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Job Applicant Overload: Why More Candidates Doesn’t Mean Better Hiring

Survale

Sectors with high turnover rates, such as retail, hospitality, and customer service, are seeing a flood of applications. Even industries requiring specialized skills, such as technology, finance, and healthcare, struggle with a deluge of underqualified candidates, making it harder to find the best hires.

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7 Ways Retail and Hospitality Recruiters Can be Ready to Ramp Up for Volume Hiring

Jobvite

By any measure, 2020 was a year that retail and hospitality brands would rather forget. That means it’s time for recruiters in retail and hospitality to get ready to start rehiring! Short text-in codes are a great way to engage potential hires — especially when you need to hire at scale. Embrace text recruiting.

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Challenges of Retail Hiring

Jobalign

During the application process, applicants that are looking for jobs in retail are often applying for many jobs at once. Using Jobalign’s Candidate Engagement Platform and text-to-apply applications, retailers have drastically increased their application completion rates.

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5 Must-Have Features of Every Career Site

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Michele finished by sharing, “My dashboard tells me exactly the type of candidate engagement I’m getting from these videos, so I can see exactly what’s working. I’ve learned to expect a 3% to 5% engagement from these videos. Examples of how iCIMS has included video testimonials from employees throughout their career site.

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How to boost candidate engagement with job maps for multi-location hiring

CareerArc

Trying to juggle the task of recruiting , let alone increasing candidate engagement, for multiple different positions across so many different states, or continents, can be, quite simply, exhausting. Like retail , restaurant , and healthcare.). Boost candidate engagement and transform your multi-location hiring with CareerArc.

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Engaging The New Generation for Customer Facing Positions

Recruiting Daily

And the same Deloitte survey found that Gen Z and Millennial workers were particularly eager to leave public-facing industries, such as retail and healthcare, making the question of candidate engagement even more difficult. The traditional modes of candidate engagement no longer work the way they used to.

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How to Build a Recruitment Pipeline for Seasonal Hiring

Hacker Earth

This allows them to plan for any hiring contingencies and build a robust talent pool of candidates who are interested in helping Macys achieve its seasonal business goals. According to a report by Reuters, the retail sector alone is expected to add 520,000 new jobs in the final quarter of 2024.