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What to Include in a Marketing Manager Job Description

Hiring a top marketing manager is both exciting and challenging. On the one hand, your new hire will be implementing long-term and short-term marketing strategies, be highly motivated, and depending on the size of your marketing department, and may be overseeing more junior marketing employees. On the other hand, marketing managers are paid a high salary and are expected to have a big impa...
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Crafting Compelling Offers in a Candidate Drought

crafting job offers in the candidate drought
Employees in today’s candidate drought are savvy. They know they have options and they know what they’re worth. If you reach out to employees about a potential position, they will research the latest salary trends, find out what a competitive job offer is for that role, and know exactly what it takes for them to accept a new job, all before responding to your outreach. With that in min...
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Discover 4 Time-Saving Strategies for Business Owners

How many times have you been faced with a deadline or problem that needed an immediate fix and wished there were more hours in the day? We’ve all been there. However, while it’s easy to feel like there is never enough hours in the day, that’s really not the case. The most amazing, accomplished people any of us will meet have the exact same amount of time as the rest of us: 24 hours dai...
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6 Advantages of Using an Executive Search Firm for Your Next Hire

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There are many reasons why companies are hesitant to engage an executive search firm to help them hire leadership talent. Whether it’s because they think they can hire an executive leader on their own, they don’t want to pay the cost of retaining a firm, or they’re just skeptical of the process, these companies are ultimately missing out on an opportunity to hire the best leader for their compan...
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How to Apply Marketing Tactics to Recruit Top Talent

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In today’s job market, companies can’t rely on traditional recruiting methods to win over top talent. There is a lot of competition to hire the best employees and candidates know they have numerous employment options. Gone are the days where top candidates apply to your open positions on job boards or eagerly respond to mass job emails. A more likely scenario is that these top candidates are empl...
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Is Your Sales Rep Your Next Sales Leader?

A common practice of many organizations is to promote top-performing sales reps into sales leadership roles. But the challenge with this approach is that the characteristics of sales managers are quite different than those of top-performing sales reps. That’s not to say a top-performing sales rep can’t be a sales leader, but you will need to review some of the following softer skills and s...
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3 Elements of a Competitive Compensation Structure

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A competitive compensation structure is critical to the success of a growing business,  but it’s often a difficult area for management to get right. Finding a structure that will motivate sales reps to perform at a high level, but not cut too far into profits is a difficult balance to achieve. There are three components that are essential in creating a competitive compensation structure. Implement...
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How Much Should I Spend on Hiring an App Developer?

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The demand for quality apps and app developers is increasing. Every day, millions of people use apps to check the weather, book a ride or even reserve a table at a restaurant. In fact, mobile applications usage grew by 58% in 2015, and the average US customers download on average of 8.8 iOS and Android apps in a month. This increase of app usage has encouraged many companies to build their own app...
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5 Reasons Why Your Best Employees Quit

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No leader wants to receive a resignation letter from one of their top employees. Not only is this a huge loss for productivity and team morale, but there are also many costs associated with training and hiring new employees. Don’t let your company lose out on another top employee. Discover 5 common reasons your best employees quit and what you can do today to prevent them from leaving. You Don’...
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How To Choose a Recruitment Agency for Your Hiring Needs

How To Choose a Recruitment Agency for Your Hiring Needs
Finding the right recruitment agency to fit all of your hiring needs is easier said than done. Recruiting agencies can range from 2,000 to 2 employees, have multiple specialties, and may claim to be experts when they’re not. Fortunately, there are ways to navigate through this information and discover a recruiting firm that will be successful in finding you top talent. Identifying your needs, rese...
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How to Make Your Company More Appealing to Top Sales Talent

How to Make Your Company More Appealing to Top Sales Talent
Talented sales reps are in high demand and aren’t going to work at your company just because you’ve recruited and interviewed them. You need to show them why your company is the best place for them to work, and make sure they want to work for you just as much as you want to hire them. There are 5 key areas top sales reps routinely evaluate to see if the position and company are the right fit for t...
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Avoid Hiring Regret By Asking Sales Reps About These Skills

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Skilled sales reps have a lot of practice selling not only their product or service but also selling themselves. While this is a great ability for a sales rep to have, it can make interviewing one very difficult. Many times a sales rep will be hired based on their charisma and confidence during an interview, but when it come time for them to perform, oftentimes they’re unsuccessful. The best way t...
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3 Challenges to Finding and Hiring UX Designers

Hiring a UX Designer is a difficult task if you’ve never worked in the UX world before. The best practices are being established and changed every day, there are multiple focuses that fall under UX talent, and the field is highly competitive. Before adding a UX Designer to your team, make sure that you understand these common hiring challenges and learn how to find someone whose skills match your...
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5 Job Descriptions for a Successful Digital Marketing Team

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If you want to start growing your business through digital marketing, you need to assemble a team of people who can make your goals a reality. Now, if you’re not familiar with digital marketing, then it’s going to be difficult to find the right marketers for the job. Many professionals tout themselves as marketing ninjas or digital disruptors, but not all of these people have the necessary experie...
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3 Mistakes Companies Make When Hiring Content Marketers

