Should You Move Fast and Fire People?
Everyone talks about how hiring is expensive, so it’s important to take your time and do it right. While that’s true on some level, it’s just as important to have the right people in place at the right time. If you take too long to get a stellar product manager, brand marketer, or accountant involved …Continue Reading
When Perks Aren’t Enough to Attract Top Talent
It’s not an April Fool’s joke, but an actual list of perks available at tech companies. Here’s just a small sampling: – Bowling alley- Nacho bar- Lego stations- Free massages- Pool and ping pong tables There’s even a perks finder available where you can locate somewhat more substantive perks, such as gym discounts or telecommuting abilities. …Continue Reading
Why Mobile Commerce and Mobile Recruiting Alone Don’t Cut It
Mobile web traffic is expected to surpass desktop web traffic in the next year or two. But that doesn’t mean the desktop is going away entirely, nor that mobile is the only future we can foresee. With channel-agnostic platforms like Facebook and Twitter prepared to move wherever appeals to consumers most, and wearable fashion such …Continue Reading
Is Your Job Application Process Making Candidates Disgruntled?
The recruiter’s dual dilemma: either not enough candidates, or too many candidates. It’s a perpetual problem that oscillates wildly (we had to work in a Smiths reference today) depending on the type of job you’re working on and the credentials it requires. An entry-level sales job for an interesting company (or even a convenience store …Continue Reading
Overcoming the Relocation Hurdle for Small Markets
We talk a lot about mobile recruitment here in terms of finding candidates, but what about when you find the right candidate (perhaps a mythical purple squirrel candidate) and need to convince her to take a job? If you’re hiring for jobs in a small city, far from where your main talent base is located–hiring …Continue Reading
Negotiation Tips for Recruiters: Keep Your Eye on the Sky
Here at RecruitingHop, we focus a lot on recruiting, especially mobile recruiting. But what happens when your recruitment efforts are successful and you land an ideal candidate? How do you negotiate a deal that’s attractive to the candidate, yet meets the employer’s budget and maximizes your commission? Here are a few negotiation insights that will …Continue Reading
The Problem with Talent Communities: They’re All About the Recruiters
There’s a lot of buzz among recruiters about talent communities. The idea, from the recruiting side, is to build a talent community of dedicated professionals in a particular area. Professionals benefit by being connected with job opportunities and news in a particular area. Recruiters benefit from having a predefined talent pipeline of qualified people to …Continue Reading
Mobile Readiness Report Shows Boston Companies Underprepared on Mobile
Our new Mobile Readiness Report: Boston showcases the mobile readiness of Boston’s Top Places to Work (as defined by the Boston Globe). We found that, despite their status as top employers, the majority of companies lack a mobile ready web presence and just 4% of top employers are capable of displaying job offerings on mobile. …Continue Reading
Burgers, Burritos, and Ice Cream: Take a Bite Out of Hiring Problems with Junk Food Lessons
This TED talk from Heiko Fischer shows us how to question many of the assumptions made when running corporations. Whether thinking about burgers or burritos, the talk covers the many ways in which our organizations start to operate in ways that really don’t make sense for their members, and create all kinds of communication, infrastructure, …Continue Reading
Looking at Mobile through the Publisher Lens
Rights sales have fueled the publishing industry for many years. When you buy a book, you buy it only in that format, and primarily for yourself: you can’t resell it (at least not at scale) or claim the right to sell the title in a different market. Profits from exclusive distribution licensing in different formats …Continue Reading