Wed.Apr 20, 2016

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Unique Resume Designs that Help You Stand Out

JazzHR

We all know that a great resume is essential when searching for a new job, but most people don’t take the time to personalize their CV. With today’s technology, creating a classy digital resume is easier than ever, and you can tailor it to your specific field. For example, graphic design and other creative industries expect to see some originality in your resume, including graphics, cool typography, or an unconventional presentation.

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Personal Branding: What’s Your Personality Type?

Social Talent

Welcome to the third and final instalment of our ‘Personal Branding’ series. So far we’ve discussed why having an honourable reputation is everything in recruitment. We’ve also talked about how you can start to build your brand by achieving All-Star status on LinkedIn, as well as how sharing relevant content can get you on your way to becoming a thought leader.

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How to Sell Sales Professionals on Your Company

Glassdoor for Employers

If you’ve worked in corporate America long enough, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “Sales keeps the lights on.”. There’s a grain of truth to that, but making the wrong sales hires or losing great candidates to competitors can depress morale, impact client relationships and damage your bottom line, whether it’s quarter- or fiscal year-end, especially at the enterprise level.

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Infographic: New Jobs in Solar Could Outpace Oil by Next Year

Indeed

This Earth Day, a landmark climate agreement will be signed by 130 nations at a UN ceremony—the greatest number of countries to ever sign an international treaty. This is a clear signal that global leaders are committed to addressing climate change, an investment that’s reflected in labor markets worldwide—there are an estimated 7.7 million direct and indirect jobs in the renewable energy sector.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Code review in IT recruitment – why and how you should use it?

Devskiller

One of the most important but still ignored aspects of hiring a software developer is verifying how candidate is dealing with the code and whether is able to express their thoughts with particular programming language. Usually in IT recruitment we do it by asking candidate to write some code solving particular problem. Candidate can do it alone or as a pair programming with the recruiter ( Hit the bull’s eye with coding tests in natural environment [case study] ).

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The Importance of Real Conversations When it Comes to Coaching

RecruitLoop

Coaching is a great example of where we sometimes follow a framework a bit too closely and then miss the key ingredient - the human connection.

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Cold Calling: 10 Tips for Turning Up the Heat

Undercover Recruiter

You’ve been tasked with winning your company some new business. Now you’ve got chills and they’re multiplying because you know exactly what this means. Cold. Calling. In a perfect world you’d always keep your ear to the ground, listening for new leads and sales openings. Following your nose, you’d always have specific people to chase up and a verifiable agenda.

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Are You Addressing These 3 Important Staffing Trends for 2016?

TalentCircles

Are You Addressing These 3 Important Staffing Trends for 2016? Is it really possible that we are into the second quarter of 2016 already? Even if you’re in denial, a glance at the calendar confirms it’s true. So where have your first quarter efforts taken you? Are you focused on the right things to stay ahead of your competition? Here are three important staffing trends that should be driving your endeavors.

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Release Notes: April 2016

Beamery

Release notes is our monthly update highlighting significant product releases to show your what we’re improving and keep you in the loop. Here’s what we did in April: We’ve got exciting news. We’ve released one of our most advanced workflow automation tools to date! Beamery recipes could change the way you work forever… As always, if you want to see these new features in action, you can request a demo here. 1.

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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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Where Is Semantic Search?

Boolean Strings

I was preparing a “Boolean for everyone” presentation and went over general concepts of searching in databases and search engines. This made me thinking – why is it that the strongest semantic search we are seeing is in Google (where it’s very hard to implement because of the volume of data and diversity of web […].

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Home Sweet Home – Except When You’re Working from Home

HireRight

Many of us who suffer through daily rush hour traffic can attest that getting even 45 minutes back in your day can be quite beneficial to your quality of life. With modern day technology making telecommuting perfectly feasible for many jobs, many people fantasize about the concept of working from home. However, while the idea of working from home is alluring, it may not work for everyone.

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5 Ways to Prevent Candidates from Accepting Counteroffers

Top Echelon Contracting

In this candidate’s market, counteroffers are quite a problem for recruiters. In fact, candidates are accepting counteroffers even after they’ve started working at their new employer! How can recruiters combat this trend? Below are five ways to prevent candidates from. The post 5 Ways to Prevent Candidates from Accepting Counteroffers appeared first on Top Echelon.

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What 40 Million Career Site Visitors Told Us About Inbound Candidates

Jibe

Outbound recruiting—cold calls, LinkedIn InMails, job board ads, career fairs—it’s the art of finding candidates when there aren’t already enough good ones in the pipeline. Some of today’s top recruiters are, in fact, exceptional at converting strangers into applicants, but the reality is outbound recruiting as a strategy has been losing utility for years.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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We’re Excited to Announce Entelo’s Partnership with Oracle!

Entelo

It’s official! Entelo is now a Gold Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. This partnership establishes Entelo as a recognized recruiting solution that integrates with the Oracle Talent Management Cloud, providing talent teams with a holistic approach to data-driven hiring. We understand organizations experience many challenges throughout the hiring process, which slows down the time it takes to fill an empty role.

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10 of the worst kinds of interviews

Recruiting Blogs

I’m back in Thailand. It was a great experience being in Malaysia for a week that I shall never forget. However, now I’m in a hotel not far from a lovely river and city scene looking forward to another hot day in the city. I’ll be on my travels again next week and will of course keep you all updated. As you know at the beginning of the year I set up www.virtualdemon.com.

