Editors Note: For the last 16 days of December, SourceCon will be resharing our most popular articles from the year. Yes, each time you’ve turned around … Read more
Dramatically Improve Your Applicant Quality Using a Simple Side-By-Side Job Post Test
A quick and low-cost approach for improving the attraction power of your job postings The most damaging failure point in recruiting is having a weak job … Read more
How to Make Your Job Ads More Effective
One of my favorite people in the analytics world is Mark Goldberg (now at McFrank & Williams). He called me to talk about the use of data in creating … Read more
ZipRecruiter Testing an Interesting ‘Check Salary’ Feature on Job Ads, Including Its Own
ZipRecruiter is testing a new feature on its site that it hopes will get more employers to provide salary information about a job. On some job ads on … Read more
Recruitment Agency Getting Heat Over Job Ads for Models
If you’d heard about and are surprised by job advertisements out of a UK recruitment agency, at least rest assured you’re not alone. Yes, a … Read more
A Recruiting-technology Company Is Testing Unusual ‘Early Admittance’ Job Posts
In searching for its own employees, SmashFly is dabbling in “early admittance” — something many of us have seen done similarly in the … Read more
A Contrarian Perspective on Hiring for ‘Fit’
Many industries today are accelerating their focus on innovation to capture opportunities in ever-changing markets. CHROs and recruitment leaders are being … Read more
Try This 5-10-minute Experiment if You Are a Real Recruiting Human Being
A great analogy for candidates (both active and passive) these days is a tourist wandering into a foreign food and goods marketplace. What first starts out … Read more
What the #$##@ Is Human-centered Design and Why Should Anyone in Recruiting Care?
Jill inherited a recruiting function in a large company with operations in numerous locations across the world, although her primary concern was for the … Read more
Your Job Postings Aren’t Attracting Top Applicants, and a Simple Test Will Prove It
You simply can’t catch trophy fish with weak bait, and similarly, you can’t attract quality candidates with dull and ineffective job post descriptions. But … Read more