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5 Ways to Optimize Your Resume for the ATS

ClearCompany Recruiting

72% of submitted applications are never read by an actual person. Does that surprise you? It’s due to the use of Applicant Tracking Systems. These systems scan resumes to determine if a candidate’s qualifications match up with what the company wants in an employee. If you’re missing certain keywords or have fewer qualifications than another applicant, then it’s unlikely your resume will ever be seen by a person and you won’t get the job.

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How to screen Python developers’ skills to find the best – guide for IT recruitment

Devskiller

If you are looking for a person with python developer skills, know that finding him is only half the journey. So even if you can source them, it might take some extra effort to truly understand what python skills really are. The real python skill set is a complex thing to understand, but here we introduce an expert in the field, Wojtek Erbetowski to bring the topic to light.

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Relative Scarcity of Workers: Evidence from iCIMS

Glassdoor for Employers

Fishing in Shallower Pools Although it came as no surprise and it was wrapped in technocratic terms, the Fed made a big.

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How to ensure skilled graduate talent is retained through an MSP

Allegis Global Solutions

How can MSP solutions help ensure that highly skilled talent are retained in certain areas after graduation?

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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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6 Tips to Recruit Top Talent on a Tiny Budget

Ideal

Finding the right talent at the right time is never easy and if you’re operating on a shoestring budget, you’ll need some clever ways to recruit top talent. Large companies and fledgling startups alike simply can’t afford to break the bank in hiring new employees, but that doesn’t mean you have to settle. Instead, consider incorporating the six tips below to maximize your reach and bring in the talent your company needs, without going over budget. 1.

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Split Placement Story: Teamwork is an option for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

A story from NPAworldwide’s engagement coordinator, Kelsea Bischoff. Teamwork, according to the dictionary, “is the combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient.” Many times working together is much more efficient from a time and effort perspective than working alone. For contingent recruiters, the goal is to make placements.

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How to Measure Post-Hiring Success

Undercover Recruiter

No business wants to lose money, especially from a decision you’ve made and even worse if you can easily avoid it. Bad hires continue to cost recruitment companies thousands of lost revenue every year. A recent survey in the UK on bad hires has put the loss at anything between £15,000 to £30,000 per year, with. View Article. How to Measure Post-Hiring Success.

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How to Incorporate Gamification in Developer Hiring

Stack Overflow

The technical hiring landscape is constantly changing, most notably within the last decade. As millennials increasingly join the job market and the demand for company innovation grows, companies are trying to figure out the best way to appeal to prospective candidates (and, in return, figure out the best way to sort out the most qualified). A report published by the Aberdeen Group in 2013 showed that 49% of polled organizations were struggling to find suitable new talent to enhance company growt

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GM Exec Shares Semantic Search Secrets to Up Your Talent Sourcing Game

CareerBuilder

A critical part of a winning recruitment strategy is being able to proactively source the right candidates at the right time. Do you or your team use semantic search or resume parsing techniques today as part of your talent sourcing efforts , or are you planning to in the near future? What should you know about and expect from semantic search efforts?

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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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The Key to a Successful Recruiting Strategy

Beamery

At Beamery , we believe that communication is critical to every recruiting strategy. Your company’s “job” is to convince talented people that they should spend their professional lives working for you. The way you communicate your brand and jobs then, becomes the most important weapon in beating out the competition and bringing the best candidates onboard.

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What’s the Value of America’s Unfilled Jobs?

iCIMS

A guest blog post from Glassdoor’s Chief Economist, Andrew Chamberlain, on the value of America’s unfilled jobs.

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It’s Not Just Uber: Your Role In Preventing Sexual Harassment In The Workplace

1-Page

Much of the tech community is still watching, open-mouthed, as Uber attempts to deal with the repercussions of Susan Fowler’s blog post about her year working there. In case you missed it, the ex-Uber engineer wrote a damning piece about her experience of both sexual harassment and discrimination at the ride-sharing giant. While there is […]. The post It’s Not Just Uber: Your Role In Preventing Sexual Harassment In The Workplace appeared first on 1-Page Blog.

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Worth the (Calculated) Risk: Hiring Executives from Nontraditional Career Paths

Brazen Recruiting

We’ve all seen it: that candidate whose resume doesn’t really match the job requirements, yet there’s something about her overall experience that piques our interest. Perhaps she took a “gap year” after school or between jobs; maybe she spent time working in a completely different field. If we listened to our gut and invited the candidate in for an interview, we may have been impressed with how her unique career path has afforded her a different perspective and approach.

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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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A Follow-Up Discussion on the Rise and Fall of the Job Listing [AUDIO]

Uncubed

I recently published a post on the evolution of the job listing ( A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died ), which generated some interesting conversations. I captured one with Neil Mody, a New York-based founders, here. Neil draws a parallel to what happened in the content distribution space, where his previous company nRelate, was an early mover.

