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Unlocking the Power of Social Media in Your Hiring Process
In today's digital age, the landscape of recruitment is continually evolving, and savvy employers are leveraging the power of social media to find and attract...
The Power of a Clean Desk: Boosting Productivity and Efficiency in the Workplace
In the fast-paced and dynamic world of business, the physical workspace is often overlooked in favor of digital tools and virtual collaboration platforms....
IdealTraits Platinum Partner with Indeed
In line with IdealTraits' commitment to forging partnerships with leading entities, we are excited to announce that IdealTraits has achieved Platinum Partner...
January 2024 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its January 2024 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great news is:In...
How You May Be Driving Candidates Away: A Guide for Hiring Managers
In today's competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent is a priority for every organization. However, some hiring managers may unknowingly...
How To: Create Job Alerts on Indeed
How To Do It: Starting from your Indeed home screen, locate the search bar at the top of your screen. Enter the title of the position you would like to...
So What’s the Deal with Salary Transparency?
Now more than ever it's the candidate who is interviewing us, rather than the other way around. As a result, Salary Transparency laws are being passed quickly...
Mastering the Art of Job Ads: The Power of Keywords in Attracting Top Talent
Keywords are words or phrases that help us identify the specific requirements of a job. From an employer’s perspective, they pertain to what qualities an...
Navigating the Future of Hiring: Adapting IdealTraits to the Remote Work Era
In a world that's rapidly evolving, the transition to remote work has shifted from a trend to a necessity. As professionals and organizations navigate this...
Start the Year Strong: Let Us Handle Your Candidate Calls!
Elevate Your Hiring Game with IdealTraits’ Candidate Engagement Program Are you looking to transform your hiring process? Look no further! IdealTraits'...
Mastering Your Hiring Game in 2024: Tips and Tricks for Strategic Organization
As the dawn of 2024 approaches, it's the perfect time for businesses to reflect on their hiring strategies and set the stage for a successful year ahead....
November 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its November 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great news...
‘Tis the Season to Hire: Tips and Tricks for Holiday Recruiting Success
The holiday season is upon us, and while it may seem like an unconventional time to ramp up your hiring efforts, it can actually be a strategic advantage....
Mastering Remote Work: Essential Tips for Effective Team Management
Managing remote teams has become a crucial skill for business owners in the ever-evolving landscape of the modern workplace. Navigating the challenges of...
AI-Generated Job Ads
By: Monica Donias We are so excited to announce the integration of a new feature that will take your job ad writing process to the next level. Inside of your...
October 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its October 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
FAQ – Always Recruiting
By: Kelly Wilmott Here at IdealTraits, we have the motto "Always Be Hiring." But, what does this mean? We commonly get questions about how and why we should...
Beyond Job Boards: Tips for Attracting Top Candidates
By: Kellie Lail Finding the right candidates for your open positions can be challenging. In a competitive job market, employers need innovative approaches to...
September 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its September 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
Better Benefits Blueprint: Crafting Captivating Job Ads
The benefit section is the most important part of your job ad. The benefits are what candidates' eyes will gravitate to and will ultimately determine if...
How to Handle Unqualified Candidates
When you start to review candidates, it is important to understand what "not qualified" means to you, as it means something different to every single agent....
Assembling Your Dream Team
Are you fitting a square peg in a round hole? Is your candidate the right fit for the role? (This is the question we are asked most often) & we're here to...
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
By: Tracy Cichecki Adding additional users to your IdealTraits account allows you to easily collaborate with your team when it comes to moving candidates...
Referring Job Candidates: A Guide to Effective Recommendations
By: Mara Miller Referring job candidates is a crucial aspect of the recruitment process that can significantly impact the hiring organization and the referred...
August 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its August 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great news is: ...
Distribution of Job Ads – Getting Your Ad Seen
By: Monica Donias Are you one of our amazing customers that is curious as to how your ads are being distributed on the job boards? Are you also curious as to...
Crafting the Perfect Job Description
By: Mara Miller Having a well-written job description is crucial for a successful recruitment process. You are writing directly to the candidates you want to...
Applying for a Job While Currently Working – Candidate Perspective
By: Monica Donias So you’re looking to hire someone for a position that recently opened up. You notice that some candidates have applied but haven’t taken the...
July 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its July 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
The Power of AI: Writing Job Ads Part 2
By: Kellie Lail Last week we talked about the pros and cons of using AI technology to write job ads, as well as the importance of editing the resulting ad...
The Power of AI: Writing Job Ads Part 1
By: Kellie Lail Artificial Intelligence is taking the world by storm. With easily accessible tools like ChatGPT or Bard, you can easily create content, come...
Enhancing the Job Responsibilities Section for Effective Job Ads
By: Monica Donias So you’ve made it to the Responsibilities section in the job ad, congrats! This section is great for highlighting the main tasks a new...
