3 New Ways to Use LinkedIn in Your Recruitment Effort

Are you looking to connect with your next great candidate? Combining professional social media giant LinkedIn with a great recruitment platform and applicant tracking system such as Simplicant is a smart strategy for finding the best talent. LinkedIn can be a great resource for finding top quality candidates, especially passive candidates. Once you have located these top-notch candidates, you can use Simplicant to build your company an impressive talent pipeline.

Here are some ways you can use a next-gen recruiting platform such as Simplicant to link up with great talent on LinkedIn:  Continue reading

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A Checklist When You’re Focused on Hiring the Very Best Talent- Guest Post on TLNT

When your business is rapidly growing, it is important to hire the best talent. It is also important to hire this talent as quickly as possible so your company can continue to grow and thrive. This is one reason why your company should be sure to have a hiring checklist to keep your recruiting efforts on track.

Perhaps new funding has made it possible for your company to finally branch out and hire the employees you need to stay competitive in the marketplace. Or maybe some top flight talent has flown the coop and you are stuck looking for an equally talented replacement. Whatever the reason, one bad hiring decision can really cost your company. Continue reading

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How To Identify Good Candidates When Social Recruiting

Social recruiting is making it easier than ever for recruiters and hiring managers to find and hire great candidates. Considering companies are now using social media to fill 80 percent of all openings, social media recruitment tools are here to stay.

The social media profiles for talented job seekers now tell employers more than ever before about a candidate’s personality, qualifications, and ambition. This added information assists in the ability to make better and faster hiring decisions. Once you have determined exactly what kind of candidate you need for your open positions, you can then evaluate profiles to make sure they fit the specifications you need. Continue reading

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Simplicant Solutions: How Can I Tap Into Talent Communities?

Here at Simplicant, we want to help you find the best candidates for your open positions. We also want the process to be a fun, collaborative and useful exercise for you. We often get a lot of questions from readers about how to combine the Simplicant social networking and recruiting platform with best hiring practices. This column addresses some of these questions about all things hiring!

We’ve recently received some questions about talent communities. Our readers want to know what talent communities are, how to find them, and how best to utilize these communities in the hiring process. Continue reading

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