Retailers face many challenges to attracting top talent in today's market. Job seekers often apply for multiple positions simultaneously, so building a strong brand is critical to winning the best candidates. This white paper describes a 3-step process for recruiting and retaining the best employees—and keeping them performing at their highest potential.

How job seekers discover jobs has changed drastically over the last 50 years. Few people comb through their local Classifieds, or apply door-to-door today. How they get those jobs has not changed. Job seekers might not shop their resumes door-todoor anymore, but they put that same information into a job application. Applicants that hit the role’s preferred requirements are scheduled for a phone screen, and some are brought in for an interview with the hiring manager.

In this eBook, we’ll take a look at how 10 short days and a few wrong turns can easily and inadvertently offend the candidates that might have been perfect hires. We’ll also offer tips on how to avoid these behavior problems to keep your talent search on track.

Workforce planning can be a daunting task, but it’s vital to ensuring that you can achieve company goals as efficiently as possible. Through the use of key metrics and worksheets, this eBook will help you calculate your hiring needs for the next 12 months. We will demystify the primary questions surrounding the creation of a functional hiring plan, including: • How does hiring relate to our goals? • How many people do we need? • How do we break that down by department? • How fast do we need to hire?

As recruiting continues its evolution into a more marketing focused function, recruiters are increasingly craving enhanced technology that speaks directly to their needs. But getting executive leadership to understand this fact—and invest in recruiting beyond the generic HR suite—is still an uphill battle. If you band with the right alliances, however, and uncover a vendor solution that can deliver the ROI you need while satisfying your IT and reporting requirements, you will make a strong business case that executives will have difficulty denying.

As the economy wavers, job seekers are caught in the middle. In our 7th annual report, we find that job seekers are feeling their way through the thicket. 74% of employees are open to a new job - despite the fact that many of them are satisfied in their current one! They’re concerned in the short term (39% say it’s harder to find a job than the year before), but optimistic (44%) in the long run. In an election year, understanding the perspective of job seekers is more important than ever, and this report delves deep into their attitudes, and the reality of work today.

Over the last three years, social networks have experienced exponential growth. Employee networks have grown accordingly, offering access to structured career data through sites like LinkedIn in particular, and unstructured data through networks like Facebook. Employees are continually adding new contacts and growing personal networks. Job posting tools that share jobs into social networks are often described as social referral tools, though this is an inaccurate and misleading description. The more sophisticated of these tools create unique links for sharing that enable employers to identify which of their employees originated the share. This is useful for recognition and reward, whilst the practice of sharing jobs in the wider network is to be encouraged in order to reach job seekers who are browsing or using search engines to identify opportunities. Job seekers are increasingly connecting with their peers in organizations they want to work for. Encouraging employees to share jobs in

Check out this iCIMS webcast to understand firsthand how to track your recruitment efforts, improve hiring manager engagement, and counteract traditional HR painpoints. Become your company's HR Hero and turn HR into a profit center by knowing and tracking key metrics for long-term ROI.

Once upon a time, finding candidates meant posting a job description…and then waiting. But today, everything’s different. • Jobs have changed • Jobseekers have changed • Technology has changed But here’s the kicker: When candidates change, and the recruiting environment changes, your job as a recruiter will change, too. Are you ready to adapt? If you aren't sure, don’t fret. A number of recruiters today are faced with the challenge of adjusting to the new climate. Now is the perfect time to analyze your behavior and rethink your perspective. Here’s a look at seven of the top “sins” recruiters commit today, along with valuable direction for correcting your bad habits.

The recruiting industry is not what it used to be. Jobs, technology, candidates, and strategies have all changed immensely over the past few years, as STEM positions proliferate, social media explodes, and a new generation of workers—complete with new habits, wants, and needs—has emerged. You've probably felt the impact of this evolution firsthand, and you've realized that it doesn't matter how many people are actually out there looking for jobs (or not looking for them, as the case might be). If you’re having trouble finding the right candidates for the right positions at the right times, you’re dealing with a talent shortage. In this eBook, we outline four critical ways you can ensure the development of a rich talent pool.

Recruiting has traditionally been considered a function of Human Resources, but with new tools on the market and new strategies in the air, some are saying it belongs with the marketing team. Others are suggesting Talent Acquisition be pulled out into it’s own unique department in larger organizations. There are innovative strategies that address the changing landscape of digital relationships and networks, and powerful new tools that can seem magical when you’re trying to find the perfect candidate for the available position. Understanding these strategies and harnessing these tools will prepare you to source, screen, interview and hire the best talent for your growing organization. Read this ebook to learn more.

It’s been a long road to recovery, but the economy is finally bouncing back after the Great Recession. Businesses are growing, companies are hiring and quality talent is in high demand. For the skilled worker, the job market has shifted in their favor, and professionals everywhere are taking advantage. The findings of the fifth annual Job Seeker Nation Study explore the progression of the job market, the modern job seeker’s approach to job hunting, and what this means for the workforce in 2015. Read this study to learn more.

In light of such popularity, many organizations are turning their attention to mobile recruiting. So, how do job seekers use mobile devices in their job searches? Using data from the global IBM WorkTrendsTM survey, the IBM Smarter Workforce Institute (SWI) analyzed why and how potential job seekers use mobile in their job searches and what concerns and expectations they have. The results provide organizations with clear insights into how they can attract talent via mobile technologies.

Find out what motivates recent graduates and the messages that resonate most as they explore finding a job and building a career. If you thought you understood the millennial marketplace, get ready to be surprised.

Did you know that 88% of all job seekers have at least one social networking profile? Because of this, 92% of companies have used or plan to use social media to recruit. If businesses aren't using social media for recruiting, they can potentially miss candidates that wouldn't be found elsewhere. Don't let your competition find these great candidates first, and even worse, your competition can find these great candidates.

To hire and retain top talent in today’s ultra competitive job market, you need accurate salary data. As the economy recovers and the unemployment rate declines, job seekers can be more selective—which often means waiting for the right salary. Although benefits, career paths, cultural fit, vacation time and work-life balance still matter, salary remains the most important factor to job seekers. In fact, two thirds of the respondents in Workforce 2020, an Oxford Economics and SAP SE study, said compensation matters most. Our Salary Guide helps you have more informed salary discussions and put together competitive compensation packages—the key to hiring and retaining the best talent.

Read iCIMS’ proprietary research on today’s job seeker behavior to understand where job seekers are looking for new opportunities and who is doing the looking. Learn how iCIMS’ applicant tracking system can help your company attract and hire the best talent.

This paper will outline why social recruiting is becoming an imperative for companies today and how you can get started in reaching highly qualified candidates and passive job seekers while building brand recognition and reducing sourcing costs.

Finding and retaining top talent is no easy task. The national unemployment rate is just about as low as it has been in almost a decade and job seekers are being more particular about where they want to work — and for how much money. In this “candidates’ market,” you need every advantage you can get. With that in mind, we hope the data in our 2018 Salary Guide will help you recruit, retain and pay employees at all levels — and win the competition for top talent.

This White Paper illustrates the trends that increase the complexity of recruitment, causing talent acquisition managers and HR leaders significant concern: the emergence of new technology, changing demographics and recruiting across borders and increasing globalisation.