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The Farce of Verbal Reference Checking

The Whiteboard

I flew to England last weekend on something of a busman’s holiday that, when factoring in the unscheduled landing in Bali to jettison a sick child and consequent rush through Dubai airport to make the connecting flight, was pretty much 28 hours on a plane. This provides an unbridled opportunity to just think, and my mind wandered, as we flew over places like Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Turkey about the new world of work I was flying above.

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Evaluating Employee Performance with Words Instead of Numbers

JazzHR

Numbers. I have a complicated relationship with them. Sometimes I love them. Most of the time though, I despise them. The use of numbers can tell us a great deal about the world. There is a beauty in that they are very simple to understand and comprehend. They are finite, not swayed by one opinion or another. Throughout my life, I have competed on a worldwide level for many laser tag championships.

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Next Generation Sourcing

Social Talent

If you have taken our world-class training before, you will be familiar with our exclusive souring tool called SourceHub, which helps you to dramatically improve your sourcing efforts through automatically generating your Boolean search string. In the last couple of months, we have made some big changes to this tool in order to enhance your browser experience and improve your productivity, mainly through our SourceHub Chrome extension (which you should have installed already!).

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Bridging the Gap Between Organizations, Recruiters and Veterans

Symphony Talent

Disclaimer: My husband is a veteran. This makes me a little biased, but it also makes me incredibly close to the topic of veteran hiring, as I’ve watched. The post Bridging the Gap Between Organizations, Recruiters and Veterans 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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Job Seekers are “Shopping” for Jobs – Tips for Recruiters to Make a “Sale”

Glassdoor for Employers

Let’s say you just bought some new shoes online. You couldn’t try them on. You couldn’t feel the quality. So you did.

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How To Nail Your Cover Letter

Undercover Recruiter

If you really want the job you’ve been dreaming about, you’ll need to put forth a little more effort. Most employers expect to see a cover letter with every submitted resume. They are no longer optional. Even if they were, why would you pass up an opportunity to explain why you’re perfect for the job? View Article. How To Nail Your Cover Letter. Undercover Recruiter - Career & Recruitment Blog.

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11 Signs Your Team is on the Path to Success

FireFish Software

This month, here at Firefish, we’ve been thinking about change. We’ve considered how to attract new talent to your workplace, we’ve thought about ways to hack your sales process to avoid burnout, and we’ve discussed how recruiters can stay relevant in a changing candidate market. Change, then, has been our theme. But for change to be effective it has to be measured so that you’re sure you’ve changed the right stuff.

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Walking on Eggshells in Iron Boots: Insensitivity in the Workplace

Plum.io

Everyone has good and bad days; some have more bad than good. In a workplace, the personalities and moods of one person can affect others around them. We have all been there when a colleague has said or done something to which we take offense. When we look at the situation, is the offensive comment or action because they don’t like us, because they are rude, or is it simply that they do not mean it the way we interpret it?

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3 Ways to Attract (and Keep) the Best Candidates

CareerBuilder

In June 2016, the unemployment rate fell below 5 percent (4.9 percent). This was the first time we experienced such a low unemployment rate since the beginning of the Great Recession. For recruiters, this means it has become harder to find talent to fill positions. So what can be done to improve yield and productivity? Research suggests some obvious solutions, and some less obvious ones.

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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 Ways to Slash Costs if You’re Running a Recruitment Agency

RecruitLoop

Here are 3 tried-and-tested ways for anyone running a recruitment agency to slash their operational costs while maintaining a high-quality of work.

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3 Tips to Improve Your Relationships With Technical Hiring Managers

Stack Overflow

Although tech recruiters and hiring managers understand the need to find and hire talented developers , it’s not uncommon for both sides to clash throughout the interview process. In some cases, a recruiter grows frustrated when the candidates he or she has sourced consistently get rejected. In others, the recruiter and technical hiring manager simply are not aligned on their approaches to hiring developers.

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Claws Out: A Rant About Clients and Their “Desperate” Roles

Undercover Recruiter

Time for a vent. Everybody in recruitment will have, at one time or another, been in this situation. Picture this: your client calls you with an urgent need for a candidate. Man, oh man, they’re desperate! I mean more desperate than the people who enter the Big Brother house. They need your help! Responding to their. View Article. Claws Out: A Rant About Clients and Their “Desperate” Roles.

