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When you are a small business or a start-up, it is important to have only the right people in your company. If not, wrong people can most certainly bring negativity and block the progress of your business.
‘Three types of people to Fire Immediately’ is an article by G. Michael Maddock ...
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Have you been losing good people? Does it seem like you spend as much time recruiting for new hires as you do replacing lost hires?
Investing money in a resource is not just about the salary and bonus checks. It is also about the time and effort spent in training. It’s ...
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Did you know that over 40% of the internet users watch videos? Video is now the most popular forms of online marketing. You can rule all major search engines if you market your videos in the right way. Anyone today can create and upload videos on the internet. But only ...
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When you start your business, you also start a culture. This culture is what helps you grow your business as per your original vision. When you hire new employees, it is crucial to ensure that they are educated about your culture.
Sarah Dunwell, the CEO of The Create Foundation has written ...
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Are you ready to hire employees for your business that you’ve been running solo for a while? Is it time for you to expand your small but growing team? If yes, then what you need is a check list. It is just an essential toolkit that will remind things that ...
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If there’s been a business slowdown for a while, paying out large bonuses would be difficult. You need an alternate that lets you reward and recognize employees without stretching your funds. In fact, your logic need not necessarily be a funds constraint. It could be organizational factors like internal competition ...
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Pinterest is the latest rage that has swept across social media users worldwide. It already has over 10 million registered users with over 12 million unique monthly visits. Basically, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard in which you can ‘pin’ images and videos that you like. Anand Patel, the ...
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Are you a start-up without dedicated people for marketing? Inability to afford a marketing team should not really stop your efforts to market your business. There are a lot of marketing action points that small business owners and entrepreneurs can take to. Instead of waiting for resources and wasting time, ...
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Redbox teamed up with Verizon to get into online streaming, which will compete with Netflix. This is a super example of leveraging a strong channel to take your growth to the next level. BUT more importantly, its how they are going about it. The below INC article has the scoop ...
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It is surprising when many business owners and entrepreneurs question, “Do I really need a blog, when I already have a website?” The common notion that they have is that it is too difficult to set up a blog and that maintaining one takes a lot of time. For all ...
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By Priya K | Recruiterbox
Small businesses do not have the luxury to digest hiring mistakes easily. They do not have a full grown HR department to manage disasters. So it is important for small businesses to get it right from the beginning. Here are some deadly pitfalls to avoid: ...
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Lynne S. Waters
Highlight your achievements
The easiest way of selling your company is highlighting your achievements. For example: “Our sales are growing at 20%, we received an award from our industry association, exclusive partner to XXX global brand in Michigan, exclusive distributor for XXX line of shoes in USA etc.”
Selling profile ...
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Facebook with over 800 million users is currently the most popular social media tool for business networking. Facebook page is most helpful for small businesses and large businesses alike to reach millions of people. Many organizations, entrepreneurs and small business owners set up Facebook page, but fail to ...
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By Priya K | Recruiterbox
Mistakes while hiring can cost your company more than time and money. It is necessary to understand and carefully avoid them during your recruiting process. Here are six hiring errors to avoid:
Depending on Generic Job Portals
If you depend only on generic job portals to place your ...
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Blekko – The newbie in the search engine market is gaining huge popularity for showing pre-screened, trustworthy results. Blekko aims at giving quality based, source based (not link based) and spam free search results.
David Zimmerman, the SEO Account Manager at Ephricon Web Marketing has explored Blekko and shared his findings ...
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By Priya K | Recruiterbox
Setting up a website ends the importance of content for many beginners, small business owners and entrepreneurs. They fail to realize that content is the key to higher search engine ranking, higher traffic, higher engagement, in turn higher conversions. Without content, your business does not exist ...
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Resume screening is often a painful task for small businesses or start-ups without dedicated recruiters. One might also miss the right candidate under a huge stack of resumes. Here are insights from 15 industry leaders and experts who have faced and overcome resume screening challenges. The following list ...
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By Lynne S. Waters | Recruiterbox
Choosing the right recruiting software these days is like recruiting itself. There are a lot of options but it is tough to know what to choose. Here are some important points to consider before you make your decision:
Features
Be sure of what you need in your ...
