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4 Soft Skills to Look For When Hiring a New Employee

4 Soft Skills to Look For When Hiring a New Employee
Hiring a new employee is a complex process. The candidate needs to have the skills required to perform the job, the right experience level, and fit the minimum requirements. But when you have a pool of candidates who all meet these tangible requirements, it really comes down to the individual’s soft skills. You can interview an extremely talented designer who fits all the criteria but if they ar...
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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Your First Sales Rep

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As companies start to grow, it becomes much harder for the founders to give enough attention to both selling and running the company without sacrificing quality along the way. When this happens, oftentimes the next step is to hire a sales rep to join the team. Hiring a sales rep can be a lot for a small business to take on, and there are some crucial things you should consider before you hire your...
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How to Create a More Personalized Recruiting Process

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Candidates are no longer satisfied with vague job descriptions, impersonal emails, and being left in the dark about important hiring decisions. Candidates today want a more personalized interaction throughout the recruiting process, and in this candidate focused job market, they’re able to demand one. In fact, one in three prospective employees wants to receive more detailed information about the...
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How To Sell Your Open Positions To Top Candidates

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An interview is not only about the candidate selling their abilities to the employer, but also about the employer selling the opportunity to the candidate. Too many companies focus on evaluating the candidate and don’t spend enough time talking about potential growth opportunities, perks, and benefits of working for their company. According to the data from the MRINetwork Recruiter Sentiment Study...
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5 Tips to Help Streamline Your Recruiting Process

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There are many steps that go on in between having a job opening and finding a viable candidate to fill that position. The time in between is often filled with endless phone calls, sourcing, and strategic discussions to get the candidate to accept the position, all the while maintaining your composure and motivation when times are tough. Keep reading to learn about five tips that will help you stre...
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The Best Times To Reach Out To Candidates (And Actually Get a Response)

Does this situation sound familiar to you? After weeks of relentless searching for top talent, you’re actually starting to find some great candidates. You even think you’ve found a couple of ‘A players’ who are perfect for the position. You’re starting to think you’ve got this in the bag. Then you try to reach out to them. First, you start with a phone call. No reply. Then another phone c...
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How to Create a Consistent Hiring Process

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As summer starts to wind down, hiring begins to ramp up before fourth quarter for many companies. Before you dive into recruitment, take this time to first review your hiring process. The more consistent you can be when moving candidates through the interview process, the more accurate you will be when making a final hiring decision. Also, studies estimate the cost of a bad hire at 30% of a pers...
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3 Signs It’s Time to Hire a Recruiter for Your Startup

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When launching a new startup, there always seems to be a million problems and tasks that demand your full attention. The last thing you want to worry about is trying to hire new people for your team, but there comes a point when performing the roles of Founder, Publicist, Problem Solver and Admin is just not feasible for one person anymore. Hiring new employees is one of the most critical steps...
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3 Ways to Find Good Employees in the Candidate-Driven Job Market

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Finding good employees has never been an easy task, but finding good employees in a candidate-driven job market can seem nearly impossible. In this new job market, fewer people are looking for work and more jobs are available. In fact, 34 percent of employers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in the third quarter, up from 31 percent last year, according to CareerBuilder’s 2015 Midyear U....
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Guest Post: How To Recruit the Millennial Generation

Guest Post by Terra Clarke Olsen via AkkenCloud Millennials are entering the workforce with new skills and different expectations than any generation before. With Millennials making up 40 percent of the workforce by 2020, refusal to adapt could be hurting companies' bottom lines. This infographic offers a look into how Millennials are different than previous generations and the best wa...
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How to Keep Candidates Engaged Through A Long Hiring Process

Background checks, behavioral/job related assessments, and multiple interviews all help ensure employers hire the right person, but also increase the amount of time the candidate is left waiting for a decision.  The average time to fill a position across all industries and employers in the United States is 42 days, according to Industry Today. Other studies report an average of 27...
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Money Is Not the Answer – Tips for Attracting Millennials to Your Company

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Compensation is one of the least important factors for recruiting Millennial employees, but ping pong tables and free snacks aren't the differentiators they're looking for either. A study done by Futurestep found the top considerations for attracting and retaining Millennial talent. It turns out, what matters most to Millennial employees is "the ability to make an impact on the business," followed...
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4 Resolutions for Finding Top Talent in 2015

By Susan Ricker (The Hiring Site Blog) Top talent is hard to find, but with the right strategies, you can make this an attainable goal. Keep reading to learn about 4 resolutions you can make to start finding and connecting top talent to the right positions in 2015. 4 Resolutions for Finding Top Talent in 2015  
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7 Questions to Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps

Interviews are an opportunity to see which sales candidate is the best fit for your company and for the position. Asking candidates specific questions about their skills, job experience, and career ambition will help you match a candidate’s qualifications with your current opportunity. Consider asking these seven fundamental questions in your next interview to help you find your ideal sales candid...
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Role of HR in Achieving Business Goals

By Sherrie Scott for Demand Media Human resources professionals have many roles within an organization. They are responsible for formulating strategies that focus on recruiting and retaining top employees as well as overseeing projects that promote company-wide productivity. Most human resources departments control the overall operations of a business, making the department a key component of...
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Who’s Most Likely to Fail the Background Check?

Original Post: Monster.com By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert If you’re working in construction, there’s a good chance you’re laboring next to someone with a criminal past. But if you’re working in the nonprofit sector, you’re more likely to be sitting next to someone who has lied about his education. Those differences came to light when Kroll analyzed “hit ratios” for the eight...
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