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5 Ways to Spot a Bad Hire Before You Offer the Job

Hireology

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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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12 Extras Recruiters Can Give to Clients

Top Echelon Contracting

In terms of being at the top of your niche market, you only need to be slightly better than your competitors to be the premier recruiting firm in your area. You’ve heard the phrase “a little things mean a lot” The post 12 Extras Recruiters Can Give to Clients appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Hiring Engineers? 3 Ways to Make Your Company Stand Out

Indeed

Driven by the expanding cybersecurity field , technology developments and the Internet of Things , hiring software engineers and hiring software developers is a challenge facing companies of all sizes. And the competition for these skilled workers is not easing up. In Massachusetts, for example, software developers right out of college can command starting salaries of up to $90,000.

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4 Reasons Recruiting Managers Condone Incompetence

Top Echelon Contracting

There is one thing worse than hiring the wrong person. That is to hang on to the employee long after the evidence suggests you should let them go. This is a problem that challenges managers at all levels of the. The post 4 Reasons Recruiting Managers Condone Incompetence appeared first on Top Echelon.

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How to Turn Pay Secrecy Obstacles Into Pay Transparency Opportunities

ExactHire Recruiting

I’ve been thinking about the impact of snap decisions a lot lately. Having just finished the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, I have a new interest in the role of the subconscious on action and performance. Gladwell presents mounds of evidence supporting the idea that instinct shouldn’t be discounted relative to more involved decision-making processes.

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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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20 of the Most Annoying Things Your Co-Workers Do

Social Talent

Co-workers. You’ve just gotta love them. Without them, who would we share the daily coffee run with, or have deep and meaningful conversations about the latest ‘Game of Thrones’ episode with? The reality is that after you leave school/college, most of the friends that you make as an adult are more than likely the ones that you met at work.

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4 Ways to Get Your Feet Wet in a Split Placement Network

NPA Worldwide

Joining a recruitment network can open up a world of opportunities for a recruiter – new trading partners to do splits with, access to recruiters and candidates outside of your niche and geographic area, and a group of peers to brainstorm with and bounce ideas off of. But for a “newbie” joining an established network, it can sometimes seem like everybody already knows each other, so how do you make a name for yourself?

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Why Googling Your Candidates Can Backfire

Entelo

What’s the first thing you do when a solid resume comes down the funnel? Plug the applicant’s name into your search engine of choice and see what pops up, right? Recruiters often do it. So much so that it’s probably an automatic part of the hiring process: You search for a candidate’s name in Google (or another search engine), peruse their Twitter feed, read a Medium article they liked, or even look into a few op-eds they wrote for their college paper.

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Why is Diversity Important in Hiring?

Brazen Recruiting

Author of the famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen R. Covey once said, “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”. This maxim is especially true in the workplace. According to a 2015 McKinsey study , diverse companies perform at least 35% better than their homogeneous counterparts. Not only is a beneficial for your bottom line to recruit a diverse team, it’s common sense in our growingly diverse nation.

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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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Time Tracking and Hourly Wages: Punching the Clock

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? History of compensation. Time clocks came into use in the late 19th century when industrialization turned time into an increment of payment. Businesses and factories relied on watchmen to ensure workers documented their time correctly and were looking for solutions more efficient than human timekeepers.

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Evaluating Employee Performance with Words Instead of Numbers

JazzHR

Recruiting. Engagement. Performance. Culture. Intelligence. IMHO. Hype. Evaluating Employee Performance with Words Instead of Numbers. Written by: Bill Fox on 08.25.2016. Numbers. I have a complicated relationship with them. Sometimes I love them. Most of the time though, I despise them. The use of numbers can tell us a great deal about the world. There is a beauty in that they are very simple to understand and comprehend.

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My Name Is Not… Candidate

Recruiting Daily

My first name is not passive; it’s not Talent. My Mom never gave birth to a child named Candidate; my Dad never told his friends, “This is my son, Human Capital.” My Name Is…. My name is Monica, and I am frightened. I am a single mother trying to raise a family and protect them. I am diligent, trustworthy, and I will make a company better.

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The Clever Plan One Company Devised to Recruit an Engineer

Linkedin Talent Blog

Hiring is hard, and especially so if you’re a startup. You’re competing for the same talent as Google, Facebook, and Uber, without the shiny brand or fancy perks. That’s where *really* good recruiting comes in and what you do to differentiate your opportunity from the sea of tech jobs and fight for candidates you believe in. Here’s the story of the great lengths we went to to fill a difficult role.

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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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A.S.R. (Artificially Stupid Recruiting)

The Recruiting Inferno

[originally posted May 19, 2016 on ERE ]. Recruiting industry analyst Rob McIntosh believes “ AI recruiting ” is the future of recruiting. Ah, another future of recruiting article! Another tome in the latest assembly line of predictions that the profession will be elevated to the one where Supreme Bot Beings sit atop the Totem of Talent. Alas, being a human recruiter is no longer considered to be sexy enough for the Futurists.

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