Ask a Recruiter: Marvin Booker
Sourcing specialist Marvin Booker shares how a background in hospitality shaped his recruiting approach, what drives him day to day, his recruiting superpower, and the technology tools he relies on as a recruiter.
Recruitment
Recruiting moves quickly when your outreach, interviews, and follow-ups don’t have to be written from scratch. This category supports recruiters, talent acquisition teams, and hiring managers with sourcing strategies, LinkedIn and email message templates, interview guides, offer letter examples, and advice on candidate experience and employer branding. You’ll also find reviews of recruiting apps and metrics to help you hire faster without losing the personal touch.
How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 3)
The final part of the remote recruiter series covers tools for team communication, time management, time zone tracking, job workflow tracking, and writing, so remote recruiting stays organized day to day.
How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 2)
Part 2 of the remote recruiter series looks at the foundation of a recruiting tech stack: news aggregators, project management apps, recruiting tools and resources, and scheduling software for distributed teams.
How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 1)
Remote recruiters need the right tools to stay connected with their teams. Part 1 of this series covers cloud storage, collaboration apps, coworking spaces, focus aids, and video meeting tools worth using.
How to Solve Common Recruiting Problems: 5 Common Challenges
Recruiting problems like limited talent pools, candidate ghosting, and unresponsive hiring managers have practical fixes. See the situation and solution for five common challenges, including sourcing time and engagement.
Meaningful Manager Communications: Professional Development
Professional development requests are easier to write with manager-ready Snippets. Get TextExpander templates for conference requests, self-reviews, learning recaps, feedback requests, and recommendation letter requests.
Meaningful Manager Communications: Process
Process changes are easier to communicate with ready-made manager Snippets. Get TextExpander templates for out-of-office messages, new team member announcements, team charters, and lessons learned reviews.
Meaningful Manager Communications: People Management
Manager communication with direct reports gets more consistent with reusable Snippets. Get TextExpander templates for scheduling one-on-ones, meeting agendas, weekly wins and challenges, and one-on-one notes.
The Ultimate Recruiting Starter Kit: 7 Snippets for Talent Team Communications
Onboarding new hires involves a string of messages from offer to day one. Get seven TextExpander Snippets for talent teams, including an offer letter, new hire announcement, IT setup request, and get-to-know-me email.