June 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its June 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
Ghosting: It’s Not Just For Halloween
Have you been ghosted before? Chances are, that’s a yes, but don’t worry, you're not alone! Recent statistics show that over 75% of employers have been...
Indeed Trusted Media Network – Sponsored Jobs
Starting in April, Indeed made updates to their Sponsored Jobs Integration, which makes all sponsored jobs available to Indeed’s Trusted Media Network. What...
Deadpool of Candidates?
By: Tracy Cichecki Are you looking to attract more qualified candidates? Let's take a look at your Benefits section. What are you offering to attract...
Under or Overqualified Candidates: Why This Can Actually Work in Your Favour!
By: Kelly Wilmott In today’s job market, hiring can be stressful. Not only is it a really competitive market, but it’s also taking much longer to find...
May 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its May 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
Show Me the Money
By: Monica Donias Let’s go over why including a salary is important and what it means from a candidate’s perspective. We’ll start with you - creating...
What Will the Future of Background Screening Look Like for Employers
What Will the Future of Background Screening Look Like for Employers? The last decade has brought an incredible amount of change to the world of employment....
Writing Effective Job Titles
By: Kellie Lail When you’ve spent time and energy crafting the perfect ad to show off your amazing job opportunity, the last thing you want to do is title it...
April 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its April 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
Role Play at the Olson Agency – RPOA
If you're like most insurance agency owners, you're always looking to improve your team's sales performance. That's where RPOA comes in and in fact,...
Is this Sales Candidate the ONE?
By: Mara Miller Advice is readily available for candidates all over the internet to prepare for interviews. However, guidance for hiring managers and...
What is the Candidate Experience?
By: Mara Miller In the current job market, candidates pay close attention to how companies treat them during the interview process. They evaluate your...
March 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its March 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
What Personalities Are You Looking For?
By: Kellie Lail Before you can begin to decide what personality types you are looking for, you must know exactly what role you need to fill in your agency....
Conducting Market Research
By: Kellie Lail We hear it all the time: “How can I get more applicants?” While we know all it takes is one awesome applicant to fill the role, we want to...
You’ve Made a Hire, But What’s Next?
By: Kelly Wilmott You made a hire! Congratulations! But… did you know that 33% of job-seekers leave within the first 90 days of employment? [Employee Cycle]...
February 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By: Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its February 2023 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
Employees Jumping Ship?
By: Kelly Wilmott Hiring new staff is important for business growth, but it’s just as important, if not more so, to invest in your current team. Replacing an...
Managing Someone with High Thorough and Compliance
By: Mara Miller When it comes to your team's success, your role as their manager is vital. Business goals, priorities, training, communication, and...
Indeed Sponsored Jobs Integration
By Kellie Lail IdealTraits is proud to be partnered with Indeed to feature the Indeed Sponsored Jobs Integration within our platform. This integration allows...
An Ad is Not a Promise
By Eric Waldowski Writing an ad for a role in your agency or small business can be both daunting and exciting, trying to balance out setting correct...
January 2023 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its January 2023 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
Managing Someone with Low Thorough/Compliant
By Mara Miller When it comes to your team's success, your role as their manager is vital. Business goals, priorities, training, communication, and...
Asynchronous Interviewing – A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
By Eric Waldowski In the current hiring market, adapting to new technologies and processes is commonplace for all of us. Over the last two years, many have...
IdealCharities – K-9 Stray Rescue League
IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee-driven charitable fund, used to support charities and organizations important to our employees. Participating...
December 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its December 2022 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great news is:...
Managing Someone with Low Motivation/Drive
By Mara Miller Good managers will always know how to keep their employees motivated and engaged. By understanding their team, managers can push them to their...
Managing Someone with High Motivation/Drive
By Mara Miller Great managers understand their employees' different personalities and know what motivates them - manage people in ways they can thrive. The...
Managing Someone with Low Persuasiveness/Convincing
By Mara Miller The best managers know what it takes to keep their employees motivated and engaged. The IdealTraits assessments assist in understanding a...
Managing Someone with High Persuasiveness/Convincing
By Mara Miller Effective managers understand their employees' unique personalities and know what motivates them. It's important to know your employees and...
November 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its November 2022 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
Time vs. Cost in the Hiring Process
By Eric Waldowski We have all been there. For one reason or another, it's time to fill a seat in our office. Whether the opening is the result of business...
Phone Screening Candidates
By Mara Miller As an assistant manager many years ago, I was introduced to the world of "recruiting and hiring." Me being me and a cocky person, I vigorously...
Removing Applicant Friction: Why is it so Important?
By Eric Waldowski With the state of technology that we live with day in and day out, we have all come to demand instant gratification, or at a minimum, no...
