Counter offer: What to do when your candidate gets one
Are you kept up at night by fear of losing your candidate to a counter offer? Maybe it doesn’t haunt your sleep, but many recruiters dread a counter offer from the candidate’s current employer. If you’re in recruiting, chances are that you lost a ‘chosen one’ to a counter offer in the last three months. […]
How to Prevent Candidate Ghosting in Remote Recruiting
Are you using beetle-juice to ghost-bust candidates? No, we’re not talking about a Halloween trick but about breaking the silence that suddenly occurs when job seekers decide to put an end to an ongoing conversation about a job opening or even the interview process. Candidate ghosting can take the form of not responding to email, […]
The Guide for Compensation Strategy in Distributed Teams
Finding a fair and competitive compensation strategy for distributed teams is one of the biggest challenges for People Operation teams in 2022. Nowadays, the compensation package, company culture and purpose at work are all key factors of every employer brand. They determine if you will be able to attract top talent around the world. But […]
5 Tips For Closing a Candidate
Closing a candidate can be tough. Few things are more frustrating than finally making an offer to an applicant and then not close on them for various reasons. Who hasn’t had a candidate ghosting, going with a different offer or making requests at the last minute that you just can’t accommodate? Those final negotiations can […]
Remote Readiness: Can your new hires work remotely?
When you start realising the great advantages of recruiting remotely there is a big chance you will have at least one or two remote workers in your team by 2022. If you want these people to be successful, you’ll have to change the way your team communicates, relates to each other and how they collaborate […]
Remote Hiring Process: A Step by Step Guide
It’s hiring season once again which means it’s important to create a streamlined remote hiring process to get those hard to catch perfect candidates. We went into this briefly in our 10 Best Practices for Remote Recruiters. The four key steps we dive into are: Identifying your ideal candidate. Using talent assessments. The interview pipeline. […]
Nail Your Candidate Profile With Marketing Lessons
Did you know that Product and Marketing professionals spend hours defining who their buyer persona is? They do this in order to understand where to find them and how to communicate more effectively. Basically, marketers have been using data to better target their audiences for decades. Doing market research, selecting customer segments, building customer experience […]
How to build and manage strong candidate relationships
We all know developers get lots of job offers on a daily basis, but not all of those openings are aligned with candidates’ experience and backgrounds. This is one of the main reasons why developers and tech recruiters have a “tense” relationship. You can find many jokes about a tech person and a recruiter interacting, […]
Remote Hiring: 10 Best Practices for Recruiters
We all know that the world of work has changed. For many companies it’s been remote for a while and for some it’s staying that way. So what are the best practices for remote hiring? It’s important that every company has a structure when it comes to remote hiring. For in-person recruiting and hiring, seasoned […]
Communication in Virtual Recruiting: What is a red flag?
Based on a Monster Survey, after the COVID peak, almost 95% of workers are thinking of changing jobs. So how has virtual recruiting changed? And would must recruiters consider to succeed in virtual recruiting? One of the key aspects is understanding and using virtual communication. For a very long time candidates have been under a […]
Time Flexibility Guide: Flexitime and Condensed Work Weeks
The increasing demand for flexible work arrangements doesn’t only mean location flexibility, it also means that the conventional 9-5 workday is a thing of the past. Of course, this includes working hours becoming more flexible. But it can also mean some companies are shortening or even removing entire workdays from employees’ schedules. How does this […]
Recruiting for flexible positions: 10 Key Practices for HR & Talent Acquisition
As we all know, 2020 rocketed forward flexible work setups as we could have never imagined before. Some companies have completely moved to remote first environments whilst others choose the best of both worlds in hybrid setups. Talent acquisition teams face a big challenge in adapting these transitions into long term strategies. Harvard Business Review […]