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3 Tips for Preventing a Hiring Hangover

March 17

I fear I've been neglecting a very important part of blogging. A part of blogging so fundamental, so important, and so substantial that I shudder to think how upset with me you must be, dear reader. I have been neglecting to write holiday-themed posts. For this, I am sorry. But hear me out: I've been living overseas,and the holidays here are, quite literally, foreign to me. Usually, they involve a lot of the color orange, and toast covered in celebratory sprinkles. Check out Stuff Dutch People Like and you'll see what I'm talking about! All of that changes today! Today, I will write a themed post about one of the most meaningful holidays that man has ever known. Saint Patrick's Day. In honor of this glorious celebration of dr……Read More

Awesome Content and the Tools I Used to Find it!

March 12

It’s that time again!Time to scour the internet in search of wonderful articles, and blog posts to share with you, our lovely readers.I’m actually lying a little bit… Just a touch of hyperbole really, it’s just that I no longer technically scour the internet when crafting these Link Love’s.Nope, no more scouring because I now have a zillion incredible tools that help me find awesome content. In fact, it’s become exceedingly easy to find useful, interesting, and, when I’m feeling silly, silly blog posts and articles to share.One of the newest tools I’m using is called Swayy. Swayy is a wonderful new content aggregation and sharing tool. It uses information gathered from your social networks to recommend content your community will enj……Read More

How to Use Facebook Ads to Hire for Fit

March 10

Hiring for fit is awesome.In case that last week’s article wasn’t enough to convince you of this, then how about this:“50% of hires fail within the first 18 months on the job”Okay, so that stat doesn’t actually say anything about hiring for fit… But when we look at why those hires typically fail, we see that it’s almost entirely due to the (ex) employee’s inability to mesh with their company’s culture and get along with co-workers and superiors.In fact, only around ten percent is due to incompetence or lack of skill, while the rest is entirely due to a lack of fit.Hiring for fit is pretty tricky though. You need to have a solid understanding of your own company: the management style, the culture, and the different personality types tha……Read More

Three Examples of Hiring for Fit Done Right

March 5

I still don't understand why hiring for fit is so contentious. Well, maybe I do. Instead of discussing hiring for fit done well, bloggers, journalists, and "experts" prefer to sensationalize the concept by conflating hiring for fit with hiring clones. They also enjoy referencing companies who just hire mini versions of their CEOs, or people who have the same haircut. They never actually provide us with any proof that such companies exist though... Not that I am saying they don't. Hello Abercrombie & Fitch! Let's take a look at some companies who make hiring for cultural fit, team fit, and brand fit work. Lululemon does an incredible job of hiring for fit. Literally. All of their staff has a passion for fitness, fashion, and health in line w……Read More

Hiring for Fit vs Hiring for Title... And Facebook

March 2

Retention is one of HR’s primary mandates. High turnover costs organizations tons of cash and man-hours, it disrupts team dynamics, and is just plain stressful.To quote everyone’s favorite meme: Ain’t nobody got time for that!When most of us discuss retention, we start the conversation post-hire. We look at incentives, engagement, and boosting employee morale. I recently wrote a blog post about creating a culture of retention that discussed exactly these points, but as important as all of those factors are, they don’t address the importance of recruiting.Recruiting for cultural fit is almost always discussed as a means to maintain company culture and brand. This is why we end up with some articles arguing that hiring for……Read More

The Future of Work Looks Bright!

February 26

Millennials are weird. I am one, so I can say that! Last week we talked about how the rising percentage of Gen Yers in the labor market is shaping recruiting methods. We also talked about how emojis are a very important part of my generation's identity. There's so much incredible information about millennial workers, recruiting Gen Y, and the cultural significance of emojis out there, that we thought we'd share some of it with you!Let's Link Love it up: One of the most interesting and detailed resources for better understanding a millennial candidate is the PWC Future of Work Survey. If you want all the info you need to win the hearts and minds of millennial workers, this is the place to start. Millennials want flexibility in t……Read More

Millennial Candidates: We Work Hard, We Do What We're Told, We Love Emojis

February 24

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Hello, my name is Samara Parker, and I am a millennial. My generation is entering the workforce en masse; we are basically taking over your office, your break room, and your life. For this, I am sorry. I am sorry for all the #selfies we post, our love of skinny jeans, and our obsession with Portland, Oregon. But I am not sorry for how my generation is pushing recruiting into the 21st century. It's about time! Gen Y is forcing recruiting to adopt social media strategies, optimize for mobile, and focus on employer branding. We're like that cute girl you want to date who motivates you to go to the gym, buy new shoes, and brush your teeth after eating garlicky food. What makes us so hot? Well...Millennials are motivated by chall……Read More

Back to Basics: 4 Great Articles on the Essentials of Social Recruiting

February 19

What's new with social recruiting? A lot of course! But, everyone is always covering the newest, shiniest topics; at Jobcast, we like to take the road less traveled, to boldly go where no social recruiting app has gone before... Well, actually, we mostly just try to cover the topics our readers want covered! That's why today's Link Love is all about the basics of social recruiting. The basic stuff that never changes, no matter how up to date your apps are, or even what social platforms you are using; these key tenants will help you optimize your social recruiting.Here are 4 essentials of social recruiting and 4 articles that will help you capitalize on them: You just gotta be you! And that you must appeal to the talent you want to at……Read More

Passive Candidates are Extra Mobile

February 17

You are all super savvy about hiring trends, of course you are… you read this blog! So, you all know that mobile is very important when it comes to social recruiting. What you may not know, is that the importance of having a mobile hiring strategy is even greater when it comes to recruiting passive candidates.Passive candidates choose mobile over desktop, when looking for work, even more frequently than their active counterparts.This probably has something to do with the fact that they are currently employed, and can’t exactly spend their days researching job posts on their company computers! In fact, many of the candidates you’re looking for don’t have any access to a computer while at their job. Retail workers, for ……Read More

Recruiting Passive Candidates: Twitter, Video, Mobile, and a Case Study

February 12

Passive Candidates, you know why they’re important, you know how to source them, and you know how I think you can recruit them. But what do I know?! Well, a fair bit actually… In fact I would say that social recruiting, with a specific focus on converting passive candidates, is one of the things I know best! It makes me very boring at parties! Anyways, now that I have bragged a bunch at you, I will confess, there are other passive candidate experts out there. In fact, don’t tell my boss, but a lot of those experts know a lot more than me, ssshhhh. Our secret. In return for your silence, I will introduce you to some of those experts.Here are 5 fantastic articles that will help you recruit passive candidates like a pro! And a ca……Read More

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