Category Archive for Hiring Resources

Category Archive for Hiring Resources

Announcing Omni One Candidate Digests

Announcing Omni One Candidate Digests

We’re getting out in the field, so you don’t have to! Coming this Fall: Omni One’s 1st Candidate Digest. Score big with entry level candidates before your competitors by allowing our team to recruit talent directly out of local, top engineering and technical universities and colleges. With Omni One’s Candidate Digests, you will have a first look at available talent from the comfort of your desk, without the event…

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Take Control of Your Employee Experience

Take Control of Your Employee Experience

Let's be real: finding talent is hard, making the chance of finding top talent nearly impossible! Hiring Managers are left scrambling to pick up the slack and living in fear of losing another employee. In the end, an overall feeling of powerlessness takes over and productivity is at an all-time low. In an effort to bust the status quo, our team sought out help and found Stephan Vincent, the founder of eX Summit, a podcast that strives to…

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Tech Job Interview Red Flags: 7 Things Great Candidates Never Do

Tech Job Interview Red Flags: 7 Things Great Candidates Never Do

If you assign a skills-based challenge during a tech interview, don't just assess task completion. Also evaluate how the candidate behaves during the process. Unlike a "standard" job interview, tech interviews can often be very different. Many include having the candidate complete a well-defined task. (Either before, as a qualifying assessment of skill, but also often as a formal part of the interview process itself.) For…

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Personality Traits That Can Help You Get Hired

Personality Traits That Can Help You Get Hired

It is hard to truly know what exactly the hiring manager is looking for when making hiring decisions. Yes, the hiring manager is looking for specific skills in candidates, but we all know that just because candidates have certain skills doesn’t mean they necessarily land the job. Skills alone are not the key focus when it comes to hiring decisions. One must have the skills and there is no doubt about that, but more and more company culture…

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The Hiring Process

The Hiring Process

The economy is booming, which has left the job market flooded with open positions. The time to find the perfect career is now. So why will you not respond to applications for three weeks? After leading two panel interviews, why will your candidates wait four more weeks to find out whether they did or didn’t get the job? Ultimately, the ideal candidate is accepting another position before you even thought to offer them a job. The reality of…

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What Millennials Are Looking for in an Employer

What Millennials Are Looking for in an Employer

Millennials are a unique bunch. They might have their quirks but they are a highly-educated group of people who are in today’s workforce in a number of roles. These millennials are hardworking, but they definitely have criteria in mind when it comes to what they expect from their employer. First, what exactly defines a millennial? Do you ask yourself this question? According to Pew Research,  “More than one-in-three American workers…

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Leadership and Recognizing Success; Managing and Hiring Advice from a Retail President

Leadership and Recognizing Success; Managing and Hiring Advice from a Retail President

What is leadership? Is it important to recognize success when you lead a team? Whether you lead a team or not, it is beneficial to you and your organization to recognize success. Liz Rodbell, the president of the department stores Lord and Taylor and Hudson Bay, recently spoke to The New York Times  about success and recognizing success. From an early age, she knew that to be successful you needed to work hard and engage with people. She had…

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Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2015: Omni One Can Help

Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2015: Omni One Can Help

  The list of the hardest jobs to fill in 2015 has been released via Forbes, with data collected by Manpower Group. According to the data, 42% of employers surveyed this year reported that talent shortages resulted in a reduced ability to serve clients, while an identical percentage reported reduced competition and productivity. At the top of the list for the sixth year in a row is skilled trade workers, a field that has been in the top hardest…

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Temporary Employees Are Where Hiring Is Going

Temporary Employees Are Where Hiring Is Going

Originally on Ashleyellis.com Over the last 6 years, temporary employees have stepped out of the shadows to become a larger part of the workforce. CareerBuilder reports that temporary employment services have grown 57 percent from 2009 to 2014, and it’s not just for clerical roles or day laborers. Anyone from accountants and system analysts to developers and machinists can now be ordered to fit a business’ workload fluctuations and…

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Why You Can’t Find that Perfect Candidate

Why You Can’t Find that Perfect Candidate

That vacancy in your team is driving you mad. You’ve been searching for weeks and the perfect candidate is nowhere in sight. Is the talent pool as dried up as Death Valley or is something askew with your hiring criteria? The Toll Open Positions Take Your hiring woes are not the exception. Extended vacancies have become the norm as more employers hold out for that singular candidate. In fact, the national average for the time an advertised…

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