BirdDogHR Blog

The BirdDogHR™ team is making the trip to Las Vegas for our first ever World of Concrete tradeshow experience from January 22 through January 25. If you're attending the show, stop by booth #1153 and read on to find out what the team is most looking forward to!

Many ATS providers include their own branding in ways that can be confusing for applicants: within the URL, logos and photos, brand coloring, etc...

In a tight job market, exceptional - or even interesting - benefits can move the needle on quality recruitment. According to a 2018 Benefits Survey by SHRM, 92 percent of employees indicated that benefits are important to their overall job satisfaction.

Recruiting candidates in 2019 is going to look a lot like 2018 - challenging, tight and competitive. To keep your competitive recruitment edge sharp, make sure you have these recruiting strategies nailed down (which can all be centralized in a smart ATS like ours).

A lousy company culture will scare off great candidates, chip away at employee engagement and eventually skyrocket employee turnover. If your company isn't taking employees' wants, needs and preferences into consideration, get ready for a mass exit for employers that will.

When you need people on the job site, you need them STAT. But when there’s a labor shortage, you need to take your worker pipeline into your own hands. By lowering education or years-of-experience requirements, you’re widening your pool of candidates. Here's how to recruit and retain laborers.

Recruiting top talent for your organization should be as simple as flipping a switch. Why? Because your company’s reputation in the industry should already have top recruits lined up, waiting for the next opportunity to be one of the few who gets to walk in the door. Once that job posting goes up, they come calling.

As mobile devices become easily accessible to the public, job seekers are using them more and more often to search for jobs. If your career page isn't mobile-optimized, you could miss out on opportunities or worse, let the competitor snag the top talent out from under you.

93 percent of vacationers say they enjoy their time off and experience things like lower stress and better sleep, up to 53 percent of them dread returning to work. Here are some ways to help combat employee burnout when they return from their hard-earned vacations.

Employee turnover can have a negative impact on any industry, but the effects are even more harmful for construction companies and contractors. Any construction employer knows it's a specialized industry, and a project often can't risk losing one of its top engineers or heavy machine operators.