Mon.May 18, 2020

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Recruitment trends right now! The last 14 days!

Greg Savage

These are the headlines from the past two weeks. Based on dozens of meetings with agency owners and recruiters, and hundreds of emails and messages I get – a day. (They don’t apply in every case. Some will not be the case for you, your agency or in your market.) They just represent the ‘trends […].

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Is Employer Branding Important Right Now? Spoiler Alert - YES!

Recruitics

COVID-19 brought a whirlwind of things we could not have imagined even two months ago. Thousands dead, school buildings closed, and working from home is now the norm. I'm keenly aware of how lucky I am. Yes, I became a homeschool teacher overnight, and I wake up at 5am to buy toilet paper, but my family is safe and healthy. And, I have a job. Our country is experiencing an unemployment and economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression. 30MM Americans have filed unemployment insurance (UI)

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JazzHR Wins Two Stevie Awards for Excellence in Customer Success and Product Innovation

JazzHR

JazzHR is thrilled to announce that we’ve been named the winner of two Stevie Awards in the categories of Customer Service Team of the Year (Silver) and Achievement in Product Innovation (Bronze) from the American Business Awards. This year, winners were chosen from more than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and industries. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

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What You Can and Can't Get Your Recruiters to Do on Furlough

FireFish Software

50% of recruitment agencies have now furloughed staff due to the Coronavirus outbreak and a further 16% are considering it, according to new data.

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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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JazzHR Wins Two Stevie Awards for Excellence in Customer Success and Product Innovation

JazzHR

JazzHR is thrilled to announce that we’ve been named the winner of two Stevie Awards in the categories of Customer Service Team of the Year (Silver) and Achievement in Product Innovation (Bronze) from the American Business Awards. This year, winners were chosen from more than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and industries. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

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How to Set Goals in Survival Mode: 3 Ways to Get it Right

Recruiter

We're all saying it these days: "I'm just in survival mode." Our personal and workplace routines have been turned upside down. No matter how soon life gets back to normal, this won't be the last time a crisis strikes and we find ourselves just trying to survive. All that being said, there is a slight upside to this situation. As an executive or manager, you have the opportunity to lead your.

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Protected: Hiring Truths: Pre-Employment Testing

SimplyHired

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Hiring Truths: Pre-Employment Testing appeared first on Career Advice.

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These Are the Best Jobs and Careers for Remote Work

The Muse

Read our career advice article, These Are the Best Jobs and Careers for Remote Work.

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How to Link Business Strategy to Compensation Strategy

HRsoft

For a company’s compensation strategy to be effective, it must be linked to the overall business strategy. Because compensation accounts for 30-60% of business costs, it is essential for organizations to identify the drivers behind pay. For this reason, the foundational step of creating any solid compensation strategy is linking it to the business strategy.

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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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How we approached (video) interviews

Workable

One of the best commercial digital products I’ve always admired is Google Maps. (Spoiler: it’s not because I am a Google fanboy.) What I like most about that app is the simple fact that whenever I use it, I am always under some kind of pressure; either I am driving in unknown places during vacation or I am abroad exploring and touring different countries.

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Linking Compensation and Performance Management

HRsoft

The overarching goal of the compensation strategy is to make sure an organization has the right amount of money necessary to motivate the types of performance needed to achieve the business strategy. To that end, compensation should tie into the overall performance management strategy. Your practices must therefore be understood by employees and based on hard, objective data.

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Remote Work Shows its Long-Term Promise

The Staffing Stream

The Covid-19 pandemic forced 1.5 billion people to stay home due to social distancing measures — many of whom transitioned to working remotely, with technology and online communities proving invaluable in helping people retain a sense of normalcy and routine. While the current scale of remote work is unprecedented, in the US, 43% of people had been working remotely in some capacity before the pandemic struck.

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How To Help Employees Manage Stress During A Crisis

Forbes Human Resources Council

Every executive, leader and board member should make equitable mental health benefits a top priority to help employees deal with workplace stress.

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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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Company Culture: Five key ways to rebuild amid the new remote-work landscape

The Staffing Stream

We all know that building the foundation for a positive and open workplace culture isn’t as easy as flipping a switch. It takes time, intentionality, trial and error and so much more. And while working from home hasn’t completely derailed our efforts at building our culture, it has definitely taken them in a new direction. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is one thing I can say with certainty — no matter how great your culture was before, it’s not going to be t

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3 Tips for Motivating Passive Candidates in Uncertain Times

Recruiting Daily

3 Tips for Motivating Passive Candidates in Uncertain Times Hiring the perfect candidate for your company takes time and effort. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is finding and filling your perfect pool of candidates, let alone snagging your dream hire. Instead, it is important to build relationships today so your pipeline is […].

