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How to Make Recruiters Work for Your Business

Summary: Learn how to use recruiters effectively to staff your business in this article.

4 Tips for Using a Staffing Firm to Fill Temp Jobs

Summary: If you want to enlist the help of a staffing firm to help you fill your temporary jobs, you should follow these 4 tips.

7 Ways to Find Good Talent without Stealing

Summary: Find good talent using these ethical methods instead of stealing candidates from competitors.

EmploymentCrossing’s Top 20 Most Popular Articles of 2015

These 20 articles reflect the central concerns for employers in 2015.

Why Recruiters Need to Think Like Marketers to Find the Right Candidates

Summary: Want to find the right candidates for your company? You need to start thinking like a marketer. Learn why in this article.

Cheat Sheet: 50 Questions to Ask Job Applicants during Interviews

Summary: Not sure what to ask during an interview? Here are 50 questions to choose from.

Should You Hire for a Position Internally or Use an Outside Hire?

Summary: A dilemma often faced by the hiring department is whether to hire someone internally or find an outside hire to fill a new position.

How Does a Non-Technical Company Recruit and Retain Technical Talent?

Summary: Recruiting technical talent can be difficult for a non-technical company, but it is still necessary in most companies to recruit and hire technical talent.

Don’t Be Fooled by the Extrovert Ideal: 3 Tips for Effective Hiring

Summary: The most successful companies are those that see the value in both introverts and extroverts and hire accordingly. Follow these 3 tips to achieve success in hiring.

How to Hire Interns Who Can Be Full Time Employees

The economy is a virtual playground filled with young entrepreneurs and technical wizards jumping into leadership and influential positions immediately after (even during) college. To compete in this intense recruiting market, employers are cultivating talent through internships and co-op programs - which have re-emerged as one of the most effective short- and long- term recruiting tools. But with higher risk and bigger gains at stake, the investment and skills required to develop and manage internship and co-op programs have grown exponentially. While more than 50 percent of employers offer internship programs, only a handful have successfully transformed interns into employees, learning experiences into on-the-job training, and academics into production.

Perspectives of Keyword Use in Scanning Resumes

The use of keywords in resumes is a relatively recent phenomenon – one that is concurrent with the rise of digital search technology and the adoption of applicant tracking software by businesses.

Should You Hire People Based on Passion Over Experience?

For today's hiring advice article, we decided to find out what hiring managers, recruiters, and anyone else in charge of hiring thought about this question: Should people hire based on passion over experience? We received quite a few responses to this question, and we are excited to be able to share these thoughts with you. After reading through these, if you want to add your own thoughts, feel free to do so in the comments below the article.

Pros and Cons of Job Posting in the Technology Age

We asked several experts what they thought about how posting jobs has changed in today's age of technology. Here is what they had to say:

Q & A with Susan L. Combs: ObamaCare and New Jobs

We asked Susan L. Combs, President of Combs & Company, a few questions about ObamaCare and new jobs, and wanted to share her responses with you. Here are the questions we asked her, and below are her responses.

When to Hire an Expert for a Full-Time Job and When as a Consultant

You got a resume before you that says you ultimately have the top expert with sufficient domain experience to solve problems in your organization. But as a recruiter, you need to find out at the interview table the fresh load of problems the expert might be bringing into the organization along with preconceptions.

Ways Job Posting Has Changed in the Last 10 Years

We spoke to several experts about ways that job posting has changed in the last decade. Here are their thoughts:

Taking a Risk on a New Hire

When you are meeting with candidates to fill an open position, how willing are you to take a leap of faith and hire a person who may seem perfect for the job but is missing a particular qualification? Perhaps the applicant did not finish their doctorate, or has a large gap in their employment. What can be overlooked in a candidates background? What circumstances would allow you to overlook a single or multiple problems for a candidate in the hiring process?

How Technology has Changed Job Search over the Last Decade

Robyn has been in academic advising, career counseling and business development for nearly 10 years. She takes great joy in sharing a student or alum's success in securing a job or internship, as well as providing interactive workshops and events to our students and alumni.

Excerpts on the Impact of Technology on Jobs from Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis

Excerpts on the Impact of Technology on Jobs from Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis.

Technology and global business practices have continuously raised the employee knowledge bar for most jobs. Yet the education-to-employment system has remained the same. We have failed to respond to the challenge of creating a larger talent pool of skilled people in our communities.

How Job Posting Has Been Affected by Technology

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