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 Message from Chuck Smith
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Chuck Smith
President of New Office/NewHire™ |
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The Applicant Flood: Are You Prepared?
Just in the last few weeks there have been a slew of articles in the business press about recruiting. All have a common theme: prepare for the deluge…of candidates.
In the Wall Street Journal, (May 11, 2009 Page R5), Inc. and the Economist, reporters focused on the effect of higher unemployment on the number of candidates applying for jobs. NewHire has data to support this reporting. The total number of candidates applying per position increased 66% from in April 2009 compared to April 2008 (84 candidates vs. 55). A recent conversation with marketing staff at Careerbuilder.com revealed that currently CareerBuilder.com is seeing over 100 views per hour for newly posted administrative jobs! If only 25% of those views turn into applicants you could see 100 candidates apply in the first 4 hours a recruitment ad is posted.
Each article also considered different tools that small and mid-market business can use to help manage the flood. NewHire users are already a step ahead of the game.
The business cycle will turn…it always does. At some point, you will be staffing up again. And, when you do, you will have an overwhelming number of candidates for each job.
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NewHire Upgrade: automated EOE surveys, reporting and more
NewHire applications can now include the Equal Employment Opportunity questionnaire on Race, Ethnicity and Gender with a click of a button! Candidates, applying for work on a NewHire application, can choose to opt out, or can self- identify their EOE status.
And when it comes time to generate that government report – guess what…? With another click (or 2) all EOE information, from every candidate that applied for the job, is consolidated in any easy-to-use MS Excel spreadsheet.
Ask any HR professional…this innovation will save HOURS of time spent compiling data from many sources.
Just as important…when you use the “Search Candidates” feature of NewHire to screen for the Best Available Talent, no information on candidate race, ethnicity or gender will be returned in the search results. Your candidate searches remain blind to these protected categories.
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