by Ira Wolfe | Oct 7, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
Recruiting today has a very strange bedfellow –Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Imagine how different recruiting was just a few decades ago when a foreman in a Philadelphia railroad yard manager exited his office, crossed the workplace campus, and was met by a mob of...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 9, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
“Do you want a bold headline and border” was the biggest decision a recruiter had to make before posting a job ad just a few years ago. It was the equivalent of “do you want fries with your burger?” Despite the impractical urge by many recruiters and HR professional...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 4, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
Are you recruiting enough qualified candidates? If not, you’ll need to stand in line with many other companies. For some jobs and for many companies recruiting is like finding the needle in a very large haystack…blindfolded! Anywhere from one-third to...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 6, 2015 | B2B Articles, Recruiting Process, Recruitment
For starters companies need to recruit job candidates like they are very important customers. That’s not rhetoric or a marketing slogan. They really are important customers! According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, fifty-eight (58) percent of applicants are less...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 29, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
Candidate abandonment: If management understood anything about it, they would be livid. It’s the debilitating metric that HR hopes never sees the light of day. The trouble is that few companies track it. Most pay no attention despite the fact that high rates indicate...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 26, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
After clicking submit on a job application, more than half of applicants sit and wait like abandoned lovers waiting for the phone to ring. Many companies seem to have adopted the foolish practice of “ghosting” when it comes to dealing with job applicants....
