These Bad Hiring Practices are Turning Off Candidates

Yes, recruiting is very much like dating.

The incessant metaphor is one you’re probably familiar with, one you love to hate because it’s hackneyed and true.

Courting people is an art, but charming candidates comes with higher risk. As a recruiter, the courtship represents you and the company, success relies on who you hire, and emphasizing quantity over quality simply isn’t smart or cost-effective. No pressure, right?

Avoid these five candidate pet peeves to hit the hiring home run.

4 Hard-to-Find Skills to Look for in Recruiters

A recruiter who’s good at recruiting doesn’t cut it anymore.

New tools and tech may be perpetually emerging to spot even the most covert candidates, but likewise, an increasing number of skilled people are finding alternate ways to communicate their abilities, get their resumes under more recruiters’ eyes, or to hide from them.

To make any hire these days, the modern recruiter has to think and behave like the modern candidate.

Check out these four knacks and hacks to look for when building your all-star hiring team.

26 Books Every Recruiter Should Read

Reading resumes, job descriptions, and candidate requirements may be part of the job, but if you’re looking for a change of scene, we have just the thing to one-up your hiring game.

We spoke with The Sourcing Institute President Shally Steckerl to get his list of must-reads for talent pros determined to change, improve, and learn the ins and outs of effective outreach, engagement, and hiring.

What we came up with is the official World’s Greatest Sourcer collection of 26 books that should be sitting on your nightstands, packed in your work bag, marked up and tagged on your desk, passed off to every recruiter you know – you get the idea. Here’s the grand list.

5 Outdated Ways to Recruit Candidates

By now, we hope your Rolodex is collecting dust in a box somewhere.

Old and new school recruiters may be at a constant battle over cold-calling, social recruiting, video interviewing, and mass messaging, but there are timeless sourcing practices keeping all talent pros from finding and hiring their ideal candidates.

Avoid these five hiring flubs to expand the pool of people fit for your company.

6 Underrated Skills to Look for in a Candidate

Still evaluating talent based on their alma mater? Among other outdated methods of qualifying talent, these passé practices taper a funnel that could easily fit several people who are likely frequently overlooked by other companies, too.

Identifying these candidates in the wild may take a little extra poking and digging, but we had a chat with a few recruiters and hiring managers to learn which traits in their best employees are turned a blind eye to the most.

How to Run a Secret Search for a CEO

As careful as the process is for hiring the right people for your team, there’s even greater pressure and attention placed on finding the best candidate to lead the team.

The CEO hunt and hire is hardly perfect. Think American Apparel’s Dov Charney, Microsoft’s Steve Balmer, Target’s Gregg Steinhafel, Groupon’s Andrew Mason, Pandora’s Joe Kennedy, Market Basket’s Arthur T. Demoulas.

Running a search for a CEO may prove to be one of the team’s biggest hiring challenges. As public or private as the company chooses to make the search, any communication gaps within and outside of the team can be a hitch to finding someone to hire and maintaining the morale of those on the team.

Here’s What You’re Doing Wrong with Your Referral Networks

“Who’s the smartest person you know?”

It’s a question thrown around the office, especially when hiring push comes to shove. Getting the team ramped up with your employee referral program has been long cited as a top source for finding new pools of candidate, and to no surprise.

Meet the World’s Greatest Sourcer

It could be you!

We’re excited to announce the kickoff of the World’s Greatest Sourcer, your chance to prove you’ve got the search skills to find and engage talent better than anyone else in the space. Seriously.

Here's the Most Overlooked Step of the Hiring Process

Wait.

Before you kick back, relax, and breathe a little air of relief after filling a few of your open positions, there’s one more thing we need to bug you about your latest hires.

4 Recruiting and HR Blogs to Add to Your Team’s Reading List

New hiring team? Check.

You’re already on your way to filling your open reqs. Sounds too good to be true, right? Training sourcers and recruiters is a continual cycle of practice, nurturing, trial-and-error, and success.

Among the tools, networks, and training guides you’ve equipped your team with, there should be a solid reading list of hiring books, blogs, and websites to help them stay updated, inspired, and innovative with their sourcing and engagement strategies.

Here’s what’s sitting on our virtual nightstand.

Announcing Entelo's Latest eBook: Predictions and Trends for Data-Driven Hiring in 2015

Do you know who you're hiring in 2015?

We took another look into our crystal ball with the hopes of finding some answers to our most pressing questions.

• What's in store for recruiters in the New Year?
• Are recruiters' and hiring managers' jobs changing?
• How can companies keep up with the war for talent by properly equipping their own hiring teams?
• What's with all the hubbub around data-driven hiring? Ephemeral trend, or a force to seriously be reckoned with?

Our crystal ball turned up zilch, so we turned to the industry's top influencers for their insights on engaging, hiring, and retaining talent in this golden age. 

Missed Our Webinar on 3 Sites to Find Hidden Tech Talent? Here’s the Quick Version

Want to source talent unseen by your recruiting competitors? We’ve got you covered.

We rounded off our tech recruiting webinar series this week with a final run-through of not just three, but five other networks to source the top engineers, data scientists, designers, and other candidates for your hard-to-fill roles.

Push aside those go-to networks saturated with other recruiters vying for the same people, and scope out tech talent on sites like AngelList, Quora, and Meetup.

Think you’ve sailed and sourced through all waters of the tech world to find the best candidates? Check out these highlights from our webinar and find out.

Introducing Entelo Track, the First Email Tool For Recruiters

Isn't it time recruiters had the same powerful email tools as salespeople?

We’re excited to announce the launch of Entelo Track, our latest feature equipping recruiters with the ability to send, schedule, and monitor candidate emails all within our powerful sourcing platform.

With this latest addition, Entelo users will be able to customize outreach, know when candidates are interacting with their emails, and learn optimal times and messaging styles to connect and engage talent.

Here's Why Your Application Process Needs a Revamp

Adding new open roles to your careers page feels a lot like casting a fishing net, but a net with holes is obviously no good.

Just as you’d expect your net to help attract good people for your open reqs, candidates similarly have specific presumptions about the ebb and flow of your application process.

An easy-to-understand, efficient application process is conducive to a good candidate experience – all of which plays a factor in making or breaking the decision to accept your offer.

We asked candidates about their biggest job hunting pains – check out their six suggestions for improving the application process.

Is Your Outreach Style Turning off Candidates?

Bad habits are hard to break, and among the list of your other resolutions, we hope you’ve reserved a special subsection for all your open req dreams and aspirations.

The first message recruiters send candidates is a courting, and getting under a candidate’s skin and rubbing the wrong way is a lot easier than most would think. We could probably come up with a list of candidate’s pet peeves about recruiters to take us into the next year. Instead, check out these six to start. Which ones are you guilty of?