October 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its October 2022 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month....
Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills
By Eric Waldowski When it's time to add staff, we all have certain criteria for education, time spent with prior experience, and certifications or licensing...
Referrals for Hires
By Eric Waldowski Businesses overwhelmingly benefit from referral business. TrustedChoice.com says that in the insurance industry, referral leads for new...
Managing Someone with Low Structured/Routine
By Mara Miller Effective managers understand their employees' unique personalities and know what motivates them. It's important to know what motivates...
September 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its September 2022 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month....
IdealCharities – Be the Match
By Kellie Lail IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee-driven charitable fund, used to support charities and organizations important to our employees....
Managing Someone with High Structure/Routine
By Mara Miller When it comes to your team's success, your role as their manager is vital. Business goals, priorities, training, communication, and...
What is Salary Transparency and Why is it So Important?
By Eric Waldowski Not sure how to advertise your pay plan? Candidates are looking to compare opportunities while scrolling the job boards now more than ever....
10 Reasons Candidates Are Ghosting You in Today’s Job Market
By Mara Miller You've decided to hire someone. You posted your job ad. You've gone through the process of reading resumes and reviewing assessments. Out of...
August 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its August 2022 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
Utilizing the Assessment to Baseline Your Staff
By Kellie Lail So you're looking to add a new member to your team. That's great! But how are you going to utilize the IdealTraits assessment to ensure that...
Improving My Ad’s Quality
By Kellie Lail Between the current state of unemployment and the competitive hiring market, you want to make sure you are doing everything you can to have the...
Advertising Work From Home Flexible Jobs
By Kellie Lail Remote work - it's all the rage these days, but what if you're okay with your employees working from home every now and then, but aren't ready...
July 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its July 2022 Report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
The Great Resignation Began Nearly 2 Years Ago and It Isn’t Slowing Down
By Mara Miller Unemployment Rates In April 2019, the labor market was on a positive and powerful course. Over 263,000 new hires were added as the unemployment...
Hiring Process – Utilizing Hiring Stages
By Kellie Lail One of the most important things when it comes to hiring is making sure you are organized. You want to stay on track with where you are at in...
Important Updates to Indeed’s Salary Transparency Guidelines
By Kellie Lail If you are not yet aware, Indeed updated their Salary Transparency guidelines earlier this month with important changes that might impact you....
June 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The great news: In June, unemployment remained at 3.6% for the fourth month in a row since March 2022, maintaining its two-year low. As a...
IdealCharities – Multiple System Atrophy
By Kellie Lail IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee-driven charitable fund, used to support charities and organizations important to our employees....
Utilizing Your IdealTraits Career Page
By Kellie Lail One of the most important recruiting tools in the current market is ensuring that you have a positive online presence. Remember, candidates are...
Understanding Mid-Range Personality Scores
By Kellie Lail So you've learned how to identify a candidate's strengths and areas that could use some improvement when you're looking at high scoring...
Understanding High Personality Scores
By Kellie Lail Are you reviewing assessment results, excited to see that your candidate has scored over 60 in some sections of their personality assessment?...
May 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The great news: In May, unemployment remained at 3.6% for the third month in a row since March 2022, maintaining its two-year low. As a...
3 Benefits for Hiring Remote Employees
By Kelly Wilmott We understand hiring can be stressful, especially in the current market. You want to have the perfect candidate hired and bring in the $$$,...
Understanding Low Personality Scores
By Kellie Lail When hiring a new employee, you probably have hundreds of questions about what to expect. How will you know where to set your expectations for...
Staying Engaged with Your Candidates
By Eric Waldowski As the hiring market and landscape change, our hiring processes and ideology needs to change with it. Over the last two years, in...
April 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Kellie Lail The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its April 2022 Report, so let’s take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The great...
Why Am I Getting Candidates from Out of State?
By Kellie Lail Hiring is always difficult whether it's sourcing candidates, creating job ads, sponsoring your ad, deciding which candidate is the right fit,...
I’m Here to Replace Jason Bourne
By Kellie Lail Is this where I apply to be an Insurance Assassin? Coming up with a job title can be tricky. I get it, you want to stand out and attract the...
IdealCharities – T.A.P.S.
By Jamie Zananiri IdealCharities is back with 4 new organizations they're supporting in 2022! IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee-driven charitable...
March 2022 Jobs Report – Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released their March 2022 report, so let's take a look at how employment fared over the last month. The...
Building a Better Benefits Section
Part three of our three part Building Better Job Ads series. See part one here. See Part two here. By Kellie Lail The best way to ensure your ad shows up in...
Building Better Responsibilities and Requirements
Part two of our three part Building Better Job Ads series. See part one here. See part two here. By Kellie Lail On average, most candidates only spend about...