Tips and Templates
Compelling Job Ads
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Writing Effective Job Ads to Get the Applicants You Want
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Read this guide to learn how to write a compelling, excitement-generating job ad that will attract the right talent for your company.
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3 Ways Your Job Ad Is Confusing Applicants
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
You know how important it is to write a compelling job ad – it is an advertisement, after all – but when you post your job on an online job board, you may be inadvertently providing a confusing candidate experience if you aren’t paying close attention to what you include in the ad.
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Why Isn’t Anyone Applying to My Job Ad?
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Your company is hiring. You’ve determined the position’s requirements, written a job ad, and published it on a job board. Instead of waves of applicants, you only get a handful (or worse, zero). Where have all the candidates gone?
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Attract Top Talent
Written by iHire, LLC
Simplify the process of finding your next great hire with this quick and easy job ad template, complete with step-by-step building blocks and examples.
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7 Keys to a Compelling Job Ad
Written by iHire, LLC
Writing a compelling and informative job ad is a critical step to getting great responses.
Hiring Advice
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Never Rush the Hiring Process: 6 Ways to Hire Slow and Hire Right
NewWritten by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Time is of the essence in recruiting, but you should never rush the hiring process. Learn why you should hire slow and tips for hiring the right candidate.
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Watch Out for These 6 Optometry Hiring Red Flags
NewWritten by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Want to avoid making the wrong hire for your optometry practice? Keep an eye out for these optometry hiring red flags.
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Essential Panel Interview Tips for Hiring Top Talent
NewWritten by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Panel interviews streamline recruiting, guard against biases, and improve the overall hiring process. Read these tips for conducting a panel interview.
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4 Interview Mistakes That Cost You Top Candidates
NewWritten by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Are you committing critical interview mistakes? Learn the right way to interview and increase your chances of hiring great candidates.
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5 Ways to Retain Optometry Staff
NewWritten by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Competition for optometry talent is fierce. Follow these steps to increase your optometry staff retention and enable your practice to thrive.
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Recruitment Marketing: Finding Talent in a Candidate-Driven Market
NewWritten by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Learn why recruitment marketing is key to talent acquisition in a candidate-driven market and needs to be part of your recruiting plan.
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How to Build a Candidate Pipeline in 4 Steps
NewWritten by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Do you know how to build a candidate pipeline? Take your recruiting strategy to the next level with our guide to creating a pool of qualified talent.
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15 Customer Service Interview Questions Every Optometry Hiring Manager Should Ask
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Hiring in optometry? Here are 15 optometry customer service interview questions to help you find the right candidate for your team.
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The 5 Types of Hiring Biases that Could Be Ruining Your Recruiting Operations
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Find out how to recognize and remove the 5 most common types of hiring biases that could be keeping you from adding top talent to your team.
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How to Spot Resume Lies & Guard Against Lying Applicants
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Learn how to spot resume lies and determine if the candidate with the impressive credentials is actually a lying applicant.
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Know Your Source of Hire: 3 Solutions to the Applicant Attribution Problem
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
In today’s candidate market, you need to know your best sources of hire. Read this article to learn how to improve your tracking and recruiting ROI.
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Employee Disengagement: The Costly Problem You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Learn how to uncover the signs of employee disengagement and battle low employee morale.
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When HR and Hiring Managers Disagree: How to Work it Out and Hire the Right Candidate
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
HR and hiring managers don’t always agree on the right person to hire. Here’s how to resolve your differences and meet your hiring goals.
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5 Great Reasons to Hire During the Holidays
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Actively hiring during the holidays is pointless, right? Think again! With less competition, an extremely dedicated candidate pool, and a chance to start the New Year ahead of the game, November and December are great months to hire.
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Telephone Reference Checking Template [Free Download]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Checking references is an arduous but critical step in the applicant screening and hiring processes, and our reference checking template will help to ensure you do it the right way each time.
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The Right Way to Treat Rejected Candidates
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
“I can’t wait to reject these applicants!” said no hiring manager ever. Candidate rejection can be a difficult and sensitive task, and it’s critical to know how to reject a candidate without burning bridges or providing a negative experience.
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Hiring & Managing Millennials: Key Tips All Employers Should Know
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Regardless of what you may think about millennials, they've become the largest generation in the workforce and their influence on the economy will only continue to grow. Learn all you need to know about hiring and managing the millennial generation.
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5 Tips for a Successful Social Media Screening Strategy
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Interested in harnessing social media to help screen job applicants and identify top talent? These five tips will help you build your strategy.
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30 Applicant Prescreening Question Ideas You Can Use Today
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Applicant prescreening questions can be major time savers in the hiring process. By asking potential candidates to answer a few questions along with submitting their resume and/or cover letter, you can get a better idea of who your top contenders are (and aren’t) at a glance.
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Applicant Screening Checklist
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
We know you have a lot on your plate, and applicant screening can be a lengthy process. Our job applicant screening checklist can help!
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3 Simple Ways to Attract Passive Candidates
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
When you have a hard-to-fill position open on your team, recruiting can feel like finding a needle in a haystack these days. Focusing your efforts on active job seekers alone won’t cut it anymore. You have to recruit passive candidates as well.
