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6 illegal interview questions not to ask — and legal alternatives
Most of the time when illegal questions crop up in an interview both the questioner and the candidate are unaware. Whether you w...
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How to improve your careers page design
Your careers page is the best place to attract new candidates. As prospective employees look through your website, they should g...
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Writing effective job descriptions: a style guide
Given that the purpose of a job description is to attract applications it would make sense for it to be inviting. Yet, all too o...
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Does anyone advertise jobs in newspapers anymore?
Remember when the classifieds section of the local paper was the obvious place to look for a job? Back at the dawn of the new m...
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Innovative recruiting tools and techniques for modern HR teams
When you let it, technology can streamline your recruiting process. The reign of spreadsheets, email and post-and-pray job ads i...
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3 ways to improve recruitment marketing with video
In today’s market, where 51% of employed workers are open to a new job despite not actively looking for one, recruitment m...
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What do the best career pages have in common?
You’ve put a lot of work into your website in order to sell your product. It boasts beautiful design, photos and testimoni...
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Writing job descriptions for hiring millennials
Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce. More than 35m millennials and Generation-Y employees (those born af...
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2016 social recruitment trends forecast
Social recruitment seems to have almost slavishly followed the stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle. We’ve trekked over the “peak of...
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Fresh ideas for your employee referral program
If you don’t have a process for collecting candidate referrals, here’s how you can build one in five steps. If you do have an em...
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Recruiting passive candidates: what you need to know
Whether you’re a hiring manager, an internal recruiter or the owner of a small business at some point you’ll be faced with cold ...
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What to look for and who to hire
When hiring, look for individuals who punch above your weight, have the potential to grow, fit your company's culture, and posse...