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3 Preventable Reasons for One-Third of Employee Attrition

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More than One Third of Quits Are Preventable Did you know that one-third of voluntary quits happen due to completely preventable issues? Figuring out the top reasons why employees leave on their own volition can help employers know what to avoid. In turn, they can create the very best work environment where employee turnover rates are minimized as much as possible. Specifically, you can attribute one-third of voluntary exits to three core issues: Taking data from organizations like Work Institute …
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9 Ways to Spot Fake Candidate IP Spoofing

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How to Spot IP Spoofing in Fake Candidates Fake candidates have been a recurring problem in recruiting talent in the digital age, especially with the rise of remote and hybrid work opportunities. While we have covered the topic of fake candidates in detail in previous articles, we have not taken a deep dive into one of the ways you can detect a fake candidate: by identifying IP spoofing. Spoofed IP Addresses: A Telltale Sign of Fake Job Candidates Detecting spoofed …
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6 Things to Expect When You Hire a Corporate Recruiter

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What to Expect When You Hire a Corporate Recruiter Need to hire qualified candidates, but are finding that an open job ad is causing nothing but an influx of off-target or fake candidates? Unfortunately, this problem is becoming more common than ever. However, using corporate recruiters or a recruiting research firm can transform your hiring process by bringing expertise, efficiency, and access to top talent. Today, we will discuss how hiring recruitment experts like these can make it easier to …
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What Is Impact Hiring? 7 Great Ways to Implement It

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What Is Impact Hiring? Impact hiring is a hiring method that focuses on recruiting, supporting, and retaining entry-level talent, especially from groups facing systemic barriers, to create business advantage and social value. When you implement this method into your hiring process, you can maximize your chance of hiring and retaining qualified candidates. Going beyond just filling open positions Impact hiring looks beyond traditional hiring criteria like education and skills when assessing a candidate. Instead, it focuses on aligning the candidate’s …
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How to Craft a Leadership Development Plan That Builds Future Superstars

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How to Build Future Superstar Leaders It’s no secret that raising existing employee through leadership training is the most cost effective way to obtain strong leaders, especially if you want someone to carry legacy knowledge for years to come. However, this plan requires a solid leadership develop program and a conscious effort to mentoring and raising team members to become future effective leaders. Mitch Golob, president and founder of Corporate Navigators, reflects on the value of building strong leadership within …
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How to Find Better Candidates with a Recruiting Research Firm

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How to Find Better Candidates with a Recruiting Research Firm Finding better candidates has become a pain point for many companies and recruiters, so much that it’s listed as one of the biggest challenges faced in recruitment in 2025. Yet, no matter how difficult it is, recruiting the right talent is one of the most critical aspects of building a successful organization. This means that finding high-quality candidates who align with your company’s goals and culture is a non-negotiable, even …
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Deepfake Job Candidates: A Shocking Reality

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Fake Job Candidates: A Growing Threat in Recruitment How easy is it for a company to mistakenly hire a North Korean spy among its sea of job applicants? Well, according to the FBI, easier than you think. Hiring a fake candidate has happened to more than 300 companies, including Fortune 500 ones. With deepfake technology, artificial intelligence, and other deceptive measures like IP Spoofing, fake candidates can pass job interviews when the interviewer isn’t aware of common red flags. The …
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The Costs of a Poor Candidate Experience

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The Hidden Costs of a Poor Candidate Experience Not too long ago, we published an article that explained why offering a positive candidate journey is so important. From initial contact to completing the job interview process to onboarding, the entire hiring process has a direct impact on both the candidate and the employer. While providing a positive candidate experience delivers benefits such as increased employee retention and loyalty, a negative candidate experience does the opposite. In fact, a negative candidate …
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What is Talent Acquisition? 9 Great Strategies for Making It Happen

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What is Talent Acquisition? Talent Acquisition (TA) is a strategic process used by organizations to identify, attract, select, and retain highly qualified employees to meet their long-term business goals. It goes beyond traditional recruitment by building relationships with potential candidates and developing a talent pipeline for future organizational needs. While you’ll often see “recruitment” and “talent acquisition” used interchangeably, there’s a key difference between them. Recruitment typically focuses on the immediate, transactional task of filling open roles—think of it as …
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Too Many Fake Candidates? You’re Not Alone.

