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Our 2013 Resolutions
Each year, both individuals and companies set goals, often framed in the context of “Resolutions”. At Hyrell, we have plenty of Resolutions for the upcoming year, but they all revolve around one simple and guiding principle: Providing companies with the most effective applicant tracking system available today. How are we going to do that?
Can you be too efficient for your own good? Sure can!
The Harvard Business Review recently wrote a thought-provoking article about efficiency. There was one particular paragraph that summarized the article and caught our attention:
“Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense.”
Eating Turkey in a Parking Lot
This year, my wife’s birthday fell on Black Friday. She has been asking for a new camera for about six years now so I finally succumbed. I don’t deal well with holiday shopping crowds so I always default to online first. I did my research but I am not a camera expert. I wanted to play with them a bit before my final purchase. So, because I’m a good husband, I went to the store on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving; which, as you are aware, is three full days before Black Friday. I pulled into Best Buy parking lot and noticed there were already people camped out for Black Friday. Again, this was Tuesday. A sort of Black Tuesday, I guess you could say.
How to Make Hiring Less Frantic - from Inc. Magazine
Inc. is correct in its guidance and in addition to its list, you should also consider leveraging technology to make the entire process more systematic, organized and efficient. The Software as a Service (SaaS) model now allows for companies of all sizes to utilize an online hiring system.
Resumes just aren't enough anymore!
Anyone who has applied for a job recently knows that Applicant Tracking Systems that just take your resume and search for certain keywords are pretty much the worst thing ever created.
Applicants know that the hiring manager on the other end probably isn't reading it and is, instead, just letting the system scan it for keyword matches. Ultimately, the system spits out a list of a few candidates that have 90% of the correct keywords.
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