hiring

March 9, 2023 Julie Shenkman

It Is Still a Job Seeker’s Market

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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February 23, 2023 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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February 7, 2023 Julie Shenkman

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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January 19, 2023 Julie Shenkman

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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January 3, 2023 Julie Shenkman

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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December 20, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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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December 6, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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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November 22, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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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November 8, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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

October 25, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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