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July 23, 2024

What Is Absenteeism and How to Prevent It

Frequent employee absences can greatly impact your company’s workflow. Absenteeism goes beyond simply missing workdays; it encompasses tardiness, early departures, and even reduced productivity due to illness or disengagement.

July 16, 2024

Delivering Disappointing News: Tips for Writing Rejection Emails

For hiring managers and recruiters, delivering bad news is an inevitable part of the job. But impersonal rejection emails can leave candidates feeling discouraged and damage your employer brand. In today’s competitive talent market, attracting top candidates requires a thoughtful approach, even when delivering a rejection.

July 3, 2024

10 Factors to Streamline Your Hiring

Do overflowing inboxes and outdated methods leave your hiring process feeling ineffective? Attracting top talent is vital for any company’s success, but traditional hiring can be overwhelming. This guide equips recruiters and hiring managers with actionable steps to optimize their process, with a special focus on the power of Applicant

June 27, 2024

How AI is Transforming Applicant Tracking Systems

The applicant tracking system (ATS) has become an essential tool for modern recruiters, streamlining the hiring process by managing applications, scheduling interviews, and keeping track of candidates.

June 18, 2024

Top 10 HR Metrics to Track for a Thriving Workforce

Human Resources (HR) plays a critical role in attracting, retaining, and developing top talent in your organization. To measure the effectiveness of HR initiatives and identify areas for improvement, tracking key HR metrics is essential.

June 11, 2024

5 Tips for Creating Performance Reviews That Will Motivate Your Employees

Performance reviews are a crucial part of any employee’s development. They provide an opportunity for employees to receive feedback on their work, set goals for the future, and discuss their career aspirations.

June 8, 2024

How to Simplify Your Hiring Process

In today’s competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent is crucial for any business. But the hiring process can be time-consuming, often leading to frustration for both employers and candidates.

May 30, 2024

Thriving in Academia: How Roger Williams University Prioritizes HR for Staff Success

The landscape of higher education is undergoing a significant transformation. Budget cuts, a competitive job market, and a growing emphasis on student outcomes are forcing universities to adapt and innovate. In response to these challenges, the role of Human Resources (HR) is evolving.

May 28, 2024

Data-driven HR: How Bristol Community College is Using Tech to Thrive

Within higher education, HR departments face a unique set of challenges. Let’s explore these challenges and dive into how Bristol Community College (BCC) is leveraging HR technology to overcome them.

January 16, 2024

From Data to Decisions: Mastering Recruitment Metrics

Recruiting can often be a time-consuming and costly endeavor. But just how time-consuming and expensive is it? And how can we efficiently gather and present this information in a way that’s easy to understand?

May 17, 2023

Revamping Performance Reviews: Embracing Conversations and Project-Based Feedback

The Annual Performance Review process might not be at the top of everyone’s favorite activities list. In fact, many managers and employees might rank it alongside a dental visit! Yet, completely skipping this review could lead to even less desirable outcomes.

February 5, 2023

Why the great resignation should be good news for your institution!

You have heard it over and over, maybe you have even said it yourself, “we just can’t find good help to fill our vacant positions”. Placing an ad in the “usual” places doesn’t always result in qualified candidates. Maybe you are not looking in the right place!

August 10, 2022

If you aren’t sending and receiving Adjunct Contracts electronically, you don’t know what you are missing.

With more and more classes being taught online or in a hybrid format, adjuncts are coming to campus locations less and less. Throw in COVID-19, this is forcing institutions to think differently (and more strategically) on how they onboard new adjuncts and issue appointment /reappointment letters and contracts. We have

July 7, 2021

New Employee Onboarding is Easy! Right?

Your team already put in the hard work of approving the position, advertising, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, and selecting your next superstar. All that is left now is to put a pile of new hire paperwork in front of them on their first day, come back in an hour and

June 28, 2021

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Announces Extension of Remote I-9 Verifications through end of 2021

Hopefully, this announcement means we have gotten past the worst of COVID-19 and brighter days are ahead.

May 17, 2021

New! Hirezon is Offering Existing Clients Talent Management Consulting Services

We are extremely excited to announce the official launching of our Talent Management Consulting Service. This optional service is specifically designed to help you, our existing Hirezon customers, get your projects accomplished quickly and economically.

