The good news is that according to The Class of 2018 Job Outlook Report study conducted by iCIMS, a leading applicant tracking system and recruiting software company, recruiters estimate they will pay entry-level employees $56,532, about $10,000 more than last year.
Two Berlin-based startups are merging: softgarden, which provides web-based recruiting software to handle the entire recruitment process, is joining forces with 1000jobboersen.de, a job ad media planning service.
Plenty of these software programs integrate with your existing CRM or recruiting software to help hiring managers and recruiters organize job candidates' cover letters and resumes, keep track of employees who referred them, and engage in follow-up conversations.
The company that won the Judges' Award, Affintus, pitched a recruiting software solution.
Still, Sarah Nahm, chief executive of Lever, a recruiting software start-up, said joining Founders for Change and standing with other entrepreneurs to promote diversity was important.
He is the founder and CEO of Eddily, a skill building and campus recruiting software platform for college students that is directly powered by employers.
General Motors, newly flush with cash after emerging from bankruptcy, is on a hiring binge, quadrupling its information technology staff and recruiting software developers to create a spate of apps for its 2014 model-year vehicles.
Besides offering another reason to use the recruiting software, the company is looking to increase the time people spend interacting with its products, hoping it will also be used to structure how people work as well as how they get hired.
In 2012 the team had a policy of recruiting software engineers and others from small start-ups, who from day one were thinking, "What am I going to do next, after the election?" says Harper Reed, the campaign's chief technology officer.
But when Linnar Viik, an Estonian information-technology specialist, was recently recruiting software programmers in Finland, he was astonished to discover that the going rate there, at around 15,000 Finnish markka ($2,700) a month, was only a whisker higher than the rate earned by skilled programmers in Estonia.
The company then pivoted to provide analytics-based recruiting software.
