The science of recruiting.
Two weeks ago, our longtime, fantastic office manager came into my office and let me know she was leaving our company to take another job. For her, it was the hardest thing she probably ever had to do in her professional career, verified by the tears and fears of leaving a job she loved for the unknown world of more money and career change.
Right now is maybe the best time to get a great job, not just any job. Here are three significant mistakes job seekers make in 2022 and how to fix them. No matter what you do for a living or what level of job you are in, most likely, there is a great job waiting. I can promise you that understanding these three things that prevent you from getting a great job will yield more interviews and, ultimately, a great job.
This is a fascinating topic. When employers post jobs, they hope to get enough applicants with the "must have" skills needed to be a top performer. A compelling job title and job description get excited supercharge applications for qualified job seekers.
Like all social media, those who stand out (which means they have optimized profiles) are the ones that usually get the interviews. Also, never forget that 90% of all recruiters (companies and third-party recruiters) search LinkedIn every day looking for your optimized profile. In a post covid hiring world, it is time to tweak your profile. Here is what you need to know.
For 2022 and beyond, it is time to take video interviewing seriously since employers will expect minimal hiccups. The honeymoon with video interview technology is over, and employers will be expecting excellence. Here is what you need to know.
The challenge to find great new insurance talent marches on, and during Insurance Career Month, your company can gain a competitive edge learning from many experts.
People want to and need to work, and they will start returning in droves. Here are some recruiting tips to help you find the best employees ever!
The great resignation and retirements in the insurance industry are opening up significant opportunities. Companies are ready to hire motivated, trainable and people in the long run. If your job or company isn't meeting your career demands, you will never find a better time to make a change!
News Flash: There gap between the number of jobs open and the number of people looking for jobs is at a 20 year high. On top of that, those currently working are quitting their jobs at a record pace (4.5 million people quit in September-BLS). Of all the people hired in 2021, 75% of hires have been men. Help wanted signs are rampant. Needless to say, if you’re an insurance employer looking to hire, it’s like trying to solve a rubrics cube. Here's how to solve it!
In August of this year, 4.3 million people quit their jobs across the country. September saw 4.4 million more people quit their jobs (BLS). The “Great Recession” is a real thing driving employers crazy. If so many jobs are open, how do you use this information to excel your insurance career?
In August of this year, 4.3 million people quit their jobs across the country. September saw 4.4 million more people quit their jobs (BLS). The “Great Recession” is a real thing driving employers crazy. If so many jobs are open, how do you use this information to excel your insurance career?
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February is Insurance Careers Month. It really should be insurance career year! This movement is aimed to help tell the world the insurance industry has cool...
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Q: I am happy to get the interview, but with COVID-19 keeping everyone at home, this insurance company has scheduled a video interview. Can you give me advice on how to excel during this interview?
GreatInsuranceJobs.com's annual virtual claims career is live for the entire month of August 2020 and features over thirty-five insurance employers.
The insurance industry is resilient. We don’t need to tell you about COVID-19 and how it is destroying small businesses and putting over 20 million people out of work. While the insurance industry has not lost many jobs (see our COVID-19 hiring survey), the unemployment rate is usually 1.8% has increased to 3%.
GreatInsuranceJobs.com today released its survey to find out how COVID-19 is affecting current hiring trends in the insurance industry.
The main goal of this virtual event is to feature insurance industry employers who are hiring during the COVID-19 worldwide crisis.
If you are not using Facebook to help build your employment brand, you are missing out on attracting potential hires to your organization. Employers use Facebook to put themselves out there to the masses (or targeted) audiences to find that elusive "passive" candidate that everyone desires.
If you are in the middle of a job search and really need to work, the COVID-19 is going to disrupt this already stressful process.
I am in the middle of interviewing candidates for a sales account manager. Like many companies (all sizes), it is very reasonable for the recruiter or human resource professional to call a potential candidate and do an initial phone interview. Seven out of ten phone interviews I had this week didn't go well, and this has inspired me to write this article.
