Wed.May 11, 2016

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5 of the Most Creative Recruitment Marketing Campaigns

Social Talent

We love a good creative recruitment marketing campaign that really stands out from the crowd. In a world where passive candidates are saturated by standard job ads that don’t really motivate them to take action, it’s always great to see the few campaigns out there that really pique the interest. With LinkedIn requests and emails, candidates have the option to ignore so some out-of-the-box thinking to garner their attention can go a long way.

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Poised for Hyper-Growth? Consider Recruitment Marketing

Symphony Talent

When you’re a fast-growing company, everything seems to take longer than you want it to: getting new features out to customers, growing those customers, and especially finding the right talent to lead both. If you’re in growth mode, you know that finding exceptional talent quickly is no easy task. Finding talent for a startup is. Continue Reading → The post Poised for Hyper-Growth?

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Check Out These Salary Trends That May Surprise You

CareerBuilder

Like man buns and raindrop cakes , there are some trends that have taken the nation by storm yet no one could have predicted them. Similarly, there are surprising salary trends that have taken place between 2010 and 2015 that talent acquisition pros like yourself probably couldn’t have predicted. So settle in and take a look at some of these surprising salary trends that have taken place between 2010 and 2015 that you probably didn’t know about.

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What You Haven’t Thought Of to Improve Recruiter Performance

Yoh

Being a recruiter now is harder than ever. You are hearing the word “candidate’s market” over and over again because the recruiters don’t have as much control as they used to. Things like stiffer competition and compensation wars are some huge obstacles in a world where candidates are more passive than ever.

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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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Diversity and Skills: The Importance of Hiring Military Veterans

TalentCircles

While the unemployment rate for veterans has been declining over the last few years, many are still struggling to find civilian jobs. This seems to stem from both the veterans themselves not feeling adequately prepared to make the transition from military to mainstream, and from employers thinking that many of the skills acquired during military service don’t translate to the civilian labor force.

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Three Superb Business Reasons To Use a Staffing Agency

Staffing Talk

" In today's economy, you've got to have great people to be successful. Duh, right? That's an obvious statement that's easy to say, but much more difficult to actually put into practice. Why? Well, unless you've had your head in the sand the past couple of years you also know there's this thing called a labor shortage going… [.

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HCI Conference: Making the Hiring Process a Whole Lot Easier

BountyJobs

Over half of CEOs are expecting to increase headcount next year, but according to a recent PwC survey , they all have concerns about the quality of those candidates.

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Does Your Company Have a Mission? Here's Why it Should.

Stack Overflow

It would be easy to assume that if you offer perks like laundry service, free lunch, and an in-house sauna, developers will form a long but orderly line at your door in hopes of coming to work for you. Although developers do consider these types of benefits when they evaluate new job opportunities, they also want to be sure that the companies they work for have priorities that align with their own.

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6 Techniques to Fine-Tune Focus and Efficiency

Undercover Recruiter

Business moves at supersonic speed. While technology has facilitated easier communication and information gathering, it has also ushered in a new economy in which the common worker can be more readily replaced by technological advancements than ever before. The option to utilize advanced algorithms, data visualization and robotics as opposed to human assistance has become increasingly.

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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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Wendy's french-fried reminder: the minimum wage is zero

Staffing Talk

" From Investors.com:Wendys said that self-service ordering kiosks will be made available across its 6,000-plus restaurants in the second half of the year as minimum wage hikes and a tight labor market push up wages.It will be up to franchisees whether to deploy the labor-saving technology, but Wendys President… [.

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The $0 Guide To Your First Employer Branding Content

Undercover Recruiter

You get it. Employer Branding is not just an option anymore. It is a must-have. Just as one should have a Facebook account, otherwise risk the weird stares and comments. You try. You really do. You look at what Apple is doing, what Spotify has on its career page… and before you go to one more, View Article. The $0 Guide To Your First Employer Branding Content.

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Findings from CareerBuilder’s College Hiring Forecast

CareerBuilder

Following the ceremonial toss of mortarboards, many new college grads will be heading off to put their education to good use in small businesses. CareerBuilder research reports that 55 percent of small business owners plan to hire recent college graduates in 2016, with 47 percent of small business employers making job offers to students before they even graduate.

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What binge watching can teach recruiting professionals

Stories Incorporated

We’ve all been there—watching a show on Netflix and clicking that familiar button: “Next Episode.” We assure ourselves, “just one more episode” (that happens to be the promise I break the most). I used to wonder if I had no willpower. Why couldn’t I just close the tab and get back to work, rather than binging on the newest season of House of Cards ?

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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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Webinar – Sharepoint: The Best Employee Communications Tool You Already Own But Aren’t Using

JWT Inside

Looking for an inexpensive way to boost your employment communications? Many companies are turning to SharePoint to create custom websites that promote their brands and opportunities both internally and externally, with minimal effort required from IT personnel. In our upcoming webinar, we’ll take an in-depth look at this often-untapped resource and explore the many capabilities and benefits it has to offer.

