How do you define the early-career candidate experience? According to industry experts, the candidate journey doesn’t start and end with the interview process. Instead, the candidate experience spans from the time a candidate first interacts with your company, to...
Across the country, companies are struggling to find qualified candidates. As of March, there were roughly 5 million more job vacancies than there were people to fill them, causing employers to become increasingly desperate to attract top talent. The so-called War for...
It’s a candidate-hot labor market, giving Gen Z candidates the freedom to pick and choose who they want to work for. If you want to attract early-career top talent, your organization must be ready to transform your candidate experience to meet their needs. And...
2022 has not been easy on recruiters. The recruiting field has always been cutthroat. Pre-pandemic, the turnover rate for recruiters was 25% — meaning one in every four recruiters left their job each year. But with the Great Resignation causing job vacancies to hit...
On-campus recruiting is back — and according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, companies are pulling out all the stops to attract top talent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of current job vacancies is at an all-time high. As of March...
What’s better: Being understaffed, or going through a hiring boom and risking layoffs? It’s a gamble no company wants to make, yet with today’s somewhat volatile hiring market, more and more recruiters are weighing the costs of overhiring. At one point, overhiring was...
Imagine this scenario: After a promising student completes a summer internship at your company, you extend a full-time job offer. They accept, and you conduct a minimal 2-3 touch points throughout the fall and winter months. In May, you shoot over an email message,...
Each year, between 50-60% of college students complete an internship. Of those students, 70% receive a full-time job offer from the company post-graduation. And yet, only half (56%, to be exact) will take the company up on its offer. The other half will choose to take...
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual recruiting has sought to overtake — if not entirely replace — in-person interviews. As companies begin to call employees back to in-office working environments, it begs the question: Will the virtual interview model...
Recruiting top talent requires time, money, and resources — so if you attract a qualified candidate, you want them to stick around. Unfortunately, today’s early-career candidates are spending less time at their first roles than previous generations. Research shows...
