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Oct02
How Social Media Advertising Makes Your Candidate Experience Mobile-Friendly
As a Talent Acquisition professional, you understand the importance of a smooth candidate experience. If the application process is frustrating or outdated, great candidates may …
Sep04
7 Tips for Hiring on Facebook
Hiring the TOP talent requires more than just posting jobs on traditional job boards. With Facebook’s extensive reach and sophisticated features, it has become a ...
Aug29
Recruiting? Get Ready for The September Surge
September is career wave season, sparking a flurry of job-hunting excitement. With vacations wrapped up and the kids back in school, people are ready to ...
Jul24
7 Recruitment Marketing Tips to Master the Art of Candidate Attraction
Looking to thrive in the modern recruitment marketing ecosystem? These tips will help you stand out. 1. Take employer branding as a strategic imperative Employer ...
Jul17
The Best Job Board Alternative: Social Media Advertising for Recruitment
Are job boards bringing in the right candidates for you? And what about the costs – are you truly getting your money’s worth? If your ...
Jul10
Sourcing Candidates with Social Media Advertising
If you’re ready to say goodbye to job boards and desperate to find new sourcing solution channel, look no further. Social media advertising is all ...
Jul03
How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Funnel
Engaged in recruitment marketing efforts, but have you tapped into the potential of a recruitment marketing funnel? By understanding and applying the recruitment marketing funnel, ...
Jun25
How to Improve Your Candidate Experience
Have you ever wondered how an applicant’s decision to apply for one of your roles or accept your job offer hinges on their candidate experience? ...
May30
How to Attract Dream Candidates While You’re on Vacation
Whether it’s the ocean, the mountains, or a stay-cation that is calling you, I’m sure you’re ready for vacation. But taking a leave of absence ...
May29
TOP 6 Benefits of Using Facebook for Recruiting
Competing for excellent talent has become increasingly difficult and posting jobs on job boards alone will no longer be enough for building an amazing team. ...
May23
5 Signs You Should Shorten Your Recruitment Time
Finding the perfect candidate can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack, but could it be that your hiring process is making ...
Apr17
Recruiters’ Guide to Facebook Ads
Why wait for job boards to generate enough candidates for you, crossing your fingers? Facebook Ads allows you to quickly recruit TOP talent without burning through ...
Mar28
How to Use Text Recruiting for Hiring Faster
So you’re hiring… But are you leveraging text recruiting yet? This question is crucial because in recruitment today, time equals money, and TOP talent doesn’t ...
Mar15
Why Recruiters Can’t Rely on Traditional Job Boards Like Indeed Alone
The latest changes in job boards have shown that just because they have been a default sourcing channel for ages, doesn’t mean they’re the best ...
Feb28
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Recruitment Marketing System
Are you struggling to find the right recruitment marketing system for your hiring goals? Look no further! In this ultimate guide, we will walk you ...
Feb10
The Secret to Employee Retention
To build a healthy team that drives success, it’s not enough to simply hire great employees – you need to keep them engaged and happy ...
Feb08
How to Find More Candidates
So you post your jobs on job boards and you get some candidates. Great! But wait… There’s just not enough applicants to maintain a healthy ...
Jan31
Facebook Ads for Recruitment: Why Do They Perform Better than Job Boards?
If you’ve been struggling to generate enough candidates for your open positions with job boards, Facebook Ads may be the solution you’ve been looking for. ...
Jan26
Why TikTok Ads are the Future of Recruitment Marketing
TikTok is the fastest-growing social media platform at the moment, and its enormous success is changing recruitment marketing. With TikTok becoming a part of everyday ...
Dec22
Quiet Quitting: What Is It and How to Prevent It?
Over the past few months, quiet quitting has been all over the media, so I think we must dig deeper — why is that? Although ...
Dec08
Inspirational Quotes for Recruiters and HR Professionals
Recruitment is both an art and a science, requiring HR professionals and recruiters to navigate the complex landscape of talent acquisition. To help you stay ...
Dec05
4 Steps to Build a Successful Employer Branding Strategy
Employer branding is your reputation and popularity as an employer. It is how your current employees and people on the job hunt see your organization ...
