Talent Acquisition

Topics include: attracting employees, company branding, effective job postings, acquiring job candidates, interviewing, hiring practices, onboarding, employee referral programs, talent sourcing, the engagement cycle, and more.

Featured Talent Acquisition Guides

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How to Make Upskilling Part of Your Recruitment Strategy
These five upskilling strategies will help you find applicants with competencies you need, train your workers, and bridge the skills gap.
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Recruiting Millennials: Strategies for Finding and Hiring Gen Y
Millennials are becoming the largest generation in the workforce. These tips for hiring millennials will help you build your team.
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How to Hire a 1099 Employee
Find out how to hire a 1099 employee you can trust and how the IRS differentiates between an employee and a contractor.
Delivery driver sitting in the front seat and entering orders into a device.
How to Hire a Driver
Here’s how to hire a driver who has the skills and experience you need to drive your business forward.
Two software developers working on code on a white board.
How to Hire a Software Developer
Here’s how to hire a software developer with the technical skills to build apps and websites for your business.
Office receptionist writing in an appointment book.
How to Hire a Receptionist 
Here’s how to hire a receptionist you can trust with everything from fielding calls to filling out paperwork.

All Talent Acquisition Guides

Master Your Employer Brand with These Monster Resources

Learn how employer brand can help pull the right people toward your company and retain your most valued workers.

Make internship recruitment easier
Companies are stepping up their game when it comes to internship recruitment, with some even using the same tactics they use to recruit employees. Make sure your company doesn't fall behind by getting the latest in recruiting tips, hiring strategies, and more, at Monster.com.
5 Online Recruiting Strategies
These five online recruiting strategies will help you reach, attract, and hire the talent you need to run a successful business.
5 Ways to Recruit Recent Graduates for STEM Jobs
Since STEM jobs are hard to fill, you need to make sure that your recruitment efforts are optimally tailored to find them. Here are 5 ways to get started.
How to Train your Recruiters to Be Better Listeners

With a tightening talent market, it’s time to train your recruiters to be better listeners in the candidate interview.

How to Hire Nurses for Your Facility
Here are five tips to consider when you’re looking to hire nurses who are dedicated to providing quality care for patients at your facility.
How to Recruit and Retain Millennial Nurses
These strategies for recruiting and retaining millennial nurses have the added benefit of improving your overall work culture.
Recruiting Millennials: Strategies for Finding and Hiring Gen Y
Millennials are becoming the largest generation in the workforce. These tips for hiring millennials will help you build your team.

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7 Social Recruiting Mistakes to Avoid
Here’s how to avoid common social recruiting mistakes and create a strategy that attracts the talent you need to be more successful.
How to Identify Soft Skills: Interview Tips
Knowing how to identify soft skills is key to finding emotionally intelligent, responsible, and adaptable workers. Here's what you should be looking for.
6 Ways to Improve Your Candidate Recruitment Emails
These tips will help you write effective recruitment emails, helping you attract the talent you need to be more successful.
Why your company needs mobile friendly job applications
We do everything, including job hunting, on our phones. Learn why and how to improve your mobile friendly job applications at Monster.com.
Truck Driver Recruiting: Challenges and Opportunities
Truck driver recruiting challenges include an aging workforce and an often-maligned image, but there are opportunities if you have the right strategy.
Technology Hiring: Recruiting Resources

These resources will help you find and attract the IT talent that will help keep your business thriving.

Recruiting For Retail: 5 Tips
Due to higher-than-average turnover rates and relatively low wages, recruiting for retail can be challenging. We'll help you solve them.
Hiring for Retail: How to Source and Interview Candidates
Hiring for retail work is not as simple as it may seem. These sourcing and interviewing techniques will help you find top retail candidates.