Tag: recruitment

Holiday Hiring Strategies for Q4

As the holiday season approaches, businesses across various industries prepare for one of the busiest times of the year. From retail stores to logistics companies, the demand for temporary staff skyrockets as consumer activity peaks. For employers, this means ramping up recruitment efforts to ensure they have the workforce needed to handle the holiday rush.…
Recruiting LGBTQ+ During Pride Month and Beyond

The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace has gained unprecedented momentum over the past decade. Including LGBTQ+ hiring within DEI initiatives not only fulfills ethical and compliance obligations but significantly contributes to a more dynamic, innovative, and competitive business environment.
Elevate Your Internal Workforce

Helping your internal workforce talent grow is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and enhancing employee satisfaction and loyalty. Here are several effective strategies to support the development of your internal talent: These strategies not only help in nurturing your internal talent but also contribute to building a robust, versatile, and committed workforce.
Spring Hiring Moves Outdoors

During the spring hiring season, industries that celebrate the great outdoors and benefit from the beautiful spring weather start a surge in hiring. Start your spring hiring today with a Job News jobBlast! jobBlasts are 7-day, actively managed job postings distributed across premium partner sites and social media for fast results. jobBlasts are the perfect…
Recruiting Has Gone Quiet

Recruiting practices have undergone significant transformations in recent times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Quiet firing” and “quiet quitting” in the past few years have now given way to a more innovative approach to HR called “quiet hiring” in 2023. Quiet hiring can be a positive strategy for both companies and employees, fostering growth for…
Personalizing the Candidate Experience

In 2023, employers continue to prioritize the candidate experience in order to overcome the challenges of a talent shortage, increased competition, and evolving candidate expectations. While AI can handle time consuming tasks like resume screening, candidate sourcing, and predictive analytics, today’s hiring managers can more strategically focus their time on creating a personalized hiring experience…
Writing Compelling Job Posts

At Job News we have a strict job staging process, which has revealed a number of good insights as to what makes a job posting more successful. Job postings that follow these best practices will typically generate more traffic to the posting itself. However, the biggest difference between a poorly composed job posting and a…
Job News In-Person Job Fairs & Targeted Digital jobBlasts

According to top sources, over 80% of employers plan to make new hires and hire back previously laid off and furloughed employees. However, 87% of employers say they are struggling to find qualified candidates. The Job News USA Recruitment Combo of In-Person Job Fair and Targeted Digital jobBlast can give employers the hiring edge they…
Hiring Frenzy to Famine in 2021

Not long ago everyone was writing about the hiring frenzy going on based on the strong BLS March report of 916,000 new jobs added (777,000 adjusted). However, the April jobs report was less than stellar at 266,000 new jobs added when close to a million jobs were projected. In May, we were back on a…
Podcasts: A Different Take on Recruitment

Long, vague job postings that require too much time to read are out. Concise postings that are quick and easy to digest are in. So how can you pack as much information into a job posting without dragging it out in a bunch of text? If you’re the city government of Edmonton, Canada, you add…