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Find the Right Hire: How to Review Candidate Resumes and Applications
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
The hiring process can be incredibly time consuming. Most recruiters and hiring managers don’t have a lot of time to spare, and the prospect of reviewing hundreds of resumes can seem downright daunting. The good news is that being planful with your recruiting efforts can make the candidate review process much more efficient and enable you to hire your next great team member!
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Determining Salary for a New Employee? Read These Tips.
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Many organizations “wing it” when it comes to determining salary for a new employee, but that approach can backfire and result in you losing your top candidates. Follow these steps to help guide your decision making when it comes to new hire compensation.
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Want to Attract Top Talent? Start with SEO.
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Implementing SEO for job posts can be a bit intimidating, but these tips can help! Learn how to use keywords and optimize your job posting's landing page, as well as the importance of mobile and voice search.
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Get the Most out of Your Recruiting Budget with These 5 Tips
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
There are a number of cost-effective approaches you can use to streamline your company’s hiring process and maximize your recruiting budget. Learn the best way to allocate your resources and attract top-notch talent.
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Want to Improve Recruitment and Employee Retention? Start with Work-Life Balance.
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Promoting work-life balance can positively impact your business’ overall health, employee retention capabilities, and talent acquisition efforts. Find out how to help your team members balance their professional responsibilities and personal obligations.
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Get Control of Your Recruiting Budget in 3 Steps
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Putting together a detailed recruiting budget may seem daunting, but following these three steps can help you improve the way you plan and manage your staffing operation.
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Find the Right Resumes: Boolean Search 101
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Google has made it extremely easy for us to find what we need. Their search gets smarter and smarter all the time. Unfortunately, there are times when we need to “untrain” ourselves from the ease of Google searching. Experienced hiring managers and recruiters who search resume databases know this all too well. To find the right resumes in a resume database, you have to understand Boolean search.
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Can Your Company Afford the Cost of a Bad Hire?
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Hiring mistakes can lead to numerous negative impacts including lost productivity, wasted overhead, and squandered training expenses. But what is the real cost of a bad hire?
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10 Great Ways to Recognize Employees – For Free!
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Recognition makes us feel good. While not everyone likes to be acknowledged in the same way, appreciation from others is a key driver of continued success and growth (in fact, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs places belonging, esteem, and self-actualization at the top of the pyramid).
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How to Make an HR Process Poster [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Sara McGuire, Venngage
So many conflicts in the workplace seem to come down to poor communication. And delivering wrong information during the employee onboarding process can be particularly damaging. So how do you help communicate workplace processes so that they can be easily understood and perpetuated?
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Cash or Golf Clubs? How Should You Reward Employee Referrals?
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
What makes the best employee incentive? Cash is often the reward of choice for most employers, but is it really the best option? Find out if cash is really king when it comes to rewarding employee referrals.
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Create an Employee Referral Program in 5 Steps
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Employee referrals are more cost-effective than traditional hiring approaches and consistently produce better hires in shorter timeframes. Read on to learn how to launch your own employee referral program.
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Everything You Need to Know About XML Feeds
Written by Erin Schwartz, iHire, LLC
XML is a tool that can be used for sharing data across various networks or devices. Find out how you can use an XML feed to promote open positions your company is looking to fill.
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10 Surefire Ways to Sabotage Your Referral Program
Written by Lisa Shuster, WorkMoreHuman
Employee referral programs are the most effective means of hiring. But just because you build it does not mean they will come. Avoid these ten mistakes to get the most out of your referral initiative.
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Engaging & Retaining the Millennial Workforce
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
According to a 2014 Elance-oDesk, Inc. and Millennial Branding study (“The 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce”) as well as US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ predictions, millennials will represent the majority of the workforce by 2015 and make up 75% of personnel by 2030. Who are millennials, and what should hiring professionals know about them?
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Why You Should Be Using Culture-Based Recruiting
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
For years, employers have filled open positions on the gut instinct that certain applicants would be a good fit. Now, culture-based recruiting is making this compatibility an official part of the process.
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Enhance Employee Onboarding with Social Media
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
With social media permeating just about every aspect of our lives today, it is not surprising that social tools have a variety of applications in onboarding programs as well.
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7 Ideas to Enhance Your Onboarding Process
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
The quality and execution of your onboarding program can have a major impact on an employee’s ability to assimilate to your company’s policies, procedures, and culture. Use these tips to help your new hires hit the ground running!
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Find Top Talent and Save Money with Employer Branding
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
While the time commitment and strategic planning that goes into branding your company may seem like a daunting and unnecessary task, these four reasons show the importance and value of doing so.
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6 Ways to Provide a Great Candidate Experience
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Here are six strategies that you can implement to enhance your company’s candidate experience and generate interest from the right kinds of professionals.
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6 Reasons Why Referrals Make Great Hires
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
If you value quality over quantity when it comes to hiring, consider sourcing candidates from employee referrals. From time and cost savings to improved morale and retention among your existing workforce, the benefits of utilizing referrals are numerous.