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How This Tech Company Builds True Team Spirit

The Muse

Read our career advice article, How This Tech Company Builds True Team Spirit.

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MCM Staffing Case Study

TimeSaved

How a Healthcare Agency Used Mobile Technology to Grow Their Business During Economic Crisis. During the period of economic uncertainty brought on by COVID-19, TimeSaved customer MCM Staffing used our technology to successfully pivot into the burgeoning market of healthcare staffing. Using our app they were able to quickly build up their pool of healthcare workers and grow their business to meet changing demands (despite losing nearly 80% of their pre-COVID revenue).

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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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Build a Company Culture That Prioritizes Social Wellness

Recruiter

The 9-5 office job had been the norm for many years, until the rise of the gig economy, workplace digitalization, and flexible work arrangements disrupted our traditional ways of working. While the shift has clear benefits, including better support of a healthy work/life balance, it also comes with some drawbacks. Key among them is the decline of the social connections which were common in the workplace of 20 years ago.

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How to Create a Storyboard for a Recruitment Video?

TalentLyft

Learn what a recruitment video storyboard is and how it’ll help you create a compelling recruitment video that will boost your talent acquisition efforts. Lights, camera, action.let’s roll!

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4 Things You Shouldn't Tell Your Boss (and 3 Things You Should)

Recruiter

Getting along with your boss is one thing. Genuinely bonding with them is another. But it turns out that forging a strong relationship with your supervisor can be good for your career. Those who feel ambivalent about their relationships with their higher-ups are more likely to perform worse at work, according to one 2017 study. Fostering a real connection with.

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Inbound Recruitment Marketing

Manatal

The results of inbound marketing practices speak for themselves across a wide range of industries. It proves that networking, when done out of the recruitment scope, can yield more results later on when talent acquisition is needed. It’s more about piquing candidates’ interest in the company as a whole, rather than focusing on the currently open positions.

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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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Relevant Skills Required for Administrative Jobs

Professional Alternatives

Employers are always seeking people with strong skills to handle administrative jobs across various industries. Administrative and support experts must be ready to take on multiple moving parts and handle challenging situations, all at the same time. They are expected to assist in maintaining an efficiently run office, while supplementing the work of their coordinators and stakeholders alike.

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Recruiters & Stress: How to avoid these major recruitment pitfalls.

Manatal

All recruiters and candidates experience the double-edged sword of deadlines in one way or another. For candidates, the issue is to apply at the right time, while the recruiter’s struggle manifests itself in the form of acquiring the right talent at the right time. . Recruiters that operate on a global scale, be it for a multinational company or recruitment agency have to carry the responsibility of personnel acquisition within a certain timeframe.

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5 Tips to Manage Up While Working Remotely: Advice from Lattice software Engineer Mona Bocharova

PowerToFly

Mona Bocharova knows a little something about managing through change. Over the last eight or so years, she's lived in four countries on three continents and worked in three different roles, going from a freelance writer in India to an account manager in Ukraine and England to a software engineer in the U.S. Each time, she's gotten used to a new country and a new set of responsibilities.

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Jump-Start Employees' Crisis Recovery With A Low-Cost Well-Being Program

Forbes Human Resources Council

A well-being program can help lead to happier, healthier and more engaged employees.

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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 ABC of an Employee’s Salary Slip

Recruiting Blogs

Talk about the heaps of paperwork and documentation that you need to perform and procure as a working professional! Sounds hectic and complicated, right? But, out of the gamut of papers that one needs to secure including different letters, certificates, receipts and other documents, payslip is one of the most essential records. Why? Because it gives you a clear picture of how much money you are being paid, is it the same as mentioned in your salary annexure of offer letter, are the calculations

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Rebooting After Covid-19: Employer Liability Concerns

TalentCulture - Recruiting

As some states ease lockdown restrictions and America begins to return to work, some businesses eager to reopen their doors facing a whole new headache: fear of their potential liability. Incurring a lawsuit due to possibly exposing employees and customers to the virus is a driving concern for employers; so much so that it’s become a point of contention among federal lawmakers as they hammer out a second coronavirus relief bill.

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Tired Of Losing Top Talent: Follow These 10 Recruiting Trends For 2020

Recruiting Blogs

The recruitment industry is evolving rapidly and it has been growing year by year. And recruitment requires a lot of creativity, hard work and planning. A company has to stay in touch with upcoming and current trends. The recruitment process has changed a lot in a decade, there has been a rise in the use of social media for hiring, the job search is easier nowadays, the applicant doesn’t have to mail daily to get a call.