Tue.Dec 13, 2016

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4 Recruiting Technologies That Every Early Adopter Should Have on Their Holiday Wish List

Lever

What’s on your recruiting technology wish list this year? Tis the season of giving, and not only is it the perfect time to ask for that new sweater you’ve been yearning for, but it’s the perfect time to ask your boss for a new toy as well. 2017 planning is afoot, including decisions around budget and new investments, so don’t miss the opportunity to make the case for a tool that can give you a competitive advantage in your job.

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Applicant Tracking Systems: A data-driven guide to making the right choice

ClearCompany Recruiting

Are you aware that there are over 220 applicant tracking systems on the market today? Chances are there will be many more that evolve in the next few months or even years, but how are you supposed to make sense of which system to use when the market is so crowded?

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5 Steps in Optimizing the Relationship Between the Recruiter and Hiring Manager

Proactive Talent

The recruiter/hiring manager relationship is one of the most sacred relationships in the sourcing world. Without constant effective communication good candidates can be lost in the shuffle and potentially lost altogether. Research by Bersin by Deloitte revealed that developing strong relationships with hiring managers is one of the top drivers of performance in a talent acquisition strategy.

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What’s the Best Piece of Advice You’d Give to a Newbie Recruiter?

Social Talent

Last week, we turned to you, our incredible legion of followers , to ask what practical advice you would give to anyone starting out in recruitment. And you didn’t disappoint! In fact, you answered in your droves, letting us in on your extensive knowledge and expertise. As a result, what follows is some of the most invaluable advice you will ever receive when starting out in this industry (or at any stage of your recruiting career for that matter!

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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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7 Career Theories to Help You Find Fulfilling Work

Undercover Recruiter

How should you live your life? It’s the fundamental question at the heart of a fulfilling and happy career. However, many people overlook the importance of keeping true to themselves throughout their working lives. We are all constantly confronted with contradictory ideals; we think we want one thing but then start to want another. We’re always trying.

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17+ Things Recruiters Must NOT Do in 2017

Undercover Recruiter

Regardless of who you are and what you do, there is always room for improvement. It’s safe to assume that all top-performing recruiters must continually strive for best practice and find ways to make their operations better, slicker, more efficient and strategic. However, honing good habits only works when there is synonymous attention on breaking bad tendancies, too.

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If You Cannot Sell Yourself, You Cannot Sell.

RecruitmentJuice

“Gavin, we have a great product, clients like it, people want to buy it, but it’s too expensive. Our competition are cheaper and, although they’re not as good, provide better value for money. Because of this, the prices that we been asked to sell at are just not realistic.”. I had just finished my talk at his sales conference and I looked at the salesperson in front of me.

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Hot Dogs and Amazon: Stories of Top Performing Talent in Action

Indeed

What does “top performance” mean to you? Different companies have different notions of what it means to be a top performer, but definitions are often centered around the specific traits managers believe yield strong performance in a particular role or field. But what if it’s simpler than that? Our research has led us to believe the traits of top performers are remarkably consistent across different jobs, sectors and organizational cultures.

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Promoting Your Recruitment Firm

NPA Worldwide

A recent Staffing Industry Review article listed the top criteria buyers use when evaluating recruitment suppliers. It is no surprise that the top items on the list of criteria are worker quality, speed, service/quality and cost. Others that made the list were geographic coverage, relationship focus, skills breadth, and industry knowledge, to list just a few.

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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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How To Test Your ATS Like An Applicant

Capterra

I’m forever going on about how applicant tracking systems are the worst. (Yes, I know I also write about how great I think they are. It’s a love / hate relationship kind of thing.). The main problem I have with applicant tracking software is that they are just programs. And a computer program will only ever be as smart as the people programming. And while, as a whole, that’s pretty dang smart (dude they made a computer do their bidding by typing at it , which is awesome), there will always be li

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A simple Guide for Managed Service Provider Pricing of Contingent Labor

Yoh

If you're responsible for procuring or managing your organization's contingent workforce, chances are you have considered or previously implemented a Managed Service Provider (MSP) program. Managing contingent labor through an MSP is common, but it’s not always easy to know where to start.

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How Adopting a Radical Openness Philosophy Can Help Your Recruiting Process

Phenom People

I recently had an amazing conversation on technology and the future of recruiting with our CEO, Mahe Bayireddi. During this conversation, he brought up a very important point – more companies need to embrace and encourage radical openness. I know you’re probably thinking that anything with “radical” in the name is going to be really.

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Survey: State of Talent Acquisition 2017

Beamery

We’re excited to announce that at Beamery we’re creating a comprehensive report on the State of Talent Acquisition as we enter 2017. To do this though, we need your help: We’ve created a short survey, (takes 30-45 seconds, we timed it), and we’d really appreciate it if you’d take the time to answer our questions. If you’d like to share your thoughts on where recruiting is headed in 2017, as well as receive a free copy of the Report for your trouble, you can do

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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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How to Read a Resume Like a Big Biller: Resume Screening Checklist and More

Top Echelon Contracting

As popular industry trainer Barb Bruno has said on more than one occasion, “The recruiter with the candidate wins!” That, in a nutshell, is why resume screening is so important for recruiters. The resume is the first step in the.

