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Are you getting ready for GDPR?
By now, we’ve all witnessed the collective panic that is the recruiting industry’s response to the General Data Protection Regul...
Ask a Recruiter: What is recruitment marketing and why should it be part of your recruiting strategy?
Recruitment marketing is how your company tells its culture story through content and messaging to reach top talent. It can incl...
The advantages and disadvantages of internal recruitment
Internal recruitment is the process of hiring from within the business. It's efficient as internal candidates are already part o...
Recruiting for overseas jobs: Tips for sourcing and securing tech talent across continents
“Hiring tech talent is difficult.” As an account manager, this is a phrase I hear from our customers in the US and the UK every ...
Ask a Recruiter: What is the best way to reject a job applicant?
No one likes to be rejected and I don’t believe there is a single “best way” to do it. But as it is the single-most frequent tas...
Seven lessons from Doist on hiring remote employees
Imagine your workforce is so diverse your employees come from 26 countries. Getting applicants for your roles is never a problem...
Terrible reasons for choosing an ATS
There are many reasons you might find yourself looking for a new ATS. Speed, efficiency, usability… but how did you end up with ...
Why your business isn’t a ‘family’
Businesses with good intentions refer to their companies as a “families” in product pages, careers pages, job descriptions and e...
Data-driven recruiting 101: How to improve your hiring process
Traditional recruiting used to rely on luck and intuition more than data, which was time-consuming to amass and analyze. Recruit...
Why your hiring shouldn’t hinge on thank-you emails
Thank you emails can be a useful tool in the hiring process, but they should not be the deciding factor. They can showcase a can...
How to build a strategic hiring plan
Building a hiring plan involves aligning hiring resources with business goals and long-term staffing needs. It requires gatherin...
Why you should use free job posting sites
Job boards are not dead. Free job boards are not a waste of time. I’ve heard it said that recruiters shouldn’t use free job post...