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4 Reasons To Run Background Checks
Written by GoodHire
Hiring is one of the riskiest decisions a hiring manager or business owner makes. Read about a few of the reasons why background checks are so important.
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Tips and Tricks for Finding the Right Intern for Your Company
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
With the current growth of undergraduate and graduate students seeking relevant work experience to build their resumes and professional networks, the reasons to support an internship program are becoming increasingly compelling.
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A Guide to Checking Candidate References
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
References are not only useful for validating information obtained from resumes, interviews, and other sources, but can also provide substantial new material.
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What is OFCCP?
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Are you a federal contractor/subcontractor planning to hire personnel? Read this quick guide to OFCCP enforcement procedures and laws.
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10 Tips to Relieve Work-Related Stress
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Occupation-related stress can be a serious problem, but a trait that turns a good manager/employer into a great one is the ability to identify a staff member who is overstressed and help them resolve the issue.
Industry Reports
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March 2018 Optometry Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
iHireOptometry has the latest information on optometry jobs and job seekers. Get up-to-date optometry industry data for March 2018.
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March 2018 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
In March, new dental jobs added dipped slightly while our total candidate count went up by nearly 4K. Get more dental industry data in our latest infographic.
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March 2018 Construction Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by William Davis, iHire, LLC
Our March industry report provides a comprehensive recap of job and job seeker activity in the construction industry.
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February 2018 Construction Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
View this February 2018 infographic to get the latest construction industry data and unique insights into construction job seekers and employers.
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February 2018 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Jobs for which dental profession nearly doubled in February, and how many new dental job seekers joined iHireDental last month? View our February 2018 infographic to find out.
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February 2018 Optometry Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
NewWritten by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Looking for the latest information on optometry jobs and job seekers? Get optometry industry data for February 2018 from iHireOptometry.
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January 2018 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
iHireDental ushered in the New Year with growth in jobs, new jobs added, total candidates, and more. View our January 2018 infographic for the full report.
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January 2018 Optometry Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Looking for the latest information on optometry jobs and job seekers? Check out iHireOptometry’s detailed eye care industry overview for January 2018.
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January 2018 Construction Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by William Davis, iHire, LLC
There were over 6,000 more active job listings on iHireConstruction during the month of January compared to the month prior. Take a look at the full monthly report for more industry stats.
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December 2017 Optometry Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Freddie Rohner, iHire, LLC
Looking for the latest information on optometry jobs and job seekers? Check out iHire’s detailed eye care industry overview for December 2017.
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December 2017 Construction Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by William Davis, iHire, LLC
We’ve just released the first installment of our "Construction Industry Report: Jobs and Job Seekers". We’ve compiled all the relevant data about jobs in the industry. Find out who’s hiring, who’s looking for work, and where the most open positions are located.
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December 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
New dental jobs added, active iHireDental job seekers, and other key stats held fairly steady despite the typical December lull. Learn more in our latest industry report.
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November 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Dentist ranked #1 for active jobs and a new top skill made its debut in iHireDental profiles. See what it was and more in our November dental industry report.
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October 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
iHireDental's total count of candidates increased by nearly 3,000 in October. See what else has changed since last month in our latest infographic.
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September 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Check out our September 2017 infographic on all-things jobs and job seekers in the dental industry.
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August 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
What was the most in-demand dental position in August 2017? Which skills were the most popular in job seeker profiles? View this infographic to find out.
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July 2017 Dental Industry Report [INFOGRAPHIC]
Written by Natalie Winzer, iHire, LLC
Introducing the "Dental Industry Report: Jobs and Job Seekers" brought to you by iHireDental! Check back each month for insightful data on who's hiring what, when, and where and learn more about dental job seekers.
Employee Referral Template
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Employee Referral Email Template
Written by iHire, LLC
Tap into the goldmine at your organization by sending current employees this sample referral email template with information about your current open position.
Communication Templates
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3 Job Offer Templates Every Hiring Manager Needs
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Clarity is the key to writing an effective job offer letter. Avoid potential issues by using one of these sample letters to write the job offer that's right for your organization.
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Verbal Job Offers: Snag Top Candidates before the Competition
Written by Erin Coursey, iHire, LLC
Don't let great candidates get away! Call your potential new hire with a verbal job offer to prevent them from accepting a position at another company.
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Acknowledgement of Application Template
Written by iHire, LLC
Adapt this sample acknowledgement of application for your purposes and respond to job applicants quickly and easily.
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Interview Invitation Template
Written by iHire, LLC
Congratulations on discovering some strong applicant talent! Complete this sample interview invitation and get ready to meet your next great hire.
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Application Rejection Letter Template
Written by iHire, LLC
This application rejection email template is the quick and easy solution for responding to candidates whose resumes don’t make the cut for your current open position.
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Letter of Interest Template
Written by iHire, LLC
Uncover some top-notch talent? Take the first step toward making your next great hire with this letter of interest template.
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Follow up Letter of Interest Template
Written by iHire, LLC
Plug your information into this simple follow up letter of interest template to reach out to nonresponsive job seekers to set up an interview.