We often talk to recruiters and ask them in which industries they’re having challenges hiring and what it comes down to is they have challenges because they’re limiting their hires to just the United States. And sometimes going outside of
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Hey Employers, The Number of People That Want to Work on Thanksgiving Will Shock You!
Go Ahead and Stay Open on Thanksgiving, Your Employees Don’t Care! Back in 2012 when big box stores announced that they would be opening on Thanksgiving to allow shoppers to get a jump on their holiday shopping, American workers
Continue readingRecruiters: The Machines Are Coming
Nexxt’s VP of Talent Solutions, Joe Stubblebine wrote this insightful article for Strategic HR Review on what’s in store for the recruitment industry as more and more talent acquisition tools become automated. [Excerpted from Strategic HR Review] Companies spend an
Continue readingHR Pros Outline The Attributes That Define A Quality Candidate
We often hear from job seekers that they are constantly getting conflicting job search advice and given that there are tons of resources out there, we’re not surprised. One of the most common complaints we hear is, “How am I
Continue readingShould Diversity Hiring Become Extinct?
If you’ve had exposure to current events over the past few months, it’s no shock that equality is a major topic of conversation. I recently read an article by @KatrinaKibben which raised some interesting and insightful points about how the decision
Continue reading4 Companies Doing a Great Job of Promoting their Awesome Culture
We live in an age where digital relationships flourish perhaps more frequently than those IRL. (That’s code for “in real life” for those of you who may not be fluent in text speak.) Coming from the generation that bridges social
Continue readingAre We Having Trouble Hiring Because We’re Too Darn Picky?
In a recent survey of HR professionals conducted by us (Nexxt), we learned that HR Pros said that it is harder to find qualified candidates today than it was six months ago. Is it harder to find candidates because we’re
Continue reading74% of HR Professionals Are Liars: They Claim That They Don’t Research Candidates On Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn
I have a friend who is the associate director of a summer camp and each year she and her colleagues need to hire about 150 employees from cooks to counselors to tennis instructors. She and I met for lunch and
Continue readingA New Study from Nexxt Reveals How Job Seekers Will Search for Jobs in 2015
Nexxt, recently surveyed over 4,000 job seekers across the country to better understand who would be searching for jobs in 2015. Highlights from the Study Include: Who is searching for jobs What they plan to do to improve their searches
Continue readingWant to Improve Your Applicant Pool? Then Improve Your Job Postings
Recruiting quality candidates all begins with a well written job posting. The purpose of a job posting in general is to attract the best applicants and deter those candidates that simply apply to EVERY job. HR pros that take the
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