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5 Pro Tips to Improve Your Virtual Recruitment Process

Remote work is rising more rapidly than ever. In a special analysis performed by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics between 2005 and 2017, there was a 159% increase in remote work. By 2019 there were 4.7 million people in the U.S. working remotely. Stay at home orders in early 2020 pushed virtual recruitment to spike inevitably higher. Now, the trend has a more permanent outlook. Approximately 75 million U.S. employees (82%) say they want to continue working from home, at least weekly, when stay at home orders are lifted, according to a June 2020 Global Workplace Analytics report.  Similarly, because remote work has opened up previously unavailable talent pools to hiring teams, 64% of hiring managers in Cielo’s 2020 The Future of Work Survey are now more willing to consider remote workers. Another 94% expect remote work to become a key feature of workforces moving forward. The virtual recruitment revolution is moving full-speed ahead. As always, it’s your goal to find the best-fitting talent. Remote working opportunities split your opportunity to find new and quality talent wide open.  Even better, recruiting and hiring remote workers may not be as complicated as you think. Over half of hiring respondents in the Cielo survey (59%) believe technology and remote working will lead to more streamlined and effective recruitment.  Read the full article

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4 Video Interview Tips to Supercharge Higher Education Recruitment

Recruiting higher education employees has always been a challenge. However, shifts in hiring processes as a result of travel and health restrictions have put a halt to many in-person interview steps making it even more difficult. As a result, video interviews have become crucial for attracting and effectively evaluating candidates.  Interestingly, job seekers predicted this recruitment evolution over a year ago in Monster’s 2019 State of the Candidate Survey. In the survey, 72% of job seekers anticipated video in the future job search and 36% expected video calls with recruiters or potential employers in the interview process.  While the need for increased virtual tools is evident, age-old video interview tips aren’t enough to enhance the recruiting of higher education employees. You and your team must dive deeper into new, more intricate video interview tips to attract today’s candidates and increase assessment accuracy. Here are four video interview tips for recruiting top higher education employees in today’s hiring climate:  1. Highlight video interviews in the job description The candidate experience can be overwhelming for higher education job seekers. Applications alone can take candidates upwards of an hour to complete and submit. So, the idea of taking time for numerous in-person interviews is mind-boggling. Additionally, many job seekers do not live in the immediate area of your job opening. Read the full article