Hiring

In this series, BambooHR compares and contrasts HR practices and challenges across a wide variety of industries. This week’s post focuses on hiring and retention issues within the education industry. HR is challenging work no matter what organization or industry you find yourself in. But in the education industry, two challenges stand out for HR […]

It’s one thing to recognize that your organization needs to do more—get more clients, spend more advertising dollars, fix more software bugs, create more ad campaigns. It’s another thing to organize the teams that make it possible to achieve these goals. If this seems like a lot for one person to figure out with a […]

Like any human relationship, bringing on a new employee is part strategy, part serendipity. But for a small business, there’s a third challenge in the mix: your time and budget are both limited. Smaller organizations don’t always have an HR team like large companies do. Your recruiting strategies may be undefined (or scribbled on a […]

When you see a movie that blows your mind or eat at a restaurant that leaves you craving more, what’s one of the first things you do afterward? If you’re like most of us, you tell your friends all about it. Employee referral programs, when used effectively, tap into this human desire to share things […]

We like to text. A lot. For Americans under the age of 50, texting is the dominant form of nonpersonal communication, with more than 6 billion texts sent a day (that’s 45 percent of the world’s texts!). Recruiters are no exception and why would they be? Compared to emailing candidates, text messaging yields better read […]

What is the overarching goal of your recruitment program? Before your organization can develop recruitment strategies, it needs to get recruiters, HR, and leadership on the same page with this simple question. The answer is usually more complicated than simply “to hire top talent”, because recruiting affects many parts of your organization in different ways. […]

Hiring for a new or recently opened position can be a complicated and stressful process. A lot of effort goes into attracting, vetting, interviewing, and ultimately securing a candidate for the job. Even after all that, sometimes you end up with a candidate who isn’t a good fit, and the process starts all over again. […]

It’s a difficult market for companies who are searching for the best candidates or specialized skills. On average, it takes a company 28 days to fill an open vacancy, with the most difficult and time consuming-challenge being finding and evaluating qualified candidates. The recent emergence of automated solutions in HRMS poses a real opportunity to resolve […]

The interviewing process can be overwhelming. You’re trying to gauge culture fit, determine qualifications, avoid bias, and compare multiple candidates—all while trying to make the individual on the other side of the table feel comfortable. If you haven’t prepared in advance, it’s easy to fall back on the most popular questions. But the most popular […]

Job Interview Attire 101 Even if your candidates aren’t asking you what they should wear to their job interview, you can be sure that they’re asking themselves. Helping them know what interview attire to wear to their job interview will go a long way as far as candidate experience goes. Later in the post, we […]