Benchmarking Best Hiring Practices

In hiring, what do the extra-ordinary people do differently than the rest? Implementing changes in the thought process or routinely followed process is not very easy. Similarly, in context of hiring, there are 2 things to be looked at-

What the best hiring managers do differently and What the newly hired people did differently.

In the upcoming blogs, we will focus on second point. In this blog, let us focus on What the Best Hiring Managers Do Differently-

·Articulating expectations clearly: Hiring managers should clearly speak, write and describe the performance requirements of the job.

·Refuse to compromise on their demand for best fitted candidates: Getting the best people on the floor is the key to building a winning team.

·Full engagement in recruiting process: Hiring managers spend more time with candidates before, during and after the interviewing process,

·Value potential over experience: While the person hired needed to have the basic skills and upside potential is more important to the hiring managers,

·Modify the job to fit the right person instead of finding the right person to fit the job: Hiring managers are also open to attract and better meet the career needs of a strong person,

·Take full responsibility of the hiring done for a position: Managers are delegated with a responsibility of hiring a candidate so the manager will take his full responsibility for the results.

Hope this was an interesting read. In the upcoming blogs, we will focus on the second point as discussed above. Please visit www.appliview.com and Take a Free Trial Account for 30-Days.

Automate Hiring Process

IT recruitment has become shockingly competitive, not only in India but in entire world. 

First, resume materials need be optimized to make it through the labyrinth that is modern day Applicant Tracking Systems. From there, technical candidates need to explain their qualifications to (often non-technical) recruitment representatives in basic terms.

In next step, there is usually a progression through technical, cultural and problem solving evaluations. And with one stroke of bad luck somewhere in the mid, it could all crash down. 

Considering that the path is enough to give even the most unexpected of technical candidates heartburn, the team at Infusive Solutions – an IT recruiting firm facilitating .NET careers in New York City and around the Tri-state area – just released a fresh info graphic that explains some useful strategies to beat long and complex interview processes. 

While there will always be some differences that candidates will need to identify and address, utilizing the key points in this visually engaging info graphic will afford viewers the foundation to confidently maneuver through many challenges of the technical interview until a talented offer is awarded at the end. 

See more, How AppliView can automate your recruitment process, contact us on www.appliview.com.

-The AppliView Team

Does Cover Letters Works Any More?

Many companies prefer to use an ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) today to make their staffing process more efficient. When a firm utilizes an ATS, they expect candidates to apply online. When candidates complete their online job application, they are actually just filling in the fields of the recruitment database, so that they can be efficiently processed in their system.

An applicant tracking system allows employer to sort recruits on any parameter ranging from the type of degree candidates have or their college CGPA, to the years of experience they have etc. It's a powerful tool.

When you applying online via an ATS, a cover letter is not required. In fact, even if you have it, it is not needed. Even if you are required by recruiters to apply via an ATS, you can still send your resume only to key decision makers.

However, here are some important points to remember:

1. Be Brief: Your resume should tell your story more meticulously. The cover letter shouldn't. If it looks like a long read, it will be quickly discarded.

2. Identify yourself: Immediately let the reader know who you are and what your objective is. Influence with any connection point you have with them. If you met the individual at a conference, or if you are from the same hometown, college, or have a common hobby that you discussed, mention it in the beginning of the letter.

3. Exhibit your passion: Tell them why you'd LOVE to join their organization. Your resume won't do this — so make sure they know how well the company and job match your interests. This will differentiate you from people who blanket the market with resumes.

4. Sell your qualifications: Briefly highlight the key points of your resume that you believe might interests reader.

-The AppliView Team

The Most Powerful Habits One Can Imagine

These are certain personality traits that can guide career as well as personal decisions. These are not just words to hear and forget but leaders do really look for these qualities who have inherently nurtured these in themselves and looking for good positions in reputed corporate. Others love to have around people who are having following qualities-

• Present- This means to have presence of mind or to pay attention to the people with whom we work everyday, so that we can spot the lagging aspects of the team and can contribute to improve those.

• Expert- This means to be talented in particular areas also known as Subject Matter Expert to be able to help others in meaningful way. An expert is always curious to know more details of the process, not with an attitude of having more money but to make the process more effective.

• Trustworthy- With the passage of time, one gain trusts when they deliver the promise and respect the confidentialities involved. Someone who can turn up on this parameter and being noticed, It becomes a wonderful working relationship.

• Clear- Clarity is very important. Clarity about the role, with a view that you can also help your sub-ordinates. Everyone have certain goals, personal, organizational and family goals. One who is good in understanding these and their sub-ordinate’s goals can move forward in smooth way.

