How to Hire
Topics include: attracting employees, company branding, effective job postings, acquiring job candidates, interviewing, hiring practices, onboarding, employee referral programs, talent sourcing, the engagement cycle, and more.
Featured How to Hire guides
Write a Job Description that Stands Out
Learn how to write a job description that attracts the right candidates to hire a team to help your business reach and exceed its goals.
Closing the Soft Skills Gap in the Canadian Workforce
If you’re having trouble finding workers with the skills you need to compete, you’re not alone. More than 80 percent of employers report that they are experiencing a skills gap — particularly a soft skills gap — in their workplace. Surprisingly, the hardest to find qualifications aren’t tech-focused hard skills. The top 10 soft skills...
Strategic Tips for Hiring Seasonal Employees
Tips and resources to attract and retain temporary and seasonal workers.
Hiring Freelancers for Your Business: 5 Steps
Are you hiring freelancers? Here are 5 steps you can take to set up a hiring process that will match your company with the right talent.
How to Build a Talent Pipeline in 5 Steps
Could your company benefit from having a constant pool of talented candidates year round? Here's how to build a talent pipeline to meet your needs.
5 Steps for Creating a Returnship Program
Will a returnship program work for your company? Here you'll learn what a returnship is, what it can do for you, and the right steps to take to set one up.
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And The Job Award Goes To…
Finding the best hire for that hard-to-fill position is no easy task – are you going to go with the front runner or the dark horse? Go with all the buzz, or look behind the scenes for a hidden gem, an unknown?
Find Candidates That Fit By Adding A Pay Scale To Your Job Ads
If you’ve been playing whack-a-mole with your salary listings, think about how it hampers candidates. Still keeping salary a secret in job ads? Sure it hoovers in a wider spatter of applicants. Maybe one will be that superstar you wouldn’t have sucked up otherwise. Then again it could clog the canister, vacuuming in mostly fluff and dander.Openly publishing pay cleans the recruitment nozzle, and helps make the hiring engine run smoother. There are some glitches too, so don’t turn on the power scrubbers lightly.
Monster And Google Explode Job Ad Visibility
This partnership means employers get even more bang per buck and broader reach.
Blockchain Technology and the Hiring Process
Though blockchain’s applications for HR are currently in the theoretical stage, learn how it could affect talent hiring.
Recycled Job Ads Are Not Marketing Tools
Here’s what to keep in mind as you compose some of the most important prose that your company puts forward.
Attracting Candidates Despite A Long Commute
Longer travel times tend to be a hindrance in luring and retaining top talent. What can you do?
Job Seeker Turn Offs
Believe it or not, your recruiting methods could be scaring away potential candidates and priceless talent. Any of these seem familiar?
Why you Should Consider a Customized Recruitment Strategy
Recruitment considerations to keep in mind when communicating with different industries – from retail to financial, tech and creative.
How To Fill a Hard To Fill Job In Your Organization
What do you do when you have a “cursed” role within your organisation that cannot be eliminated and it is so hard to fill?
Should Companies Be Heading Towards Blind Recruitment?
Can blind auditions (like The Voice) translate to corporate recruiting and, more importantly, should they?
Avoid Hiring Incorrectly
Here are some suggestions for you to consider if you ever find yourself in such a situation
Why Your Small Business Needs A Virtual Assistant
You need an extra hand when you run a small business. Someone to make a few sales calls, order supplies that run low and do your weekly bookkeeping?But what if you can’t afford to hire a full-time employee yet?
Why You Need to Be Investing in Mobile Recruitment
If your company is not ready to embrace mobile recruitment, well, this article will demonstrate how much trouble you really are in.
Supercharge Your Technical Recruiting With Talent Bin.
As talent scarcity, diversity hiring and social media converge, improve IT sourcing with leading-edge tools.
Meet Yuccies: The New Millennial You Need to Know About
What are the Yuccies? Learn about this millennial subset and great tips on how to market your brand to them.
Why Modern Companies Have Changed the Way they Recruit
Monster explores the reasons why recruitment has evolved and why companies should follow the new trends in recruitment in order to attract the best talent.