Ever since COVID-19 impacted the world, the employment market has been changing. First it was favoring employers, then it was favoring the job seekers, and as we entered 2023, it’s been a bit muddy. Will we see another shift in
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Author: Julie Shenkman
How Confident Are Job Seekers About Finding a Job in 2023?
A Nexxt survey asked job seekers how they feel about conducting a job search this year with so much uncertainty based on the economic landscape. We also learned who is searching for jobs at the moment and what they’re interested
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5 Questions to Make Your Recruitment Process More Efficient
When it comes to hiring, it may seem easier to rely on the pre-existing recruitment process. However, as your business grows and evolves, the questions you ask within the hiring team need to change and adapt, too. Here are some
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The Evergreen Talent Pool aka The Talent Community
As you may be aware, talent communities are channels through which recruiters like yourself can cultivate a growing pool of candidates who have a specific skill set, educational experience, professional experience, or interest in your company. These are candidates who
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When Hiring Innovative Employees, These Are the Traits You Should be Looking For
Every company may slightly define innovation in different terms, depending on if it’s a tech company, a marketing company, a retail business, etc. Tech companies might look for someone who is more inventive, marketing companies might look for a candidate
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Why Great Recruiting Happens When You Have Fewer Positions to Fill
As hiring practices shift with the changing economic climate, it’s important to stay positive and adaptive. While you might have fewer open positions to recruit for, this is an opportunity to dig deep and do insightful, meaningful work to find
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How Digital Marketing Strategies Can Improve Your Recruitment Process
In a competitive labor market, it’s important to think strategically about each and every dollar in your recruitment budget. We all know the age-old mantra “work smarter not harder”, so how do you get your recruitment dollars to work the
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Hiring For Personality Over Skills
We always had a hiring philosophy at Nexxt, look for fit, then for skills. We were looking for people who would thrive in our fast paced, sometimes silly, high energy work environment. We wanted (and still want) people who wanted
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The New Talent Market (We’re Facing)
If you’re an employer waiting for the workplace to go back to normal aka 2019, it is never going to happen. The credit goes to COVID-19 and it accelerated (but did not create) the following workplace trends; the desire for
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How to Improve a Candidate’s Experience Using Your ATS
Candidate experience is a series of interactions that a job seeker has throughout the recruitment process. They include any communication a candidate receives from your brand, the software systems you use throughout your recruitment process, and any interactions a candidate
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