Debunking The Top 3 Myths About Tech Hires
Michael Choi, CEO, Coding Dojo
How To Measure Your Offer Acceptance Rate
Michelle Silverstein, Content Marketing Manager, Criteria Corp
The New Recruiter: How Automation Is Changing The Hiring Game
Claire McTaggart, Founder and CEO, SquarePeg
Video Interviews Increase Team Participation, Engagement And Transparency
Sharon Boner, Vice President of HR and Training, Padcaster
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The cost of a single bad hire can range up to 5x the hire’s annual salary (SHRM). Making the wrong executive hire can be costly on multiple levels: company morale, resources to replace the hire, productivity, time, and money.
As we know, making the wrong executive hire can be costly on multiple levels: company morale, resources to replace the hire, productivity, time, and money.
Demand for tech talent is at an all-time high, with companies pulling out all the stops to recruit and retain employees with coding skills – offering a variety of expensive perks, competitive salaries, and offering big promises for career advancement.
A company’s offer acceptance rate is a fairly simple metric – it essentially provides an indication of how likely a candidate is to accept an employment offer.
For the past 50 years, the talent sourcing process has followed the same model. Companies post their job advertisements in high-volume outlets, collect hundreds of resumes, and use recruiting and hiring managers to filter the pile down to a batch based on judgement and heuristics.
Video interviewing is one of the most exciting recruiting trends, providing considerable opportunity for the candidate experience including additional exposure to the company and their people.
While this has added an element of ease to the search process for talent, it also introduced a new factor most talent acquisition and hiring professionals aren’t familiar with: SEO.
It’s rare for any one role in an organization to regularly collaborate with staff across all departments and geographic locations, but that is often the daily reality for information managers.
When I started working with HR professionals three decades ago, holiday hiring was neatly wrapped: retailers needed people to stock shelves, field customer complaints, and handle purchases.