When it comes to the recruiting process – it’s pretty much the same everywhere, right? We define a new role, interview some people and make a hire – it’s all very similar. But, when you start to optimise your recruiting process and you learn to tweak it based on your learnings, well that’s where the … Read more
During the Emerce Recruitment event on April 4th 2019 in Amsterdam, Richard Collins talked about Google’s search engine for jobs. Google for Jobs is already active in the US and is currently taking its first steps in The Netherlands and France. We can expect this service to come to Europe very soon. In this article, … Read more
The Boomerang Principle: Building loyalty among past, current and future employees In this post, I’m going to share my story of how I’ve become a boomerang employee and what new loyalty is all about. This is worlds away from when I started here in Amsterdam at my first job, but you can read more about … Read more
As recruiters, we are fighting the day-to-day battle to attract and hire top talent for our customers or employers. As you all know, the recruitment process basically consists of sourcing, engaging and hiring/closing. What we have noticed at LevelUp is a shift in “where” the challenge in the process actually is. Sourcing is becoming increasingly … Read more
By now you’ve probably noticed that marketing and sales are in the midst of big changes. Due to the internet and social media, we are constantly bombarded with an overwhelming number of marketing messages every day. As marketers, we have seen this “push marketing” approach grow less and less effective. As consumers we are, to … Read more
Hiring is hard, that’s a given. What’s even harder though is making hiring decisions that help your company long term. Hiring is traditionally pretty transactional. You have a job, you post an ad, you fill the role. Simple. This results in a pretty reactive process though. You don’t have any sense of where the next … Read more
As startup recruiters, let’s collectively face the truth – cold calls, spammy emails and faded black suits just don’t cut it anymore. Instead of receiving a spammy or templated reach out message from a LinkedIn Premium account, candidates are looking for recruiters that stand out to them. After all, in today’s tech world the startup … Read more
Slack is everywhere. Not only is it now able to do everything from ordering our groceries to having a chat with us about our work…Slack is now a powerful tool to be used in recruiting. Many recruiting tools are already building native apps to make use of the Slack platform, but more importantly, Slack can … Read more
Recruitment, for startups, is broken. Talent is key to future execution power, and perhaps your only true differentiator. The talent you hire will help build your IP, your brand and will drive your traction. They will prove your business works, will continue working and is scaleable. So, for various reasons, recruiting through the good ol’ … Read more
You’ve got the funds? Time to Talent! Recruiting is hard, especially for startups. I’ve done everything from corporate recruiting to agency recruiting to some weird type of recruiting in the middle of the two. However, no matter which angle I go about it, I come to the same conclusion: finding and attracting good people is … Read more
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