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How to host a hiring party: 9 steps to a successful recruiting event

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How to host a hiring party: 9 steps to a successful recruiting event

While most jobseekers turn to Google or Indeed to begin looking for work, moving your hiring strategy away from posting on job boards to throwing a hiring party just might get you more applicants. …

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Are Resumes the Worst (And Most Expensive) Way to Hire?

Let’s admit it - resumes are the worst! How many of these expressions sound familiar? Am I using the right font size? What should I do about that employment gap? How do I make my experience working…

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Employers: are your new hires being shocked on their first day?

Back when I was hiring for my ice cream store, I would get hundreds of resumes online and in-store to fill a small number of positions. On the surface, working in an ice cream store sounds like an ama…

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Employers: 5 Better Alternatives to Boring 1-on-1 Interviews!

There’s nothing wrong with the tried and true method of interviewing job seekers one-on-one with a series of questions and answers — if it works for you, great! That said, there are some pretty big do…

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These Are the Most Common Hiring Problems and the Tools You Need to Fix Them!

If you’re a hiring manager, you likely share a lot of similar challenges to your competitors when it comes to finding the right talent for your business. There are a ton of factors that could be affec…

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Employers: Keep These Things in Mind When Hiring Summer Employees

As the weather begins to warm, it’s time to think about beefing up your team of employees with some summer workers. While the process for hiring temporary staff is more or less the same, there are …

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These HigherMe Screening Tools Can Save You Hours of Precious Hiring Time

Going through tons of resumes that look more or less alike isn’t exactly the highlight of any manager’s day. If you’re lucky, the choice will be clear – but most of the time, you end up relying on you…

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The 5 Essential Employee Personalities You Need On Your Team

Are you looking to hire for the exact same qualities in every role for your business? Rookie mistake. Every manager has some idea or another of what the “perfect employee” looks like. Perhaps they’…

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13 Illegal Questions You Should NEVER Ask a Candidate During an Interview

Interviews are great for getting to know potential employees - but there is such thing as TMI (Too Much Information)! In fact, there are a ton of illegal questions that many employers get caught as…

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These Strange, Unorthodox Interview Questions Can Help You Hire Better Employees

Interviews over the years have become… predictable. The same old questions, the same old answers – it’s become a case of two complete strangers doing a familiar dance they’ve done with countless partn…

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