Fri.Feb 14, 2020

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Can You Pivot? Transferring Your Recruiting Skills to Another Industry

Proactive Talent

Can you transition your great recruiting skills from healthcare to IT, from retail to financial services, or from transportation to semiconductor? Absolutely, yes!

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The truth about great employer brands (that everyone seems to miss)

Social Talent

Employer brands. Every company has one. What’s it really like inside those four walls? Most companies have made at least some effort to shape the answer to that question. But knowing how to do it well is a little more tricky. Cash, conmen and coffee: the changing face of employer brands. The way I see it, employer brands have been on a bit of a journey.

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Tech recruiting influencer, Hung Lee, on cutting through the noise in 2020.

Stack Overflow

We spoke with the founder of WorkShape.io and the curator of Recruiting Brainfood about the powershift from recruiters to candidates, hard conversations with hiring managers, and how the talent shortage makes tech recruiting a dependable career. Hung Lee is a tech industry professional with over 15 years of experience as an agency recruiter, recruitment manager, internal head of talent, recruitment trainer and strategic advisor for rapid growth businesses in the London tech startup scene.

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7 Ways PointClickCare Made their Candidate Experience Feel like Fine Dining

Lever

Have you ever gone out to dinner and asked the server what they would recommend off of the menu? The whole experience can be pretty interesting. Sometimes, the server has no idea what to recommend because they haven’t actually tried anything on. Read More. The post 7 Ways PointClickCare Made their Candidate Experience Feel like Fine Dining appeared first on Lever.

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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 Upside of Ethics: An Ethical Workplace Is a Creative One

Recruiter

Discussions about ethics at work tend to focus on the negative. Notoriously unscrupulous companies like Enron and Theranos often come up. Researchers survey rates of bribery, sexual harassment, theft, and other misconduct. Rarely do we discuss how ethics can inspire beautiful, transformative behavior. I'd like to change that. Creating an "ethical workplace" isn't just about minimizing.

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New Release! Collections Helps Candidates Organize Their Job Search

Glassdoor for Employers

68% of job seekers and employees agree that one of the biggest challenges of looking for a job is staying organized during the job search process. In fact, a majority (64 percent) report using multiple different tools to help them stay organized when conducting their job search. To help solve this problem, Glassdoor has introduced Collections , which allows people to explore job listings, company reviews and other content relevant to their job search that they can save, organize and revisit late

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4 Ways Diversity Is Directly Linked to Profitability

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

Recruiting employees from different backgrounds is the surest way to stay competitive.

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Transferable Skills: What They Are, How to Market Them, and Why Recruiters Should Care

Recruiter

You've spent a considerable amount of time in the same industry, and now you'd like to make a change. You want to move into another field — but you're not sure if any employer in this new industry would see you as qualified and relevant. It's a genuine concern, but the good news is a career change can be made. The key is identifying and marketing your transferable skills.

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Top 10 Productivity Apps for Recruiters for 2020

Recruiters Lineup

While a recruiter’s main goal is to hire the best person for the company, this one and only objective requires a variety of tasks. On an average day, a recruiter may be doing anything from reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, writing and posting job ads, going over assessment tests , conducting background checks, interviewing, negotiating salaries… the list goes on and on.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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How To Protect Yourself In The Burnout Battle

Forbes Human Resources Council

Work should be an additive in our lives. It should add purpose and a sense of accomplishment, but it shouldn’t leave us feeling like we have nothing left to give.

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3 Stats Every TA Professional Needs to Know About The Gig Economy

PandoLogic

In its purest form, the gig economy refers to the effort to monetize skills and time in order to earn money while taking on various projects (or gigs)—think freelance and contract-based work, as well as the classic moonlighting efforts at. The post 3 Stats Every TA Professional Needs to Know About The Gig Economy appeared first on PandoLogic.

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PODCAST: The Strength of NO

Recruiting Daily

The Strength Of No Brandon from Cloakhire believes you can base your entire business off the strategy of “go for no.” What? Really? Here’s his thinking: most people don’t like to be sold to, but they do like to buy. (Think about Amazon’s revenue, right?) So let’s say you approach a prospect and list everything […].

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Work From Home Jobs: Top 10 Best

Professional Alternatives

Work from home jobs are on the rise with rapid advancements in technology and shifts in opinions by companies. With today’s remote-focused business environment almost anyone can work a job from home and have more schedule flexibility, higher pay, and a whole collection of other great benefits. Whether you’re working a remote job for a company or getting your own business started, there is a huge number of work from home jobs available.

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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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Bring company culture into focus

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 2 minutes. Candidates need more than value statements on a career site to evaluate whether your culture is right for them. Employee testimonials aren’t helpful, either. Bring company culture into focus with stories. Specific, insightful employee stories allow candidates to make informed opt in and out apply decisions. Savvy talent marketers know the goal of recruitment marketing content isn’t to appeal to everyone; marketing real employee experiences produces more moti

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5 Creative Job Posting Ideas

Ongig

Job postings are getting competitive. Companies are investing more in them and it shows. Here are 5 creative job posting ideas to help attract and engage candidates. 1. A Day In The Life. AT&T’s job pages are expansive. If we took a screenshot of the whole job page it would span this whole post. They create awesome content and present it in an impressive way.

