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How to Use an Applicant Tracking System

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Alicia
Developing a strong employer brand: Did you know that 95% of Gen Z checks a company’s brand reputation before deciding to work for them? This makes a solid brand reputation a must in the future of talent acquisition. Create a compelling image of your organization as an attractive workplace to draw in top talent. Implementing strategic sourcing: Use targeted sourcing channels to connect with a wider pool of potential candidates, including job boards, social media, and employee referrals. Hiring Corporate Navigators to source candidates and call into companies for even more information will provide even more candidate options. Leveraging technology: Technology can save you a lot of time with the basic tasks of recruiting that used to take up a lot of time, such as screening resumes, online profiles, and more. Utilize applicant tracking systems (ATS), AI-powered tools, and other recruitment technologies to streamline the hiring process and improve efficiency. Focusing on the candidate journey: An excellent candidate journey is critical to retaining candidates in the application/screening process and after they are hired. To do so, provide a positive experience for candidates throughout the hiring process, including clear communication, timely feedback, and a user-friendly application process. Use data-driven insights: With feedback, you can continue to improve on your practices. Employ analytics to make informed decisions, optimize recruitment processes, and improve the quality of hires. Review periodically to see what is effective and what you need to change in your strategy. Prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI): To Gen Z, the most diverse generation yet, diversity and inclusion are strong motivators to join a company. This means that using DEI initiatives to build diverse teams can lead to more candidate choices. Building talent pipelines: Develop relationships with potential candidates for future positions, even before they become available. Also known as candidate pipelines, this list of candidates is already vetted for their qualifications and interests, saving you time when a job posting opens. Personalizing outreach: In the talent acquisition process, engage prospects with personalized messaging to increase the effectiveness of recruitment efforts. This helps your talent pool feeling connected and valued. Collaborating internally: A great recruitment strategy doesn’t just focus on external hiring. Plenty of talent can be found within your company through upskilling or reskilling employees into different departments. In this way, you can work with various stakeholders, including hiring managers and team members, to identify the people internally who have the right skills and cultural fit for open positions.

A Step-by-Step Guide for Recruiters, Business Owners, and Leaders Hiring top talent is one of the biggest challenges for recruiters and business owners. With hundreds of applications flooding in for each job posting, manually reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, and tracking candidates can be overwhelming. That’s where an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) comes in. An ATS helps streamline recruitment, automate tasks, and improve hiring efficiency so you can focus on finding the best talent for your company. It can also be …
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6 Things You May Not Know about Recruiting Research

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Alicia
6 things you may not know about recruiting research

Going Beyond the Traditional Recruitment Methods Are you a hiring manager or team leader who needs to find the best candidates for an upcoming role? Then investing in recruiting research can be a great way to find job seekers that meet your desired candidate profile. While traditional sources for finding candidates include posting a job online and waiting for candidates or outsourcing the task to a recruiting agency, there is an advantageous, convenient option that also delivers results: recruiting research. …
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The Importance of Company Succession Planning

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Alicia
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The Importance of Company Succession Planning With our 2025 Recruitment Trends Report uncovering that around 10,000 Baby Boomers are retiring daily in the United States, vacancy in leadership roles are only going to increase in the coming years, especially on the executive level. Succession planning is one way companies can safeguard themselves from a talent shortage while potentially saving money and time. This proactive approach, similar to nurturing an external talent pool, involves identifying and developing internal talent to take …
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The Average Time to Fill by Industry in 2024

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Alicia
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In today’s competitive job market, understanding the nuances of recruitment timelines can be a game-changer for both employers and job seekers. Data from thought leaders from various reports and articles shed light on the average time to hire across various industries, offering valuable insights into how long it typically takes for organizations to fill open positions. This comprehensive analysis not only highlights industry-specific trends and benchmarks but also provides strategic guidance for optimizing hiring processes. By examining these average hiring …
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5 Reasons to Use Executive Search Research to Source Candidates

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Alicia
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Why Use Executive Search Research to Source Candidates? In the recruitment sector, there are a variety of business models that offer value based on specific talent sourcing needs. In some cases, retained or contingent recruitment firms may be the right choice for your search for a new executive. These firms take care of the entire recruitment process, from candidate sourcing to filling your vacant position. If you want the full cycle handled by pros, this is an option that could …
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Inclusion Linked to Less Burnout in the Workplace

