Nexxt recently conducted a national survey of more than 4,000 job seekers and the findings are quite interesting, especially if you plan to grow your team in 2015. One thing’s for sure, get ready for a lot of confident applicants.
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Hard Skills or Soft Skills: What skills do you value most? [INFOGRAPHIC]
We surveyed more than 4,000 HR Pros and job seekers to learn what’s more important to them–hard skills or soft skills. Here’s what we learned:
Continue readingIf you want change, don’t hire yourself
When recruiting talent step out of your comfort zone. Yes, recruiting talent that will fit into your organization’s culture is important, but it doesn’t mean that you should discount candidates that don’t fit every requirement you’re seeking. Joe Weinlick, Vice
Continue readingThe 50 EASIEST Places to Hire Employees
It’s easy to say that the best places to source candidates will be in the largest cities, but that’s not necessarily true. Some of the places on our list may surprise you. If you’re in the market to recruit candidates
Continue readingPlaying Games With Candidates Might Help You Hire
“Turn off that Atari and get to bed!” My mom would yell up at me as I sat in my room, staring blankly at the TV screen playing my video games. Like most kids do, I’d stomp my feet in
Continue readingI Filled a Job You Didn’t Even Know You Had.
OK, so you’re a hiring manager, and you’ve just arrived at the office, grabbed your coffee and opened up your email inbox. There–in boldfaced lettering–the subject line of my email screams “JOB PROPOSAL MEMO”. And you’re thinking…great. Another spam from
Continue readingIs the Best Candidate the one Who’s Good at Getting Hired?
Are you hiring the best candidate for the job, or are you hiring the candidate who sold him/herself the best for the job? We perform over 10,000 resume critiques daily, and conduct research and surveys to better understand candidate attitudes
Continue reading2013 Named ‘The Year of the Unemployed Worker’
National survey reveals the voice of the job seeker, their confidence levels and what HR professionals say to expect in 2014 Nexxt announced results from a comprehensive national survey of unemployed Americans to illustrate their experience looking for work in
Continue readingThe ‘Sultan of Sourcing’ has Spoken!
OK, he’s finally done it. Shally Steckerl, the Jedi master of all things recruiting and sourcing, has spewed out his vast knowledge into 488 pages of pure sourcing joy. Earlier this month, Shally released his new book, The Talent Sourcing
Continue readingFacebook Skills: Another Shot Across the Bow
Seventy-two billion dollars. That’s what corporations spend to find, hire and manage talent. That’s a lot of money. And there’s literally tens of thousands of job boards, ATSs, CRMs and RPOs out there that are clamoring for a piece of
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