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Recruiting - Employee Recruitment: Recruiting Talented Employees

You are recruiting the best employees for your organization's needs. You want talented employees who fit your culture. Your recruitment strategies are critical in attracting these people. Learn more about effective recruiting.
  1. Sourcing Potential Employees (10)
  2. Use Online Job Posting Sites for Recruiting Employees (10)
  3. Recruit, Select, and Employ Interns (2)
  4. Use Social Recruiting to Attract Employees (7)

How to Recruit and Hire the Best: A Checklist for Success

Want to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist will help you systematize your hiring process. The checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts. It communicates both the recruiting and the hiring process and progress in recruiting to the hiring manager. Take a look and provide feedback.

Recruit and Hire the Best - Free Email Class

Recruiting the best employees for your organization is an ongoing challenge for every manager, supervisor and Human Resources professional. If you're looking for solid, proven best practices and up-to-the-minute ideas in recruitment, interviewing and selection, you've found the right course. Find useful forms and a Forum in which to discuss your hiring challenges. Sign up today!

Recruiting Stars: Top Ten Ways to Get Great Candidates

Looking for talent? The smartest employers, who hire the best people, develop a pre-qualified candidate pool before they need to fill a job. You can develop relationships with potential candidates long before you need them. These ideas will also help you create a large pool of candidates when you have a current position available.

Pitfalls to Avoid in Human Resource Recruitment

Want to know some of the pitfalls that are waiting to derail you in your Human Resource recruitment efforts? Human Resource recruitment is the process of identifying the need for a new employee and then, finding, interviewing, and hiring the appropriate employee. Human Resource recruitment requires planning and proper execution to ensure that...

Plan Your Recruiting to Ensure Successful Candidate Selection

Do you select new employees based largely on an attractive resume and the candidate’s performance at the resultant interview? If so, you are missing the opportunity to use additional recruiting and screening methods that will ensure a superior hire. Learn how a recruiting planning meeting can ensure you hire candidates who will perform...

Conduct Powerful Job Interviews

Want to hire great employees? How to conduct a safe, legal job interview that also enables you to select the best candidate for your open positions is important. The job interview is one of the significant factors in hiring because so many employers count on the job interview to help determine their best, most qualified candidates. Learn about job interviews in my free email class.

Top Ten Recruiting Tips

Finding the best possible people who can fit within your culture and contribute within your organization is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping the best people, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These special features will help you recruit and retain all the talent you need. Here's more about recruiting.

Your 401k Plan is a Recruiting Magnet

Competitive base pay, medical insurance and a 401(k) plan are the must have benefits necessary to attract and keep talent in your company. Read more about retirement resources and your 401(k) plan, including how to use it for recruiting.

Use Your Team for Recruitment: A Retention Strategy

How would you like to increase your candidate selection pool, add value to interviews, heighten employee loyalty, build supportive peer relationships, and improve retention rates simultaneously? By implementing a team recruitment strategy, you can achieve this. Find out how.

Ten Deadly Mistakes Job Searchers Make

Sometimes the simplest mistakes make all the difference in the potential joining together of an employer and a job searcher. These opportunities to fail occur before the first phone call is ever exchanged. If you’re an employer, these simple, yet serious, job searcher mistakes tell you volumes about the candidate. These ten deadly mistakes matter. Check them out.

Why "Blink" Matters: The Power of First Impressions

Professional speakers and trainers have long asserted that people make up their minds about people they meet for the first time within two minutes. Others assert that these first impressions about people take only thirty seconds. As it turns out, both may be underestimates. According to Malcolm Gladwell, in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, the decisions may occur much faster.

HR’s Role in Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility

When companies are global, an important challenge in garnering success is to respect other cultures and workforce environments and start forming a global profile or social consciousness. Recognize these differences with a sound Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plan that can simultaneously increase shareholder value, boost employee...

What Turns You Off the Fastest?

To make it to an interview, a candidate has already passed a review of his resume, a review of his cover letter, a comparison against all of the other current candidates applying, and possibly, a telephone screen. Consider the odds of an individual's candidacy making it this far. Under these trying circumstances, you'd think the candidate's interview would shine. Wrong.

6 Tips to Speed Up Hiring

Recruitment of employees is time consuming and keeps HR staff from other priority contributions. Here are six ways to speed up hiring so you can invest the saved time elsewhere.

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