• Adaptable- This is a quality that one gets adaptable in culture, atmosphere, rules and regulations of the premises. Not everyone quickly learns and adapts things, it takes time. But this becomes important part of life in moving ladders upwards.

So, now, to tag candidates with their personality attributes and qualities displayed on the basis of subsequent interactions, AppliView can be very effective medium in hiring process.

To know more, contact us on www.appliview.com.

-The AppliView Team

Is your Idea really Brilliant?

What a brilliant idea! This is what a lot of people think after a generating a new idea. If someone says at the end of a wonderful ideation workshop, where a team of colleagues brainstorm and bring out something new always, just like an AppliView team, there are lot of efforts put in by creativity team, programming and development team.

Ideas of AppliView team can certainly change recruiter’s lives. There are substantial facts that show of the several ideas, only one of them is transformed into to a successful creation. And that is the one reason testing ‘brilliant’ ideas on customers has great added value. So, we take the opportunity to encourage you to try out the latest version built after lot of brainstorming, creativity and implementations.

Our new offerings include google calendar integration, social media integration for all recruiter logins, Easy search of candidates, Job addition and publishing at the same time and many more…

Visit www.appliview.com and Take a Trial Account for 30 days/ Online Web Demonstration of around 30-40 minutes and see all the features.

-The AppliView Team

A Commonsense Idea for Hiring - Define the Job, Before Defining the Person

The question was raised when Microsoft’s next CEO was about to be hired and the criteria was- One should be a product visionary or someone who can successfully manage global business. To us this is the wrong question, driving the business and developing extraordinary products, both are essential. By defining the job before defining the person sounds better, because then the assessment involves how the person hired would accomplish both tasks.

We saw an ad for VP of Human Resources. It listed a set of experience requirements intermix with some generic responsibilities. To many of our customers, this was backward. It sounded far better to define the job, before defining the person to 85% of them. If a person has successfully accomplished something similar, he or she has exactly the level of skills, experience and academics as it is required, it gives a green signal for them. The job determines the skills needed, In reality, the skills needed do not define the work required.

Now, AppliView offers you -

·         More crispy and clear ways to define your skill set required for a position,

·    To be able to tag a candidate with their expertise / personality traits / achievements after assessing them, so that they can be searched by “Tags” in future quickly.

See many more features in our quick Online Presentation that helps you effectively in your recruiting assignments. Contact us on www.appliview.com.

 

-The AppliView Sales Team

Manage Your Career Portal

Online job portals have become very easy for applicants to look for better career opportunities in their domain, location or industry. These are basically designed to address and meet the requirements of the job seekers. Companies either get it done by their own employees or hire another company who can maintain and update the career portal as and when required.

But for those companies, who very frequently needs to publish jobs on their career portal, It is now better to be self dependent and get it done within the resources available. Now, you don’t need to hire a website developing company to update your career portal and pay extra bucks. With our super saver pack of upgraded version of AppliView, you can maintain, update and publish jobs at your own.

Once you log in in the AppliView software, you see an option on the top right drop down menu, from where you can update your career portal after integrating your career portal with AppliView and publish as many jobs as you want. To see how all these features does work, request for an online demo from www.appliview.com.

 

-The AppliView Team

Publishing: Open to Possibilities

While exploring and figuring out the possibilities to enhance the publishing feature for better and fast experience, we realized that absolutely nothing is impossible in this world. Clients from various geographies provided us their valuable inputs and we just implemented that.

And we are happy to announce that with our latest version of AppliView, You can allow your recruiters and interviewers also to publish jobs on their respective social /professional media accounts.

Be it a matter of publishing job over Linkedin, facebook or twitter or sending via an email, All your human resource employees can do it. So, just few quick settings, and all your employees can login in AppliView software and can publish jobs to reach more audience. To try your free AppliView trial account, please visit this link- Trial Account.

For any assistance, Please contact us on www.appliview.com. 

-The AppliView Sales Team

Quick Personal Organizer

 

Organizer Software are obsolete now for recruiters. They were basically applications that will create a daily to do list to achieve the everyday goals of professional life. Gone are the days when I used to write all meetings and interviews in my diary or organizer software. AppliView has made it so easier for all HR professionals.

You do not need to search for an online personal organizer. Latest in built feature in AppliView software allows you to add all the activities like –

• Discussion,
• Email,
• Telephonic Conversation etc.

Feature description does not end here, In addition -

• It also gives you a reminder on email even if you are logged out of AppliView software,
• Also If your Google account which has your cell number is configured in AppliView and you publish scheduled activities to Google calender, Than you will also receive an SMS reminder.

So, Why don’t you try out our latest trial version of AppliView. Start your free Trial-

http://www.appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html.

