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How to Sell Top Candidates on Your Job Opening

It should go without saying that it’s important to have a well-qualified staff. Therefore, both parties of the job interview must sell themselves. The candidate needs to convince the employer why he...

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Should You Hire an Overqualified Job Applicant?

Even in a booming economy there will be the occasional applicant who is overqualified for your job opening. In today’s economy, it is a very common occurrence. At first glance, hiring an overqualified...

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How to Hire the Right Employees for Your Restaurant

The restaurant business is a labor-intensive industry. Whether you’re working to keep your Michelin star or wish to build momentum at your booming quick-service joint, your employees have the power to...

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How to Reject Applicants the Right Way

The recruitment and hiring process can be long and complex, so it’s easy to leave some tasks aside. However, it’s important to know how to reject applicants in a prompt and gracious way. This may fall...

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How to Sort Through Resumes

Once you’ve put up your employment posting on a free job board, you’re going to be faced with the question of how to sort through resumes. Dealing with all of them can be overwhelming, especially if...

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How To Boost Your Hiring With An Employee Referral Program

Contrary to what some job seekers think, not all employers and recruiters have vast databases of resumes they can pull up at anytime to find a qualified candidate to fill an open position. They don’t...

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How To Successfully Recruit New College Graduates

Before he was a best-selling author, Ron McGowan was a small business owner and recruiter. He wrote and placed help wanted ads, read hundreds of resumes and cover letters, interviewed and hired for...

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Should Employers Take Massive Open Online Courses Seriously?

The popularity of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), a course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people, is increasing at a rapid rate. “A MOOC aims for...

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How To Choose Between Two Great Applicants

Decisions, decisions. Recruiters, human resources professionals, and small business owners make them every day. There are easy decisions – commenting on a hot LinkedIn topic. There are more difficult...

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Turned Down: How to Handle a Rejected Job Offer

You found that perfect hire. She is the executive leader you want. He has the technical skills you need to take your team the next level. She has the education, experience and unique background that so...

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The Right Way To Incorporate Diversity Hiring Goals And Strategies

As the President and founder of Lila Kelly Associates, a Minnesota-based company that works with organizations across the country to develop and implement comprehensive, integrated and strategic...

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10 Tips to Help Organize Your Candidates in a Job Search

Do you see other recruiters who seem to make timely placements for their internal customers or external clients? Do you feel you have taken numerous courses and read articles but still can’t seem to...

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7 Keys to Finding Passive Job Candidates

Ask any recruiter – some of their best hires were the passive candidate. What is a passive candidate? One career site defined it as this “A passive candidate is someone who is not looking for a job,...

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When to Give Inexperienced Job Candidates a Shot

It’s not just entry-level or college graduates, inexperienced workers include seniors, mid-career-changers, or full-time parents returning to the workforce, among others. Experts weigh in on why you...

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What Traits Make a “Great Hire” Great?

What traits make a great hire? It varies per recruiter, HR professional or hiring manager as well as per industry and profession. For some, it’s the right amount of experience backed by a personality...

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Should You Hire a Job Hopper?

Job-hopping is a term normally used to describe a professional who changes their job frequently – typically staying in tenure for no longer than two years. Historically, employers have avoided...

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Recruiting Out-of-State Job Candidates

Technology continues to change the recruiting industry. And now so, more than ever, it allows HR professionals and recruiters to recruit, interview and hire out-of-state candidates. But even though...

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How to Deal with Pushy Job Candidates

What do you do when a candidate keeps calling or emailing about a job opportunity? How do you as an HR professional, recruiter or small business owner, deal with that overly persistent job seeker who...

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Recruiting Candidates to Small Town Jobs

Recruiters face challenges when hiring for jobs in small towns. And while there are a lot of great things going on in small town and rural America, it’s not always easy to convince the job seeker that...

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How to Judge Job Candidates Fairly

Don’t judge a book by a cover. What does that mean? It means that many candidates today, regardless of their skill or experience level, still do not know how to write a good bio/resume. Does that mean...

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Should It Matter if a Candidate Doesn’t Have a College Degree?

Should it matter if the candidate doesn’t have a college degree? Yes. And No. The reality is, there is no right or wrong answer. “It all depends on the real requirements of the job,” says Twin Cities...

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The Complete Guide to Hiring New College Graduates

Growing enterprises must think big to attract top talent, says Bob LaBombard, CEO of GradStaff, a company that serves as a career matchmaker, helping companies find the ideal fit for open entry-level...

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10 Crucial Things to Look for in a Resume

The experienced recruiter is skilled at reading, analyzing and quickly searching for pertinent information when reading resumes. But for the small business owner who never reads a resume but now has to...

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Is the Cheapest Candidate Always the Best?

There are a wide variety of mistakes that can be made during the hiring process. According to an article titled Here’s How To Avoid The 7 Worst Hiring Mistakes, the biggest mistakes can be centered...