Nov30
Celebrating Boostpoint’s 5th Birthday: An Exclusive Interview with CEO Sam Beiler and CTO Jared Neff
5 years ago, Boostpoint introduced recruitment marketing software with the goal of revolutionizing Talent Acquisition through technology. Today, with our unique combination of a Social ...
Nov01
4 Ways to Build Authentic Candidate Relationships Before the First Interview
Candidate experience begins before application and it affects recruiting results. Prospects who like your brand prior to the first interview are 38% more likely to ...
Oct26
Essential Recruitment Marketing Strategies for 2024
Today, more than 50% of employees are open to new job opportunities, even if they aren’t actively searching. This underscores the growing importance of staying ...
Oct24
Recruiting and Retaining Millennials in Manufacturing
If you are a manufacturing organization looking to increase profit, one of the best things that can happen to your business is Millennials because they ...
Oct16
Shorten Your Application Process and Improve Time-to-hire for Entry-level Positions
Entry-level positions are in high demand in the home care, food service, and retail sectors. An entry-level employee can be an excellent resource for your ...
Sep29
How to Create a Successful DE&I Recruiting Strategy
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) recruiting has taken center stage in recent years, and for a good reason. It’s not just about checking off boxes ...
Sep19
Recruiting Seasons: When Are Candidates Most Likely to Apply?
If you ever assumed that seasons and job seekers’ demand are related, you were right. Just as old leaves shed, winter gives way to spring, ...
Sep18
TOP 6 Reasons Being a Recruiter is Amazing
In recruitment, no two days are the same. One second you are jumping with joy, the next you feel totally lost, murmuring over your coffee, ...
Sep15
How to Hire More Construction Workers
Feeling the pressure to find skilled construction workers? You’re not alone. The construction industry continues to face significant challenges in filling open positions, with demand ...
Sep01
Write the Emails You Need in No Time With Boostpoint Create.AI
The reason you said yes to recruitment is the people. Then you find yourself writing emails all day and connecting less with candidates. Now, imagine ...
Aug23
6 Essential Automation Strategies for High-Volume Hiring
Balancing the need to fill positions quickly with the need to find qualified candidates can be a struggle, leading to potential compromises in candidate quality. ...
Aug04
Write the Perfect Job Description in Seconds with Boostpoint Create.AI
You don’t have to spend ages writing job descriptions anymore. Or hire a marketing team member who would be spending the whole day crafting them ...
Jul11
How You Can Benefit from AI in Recruitment
As AI for recruitment becomes ubiquitous and the recruitment industry grows more competitive, it is imperative for TA professionals to adopt this innovative technology to ...
Jun20
The Best Advertising Strategies for Filling Your Open Roles Through Social Media Recruitment
Are you struggling to find the right candidates to fill your open roles? Social media recruitment may be the solution you have been looking for. ...
May18
Be the Change Employees Want to See in the World
Whether you’re socializing online or in person, you can sense emotional fatigue everywhere. There’s a lot going on right now — post-pandemic stress, world events, the ...
Apr18
5 Key Benefits of Using Recruitment Technology
What’s your day like as a recruiter? You probably spend long hours writing job descriptions and posting them on boards. Perhaps the rest of your ...
Apr18
How to Attract Passive Job Seekers
As a Talent Acquisition professional, you already know that passive job seekers are critical for your company to stay competitive. Being employed, they are presumably ...
Mar27
Hiring Gen Z: Effective Strategies to Attract the Next Generation of Talent
Gen Z is the future of the labor force: due to their young age, they have just started their careers so they are full of ...
Mar03
How to Manage Your Star Employee and Maintain Healthy Team Dynamics
Wow, that’s a star you hired! Well done! But hang on a minute. Are you prepared for what’s next? Every now and then, recruiters come ...
Feb24
Facebook Jobs Shuts Down — What Does This Mean for Recruiting?
Meta closed its popular Jobs boards platform last month, so you might be wondering: ‘How does that impact my talent acquisition strategies?’ As a result ...
Jan26
Fallen Off Your Recruitment Goals Already? Follow These Tips to Get Back on Track
Last month you made resolutions to smash 2023: Let’s do it even better this year and attract quality candidates like never before. So how are ...