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Weekly Diversity and Inclusion News: December 7 - 13, 2016

ROIKOI

This week, CEOs pledge to advance women into corporate leadership, tech companies treat diversity reports like press releases, and more.

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WhatsApp Group Chat - Hiring Timelines / TAT and its Implications on the Quality of Hires

Recruiting Blogs

Talent Acquisitionists are constantly required to Source Talent to fill vacancies and there are various tools and methods to achieve this. Several organisations are slowly incorporating these new methods and techniques to evaluate and shortlist candidates to capture the right fit. In an attempt to understand what these tools are and the hiring trends followed @SourcingAdda we conducted our popular WhatsApp Group chat discussion on, “ Hiring timelines / TAT and its implications on the quality of

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How To Be More Aware Of Telling Resume Mistakes

Spark Hire

When your company has an open position available, you’re probably going to receive dozens (if not hundreds) of resumes from interested job seekers. While this makes it easy to find a highly qualified person for the position, it also puts stress on you to quickly sort through and find a handful of candidates to talk with, in further depth, about the role.

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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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How He Recruits - a Podcast with Ben White

Recruiting Blogs

Ben White has seven years’ experience in talent acquisition. He has worked as a headhunter and a corporate recruiter for two fortune 500 companies. Today he is part of the recruitment process insourcing team at Titus Talent, a talent strategies firm with several offices throughout the midwest, New York and the UK. I spoke to him by phone to talk about how he recruits.

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5 Best Practices for a Flawless Franchise Onboarding Program

Hireology

When a new hire takes part in a structured onboarding process, they are 66% more likely to remain with a company for 3+ years. At Hireology, we think onboarding is the best way to setup your new hire for success and have five best practices in mind to make each employee’s first day on the job special. Treat Onboarding as the steps needed to get employees everything they need to be excited to join your team.

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Network Blues: Why Recruiters Are The Only People Who Still Care About LinkedIn.

Recruiting Daily

As I wrote in an earlier post, I’m kind of new to this whole recruiting thing. In my six months or so in this business, I’ve learned a LOT. Mostly? That you CANNOT learn recruiting. You absorb it. But that hasn’t stopped me from trying to pick up as much about how recruiting works as possible, and I […].

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How to nurture Millennials and Gen Zs in your workplace

WebRecruit

More and more Millennials and Gen Zs are entering the labour market – in fact, many analysts believe they will make up 50% of the workforce by 2050. For that reason, it’s wise to adopt every measure possible to satisfy such workers’ needs. After all, it’s not just recruiting these young people that you should be concerned with; it’s keeping them, too.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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The Evolution of Recruitment: How to Not Get Left Behind

Social Talent

Last time I wrote for Social Talent I outlined the ways in which the Recruitment industry has changed since its inception. Today, I’m continuing in that vein, but with a focus on the individual. Yep… you. There’s a saying that’s fairly appropriate to the evolution of your Recruitment job. “ If you’re not moving forward you’re standing still.” To a degree if you work in recruitment and you’re not continuously evolving you’re probably going backwards.

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How to Throw a LinkedIn Profile Makeover Party (and Boost Your Employer Brand in the Process)

Linkedin Talent Blog

When you’ve got a great employer brand, every aspect of talent acquisition from sourcing and outreach to engagement and retention gets easier. The data backs it up: our Global Recruiting Trends 2017 found that 80% of talent and HR managers around the world believe a great brand makes it easier to recruit top talent. One of the surest ways to boost your employer brand is through your employees.

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Skill and Personality: Integrating Factors in Hiring Decisions

Plum.io

Can a personality assessment be of use in a heavily skills-based industry? Absolutely. The perfect job candidate is not always made up of one skill or trait. Like many things in life, finding the ideal candidate fit is not a matter of black and white. There has been an increase in conversation in the HR world on the topic of hiring for personality – and for good reason.

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The 4-1-1 On Total Rewards Communication: A Brief Explanation 

HRsoft

At its core, Total Rewards (TR) Communication is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a way to effectively communicate your total rewards program to employees. But it’s also much more than that. TR Communication is a way to improve the relationship between employers and employees. This communication shares with an associate the value of working for the employer during a specific period of time in the past – and can provide a look into the future.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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Watch Talent Connect 2016’s Most Popular Talks, Exclusive Interviews and More

Linkedin Talent Blog

The term “culture fit” is dying, millennials aren’t as spoiled as you think, and a bad candidate experience can cost you millions. All of these stories and more came out of Talent Connect 2016, where over 4,200 talent acquisition professionals from around the world (plus thousands of live stream viewers) came together to share and learn the latest industry trends, innovations, and success stories.

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5 Tips that Will Help You Recruit the Right Person for the Job

Recruiting Blogs

If you are trying to recruit new people for your company in this day and age, it might seem like shooting a fish in the barrel. Not only is there fierce competition for every job position, which means you can cherry-pick your candidates, but you also get to choose from a much larger talent pool if you choose to consider to possibility of hiring a remote worker.

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How ‘sweating the small stuff’ can help your firm’s recruitment drive

WebRecruit

Whenever you have considered shelling out for a pricey item such as a new smartphone, you have likely spent much time scrutinising the various options. How big is the phone’s screen? How much storage does it have? How hi-res is the camera? It can pay dividends to be similarly picky over the details when seeking to recruit the right staff for your company.