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[Part One] Keeping the Interview on Track

JazzHR

A bad interview can feel like a bad dance. Everyone shuffles around unsure of what to do or say, quietly wishing the song would end. Don’t laugh, you may have caused this very uncomfortable situation. Bad interviewing can cost you more than just a little embarrassment, too. CareerBuilder reports that nearly one in four businesses quantify the price of a bad hire at over $50,000 per position.

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The Outsized Impact of Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

Jon Guidi is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Hirabl , a Big Data startup known for its “Fee Catcher” reporting service. Jon founded Hirabl to ensure recruiters get paid for the hard work they do, and have the tools necessary to grow revenue at their agency. Prior to Hirabl, Jon was CEO of HealthCare Recruiters International, a leading US recruiting firm.

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[Part One] Keeping the Interview on Track

JazzHR

A bad interview can feel like a bad dance. Everyone shuffles around unsure of what to do or say, quietly wishing the song would end. Don’t laugh, you may have caused this very uncomfortable situation. Bad interviewing can cost you more than just a little embarrassment, too. CareerBuilder reports that nearly one in four businesses quantify the price of a bad hire at over $50,000 per position.

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How to A/B Test Digital Recruiting Campaigns (in 500 Words)

Symphony Talent

Marketing is driven by testing new ideas and tactics, and more importantly, measuring to see which ideas and tactics are keepers (and which you toss away forever). Recruitment. The post How to A/B Test Digital Recruiting Campaigns (in 500 Words) appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How to Get Away With Managing Millennials

RecruitLoop

Managing millennials can be a somewhat tedious task. What are millennials expecting from their bosses? What motivates them, and how can you keep them engaged in their work?

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The Hottest Industries Hiring in Charlotte

Yoh

Summer is certainly winding down, but the job market in Charlotte is heating up. Find out which industries and companies are hiring right now; including which top-paid positions are taking resumes.

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1:1 Recruiting: The Secret to a Great Candidate Experience

Beamery

Candidate experience isn’t just a buzzword. Having a great candidate experience can seriously affect the number (and quality) of applications that you receive. Can your company afford to have people saying bad things about them? Trust me, people put a lot of stock by the opinions of random people that they’ve never met. Think about the last time you bought something from Amazon.

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Best Practices for Career Fair Success

iCIMS

Featured are several tips to help you and your business plan and execute a successful career fair.

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10 Sales Career Truths Depicted in Tweets

Undercover Recruiter

Working in any sales role is a massive roller coaster full of really high highs and even lower lows. Whether you’re a recruitment consultant, a car sales representative or more on the business development side, sales roles are riddled with hefty challenges! A career in sales is one built on persistence and thick skin, and decorated with shiny rewards for a job.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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3 Conclusions You Can’t Draw From Past Developer Hiring Patterns

Stack Overflow

It’s only natural to get excited whenever you’re able to sell a developer on your company and convince that person to join the team. After all, finding and hiring tech talent is a tough job—and I’m willing to bet that many recruiters breathe a huge sigh of relief whenever they’re able to close a search for a developer. When I was a recruiter, it was always tempting to ask myself how I could replicate past hiring successes for the roles I was still trying to fill.

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3 ways to use coding tests in technical recruiting [our guest post on tech.co]

Devskiller

Measuring coding skills is an essential step in technical recruiting. This way you can verify candidate’s programming skills and evaluate whether the developer is the right one for a job. The most common way to do it is to invite candidate to take coding test. However, be cautious in choosing the right ones. You don’t want to ask candidate algorithmic questions or verify whether they memorized book knowledge as it doesn’t bring much value for your IT team.

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6 Simple (But Effective) Ways to Get More From Social Recruiting

Jibe

By now, you are probably fully aware of why you should have a social recruiting strategy , and I bet you have one to some extent in place. But just having a strategy versus actually having one that makes an impact are two completely different things. At the end of the day, what is the point of using social media for recruitment if it doesn’t accomplish anything?

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How to Handle Candidates' Salary Questions at Every Hiring Stage

Linkedin Talent Blog

Talking about compensation can be awkward. As a recruiter, you have limited budget and can't always offer the candidate everything they envision, salary level included. For you, the trick to negotiating salary is timing – you have to put the salary conversation on hold and get the candidate to focus on the career opportunity in order to make compensation a non-issue.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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5 ways to find employees that make a difference

WebRecruit

Finding an employee that will make a long-lasting difference to your organisation isn’t always as simple as it sounds. Of course, training and development can play a crucial role in the effectiveness of your workforce, but starting out by hiring the right employees is essential. To assist you in finding the right candidates for your vacant position, we have put together five actionable tips. 1.