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Alicia
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Is Inclusion the Answer to Combat Employee Burnout? As we head toward 2025, more organizations are focusing on the holistic workplace, which includes more investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and brand image.  This ever stronger pull toward prioritizing these aspects of business are tied to the younger working generations’ preference to choose companies that have a good brand image and robust DEI initiatives. (See more in our 2025 Recruitment Trends Report.) However, there is another strong case for …
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Tapping into Top Overseas Candidates

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Alicia
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How to Identify Overseas Candidates In an ever-interconnected world, recruiting talent overseas offers organizations an invaluable opportunity to access a diverse pool of skills, perspectives, and innovations. Due to the rise of remote work, it’s not uncommon to find employees in Europe working for a company in America, and vice versa. International jobs open a whole new world of backgrounds and experiences to your staffing arsenal, and Corporate Navigators is proud to have plenty of experience identifying overseas job seekers …
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How to Build a Robust Candidate Pipeline

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Alicia
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Is your business future-proofed against talent loss? In this job market, you can greatly extend your time to fill if you wait for people to apply for an open role. These days, it’s important to protect your organization by building long-term relationships with passive candidates through a candidate pipeline.
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Competitive Intelligence and Org Charts in Action

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Alicia
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Competitive Intelligence Case Study with Org Charts An initially “simple” project became more complicated than it seemed, but that was no problem for our expert Research and Competitive Intelligence Teams. Objective A Telecommunications company asked for our help to make sense of the technical operations of its competitors. Specifically, we were asked to outline and provide details and insights of how their competitor’s Technical Operations team was structured and how it interacted with the rest of the enterprise. Challenges Early …
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Difference Between Active and Passive Candidates

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Alicia
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What’s the Difference between Active and Passive Candidates? If you’ve been sourcing candidates for an open role, it doesn’t take long to notice that there are many different avenues to navigate the hiring process. While in some cases it may be effective to wait for active candidates to submit their resume for an open position, there are other times when you need a different recruitment strategy. In these cases, finding passive job candidates can maximize your talent pool and give …
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Astonishing Benefits of Recruiting Research

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Alicia
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At Corporate Navigators, we provide a variety of talent acquisition services that include Recruiting Research and Candidate Sourcing. Both services are designed to save you time and hassle by getting you on-target names to call during the recruitment process.
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Talent Shortage by 2030

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Alicia
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Research by Korn Ferry Reports Potential Talent Shortage by the year 2030. What does this mean for the world of Recruiting?
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Updates on the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Alicia
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Earlier this spring, the FTC made a ruling that could impact many businesses: making most non-compete agreements non-enforceable. In short, it would retroactively invalidate millions of existing non-compete agreements.
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Finding C-Suite Talent

Posted on July 9, 2024 by Alicia
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Partnering with a reputable firm that streamlines the recruitment process with careful research and advanced candidate screening skills can streamline your search process and increase the likelihood of finding the most candidates for the role you want to fill.
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New Corporate Navigators Brochure

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Alicia
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Corporate Navigators Releases 2025 Brochure After over twenty years in the Recruiting Research space, it’s inevitable that things change over time. Client needs and expectations plus the methods in which we acquire information are always evolving. Therefore, we thought it was a good time to update our company brochure to explain our offerings and introduce new pricing plans. Updates include new Full-Service Contract Plans to replace the former Talent Pipeline model, as well as updated pricing and amenities for our …
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Competitive Intelligence Case Study

Posted on February 29, 2024 by cornavadmin
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One of our Fortune 100 clients came to use with a unique request.  In addition to performing talent mapping and org chart development services, could Corporate Navigators obtain details outlining the Marketing and Communications budgets for some key competitors in the marketplace?
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Identifying Experts – How to Build a Top 100 List

Posted on January 31, 2024 by cornavadmin
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  by Mitch Golob Helping a Client in the Solar Industry A client recently came to us to get up to speed on the Solar industry.  They wanted to understand who the technological experts were in this space and asked us to compile a Forbes style list of the top 100 individuals in Solar technology today. This request aligned well with our service offerings, combining our deep dive online research capabilities with our telephone-driven sourcing approach.  How We Built a …
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