01/28/2022

Make Your Job Postings Stand Out in a Competitive Hiring Environment

Supercharge your job postings

On an online forum recently, a recruiter lamented that he'd posted a job a month ago and had zero applicants. He turned to the collective wisdom of the community for tips—and they suggested everything from more specificity about his organization's flexibility, to adding salary information to the job posting. But is that really what it takes to get candidates to apply? We turned to two experts who offered some advice on creating an effective job posting in today’s highly competitive market.

Promote Your Remote or Hybrid Work Policies

With association workers having spent portions of the pandemic working from home, many want more of that lifestyle, said Tracy Hollamon, CIR, PRC, vice president, recruitment solutions, at VIP Risk Solutions, Inc.

“The more rigid you are, the less interest you’re going to get from candidates, especially since the majority want full remote,” Hollamon said. “Stress either being remote or flexible hybrid, and if you’re not, you have to understand you’re going to have fewer applicants.”

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