Best Hiring Practices for the Modern Recruiter - iCIMS Hiring...Modern Recruiting Truth #1: You Are Who You Hire American business author Jim Collins once said, “Great vision without
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When the right talent can’t be found, lost profit and
revenue can reach $23,000 per unfilled position2
and as much as 80 percent of employee turnover is
due to bad hiring decisions.3 The modern recruiter
must be agile in strategizing how to attract talent
during the many phases of company growth.
Whether the organization is growing rapidly or it
needs to solve for a leadership gap, new hires will
have to fill open positions while also helping to
sustain the current culture and values.
Truth #2: Successful Organizations Provide a Great Candidate Experience It has always been a priority in talent acquisition
to pay attention to the candidate experience first,
yet 60 percent of job seekers still report their
experience as poor.4
Organizations need to look at how they’re
offering a positive candidate experience by placing
a magnifying glass on what happens before
Best HiringPractices for theModern Recruiter Today’s recruitment landscape brings with it many challenges. The digital age has put the power in the candidate’s hands and modern recruiters know that previous recruiting tactics won’t cut it. In fact, 71 percent of hiring managers agree that to increase the quality of people they hire, the recruiting process requires improvement.1
To remain effective, hiring solutions and talent acquisition tools that are built for long-term recruitment success are needed.
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3 Hiring Truths for Modern RecruitingTruth #1: You Are Who You Hire American business author Jim Collins once said,
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
An organization is only as good as the people
working for it, and a company’s growth is based
on its ability to attract and hire top talent. The
responsibility to find top talent falls to the modern
recruiter, who must operate in an increasingly
competitive recruitment landscape while the
business scales.
...as much as 80 percent of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions.2
1. Research Now and Visier, The Demand for Data-Driven Talent Acquisition, 20162. U.S. Chamber Foundation, Managing the Talent Pipeline, 2016 3. The Harvard Business Review & Dice Insights, The Cost of Bad Hiring Decisions Runs High, 2015 4. Future Workplace, Career Arc Study: Workplace Trends, 2016
5. Hiring Insights, Competition for Talent, 2016 6. Hiring Insights, The Modern Job Seeker Report, 20177. Society for Human Resource Management, Business and Human Capital Challenges, 2015
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create powerful recruitment marketing campaigns
that engage passive candidates and result in strong
talent pools.
Proven Practice #3: Streamlined Management of Candidate Lifecycle Many of the interactions applicants have with an
organization’s hiring process are technology-driven,
making it critical for recruiters to have a strong set of
tools they can take with them wherever they go, from
the office to recruiting events. Plus, recruiters must have
the ability to move quickly through their workflow while
ensuring no candidate is left in the dark.
Enabling recruiters to easily engage with candidates
throughout the entire lifecycle is made possible
through iCIMS Connect. With features for passive
candidate management, talent nurturing, and
recruitment event management, Connect eliminates
the need for a disparate CRM system and streamlines
reporting into a single platform of record. As part
of the iCIMS Talent Acquisition Suite, Connect
empowers organizations to accelerate the
hiring process.
With proven practices, the right tools and trusted talent acquisition solutions, modern recruiters find and hire the right top talent faster, staying ahead of the curve in the war for talent.
How iCIMS Can HelpiCIMS is the leading provider of talent acquisition
solutions that help businesses win the war for top
talent. iCIMS empowers companies to manage their
entire hiring process within the industry’s most robust
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Built on the foundation
of a best-to-market talent acquisition software suite,
iCIMS’ PaaS framework, UNIFi, allows employers to
expand the capabilities of their core talent acquisition
technology by integrating with the largest partner
ecosystem in talent acquisition to help them attract,
find, screen, and manage candidates. Supporting
more than 3,500 contracted customers, iCIMS is one
of the largest and fastest-growing talent acquisition
solution providers.
To learn more, watch the iCIMS Talent Platform video