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New Job Board Partner: Totallyhired

Hiring Thing

HiringThing is pleased to announce the addition of a fantastic new job posting option, Totallyhired. Post to one of the fastest growing job boards on the internet, now available in-app. Totallyhired is one of the fastest growing job boards on the internet, dedicated to getting as many job seekers. Continue reading.

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Ranking of the best colleges in USA

Recruiting Blogs

Settling Upon the right departments is far and away the greatest arrangement in a student’s personal history. Don’t leave it to chance – examine where your prospective academic institution stands against degree quality, curriculum alternatives, tuition, student experience and salary rate. We exhaustively audited hundreds of US schools, inclusive non- government owned and state owned, and listed them by classes, groups and college en masse.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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New Job Board Partner: Totallyhired

Hiring Thing

HiringThing is pleased to announce the addition of a fantastic new job posting option, Totallyhired. Post to one of the fastest growing job boards on the internet, now available in-app.

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Anonymous Reviews on Glassdoor: Can Anyone Guess the Company?

Recruiting Blogs

Have you ever wanted to review a former client like this? "Red Flag" -- Lowest Rating. Doesn't Recommend; Negative Outlook. I worked at XYZ Company as a contractor (More than a year). Pros. It seems like a good product idea to provide crime statistics on various neighborhoods as a service, but then it turns out that the company is in an unappealing neighborhood itself, and did not honor multiple commitments.

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Keywords Aren't Key When Determining The Best Job Candidates

Hoops

Most hiring professionals spend lots of time scanning resumes for key words that match up with the job description, words like ‘leadership’, or ‘results-driven’ or ‘self-motivated’. Keyword scanning is the reason most HR professional spend 6 seconds on average looking at a resume before deciding whether a candidate is a fit. Keywords are used by applicant tracking systems to knock candidates out of the running and, worse, candidates are gaming the system by overloading their resumes with keyword

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Six Of The Best Ways To Land Your Dream Job

Recruiting Blogs

The primary purpose of working is to earn a living. However, because you will likely spend several years of your life working, it is important to select a job that you love. There are a number of things you can do in order to land your dream job. Below is a list of tips that will help: Focus On Your Interests. Before you attempt to find your dream job, you should spend some time thinking about your interests and goals.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Keywords Aren't Key When Determining The Best Job Candidates

Hoops

Most hiring professionals spend lots of time scanning resumes for key words that match up with the job description, words like ‘leadership’, or ‘results-driven’ or ‘self-motivated’. Keyword scanning is the reason most HR professional spend 6 seconds on average looking at a resume before deciding whether a candidate is a fit. Keywords are used by applicant tracking systems to knock candidates out of the running and, worse, candidates are gaming the system by overloading their resumes with keywo

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4 EASY WAYS TO IMPROVE RECRUITER PERFORMANCE

Recruiting Blogs

There comes a point in time when a Recruiting Manager will have to sit down with an individual recruiter, or a team of recruiters and assess their strengths, weaknesses and areas of improvement in order to hit quotas and attain business goals. We are presenting 4 Easy Ways to Improve Recruiter Performance. . . 1. Data Support: The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

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5 Things NOT to Put in Your Job Ad

Social Talent

Unemployment is currently at its lowest for the first time in 7 years, meaning the recruitment industry has become candidate-driven once again. The power is now back in the candidate’s hands and they can now be more selective during the job-seeking process. However, a worrying trend is developing (insert synchronised audience gasp here!). According to the most recent MRINetwork Recruiter Sentiment Study , many companies have failed to come to the realisation that they need to adjust their

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WhatsApp Group Chat - Twitter Completes 10 years so how has it helped you?

Recruiting Blogs

We’ve been utilising the popular Social Media Channel i.e. Twitter for quite some time but have you ever stopped to think about how it has helped you in your ordinary tasks. If not then it’s time to look back on all the aspects about Twitter as a whole to find out how effective it has been in our hunt for Talent. . It’s a good thing that we have our popular WhatsApp Group Chat Discussion Wednesday’s as it gives us time to spend on aspects, tools or networking channels that we usually take f

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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5 Tips to Help You Navigate the Recruitment Software Market

WebRecruit

Is your quest to find the perfect piece of recruitment software taking longer than you thought? Or perhaps you’re just starting your search and already feeling overwhelmed at the huge market. We’re not going to lie; comparing suppliers and matching your needs with what they’re offering can be difficult, especially when you throw pricing structures and varying implementation periods into the mix.

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Why Are so many Companies Using Employee Performance Evaluation Software?

HRsoft

Lately, the performance management overhaul has become a big topic. That’s because something of major significance is happening in the business world: more and more companies are replacing the antiquated, ineffective performance rating approaches with a new, ongoing approach to managing their teams: employee performance evaluation software. Here are a few reasons why: It Improves Communication to Drive Performance.

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Don’t Speak: Why It’s Time To Finally Shut Up About Employee Engagement, Already.

Recruiting Daily

Employee engagement is one of those perpetual trending topics in HR and recruiting, probably because for years now, pundits and practitioners alike still haven’t figured out how to confront what seems to be a fairly endemic case of malaise and apathy perpetually plaguing our workforce. I’m not sure why it is that talent leaders and recruiting pros can’t to have a near obsessive fixation on what’s inherently an amorphous and highly ambiguous concept, but I think the primar