In recent years, the power in the hiring process has shifted to the job-seeker. From company career sites to employer-review platforms like Glassdoor, job-seekers have access to endless information about a company. As a result, they’re better informed and able to go about the job search in a new way.
Employers? They have yet to adapt.
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A February 2017 survey of 616 HR professionals and 438 job seekers by CareerArc highlighted this gap. The report found that 55 percent of job-seekers surveyed said they'll lose interest in a company if they read a negative employer review. Yet, 55 percent of employers don’t even monitor or respond to these reviews to mitigate the hiring consequences.
Employers, then, are clinging to outdated hiring practices, and that's keeping them from landing top talent. So, which strategies need to go and what should be done instead?
Cold emailing
For years, one of the best hiring tactics was to send emails to potential candidates and then wait for a response. This did the trick because the job market wasn’t as strong in the past. Today, however, talent receives so many cold emails about jobs, they don’t even bother to open them.
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