Thu.Jul 18, 2019

article thumbnail

How to improve candidate experience using developer assessments

Hacker Earth

David Heinemeier, the creator of Ruby on Rails tweeted: Several organizations still use whiteboard interviews as a standard process to hire developers. . In a whiteboard interview, developers are given a problem statement for which they have to provide the solution on a whiteboard. This is meant to test their communication and problem-solving skills.

article thumbnail

A hirer's guide to engaging with contractors (what’s all this IR35 chat about?)

Recruiting Blogs

In my job, and with mounting momentum, I’ve witnessed over recent years, a growing number of professionals less and less inclined to slog out the 9-5, job for life, opting instead for the emerging, gig-based, flexible working lifestyle. Businesses too continue to appreciate the financial and productivity benefits of hiring specialist skill-sets as and when they are needed.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Path to Improving your Time to Hire KPI

PandoLogic

There are a ton of factors that affects your hiring and hiring speed. While you can’t change the location of your latest job vacancy or control external factors that affect the overall hiring market, you can improve the efficiency and.

Hiring 46
article thumbnail

Guest Blog: Taking Responsibility for AI’s Gender Bias

JazzHR

Guest blog by Arran Stewart, Founder and CVO of Job.com. Last year Amazon, arguably the largest and most successful tech company in the world, publicly scrapped the artificial intelligence hiring tool it was planning to use for company wide recruitment. The tool, which the company had been working on since 2014 , was found to have an unconscious bias against women, not selecting their resumes for consideration for “male dominated roles” despite being equally or more qualified than male counterpa

JazzHR 120
article thumbnail

Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

article thumbnail

Prep School

The Whiteboard

“Failure to prepare, prepare to fail” – Benjamin Franklin – Scott Burnett. It’s always been a mantra close to my heart. Last year I was honored to be given the title of best man at my best friend’s wedding back home. I’m a visual learner and the only way I passed uni was mind maps so, during the 8-hour wait in Doha I put all my thoughts into an A3 piece of paper and mapped out my speech.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Can Your Myers-Briggs Type Help You Find Well-Being at Work?

Recruiter

In my writings and presentations, I drive home the importance of finding what you love to do and then doing all you can to make that your career. This, however, is a journey that will involve a few stops along the way, during which it is critical to keep up your spirits. As you continue in your career exploration, how can you also honor your well-being throughout that journey?

ATS 102
article thumbnail

5 Tips to Help You Build a More Inclusive Recruiting Pipeline

Indeed

Whether you’re with a 10-person startup or a multinational conglomerate, one thing is clear: you need to build an inclusive recruiting pipeline. The business benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce are well-documented — from the bottom-line impact on revenue to greater team creativity and improved product innovation. And job seekers today increasingly expect employers to raise their game when it comes to building an inclusive workplace to drive a sense of belonging. .

article thumbnail

Building an Employer Brand on LinkedIn

RecruitLoop

Building an employer brand on Linkedin is a cost-effective and powerful way to recruit the best professionals in your industry. Read below for five tips on how best to use LinkedIn as a driver of your business’s recruitment strategy.

article thumbnail

How you can benefit from building a talent community

Workable

Matt Buckland has a long career in recruitment, and according to him, it shows. “I started in recruitment in about the year 2000,” he grins during a short interview at Workable’s headquarters in downtown Boston in late June. “Gosh, that makes me very old.”. And a lot has changed since then, from the days where recruiters kept their cards close to now, when they actually work together and share intel throughout their talent community.

article thumbnail

The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

article thumbnail

5 Digital Marketing Channels to Promote Your Recruitment Agency

RecruitmentJuice

As the digital age continues to break new boundaries and completely change the way consumers and users operate, company owners and businesses have to have the initiative to change and adapt with it. Recruitment agencies are no different. There is a necessity to grow alongside each industry (or industries) your agency serves. Even your marketing […].

article thumbnail

5 Staffing and Recruiting Trends You Need to Know to Hire Top Talent

AkkenCloud

Few things are more discouraging to an HR professional than recruiting and onboarding the “perfect hire,” only to learn that the candidate was not a good fit after all. Frustration aside, hiring the wrong candidate is costly to companies. In fact, according to a recent survey , 66% of businesses estimate that each bad hire comes at a cost of at least $25,000 in wasted time, productivity, and company resources. .

article thumbnail

Your LinkedIn profile: The ultimate guide for recruiters

JobAdder

Recruitment Agency Software. Login. Get a Demo. Applicant Tracking System. Much more than an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), JobAdder helps agencies from startups to multi national enterprises make more placements. Recruitment CRM. Stronger relationships lead to better outcomes. Use JobAdder to manage key relationships with purpose & structure.

article thumbnail

How Tech Pros Can Use Instagram to Get Hired

AkkenCloud

If you’re a tech pro who’s looking for a new position or just trying to build out an online presence, you know that social networking is one of the most effective ways to convey who you are and what you’re doing. While a lot of tech pros have a LinkedIn account where they occasionally share their professional work, fewer have turned to Instagram as a channel for their online identity.

Hiring 85
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What is a Google X-Ray search?