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By Priya K | Recruiterbox
If you are a small business owner or a start up, you cannot probably spend those precious business hours on hiring through traditional methods. However, ongoing recruiting is crucial for the growth of your business. So, how would you manage to hire candidates as well as ...
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Introduced by Priya K | Recruiterbox
How can you attract steady and growing stream of visitors to your blog every day? Why would someone visit your blog while there are millions of others on the internet? What would you do to charm your readers and make them come back for more?
It ...
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We had a chance to speak with Jessica Campbell, the HR Manager at Voices.com, an online marketplace connecting businesses with voice over talent. Below are some of her experiences.
How important is the job description? What should be communicated about the job and/or company as its the first hook?
The job ...
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By Raj Sheth | Recruiterbox
Buffer is a Twitter app that allows you to tweet any link at a pre-determined time using a browser plug-in. You can set up favorable times in your Buffer settings, and when you press the little Buffer button on any webpage that you are on – ...
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By Lynne S. Waters | Recruiterbox Team
Hiring a new guy is akin to selling a product these days isn’t it? You need to target the right employees, so that you don’t have too many extra CV’s to wade through. Plus, you’re competing with others to attract skilled labour, which, never ...
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By Lynne S. Waters | Recruiterbox Team
‘Changing careers’ is like a blinking red light on a resume, isn’t it? You want to know the why, how, what, when of the employee and ten-to-one odds, you may still not hire him or her. Here are four reasons you should increase the ...
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By Lynne S Waters | Recruiterbox Team
Planning in this economy is a little like waiting for the yellow light at the signal to change. You know its going to blink green, but it’s taking its own sweet time. Here’s 3 reasons to hire in this yellow light economy:
1. The confident ...
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By Jaime Campbell, CPA, MBA, CTT, MCT | Bartolomei Pucciarelli, LLC | www.bp-cpas.com
The use of a technology interview as a second-tier hiring technique is a brilliant one executed by business owners who understand that there is a lot to be gained when a candidate is asked to “deliver the goods” through authentic assessment ...
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We had a chance to talk to Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs, the leading site for finding telecommuting, part-time and other flexible job opportunities. She shared her experience and tips on Hiring a Researcher:
1. Where did you begin looking for a Researcher? Job Board listings, Private Referrals, Specific forums, Recruiters?
Clearly, I’m ...
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By Raj Sheth |
Co-founder of Recruiterbox
Whether you are a small or medium business, chances are that
you have a website. For many companies, even outside the technology sector, their
site is an integral part of their business.
While other pages on your site don’t change very often, the
careers page needs to be updated ...
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By Raghuveer Kancherla | Recruiterbox – Recruitment Software
I am a programmer, but
I have often found it difficult to identify other good programmers. Based on my
experience over the last few months, and some deliberation with my team on hiring
for Recruiterbox, here are three things that worked really well for me. The
tips below are generic ...
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Stripe, an incredibly fast growing online payments company, is using recruiterbox to manage their hiring. Here is why:
"I spent about two months looking through all of the applicant tracking systems out there. All of them were so heavyweight and bloated that we were ready to stick with our hiring spreadsheet forever.
But when ...
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Over the past few months, we have added customers from
different parts of the world. Groupon’s China offices are using recruiterbox,
and so are a few companies across Europe. Exchanging emails with these
customers has been super amusing!
When we got our first service request in French, we were a
little anxious. We wanted to ...
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Nominations for the 5th Annual Mashable Awards have begun, and we would like to encourage you to nominate recruiterbox in the Business category:
Breakout Startup of the Year, and
Best Digital Company of the Year.
Recruiterbox, which has been growing throughout 2011, has already achieved praise from customers and media alike - while Mass High ...
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Finding the right candidate for an opening can be like finding a needle in a haystack. While there is no perfect process, outlined below are three tips for more effective applicant screening:
1. Don’t rely on email and spreadsheetsFielding resumes in your email one by one, and tracking and sharing feedback ...
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Many of us struggle to get the right candidate into the position we are hiring for. While we may not always know the best place to look for these candidates, we do post our openings in a few relevant places and hope to receive some good choices.
A probable result: we ...
