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Struggling to keep the top talent? It’s not you. It’s not them either.

It’s your hiring process.
Your ATS
The problem with your ATS is that you either use it or you don’t.
Great, that’s insightful isn’t it?
Here to help.
You don’t use it.

I joke that the ATS is where candidates go to die. Many more seasoned agency recruiters know this in the literal sense.

“Hi, my name is Gareth, Bob sent his resume to us a few years ago and I was hoping to talk to hi about a role”. “I’m sorry, Bob died 4 years ago”. Cue pregnant pause…..

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing December 11, 2024

Feeling like your office has a revolving door? Fix it in 6 minutes.

I know, it’s funny and ridiculous but then again, it was only September 4th that the Federal Trade Commission banned non competes that locked people into crappy jobs, inhibited innovation, depressed wages and increased healthcare costs.
But other than that they were a great idea.

It’s a shame though, indentured servitude has always been great for the employee experience…..

Ray Callaway December 9, 2024

What do you think? DEI or MEI, what works best for you?

Walmart is, I think, the latest major corporation to roll back Diversity, Equity and inclusion initiatives. Many think this is largely a reflection of a shift to the right in the political landscape.
Other companies to either be thought leaders or crumple under the pressure of public pressure are Harley Davidson, Lowes, Ford motor Company and John Deere.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing December 6, 2024

Behavioral questions to assess soft skills

I was reading this article on LinkedIn about soft skills and some excellent questions to ask to do a deep dive on assessing soft skills and then I started reflecting.
First off, what are soft skills?

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing December 4, 2024

Making unconscious bias conscious as a foundation to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Resistance to change is well documented in organizational development. There are a number of reasons listed below and some thoughts on how to overcome them and encourage people to face up to their biases and make that unconscious bias more conscious.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing October 21, 2024

The 3 cornerstones of any job search

I spend way too much time reading blogs and articles on the job search, and recently I’ve spent way too much time writing some of that content myself. And everything seems to assume you just jump right in and off you go.

Ben Carr September 21, 2024

Decoding team personality profiles

Advances in psychometrics and talent analytics have unlocked new ways to measure team chemistry. Powerful assessments like The Predictive Index measure social traits and cognitive functions across four key dimensions.

Ben Carr January 18, 2024

Hiring to win! Why behavioral profiling helps.

Using behavioral science to help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be isn’t just smart – it’s almost part of your job description – so use the tops in this blog to stand out from the pack. You can hire smarter, faster, and better for every role you touch – and it starts with behavioral science.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing January 18, 2024

10 Easy ways to improve your LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn is the largest candidate database out there, 780 million users, all data is self reported so is extremely reliable. That last phrase “self reported” is the kicker here, if you don’t report it then nobody will know but just like every marketing effort, you also need to think about how you get found, ie how you start to rank higher in any search.

Ray Callaway October 21, 2023

Why are behavioral profiles important in employee selection?

Here at Gateway we use behavioral profiles to complement the skills and experience selection criteria that have been in place since Moses was a little boy. It’s not the resume that you’re looking to show up for work but the whole person so it’s a good idea to understand WHO that person is.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing October 11, 2023

7 Links for job seekers

Gareth’s lazy post. Rather than write something myself I thought I’d just tell you to go read somebody else’s stuff.

Ray Callaway September 18, 2023

Gaming the interview – using employers’ biases to your advantage

Femi Otitoju said ”if you have a brain, you have a bias”.

And we have a whole selection of flavours of bias to choose from. This article lists out 50 cognitive biases you can be aware of, but we can settle on around 10-12 as core culprits.

Ben Carr September 12, 2023

Getting an edge in the video interview – employers would do well to pay attention as well.

So just in case you haven’t heard, there’s this pandemic thing going around and that has, to a very large extent, altered the way that we recruit and select candidates.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing October 21, 2022

Decoding the job posting – what do they really want?

Between bots, AI-written resumes, and the sea of auto-apply options available on hiring websites, you’ve gotta’ know what to put on your resume to stand out.

Ben Carr October 21, 2021

The Great Resignation can be your Great Retention

We’ve seen the term getting thrown about quite a bit lately, The Great Resignation, but in fairness it’s not just record numbers of resignations but a bit of a perfect storm of increased resignations, layoffs at the beginning of the pandemic and increased rehiring at the moment.

Gareth Callaway, President, Gateway Staffing October 21, 2021

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