 

-The AppliView Team

Ways to learn Effective Communication

As we try to understand what it means to be social creatures who meaningfully participate in communities and networks, ants may be able to tell us something about ourselves. Effective communication is important in every life aspect.

The Language of Chemicals

Ants communicate using the language of chemicals, When an ant finds food, it will deposit a trail of pheromones to let the other ants know where to find it. Social networks are formed between the ants during such communication. Weizmann scientists spy on the ants with tiny bar codes glued to their backs.

The way ants communicate is classy and could have far-reaching implications, according to Weizmann, not just for people and how we form social networks, but even for the growth of practical applications in the design of so-called distributed systems, including cellular communication antennae, wireless sensor networks or even groups of robots engaged in rescue operations.

Same way to learn from Ant’s life-

·         Effective and timely communication is important,

·         Classy communication can have far-reaching implications,

·         Effective and right communication helps in growing network.

See how the Latest version of AppliView software helps you in having the effective communication and how you can also deposit a trail of ‘pheromones’ for jobs- www.appliview.com.

The AppliView Team

When it comes to Social Media, Question Everything !

         It is recruiter’s job to make sure that Company have the right people in the right job at the right time to ensure the company continue to drive the turnaround. How the hiring software-AppliView can add flying colors to your recruitment team?

       What integration here AppliView can offer is to have the maximum reach among the audience through –

• Career website,
• Feeders,
• Many social and professional networking websites etc.

       It is very important to look into Social Media Strategies while fulfilling open positions through various medias. Our technical team can tell you how would your job positioned and how you can receive the majority interests of candidates. Every single questions that comes to your mind, you may ask to our key representative.

        To experience the AppliView’s Social Media Support Technique, Request for an Online Demonstration and see How within fraction of seconds, Your job openings get posted on number of preferred portals.

CEO = Chief Experience Officer

The title does not say very much about the person or what is he / she suppose to do. Yes, they are an officer. They are an executive. And of all executive and officers, he/she is the “Chief”. The term that better explains the title is “Chief Experience Officer” as they makes many things available to people which includes- 

1. Product Experience- Despite having multiple product lines, how the prompt response goes in timely manner, how do they set protocols to walk through the key highlights of the product, how well they communicate to address every single customer query, All these makes customer experiences and becomes memorable.

2. Purchasing Experience- Philosophies can be identified whether they are “Walking the talk or Talking the talk”. All the promises are being delivered makes a great purchasing experience.

3. Brand Experience- What is it like to cooperate with the company's brand? Does talking about the company with others ignite zeal? What kind of emotions does it induce? When people see the logo online or offline, what's the primitive reaction?

4. Support Experience- What is it like to receive support from the company? Do people fear having to call in and get help? When they do make contact, do they feel like the company cares not just about soothing and pleasing — but that the actual problem is addressed?

To see how excellently you are being treated on all these parameters, how well your experience goes with Product and support teams, Contact us through www.appliview.com. It is not only the purchasing but the experience that becomes memorable through out.

Bad Hiring Mess up Good Business Strategy

        This is not only about Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer or Tim Cook, although they all make the point that business strategies are often ignored while making critical hiring decisions. No matter how brilliant or capable people you find, It does not work out If they are not naturally driven by the same business needs.

           Putting a good person in wrong role is the recipe for under performance. There are four types of people generally:

1. Thinkers: People who think and come out with good ways of thinking about processes, people and work,
2. Builders: People who convert ideas to reality. Eg.- Entrepreneurs,
3. Imp-rovers: These kind of people take existing people / processes along and make them better,
4. Producers: These kind of people apply their skills or execute repeatable processes to deliver high quality work.

See how AppliView helps you categorizing and assessing candidates and save them for future reference. So that you can make good hiring decisions which can serve the purpose of your business. Lets walk along for a quick online demonstration.

The AppliView Team

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Recruiters: "Where are the people I need?"

          The way we operate in many industries is changing rapidly. So, how can recruiting team will continue to adapt old ways of hiring. The changing needs of HR teams are followed by dynamically changing needs of business houses. Now, recruiters do not need to keep searching for professionals and screen hundreds of resumes yelling- "Where are the people I need?" :)

Here is the right software which can search the appropriate professionals you need named- AppliView. It works in very specific requirement and very organized candidate database. And within fraction of seconds, you can find the best suitable person for the open position and schedule interview with robust scheduling tool.

To get rid off yelling "Where is the candidate I am looking for?" and to learn more about AppliView software, kindly request for an online demonstration or 30 days - No obligation trial account from the link here- http://appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html.

The AppliView Team

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Are you Elevating your Professional Presence?

            Apple has it, Microsoft has it. What is that? The intangible quality that catches people's attention. 

