The Battle Between SMS and Social Media Recruiting: Who’s Winning?
Recruiters and companies are keeping up with trends in using social recruitment and SMS blast to achieve their business objectives, particularly, in finding the right talents that they should hire. More than 90% of recruiters go to social channels to search for and...
6 Outdated Recruitment Practices We Need to Retire
The state of recruitment has shifted to a more candidate-centric process, one that makes the experience clear-cut for them without making it complicated for the employer. Despite the advances in technology though, some recruiters still subscribed to somewhat outdated...
Is Your Hiring Process Taking Too Long?
No candidate or recruiter loves a hiring process that drags on. Yet, in 2015, Glassdoor Economic Research reported that the average interview process done by companies across the world could take up to 23 days. The duration could even be longer if you’re recruiting...
Mobile Recruitment: A Recruiter’s Most Powerful Weapon
Technology is phenomenally changing the face of talent acquisition and hiring. If, in the past, employers posted job advertisements in the classifieds to attract applicants or placed “WANTED” or “NOW HIRING” signs outside their place of business to get qualified...
GDPR: What You Need to Know as a Recruiter
Both technology and the Internet may have given us massive improvements in many aspects of our lives, but there are some cons that we must deal with, too. For the past years, issues regarding privacy and all the information being shared without permission have...Mosh and firewalls: How to tunnel all mosh/ssh traffic through a proxy
Mosh, short for “mobile shell”, is a “remote terminal application”. It allows you to access any server on the command-line that you have SSH access to. In contrast to SSH though, mosh is optimized for flaky internet: The connection keeps working even if your WiFi...Gathering around the ice cream truck: Meetups in a remote and nomadic team
We recently noticed a pattern: Members from the engageSPARK tech team meet all over Asia, in a semi ad-hoc fashion. What does that have to do with an ice cream truck? I’ll explain that, and why it’s a good thing, and how we’re going to make this an...
Give Your Referral Program a Boost with this Highly Effective System
Many companies integrate an employee referral program in their recruitment process. It has been a popular cost-effective method of acquiring more qualified candidates since it relies on employees to help find the right applicants for the company. While there are a lot...