Anything that potentially disrupts the recruiting process will certainly go through all kinds of scrutiny, especially if it is going to eliminate humans. The bottom line with most of the concerns questions whether any artificial intelligence or machine learning is "learning" and acting on the biases already present in a company's recruiting process.
One of my favorite things to do is speak to college students about how to find a great job, not just any job, once they graduate. The challenge for so many students is simple; they don't know what they don't know.
In helping many companies with job marketing strategy, one of the best ways to increase applications is to treat each job your posting like its own website. For example, at GreatIsuranceJobs.com, you have the ability to make your job posting stand out by adding pictures, your social media, video, employment brand, and employee testimonials.
Over the years, I have spoken with talent managers, human resource professionals, and thousands of insurance workers about their hiring needs and career tracks. For the first time since I have been in the business, I see a lot of change coming to this great industry.
Interviewing is challenging. Interview preparation usually starts by searching for good answers to typical interview questions. This is where many of you make your initial mistake.
If you have a ton of open jobs and come into work every day praying the right person will walk through the door, this strategy will not work. Here are my top three ideas on how to ramp up your recruiting efforts for 2020.
I can only imagine the stress you would feel if your company asked you to research, find, and purchase the best artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting product. My goal is to give you three areas in AI talent acquisition that are the things to watch because they may help you get the best talent.
In the future robot recruiting world, the hope is the job seeker may not even have to worry about optimizing their resume since the robots will “compile” it using all your data points it finds in anything you have ever done on the internet.
What is the best job posting strategy in 2019? The simple answer is to post on job sites where your qualified audience hangs out. The challenge is to understand what this means.
For most people, they have a tough time networking for jobs. It usually goes south because the people you meet cannot directly help you. But you want to convert these people into your personal “job angels”.
The job title you select when posting jobs may be more critical than the actual job itself. The infamous “passive candidate” is the person who you should be writing the job titles and descriptions for, to get them to click.
Two movements are happening in the insurance industry today and both will benefit your career. The aging workforce and insuretech are capturing headlines and both emphasize the changing of the guard in this major industry which employs almost three million people.
If you were the employer and had 100 resumes to select from, how would you do it? To understand how your background is evaluated, here are just a few employer “sorting” techniques companies use to decide who gets an interview.
If you were not one of the 22,000 attendees at the national SHRM conference in Las Vegas last month, don’t worry, I was and I’m very excited to give you the expo hall rundown on the latest recruiting products.
It’s tough out there. Low unemployment, buzzing economy... if you want to find more candidates, it’s time to try these three techniques.
I predict in less than five years; the resume will be replaced by a compilation of your online presence organized by some recruiting technology.
Since the beginning of time, word of mouth is still the number one way to find new talent. That still holds true today.
Many are leaving very stable jobs for greener pastures in a red-hot economy. Is this a good idea? Yes. Well, for some, maybe not.
Sometimes you just want to know where all the jobs are. Here is a list of the top five insurance companies with the most jobs currently available.
Allstate Insurance Company will invest $11 million to expand their Irving facilities. The expansion is expected to create 1,300 new jobs.
We spoke with 54 insurance companies which in total employ 285,871 employees and found out some interesting information that would help many in a job search.
After a survey of 54 insurance companies, one of the questions we asked employers was to share with us their greatest hiring challenges. While there were many, we compiled a list of the top responses.
The one thing most job postings don't include is what job seekers find the most helpful. The salary range.
Do employers read cover letters? Should you even include a cover letter when you apply to a job? The answer to both questions is a big yes!
This month, I thought I would share four recruiting tools that you should check out. If anything, these are fun to experiment with if you have some spare time!
I have one goal in mind; to help job seekers not just get a job but get a job they really want. Here are the three things you are doing during the job search that prevents you from getting that great job.
GreatInsuranceJobs.com is very proud to be part of Insurance Careers Month which takes place for the entire month of February
One recruiting resource that over 90% of you use is the job posting. Today, you have to power up this posting for this reason only – give passive candidates a compelling reason to hit the apply button.