There are various goals associated with regularly engaging your contacts, one of the most important goals is to regularly add value to your candidates throughout their career lifecycle. Many times this can be through career advice, industry news, training opportunities…

    So you’re ready to put a firm focus on candidate engagement—but where should you start? Here’s an overview of how putting a candidate engagement strategy in place may look: Understand your current situation: Find where your firm’s employment…

As the benefits of candidate engagement become more widely acknowledged and understood, you can expect that yours won’t be the only firm that puts a heavy focus on CE. Here are just a few ways you can set yourself apart…

Successful candidate engagement rests on the following four factors: Find Great Candidates Communicate Effectively & Efficiently Use Proactive Intelligence Deliver a Great End-to-End Experience   1. Find Great Candidates You need to ensure quality candidates can find you and that…

It can be tempting to think of the candidates in your database as resources who are there to be utilized, but the truth is that they’re essential partners in your business. Less than stellar candidate engagement can often be an…

Had enough of the scaremongering? But there’s good news in the works, although it will only apply to those who choose to commit seriously to candidate engagement.  More Lessons from Customer Experience Just as the repercussions of a negative customer…

So we know that candidate engagement is a vital cog in the modern day recruiting machine, but what if that cog remains unoiled? What are the effects of a minimal or non-existent candidate engagement strategy? Lessons from the Business of…

Proactivity in business is about not accepting the status quo, or “business as usual.” In the world of recruiting—where most companies and staffing firms face an acute talent shortage—proactivity is perhaps best embodied by the practice of candidate engagement.  …

Finding enough qualified talent is almost definitely the number one problem that modern-day recruiters and employers confront. Let’s face it – the perfect candidate for an open position is a tricky fish to catch. The most successful recruiting firms will…

In the hyper-competitive world of recruiting and staffing no aspect is quite so cut-throat as ‘time to submit’. This measure refers to the time it takes for a recruiting firm to submit candidates to a hiring company to fill a…