What Is the Best Format for a Job Posting?
Many employers and recruiters are asking themselves what the best format is for a job posting in today's world. Is it best to use classified ads or online job sites? Maybe both? Maybe something else entirely? It can be confusing, so we asked for experts to tell us what they thought the best format for job posting is. Here is what they had to say.
When to Hire an Expert for a Full-Time Job and When as a Consultant
You got a resume before you that says you ultimately have the top expert with sufficient domain experience to solve problems in your organization. But as a recruiter, you need to find out at the interview table the fresh load of problems the expert might be bringing into the organization along with preconceptions.
Ways Job Posting Has Changed in the Last 10 Years
We spoke to several experts about ways that job posting has changed in the last decade. Here are their thoughts:
Taking a Risk on a New Hire
When you are meeting with candidates to fill an open position, how willing are you to take a leap of faith and hire a person who may seem perfect for the job but is missing a particular qualification? Perhaps the applicant did not finish their doctorate, or has a large gap in their employment. What can be overlooked in a candidates background? What circumstances would allow you to overlook a single or multiple problems for a candidate in the hiring process?
How Do You Determine What is Appropriate Attire for an Interview?
When you bring a person into your office for the first interview, how should that person be dressed? How should you be dressed? Traditionally, formal wear was ideal, but as offices become more casual, should interview standards change with the times? How can you communicate the correct attire to an applicant?
How Technology has Changed Job Search over the Last Decade
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Excerpts on the Impact of Technology on Jobs from Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis
Excerpts on the Impact of Technology on Jobs from Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis.
Technology and global business practices have continuously raised the employee knowledge bar for most jobs. Yet the education-to-employment system has remained the same. We have failed to respond to the challenge of creating a larger talent pool of skilled people in our communities.
How Job Posting Has Been Affected by Technology
How Technology has Transformed Job Postings
Top 3 observations:
- Deeper reach - global
- Compressed cycle to list and begin recruiting process
- More transparent activity for viewing other hiring trends at competition
How Technology has Changed Job Posting
Two experts share their views on how technology has changed job postings in current times.
How has technology changed job posting?
Strategies for Retaining and Attracting Employees: Sodexo’s Perspective
To attract and retain top talent, a company needs to have an authentic employer brand. This is important because it influences candidate decisions on which companies they want to join and whether or not they will stay.
An authentic employer brand can attract individuals to a company through the way that brand is communicated externally - via a career site, social media, recruiters and employees speaking to what it is like to work for that company. All of these elements work together to attract candidates and retain employees; however, it's also important to understand that candidates make decisions to join a company for many different reasons, including the job they will be doing, the location, the work environment, the opportunities for advancement, etc.
Retaining and Attracting Good Employees
One critical tip to attracting and retaining good employees is to constantly work on building and improving the company culture. Management must take an active role in ensuring that employees in all departments (Human Resources, Marketing, IT, Sales, etc.) understand the vision and values of the company. In addition, they must take action to ensure that people are passionate about coming to work each day.
How to Retain and Attract Good Employees
Companies let great talent slip through the cracks all the time. If you don’t have the manpower to give a good look at every resume coming in then you have to get smarter about choosing which resumes come in the door and which ones you actually do read.
How to Retain the Best Employees
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Two Strategies for Attracting the Best Employees
Here are two views from experts on a few strategies for attracting the best employees to your business.
Points of Pain in Entrepreneurial Process Implementation
In his book The E-Myth Revisited (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), Michael Gerber made a succinct observation on the roles of different stakeholders in an entrepreneurial business process. According to Gerber, “the entrepreneur’s job is to create the process, management’s job is to make sure the process is followed, and the technician’s job is to use the process.”
How Businesses Block Business Growth and Why They Do It
While trying to understand the phenomenon of business growth and how it could be replicated across different business contexts, I came across a book by Edward D. Hess and Jeanne Liedtka titled The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System, and Processes (Stanford, CA: Stanford Briefs, 2012). In the book the authors distilled the results of their more than 15 years of research in studying business growth, and the first chapter of their book describes how businesses themselves are engaged in Fighting the Physics of Business Growth.
Job Posting Experience from a Tech Company
I am a co-founder and the chief marketing officer of Voices.com, an online marketplace connecting businesses with professional voice talent. David Ciccarelli, co-founder and CEO of Voices.com, has over 10 years of experience hiring people.
Job Posting Processes
The Six Types of Collaboration Scenarios
A great deal of organization work, like teamwork, is driven by needs that require us to collaborate. Specific business objectives and targets become easier to achieve when there is good collaboration (not collusion or competition) existing between key players in an organization. However, success in collaboration is defined by company culture, perception of the crisis, understanding of collaboration, and traits of collaborating individuals.