businesses being closed or reducing operations, there are still a wide range of companies that are adding to their workforce during the…...
How to Calculate the Cost of Bad Hiring Decisions — and Avoid Them in the Future
While inquiring about the status of a hiring manager interview training proposal, a client told me she would get back to me as soon as they got their budget approved for next year. As part of our discussion, I asked how much they included in their budget for bad hires.…...
Why Hiring Is a Lot Like Picking Stocks
Hiring people is a lot like picking stocks. It’s all about the narrative. We begin by asking “what kind of stock is this?” Is it best-in-class, with strong positioning in the market and consistently solid results; a turnaround story, where there have been struggles but better days are on the…...
5 Tips for Recruiting More Women in Sales
According to a recent study, gender diversity in the workforce can lead to more innovative and productive companies, when measuring their market value and revenue. But there’s a catch: the companies have to believe and genuinely champion that gender diversity is important, and not merely a line item on their job…...
What You Need to Ask the Hiring Manager In Order to Source the Right Candidate
If a recruiter ever needs to present more than 3-4 candidates in order to make one great hire, there is something fundamentally wrong with the hiring process being used. And, if two of the remaining three aren’t aren’t strong backups, something is even bigger is wrong. Having just finished…...
Generalist vs Specialist: Which Kind of Recruiter Should You Hire for Your Team?
There’s a saying in certain circles that Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. It’s a phrase developers often use to explain their frustration with talent professionals who don’t know as much and, as a result, make some embarrassing missteps in their outreach and interviews — like mixing…...
Moves and Skills Employers Should Look for When Hiring in Tough Times
Indeed, looking for a new job and switching careers seem impossible when most companies are downsizing or laying off employees. But the reality is that a lot of persevering organizations remain on the lookout for talents that will stay with them through the good times and bad. They are looking…...
We’re Unconsciously Hiring the Wrong Candidates
It's easy to easily establish unconscious biases about who the "best fit" for a job might be based on our individual experiences. For example, let’s say that you attended a top university like Harvard or Yale, and you receive a slew of applications from candidates, some of whom attended universities ranked lower than…...
When Experience Is Not Enough — Recruiters Reveal Why Qualified Candidates Do Not Get The Job
I recently worked on a search where a strong candidate made it to the final rounds but was ultimately not selected. She wanted to know how she could have turned the situation around. Having hired thousands of people over 20+ years, I have worked on many job searches, like this…...
Become an “Employer of the Future” — Five tips for recruiting and retaining top talent
The workforce is constantly evolving and companies across all industries are adapting to ever-changing employee desires. Smart employers are striving to create a positive employee experience. That requires constantly refining how they approach human resources to ensure that they can continue to recruit and retain top talent. From flexibility and…...
Show Me Your Talent Strategy And I’ll Show You Mine
If you hope to recruit rockstar performers, you can't be amongst the 95% of companies that don't have a clearly-articulated talent strategy.Source - Read More at: www.forbes.com...
6 Creative Recruiting Ideas to Help Keep Your Talent Bank Full
Managers often reach out to us looking for creative ways to recruit people to their companies. Unfortunately, most wait until they are in need, when in reality, consistent searching and recruiting to keep their talent banks full would prepare them for the future, and also save them money and time.Sourced…...
