The blog of YouCruit

What’s the value of working for your company? Pay, home time, benefits? Truth is, if you want drivers to flock to work for YOU, you’ll need a better proposition than that.

With the recent availability of truck driver recruiting software designed to improve recruiting in the trucking and logistics industry, many carriers are re-evaluating their old approach.

Just in the month of August 2020, Lanefinder onboarded 285 new carriers onto their revolutionary app, and there’s no sign of slowing down. So why exactly do companies find Lanefinder so irresistible? Let’s find out.

If you are to take your place among the greatest truck driver recruiters, you must abide by a set of commandments. Gather around and listen, for I shall tell you what they are.

We’re working on making YouCruit every driver recruiter’s tool of choice - but how? Here are five YouCruit features that make life easier for truck driver recruiters.

If you’re looking to attract truck drivers to your position you need a job offering that looks and sounds right. Here are some costly mistakes that trucking companies make when presenting their job to the public, as well as some advice on how to avoid them!

In the truck driver recruiting game, those with deep wallets usually hold an unfair advantage, right? What if I told you that smaller companies can get results that are just as good as the mega carriers - but without the crazy ad spend.

If you’re not doing all of these things in some way or another, you’re probably missing out on solid driver leads. Read on and find out if your recruiting process is overdue for a revamp.

YouCruit has implemented a way to make managing your candidates even easier. Here’s how it works!

Despite the need for quality drivers, companies still figuratively shoot themselves in the foot by committing a variety of job advertising sins that do more harm than good. Here's some helpful advice on how to communicate better.

Recently, YouCruit implemented a brand new messaging feature designed to ease communication between carriers and truck drivers. Here’s how it works!

The folks over at Freightwaves are bringing us some good news about the future of the freight market in these coronavirus times. Let's see what they have to say!

Decrease your cost per hire and fill any trucks you have sitting empty, and I intend to show you how to do that by going over 5 key things you can start doing right away. Let’s get into it!

In our first ever analysis of the figures obtained from the in-app activities of the drivers in the Lanefinder app, we’ll be looking at what 500 truckers reveal about what they’re looking for in a job.

This blog aims to inform you of the changes happening in the trucking industry, primarily focusing on truck driver recruitment, as a consequence of the coronavirus and social distancing.

A short instructional blog to show new YouCruit customers how easy it is to set up and using the system.

Lanefinder has recently released a driver and job matching app that removes unnecessary labor while improving the lives of truckers and carriers alike. How does it do that? Let's find out.

Get inspired to reduce your driver turnover with these simple solutions. Absorb and implement this advice to create a happier and more functional work environment, which in turn will help you keep your drivers dedicated and loyal.

Orientation no-shows are annoying, but they’re also inevitable. But why are some companies better at getting their drivers to show up? What are the things successful companies do that other companies do not?

Let’s identify the key reasons why you’re not finding enough qualified drivers and how YouCruit can help you tackle those issues to transform your recruitment.

This article introduces the benefits of having an applicant tracking system (ATS) for recruiters and those in charge of recruitment at trucking companies.

Isn’t it frustrating when you spend ages processing a driver only to find out they live outside of your official hiring area? We think so too, which is why YouCruit has the tools to help you detect drivers that are outside of your hiring area right away.

In this article, I’ll tell you how you can get a steady stream of candidates while doing the bare minimum. This information is essential for any trucking company that’s in it for the long game.

This quick post will show you the simple way to advertise on hundreds of job boards and get your job ads reaching thousands of additional truckers, with little to no effort on your part.

If you’re looking for the easiest way to get driver applications and fill your empty trucks, paid job advertising is the way to go. Get on the right track faster than with any other driver sourcing method.

This article intends to demystify what programmatic recruitment is. Keep reading, and find out why programmatic ads are the future of all online advertising, and how those same principles can be used to boost your recruitment game.

Keeping each truck filled at all times is a privilege most carriers don’t get to experience. Let's take a look at some trucking specific tools and methods to help you hire more efficiently.

This article is directed at trucking companies. Let’s dive into how you can utilize Facebook as a great channel for sourcing and recruiting drivers.

In this post, we’ll go over what a career site is as well as why trucking companies need one. We’ll break down the soft and hard benefits of a career site, as well as briefly get into the ever important issue of company culture and values when recruiting.

Cutting your costs dramatically and being able to hire great drivers at a low price is no longer fantasy. It's something you can do right now, and I'll tell you how.

To help you fine tune and get the best possible hiring results, I want to take a look at a few pillars of truly successful career sites together with you. Let’s dive right in.

Values. There’s a fine line between great ones and crappy ones. At best, values are unifying concepts that bring teams together. At worst, they’re cringeworthy, empty, bland, and insulting. Let's go over how to express values in that actually mean something.

A career site is your best friend in nailing your employer brand and winning over the best candidates. Here's how you can get the most out of it.

Only looking for candidates with 3+ years of experience? Or candidates holding a certain certificate? In this article we'll go over how YouCruit automatically sorts and pre-qualifies all candidates, so you don't have to.

The most popular feature in YouCruit is the ability to create ONE job listing and pushing it out for free to all the best job boards with one action. Because of our growing partner job board partner network, your jobs are being seen by more candidates than ever, meaning some of you are bound to experience candidate overload.

Adding a free job tab to your Facebook company page will allow you to turn fans into colleagues. Any job created or changed within YouCruit will automatically be posted on your Facebook page - saving you time not having to manually manage jobs in multiple locations.

The YouCruit Job Listings plugin makes it easy for candidates to find and apply to your jobs on your Wordpress powered website. With just a few clicks you’ll have your own job listings section up and running.

We’ve expanded YouCruit Insights by giving employers a way to see the ratings (average and distribution ) of candidates coming from a specific channel. Invaluable knowledge to have when deciding where to publish your job ad.

We’ve just released YouCruit Insights - a new feature allowing employers to see from which channels candidates come from. By knowing which channels perform best you also know where to focus your resources.

It’s all too common for companies to forget about the candidates that didn’t get the job. In this video, we spill the beans on some common recruitment courtesy.

We get a lot of questions from employers curious about how the One-way Video Interview works. In this video we explain how employers manage to dodge bad interviews and hone in on the best candidates with laser focused precision!