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Spammed with Fake Candidates? It’s Par for the Course in 2025. Across the board, companies are seeing a surge in fake applications after putting job openings up online. These fake candidates are wasting employers’ time by providing falsified work histories, identities, locations, and other information. In 2025, fake job candidates are a real problem that makes it more difficult than ever to identify qualified candidates during the hiring process. What are some growing trends with fake candidates, what are some …
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How to Use an Applicant Tracking System in 9 Easy Steps

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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Talent Sourcing Trends in 2025

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The Future of Talent Sourcing: What to Expect in 2025 In 2025, the talent sourcing landscape is undergoing some significant transformations. New technology, shifting workforce dynamics, and evolving expectations influence significant changes in recruiting qualified candidates. Organizations must adapt to these trends to remain competitive in attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. At Corporate Navigators, we stay on top of recruiting trends to assist our clients in navigating the current recruitment landscape. Here’s a look at what to expect in …
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Human-Centric HR Sourcing

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Human-Centric HR Sourcing: Balancing Technology with Empathy in a Digital Era In today’s recruitment landscape, HR sourcing has never been more integrated with tech. While automated tools and databases are extremely helpful in identifying qualified candidates, there is still something about recruitment that is undeniably bound to personal connection; something that can’t be programmed. This is why today’s recruiters and hiring managers find themselves at a crossroads between cutting-edge technology and the timeless value of human connection. As we navigate …
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The Corporate Navigators Guide to Candidate Sourcing

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The Corporate Navigators Guide to Candidate Sourcing Candidate sourcing is the proactive approach to identifying, attracting, and engaging potential candidates for current and future job openings. Unlike traditional recruiting methods where employers post job listings and wait for applications, candidate sourcing involves actively seeking out qualified individuals who may not be actively looking for new opportunities. By extending the search to passive candidate pools, recruiters can discover more qualified choices for their clients. The process of candidate sourcing typically includes: …
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What Targeted Candidate Sourcing Looks Like at Corporate Navigators

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What does candidate sourcing look like? When companies leave themselves open to the wide world of job applications, it can lead to a variety of on and off-target results. With Corporate Navigators, we’ll identify and develop candidates, ensuring that the professionals identified are as on-target as possible. Here are our recommended steps for clients to take to maximize the results of our candidate sourcing efforts. Step 1: Tell Us What You Need In the Corporate Navigators online intake form, we …
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The Undeniable Value of Candidate Retention

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Maximize Your Candidate Pipeline’s Potential As the search for qualified talent only becomes more competitive in the modern job market, building long-term relationships with high-quality candidates should be the cornerstone of your recruitment strategy. When you build a candidate pipeline, simply identifying people fit for future roles isn’t enough. Maintaining a relationship with them is also crucial for your organization’s long-term success and favorable employee retention rates. This concept, known as candidate retention, is becoming increasingly important as companies recognize …
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Building and Managing a Great Candidate Pipeline

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Building and Managing a Candidate Pipeline A candidate pipeline is the process or system that recruiters and hiring managers use to track, manage, and move potential job candidates through the stages of a recruitment process. It’s a way of organizing and visualizing candidates as they progress through various steps from initial application to hiring. A candidate pipeline usually includes several stages, which include: In this article, we will specifically focus on the Sourcing/Attraction stage, which includes acquiring the list of …
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Should You DIY Manage Your Candidate Pipeline?

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How to Manage a Candidate Pipeline: DIY vs. Third-Party Services Building a strong candidate pipeline is the foundation of an efficient and successful hiring process. This list of interested and qualified candidates, with whom you stay in touch over time, will be the first people you call in the event of an open position. Instead of scrambling to find someone through the open job market, you can take your time interviewing candidates with whom you already have good rapport. There …
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What is a Boolean Search?

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What’s Boolean Searching in Recruiting? You can use a lot of useful tools in modern recruiting, and employing Boolean search with ATS software is just one trick of the trade. A Boolean search uses the “Boolean Operators” (And, Or, and Not) to customize a search for information. Boolean operators clarify the relationship between your search terms, making it possible to refine your results. By narrowing your results or linking two terms together, you can sift through a high volume of …
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Why 70% of Currently Employed Workers Are Open to New Roles

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Did You Know: 70% of the Currently Employed Are Open to New Jobs According to a survey by TopResume, over 70% of individuals who are currently employed are considering a new job or are open to new opportunities. Asking the surveyed pool about their relationship status with their job, almost three quarters of respondents would take on a new position if the right opportunity came their way. This makes currently employed workers a hidden source of qualified candidates that could …
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