I can remember the good ol days when you actually walked around with a stack of resumes and visited employers, can you? These days though applying on-line is the way to find a job and with that application process comes certain turn offs, or problems that may be costing you top talent. When it comes to the internet, on-line job boards, or applicant tracking systems lets be honest, simple and fast is successful and slow and time consuming is a big turn off. If your looking for talent the best way for you to handle this situation is to allow for a simple initial application process, once you have screened these applicants a more thorough process is acceptable. A great example is when you visit an on-line job board and you have spent hours creating a profile masterpiece, only to be re-directed to the employers site to repeat the entire process over again. If you are relying on auto population for resumes you are creating another headache sure the resume populates, but then you have to spend an hour doing QA. Today job seekers want simplicity not redundancy. Another big turn off is missing salary information, if it is such a big secret then perhaps its not that attractive to begin with. My suggestion is to stop dodging what could drag out your interview process even longer when they reject your offer. Be upfront on-line! Finally if your posting a job on-line and your not getting many responses it could be your generic job posting. It may look like spam, no details, or lack of information. Be as descriptive as possible.
Aloha, Mike Nale, Founder, www.helpwantedhawaii.info
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