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Top Tips for Establishing an Internal Leadership Development Program

Recruiting Blogs

It should come as no surprise that leadership is a skill best learned through hands-on practice rather than through taught theory. There is a difference, after all, between talking about something and doing it, particularly when it comes to dealing with people, assessing and managing risk, and making major decisions. Learning these skills and applying them practically can prove to be difficult for those transitioning into leadership roles, or those taking on leadership roles at a new company.

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HiringThing partners with Checkr

Hiring Thing

HiringThing has recently partnered with Checkr to offer a fresh take on background screenings. Challenging the Status Quo: Checkr was founded by a group of engineers to help revolutionize the background screening process through technology, automation and augmentation. Checkr was able to uncover the common areas of human-based errors to make. Continue reading.

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Please help Yourself!!

Recruiting Blogs

Before I start let me preface this by making it very very clear we in the staffing community are amongst the most helpful there is. We will always help those who need it. That said keep in mind we are also very very busy, and asking the same type of question over and over again, instead of looking first is really a waste of everyone’s time. What started this for me was Facebook.

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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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4 Important Lessons on Diversity & Inclusion from Zootopia

Glassdoor for Employers

Congrats to Zootopia for winning an Oscar for Best Animated Feature! We’re guessing you’ve seen it by now – but if you.

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TRANSFORM THE QUALITY OF RECRUITMENT AND REDUCE COSTS WITH NEW RELEASE OF TALENYTICS

Recruiting Blogs

Enterprise recruiters transform the quality of recruitment and reduce costs with new release of Talenytics. Talenytics, the hiring collaboration and analytics Software-as-a-Service enterprise recruitment platform designed to improve Hiring Quality, has enhanced its functionality, reporting and end user experience. The new release sharpens the ability of enterprise recruiters to transform both the quality of new recruits and the process of hiring them.

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Why Do We Make It So Hard To Get Into Recruiting?

Recruiting Daily

For an industry which prides itself on “none of us knew we were going to be recruiters,” those of us in talent acquisition seem to make it awful hard for an outsider to get a shot in the recruiting industry. Case in point: me. Now, let me explain. After spending nine years in retail […].

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Mobile Users Become the Largest Segment on AviationCV.com Platform

Recruiting Blogs

There’s no disputing that we are now living in an era of mobile. AviationCV.com does not ignore the fact that aviation professionals would like to take their job search on the go, and apply to positions anytime, anywhere. That motivates to make the mobile version even more convenient for users than it was before. 62,86% of aviation job seekers on AviationCV.com website use mobile to browse for career opportunities online.

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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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4 Programs To Help Workplace Mentoring Go Smoothly

Capterra

Mentorship is one of those things everybody wants to have but nobody wants to work for. Like networking, it sounds like a great thing to have, something rich with benefits, if only it wasn’t so much work. This reputation can scare off even the best mentor and mentee candidates. And that’s a shame, because the people who could benefit the most from mentorship are usually those who’d be most intimidated by the concept.

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Did You Know? South Africa is Considering Minimum Wage

Recruiting Blogs

South Africa recently announced that it's considering a national minimum wage. The government proposed wage of R3,500 per month ($267.23 USD), or R20 an hour ($1.53 USD), is a small sum for Africa's most advanced economy, but close to the median income in a country where nearly half the population lives in poverty. If passed, the new wage laws could go into effect by May 2018. .

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Beyond The Brand: How NewsWhip Spots Recruitment Trends Before They Happen

Social Talent

Welcome to our new series where we’ll be touching base with global thought leaders. We’ll be giving you VIP insight into what they do, how they do it and what they hope to achieve now and into the future. Within each interview we’ll be looking at it from a recruiters point of view, and see how our guests can make the lives of recruiters and HR Managers that little bit easier.

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New Marketplace Additions: March 2016

SmartRecruiters

This month, we’ve got three more excellent reasons to checkout the SmartRecruiters Marketplace. With more integrations and partners added every month, it’s the perfect way to make SmartRecruiters your recruiting operating system. Of course, if you don’t see your preferred vendor yet, you can easily request it either through your vendor or through us!

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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 Recruiting Industry = The Dinosaur in the Room

Phenom People

A lot of people might see my title as a Sales Development Rep and think that all I’m doing is bombarding people with emails, calls, and LinkedIn invites. They’re kind of right, but my real job focus is on learning and educating in the HR space. During my tenure here at Phenom People, I’ve. Read More.

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New Marketplace Additions: March 2017

SmartRecruiters

This month, we’ve got three more excellent reasons to checkout the SmartRecruiters Marketplace. With more integrations and partners added every month, it’s the perfect way to make SmartRecruiters your recruiting operating system. Of course, if you don’t see your preferred vendor yet, you can easily request it either through your vendor or through us!

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Some Surprising (Preliminary) Findings on Recruitment Marketing

Brandon Hall

Brandon Hall Group’s 2017 Recruitment Marketing survey research is almost complete, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the data. One question of particular interest is the first five steps organizations usually take to recruit talent for hard-to-fill positions. The reason I asked that question was to see the extent to which organizations rely on consumer marketing-type practices, such as CRM email campaigns and broad social media campaigns.