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Technology serves as control knob for high performance

Staffing Talk

" A study of 5,000 employees of small, medium and large organizations finds productivity is directly related to technological innovation.The second Global Evolving Workforce Study explores current and future trends pertaining to the workplace and workforce and the role that technology has played in their evolution. Steve… [.

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Why Winning MUST Be Valued in Recruiting

Top Echelon Contracting

Winning in recruiting can be tough. It’s an activity-oriented phone and Internet-based business where statistics indicate that nine out of 10 new recruits don’t survive their first calendar year. It’s also one of the only businesses where the product can tell you. The post Why Winning MUST Be Valued in Recruiting appeared first on Top Echelon.

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How easy money policies are destroying the USA economically and socially

Staffing Talk

" Although normally well informed about the harm of big government, staffing business people I meet tend to fall for the fallacy that easy money policies help our economy."The inflation rate is not high," they say. Or "the economy is not great but it continues to grow." Or even, "Sure, the federal reserve is… [.

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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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11 Reasons It's Crucial for Recruiters to Track Quality of Hire

Linkedin Talent Blog

Measuring quality of hire, or measuring the on-the-job performance and the retention rate of new hires, is one of the most strategic moves any recruiting department can make. Having that metric handy allows you to prove the business value of your recruiting team, improve the recruiting process itself, and get hiring managers attention. Yet, many recruiting leaders have trouble building a business case to prove the economic value of this metric.

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Recruiting blunder: China's devastating one-child policy

Staffing Talk

" From NYBooks:The horrors of China's one-child policy are still being revealed. Each new account seems worse than the last:There are also creepier market responses to the shortage of brides: life-size, anatomically correct female dummies, selling for $5,000 and up. If China is running out of women, why not make fake women?… [.

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Post Your Blog On LinkedIn and Get More Traffic

Recruiting Blogs

Blogging is a tough game. If you post to your blog everyday and write quality content, that doesn't guarantee that your blog will get discovered. Many people give up on blogging because it's super disappointing to keep creating content that no one reads. Actually, it can drive you insane to keep doing something that literally has no positive effect or any feeling of reward.

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Temp sent home for refusing to wear high heels

Staffing Talk

" From the Evening Standard:The supervisor told me that I would be sent home without pay unless I went to the shop and bought a pair of two to four inch heels. I refused and was sent home." [.

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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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Personal Accountability In Social Media

Recruiting Blogs

Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter – in addition to all holding spots in the top ten of the most trafficked websites in the entire world, they all rely entirely on user-generated content. That fact speaks to how our world interacts with the internet these days. Users are not only willing, but eager to put huge pieces of themselves and their identity out there for public consumption.

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Liberty or Islam?

Staffing Talk

" This poster is illegal in France, so I'm posting it here on Staffing Talk. [.

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Roadmap to Social Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

Social media is the most prominent platform that has become the future of recruiting. Although it’s already passed through its nascent phase, still undergoing some growing pains. There are several companies struggling with the right way to approach recruiting on social platforms. Here is the right roadmap to social recruiting. Understand Social Network.

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17 Crucial Recruiting Statistics for 2016

Beamery

Recruiting statistics. Doesn’t sound like the subject of a particularly exciting blog post does it? Well, we shouldn’t be too hasty to dismiss it out of hand. Looking at recruiting statistics helps us Understand how our industry is moving forward, pretty essential for guiding your outlook, strategy and decision-making process. Here are the HR and recruiting statistics and best practices that you need to know in 2016: Employer branding matters: the statistics. 1. 84 percent of candida

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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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The essential checklist for your new recruitment business.

Recruiting Blogs

If you haven’t built or run a business yourself and don’t have anyone with the experience of running or building a recruitment business to help you, it can seem too big a task to start, where do you begin? And how can you be sure you’ve covered off everything you need to do to get it right first time? Having someone who has “been there, done that” to help can be absolutely invaluable, not just with the initial business set up but also for the on going challenges the business will throw at you.

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Candidate screening process in IT recruitment – 11 tools for technical recruiters

Devskiller

After sourcing, candidate screening process in IT recruitment is the second most time-consuming stage. No one wants to waste time on weak candidates. Weak in terms of their skills, personality, culture fit and so on. There are several different assessment and screening tools which help you get through your IT recruitment process smoother and these tools will save your time and money.

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How To Build A Recruiting Business (or side biz) With Splits

FeeTrader

For a limited time, get unlimited split placements and resume database on FeeTrader for only $299 for a calendar year ! If already a member, login here or if not, register here. Most recruiters I know, the majority of whom work for agencies, have a long standing stigma against the idea of “splits”. The split seems to carry with it the idea of concession.

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