by Chuck Solomon, MSW This article also appeared on LinkedIn. A recent survey of LinkedIn profile headshot images concludes that 39.1% are simply awful! So that statistic is far from scientific, it is merely based on my…
Improve Your Employer Brand By Eliminating These Recruiting Practices
Liz Ryan highlights five practices that can improve a company’s employer brand simply by eliminating some or all of these recruiting practices in her article Five Heartless Recruiting Practices That Need To Die. Here are five practices she suggests that need…
Employer Branding
Just One Driver Recruitment Tip
I have been studying recruiting tactics by major trucking and logistics companies lately and wanted to share some of what I have observed. Trucking has an immense driver recruiting challenge with nearly 50,000 unfilled driver openings nationally. Granted being…
Employer Branding, Human Resources, Recruiting, Recruitment Marketing
Recruitment Marketing Tips
Recruitment Marketing is the application of marketing strategies to attract new employees. These strategies are also typically used to attract new customers. It has the distinct benefit of attracting so-called, ‘passive’ candidates. This article contains a few helpful recruitment marketing…
Human Resources, Marketing
Rethinking The Job Board
My team at LineHire has been busy at work rethinking the job board. Here is a recent article from ExitEvent that chronicles our story. If your company is seeking an effective product for identifying top talent to hire without long-term…
Human Resources, Recruiting
Talking About Entrepreneurship with Lester Holt
Lester Holt, NBC News anchor and David Crabtree of WRAL stopped by my office a few weeks ago as part of program they are taping on Durham and entrepreneurship. They interviewed myself and a few others about our businesses. Hope…
Human Resources, Inspiration, Marketing
Recruiting Trends 2016
Some great information on the Top Recruiting Trends for 2016. Dr. John Sullivan offers up his recruiting trend predictions for 2016 in this two-part article. Also, included are his insights and observations of recruiter best practices. This is a must-read…
Human Resources, Recruiting
Chopsticks or fork? A LineHire case study
Recently, I was asked to contribute an article to the popular RecruitingTools.com blog by its editor Jackye Clayton. Her style and that of the blog is light, quick witted, and humorous and you often see references to 80’s music and…
Recruiting
Client Feedback, It’s A Good Thing
This post also appeared on LinkedIn. It’s always great to hear from clients whether they ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ what we are doing. Client feedback is a good thing! At LineHire, we are happy with the ‘likes’ but we are also…
Customer Success
Simple Hiring Tips For Small Business
If you are a small business owner wanting to grow. You really need to read this! Especially, if you own a home improvement/contracting businesses as finding qualified craftsmen is the single biggest impediment to your growth. For many many small businesses…