The Maturation of Web Usability – Making the Job Application Great

Originally posted on myStaffingPro’s CIO blog http://jenniferbrogee.wordpress.com. The user experience has been the rallying cry for software success stories over the last few years. After a long time of clunky interfaces that work hard but are also difficult to use, focus on usability has been a welcome change. Usable design involves a focus on reducing [...]

HR Technology Conference – Nothing New, Yet That’s Still Something

Originally posted on our CIO’s, Jennifer Brogee, blog. Read her complete “Free to Live” blog at http://jenniferbrogee.wordpress.com/. While I didn’t think there was anything particularly new introduced at the latest HR Technology Conference (2011, Las Vegas), that doesn’t mean nothing happened.  In fact, the lack of the new is a happening in itself.  Here’s what I [...]

Happy Applicants and myStaffingPro

Originally posted on our CIO’s, Jennifer Brogee, blog.  Read her complete “Free to Live” blog at http://jenniferbrogee.wordpress.com/. As a society we don’t spend enough time celebrating a job well-done.  We are always pressing on the next goal, finding another need to fill, and rarely stop and say “good job!”. I keep a record of positive [...]

Blog Duel Rundown: Engaging Remote Workers

After a week of “trash talk” (the mild type), the blog duel between @ritacjackson, @bdsperspectives, and myself, @jenniferbrogee, came to its culmination today. The overall theme between the three blogs on how to engage remote workers is COMMUNICATION! It seems that since the Tower of Babel communication has been a struggle. It becomes even more [...]

Blog Duel: How to Engage Remote Employees

It all started with a tweet. @RitaCJackson: RT @BSDperspectives Here’s the challenge-how do u engage remote emps http://t.co/ScklruR @jenniferbrogee: if they’re good, u don’t have to @RitaCJackson: @JenniferBrogee Yes some employees thrive as remote workers, but many ARE good but also need engaging, motivating, rewarding . @JenniferBrogee: @RitaCJackson sounds like a good blog topic! @RitaCJackson: Dually [...]

Online Portals That Will Revolutionize Your Hiring Process

Candidate Portal a.k.a. Your Career Site One of the most important elements of your applicant tracking system, the Candidate Portal lists your job openings on your organization’s career site. With myStaffingPro, you get to choose the look and feel of your portal so candidates are comfortable with it as being a trusted part of your [...]

Top 10 Ways to Go Green in Your Hiring Process

10 – Save servers, electricity, and pain and suffering by using a cloud-based applicant tracking system like myStaffingPro. 9 – Instead of passing out paper applications at your front desk, direct all applicants to your online career site, or place a desktop computer in your lobby as a simple kiosk applicants can use to apply [...]

Maximize the Brain Power of your ATS

I was sitting at my computer today, waiting (yet again) for it to respond to my mouse clicks, when I thought, “this computer is supposed to be able to process a million times faster than my brain can.  So why am I sitting here waiting for it to respond?”  The answer, of course, is that [...]

Use Text Messaging to Communicate Easily with Your Managers

Did you know you can use text messaging within myStaffingPro to quickly communicate with your managers?  With myStaffingPro’s Hiring Manager Quick Response, you can send requests for feedback to your hiring managers regarding one or more applicants. Use Hiring Manager Quick Response to ask your managers which applicants they want to interview.  Or, request feedback [...]

Microsoft Convergence 2010: Another Great Show

We just spent a great four days at the Microsoft Convergence Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.  Highlights for us were meeting existing customers, potential customers, and existing and future partners.  We met the friendliest folks from all over the country, and the world! Some memorable conversations include discussing how to automate and streamline the hiring process [...]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.