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Hiring Strategies and Practices

Hiring for Jobs: Learning How to Trust Your Gut

Always trust your gut when it comes to hiring and online recruitment. Here’s why. Imagine yourself back in high school. You walk into a new class, sit down and meet the teacher for the first time. How long does it take you to figure out if you will like this teacher, get along with this […]

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Hiring Strategies and Practices

Effective Ways to Use Social Media to Find a Job

Social media is an online job system, one that more employers are using in today’s modern era. The old adage, it’s “who you know not what you know,” couldn’t be more accurate in a job search in today’s online job system … at least it feels true a lot of the time. In today’s job […]

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Human Resources

Four Steps That Explain How Job Posting Sites Work

Job applicants want the ease and convenience of applying for jobs online via job posting software. Unless it’s at a job fair or through networking, people are online doing their job searches in today’s market. It only makes sense to pair the ability to apply for the job right alongside the job description. At Ninja […]

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Hiring Strategies and Practices

The Top Benefits of Hiring Older Employees

There has been a lot of debate over whether younger, flashier Millennial counterparts are overshadowing mature (older) workers in today’s hiring world. In a recent survey by Adecco, the results were a little surprising.  Over 500 HR managers were surveyed by phone, and one of the key findings was that these managers prefer older, more […]

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Hiring Strategies and Practices

How to Weed Out Bad Applicants

When conducting job interviews, it’s hard to look through your crystal ball and make sure you’re hiring who you think you are.  When people submit online job applications, you can’t meet them and you don’t have the luxury of forming a first impression.  All you can do is hope that the words you’re reading on […]

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Hiring Strategies and Practices

The Best, Creative Job Interview Questions

What phrase or word best describes you? What color best represents you, and why? We’ve all heard weird job interview questions during the hiring process that make you think, “What does this have to do with anything?” Well, sometimes, the questions are posed just to see how fast people can think on their feet. Other times, the questions […]

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Hiring Strategies and Practices

How to Hire a Rockstar Ninja Employee Now

When we talk about hiring a ninja, we definitely don’t mean hiring a sword-wielding, nunchuck waving, fierce assassin. That would be awkward for everyone, not to mention a total liability in the workplace. A ninja is precise. A ninja is specialized. A ninja has legendary abilities. A ninja will get the job done. Every company needs ninjas […]

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Human Resources Online Employment Applications

Harnessing the Power of Online Job Descriptions for Job Posting Sites

If you’ve ever written a job description for a company, you know that it can be challenging and even awkward. How do you capture someone’s attention and make them want to apply for an online job posting on job posting websites with boring bullet points and a list of mundane tasks and duties? On top […]

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Online Employment Applications

Essential Job Interview and Resume Tips for the New Year

If you search for websites about applying for job, job interview tips or resume advice, things start to look the same. There are many tips out there about performing well in job interviews and having the best resume, but sometimes you can get information overload and do too much. Here are two essential lists that […]

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HR Compliance and Employment Laws Human Resources

Essential Year-End HR Compliance Activities

In some ways, 2020 has gone by in the blink of an eye. Yet, in other ways, it’s limped along at a snail’s pace. We know for sure that 2021 is around the bend, and it’s time for essential year-end HR compliance and activities.  Here’s a list of the top five activities to do, whether […]