How to Effectively Grow Your Recruitment Team When the Clock Is Ticking
As a recruiter, you know that when it comes to hiring you need to take a proactive approach. You build a candidate pipeline full of talented people knowing that when roles become available, you’ve got a ready-made pool of candidates to draw from. Pretty simple, right? But what happens when your company goes through an unexpected period of growth? Do you think your two-person recruitment team can handle hiring 50 new employees over the next month?
How to Calculate Your Cost per Hire
Cost per hire; the three little words that sometimes feel like the bane of a recruiter’s life. As if finding the best possible candidates for a position wasn’t hard enough already, now you have to stick to a budget when doing so! All joking aside, your cost per hire is actually more than a method for keeping track of the money spent to fill a role. Figure it out correctly, and it could not only save the company money (obviously), but it could even help you improve the quality of your hires.
Up Against the Clock – 6 Productivity Hacks for Speedy Recruitment
When the countdown is on, and there’s a deadline looming, it often seems like the whole world is making a concerted effort to slow you down. And short of moving your bed into the office, there’s very little you can do to fill those reqs in time. Thankfully, just a few small changes to how you handle your work means that you don’t need to worry about bringing pillows to work.
Why You Need a Better Candidate Sourcing Platform
Anyone who has been in the industry longer than five minutes will tell you that sourcing is not only one of the most important aspects of recruitment but also one of the most time-consuming. From trawling LinkedIn to keeping on top of all those resumes in your inbox, it’s little wonder that when the chance to automate any part of the sourcing process comes along, we grab it with our very tired hands. But what if that candidate sourcing platform that has served you so well in the past just isn’t living up to your expectations of late?
Agency Recruitment vs. In-House – What’s Best for You?
When a company reaches a certain size, the major stakeholders are often faced with a difficult question; should they outsource their recruitment efforts or try to handle everything in-house? While there’s no definitive answer as to which option is better, the differences between both could mean that one method is a better choice for a company.
