Today’s job market has created a conundrum for growing companies. The landscape is rich with qualified candidates. But issue a want ad, and some statistics note that 200 applications are likely to respond.
How can any employer reasonably cope with that flood of candidates?
Those corporations, healthcare organizations and government departments using an applicant tracking system find [...]
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ATS: A KEY BUSINESS SOLUTION IN ANY ECONOMY
Posted in How To, SaaS, applicant tracking, best practices, compliance, eeo, hirebridge, hiring, productivity, recruiting, screening on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Make Candidates Jump Through Hoops
Posted in How To, applicant tracking, best practices, hiring, job seekers, recruiting, resources, screening on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via CollegeRecruiter.com …
There’s been an interesting discussion in the NACE JobPlace discussion list about the perception by many employers that students who do a more effective job of searching for employment opportunities will have a better chance of being hired.
I agree but caution those who believe that the best candidates are those who try the [...]
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list
Posted in How To, Statistics, applicant tracking, best practices, compliance, hiring, recruiting, screening on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via MercuryNews.com …
A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant.
That revelation could be significant in light of this week’s disclosure that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating [...]
PreCheck and Hirebridge Announce Partnership to Provide Seamless Integration, Linking Background Screening and Applicant Tracking System
Posted in applicant tracking, best practices, compliance, hirebridge, hiring, productivity, recruiting, screening on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Houston, TX – PreCheck, Inc.™ and Hirebridge LLC, today announced the integration between PreCheck’s background screening service and Hirebridge’s applicant tracking and hiring management system. Through these system integrations, both companies are able to offer clients the five core integration components and as a result abridge the hiring processes for their clients.
“We saw this as a favorable [...]
What’s a Video Resume?
Posted in hiring, recruiting, screening on November 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If the belief that any press is good press holds true, Yale student Aleksey Vayner’s decision to create a self-promotional video resume will be deemed a huge success.
Let the debates begin (actually, they have and they are well under way):
Student’s video resume has Wall Street howling (from MSNBC)
Sagario: Quirky resume proves point: Never send a [...]
Hiring Managers Report 5 Most Common ‘Lies’ on Résumés
Posted in hiring, recruiting, screening on October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Fifty-seven percent of hiring managers say they have caught a lie on a candidate’s application, according to an online survey by CareerBuilder.com.
Among hiring managers who say they have caught a lie, 93 percent did not hire the candidate. Forty-three percent of hiring managers say they would automatically dismiss a candidate who fibbed on their résumé. [...]
OFCCP Information Resources
Posted in compliance, eeo, hiring, recruiting, resources, screening on October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some good resources for learning more about the US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP):
OFCCP Website:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/
Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/ofccp/faqs/offaqs.htm
WikiPedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFCCP
Godfrey & Kahn (Law Firm):
http://www.gklaw.com/publication.cfm?publication_id=442
If you would like to submit and additional resources, please send us an email to info@hirebridge.com
