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#FirstInHR: How to Attract Candidates to Your Small Business

Your small business is growing, and there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done yourself. Hard as it is, you learn to loosen the reins and add an extra set of hands and a mind or two. These new employees bring fresh ideas to the table. The only problem, you haven’t hired…
02 December 2014

Creating Job Ads for the Right Candidates

Presenting a title, job duties and pay is pretty simple. Anyone can do that. Creating a job ad that is actually targeted toward qualified candidates is tougher. There are an estimated 5 million jobs posted online . The idea is to let your job ad grab the right attention and then do a lot of…
16 July 2013

6 Ways to Find Best Fit Talent

“HR should be every company’s ‘killer app.’ What could possibly be more important than who gets hired…” –Jack Welch, ex-CEO of GE Finding good candidates isn’t hard. Finding qualified applicants can be difficult. However, finding the best-fit talent, both in culture and in skill-set, can be excruciating. Your recruiters do all they can, but the…
24 June 2014

5 Questions to Determine Which Social Networks Are Best for Small Business

One of the biggest challenges for any small business is time. Between finding new employees , motivating them , building a winning team , and increasing productivity , there really aren’t too many moments to waste. So you certainly don’t want to waste precious time on online marketing endeavors that might not offer a decent…
28 June 2012

4 Reasons to Hire People Switching Careers

‘Changing careers’ is like a blinking red light on a resume, isn’t it? You want to know the why, how, what, when of the employee and ten-to-one odds, you may still not hire him or her. Here are four reasons you should increase the odds and go for the switcher: 1. They bring unrelated experience…
31 January 2012

4 More Ways to Find the Right Job Candidate Online

So, let’s say you’ve created a career opportunities page on your website, shared it on social media , and even bought a few bits of social advertising , but you still want to expand the search or try new avenues. Here are a few additional places and ways to look to find new employees! Niche…
05 July 2012

3 Fun Recruitment Videos That Engage Candidates

Imagine this. You’re 15 years old, working at an amusement park during summer break. You’re not taking tickets or working with roller coasters. Instead, you’re stuck working games. You know, cheesy stuff like Whac-a-Mole or Guess My Weight, the stuff that visitors aren’t psyched to do but might do anyway as they’re waiting for their…
12 August 2015