How to Hire

Topics include: attracting employees, company branding, effective job postings, acquiring job candidates, interviewing, hiring practices, onboarding, employee referral programs, talent sourcing, the engagement cycle, and more.

Featured guides

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What is the process of making a job offer?
Understand the process of making a job offer, from extending the offer to final acceptance, to secure top candidates and close your hiring process smoothly.
What is the essential information to include in a job description?
Learn what essential information to include in a job description to attract suitable candidates, set clear expectations, and streamline your hiring process.
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Algorithmic Hiring: This Technology Could Make Or Break Your Recruitment
Explore what algorithmic hiring is, how it works, and how recruiters can use data-driven tools to streamline decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.
Picking the right interim manager – Q&A
Learn how to pick the right interim manager by identifying key skills and qualities to ensure your organisation thrives during leadership transitions.
A newly hired office worker looks past the camera slightly apprehensively on the first day at a new job as they start to be onboarded.
How to Onboard New Hires
Discover how to onboard new hires effectively, ensuring a smooth transition that boosts engagement, productivity, and long-term employee retention.
How can I upgrade the talent in my business?
Looking to enhance your team's performance? Identify underperforming areas, actively seek top talent, and build a proactive hiring pipeline to elevate your workforce.

All guides

Algorithmic Hiring: This Technology Could Make Or Break Your Recruitment
Explore what algorithmic hiring is, how it works, and how recruiters can use data-driven tools to streamline decision-making and improve hiring outcomes.
You Need To Know How Each Pandemic Perspective Changed Workers
We look at four different worker pandemic experiences and their implications for your hiring and retention.
Three Steps to Improve Recruitment ROI
Measuring and monitoring recruitment ROI will provide you with invaluable data so you can save time and money.
How to Onboard New Hires
Discover how to onboard new hires effectively, ensuring a smooth transition that boosts engagement, productivity, and long-term employee retention.
Virtual Recruitment Strategies
Leverage your virtual recruitment strategies across the different technology platforms. Find your next job candidates by posting your jobs on Monster.
Social Media Recruiting: Understand the Legal Guidelines
Understand the legal parameters around social media recruiting before making your first post. Improve recruitment--post your job openings at Monster.
Top 5 Recruiter Lies (and How to Avoid Them)
Recruiter lies can be demoralizing for candidates and harm your brand. Improve employee recruitment--post job openings at Monster.
What Clients Look for When Hiring a Staffing Agency
Stand out in the staffing industry with these tips that clients look for when hiring a staffing agency. Post your company's jobs and more on Monster.
Hiring for Attitude, Training for Skill
Attract candidates who fit in with your company culture and brand by hiring for attitude, not skill. Find the right fit by posting your jobs on Monster.
Improve Recruitment: 5 Tips for Better Efficiency
Recruiting talented employees can be tough without the right strategies. Streamline your employee recruitment--post job openings and more at Monster.
Diversity – The Unrealised Potential of Workers with Disabilities
Attract diverse talent and strengthen your hiring: explore inclusive sourcing, bias-free job ads, diverse panels and structured interviews for better recruitment.
Six Steps to Successful Video Interviewing – Business Continuity

As restrictions ease, slightly, we start to move out of lockdown. Many companies are cautious in hiring new staff. Much hiring activity has slowed, most employers have postponed any job interviews they had scheduled. We don’t yet know the full effects on our economy. As an employer, you may even have had to fire people….

Four Evidence-Backed Ways Science Improves Recruitment! 
Harness science in your hiring: use structured interviews, skill tests, cognitive assessments and data‑driven decisions to boost recruitment success.
How to handle hiring in a tight labour market

The market is tight, but the talent is out there. Try these strategies to locate and find the best fit for your business. U.K. recruiters know that ease of hiring waxes and wanes. This depends on whether you have easy access to a large pool of workers, or if your vacancy is in one of…

How to recruit tech talent – Whitepaper

How to attract the right candidates for tech roles.

WTF* is wrong with your ATS (*Way too frustrating)

I’m sure many of us remember the good old days of finding talent for your business. Endless spreadsheets to track applications and correspondence, multitudes of CVs with different coloured highlighter marks on different words and post in notes on relevant sections, CVs piled up under ‘Interview’, ‘Maybe’ and ‘No/Reject’, and once that’s all done you need to summon up the energy to compile a shortlist, juggle diaries, schedule the meetings and write the rejection letters. Easier to close the door and leave it for another day…or a colleague.