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November 17, 2015 Julie Shenkman

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

November 10, 2015 Nikki La Croce

How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Recruiting Team

Between the new applicant tracking system you’ve purchased to augment the best facets of your recruitment department and the sourcing platform that has brought you some of the best talent you’ve seen in years, you can’t help but think there’s

October 29, 2015 Nikki La Croce

How Small Business Can Make Big Waves with HR Tech

HR Technology isn’t a luxury, but companies often think it is. Small companies, especially, may be tempted to forego the expense of using a third-party system to handle recruiting and HR functions and do it themselves. But as HR tech

October 22, 2015 Julie Shenkman

Recruiters: 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

September 25, 2015 Julie Shenkman

HR 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

August 18, 2015 Julie Shenkman

Are 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

June 29, 2015 Nikki La Croce

How to Hire for the One Position You Can’t Seem to Fill

In a candidate-driven market, finding the right people for the job can be hard. Up to 40% of employers report having a hard time filling positions. When you have empty seats at the office, you’re missing out on productivity and

June 24, 2015 Gina Deveney

How to Balance Your Workload & Hire at the Same Time

One of the most prominent small business trends in recent years is getting the hiring manager involved in the hiring process. It sounds obvious, but there was a time when hiring managers simply told recruiters to bring back the best

June 22, 2015 Gina Deveney

Building the Best Job Advertisement in 3 Parts

The hardest part of posting a new job advertisement is building the description itself. You know what the job entails and you even have a perfect candidate in mind, but how do you make sure your job ad appeals to

June 18, 2015 Julie Shenkman

7 Ways to Attract Candidates Like a Silicon Valley Startup

It seems like every day I read a news story about a tech startup in Silicon Valley that receives millions of dollars in funding and given that I got my start at a startup (See what I did there?) I