Talent Trends in the New Year: Employee Referrals Remain the Best Source-of-Hire We’ve previously explored data from talent management company SilkRoad indicating that employee referrals were the top source of new hires. In the new year, as talent shortages continue to create stress for HR and recruiting professionals, they’re looking for ways to get ahead [...]
Over the past year, we’ve taken a deep dive into the top source of new hires, the employee referral program. Many human resources and talent acquisition professionals have discovered the power of deputizing existing employees as front-line recruiting allies in the search for top-tier talent. With JobShakers’ comprehensive employee referral program solution, we’ve made it [...]
Stressed Out by Data Tracking & Analytics? We Do it for You! One of the most important features of a successful employee referral program is accountability. Whether you’re reporting to executives, diagnosing shortfalls or areas of improvement, or simply monitoring the day-to-day performance of your program, it’s vital that HR and talent acquisition professionals have [...]
Training Your Employees to Power a Thriving Employee Referral Program The power of a thriving, well-implemented employee referral program is well documented. Companies who invest in developing their best and brightest employees as frontline recruiters in the war for talent have numerous advantages, including the ability to overcome talent shortages in highly competitive industries like [...]
The New Rules of Recruiting: What You Need to Know Recruiting in 2017 is a whole new ballgame. It’s no longer enough to post on job boards, cross your fingers, and hope that qualified candidates come to you. The shifting influence of technology, candidate expectations, and socially-connected workplaces have created new opportunities for HR and [...]
What’s the Top Source of New Hires? The War for Talent shows no signs of slowing down. Record-low unemployment has created a recruiting environment in which qualified, dedicated workers are hard to find and even harder to recruit. For HR and recruiting professionals, this means major headaches when it comes to filling open positions, stemming [...]
How Are You Building Your Employer Brand? In today’s competitive recruiting environment, it’s vital that HR and recruiters use every tool at their disposal to attract, hire, and retain qualified, hard-working employees. This has led to the increasing prominence of the employer brand - an organization’s reputation as an employer and the value proposition it [...]
To Recruit Millennials, Embrace a Mobile, Social Approach Currently, 1 in 3 American workers is a Millennial (part of the generation born between 1981 and 1997). By the year 2025, it’s projected that they will make up nearly 75 percent of the workforce. This generation, shaped by their unique relationship to technology and economic instability, [...]
How to Build an Employee Referral Program with Staying Power How to Build an Employee Referral Program with Staying Power We sing the praises of employee referral programs a lot. But what’s not to love? We’re passionate about the ability of referral programs to help HR and recruiting professionals turn their employees into an army [...]
How to Empower Your Employees to Impact Work Culture With all the buzz around workplace culture these days, Human Resources professionals are constantly bombarded with new strategies for building vibrant, productive work spaces. Of course, open plan offices with ping-pong tables aren’t enough - work culture is built by the people who take part in [...]