Candidate Sourcing & Nurturing

How to Prioritize Hiring Quality and Speed

As a talent acquisition professional navigating the uncertainty of today’s job market, it’s crucial to prioritize two areas of recruiting that are always in season: quality and speed. But how can you achieve these goals, while dealing with unsteady market conditions and increased competition for top talent? Jobvite’s latest guide, The Enterprise Guide to Talent…

Recruitment Marketing Ideas to Attract Top Talent

The first, second, and third priority for all of your enterprise talent acquisition team members today is to engage and convert candidates at scale and continually enhance your recruiting strategy. To accomplish this, your best bet is to turn to advanced yet intuitive recruitment technology. Specifically, your business should invest in a leading candidate relationship…

6 Tips to Engage Candidates on Your Career Site

Where are job seekers most frequently discovering your open positions? You may be surprised to learn it’s actually on your career site. According to Employ data, two-thirds of candidates are looking for new opportunities on employer career sites directly. This is higher than the number of active job seekers looking at job boards (55%), social…

The Job Seeker Quadrant™: 4 Modern Candidate Personas

For employers today, understanding job seekers’ mindset and behavior is critical to connecting with them more effectively and staying competitive in a tight and uncertain labor market. Without knowing what to prioritize, it can be difficult for employers to determine what candidates respond to, what their motivations are, and how to effectively engage with them.…

What Benefits Are Most Likely to Attract Talent Today

From setting aside finances for personal growth to providing investment benefits, here are 11 answers to the questions, “Can you share the most helpful benefits you offer that help you attract desired talent at your organization? Why should others offer this benefit?” Budget for self-development At LiveCareer, we aim to hire talented people willing to…

How to Create a Better Candidate Sourcing Strategy

Candidate sourcing forms the bedrock upon which your entire recruitment process is built. Sure, your company also wants those actively looking for jobs to apply via your job postings on your career page and other online communities where you post openings. But, the truth is the best talent acquisition teams understand candidate sourcing — the…

Building an Employee Referral Program from Scratch

There are a lot of highly skilled and qualified job seekers out there. That said, not all of them will meet your specific organizational needs and preferences. And even when you find the ones that do, chances are you’re not the only one looking to recruit them. So, how do you zero in on finding…

15 Candidate Requirements That Are No Longer Required

How have you loosened candidate requirements or taken more risks recruiting in a tight labor market? To help you navigate this challenging hiring environment, we asked CEOs, business leaders, and recruiters what changes they have made to candidate requirements. From getting rid of cover letters to including candidates willing to relocate, there are multiple strategies…

10 Outdated Hiring Practices to Stop Using Today

Today’s job market has given employers considerable challenges when it comes to finding and hiring qualified potential candidates who are good fits for job openings. The competitive labor market has driven companies to rethink their recruiting strategies and look to optimize their hiring practices. With that in mind, we’ve compiled the top 10 outdated hiring…

How to Solve Your Candidate Conversion Problem

This article on candidate conversion was originally published in October 2021. It was republished with updated data and trends in October 2022. You keep hearing about record job openings as the country heads back to work. Yet here you are, sitting at your desk, looking at your ATS and wondering why it isn’t overflowing with…