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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...
Building a Better Job Description
Part one of our three part Building Better Job Ads series. Continue to part two here, and part three here. By Kellie Lail To ensure the candidates you want...
February 2022 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released their February 2022 report, so we're back to take a look at how employment changed over the last...
What Are You Missing Out On By Passing On Inexperienced Candidates?
By Jamie Zananiri For many employers, they see experience as a silver bullet that will solve their internal labor shortage. They may believe they want a "plug...
Being Prepared To Conduct Interviews
By Ashley Nowicki Have an interview and not sure if you're fully prepared or not? There are a few things you can do to be prepared to have an interview with a...
Salary Transparency
By Jamie Zananiri Something many employers struggle with is the idea of listing a salary range on their job ads. Some worry they may be less competitive than...
January 2022 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The first Employment Situation for 2022 from the Bureau of Labor has been released, so let's take a look at how employment fared in January....
My Ad is Expired, What Happened?
By Kellie Lail Ads have the potential to expire after going 15 days or more in a row without receiving any applicants. Ads can also expire if you have...
Increase Your Job Ad’s Visibility
By Kellie Lail Let's be honest; hiring is hard. Uncertainties about job board guidelines, candidate's needs, and even the lasting effects of the COVID-19...
Always Be Hiring
By Faith Dawson Client Relationship Manager Lead Faith Dawson is back with another video post about our recommendation to Always Be Hiring! Those articles...
December 2021 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The December 2021 Employment Situation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been released, so let's see how we ended the year! The great...
IdealCharities – Oxford Community Memorial and Victims Fund
By Jamie Zananiri On November 30th of 2021, our close neighbor Oxford was rocked by tragedy. 4 students had their lives cut short, six other students and a...
What Should My Sponsorship Budget Be?
By Kellie Lail In the current market, competition is crucial.With so many people looking to add staff, the number of jobs showing in candidate’s search...
Updates to Indeed’s Job Search and What this Means for You
By Kellie Lail Indeed has always made it clear that candidates are their number one priority. Because of this, all of their posting guidelines are in place to...
Job Ad Red Flags: Words & Terms To Avoid Using
By Ashley Nowicki If you're in the middle of writing a job ad and not too sure on what words or terms you're not supposed to use, you've come to the right...
November 2021 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri It's that time again! The November 2021 jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been released, and here's what they found: The...
Remote Work- Interview with Kevin Mlynarek
Featuring Eric Waldowski and Kevin Mlynarek Client Success Manager Eric Waldowski sits down with one of our IdealTraits founders and current Allstate Agency...
What Candidates Want Most: Remote Flexibility
By Faith Dawson Retention Team Lead Faith Dawson here to share about candidates and remote work!...
Our Remote Office- How Sales Personalities Adjusted
By Jamie Zananiri When IdealTraits initially began having employees work remotely, our sales team was not expected to make the move out of the physical...
October 2021 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for October 2021 has been released. The unemployment rate fell again, reaching a...
Where to Find Your Next Superstar: 5 Sources for Finding Top Talent
By Kelly Wilmott In the current hiring market, sourcing the ideal candidate has been no easy feat. Competition is high, open positions are plenty and job...
Making Our Move To A Remote Office & A Nurturer’s Experience
By Jamie Zananiri Accelerated by the pandemic, many businesses have moved some, if not all, of their staff to working remotely. Now, the vast majority of job...
Onboarding and Training in the Remote Space
By Eric Waldowski So you are planning to bring on more staff, and exploring the option of remote or flexible work for this new position. Though this is a...
September 2021 Jobs Report- Bureau of Labor Statistics
By Jamie Zananiri The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for September 2021 has been released. While the unemployment rate continues to...
IdealCharities: Outreach East
By: Jamie Zananiri IdealCharities is pleased to announce their 2021 Quarter 3 charity, Outreach East! IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee driven...
Importance of Sending Rejection Letters
By Kellie Lail Rejecting candidates during the hiring process can be tough. Whether they’re just not the right fit for your company or their experience...
Effective Phone Interviews
By: Ashley Nowicki You received some candidates and you're wondering what to do next. Sure, you can send an email to the candidate to show your interest. But...
Building Your Online Presence
Social media is becoming more popular than ever, making it an even more powerful tool in getting to know people. Just as you want to learn more about the...
Why Candidate Engagement is Important
By Eric Waldowski You have created your ad, posted it online, and are beginning to receive applicants. What's next? The recruiting landscape has changed a lot...
Why Experience Isn’t Always the Most Important Factor When Hiring
By Katie Thornsberry When searching for a new employee, a candidates' work experience is often the most important thing hiring managers are looking for. It...
LAAIA Conference
By Monica Donias The weekend of August 12th, my coworkers (Nolan and Raquel) and I were given an amazing opportunity to travel to Florida to participate in...
5 Tips for Making Your Job Ad Content Competitive
By Katie Thornsberry There are many factors that go into hiring a new employee; What qualifications they need to have, what their pay will be , if they'll be...
7 Tips for Remote Training
By Katie Thornsberry As the pandemic is winding down (..hopefully) many companies have come to realize the benefits of remote/flexible scheduling, and are...
IdealCharities : Wounded Warrior Project
By Jamie Zananiri IdealCharities is pleased to announce their 2021 Quarter 2 charity, Wounded Warrior Project! IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee...
IdealCharities : Detroit Dog Rescue
By Jamie Zananiri IdealCharities is pleased to announce their 2021 Quarter 1 charity, Detroit Dog Rescue! IdealCharities is an IdealTraits employee driven...