The Recruiting Lifecycle in Action, Part 2
This is the second part in a four part series. Last week we met Todd, the director of recruiting for a small fleet out of Spokane, WA. Just like we learned last week, Todd has been able to keep pace with turnover and fleet needs – but now he’s found out his fleet is expanding. […]
The Recruiting Lifecycle in Action, Part 1
[hr style=”3″ margin=”40px 0px 40px 0px”] What is the Recruiting Lifecycle The Recruiting Lifecycle is a method for improving your driver recruiting. More specifically, it’s the different stages that drivers go through when making an application decision. It can help you more effectively recruit the drivers you need by addressing each stage of the journey. […]
Opinion: General Trends Don’t Tell the Whole Story
General trends are the worst. While they seem to tell you everything you need to know, they actually tell you very little. But that’s counterintuitive, right? How can a general trend tell you nothing? It’s simple. A trend tells you general information about larger populations and industries. As a trucking industry professional, you don’t need […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Driver Recruiting in 2015
I can see it now. You’re sitting in your office, probably just waiting for the day to end and your Christmas holiday to begin. Your team has put in a lot of hard work over the past year, and you’ve hired a lot of drivers for your fleet. With more trucks on the road than […]
The Recruiting Lifecycle: the 4 Stages of the Driver’s Journey
As a driver recruiter, you know your industry’s outlook. Drivers are a hot commodity and there is constant pressure on you to hire more and more. It’s not necessary for me to remind you that the driver recruiting landscape is not looking great right now. However, I can help you improve your recruiting processes. That […]
Company Driver Recruiting Statistics: Focus on Search
Company drivers are important to fleets. They’re the bulk of drivers on the road, and fleets have to have them. For recruiters, this means you need to know as much as possible about how to get in front of these drivers. You need to know their habits and actions both online and offline. And the […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: What’s Your Social Media Strategy?
If your fleet needs to hire owner-operators, you have to build the right recruiting campaigns to accomplish this win. The only way you can build the right recruiting campaign is by knowing exactly how your audience is consuming media. As the third and final part of our series on recruiting owner-operators (the other posts you […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: Don’t Neglect Search
Considering this is part 2 of a 3 part series, I’m hoping you’ve seen the other post in this series. You can also get up to speed by checking out the Overdrive Connectivity Report here. Today, let’s talk about how owner-operators are using search. [hr style=”3″ margin=”40px 0px 40px 0px”] Fact: 40.8% of all owner-operators […]
Introducing the 2015 Media Kits!
It’s that time of the year. Everyone is scrambling to set their budgets and put in their media buys for the coming year. It’s hectic, we know, but we are happy to say that you can worry about one less thing. [hr style=”3″ margin=”40px 0px 40px 0px”] Our 2015 Media Kits are up! You can […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: Word of Mouth is King
For the next few weeks, we are going to talk about recruiting owner-operators. We plan to take the most important information from the Overdrive Connectivity Report and give you 3 short, simple analysis posts here on the blog. If you want to take a look at the report, you can access that here. [hr style=”3″ […]
