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Anyone who has worked front of house knows the type: the candidate who looks great on paper and struggles on the floor. Carrying plates, using the till and learning the menu can be taught in days. Reading a table, staying calm when the kitchen is behind and keeping a colleague afloat on a busy night […]

Have you started to use text for your recruitment process? When you want to reach the best candidates in your industry, you have to communicate in the ways that your recruits prefer. Text messaging allows you to reach a wide audience, and makes the recruitment process go faster. Once decide to use a text messaging […]

As a recruiter, there are always ways to improve your recruiting strategy. From learning how to craft a better email to adding in text messaging, your strategy needs to reach out to recruits in the ways they want to be contacted. SMS texting has become an essential way to reach a wide demographic of applicants. […]

The search for talent in today’s candidate-driven market is no easy feat. Not only is it taking longer to fill roles, it is also increasingly expensive. The often touted solution to coping with this competitive hiring landscape is to focus on your employer brand. However, this solution is generally left shrouded in mystery, foregoing actually […]

The use of valid and reliable employee recruitment and selection methods is one of the most critical human resource management functions, providing meaningful and measurable impacts in an organization. A study just published in the Academy of Management Review[1], the flagship journal of the largest scientific association of management scholars worldwide, has provided further evidence […]

We’ve made considerable progress in the domain of talent management since 1997, the year when McKinsey & Company introduced the term “The War for Talent”. Today, almost all major organizations have some kind of talent management strategy in place, which is based on the competency model they’ve created; to align all the sub-functions of HRM […]