Editor's Note

As a talent assessment professional, it seems I’m always evaluating new and innovative approaches for addressing common talent acquisition issues. How do we make the system better? How do we make it more efficient? How do we create a better experience for job candidates, and ultimately, how do we add more value for our clients?

Video Recruiting: The Candid Camera of compliance risk

Alan Funt, the creator and producer of the popular television series Candid Camera, achieved fame in the 1960s and 70s for subjecting others to hilarious practical jokes that were caught on tape by hidden cameras. Today, cameras are ubiquitously out in the open, readily available in our smartphones and tablets to create a photo or video that can be uploaded to the internet.

Talent Acquisition Excellence Advertisers: June 2015

Scalable Recruitment: Key metrics to consider while hiring

HR professionals are faced with an increasing pressure to determine accurate and comparable costs and benefits of their work. Other trends in the same direction are big data and predictive analytics. With or without “big” data, the first step for determining the efficacy of a selection system is to use the right metrics.

Independent Contractors: Common myths and truths

When you’re looking to fill an open position at your company, you have a very important choice to make: Will you fill the role with a full-time employee or an independent contractor? While this may seem like an easy decision based on how you’ve hired in the past, it might be time to step back and consider your options.

Best Sales Team Hires: The top five selling points

We’re often asked… • What information should you collect about the prospect? • Is the new sales hiring decision a single person's call?

Dodge Dangerous Healthcare Hires: Best practices to evaluate candidates

Hiring in the healthcare sector is growing, according to a report this March from the U.S. Depart of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In this report, healthcare accounted for a total of 363,000 new jobs in the past year. This marks healthcare as one of the most notable sectors for growth in an economy with an unemployment rate hovering at just 5.5 percent. In fact, an analysis of the BLS data by Healthcare Finance News highlighted a 65% healthcare employment growth in 2014 compared to the previous year, making it the best year for new jobs in the sector since 2008.

Onboarding: It helps employees in transition

Importance of onboarding has increased these days mainly because of the fact that average turnover at work is less than four years. And, almost 1/4th of our employees are in the process of transition or are affected by them since their peers are going through transitions. Usually, the reason behind the transition is an appointment in the new position, promotion, or transfer at a different location.

Single Source Of Truth On Employees: Integrating recruiting technology with HCM

For years, recruiters have lamented the technology for their job. They spend hours upon hours mastering and scouring social media to find and engage with passive talent. They succeed in wooing them into considering new roles—only to see candidates abandon the process over a tedious application process

College Recruiting: Tips 3 ways to enhance your recruiting efforts

A recent report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found U.S. companies plan to hire 9.6 percent more college graduates from this year’s graduating class than they did in 2014. This comes soon after the announcement from employment website Simply Hired that estimates full-time opportunities for recent graduates in 2015 to grow by 20 percent year over year.