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7 Tips on Successfully Recruiting Employees via Referrals
Finding the ideal candidate can be very difficult and expensive through job advertisements and headhunters due to the high unemployment level. Discover how you can …
10 Myths About Employee Referrals
According to Careerbuilder, over 80 percent of employers rate an employee referral program as one of the best ways to bring in top talent. It’s …
9 Reasons Why Employer Branding Is Essential in Recruitment
1. It attracts employees The number one reason to take employer branding seriously is that you attract plenty of employees. Branding your business lets prospective …
What You Need to Know Before Buying HR Software
Software is the most powerful way of improving the productivity of your HR team. With the right HR technology, your organization can recruit better talent …
Employee Referrals: Why They Should Be Your Main Recruiting Channel
Why use Referrals Employee referrals are an effective strategy that helps companies attract quality talent from professional networks. Anyone in the company can refer a …
The 8 Best Recruitment Solutions for 2021
Whenever a position in a company opens, it’s imperative to fill it as quickly as possible with the right candidate. The position is aligned with …
Best HR Recruitment Methods
Technological advancements have driven major changes in how companies recruit new candidates. The hiring process has been transformed by the availability of tools, including interview …
Learn all about the talent acquisition process with Firstbird!
Talent acquisition is the practice of attracting, acquiring, and retaining the best candidates to sustain a company’s operations well into the future. Instead of focusing …
5 Features You Need in Employee Referral Software
Digital transformations in human resources (HR) departments are in full swing across all industries. Competition for the best and brightest workforce is fierce, and growing …
Essential Recruitment Guide: Employee Referral Programs
In recruitment, the corona pandemic has caused various changes. One significant change is the need for new recruitment methods to fill various skill gaps within …
The Top 7 Must-Read Books for Recruitment Marketing
Adopting an RM strategy will enhance a company’s ability to attract the best talent. Here’s all the important information to know about this fresh approach. …
Creative Recruitment: How We Find Our Employees
First, it’s important to understand the key factors when it comes to the state of workers in the United Kingdom based on a recent survey …
4 Things to Consider Before Introducing an HR Referral Program
There are numerous talent acquisition strategies available for firms, and the most beneficial is an HR referral program. This strategy is sometimes called recruitment referral …
Statistics Update: What Has Changed?
With our last release we introduced our simplified referral form, which means that we have now divided the acceptance of a referral and the application …
Here Are the 3 Most Important Ways Talent Sourcing Will Change
What Is Talent Sourcing? Also known as direct sourcing, it’s an approach to recruiting that starts long before you have an opening. You start by …
How to Use Networking in Recruitment
The market for qualified candidates is hugely competitive. Many professional candidates hold career positions in companies where they are comfortable and are not looking for …
7 steps to a successful employer branding campaign
Here are seven key steps to launching a successful employer branding campaign. #1 Tell (Sell) The Company Story Today’s job seekers want careers that make …
The Ultimate Checklist for Your Employee Referral Program
Referral programs are a great way to keep everyone in your organization engaged while taking advantage of the most powerful recruitment channel available. Professional recruiters …
The Latest Trends for Recruiting on Social Media
Why Is Recruiting on Social Media a Popular Way to Find Employees? Recruiting on social media has become an increasingly popular method for finding …
Easier registration with the new version of our Firstbird2Go app
Register faster with the Firstbird2Go app thanks to the QR code With the help of the newly integrated QR code scanner in our app, your …
Autumn 2020 Update
Simplified Referral Form We would like to make it even easier to accept referrals. For this reason we have revised our referral form. Similar to …
Candidate Experience Package
In a recent survey conducted by PwC, almost half (49%) of jobseekers working in in-demand areas such as technology said they turned down an offer …
Our Journey with Remote Work – Week 3
On Monday March 16th, we started mandatory home office for our entire team. Here we share our experience in week 3.
Our Journey with Remote Work – Week 2
On Monday March 16th, we started mandatory home office for our entire team. Here we share our experience in week 2.
Our Journey With Remote Work – Week 1
On Monday March 16th, we started mandatory home office for our entire team. We are sharing what we have learned from our first weeks of home office in hopes it might help you and your company adjust to our new “normal” in terms of our work life.
Employee search: How employee referrals help to hire for cultural fit
The importance of cultural fit in recruiting First, consider the “cultural fit” between the company and the applicant. If the candidate’s own values match the …
What is Talent Management?
Many companies are changing their organizational structure, but they are following old patterns when it comes to talent management. In fact, employees develop off the classical career paths in only one in three companies. According to the 2018 Talent Management Study by Kienbaum, almost 70 percent of companies geared career development only with management positions as vertical advancement with very little emphasis placed on other advancement opportunities. But what exactly does Talent Management mean?
Talent Wanted Skills Shortage Found
Why is there a shortage of skilled workers? The business world speaks of a shortage of skilled workers when there is a large number of …
Firstbird is taking flight
Firstbird has a brand new look. Why? The last few years have proven to us that Firstbird is more than just a digital employee referral …
Firstbird goes Recfest19!
40 hours of fresh ideas Recfest is all about broadening horizons. Over 100 international speakers will talk about all the different things that drive recruitment …
Why One Employee Can Destroy Your Company Culture
It only takes one bad apple to ruin the bunch. An employee who acts against company ethics, gossips, underperforms or simply gives out “bad vibes” …
Top 10 Employee Referral Statistics To Know
Statistics that matters: Additionally, traditional recruiting can come at a high cost, between $4,285 to more than $18,000 per hire, and that can really add …
What makes a referral program successful?