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Talent marketing, we love you

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Talent Marketing, we love you and all you do for companies and candidates. Let us count the ways (here’s four). At the TA Week conference, we heard from a variety of speakers that ultimately taught us how we can further our impact as practitioners and leaders in talent marketing. Employer branding strategies have a profound impact on overall company performance, and even small adjustments to recruitment marketing strategies can have a big impact on talent goals.

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Here Are 5 Signs That a Candidate is 'The One'

Linkedin Talent Blog

As a recruiter, every day is a little like Valentine’s Day. After all, your job is all about playing matchmaker, pairing great candidates with jobs that they’ll love. And when you find that special someone, you have to “woo” them — showing them why your company is the one they’ll want to spend the rest of their life with (or at least the foreseeable future).

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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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6 Amazing Benefits of Employee Engagement

Recruiting Blogs

The success of an organization lies in the effectiveness of the workforce, so employee engagement plays a pivotal role in an organization’s growth. Companies with employees, who are highly engaged, show 21% more profitability, but a Gallup report reveals that only around 15% of employees are engaged at work. The annual cost to the US economy due to disengaged employees is around $500 million. .

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Work, Love, Gossip, Power: The Thrill and Toll of Office Romance

TalentCulture - Recruiting

We all know that office romances happen. But on what scale do they happen, and how exactly do they affect those involved on a professional and personal level? A recent workplace study by Viking surveyed 2,000 office workers in the UK to uncover the true experience of dating a coworker. Those surveyed were professionals aged from 18 up to 65+, including temporary trainees, executives, middle management, senior management and board members.

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Will cleaning and hospitality jobs soar post-Brexit?

Recruiting Blogs

For several, if not every business sector across the Britain, Brexit is an uncertain prospect. From concerns about trade restrictions to worries about sourcing raw materials needed for business, each sector is holding its breath to see how things will pan out. However, for the hospitality sector, the worry isn’t to do with their supply of materials essential to carry out their jobs, such as disposable cutlery , refuse sacks and other kitchen and cleaning equipment.

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BIG NEWS: DevSkiller is rebranding!

Devskiller

We’re excited to announce that we have big things coming in the works here at DevSkiller. As of February 2020, we’re rebranding! Some of you may have noticed that we’ve started rolling out a new logo and a new website design. We’d like to share with you our rationale behind the changes. Taking on a rebrand is no small task but we’re tackling it because of our dedication to fair skill assessments and the progress of individuals that we support.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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#RedBranchWeekly: How a Hiring Strategy Can Vastly Improve Your Quality of Hires

marenated

No one has a perfect hiring strategy — it doesn’t exist. That shouldn’t stop you from striving for one. A good hiring strategy lays out guidelines for screening, interviewing, and, hopefully, recruiting the best fit for your company. Get it right, and you’ll be in a great position to make some quality hires, remote or otherwise. What are the right steps to forming an almost-perfect hiring strategy?

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How to Overcome the Top 3 Challenges in Tech Recruiting

ApplicantStack

Did you know there are more than 1 million unfilled tech jobs in the U.S.? That might come as a shock to you, especially considering more teens and young adults are being pushed toward STEM fields to increase their odds of getting hired out of college. How can a field that’s growing so quickly struggle to fill so many vital roles? The answer is that the changing landscape of tech makes it difficult for both companies and employees to keep up.

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High Turnover in 2020 Attributed to ‘Not Being Heard’

Recruiting Daily Advisor

As if HR professionals and recruiters didn’t have enough to worry about this year, new survey findings show that roughly 64% of workers plan on leaving their current positions in 2020 and cite a “lack of being heard” as the main reason. Source: Ollyy / Shutterstock. On the flip side, only one-third of employees surveyed (33%) plan to stay at their jobs this year, compared with 47% who said the same in 2019.

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

A new study out of Australia has a pointer for anyone looking to make a career change (and for recruiters looking to expand their talent pool in a tight labor market): Don’t worry about skills and experience so much, as it’s personality that’s the best indicator of whether a shift into a new industry will be smooth sailing or if it will hit rocky shores.

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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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Adapting Traditional Learning Techniques for the Hybrid Job Economy

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In a tech-dominant world, companies now expect employees to possess the skills needed to harness the power of technologies in the workplace. Research into job postings and résumés has shown that jobs are becoming increasingly complex and call for a broader range of skill sets than what is traditionally required for them, leading to the evolution of “hybrid” jobs.

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Why ATS Falls In Love With A Resume Parser?

Recruiting Blogs

We all know how recruitment will be evolving in the future. An ATS simplifies the recruitment process by reducing the time on shortlisting of candidates. . Tech-savvy always have a question while using ATS like: Does their ATS have advanced functionality? . Does it have an advanced approach? . Is it able to deliver the desired results? . However, working with such advanced technology like ATS in the recruitment process still needs a few improvements.

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How One HR Professional Encourages Honest Exit Interviews and Tackles Turnover

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Some industries are more susceptible to turnover than others, but everyone has to deal with it to some degree. Keeping turnover at bay requires a lot of attention, especially when it comes to exit interviews. In this edition of “Faces of HR,” we speak with one expert who has developed a method for encouraging honest exit interviews that helps him support employee retention.