How employer branding can boost recruitment success
One of the biggest challenges for employers is attracting top talent and differentiating themselves from the competition. When job seekers begin hunting for new roles, they might search for things like "best companies in XYZ city" or "top companies in the XYZ industry." Why? Because reputation is everything. What is employer branding? Employer branding is a communication strategy focused on a company's current and potential employees. It pulls together elements of branding and communication to [...]
6 Signs your company needs HR and recruiting help
If you're reading this article, chances are that you are wondering whether or not your company needs support in human resources (HR) and recruiting. Properly managed people operations are imperative to a company's success. When teams are well-balanced and company cultures healthy, productivity and revenue take a positive bump, too. Managing people operations and navigating the many regulations of HR and people operations are both time-consuming and difficult tasks. Hiring new employees, managing payrolls, fielding [...]
How to optimize your hiring process to find top performers
Hiring processes today are longer, more complex, and more role specific than in previous years. They cost organizations significant investment, taking up to eight months of onboarding for an employee to reach full productivity. Failing to hire the right candidate can eat into budgets and performance for the company. To strengthen their selections, companies are increasingly relying on long hiring processes. However, those extended processes run the risk of alienating potential candidates and failing to [...]
How to use competency frameworks for business success
Competency frameworks effectively define the skills, behaviors, and soft skills an employee needs to succeed in a specific role and the organization. These frameworks are some tools your HR can use for people-driven performance management, hiring, and team building. But, with their focus on capabilities, they’re also one of the most important. Competency is the sum of skills, knowledge, abilities, attributes, experience, personality traits, and motivators. Once your organization maps the competencies a position needs, [...]
The essentials of sales recruitment
Whether you’re a small retailer or the world’s largest technology company, you need a great sales team to succeed. Recruitment is a significant part of that process, as you need the right people in place to ensure smooth, successful operations. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of sales recruitment, from an overview of the process, to hiring tips, in-demand skills, and retention strategies. The sales recruitment process Different sales positions call for different employee [...]