Workable

X-Ray search, also known as Boolean search, is a method we use to locate highly relevant and precise results from websites by combining phrases, keywords, and symbols into the search bar. So, what is Google X-Ray? To put it briefly, it is the use of Boolean search strings on the Google search engine. Google Boolean strings are commands that help you come up with targeted results by applying the so-called Boolean operators, for example AND, OR, and NOT (see the Table below).

article thumbnail

Drive Employee Engagement with Transparency into Overall Benefits

Hireology

During the hiring process, prospective employees are likely the most excited about what your team has to offer and your overall benefits. But it’s critical to keep this momentum going once new hires are on board and encourage ongoing employee engagement. . One way to keep employees motivated about doing great work for your team is by providing ongoing transparency into the benefits your team has to offer.

article thumbnail

Recruitment News and Blogs to Follow

NPA Worldwide

I make a point of doing some industry reading most days during the week, even if it’s just a quick glance at headlines. In no particular order, here are some of my favorite blogs and other sites for recruitment news: Fistful of Talent – FOT is an opinion blog with a wide range of contributors in the talent, recruitment, and HR space, with pieces that are a little snarky/edgy.

B2B 68
article thumbnail

How Can Changing Job Titles Benefit Your Company?

Forbes Human Resources Council

Ambiguity and ambivalence can cause disorder and damage workplace culture. If your company is considering creating a new job title, avoid common stumbling blocks by following these best practices.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

11 Employer Branding Metrics To Measure Success

Harver

How do you determine how successful your employer branding efforts are? Discover these 11 employer branding metrics to help you measure that!

article thumbnail

Employer Spotlight: Christy Belsky on Baker Tilly’s Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

The Muse

Our Employer Spotlight Series features employer branding best practices in action. Check out these insights from a company that's totally crushing it. This month, we chatted with Christy Belsky, Recruiting Operations Manager at Baker Tilly.

article thumbnail

Non-Technical Scraping in Sourcing

Boolean Strings

Web Scraping tools are rapidly gaining popularity among Sourcers and Recruiters. They are an essential part of a productive Sourcer’s toolbox. Here is an example of how scraping may help your work. Suppose you see a webpage like this (listing some promising prospects): If you wanted to examine and save the records, this format is quite inconvenient.

article thumbnail

7 Key Advantages Of Drip Campaigns in Recruitment

Recruiting Daily

An email drip campaign is a series of marketing emails that work together to nurture consumers. They’re called drip campaigns because they provide buyers with useful information by slowly dripping over time. Not everyone knows about its advantages and simply the difference between a drip campaign and bulk emailing. Actually, there is a great difference, […].

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How to improve candidate experience using developer assessments

Hacker Earth

David Heinemeier, the creator of Ruby on Rails tweeted: Several organizations still use whiteboard interviews as a standard process to hire developers. . In a whiteboard interview, developers are given a problem statement for which they have to provide the solution on a whiteboard. . The most common tasks include recalling algorithms and writing them bug-free on the whiteboard. .

article thumbnail

How Retail Recruiters Can Fight the 60%(!) Industry Turnover Rate

Smartdreamers

Yes, you read that right: the turnover rate in retail right now is a little over 60%, more than quadruple the United States average across all industries. Even the turnover rate for CEOs in retail is high right now (23%), albeit probably for different reasons. Retail positions like cashiers and inventory workers already need to be filled at tremendous volumes each year just to keep pace with demand, and the incredibly high turnover rate only exacerbates the problem.

Retail 63
article thumbnail

Talent Board Candidate Experience Workshop - Indianapolis

ConveyIQ

ConveyIQ is excited to sponsor the next the Talent Board Candidate Experience Half-Day Workshop as it heads to Indianapolis on Thursday, July 25, 2019.

article thumbnail

Three Things You Need To Know When Negotiating A Job Offer

Forbes Human Resources Council

Your best chance at higher earnings is by demonstrating value and negotiating a better salary when starting a new job. Make the most of the opportunity.

ATS 64
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

3 Strategies for Improving Nursing Engagement

Hospital Recruiting

Rob Marmion/123RF.com. Nurses are the heart of every healthcare system. They are often the first healthcare professional a patient sees when they arrive to the hospital, and they are on the front lines of evaluating and administering the patients’ treatment. Nurses are not only expert caregivers; they are also educators, counselors, and the patients’ strongest advocate.

article thumbnail

By the Numbers: July 19, 2019

BountyJobs

BountyJobs Bites. 75% of Hiring Managers are Too Indecisive. The Numbers: Three-quarters of hiring managers are indecisive, causing low-quality hires and longer time-to-fill rates. Hiring managers that make decisions via a shorter timeframe hire 10% more higher-quality candidates and hire 11% fewer lower-quality candidates with decreased time-to-fill rates by 17%.

SMB 50
article thumbnail

How you can benefit from building a talent community

Workable

Matt Buckland has a long career in recruitment, and according to him, it shows. “I started in recruitment in about the year 2000,” the veteran talent acquisition thought leader grins during a short interview at Workable’s headquarters in downtown Boston in late June. “Gosh, that makes me very old.”. And a lot has changed since then, from the days where recruiters kept their cards close to now, when they actually work together and share intel throughout their talent community.