Jan19
How Social Media Can Humanize Your Candidate Experience
Can’t find qualified candidates? Your hiring process might lack the human touch. As a result of the big shift in employee attitudes, humanizing the candidate ...
Dec19
Have You Texted Them? Boostpoint’s Innovative Text Message Recruiting Solution for Talent Acquisition Teams
Today, text messaging is the most effective way for recruiters to follow up on leads. People like getting text messages for short and important communication ...
Nov24
New York City’s Pay Transparency Law: Here’s What You Need to Know
New York City’s new pay transparency law went into effect on 1 November, requiring the majority of employers to report salary ranges in job postings. Supporters ...
Nov16
How to Create the Workplace of the Future in 2023
Employers will be facing a host of new challenges in 2023 from helping employees tackling financial pressure to redefining company culture. With workers reevaluating their ...
Oct16
3 Important Tips to Nurture Your Interns and Co-ops Even After They Leave
Nurturing their former interns and co-ops is key to building a strong employer brand. Interns will develop an opinion of your organization after working for ...
Sep25
5 Excellent Employer Branding Examples and What You Can Learn From Them
The majority of world-leading, innovative brands have realized that talent acquisition goes far beyond simply filling job openings — and competitive pay and compelling benefits ...
Aug29
How to Build a Compelling Employer Brand in the Manufacturing Industry Through Social Media
Attracting skilled and motivated manufacturing employees can be challenging even for the most seasoned talent acquisition teams. Talent in this industry is often scarce and ...
Aug14
How to Navigate Political Disagreements at The Workplace
I’m sure you have heard a co-worker expressing their views on a political matter. Perhaps you’ve even been involved in a conversation about a divisive ...
Jul19
5 Things Recruiters Wish They Had Known Before Starting Their Careers
I’m sure it’s no secret to you that recruiting has its pros and cons. And whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, pinpointing ...
Jun28
You Can’t Always Give Your 100%. And That’s Fine.
In recruitment, you actually have to leave no stone unturned every day to fill a position. And most people think that you can only achieve ...
May19
Imposter Syndrome and How to Tackle It as a Recruiter
Being a recruiter is amazing, right? But it’s true that you must work really hard to succeed. Despite the experience and the enthusiasm, sometimes things ...
May12
Social Media Advertising: The Magic Tool for Successful Recruiting
What if I told you that there is a recruiting world where finding the perfect candidate is no longer an obstacle? A magical place where ...
Apr19
The Great Resignation: How Did the Labor Market Change?
Although the unemployment rate slightly decreased over the past 3 months, the number of unemployed people is still nearly double the number of job openings, ...
Mar14
The Reason You Can’t Find Employees And What to Do About It
‘Why can’t I find workers even as millions are unemployed?’, hiring professionals keep asking themselves these days. The answer is quite complex yet very simple: ...
Mar03
Optimize Your Hiring Process with These Recruitment Tools
Although hiring should move fast especially now as the number of vacancies is constantly increasing in the US, the average time-to-hire is 3-4 weeks. Data show ...
Feb15
Data Driven Recruiting: The Importance of Tracking and Reporting on Candidates
Hiring professionals who rely on traditional recruiting methods alone can only guess why their campaigns weren’t effective. They can’t find the hiring gap that weakens ...
Feb09
February 2022 Updates to Facebook Jobs Boards and Their Impact on Boostpoint®
[The official Boostpoint® response to our customers.] You might have seen in recent headlines or perhaps received marketing emails raising an alarm on changes ...
Dec16
Facebook Boosted Posts vs. Ads: What’s Best For Your Hiring Campaign?
Facebook advertising approaches are the most effective instrument for candidate attraction, and when you invest in ads, you want to make sure that your campaigns ...
Nov14
How Social Media Has Changed the Game for the Recruiting Industry
Technology is revolutionizing, the recruitment process is changing. Workplaces are undergoing a digital metamorphosis, and thanks to the rise of social media, the way people ...
Oct11
How to Avoid HR Burnout
Keeping teams together in the current employment crisis imposes a heavy burden on HR leaders. As U.S. vacancies hit record high due to COVID-19 worker ...