Is Your Recruiting Efficient?

Are you recruiting efficiently? COATS has a way to eliminate hours of data entry and find the associates your clients need in record time.

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#5 – Write a Better Job Posting, Get Better Applicants

Job postings are the way we present our clients to the pool of potential candidates and they’re often the way we hope to catch the eye of the perfect candidate.

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Recruiting & Interviewing: Social Media for Recruiters

Tired of hearing about how to use social media for recruiting? So are we! So let’s talk about social media outlets just for recruiters.

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The Candidate Experience: Online Applications

Not all candidates have their first experience with your company in your reception area. Many of them encounter you first through your online application process, and their impression of that can strongly color their impression of your company as a whole.

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Mobile Media, Staffing and Recruiting

More and more, people—especially teens and young adults—are accessing the internet on mobile devices.

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Using Social Media to Follow Up with Candidates

Social media is a powerful way to interact with large audiences like potential candidates or client prospects. But it can also be a great way to communicate directly with individuals, and that can help you follow up with highly desirable job candidates.

Once you’ve received a completed application and a resume from a candidate, it’s easy to get caught up in job orders, interviewing new associates and all the other hundreds of things staffing professionals do every day. However, if you really want to stay in touch with one candidate (or even a group of them), social media can make it a …

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Social Media for Staffing Companies: Avoid the Mullet

Social media is not a fad or something used only by kids and people who want the world to know about their lunch; it’s a proven platform for marketing. But while most companies have one audience for their marketing, staffing companies have two: candidates and clients.

Trying to speak to both audiences at once using one channel results in the communications equivalent of a mullet. You may think it’s working, with the business in the front (your B2B client marketing) and the party in the back (your B2C candidate marketing). But what you’re really doing is creating confusion and …

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Help Your Clients Find the Qualified Workers They’re Missing

More than half of American companies say they have difficulty finding qualified workers. But do they really? And how can staffing firms help?

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Hiring in 2012: Good News for Staffing

2012 is shaping up to be a great year for staffing: employers are planning a similar pattern of job growth to last year; turnover is a concern for employers (and we can help) and temporary workers are becoming a regular part of the workforce.

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Write a Better Job Posting, Get Better Applicants

Job postings are one of the most crucial, yet the most often overlooked, marketing tools available to staffing firms. In fact, you might not even think of them as a marketing tool; that’s how easy they are to overlook.

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Recruiting

COATSsql is the optimal recruiting software designed exclusively for the staffing services industry. With COATS recruiting software, a recruiter’s desk can be a paperless productive environment!

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