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Attract Quality People to Apply for Your Positions
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Enticing people to take the first step and apply is one of the most challenging tasks in the hiring process, unless you are willing to compromise on the most active job seekers

The Future of Job Postings
By: Gil Shabat | 06/06/2008 | Recruitment
So many times we see the same type of job postings on job boards and newspapers and wonder why employers even bother posting them in the first place. Stating that a position requires X years of experience doing this, and Y years of experience doing that rarely attracts the top-quality people that employers want to hire, and ultimately only adds to the number of unqualified and overqualified applications employers need to process.

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By: Gil Shabat | 23/05/2008 | Recruitment
What it would take to make me pursue other career opportunities.