Tue.Dec 06, 2016

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HackerRank and Lever Partner to Streamline Tech Recruiting

Lever

It’s no secret that engineering roles are some of the most challenging to fill. According to our recruiting benchmarks report , only 1 in every 134 engineering applicants is hired. But once your pipeline is flush with engineering candidates, how can you best evaluate a candidate’s technical skill set? Is reviewing a resume or conducting a phone screen really the optimal way to assess an engineer’s technical aptitude?

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Greg Savage ‘Modern Recruiter Masterclass’ in Europe!

Greg Savage

Dear European ‘Savage Truth’ readers, I am very excited to invite you to my new half-day ‘Modern Recruiter Masterclass’ to be held in Prague and Bratislava in April 2017 Maybe you saw me speak at the ‘Evolve’ Conference in Brno in 2015? Certainly you are a reader of my blog, so it would be wonderful […].

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The Millennial Bug: How To Successfully Recruit The “Me, Me, Me” Generation

Social Talent

Recruiters have millennials on their minds. It’s hardly surprising. Millennials (those born after 1980) are the most educated generation in history – almost half of UK millennials have at least one degree. They understand and welcome the technological innovations and globalisation reshaping the workplace. And they cannot be ignored, being on course to represent 75% of the global population within a decade.

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Three Ways to Prevent Recruiter Burnout through Recruiting Optimization

Proactive Talent

The cost of replacing a worker is expensive. The direct cost of replacing an employee according to the Society of Human Resource Management can range anywhere from 50 to 60% of an employee’s annual salary with total costs associated with turnover ranging from upwards of 200% of their annual salary. To put this into terms we all can understand, the average recruiter makes $45,439.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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4 Simplest Ways to Improve Diversity in Your Organisation

Social Talent

According to Clare Mulligan , a workplace diversity consultant, a multicultural work force is one that sees employees of an organisation include members of a variety of ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. But in this day and age, a multicultural workforce is no longer just a “nice to have”, it is a business necessity. Diverse companies now outperform non-diverse companies by a whopping 35% !

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How To Give Candidates Valuable Interview Feedback

Spark Hire

Many think the only purpose of the hiring process is to evaluate candidates. If a job seeker has the skills and traits required, great. If not, the process is over for that individual. While that mindset helps organizations reach their goal of filling empty positions, it ignores what a candidate wants. Job seekers are looking to find the right company and role for them.

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Evaluate Your Recruiting Software with More Than Just a Checklist

Symphony Talent

I love a good checklist. It’s a simple way to get organized, view your tasks and track your progress along the way. And don’t get me started on. The post Evaluate Your Recruiting Software with More Than Just a Checklist appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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More Out-of-the-Box Recruiting Strategies

Contract Recruiter

It’s difficult to stand out and attract applicants when recruiting in a highly competitive market. Technology executives from Forbes Technology Council say locating and attracting talent, resume distrust, the need for quick hiring decisions, and geographic constraints have been the top recruiting challenges faced in 2016. Using innovative and creative recruiting tactics, and finding ways to work out-of-the-box, makes it faster and easier to find and connect with the active and passive candidates

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Things Every Recruiter Should Check For On A Candidate’s CV

Undercover Recruiter

As a recruiter you want to give the candidate you are representing the best opportunity to stand out from the crowd and their CV is the first opportunity they have to sell themselves. Ensure that the CV which you send to your client is clear, concise and highlights the relevant experience effectively. Follow these easy steps. View Article. Things Every Recruiter Should Check For On A Candidate’s CV.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Why You Should Define Your Culture Before Hiring

Converticulture Recruiting

Imagine if a construction company started building a building without any plans from an architect? They simply started laying bricks with no idea of what they were building–how would that turn out? They would spend so much time wasted and spend endless amounts of money redoing and fixing issues. This is no different than a company hiring before they have defined their culture.

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How to Include Remote Developers in Holiday Festivities

Stack Overflow

If you currently employ any number of remote developers, you should think about how to keep them engaged throughout the entire year. And even though things tend to slow down around this time of year, it’s important to keep employee engagement on your radar—especially as your company starts to celebrate around the office in the coming weeks. Before you get too caught up in the season, here are a few tips to ensure that your remote workers get to share in the fun.

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Don’t Bother Recruiting in December?

Phenom People

Now that we are in the final month of 2016, it’s easy to just get into the holiday spirit and forget about recruiting goals. After all – recruiters, hiring managers, and job-seekers are probably ignoring applications, taking vacation time, and really aren’t that motivated right now. In fact, let’s all just take a break this. Read More.

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Making Workable mobile

Workable

One of our latest challenges was to help our users hire-on-the-go by taking Workable’s ATS and making it fully mobile. I was asked to design apps for three platforms: iOS, Android and mobile web. As challenging as it sounds, working on this product with an awesome team was, and still is, an amazing journey. In the beginning…. Before we dive into details, let’s go back to 2014 when the Native-vs-Web debate reached its peak.

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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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Weekly Diversity and Inclusion News: November 30 - December 6, 2016

ROIKOI

This week, tech companies delay diversity reports to rethink goals, U.S. government releases diversity hiring research, and more.

