How to Build a Solid Recruitment Plan & Actually Stick to It

Jan 9, 2018 | Recruiting

Recruiters are under a lot of pressure. Their judgment calls have a direct effect on a company’s bottom line, and you can bet the hiring manager is under about the same amount of pressure. One slip-up or messy interview can easily make or break the future of everyone...

Qualigence Named “Best & Brightest Companies to Work For” for Second Year in a Row

Jan 2, 2018 | Press Releases

For the second year in a row, Qualigence International, the largest strategic talent research and recruitment firm in the U.S., was deemed one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation. Every year, the National Association for Business...

How Recruiters Can Interview & Assess the Top 7 Soft Skills in 2018

Jan 1, 2018 | Recruiting

Name one thing that’s guaranteed to change. Here, I’ll go first: the workforce. Since the workforce changes so rapidly, employers need candidates who can stay current. And by that, we mean candidates have to be skilled not just in hard skills, but in soft skills, too....

6 Signs it’s Time to Break Up With Your Recruiter

Nov 21, 2017 | Recruiting

Good recruiters know how to have a conversation with candidates. They know how to develop a personal relationship and learn who candidates are as people. A good recruiter actively listens while the candidate talks, and they ask targeted questions to get to the heart...

Recruiting is Selling: The Power of Active Listening

Nov 7, 2017 | Recruiting

Do you know the correlation between recruiting and sales? Hint: they sell things. Salespeople sell services or products. Recruiters sell opportunities. A great salesperson is spot-on when making that initial connection with a prospect; they’re skilled at building...

3 Communication Tools to Become a Powerhouse Recruiter

Oct 31, 2017 | Recruiting

Our good friend Aristotle, arguably one of the founding fathers of the art of rhetoric, defined 3 modes of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. These modes are persuasive devices constructed from an appeal to ethics, emotions, and logical reasoning. But we’ll come...

How to Write an Awesome Cold LinkedIn InMail

Oct 23, 2017 | Recruiting

InMail response rates are up 25%. Exchanges between recruiters and LinkedIn members have increased by 40% over the last 2 years. And now, more than ever, folks are finding new roles through the InMails they receive. This means that, whether you’re using LinkedIn for...

8 Ideas to Help Boost Employee Morale

Oct 17, 2017 | Company Culture, Talent Optimization

Positive employee morale is everything. It’s the foundation of teamwork, cooperation, retention, productivity, confidence, revenue growth… should I keep going? If you’re a strong leader, you already know this. You keep a close eye on your employees, engage with them,...

AI is Not the Enemy: 4 Reasons Recruiters & AI Can Work Together

Oct 12, 2017 | Recruiting

Artificial intelligence isn’t the first disruption in the recruitment industry. Recruiting changed forever thanks to the emergence of job boards nearly twenty years ago. Were some individuals panic-stricken by the change? Maybe, but the disruption was a good one. Now,...

4 Simple Strategies to Recruit Millennials on Social Media

Oct 10, 2017 | Recruiting

Think about your recruiting efforts 10 years ago. Did you ever expect that 86% of working people in the first decade of their career would use social media to look for jobs and research potential employers? Did you expect that 59% of employees claim a company’s social...