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11 Tips from different entrepreneurs:
http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/human-resources/when-to-make-your-first-hire ...
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Best Essay Help is an awesome place to get Essay writing help. Their verdict on Recruiterbox:-
RecruiterBox is a nicely designed application that can serve as a real helper for business owners and HR Managers. Though, in my humble opinion, every business should have its own recruiting software or application customized to ...
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Email has become such an integral part of our life. We
exchange notes, messages, attachments, invitations, news, subscriptions to
digital things and so much more. We live on our email. And now it is on our
phone as well. A little typing and a little clicking – vroom! It is so easy!
As the ...
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Raj Sheth (Recruiterbox) guest blogged on Enterprise Features - a point by point comparison of Cloud-based vs installed software:
http://enterprisefeatures.com/2011/06/top-10-myths-and-lies-used-by-installed-software-vendors-to-scare-you-away-from-the-cloud/ ...
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Does a small business need a hiring management system? And
what is a hiring management system anyway?
Jack Pellagi owns an advertising firm in Portsmouth, NH. He
started with just two people – his wife and himself. In six short months, and
three contracts later, he was in the market to hire five people. ...
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By Armando Llorente, Principal Consultant @HRe-sources, LLC
Let's face it - most employees today are very glad to have a job. Many individuals work harder than before because they often hear, “we have to do more with less." Employees are so focused on "To Do Lists" and deliverables, that they do ...
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You are in startup mode. Lots of things going on – your
product just launched, a revised version is in the works, marketing efforts are
on – and yes – all this is being done by you and your fellow co-founder. In the
midst of this madness, you need to hire an employee ...
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By the time the 200 companies mentioned below read this blog post, I am sure they will click on me and say hello.
Let me introduce myself – I am recruiterbox. I help startups and small companies manage their hiring process better. I shake with worry when I see these dynamic ...
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By Leah Macdonald, Corporate Recruiter @ Winter, Wyman
How to recruit the right talent - it is an age-old question
for small firms, who need to find the right fit fast. The challenges that face companies hiring
right now are vast in scope - I know, I
work at a 150+ person firm and specialize in ...
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At recruiterbox, one of the common things that users do is view candidate resumes. We show a quick preview of the resume so that users don't have to download and then open each file. We'd like this to be fast and efficient too (because a user typically screens scores of ...
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I intended to write this post about 4 months ago. I penned down my thoughts many times but it dint come out well. Finally, I think I have a satisfactory version of the post. Hope it is useful to you guys. So reeling back in time for about 4 months ...
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There is nothing wrong with doing things simply and
manually. In fact, many times I find it faster to do things manually than to
use a so called technology tool promising me productivity. How do I even measure
this productivity? If something takes me several minutes to understand and a
few days to get ...
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By Armando Llorente, Principal Consultant @HRe-sources, LLC
After weeks (and possibly months) of searching all channels for the "Ideal Candidate (i.e. the "needle in the haystack"), you pat yourself on the back for a job well-done because he/she has accepted your employer's offer.
The individual is now at your office for Day-One ...
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In the previous post (http://recruiterbox.com/blog/3/stages-of-recruitment),
I talked about how its useful to have stages of recruitment predefined
for the positions you are hiring for. Now these recruitment stages have
become richer and better than ever before.
Recruiterbox lets you have a user assigned to each of these stages!
For example, John ...
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Each opening in recruiterbox can have a predefined set of recruitment
stages. This helps to create a loose structure you can follow for
hiring people. As an example you can have the following stages in an
opening
Screening
Telephonic screening
Face to Face Interview
Offered & Accepted
Offered & Rejected
On Hold
Reject / Not a fit
Now ...
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Daily-deal bellwether Groupon is on a hiring spree in the US
and abroad. When the site first entered China, they were conducting nearly 500
interviews per week. For an immensely growing company like Groupon, or even for
smaller start-ups, managing the hiring process can be a nightmare. Inboxes get
spammed with resumes, which then ...
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In the early stages of a growing organization, every additional employee makes a much larger impact than at a large corporation. Employee No. 7 who is assuming responsibility as Director of Sales may have a game changing impact on the company, than Employee 700 who maybe joining as a Regional ...
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