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Finding a Needle in a Haystack for Recruiters

Recruiting Blogs

When a company's success is measured, most only look at platitudes, such as the depth of one's pockets or the profitability of products/services. Oftentimes, the recruitment process fails to get the recognition it deserves when it comes to a company's success. People who you bring on board can make or break your business. Their talents and ideas can help propel your company to where it needs to be while any shortcomings can lead to a stunt in growth.

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Five Strategies to Effective Recruiting in a Candidate Driven Market: Making the Final Selection

Applicant Manager

This is part five of our five-part series about effective recruiting in a candidate driven market. By: Edna Nakamoto and Jessica Barrett. This week wraps up our five-part series on recruiting in a candidate driven market. We’ve covered strategic planning and determining need, and internal and external recruiting. In our previous installment, we looked at external assessment tools.

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WhatsApp Group Chat - Bell Curve Performance Management System a boon or bane?

Recruiting Blogs

Talent Acquisitionists look forward to the performance of a new joinee and have a certain level of performance expectation from the individual on-board. That said it’s obvious why they are constantly looking for a way to measure the Employees performance from an individual and an organisational level. . In view of that, our Pune group member Karnika suggested to have a discussion on, “Bell Curve Performance Management System a boon or bane?

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Recruiting on LinkedIn: The Complete Guide

Beamery

Whatever your opinion of the world’s largest professional network, you cannot deny that recruiting on LinkedIn should be part of any company’s recruiting strategy. There’s a lot of advice swirling around the internet on best practices for recruiting on LinkedIn, but there’s so much content that it’s difficult to know where to start, and what’s really worth focusing on.

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How To Recruit On LinkedIn, Fast, Without Breaking The Bank

FeeTrader

Recently I discussed the slowdown in tech hiring , which is already reflected in today’s longer and more difficult hiring cycles as hiring managers are more selective with the quality of candidates. Recruiting and job seeking has become significantly more challenging as offers are given out only to candidates who meet all requirements without fail.

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11 Reasons Why Corporate Recruiting Managers Fail

Recruiting Blogs

. As your passionate recruiting manager, I give everything I've got to find and keep the people we hire and grow your company in a way that makes people proud to do work here. You respond by telling me I am not hiring fast enough, yet I work overtime.I work weekends.I am typically the first person in the office to smile at candidates and I'm the last person to leave after our interviews are over for the day.

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Are Split Placements Right for You?

NPA Worldwide

From time to time, we get asked if there are certain types of recruitment firms that are more well-suited to split placements than others. There are certainly many different ways to operate a successful recruitment firm. For firms that participate in splits, there are even many different ways to be successful. But if you don’t have a long history of making split placements, and are wondering if they would be a good addition to your firm, here is a pretty good list of attitudes and attribu

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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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The Performance Review You Should Be Doing (But Aren’t)

Capterra

Why do you do performance reviews? Is it because 78% of employees are motivated at work by performance reviews? Is it because 92% of employees think that even negative feedback is valuable? Or perhaps because 69% of employees say they’d work harder if they received more feedback? You have lots of compelling reasons to tell the people who are working for you how they’re doing.

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VR: New Possibilities for Virtual Reality in Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

I recently gave myself an early Christmas present…a Sidardoe 3D VR goggles/headset. I would not necessarily recommend them beyond just a really cheap viewer ($22) to try virtual reality video out. I just put my iPhone into the headset’s case and pull up videos…many on YouTube. What amazed me most was watching an online video series called Invisible on Jaunt.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Content Management System

HRsoft

Whether you’re considering migrating to a cloud-based content management system or you already have one in place, there are a few strategies you can use to get the very most out of your system and benefit your organization in as many ways as possible. While an effective system is invaluable for HR professionals for keeping critical data in one safe, organized place, the advantages can extend across the entire organization as well.

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The Most Demanding (and Rewarding) Job of the Season

Recruiting Blogs

Being a mall Santa might seem like a relatively easy job: Sit all day, put kids on your lap, listen to their Christmas list and pose for a photo. But if you ask any Santa Claus who’s worked one season at the mall, they'll tell you it's the most demanding job of the season. A day in the life of a mall Santa can be grueling as an endless parade of children line up for a moment with the season's biggest celebrity.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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A Look Ahead at Mid-Market Research 2016 / 2017: Reigniting the Effectiveness of HR

Bersin

The mid-market[1] is thriving in the United States with nearly 200,000 businesses employing approximately 47.9 million people.[2] Mid-market organizations tend to be healthy—recording consistent revenue and job growth, prompting continued acceleration of innovation and new processes, and more importantly, challenging the way they are accustomed to working.

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13 Recruitment Trends You MUST Know For 2017

Undercover Recruiter

Brexit, Trump, AI, Big Data, Microsoft+LinkedIn and the Randstad Monster… It’s no secret that 2016 has been a massive year for politics, technology and economics, but what are the real knock-on effects to agency-side recruiters working as third party talent suppliers? How is the recruitment landscape adapting? Will your business boom in the new year, or are you doomed?

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How Atlassian is Out-Caring Competitors With Its Unique Candidate Experience

Linkedin Talent Blog

Willy Nelson tour tickets. That was Atlassian’s Head of Global Recruiting, Kristen Clemmer ’s key to recently landing the perfect candidate. “The salary I could offer her was less than she was currently making,” said Clemmer during a presentation at Talent Connect. “So I knew I had to get creative if I wanted to close the deal.”. Now, you might be surprised that concert tickets did the trick.