Organizations need to secure the best possible talent in order to be competitive. Companies that employ strategic recruitment and selection methods are better able to attract and secure top talent. Recruitment strategies involve positive employer branding, marketing directed by recruitment, and the ability to sell positions to high performing talent. Strategic Recruitment Strategic recruitment can […]
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Onboarding is your secret weapon for attaining all sorts of goals for your business. For example, taking the time to make the best impression for new hires can help increase employee retention. Having a well-rounded training plan in place can catapult your new employee from lumbering novice to an agent of productive wizardry. The onboarding […]
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It’s no easy feat being a hiring manager in the digital age. A dozen online job boards means a dozen passwords and methods for posting openings. Over 150 million applicants are scouring those job search sites. Every position you post will likely receive hundreds of resumes. You have to sift through them all before you […]
What if your company managed its recruitment process exceptionally well? You would find and hire the right candidate on time and on budget. That new hire would evolve into a long-term, highly productive employee. If your company mastered recruiting, you would repeat this process over and over again. And—get this—your entire organization would be twice […]
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I’ve seen a lot of change in HR technology over the past decade as well as many employer pitfalls when it comes to leveraging technology to improve the quality of hire and increase the number of job applicants. Those employer pitfalls have really stuck out like a sore thumb this year, as the global pandemic […]
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Employers are facing more challenges than ever as they march into 2021. The pandemic, social unrest, and the general chaos of the past year have brought otherwise healthy companies to the brink, while decimating others that were unstable in the best of times. Our turbulent and uncertain era has illustrated one truth: the corporations that […]
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It’s been a long, roller coaster of a year…and we still have another month to go! The HR professional’s December to-do list is usually longer than a kid’s wish list for Santa. However, as with most things in 2020, your list is likely a bit different this year. It may include the same items from […]
There’s no question that the quest to find enough, qualified applicants is frequently a priority for employers–particularly those with positions that traditionally have high turnover. Are you interested in a “chicken or egg” debate? In HR that question is always, would we rather have a large quantity of applicants or a batch of high quality […]
Human resources professionals can improve employee onboarding by creating a process to complete new hire paperwork that is easy to follow and manage. Web-based (or digital) new hire forms are a great way to achieve this. Now, you may have people in your organization that can facilitate a process like this by using Excel, Word, […]
https://www.exacthire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Digital-New-Hire-Forms-01.jpg6861030Randi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCPhttps://www.exacthire.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ExactHire-Modern-Horizontal-2.svgRandi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCP2020-11-08 16:28:352023-04-26 09:25:52How to Create Digital New Hire Forms
What do you want first: the good news or the bad news? We’ve all faced this question before, and depending on who it came from, we’ve answered with an anxious smile or an indifferent shrug. Our reaction was based on an immediate calculation–just how bad could the news be? From the perspective of the person […]
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Increasingly, people in all areas of society are seeking transparency in leadership. We want to know the “why,” “how,” and “who” of decision-making, especially when those decisions affect us. Furthermore, we want to trust that decision makers are taking our interests into account when arriving at decisions. The desire for transparency is so strong that […]
The new normal of living amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic is causing many employers to adopt new business processes…and to adopt them quite quickly. For those organizations who are fortunate enough to continue hiring new employees, one of those business processes is to learn how to correctly onboard remote employees in a distributed workforce. A […]
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The term and practice of furloughing workers is often associated with industries such as automotive and construction, or, somewhat recently, the federal government–think “government shutdown.” However, in the past few weeks the COVID-19 pandemic has caused companies in other industries to begin the furlough of employees as well. So what is a furlough, and how […]
7 Tips for Remote Work Success + Kid Activity Ideas Can you relate to this remote work scenario? It was about three o’clock on Tuesday afternoon and I was engaged in another Zoom video conference related to COVID-19 planning for our business. My office is in the back of the house away from the main […]
What Are Some Examples of Recruitment Strategies
in Workforce Management/by Harlan SchafirOrganizations need to secure the best possible talent in order to be competitive. Companies that employ strategic recruitment and selection methods are better able to attract and secure top talent. Recruitment strategies involve positive employer branding, marketing directed by recruitment, and the ability to sell positions to high performing talent. Strategic Recruitment Strategic recruitment can […]
What are the Phases of Onboarding?