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Many companies are starting to realize the importance of adding a content marketer to their marketing department. In fact, a recent report from the Creative Group found that 27% of respondents expect to fill content marketing positions in 2017, making it one of the most in-demand marketing positions of 2016. As more companies start hiring for this position, it makes it more difficult to find a qua...
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How to Speed Up Your Recruiting Process to Hire Top Talent

The time it takes to hire new employees has increased dramatically in recent years. According to Jobvite’s 2019 Recruiting Benchmark Report, the average time-to-hire takes 38 days. But even as the hiring process increases, top candidates still expect the interview and decision-making process to move quickly. But how do you speed up your recruiting process? Talented candidates know their s...
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5 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know About the Freelance Workforce

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There have been a lot of discussions recently about what the future of work will look like. With advances in technology, people don’t have to come into a physical office anymore, be employed at only one company, or even work Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm. According to a study from Fieldglass, the future of the job market lies in non-employee workers and 95 percent of businesses n...
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Excellent Alternatives to Hiring Full-Time Employees For Your Start-Up

Excellent Alternatives to Hiring Full-Time Employees For Your Start-Up
During the startup phase of a business, there is an endless amount of work to be done, but only limited resources to help complete it. Hiring for your start-up can be difficult while money is tight and you’re still struggling to prove your company’s worth. Instead of trying to pawn work off onto friends and family, or try to complete everything yourself, there are three great solutions to ...
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3 Ways Small Businesses Can Compete for Top Talent

3 Ways Small Businesses Can Compete for Top Talent
It’s always a challenge for small businesses to compete against large brands for top talent. A lot of small businesses don’t have the time or internal resources to reach out to talented professionals. Oftentimes they will have one HR person, if that, who is completely strapped for time so the recruiting process becomes an afterthought. And if they do manage to get in touch with the right people, t...
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5 Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Enough Good Candidates

3 Reasons You're Not Getting Enough Good Sales Candidates
The sole objective of a recruiting process is to find and hire your ideal candidate. But what do you do if your recruiting efforts aren’t producing the type of candidates you want to hire? The first thing you need to do is to take a step back and evaluate what you’re currently doing and why it’s not working. There are 5 key areas you should evaluate in order to discover why you’re not...
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5 Things to Consider Before Hiring Your First Sales Rep

5 Things to Consider Before Hiring Your First Sales Rep
Too many small business owners believe the only way to take their business to the next level is to add a sales rep to their team. While hiring a new sales rep can be a great way to achieve that goal, you also need to make sure it’s the right time for you to hire and that your business is ready to take on a sales professional. There are five things you should consider before you hire your first sal...
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Want Top Talent? Rethink Your Benefits!

Want top talent? Rethink benefits
As the job market becomes more competitive, employers are increasingly relying on cutting-edge benefits to help recruit and retain talented professionals. According to Assurex Global’s 2022 survey, employers are most concerned about their employee's affordable access to healthcare. In addition, the need for mental health has grown due to the pandemic.  More employers are seeing how cover...
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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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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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Don’t Be Fooled! – 4 Tips To Closing Top Candidates and Avoiding Offer Declines

Although today is officially April Fool's Day, many employers feel they have been getting pranked by candidates for months. One of our new clients described a scenario where they extended an official job offer to their top candidate, but the candidate declined the offer for a position at a different company. The employer never saw it coming, and felt like they were on the receiving end of a practi...
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How To Recruit Top Candidates Via Email

Reaching out to the perfect candidate and getting them interested in your open position is much easier said than done. In reality, most people won’t pick up calls from unknown numbers, don’t take the time to listen to voicemails, and are quick to dump unfamiliar emails into the trash bin. That doesn’t mean candidates aren’t interested in the opportunity, it means you need to do a better job of get...
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Which Red Flags Should Automatically Rule Out a Sales Candidate?

Lying on a resume, arriving late to an interview, and wearing inappropriate attire are obvious indicators that a candidate should no longer be considered for the position. But what about warning signs during the hiring process that are more subtle? There are three red flags to be aware of when hiring sales candidates. Make sure to pass on candidates who exhibit any of these three red flags to avoi...
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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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The 10 Step Process for Hiring Top Sales Reps

Recruiting top-performing sales reps is not easy to do, especially if you don't have a proven process for hiring sales reps. Many companies will dive right into recruiting without a plan and quickly encounter problems. For example, without a dedicated HR team, hiring is passed off onto other employees who don't know the ins and outs of recruiting. Another example is only posting the openi...
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What Makes a Job Posting Successful?

There are many ways to craft an appealing job post. You can vary the subject line by location or job title, write a magnetic description, or even use bullet points to highlight certain aspects of the position. However, you won’t achieve great success by only posting job ads. The real success comes from combining multiple recruiting strategies at once.. In addition to posting job ads, you should al...
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