The greater your personal presence in the workspace, greater will be your visibility and greater will be the impact. Struggle of recruiters to post jobs manually over various websites has been eliminated by the efforts of AppliView's technical team. Now, you can have some percentage of those intangible qualities within your own recruitment software. AppliView and its rocking integration with your career portal along with its social media presence can make people feel your presence. And a very important thing to be noted here is your career page of website that can be easily integrated and customized with AppliView.

   As a marketer of job, Recruiters job is becoming easier with the help of AppliView. People can apply from various social and professional networking websites and recruiters directly receive it in their copy of the software. To see how amazingly these features are working, Kindly request for an online demonstration from the link below- http://www.appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html.

Cost Effective Strategies to Improve Productivity

     ANY business front-runner can tell you that when it comes to running a business the most important figure to keep in mind is the bottom line. Difference between revenue and profit is the best indication of how a business is faring and whether it is being run efficiently. There are evident ways of improving profit margins such as keeping cost to minimum and making sure that you drive the right bargain in the first place.

      

 Productivity or Output is determined by many different factors which can include having the right selection processes and procedures in place, choosing the managers to run crucial teams and making sure staff are well treated and fully motivated. There are some simple ladders that can be taken to deal with such issues -

• Training- Take a close look at training measures to ensure that staff are being given the right guidance,
• Monitor Performance- The only way to check that your staff are as productive as possible is to observe them consistently,
• Remuneration- One should be able to measure the impact that every employee has on their business. People should be able to prove their substance and value to the company on every level and in every department from senior manager to receptionist,
• Encouragement- Many business owners and managers forget the power of saying “Well Done”. Saying well done to a team member will go a long way and give you the satisfaction that you have encouraged someone else to do well at what they do.

To see how AppliView enhances your productivity and cost effectiveness in recruitment process, please visit – http://www.appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html or request for an online demonstration @ www.appliview.com.

Recruiters with Social Media

Have you ever worked in recruitments? How many calls did you have to make before you actually connected with someone? How many emails did you send out that never got replies? Not many people will spare the time to talk to a stranger who is trying to sell a job every other day.

But forward-thinking recruiters are embracing a new approach to break down these old communication barriers: social media.

Tech-savvy HR people are now on social media on the job to monitor potential clients and competitors, network and more—and it’s giving them an edge over the competition.

1. Use Social Media to Break the Ice: Social media can be a great resource for gaining unique insights into leads that can help you make more impactful first contact. 

2. Catch New Opportunities with Social Media: There is nothing more tragic than lost opportunity. So Recruiters can definitely look forward to get a new opportunity.

Social media won't necessarily replace the phone or email, but it’s a new and revolutionary tool that recruitment departments can add to their arsenal. To see how AppliView can publish your content on social websites in fraction of seconds, please request for an online demo or Start a free trial account from the Link- http://appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html.

Social Media And Business Goals

In today's scenario, Social media definitely plays a very vital role in business. If your social media strategies / tactics has the connection to business goals, you are most likely to succeed. There are common characteristics of successful social business strategies, the most significant one being a laser focus on achieving business objectives. In fact, the most successful businesses are those with an executive who can articulate the vision and strategy almost as well as the social strategist.

Success Factors of Social Business-

1. Define the overall business goals. You can't align your social strategy with your business objectives if you don't even know what your objectives are.

2. Ensure executive support. At some point, if you want to truly have a control on the business, you'll need the backing and support of key executives.

3. Invest in technology platforms that evolve. Resist the lure to jump on the latest technology bandwagon before you have a long-term strategic plan in place. Hold off on making significant technology investments until you're equipped with a sound vision and strategic plan.

These are only some of the important factors that has the orientation towards social business. To see how AppliView social media features helps you in just few clicks and your website, RSS feeder, facebook, linkedin and twitter pages are published with your career related content and opportunities, Please visit http://www.appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html or http://www.appliview.com/application-tracking-software-contact.html to see the online demonstration or no obligation trial account for 30 days for free.

Why We Hate Losing More Than We Like Winning?

          

               Winning and losing is a part of the business and life both but we like winning more. Anyone who has the winning attitude makes the work successful sooner or later. While watching Andy Murray playing and winning the Wimbledon Tennis finals, I recalled a historical tennis player Jimmy Connors, who was a winner by definition, holding the top rank for 268 weeks. Only reason he stated behind this series of victory was his belief in - "I hate to lose more than I love to win".

                If belief can make players win the series of matches then of course perfect resources and guidance can make successful recruitments. It is all about targeting the right set of candidates at the right time with right attitude and sell jobs. Recruiters also have to put lot of efforts to sell jobs as Candidates sells their qualities and experience during interviews.

               To know more how recruitments can be made more effective and award winning series- Please visit at http://www.appliview.com/software-for-recruiting.html.

-The AppliView Team