Posts Tagged ‘recruiting’

Rewriting the Rules for Recruiting

September 24th, 2009

The agencies and recruiters I know will hate me for this:

Though I am a recruiter, I come from a background in business and technology.  I am fascinated by system improvements and changing the status-quo.  Doing it the “way its been done” just doesn’t cut it anymore.

With that in mind, I am pleased to announce that Merrill|Recruiting is offering services specially designed for small/medium and startup businesses that need recruiting assistance, but do not need full-time recruiting staff.  Your company gets years of recruiting experience for less cost than hiring a high-school student.

This form of on-demand recruiting will enable companies to get a local, dedicated recruiter who actually gets to know your company’s needs, culture and unique environment.  Your recruiter will provide regular on-site support (at least 4 hours a week) and will leverage our entire company’s resources to help improve your company’s recruiting process from end-to-end, at no additional charge.

We have solutions for marketing jobs, gathering candidates, electronically managing candidate flow, and we will screen candidates and help your company hire the right people… the first time.

This is ideally suited for small/medium companies which anticipate hiring between 1-10 people per month at salary ranges less than $50k/yr.

Custom services are also available such as external recruiting vendor management, applicant tracking system installation and maintenance, building your own search-engine friendly jobs and career site, and assisting companies with recruiting in various real-world scenarios (like job fairs) and virtual situations like facebook. Occasional high-end ($50k+) recruiting tasks can be done as well, at rates far below what large agencies demand.

When you’re ready to hire better people and improve your bottom-line, let’s talk — 801-228-0529 or robert @ merrillrecruiting.com

Writing An Effective Online Job Posting

September 14th, 2009

job_postingIf you’re going to post a job online, you should take the time to do it right, or you’re opening yourself up to a flood of unqualified resumes (and people you have to follow up with that never should have applied in the first-place).

Most job postings do a reasonable job of bragging about a company, but the best ones focus on what is in it for the candidate.  Here’s a good outline of how your job description could be formed:

  • Job Title – Company name – Location
  • Description of the opportunities available for the right person.
  • List the KSAs required for the job, the knowledge, skills and abilities a person will need to succeed in the role.  This listing should include degrees or education that are needed, and you should designate if certain things are optional, as opposed to required.
  • Finally, describe your company’s culture, available benefits, and other items about your culture, the job location or other things pertaining to the lifestyle people would have working with you.

Overall, when writing your job posting, remember to put yourself in the candidate’s shoes.  Job seekers today want to know what’s in it for them, and will go far and wide to find it (or leave when you don’t provide it). Millennials (Gen Y) are the most-aggressive in this category.

There are some good suggestions online you can follow, such as this post at CollegeRecruiter, and this post about writing a job advertisement not a description.  You may want to consider your overall website as well, following tips from this post about how to use your company’s website better for job-postings.