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Jobvite Found the Optimal Number of Candidates Per Engineering Job

Jobvite

By Adam Hyder, Chief Technology Officer, Weijen Hsu , Senior Software Engineer, and Chet Kumar, Big Data Architect. At Jobvite, we employ cutting edge analytics techniques to mine recruiting intelligence from our comprehensive database of over 50M job seekers. Combine that with over 10 years of behavioral recruiting data, it’s clear that we are sitting on a gold mine; it allows us to slice and dice the data to garner fresh insights about job seekers, companies, industries, and greater economic a

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8 Ways to Have More Time

Recruiting Blogs

Time management tips are individual because each of us has his own difficulties and possibilities. Students have different problems than businessmen or housewives, women other than men, office workers other than freelancers. But some ideas may be useful for everyone. 1. Let's start with statistics. List the tasks of your everyday life. Calculate, how much time each one takes.

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Jobvite Found the Optimal Number of Candidates Per Engineering Job

Jobvite

By Adam Hyder, Chief Technology Officer, Weijen Hsu, Senior Software Engineer, and Chet Kumar, Big Data Architect At Jobvite, we employ cutting edge analytics techniques to mine recruiting intelligence from our comprehensive database of over 50M … Continued.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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How Better Onboarding Leads to a Better Candidate Experience

Hireology

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How to Attract The Best Candidates

Recruiting Blogs

Getting a lot of eyes on your job advertisement is great. . For many hiring managers, seeing dozens (even hundreds) of resumes pile in is the dream come true. However, once they start sifting through these resumes, sometimes they are left nonplussed. . While spending time and money on job boards, Facebook ads and maybe even some Snapchat outreach can gain you a large quantity of applicants, you might still miss out on something more important: Quality. .

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Why a Recruitment Microsite Makes for Happier Job Seekers

Harger Howe Recruitment

Liz Ryan, a regular contributor to Forbes wrote an interesting piece this week called the Ten Things Good Employers Won't Ask Job-Seekers To Do. We would like to encourage you to read her article as it provides a great job seeker perspective. Today however, we’d like to show you why a recruitment microsite can solve a good deal of these problems. The following statements are some of Liz’s points and our responses to them: Good employers won’t ask you to fill out endless forms in an online job ap

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Amazing Benefits of Coworking Spaces Recruiters Should Not Ignore

Recruiting Blogs

There are many benefits of joining a coworking space, especially if you are a freelancer working from the confines of your home. But, there are also many hidden benefits for those looking to hire people for a certain type of work. Co-working spaces are visited regularly by recruiters who are looking to expand their businesses by adding an additional “asset”, which is you, to their team.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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3 Tips to Help You Hire for Hustle

Planted

When you're hiring for technical roles, the rules are pretty clear. You know the hard skills you need, and you can test for the abilities that will make someone successful. Of course there are other factors that may play into your decision, but at the end of the day, you’re looking for someone who has a specific set of concrete skills. If you're searching for non technical employees, however, it can be a little bit of a trickier ball game!

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How to Hire More Successful Leaders Who Stay Longer

Recruiting Blogs

You have made the decision to hire a new Customer Service Director. You know this appointment will make, or, break the success of your differentiated brand experience. Your new Director will be entrusted to design, define, develop, lead and deliver your enterprise-wide Customer Experience strategy across a constantly evolving multi-channel environment.

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The Recruiter’s Guide to LinkedIn Publishing and Pulse

Social Talent

If you are a frequent user of LinkedIn, you will have probably come across the LinkedIn Publishing Platform and the Pulse product. LinkedIn’s Publishing Platform enables members to share content (think blog posts) with their professional connections. The most popular and engaging posts are featured on Pulse, which is an online news aggregation feed designed for members to keep up to date with the latest trends and follow specific influencers, channels and publishers.

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Recruiting Blogs

Despite improvements in gender equality in the workplace , the tech industry continues to lag behind. Women make up over 50 percent of today’s workforce in the United States, but they’re still noticeably absent in the tech industry. Even more than simply having stagnated in outdated gender ratios, the tech industry gender gap is worsening. According to a 2013 American Association of University Women study , the percentage of computing jobs held by women in the United States was down from 35

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Why You Should Supplement Recruitment Marketing with Social Media

Recruitics

It goes without saying that the recruitment landscape has changed dramatically over recent years. One such development in the space that has captivated recruiters is the use of social media in talent acquisition. When people think of social media as a recruitment tool, they immediately think of LinkedIn or Glassdoor. True, both are in the social media family and are primarily targeted at the jobs space; however, social media provides many more channels to recruiters than the two listed above.

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Avoid the Scandal: Hire Ethical & Honest Employees

Recruiting Blogs

The news is out on Wells Fargo’s recent fraud allegations, and the bank now faces $185 million in fines for opening unauthorized accounts—the largest penalty ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). According to the CFPB, Wells Fargo employees opened more than 2 million deposit and credit card accounts and transferred funds without consent from customers.

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5 tips for recruiting the ideal employee

WebRecruit

No one ever said that finding the right employee for your organisation was always easy. For example, while you may wish to follow the standard recruitment procedures that have long been proven to bring success, you will also probably wish to encourage diversity and find a candidate who stands out. Fortunately, the tried-and-tested techniques we have listed below should offer you some guidance. 1.