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3 Reasons You Should Be Optimizing Your Microsite’s SEO

SEO optimization is a key element to successful recruitment microsites. Having a strong SEO strategy in place will allow you to find candidates organically and will help provide direct candidates with a better microsite experience. On and off page SEO can be boosted via methods like blogging, link…

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Why Recruiters Should Trust in Advertising Agency Professionals

One of the biggest budgeting concerns for companies is deciding whether or not to hire professional advertising agencies specifically for recruitment branding and promotion. We understand that sometimes this sort of advertising can seem unnecessary, especially when you have an incredible internal…

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3 Tips to Acquire and Retain Top Talent in the Physician Sector

Physicians are among the hardest candidates to recruit. Healthcare in general is a field that is stacked with competition with some openings taking months to fill. In fact, the ASPR In-House Physician Recruitment Benchmarking Report from 2015 states, “Advanced Practice searches were filled in 95…

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Recruiters: Make Your LinkedIn Recruiting Strategies More Effective

Recruiters are some of the busiest people in the world, so it goes without saying that they don’t want to waste a minute of their day. One main ingredient in the sourcing candidate recipe is effective LinkedIn recruiting strategies since the platform is both useful for filling positions and…

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Inbound Recruitment Marketing Best Practices You’ll Love

There are a lot of facets to inbound marketing, but in my mind the word that describes it best is genuine. To be an inbound marketer, you need to genuinely want to help the population you are marketing to. Instead of pushing information out that people may not want to see, inbound marketing offers…

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Do You Have a Diversity Recruiting Plan?

In 2014, McKinsey researched hundreds of global companies, and released a report on diversity in the workplace. Some of the facts they discovered about the current state were shocking. Not only is lack of corporate diversity a problem; the situation is actually getting worse.

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The Candidate Experience and Inbound Marketing

If an incoming applicant rated your candidate experience today what sort of grade do you think you would you receive? Is it an advantage or an obstacle? Before we get into that though, let’s review how employers typically see the candidate experience and notice how disconnected it is from applicant…

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Five Considerations for Successful Diversity Recruiting

If you’re old enough, you might recall a time when companies hired minorities based solely on affirmative action. Many didn’t agree with this approach, and others saw it as the right thing to do but not necessarily good for their business. Done properly, diversity recruiting is essential for…

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Recruiting with Inbound Marketing

Recruitment is a lot like marketing. When you come right down to it, you’re selling something. With recruiting, it’s the idea of selling an experience that includes company culture, compensation and advancement opportunities. Marketing is something that has always tied into talent acquisition, but…

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Mobile Recruiting is Not the Future

Marketers, recruiters and human resources experts have been reporting that recruitment websites must be mobile for many years. The fact is mobile recruiting is not the future; it’s the present. According to the Pew Research Center’s 2015 survey data, “28% of Americans have used a smartphone as part…

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