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5 Things You Have to Remember to Do Before Sending Your Resume. If you could choose between a beautifully tailored outfit designed to fulfil all of your fashion dreams or a ready-to-wear baggy tee from some random retailer, which would you pick? That’s a rhetorical question. You’d obviously want that tailored outfit. Did I mention it comes with bespoke pockets? Well, it does. In the age of personalization, we want everything to be made to fit us. So, why would we expect a hiring manager to want anything different when they get a   stack of resumes   in response to a job offer? Whenever a hiring manager posts a job offer, they receive 250+ other resumes on average in response. From that pile, they need to find the one diamond that shines brighter than all the others. How can you expect your resume to shine bright like a diamond? If you send in a generic resume that you didn’t tailor to the job offer? You can’t. Plain and simple. I know, you p...
3 Strategies to Build Successful Recruitment Campaigns The aim of a job ad is to encourage the highest number of high-caliber candidates to click and apply. That’s the only moment of truth for a job ad. However, since studies have shown that an ad is only one piece of the puzzle, now is the time to stop playing the odds with talent sourcing? Candidates will be more likely to click and apply when you actively publish more online about your brand. The majority of people – 75% – are passive candidates, who could be tempted to apply for a new job if the right opportunity came along. Even if you aren’t recruiting for certain roles right now, creating an inbound talent pipeline means you will have hundreds more resumes on file than taking the reactive approach to recruitment. Winning the war for talent means bypass your competitors to find the best people, then recruiting them. This means using the three following strategies, with their respective measures of success: ...
Avoiding the Seven Sins of Recruitment and Selection It’s often been said that our employees are the backbone of every company and organization. In other words, it’s our employees and their productivity, their innovation and their passion that helps to facilitate success in today’s global economy. Talented employees create opportunities to develop new products or services and/or enter new competitive markets. They are also called upon to fill leadership roles and to build synergistic teams. Most of the HR Professionals fail to map out each step of the way or to see how each step is interrelated to making a final determination of the most capable of all the candidates presented. Thus, mistakes can be made at any of the recruitment and selection steps resulting in unexpected and unwanted turnover as well as the potential of making a “wrongful hire.” Let’s take a moment and review some of the elements of a poorly devised recruitment process and the dangers this creates. 1. ...
TIPS FOR IMPROVING THE OVERALL ON-BOARDING RATIO According to a survey, the offer rejection at small and mid-sized (& few large) organizations is close to 40% and at times more than that. It is all because the market today is completely candidate driven where the option lies in their hand to pick or drop any offer anytime (be at what stage of selection they are). Major factors identified are: Another lucrative offer, compensation and benefits, preferred location, family constraints. Patience is one term we can relate it quite well with the recruiters. Be it for sourcing the best candidates, getting them interviewed in everyone’s preferable time (except for the recruiter’s), waiting for the hiring manager’s feedback, waiting for the candidate’s notice period to get over (in case of joining) etc. These are different stages at which the recruiter’s tolerance is tested to its peak. And with all these efforts put in by the recruiters, there is no 100% surety of candidate joi...
10 CV Factors You Shouldn’t Forget If time spent writing your CV is really just time spent staring at a blank screen, you’re not alone, we’ve been there too. There are no two ways about it – condensing all of your skills and experience into one slick document can be challenging. We aren’t born knowing how to write a great CV, so it’s up to you to find out for yourself how to get the basics right. From font size and format to photos and filling in the gaps, there is a certain etiquette that should rarely be broken. Recruiters and employers receive constant streams of applications – don’t let a basic mistake send yours straight to the bottom of the pack. 1. How long should a CV be? When it comes to length, try to think of your CV as a tasty appetizer that will get people coming back for more. It should be around 2 pages long to ensure that you get your message across ...