--- title: Top 5 Advorto HR & Recruitment Blogs For 2017 description: From the 5 reasons you made a bad hire to the HR tech trends you need to know, these are Advorto's five most popular blogs of 2017 so far. image: https://blog.advorto.com/hubfs/images/Top_5_HR_Blogs.jpg ---  ![](https://blog.advorto.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-final-RGB-letterbox.jpg?width=499&name=logo-final-RGB-letterbox.jpg "logo-final-RGB-letterbox.jpg") - +44 (0) 1285 883 900 - [Contact us](https://www.kallidus.com/contact-us/) - [Try now](https://comms.kallidus.com/recruit-free-trial-0) - [Home](https://www.kallidus.com/) - [Product](https://www.kallidus.com/recruit/) - [Resources](https://www.kallidus.com/resources/) - [Contact us](https://www.kallidus.com/contact-us/) # [Recruitment 2.0](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20) ![Top_5_HR_Blogs.jpg](https://blog.advorto.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/Top_5_HR_Blogs.jpg?width=450&name=Top_5_HR_Blogs.jpg "Top_5_HR_Blogs.jpg") # Top 5 Advorto HR & Recruitment Blogs For 2017 Posted by [Kate Smedley](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/author/kate-smedley) on 3 Jul 2017 As we pass the midway point of 2017, we take a look at our most popular HR and recruitment blogs of the year so far. 1. **5**. [8 Ways To Reduce Your Candidate Drop-Off Rates](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/8-ways-to-reduce-your-candidate-drop-offs) As candidate availability plummeted to its lowest for 16 months in May, we offered advice on how to reduce the candidate drop-off rates in your pipeline. 1. **4**. [5 Reasons You Made A Bad Hire](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/5-reasons-you-made-a-bad-hire) The cost of failed hiring decisions [made the headlines](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/breaking-the-cycle-of-bad-hiring-decisions) last week but it was a topic we featured back in April as 90% of business leaders admitted that staff retention was a cause for concern. 1. **3.** [The Mistakes You’re Making In Talent Acquisition](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/the-mistakes-youre-making-in-talent-acquisition) The news that one in five hiring managers make their minds up about a candidate within one minute of meeting them was the inspiration behind another of our popular May articles. 1. **2**. [The 2017 Tech Trends HR Can’t Ignore](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/the-2017-tech-trends-hr-cant-ignore) Back in January we featured the six tech trends predicted to disrupt HR this year, including cybersecurity and the expectation that 2017 would be ‘the year of artificial intelligence’. 1. **1.** [7 Emerging Recruitment Trends](https://blog.advorto.com/recruitment20/7-emerging-recruitment-trends) From retention of new hires to the impact of your office space on prospective employees, we examined 7 emerging recruitment trends in May and it’s proved to be our most popular blog of the year so far. Don't miss out on our content. Subscribe now for weekly updates, analysis and advice on issues affecting HR and recruitment. Advorto's world class recruitment software helps you to hire better people faster and manage your entire talent recruitment cycle.  [Contact us today to find out more](https://www.advorto.com/en-gb/contact-us.aspx). 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