iRecruit Customer Newsletter March 2021
In this issue:
- Upcoming Webinar: Work Opportunity Tax Credits
- Cost Management Services iRecruit Achieves Veracode Verified Standard Status
- Setting Competitive Salaries to Attract and Retain Talent
- How To Welcome New Employees with iConnect
- Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in iRecruit
- Upcoming iRecruit Training Sessions
- iRecruit Recent Updates
- iRecruit Knowledgebase #ICYMI
- What We’re Reading
Upcoming Webinar: Work Opportunity Tax Credits
Join us on March 18th to learn about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. “WOTC” is a Federal tax credit available to employers to hire and retain veterans and individuals from target groups with significant barriers to employment. Between 8-15% of New Hires may fall into one of 10 qualifying categories for WOTC. This can make you eligible to receive a tax credit of between $2,400 and $9,600 depending on the qualifying category.
Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2021
Time: 1:00pm Eastern/10:00am Pacific
Register today
Cost Management Services iRecruit Achieves Veracode Verified Standard Status
Cost Management Services, LLC (CMS) participates in Veracode Verified, a program that validates a company’s secure software development processes. With approximately 43 percent of all breaches occurring as a result of a vulnerability at the application layer, software purchasers are demanding more insight into the security of the software they are buying. Veracode Verified empowers CMS to demonstrate its commitment to creating secure software.
Setting Competitive Salaries to Attract and Retain Talent
Salary can be a key factor for candidates when deciding to accept your job offer, and for employees considering whether or not to stay. While salary can be dependent on a number of factors including the internal budget, the cost of living in your area, experience or seniority of the candidate, and perhaps even previous salaries. Being able to present a competitive offer will help you avoid rejections, and can even help you retain your staff.
How To Welcome New Employees with iConnect
There are several ways for you to use iConnect to provide a welcoming experience to both applicants and new hires. To begin with, you can include lots of welcoming and useful content in the applicant portal. Things like about your company, how to follow on social media, the benefits of working for you, interview tips, directions to your location(s), video.
Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in iRecruit
- Customize iRecruit Dashboard (0.27.30)
- Add Video to Career Page or Job Advertisements (2.58)
- Sponsor Jobs on ZipRecruiter, Indeed and Monster (6.46)
- Auto Forward Applicants to Hiring Manager (9.09)
- Comparative Analysis Report (11.42)
- How to do batch emails. (17.00)
- Work Opportunity Tax Credit (19.10)
- Onboarding documents. (23.25)
- Texting applicants. (27.15)
- Exporter custom reporting tool. (29.44)
Upcoming iRecruit Training Sessions
- 3/9/2021: Learn how to use iRecruit TXT, our new texting application.
- 3/18/2021: Work Opportunity Tax Credit
- 3/25/2021: Bring your questions to the General Open Session on Zoom.
Plus check out all the upcoming training sessions.
iRecruit Recent Updates
- iConnect Form Display Update on Applicant Portal
- 2021 W-4 Available in iConnect
- Internal Application Process Updates
- User Preferences moved from Administration to “User Profile and Settings” which you can find when you click on your name in your account.
- Texting. Text applicants from your dashboard or applicant profile page.
- We have switched to Zoom for support meetings.
iRecruit Knowledgebase #ICYMI
- Cost Management Services iRecruit Achieves Veracode Verified Standard Status
- iConnect Form Display Update on Applicant Portal
- Easily Identify Internal Applicants
- How to Create a Custom Report Using Exporter
- How to Add Video to iConnect Onboarding
- Setting Up iRecruit TXT
- WOTC Administration Dashboard
- Get To Know iRecruit, Tips for New Users
- Help Videos
- iRecruit Newsletter Archive
What We’re Reading:
It’s Time to Hire the Long-Termed Unemployed (Read @ Evil HR Lady)
Report: The Impact of COVID-19 on Working Women and How Employers Can Help (Read @ LEAD with Indeed)
The 5 Interview Questions You Need to Ask Every Candidate in 2021 (Read @ Recruiter.com)
‘Ghosting’ is on the rise — and employers share the blame, Indeed says (Read @ HR Dive)
Why You Need Summer Interns Now, and 3 Tips for Hiring the Best Ones (Read @ Entrepreneur)
What Happens When Your Employer Brand Doesn’t Match the Employee Experience? (Read @ Glassdoor)
Demand for Remote Work Opportunities Far Outstrips Supply (Read @ ZipRecruiter)
How to Write Recruiting Emails People Will Actually Open (Read @ ERE)
5 Ways to Bring Women Back into the Post-Pandemic Workforce (Read @ HBR)
4 Outside-the-Box Sourcing Tactics for Hard-to-Fill Roles (Read @ LinkedIn)
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