The key to ensuring its effectiveness in attracting quality recruits is to make sure that you follow certain principles when creating your employee referral program. …
A Brief Introduction To An Employee Referral Program
Infographic Thinking about investing in an employee referral program? Here’s a brief infographic with what you should know about Firstbird’s employee referral program!
What Is An Employee Referral Program?
So how does it work? To make things easy to understand, here is how an employee referral program works: Your company signs up for an …
15 Creative Ideas For Employee Rewards
An employee referral program can become a fun and exciting tool for employees, but only when using it the right way. You have to bear in …
This Is How To Find Employees In 2018
The simple answer is none of the above. Really. If you want to find employees in 2018, and really good ones at that, do as …
Employer Branding: Is It Really Worth It?
First up, what happens when you don’t invest in employer branding? A Google search indicates there’s not much out there about the cons when it …
How To Reach Millennials When Recruiting
How To Reach Millennials When Recruiting When choosing millennials as your recruiting target group, one thing you should be aware of is that the …
How to hire for those hard-to-fill roles
In fact, according to CareerBuilder’s report – which was based on more than 5000 HR professionals worldwide – the positions which are most challenging to …
Influencer Recruiting
As a company, it is virtually impossible to avoid having a sophisticated social media presence – especially if you are looking for talent. However, turning …
Why Do You Need An Employee Referral Program?
A lot of times, thriving companies with a strong human resource foundation will already have a team of employees with well-established networks for talent sourcing. …
7 Mistakes When Writing a Job Description
Many small and medium-sized companies, do not pay close attention and don’t spend enough of their time to the way they write a job description, …
Firstbird Goes To Zukunft Personal 2017
This year’s #ZP17 motto “Work:olution – Moving Minds” focused on the controversial and much-debated topic of how machines and robotics are moving in the working world …
Helping Employees Refer From Facebook & Twitter
In fact, with Facebook and Twitter boasting of 2 billion and 328 million active monthly users in 2017, there’s a high chance that you will …
4 Unique Recruitment Ideas That Can Pay Off Big Time
Usually, your dream employees are out there, doing great work for other companies. Your challenge is to find them and persuade them to explore your …
5 Tips To Motivate Your Recruitment Team
Recruitment team leaders need to find ways to keep their staff away from fatigue and help them stay motivated even when the going gets tough. …
5 Things That Can Kill Your Employee Referral Program
It’s true, Employee Referral Programs are cheaper to implement than other traditional recruitment methods. When you use traditional methods like job ads or job boards, …
7 Hiring Tips for Startups & Small Businesses
1. Write a clear job description People tend to find jobs based on keywords or industries, and you should keep that in mind when writing …
Referral Programs A Game-Changer For Recruiting
In fact, an iCIMS report found that companies get 24-40% of their new hires from referrals, where nearly two-thirds of employers implement an employee referral …
8 Proven Strategies For Your Recruiting
1. Define your communications strategy Make sure you have clearly defined your company’s brand, your target applicants, and your main sources of potential candidates. Identify …
Turn Your Employees Into Referral Rockstars
Here are some ways to make your employee referral program a simple, fun, and exciting prospect for your team: Set your goals Set your goals …
4 Examples Of Companies With Great Culture
Company culture is vital because employees are more likely to enjoy working for an organization whose values are consistent with theirs. They will be happier, …
Non-Monetary Rewards For Employee Referrals
In fact, the LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2016 study noted that 26% of businesses consider employee referral programs to be a long-lasting trend. It looks …
4 Ways Companies Use Referrals To Attract Hires
Here are four ways top companies implemented their successful employee referral programs. 1. They focused on building a positive company culture Companies with a great …
4 Strategies to Help Beat The Talent Crunch
It can be tricky, but still very possible. Here are four useful hiring strategies to help you find your next great employee: 1. Ask yourself …
Will Recruitment Agencies Exist In 10 Years?
HUMAN RELATIONS. 1. Recruitment agencies are fast, but low-quality Here’s how it works: Employers or recruiters hire a recruiting agency and send out their vacant …
6 Great Recruitment Strategies For Startups
Here are six recruiting strategies your startup should implement to find great talent: 1. Treat your applicants well When you receive a high-quality lead, call …
Employee Referral Programs & Small Businesses
Given its effectiveness in attracting quality candidates for companies, the LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2016 study noted that 26% of businesses consider employee referral programs …
8 Interview Questions To Ask Your Referral
So now, you’ve found a great potential employee through your referral program, which means their skills and experiences are in line with what you’re looking …
Firstbird Announces Integration with Greenhouse
The partnership allows Firstbird users to export job posts seamlessly from Greenhouse’s applicant tracking system (ATS) to the Firstbird platform, to optimize their entire referral …
How To Handle Employee Resignations Better
It’s always difficult when a trusted employee leaves, but here are 5 tips on how you can deal with resignations better: 1. Get started with …
Why Your Employees Are The Best Headhunters
Your secretary The business partner you met yesterday for lunch The guy in the office who always has 600+ friends on Facebook Your marketing manager …
Pros and Cons of Using Job Boards For Recruitment
Monster Monster is perhaps the most popular online job site. It is a powerful resource for job seekers in any industry because it has …
Firstbird Went to The Talent Tech Lab
TTL is vastly becoming the global hub for Talent Acquisition technology. Backed by recruiting giants Mercer, Allegis Group and Mitchell Martin, TTL has screened more …