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The Other Side of the Table

Understanding the Hiring Process from the Candidate's View

In any organization, the recruitment mechanism is an intricate dance. Hiring managers approach this process armed with a checklist of skills, experiences, and cultural fit parameters. For them, it's about ensuring that the chosen candidate possesses the required expertise and aligns seamlessly with the company's ethos and future goals. By orchestrating interviews, screening resumes, and liaising with stakeholders, hiring managers aim to sculpt their company's future workforce. While hiring managers see a systematic process, candidates often see a maze. For them, every step, every email, every interaction can be both an opportunity and a challenge. By shifting our perspective to align with theirs, we can bridge the gap between organizational needs and candidate expectations, resulting in a smoother, more efficient hiring experience for all parties involved.

How Recruiters Are Using Data to Help Companies Hire

Traditional hiring practices used to rely on gut instincts, intuition, and a lot of luck – which required ample time and effort from HR teams and recruiting firms. However, a new era has begun – one where recruiters use hiring tools that harness the power of data to identify, attract, and retain top-tier talent.

Embrace a New Era

Make 2024 the Year of Culture-Focused Hiring/Recruiting

Psychology Behind Hiring Employees with Culture Alignment

In a talent market flooded with resumes and applications, it is more important than ever to learn how to find suitable candidates that set themselves apart in the sea of job applicants. While an impressive resume and a well-developed skill set always go over well, Hiring Managers are putting more emphasis on Culture Alignment to be sure that potential new hires fit well within the brand and personality of the company.

How to Hire for Culture Alignment

The link between company culture, growth, and performance is globalized. In fact, it has become a buzzword in the professional space, spanning from small business culture to corporate HR relations. With the prevalence being so vast yet so hard to define, many have lost sight of why it is brought up in the first place: Culture in the workplace is the core foundation for employees and organizational success.

Personality Tests as Recruitment Tools

The Six Big Challenges of the Remote Worker Hiring Process

How to Promote Company Culture

Part-Time and Temporary Workers Edition

Some may feel that companies should concentrate on their regular, full-time workforce and their cultural needs and be less concerned about the alignment of their part-time, seasonal, or temporary workforce. After all, those groups are not part of the main workforce and have less impact on the health of a company's culture…right? Well, no. You must engage these workers in a meaningful way on cultural issues, just as you do full-time teammates. Everyone in the company should be on the same page regarding company culture.

Culture Alignment Must-Haves in Your Next New Hire

We all want the perfect candidate…the one who checks all the boxes and is a perfect fit. But the reality is we face trade-offs…stronger soft skills at the expense of 10+ years of experience, or vice versa. Certain culture and values-focused traits transcend work experience or skills and become must-haves for every hire. While we all search for that elusive ‘ideal candidate,’ we offer up a few specific traits we think you should be looking for right now. While not exhaustive, this list hits on some broad themes that would help companies facing trying and challenging times ahead.

Forget Everything You’ve Ever Known about Hiring

Instead Focus on Culture

Tradition. A lot of people like it and it’s easy to get stuck on the same track doing what is familiar and comfortable. And many employers have fallen into that trap when it comes to hiring.