Resources
How to Build Trust in Your Agency as an Employer of Choice
Does recruitment advertising on your agency’s jobs website, via email, print, or social media become less effective over time? There are two schools of thought on this phenomenon. One is that humans pay attention to novel stimuli and that advertising grabs our attention when it is unique, creative, or delivered via a new channel... see more
Recruiting Older Workers
Is your agency looking for employees who will provide a high level of experience, performance, attendance, flexibility, and problem-solving skills? You may want to implement age-friendly recruitment strategies to include older workers. Here are some tips to help you get started.
How You Can Help Hiring Managers
Move More Quickly to a Hiring Decision
You’ve found a good group of candidates for the hard-to-please hiring manager. Final interviews went off without a hitch, and the hiring manager met with each. Now, the waiting begins. As days and weeks pass, the list slowly dwindles because candidates have lost interest or accepted other positions. Recruitment staff tell us repeatedly that... see more
Using Remnant Advertising
in Human Resources Recruiting
Just as quilters use remnant material to make useful (and beautiful) quilts, you can use remnant advertising to make good use of your agency's limited recruitment advertising budget.
Escaping a Career Rut
Are you in a career rut and looking for a way out? A simple solution is to shift from a linear to a cyclical mindset. Thinking this way enables us to see life’s challenges as opportunities, a season to pause and reflect on the type of work that would be fulfilling to the person we are now.
Staff Retention Plans that Work
There’s no reason to overhaul your entire talent management/human resources department to improve retention. You do need to focus on the entire lifecycle though, from onboarding to exit interviews. Here are five effective retention strategies you can adopt today at little or no cost to your organization.
Creating Talent Acquisition Plans
with Appreciative Inquiry
Want to write a talent acquisition plan and not quite sure where to start? Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a tool you can use to manage the process. AI focuses on identifying what is working well, analyzing why it is working well, and then doing more of it.
The Secret to Enhancing Creativity
In the last issue of Recruitment News You Can Use, we delved into what it means to do creative recruitment advertising. We explained how creative recruitment ads can capture the attention of job seekers and looked at some examples. In this issue, we explore ways to tap into our creativity. It turns out, there is one simple thing anyone can do in just minutes a day to enhance their creative abilities...
The New Colossus
Nationwide Public Sector Jobs honors those in cities and counties across the United States who work to provide refuge and welcome to exiles and immigrants. We share Emma Lazarus's 1883 poem "The New Colossus" along with our sincere wishes for a safe and happy Independence Day!