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Businesses See Career Sites as Key to Better Candidate Experience

Industry Trends

When businesses need to drum up sales, they advertise. From far-reaching billboards to targeted email blasts and everything in between, businesses use ads to entice people to visit their websites, and brick-and-mortar locations. With re ...

Five Ways Recruiters Can Attract Gen Z

Industry Trends

Roughly 61 million Gen Zers are about to graduate college and enter the U.S. workforce. They will drastically change the way recruiting is done. Generation Z, usually defined as people born starting in 1997, accounts for more than 86 million people i ...

The Class of 2019 Report

Industry Trends

Members of Gen Z, anyone born from 1997 onward according to Pew Research Center, are true digital natives: growing up with the internet, social media and smartphones from a very early age. As the oldest among this rising generation are just turning 2 ...

Candidate’s Expectations Are Changing

Industry Trends

In an age when people expect everything to be fast and easy— thanks to one-click shopping, mobile streaming from virtually anywhere and the automation of just about everything — employers need to differentiate themselves by overhauling wh ...

Navigating HR and Recruitment During Mergers and Acquisitions

Industry Trends

2018 was a big year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with the value of global M&A deals hitting $3.9 trillion and the fruition of high-profile deals including AT&T purchasing Time Warner, Dr Pepper Snapple Group merging with Keurig Gre ...

Three Things Uncovered at the UNLEASH Conference & Expo in London

Industry Trends

There’s one thing that employers, regardless of their size, industry and location have in common – they are on the hook for attracting and retaining talented employees to get the job done, whatever that may be. If they fail to do so, it&r ...

NASCAR, CDW to Present with iCIMS at SHRM Talent 2019

Industry Trends

First, you get the talent, then, you get the power. When the top 20 percent of most-talented candidates are selected for a role, a business often realizes a 30 percent increase in profitability, a 20 percent increase in sales and a 10 percent increas ...

Why Employers Need to Reevaluate Their Data Privacy Processes and Policies

Industry Trends

A staggering number of entities from banking institutions to social media to potential employers collect and use personal information - and, many times we just give it away without thinking twice. Yet, according to Pew Research Center, nearly two thi ...

New Privacy Laws in California: Take Your Consumer Data Privacy Seriously Now, Before It’s Too Late

Industry Trends

February 22, 2019

Data privacy should not be taken lightly. Although in early January at CES - the largest consumer tech show – virtually nothing was said about consumer data privacy to many attendees’ surprise, tech giants are placing a lot of effort in c ...

How Google Will Help Informed Candidates Find Jobs Faster

Industry Trends

February 19, 2019

With the tightest labor market in decades, candidates are going out of their way to be better informed, and strategic in their approach, when exploring new job opportunities. According to a 2018 study done by Aptitude Research Partners, companies def ...

Scaling Recruitment: How Isagenix Increased Its Applications 2000% in Just Two Years

Industry Trends

February 13, 2019

Rapid growth makes keeping up with headcount and business demands challenging for Isagenix International, a health and wellness company that offers nutrition and lifestyle solutions. Isagenix implementation manager and senior corporate recruiter, Luk ...

The Myths & Realities of the U.S. Gig Economy

Industry Trends

November 30, 2018

The “gig economy,” “on-demand economy” and “contingent workforce” consist of people taking short-term jobs instead of open-ended full- or part-time employment, and the participants fall into four categories: indepe ...