August 11, 2020

Virtual Performance Evaluations

Raise your hand if you have worked from home at any time during the past six months. As Higher-Ed shifted to a work-from-home environment due to COVID-19, it is time for us to pro-actively adapt to our new norms of work culture. Think about Annual Employee Performance Evaluation. It can

May 11, 2020

Virtual E-Onboarding

Regardless of your industry, profession, level of education, or years of tenure, there is nothing quite like starting a new job. First day jitters are a real thing for everyone, including the experienced educators you typically recruit for your Higher Ed Institution.

July 27, 2016

Streamlining Faculty Personnel Actions

Hirezon’s Enhanced HR Forms module can easily replace this paper process and allow for simultaneous review by all interested parties through online information sharing and document management. Faculty Personnel Actions can be managed, tracked, completed and archived in a much more efficient and timely manner. Eliminating paper-based systems whenever and

May 12, 2016

Is Your Recruiting Software User-Friendly for a Candidate’s Recommendation Provider?

“I would like to congratulate you on the trouble-free and efficient internet portal that you use for submission of such letters. I am asked to write dozens of these letters to many universities for former students. All too many universities use mechanisms for these submissions that are time-consuming and often

Testimonials

Interview Exchange is a Talent Management Solution that genuinely solves problems. Organizing applicant pools using electronic folders is an intuitive and logical way to see what is going on with an applicant pool at a glance. Our Hiring Committee loves the COREquisites, email alerts, Outlook invitations and so many other functions of the system.

Western Kentucky University

Franklin & Marshall College’s Human Resources department has been using Interview Exchange since 2007, and we are quite satisfied with this product. It has enhanced our office’s efficiency and eliminated routine clerical work and data entry; the training provided and technical support have been great; and both hiring managers and applicants are easily able to use the system.

Franklin & Marshall College

Interview Exchange has been a welcomed improvement from our previous application processes. It has saved us a great amount of paper and has added to our efficiency. The ability to mass update applicants on the status of a position has been a great benefit by saving time and decreasing phone call inquiries from applicants. Our search committees are truly enjoying the user-friendly nature of the system as well…

Oakton Community College

At Greenfield Community College, we recognize technology is a powerful tool for change, innovation, and opportunity. But technology also can be very expensive.
In using the services of Interview Exchange, GCC satisfied both needs: technology and affordability.
With Interview Exchange, we have moved forward to bring into play a system that allowed us to streamline our hiring process and select the best possible candidates in a very effective and convenient way.

Greenfield Community College

The training provided by the Interview Exchange staff to get going with our on-line application system was tremendous and they continue to support us in a most accommodating manner.
The supervisors, hiring managers, and search committees also really like being able to access all applicants for the appropriate job posting from their computers, whether on campus or off campus.
It is a great product and we are extremely pleased with the Interview Exchange staff and the performance of the software.

Central College

Interview Exchange has made a significant positive impact on the search process at the University at Albany.
Our search committees are excited about the ability to now receive all resumes electronically, thus the “paperless search.” This conforms to the University’s “Go Green Initiative,” to reduce and eventually eliminate unnecessary paperwork…

SUNY – Albany

By implementing this system it has made our recruiting process more efficient, eliminating paper, and hiring excellent candidates.
It is a user friendly system that offers many features. No more worrying about resumes getting lost in the mail or via e-mail. The system tracks everything and screens candidates so that you can review your top candidates first.
We are very pleased with the system and look forward to using all the features.

Sacred Heart University

Interview Exchange has allowed Salve Regina University to move from an over burdensome full paper recruitment process, to a smooth, user friendly online system.
We are very pleased with the software’s capabilities and tech support. Our hiring managers are very pleased with the ease of use of the product and many applicants comment on how easy and efficient the system is to use.

Salve Regina University

The training and technical support have been outstanding and the ease of use has been noted by both hiring officials and applicants.
Thanks to Interview Exchange, AUC recruiting has become a nearly 100% paperless effort and the hours previously spent doing mundane clerical work are now being put to much better use.