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Why is it Taking So Long for Employers to Fill Open Jobs?

As Matthew Yglesias noted in his recent exploration of the question over at Vox, there are more job openings now than at any time since the halcyon days of the dot-com boom of the late 1990’s and early...

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How to Be a Great Passive Candidate

For most of your professional life, you’ve probably been told to be proactive when looking for a job. But you should also be just as proactive when you’re not looking. Today, employers are moving...

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4 Reasons to Run Pre-Employment Background Checks

Hiring is one of the riskiest decisions a hiring manager or business owner makes. As a small business owner, I’ve hired lots of people, and I’ve never had a problem that I’m aware of. That may be...

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Hiring? Why Internal Candidates Might Be Your Best Bet

Assembling a solid team of employees is crucial to building a successful business. When a new position becomes available in your company, it should be seen as an opportunity to evaluate your brand and...

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Should I Hire Someone Who Has Been Fired?

There are so many variables to consider when making a new hire. Does the candidate have the right experience? Will they be a culture fit? Do they seem ready to fill the position for the long term? In...

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Should I Hire a Friend?

It’s tempting, right? Hiring that friend. That trusted confidant who seems to “get” what you are trying to do with your business. After all, they agree with everything you say over coffee or at happy...

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Advice from HR Pros: The One Thing You Need to Do to Get Great Candidates

What’s the one thing HR professionals need to do to get great candidates? We asked a variety of HR and recruiting professionals. Here are their responses: Improve Job Postings Too many people copy and...

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Use These Weird Interview Tricks to Decide on a Candidate Fast

In a recent Twitter post Greg Harris, CEO at Quantum Workplace, an employee feedback software company, said this: “I’ve had 3 interviews with job candidates in the last week. Not one of them asked why...

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Are Cover Letters Hindering Your Hiring Process?

Yes. Absolutely. Ditch the cover letter! That’s the message from Josh Ridgeway, Director of MSP Delivery at Kavaliro, a national staffing agency that employs IT professionals, management and...

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Should you Hire Outside Your Industry?

One surefire way to change things up within your organization is to hire outside your industry. That’s because, if nothing changes, nothing changes, right? In other words, if your company continues to...

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Why a Recent Grad Could Be Your Best Candidate

If you’re an employer looking to hire this summer, consider hiring a recent college graduate. In fact, hiring a recent college graduate could be the right decision for your company. Here are five...

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Is Your Company Brand Keeping Top Candidates Away?

If you’re not attracting top talent, the right candidate or those with the necessary skills to fill your job openings, it’s time to reassess your company brand. Because a company’s brand not only...

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Can a Great Candidate Give a Bad Interview?

That star candidate with the rock-solid resume and glowing peer recommendations came to your office, conducted an interview – and flat out failed. How disappointing. But the simple answer is yes, a...

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When You and Your Colleague Disagree on a Candidate

When there are multiple people in the hiring and interviewing process, opinions can vary on who the best candidate is and why. Sometimes there is not a clear cut choice. What do recruiters or small...

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5 Ways To Get The Most Out of a Job Interview

Employers and recruiters constantly tell job seekers that, in order to succeed in a job interview, one has to spend time preparing for the job interview. Research the company, hiring managers say. Read...

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What to Look For In A Great Administrative Assistant

As technology has evolved, so has the role, responsibilities and skills required to succeed as an administrative assistant. Today’s top administrative assistants are tech-savvy and multi-talented. They...

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Removing These Gendered Keywords Gets You More Applicants

At ZipRecruiter we’re constantly optimizing our search logic in order to better match employers with job applicants. We’re also highly conscious of trends in the space. The topic of gender bias in job...

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Why You Should Give Candidates with a Criminal Background a Second Chance

There are numerous reasons to give candidates with a criminal background a second chance. That’s what B. Max Dubroff, SHRM-SCP, tells HR professionals in the many presentations he gives at industry...

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The Interview Tactics that Scare Off Candidates

The interview is an opportunity for both employers and job seekers to get to know each other, learn about the company, culture, and if there is a mutual match. So why then, are some interviewers still...

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10 Qualities All Great Hires Share, as Told by Hiring experts

The success of any given company – its values, the way it operates, how the team interacts and more – starts with the type of people who work there, says Deb LaMere, Vice President, Employee Experience...

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Why It’s Worth It To Hire Students

Hiring students can be a positive for any organization. Eric Johnson, an Executive Coach and Director of Graduate Career Services at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, says students are...

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4 Surefire Ways to Find the Right Candidates

Finding the right candidate can feel like searching for a needle in the haystack  if you aren’t sure of what you’re looking for. For this reason, recruiters have to know what it is they’re looking for...

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Don’t Love Your Candidates? Maybe Your Process Needs Work

Finding candidates with potential can be a tough task. That said, if you’re striking out more than you’re hitting home runs, chances are it’s not the talent, but rather the recruiting process....

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