If you need to hire talent fast and you are looking for ways to collapse the hiring timeline, below are some proven strategies to implement in a pinch.

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Keeping Great Candidates on File

An effective strategy for building a hiring pipeline is to archive applications from individuals with the skillsets and experience your institution may need for future opportunities.

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Closing the Deal | Tips for Salary Negotiations

By implementing these salary negotiation tips, you should be in a good position to effectively convert your finalists into new hires and meet your hiring targets.

Building the Great Remain

Now might be the right time for your institution to be more creative and less rigid in its organization charts and job requirements (e.g., which positions are full-time, part-time, in-person and remote).

General Tips, Higher Ed Recruiting, Hiring ProcessIHE Marketing@ EmailNovember 17, 2021Inside Higher Ed

One-Way Interview Videos: The Right Approach for Your Hiring Process?

A one-way interview requires candidates to answer up to five questions via video. Employers can require this step to pre-screened candidates.

Using the STAR Method to Evaluate Interviewee Answers

In interviews, candidates need to demonstrate that they have the skills and experience required to perform the role. Use the STAR Method to evaluate their responses.

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Set Interview Questions and Evaluation Forms

With a little of this recommended prep work, your interview process should help you identify the best candidate for the opening and keep you on the right side of the law.

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Converting Your Offers of Employment to Acceptances

Sharing a range of benefits and opportunities that are unique to your institution and that align with your candidate's specific interests and goals should limit the number of times you end up losing out in the home stretch.

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What Not To Ask Your Candidates

Getting to know your candidates is a key function of being a hiring manager, but sometimes having a friendly chit-chat can inadvertently cross the line into an inappropriate and even an illegal line of questions. Learn what not to ask.

Recruitment Ads – A Letter to the Person You Want to Hire

Too often institutions use an internal job description or the sketchy information that resides in an applicant tracking database as an ad – with woeful results. Learn how to make your job description stand out.

Dos & Don'ts, Higher Ed RecruitingDana MillerAugust 20, 2021Inside Higher Ed

Dos and Don’ts of Your Institution's Hiring Portal

Is your employment site designed for desperate job hunters or does it appeal to terrific hires?

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Impactful Updates To Your Job Descriptions

Before posting what you have on file, pause and make the updates that will attract the candidates who will meet the new challenges the role now embodies. But what needs updating?

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Reaching passive candidates – the key to a high quality, diverse candidate pool

Your recruiting strategy should include smart ways to get job information to “passive candidates” – engaged professionals who don’t consider themselves on the job market but who might be intrigued by a new opportunity if they learn about it.

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4 Ways to Mitigate Bias in the Application Review Process

The application review step is frequently when the most qualified and diverse applicants are eliminated from further consideration because their backgrounds do not align with previously selected candidates. Here are some strategies to help limit biases and better ensure your interviewee pool is both qualified and diverse.

Five Summer Housekeeping Tips to Improve Your Higher Ed Recruiting Efforts

5 housekeeping tasks to complete in the summer to best ensure you meet your institution's hiring goals.

Salary Negotiations - What To Do If Your Job Offer Has A Low Salary Range

With lower salary ranges, strategic hiring managers should lay out a compelling case for the institution and set appropriate salary ranges throughout the process. Implementing a few of these tips will greatly increase your odds of filling your openings with great faculty and staff.

Building a Strong Online Brand Reputation

Are you losing great applicants to competitors and not sure why? One strategy to closing this gap is to perform an audit of your school's online reputation. Here are the online assets you should review to make sure your institution has a strong brand reputation.

Writing a Job Description that Gets Results

Writing an engaging job description that accurately describes the position and motivates job seekers to apply is an essential part of the process. Seems easy, no? Here is a quick checklist of content to include.

Recruiting the Next Generation For a Higher Ed Job

As you recruit for entry-level jobs and mid-level positions, you will likely need to place younger generations in these roles. Knowing more about them and what they want can help you effectively employ and retain them. Here are a few tips to help you in this process.

10+ Ways to Improve Your Higher Ed Diversity Recruiting Efforts

Discover 10+ ways to further ensure that your higher ed institution will attract top-tier candidates, from a breadth of backgrounds, who will apply and accept your offer of employment.

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