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Finding the perfect candidate can be tough and sometimes time consuming. Whether you recruit IT professionals or construction workers, there is always some difficulty with getting them to respond to your job. So, how do you increase responses and make faster hires? We've come up with some recruitment tips on how to get those difficult candidates to respond! Personalize every message. A job candidates doesn't want to see some long, generic email that you send to everyone. If you personalize the message with somethinig that catches their eye, they are more likely to respond positively. Use and spell their name correctly, mention something specific about their resume and point out the factors of the job you think will appeal most to them. Trying texting candidates more . This has proven to be a great tool in recruitment these days and can increase candidates responses. Compose a short text that is brief and to the point. Also, include a link to the job so that the can...

Prioritizing talent and investing time in building your talent pool is critical for any staffing firm. A deep talent pool can be an agency/recruiters best friend. In an ideal world, when you have a job that needs filling you'd already have the perfect employee who is ready to fill the position immediately. In reality, it is unlikely that perfect candidate is ready to fill the role when you have the job for them. That is why a talent pool is a contingency plan you need to have in place. It is also a needed method of reducing the cost and time to hire and ensuring your businesses productivity is not affected too much by skill and resource shortages. So, how do you build a talent pool? We've outlined some steps for any company or recruiter to take to build their talent pool or keep their current one efficient.  Previous applicants.  Any candidate who applies for a position can be a future lead. Whether they have made it to...

This season's bachelorette, Rachel Lindsey, is shaping up to be the most popular and well-liked bachelorette so far! Rachel gained fan's attention during her time on The Bachelor . She was quickly recognized for her bubbly personality and down-to-earth attitude. Her journey began weeks ago and is coming to an end very soon. How did Rachel get here? She started with 31 eligible bachelors and is now down to her final three. Rachel's journey to love is a lot like finding the perfect candidate for a job. Recruiters have to source and narrow down their results based on who is the best fit. Here are some lessons we learned about recruiting from Rachel's journey... There's always going to fake resumes and candidates in the mix. Your job is to know how to sort through them and find the authentic ones. Much like Rachel's experience with Lucas aka "The Whaboom Guy" she knew he wasn't real and was not there for the right reasons so he was gone pret...

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, but you don't have to be Irish to get some good luck sent your way this year! Have you been searching for that four leaf clover when trying to find the perfect candidate? We've put together a list of ways you can find some luck when sourcing for those right candidates! Keep your rabbits foot and horseshoe close . Every recruiter needs their good luck charms when finding the right candidate. Using different tools can help you find new and unique ways to source a candidate. Try using these tools in your next search-  SourceHub , Entelo , or Simppler . Avoid the pinch.  When a recruiter is first given a new requirement the first thing they do is look for the keywords and prime skill set that the client is looking for. Just like a person being pinched for not wearing green on St.Patty's Day, your candidate will get the boot if they don't match with what the client is looking for. To ensure less candidate rejecti...

Pan Asia Resources is excited to unveil our new website – www.panasiaresources.com Even though redesigning the website has been a laborious task it has been thoroughly enjoyable and educative. The main goal for our new website was to make it user-friendly and offer our clients and candidates a thoroughly informative experience. Our team put their heads together to draft the content and create a fresh look for our website. We have taken a traditional approach towards content management while ensuring the website has a modern feel about it. The entire website process has helped familiarize ourselves with color themes, content and diagram placement and usability and design studies.  Our new website is well-segmented to highlight our core products. With the launch of this website, we are also proud to launch our new offering – Marketing with an Edge. We are currently working with clients to increase their Brand Visibility through marketing collaterals and Social Media Ma...

Love is in the air!  It's the season of hearts, flowers, and spending the day with your loved one or trying to find the "one." The world of recruiting today is much like your typical dating scene. We take the time and effort to find our soulmate and recruiting a candidate is no different. As recruiters, we source hundreds of resumes each day looking for that perfect match. Here are some love lessons on how you can find and romance a candidate: Finding love online.  The same way that you use Match.com to find that special someone is the same way recruiters use LinkedIn or Ladders to find that perfect match. Love is everywhere and diversified. Using the right site or social network can determine how you find that one.  Speed dating. Ever spent just 5 minutes getting to know someone? Yeah, us too. Recruiters go through hundreds of resumes each day and spend about a minute going over them. We use that time as a brief run down of their history and qualifications. ...

The world of recruiting is always evolving and becoming more and more competitive. It is the job of the recruiter to stay ahead of the game and source the best candidates. In today's social media savvy world the amount of sourcing done over social media has reached new heights.  The Facts: 94% of companies are using social media to source and recruit candidates 14.4 million job seekers have used social media to find a job 73% of companies successfully hired a candidate with social media The facts don't lie and if you're not in the social media game then you are falling behind. The one mistake that recruiters tend to make is by sticking to only LinkedIn when sourcing for candidates. According to Job Cast, 93% of companies use LinkedIn for recruiter when only about 36% of job seekers are active on LinkedIn. When you compare that number to Twitter and Facebook you see a huge difference. 66% of recruiters use Facebook and 54% use Twitter while 40% of job seeker...