in Workforce Management/by Harlan SchafirOnboarding is your secret weapon for attaining all sorts of goals for your business. For example, taking the time to make the best impression for new hires can help increase employee retention. Having a well-rounded training plan in place can catapult your new employee from lumbering novice to an agent of productive wizardry. The onboarding […]
Why Are Applicant Tracking Systems Important?
in Workforce Management/by Randi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCPIt’s no easy feat being a hiring manager in the digital age. A dozen online job boards means a dozen passwords and methods for posting openings. Over 150 million applicants are scouring those job search sites. Every position you post will likely receive hundreds of resumes. You have to sift through them all before you […]
How to Develop a Strategy for Each Stage of the Recruitment Process
in Workforce Management/by Harlan SchafirWhat if your company managed its recruitment process exceptionally well? You would find and hire the right candidate on time and on budget. That new hire would evolve into a long-term, highly productive employee. If your company mastered recruiting, you would repeat this process over and over again. And—get this—your entire organization would be twice […]
High Unemployment is Not an Excuse to Avoid Hiring Process Improvement
in Workforce Management/by Harlan SchafirI’ve seen a lot of change in HR technology over the past decade as well as many employer pitfalls when it comes to leveraging technology to improve the quality of hire and increase the number of job applicants. Those employer pitfalls have really stuck out like a sore thumb this year, as the global pandemic […]
How Is Onboarding Related To Employee Retention?
in Workforce Management/by Harlan SchafirEmployers are facing more challenges than ever as they march into 2021. The pandemic, social unrest, and the general chaos of the past year have brought otherwise healthy companies to the brink, while decimating others that were unstable in the best of times. Our turbulent and uncertain era has illustrated one truth: the corporations that […]
End-of-Year HR Budget Spending
in Workforce Management/by Nancy Meyer, SHRM-CPIt’s been a long, roller coaster of a year…and we still have another month to go! The HR professional’s December to-do list is usually longer than a kid’s wish list for Santa. However, as with most things in 2020, your list is likely a bit different this year. It may include the same items from […]
How Do I Attract More Job Seekers?
in Workforce Management/by Randi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCPThere’s no question that the quest to find enough, qualified applicants is frequently a priority for employers–particularly those with positions that traditionally have high turnover. Are you interested in a “chicken or egg” debate? In HR that question is always, would we rather have a large quantity of applicants or a batch of high quality […]
How to Create Digital New Hire Forms
in Hiring Process, Workforce Management/by Randi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCPHuman resources professionals can improve employee onboarding by creating a process to complete new hire paperwork that is easy to follow and manage. Web-based (or digital) new hire forms are a great way to achieve this. Now, you may have people in your organization that can facilitate a process like this by using Excel, Word, […]
6 Considerations for Sharing Bad News
in Workforce Management/by Tom BransonWhat do you want first: the good news or the bad news? We’ve all faced this question before, and depending on who it came from, we’ve answered with an anxious smile or an indifferent shrug. Our reaction was based on an immediate calculation–just how bad could the news be? From the perspective of the person […]
Transparency in Leadership
in Workforce Management/by Tom BransonIncreasingly, people in all areas of society are seeking transparency in leadership. We want to know the “why,” “how,” and “who” of decision-making, especially when those decisions affect us. Furthermore, we want to trust that decision makers are taking our interests into account when arriving at decisions. The desire for transparency is so strong that […]
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in Workforce Management/by Kris Gooch5 Pro Tips for Quickly Pivoting to a Virtual Employee Onboarding Process
in Hiring Process/by Harlan SchafirThe new normal of living amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic is causing many employers to adopt new business processes…and to adopt them quite quickly. For those organizations who are fortunate enough to continue hiring new employees, one of those business processes is to learn how to correctly onboard remote employees in a distributed workforce. A […]
Managing a Furlough
in Workforce Management/by Tom BransonThe term and practice of furloughing workers is often associated with industries such as automotive and construction, or, somewhat recently, the federal government–think “government shutdown.” However, in the past few weeks the COVID-19 pandemic has caused companies in other industries to begin the furlough of employees as well. So what is a furlough, and how […]
Remote Work While Parenting and Teaching Kids
in Workforce Management/by Randi Renee Doerr, SPHR, SHRM-SCP7 Tips for Remote Work Success + Kid Activity Ideas Can you relate to this remote work scenario? It was about three o’clock on Tuesday afternoon and I was engaged in another Zoom video conference related to COVID-19 planning for our business. My office is in the back of the house away from the main […]