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How to Attract Ideal Candidates with Better Job Descriptions
Hiring is made easiest when the only applicants who apply for a position are actually qualified for that position. More often than not, we see job descriptions that are fairly basic and somewhat boring. Job posts that are generically written act to drive away top talent. This goes against the goal of hiring the best candidate. Job posts that are written poorly actually increase the number of applications from the inexperienced and less skilled masses. This can make the hiring process more time consuming. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and Continue reading
Why More Companies Should Start Using Video Interviews
The modern world is full of technology that enables us to do things more easily and more practically. A lot of businesses and employers are beginning to use technology as an addition to their conventional working lives in order to make their jobs easier. Video interviewing is one of these technologies. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
How to Grow Your Staffing Firm with Demand in 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]
The staffing industry is looking to grow by at least six percent in 2014, and if you want your company to ride that wave, you’re going to have to consider adding some of your own bright new talent. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
The Risk of Hiring Uncoachables
Whether your office is a field, court, or high-rise building, chemistry is essential to your team’s success. Chemistry starts and finishes with the people you hire, and trust to bring your team to the next level whether that is a championship title, or a new round of funding. All it takes is one uncoachable member of the team and you can kiss chemistry goodbye. “Uncoachables” can have tantalizing talent, but hiring them puts the entire fabric of your company at risk. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
Growing Your Sales Team With Video Interviews [Whitepaper]
Having competent, committed, trustworthy and professional people on your sales team is crucial to your company’s success. The recently launched Spark Hire whitepaper, entitled “Growing Your Sales Team With Video Interviews”, highlights the value of using video interviews when hiring for a sales team. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
2014 Staffing Industry Trend Report [Whitepaper]
Innovations in recruiting technology are being made everyday and it’s important that staffing professionals acknowledge them so as to improve hiring results for their clients. The recently launched Spark Hire whitepaper entitled, “The 2014 Staffing Industry Trend Report”, encourages staffing professionals to anticipate future trends and embrace cutting edge recruiting technology in order to stay ahead of competitors and beat them out to talented candidates. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
2014 Forecast for Video Interviewing [Whitepaper]
Video interviewing is like a successful child star. The budding technology catapulted to fame in no time and captured the hearts of many employers, recruiters, and staffing professionals worldwide. There’s no denying the potential of this hot HR trend as the technology grows more and more robust. However, similar to the uncertainty child actors face in their careers, if we fast-forward a few months, where will we find video interviewing? The answer lies in Spark Hire’s newly released whitepaper, “The 2014 Forecast for Video Interviewing.” Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh Continue reading
How Not to Treat A Job Candidate
During the process of hiring, recruiters can expect job candidates to be polite, courteous and generally keen to make that all-important good first impression. However, it can sometimes be all too easy for a recruiter to forget that such formalities should extend both ways during an interview – it’s important to treat candidates with professional courtesy, as improper treatment could give a negative impression of your business to a star candidate who may decide to look elsewhere. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
Why Personality (And Not Just Experience) Counts When You’re Hiring
When you’re scanning through resume after resume looking for your next great addition to the team, it’s easy to get hung up on a person’s experience level. You focus on how long they were with a particular organization and look at dates carefully. While you certainly want an experienced person on your team, it’s important that you don’t minimize the importance of a potential hire’s personality when they’re going through the interview process. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
More On the Video Interviewing and Discrimination Discussion
Spark Hire CEO Josh Tolan recently had a guest post featured on TheStreet.com, “4 Reasons Video Job Interviews Are Here to Stay”. Several readers commented and contributed to the discussion regarding discrimination and video interviews, which served as the inspiration for this blog post. Understandably, this is a topic that continues to surface as the technology grows in popularity so we would like to take this opportunity to touch on this topic further for our readers. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
