Editor’s Note

No doubt, recruitment of top-tier talent is a challenging, expensive and time-consuming process. At the same time, however challenging it might be, the work isn’t done when the offer is signed! Gifted candidates are hard to catch. But high-performing employees are even harder to keep! According to Gallup and numerous other sources, a jarring number of U.S. employees are dissatisfied at work. What’s more, employee disengagement leads to turnover - which necessitates more frequent, more aggressive recruiting.

Hard To Catch, Harder To Keep: Understanding what makes employees dissatisfied at work

There’s no question that talent is now firmly in the driver’s seat of the recruitment process. Empowered by easy access to information, and surrounded with myriad employment options, talented candidates are calling the shots. In order to break through and be noticed, recruiters must offer content that is much more than simply informative. It must cry out for attention and interaction - beckoning candidates with personalization, entertainment and emotional appeal.

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4 Ways Collaboration Tools Make Onboarding A Piece Of Cake

With every job application comes a load of paperwork. A recent study by Lever found that on average employers hire approximately one in every 100 candidates. And for each of these applicants, HR managers spend countless hours sifting through resumes, cover letters, recommendations, and other application materials.

A Bitter Pill To Swallow?: The EEOC on prescription drug testing policies

Does your company conduct pre-employment drug screening? Given the serious health and safety risks that prescription drug use and abuse pose in the workplace, it would certainly not be an unreasonable precaution.

How To Prepare Leaders For A VUCA World

Suppose a multinational company needs an executive to lead its entry into a country that could experience spectacularly strong economic growth, but could also falter. The market has rough-and-tumble social, economic, political, and business environments, and a glacially slow judicial process in which national laws are deemed by the powerful and the connected as the starting points for negotiations.

Hiring The Right Talent To Help Go Global: Mapping the resources right

Imagine your new sales vice-president just stroke a deal with a major player in China for your company. The success of this new venture will depend on two main groups within your organization. Let us look at this in detail. The first group is your actual globalization team, and the other is your company’s executive team.

3 Simple Ways To Tidy Up Your Recruiting Process: Tidying up your recruiting process

You have the hectic job of being a recruiter. This consists answering phone calls and emails daily, completing ATS searches, social recruiting searches, mind-numbing data entry and let’s not forget interacting with live-action humans like co-workers and bosses. You have to constantly assess how efficient your processes are.

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Applicant Tracking Systems: A Data-Driven Guide to Make The Right Choice

Skilled talent is essential for any business to succeed today. However, sourcing such skilled talent can be a stressful job. Mining through hundreds of resumes, finding who you think could be the perfect candidate/s, scheduling interviews, tracking who is at what stage of the interview and storing the ones that were not selected for future recruitment needs aren’t easy tasks.