As the unemployment rate continues to drop, your hiring and retention processes require more focus to your organization continues to operate optimally. Within this focus, it is important to demonstrate the people behind the application to candidates applying for your open positions. When building or revising your hiring and retaining process, one key to keep […]
At Spark Hire, we have observed social sites like LinkedIn and Quora starting to offer users the ability to post videos. It has become pretty obvious the most engaging content on a social media site is its videos. As we have been working with video interviewing for over five years, we have received this trend […]
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson didn’t live and work in the daily grind HR professionals face today, but much of his perspective still rings […]
Talent acquisition is costly, especially when you make bad hires. Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, has spoken out on the negative impact bad hires make. He mentioned they cost his company “well over $100 million” over the course of its existence. How can you avoid making costly talent acquisition mistakes? Look internally. Futurestep’s November 2015 survey […]
There is so much that goes into hiring the right candidate for a job, and there’s a lot of pressure on HR departments to make sure that they get it right. It costs a ton of money and time to hire and onboard an employee, and employee turnover costs even more. The hiring process therefore […]