--- title: Blog | Appcast | The Apply Process description: The Apply Process | Looking for resources and helpful tips for your job advertising? Visit the Appcast Blog to stay up-to-date with trends in the recruiting industry, job advertising, and all things programmatic! --- # Try Appcast for Free Appcast is free to use - you only pay for applicants. Take a 14-day free trial and we'll cover your first $500 worth of applicants. 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[Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/3-steps-to-crafting-a-high-performing-job-ad-and-application-process) ## [3 Ways to Increase the ROI of your Candidate Experience](https://blog.appcast.io/3-ways-to-increase-the-roi-of-your-candidate-experience) May 10, 2017 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/Blog_Post_Images/canstockphoto13251234.jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/3-ways-to-increase-the-roi-of-your-candidate-experience) [The average new employee costs ~$4,000 and 42 days to hire](https://www.shrm.org/about-shrm/press-room/press-releases/pages/human-capital-benchmarking-report.aspx). If you’re a recruiter who makes, say, 100 new hires each year, that’s a lot of time, effort, and more importantly, money spent attracting candidates to your organization. Lowering these costs can be challenging while keeping up with the same hiring volume. [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/3-ways-to-increase-the-roi-of-your-candidate-experience) ## [Stop Screening Qualified Candidates ‘In.' You’re Just Screening Them Out (and it’s Costing you a Fortune) - Part 2](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-2) November 04, 2016 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/Blog_Post_Images/man-people-space-desk.jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-2) In my last post, we examined the United States employment landscape in relation to candidate screening processes. The moral of the story: endless candidate screening processes cost a boatload of money, and singlehandedly lower an organization's chance to capture top talent. [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-2) ## [Stop Screening Qualified Candidates ‘In.’ You’re Just Screening Them Out (and it’s Costing you a Fortune) - Part 1](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-1) October 28, 2016 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/Blog_Post_Images/startup-photos%20(2).jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-1) In a well-intended, yet cumbersome effort to screen out applicants who are completely unqualified, companies often dive into an overzealous process, driven by vendors of screening tools that urge unfortunate uses of features that are clearly not meant to be used in the first interaction between your company and new applicants. [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/stop-screening-qualified-candidates-in-part-1) ## [8 Reasons the Magical World of the Internet Isn’t Getting you Candidates](https://blog.appcast.io/8-reasons-the-magical-world-of-the-internet-isnt-getting-you-candidates) August 23, 2016 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/sunset-1112659_640.jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/8-reasons-the-magical-world-of-the-internet-isnt-getting-you-candidates) Remember the good ole days when all you had to do was post a job in a newspaper? You paid by the word, got local candidates, and then hired one. The world of advertising was much simpler then. All employees worked in a single office, so location was the primary driver of determining your talent pool.   [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/8-reasons-the-magical-world-of-the-internet-isnt-getting-you-candidates) ## [7 Roadblocks to Applies](https://blog.appcast.io/7-roadblocks-to-applies) July 14, 2016 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/sign-1167333_1280.jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/7-roadblocks-to-applies) You’ve had that job opening for awhile now, and your boss is breathing down your neck to get it filled. You’re certain that you’ve dotted every ‘i’ and crossed the ‘t’s,’ so where are all the applicants? [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/7-roadblocks-to-applies) ## [Why Outcome-Based Job Descriptions Drive Up Quality and Quantity of Candidates – Part II](https://blog.appcast.io/why-outcome-based-job-descriptions-drive-up-quality-and-quantity-of-candidates-part-ii) June 21, 2016 [Appcast](https://blog.appcast.io/author/appcast) [![](https://blog.appcast.io/hubfs/IVY2VG1MAD.jpg)](https://blog.appcast.io/why-outcome-based-job-descriptions-drive-up-quality-and-quantity-of-candidates-part-ii) Once you have created outcome based job descriptions, [as described in Part I](https://blog.appcast.io/why-outcome-based-job-descriptions-drive-up-quality-and-quantity-of-candidates-part-i), that focus on selling the candidate the job, the next step is to get that job description in front of the right people.  [Read More](https://blog.appcast.io/why-outcome-based-job-descriptions-drive-up-quality-and-quantity-of-candidates-part-ii) [All posts](https://blog.appcast.io/all) [Next](https://blog.appcast.io/topic/the-apply-process/page/2) ### Subscribe to our blog! 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