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Reflik Celebrates Five Consecutive Years on the Inc. 5000 List

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Reflik Celebrates Five Consecutive Years on the Inc. 5000 List 

We’re thrilled to announce that Reflik has once again been named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list, marking our fifth consecutive year of recognition from 2020 to 2024. This achievement is a testament to our continued growth and innovation in the recruitment industry. 

Over the past few years, Reflik has accelerated its expansion by delivering cutting-edge recruitment solutions, including direct hire, contingent hire, and agency management services. Our growth trajectory has been powered by partnerships with both Fortune 500 companies and small to mid-size enterprises (SMEs), spanning industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Technology, and Professional Services. 

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COVID-19: How to Transition to Interviewing Virtually and Hiring Remotely

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COVID-19, or coronavirus, has forced most businesses to rethink how they run daily operations, particularly when hiring. Processes such as bringing a candidate in for an interview are no longer an option for most companies due to office safety rules. However, for businesses that are able to maintain continuity through remote work, vacancies are being filled through a fully online interview process.

Is your business looking to hire while unable to call candidates for on-site interviews?

Below are a few steps that can help you transition to interviewing virtually and hiring remotely. [Read more…]

Reflik Earns “Best Sourcing Technology” At 2019 The Workies Awards

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COO & Co-Founder, Ash Geria (left), and, Director of Community & Strategic Alliances, Scott Poniewaz (right), accept The Workies award for “Best Sourcing Technology.”

At this year’s Work Awesome conference, Reflik earned the top spot in the category of “Best Sourcing Technology” as part of 2019’s The Workies awards. Reflik edged out finalists in the category, which included runners-up, Greenhouse and JobDiva. [Read more…]

How To Fill Your Cybersecurity Workforce Gap 

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With an increase in cyber attacks, companies and organizations are more focused than ever on increasing cybersecurity and protecting data. While big companies struggle to cope with these security breaches, small businesses are equally at risk. They’re often even a bigger target for cybercriminals because their security defenses are weaker than those of larger companies.

This means that cybersecurity professionals are more necessary than ever. But this high demand for security is creating a severe shortage of cybersecurity talent for companies of all sizes. In 2019, companies are becoming more desperate to come up with solutions for recruiting and hiring skilled professionals.

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10 Reasons Why Businesses Must Be Faster With Their Hiring Process

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In a tight job market, the costs of hiring slowly are more significant than most hiring managers and talent acquisition teams realize. Current Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that unemployment is lower than it has been for over a decade. Industry analysts warn now that it is too low for long-term sustainability.

From a job seeker’s perspective, this is a positive situation. It means they may leave one job and experience no great difficulty in acquiring relevant employment elsewhere. From an employer’s perspective, this buyer’s market makes hiring difficult. Ghosting, where a contact goes silent and doesn’t respond to attempts at communication – a problem once limited to the world of online dating – is now common in recruitment. Employees are accepting jobs and then either canceling on the Friday before the Monday they are due to start a new job, or simply not turning up for work on day one because they had another, better, offer. [Read more…]

What are the 2019 Hiring Trends for IT Professionals?

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2019 software and technology recruiting trends

Hiring in IT software and hardware has always been a highly competitive area for recruitment. It’s a landscape undergoing near constant change with new technologies and challenges arriving every year. 2019 is already showing signs as being competitive in most industries; it’s called “The War for Talent” and many businesses don’t feel as though they are winning. The situation in Information Technology is particularly competitive in the world of talent acquisition.

  • Unemployment in general technology is presently 1.9%
  • Unemployment in the computer and mathematical sciences is presently 2%
  • These figures are against a national average unemployment rate of 3.9%

Technologies in development and just entering the market now is adding new roles every day. Clearly, there will not be enough people to fill them. We took a deep dive into the 2019 hiring trends for software, technology and IT professionals in a recent webinar (recording here). For your convenience, we have summarized the key takeaways. [Read more…]

2019 Trends for Hiring in Construction and Engineering

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2019 trends for hiring in construction and engineering

As an industry, engineering and construction have traditionally been areas of high employment. The trend for decreasing unemployment continued through to December 2018 across all sectors, including engineering and construction. As 2019 begins, Reflik perceives an increase of 6,000 job openings in January 2019 alone, up from 157,000 in December to around 163,000 this month. It could be a great year. The unemployment rate for this sector is steady at 1.3% for engineering, and at 3.6% for construction. Management roles in construction are currently low at 0.4%. This is mostly good news, but there are some talent acquisition issues that will need addressing as we go through the year.

We covered the research outlined below and many of these trends in our December webinar, which can be viewed by clicking here. This is a follow-up to our trends reporting for accounting & finance.

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2019 Trends for Hiring Accounting & Finance Talent

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2018 has been a great year for the financial services industry. Continued shrinking of the unemployment figures saw a ratio of 1:1 of job openings against unemployed figures for the first time since the year 2000. The start of 2019 will likely see 6,000 more new openings across all industries for finance and accounting roles, rising to 163,000 in January from 157,000 in December 2018. It’s looking like a great year, but one with several trends indicating potential problems if not addressed.

You can view the full webinar from December highlighting the 2019 trends for hiring accounting & finance talent below, but for your convenience, we have summarized many of the key takeaways that our research uncovered:

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Panel Discussion: How Recruiting Agencies Are Making More Money in 2018!

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On July 26th, Reflik hosted a panel discussion with three members of the Reflik recruiting community. Hundreds of agency executives and freelance recruiters registered for the webinar and asked some very interesting questions. The panelists spoke at length about talent crowdsourcing and their experience using it. They were thrilled to answer the audience’s questions.

Thribhu Chevva, the marketing and communications lead at Reflik, moderated the conversation. Eric Weissman, Jennifer Simmons, and Marzette Henderson were on the panel to discuss how talent crowdsourcing helps recruiting agencies and freelance recruiters make more money.

Eric Weissman has over 20 years of experience recruiting and has placed over 1,000 candidates in his career. He has made a number of placements on the Reflik platform and has earned thousands of dollars.

Jennifer Simmons recruited in-house as well as at agencies for over 10 years before signing up to Reflik. Reflik helped her build and scale her recruiting business. Most recently, on Reflik, Jennifer placed a tax manager at a financial services company.

Marzette is the director of operations and recruiting at one of the most successful healthcare recruiting agencies in Chicago: OmegaHealth Group. The OmegaHealth Group is a diversified healthcare company that assists healthcare organizations in their mission of helping people heal and helping to make the health system work better for everyone. Reflik is a key piece of OmegaHealth’s business development program.

Thribhu gave a brief introduction to talent crowdsourcing before the panel discussion began. Below is a quick summary of the event. Click here to watch the full webinar.

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What is Talent Acquisition? – A Guide To The Evolution, Process, and Future of Talent Acquisition

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Talent Acquisition is the process of attracting, acquiring, and retaining candidates whose skills, experiences, and personalities suit the needs of an organization. Talent Acquisition has become more global and structured over time. Current trends in Talent Acquisition suggest that, going forward, Talent Acquisition will become more cost-effective, efficient, and quicker with the development of automated Talent Acquisition technologies and services.

In this blog post, we will cover:

  1. The History and Evolution of Talent Acquisition
  2. The Talent Acquisition Process
  3. The Future of Talent Acquisition

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