Wed.Apr 13, 2016

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5 Essential Qualities to Look for in a Remote Worker

Social Talent

I’ve worked almost exclusively from home for almost 2 years now. With the exception of Mondays (when we hold our weekly staff meetings), I spend my week working from home and communicating with my fellow colleagues via email, Google Hangouts and WhatsApp. As a result, I no longer have to endure the arduous morning and evening commute from Wicklow to Dublin, meaning I get to spend more time with my family and my pets, and using the hours I save travelling to do more of the things I love.

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Treat Your Job Candidates Like Marketing Leads

Hoops

In a topical piece for Personnel Today , business journalist talks specifics about how to recruit the right candidates. The focus of the article is technology - ways to leverage technological innovations to interact with jobseekers in a way that's more engaging than traditional ‘post and pray’ methods. In the midst of discussing other popular topics like passive candidate recruitment, leverage mobile technology, and the importance of video for job sites, this sentence stood out: “…the way organ

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Twitter for Recruitment (Every Recruiter’s Secret Weapon)

Beamery

140 characters doesn’t feel like a lot, but if you play it right it can be enough to convince candidates that your company is the real deal. A huge 58% of job seekers use Twitter in their search – the network actually has more active candidates than professionally minded LinkedIn. It seems crazy to not use Twitter for recruitmen t and ignore anywhere with this many active candidates!

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Interviews per hire: recruiting KPIs

Workable

Understanding what to measure in the hiring process is the key to getting a better return on investment (ROI) from your recruitment marketing spend. But it’s not as simple as compiling a few reports, recruiting metrics need to answer questions relevant to your business. We’re taking an in-depth look at the four key performance indicators (KPIs) we think are worth tracking in recruiting metrics.

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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!

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Recruiting a Superstar: 5 Ways to Engage Candidates

RecruitLoop

Candidates today want you to treat them like you’d treat your customers. It all starts with your first impression - your job description.

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Branding for Better Hires

iCIMS

Recruitment marketing has emerged as a key theme in talent acquisition, yet many organizations are still becoming familiar with the concept. Just what is recruitment marketing?

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Rolling out globally: The nuances of operating in Japan

Allegis Global Solutions

Japan is a prime example of the challenges associated with rolling out a global MSP or RPO solution.

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7 Steps for Mentoring an Aspiring Female Leader

Undercover Recruiter

We are hearing first-hand from the organisations and guest speakers involved in our Women in Leadership programme about the powerful support which mentoring can provide when developing aspiring female leaders. If you are in the process of examining your organisation’s progression pipeline and looking for ways to help address any gender balances, we recommend introducing.

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How to identify recruiter skills gaps & inject energy into a team

RecruitmentJuice

“Do you come here often?”. “Can I buy you a drink?”. “Do you want to dance?”. “Can I have your number?”. What answers normally follow these questions? Whether you get an air punching YES or a heart dropping NO these are usually the two options offered that follow a closed question. When closed questions are your best friends. To clarify information.

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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.

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Frictionless Mobile Recruiting

Jobvite

Mobile devices have displaced the desktop as the primary means to access the web and interact with the world at large. As early as 2012, 80% of people didn’t leave home without their mobile device according to a research report from Google. Mobility—in all its various forms—has transformed how we interact with each other and the digital world. For those of us in the talent acquisition space the rise of mobile is driving the need for a mobile-friendly candidate experience.

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Branding for Better Hires

iCIMS

Recruitment marketing has emerged as a key theme in talent acquisition, yet many organizations are still becoming familiar with the concept.

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Simplifying the Candidate Offer Process with Docusign

SmartRecruiters

At SmartRecruiters, we strive everyday to make recruiters and their teams more productive with innovative integrations and features. Part of our product development process is figuring out how we can make the candidate inquiry-to-hire process shorter and more delightful for everyone. With this month’s product release, we’re making the offer process easier to close and hire the best talent.

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Indeed Employer App Transforms Mobile Devices into Hiring Tools

Indeed

Employers and candidates are increasingly connecting to one another via mobile devices. Available on both Apple and Android platforms, Indeed Employer brings key functionality of the desktop experience to mobile devices and streamlines recruitment actions. Use the app to: Post and manage jobs. Use the app to lay out important aspects of your job, including its title, description and screener questions.

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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.

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Times are Changing for Recruiters, Are You Prepared?

TalentCircles

So, what do your client businesses and potential candidates expect from you? “They both want better results and to see barriers and dead-weight inefficiencies taken out of 20 th century processes that are still relied upon today.” This information comes from our latest white paper, Staffing Firms and Talent Pools: The Time Has Come to Sink or Swim. Businesses are finding that, with changing times, the long-standing staffing model has some major shortcomings.

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Frictionless Mobile Recruiting

Jobvite

Mobile devices have displaced the desktop as the primary means to access the web and interact with the world at large. As early as 2012, 80% of people didn’t leave home without their mobile device according to a research report from Google. Mobility—in all its various forms—has transformed how we interact with each other and the digital world. For those of us in the talent acquisition space the rise of mobile is driving the need for a mobile-friendly candidate experience.

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What Employees Love About Working for Small Businesses

CareerBuilder

While it may seem as if every in-demand candidate wants to work for a large corporation like Google or Facebook – companies that can afford to pay top dollar and offer extravagant perks like free gourmet lunches and top of the line, on-site fitness facilities – the reality may surprise you. When it comes to where employees really want to work, small businesses have a leg up on the big guys.

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Frictionless Mobile Recruiting

Jobvite

Mobile devices have displaced the desktop as the primary means to access the web and interact with the world at large. As early as 2012, 80% of people didn’t leave home without their mobile device … Continued.

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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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Drive A Social Community to Stay Connected and Competitive

TargetRecruit

Anytime we do something well or are excited about something specific, we want to tell people about it—it’s a natural human reaction. It’s similar to finding the right talent and filling positions quickly as they are needed. Recruiting is in many ways a sales function. Not only does your timing have to be perfect, your message relevant and your ‘product’ flawless, but you have to make use of every possible medium from which you can source the perfect candidates.

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Top 10 Most Creative Reasons for FAILED Drug Tests [2016]

HireRight

While employers may feel that passing a drug and alcohol test is a serious, necessary and vital part of on-boarding a candidate, some candidates feel otherwise. According to respondents, candidates who fail the tests may offer creative excuses for not passing. Here are a few creative excuses relayed to us. The post Top 10 Most Creative Reasons for FAILED Drug Tests [2016] appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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5 Powerful Recruiting Scripts

Top Echelon Contracting

In my previous blog post for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I presented a “Recruiter Script for Positioning Yourself as a Talent Scout.” In this blog post, I’m going to further discuss how recruiting scripts can help your business. Recruiting. The post 5 Powerful Recruiting Scripts appeared first on Top Echelon.

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How These 4 Key Changes Dramatically Improved My Hiring Process

Linkedin Talent Blog

Up and coming new business? Check. Best place to work? I think so! Great sourcing process, incredible records system (ATS) and my interviewing process was second to none. Even my onboarding was running smoothly. But something wasn’t working. I still saw people who weren’t a match for my culture. What was I missing? What did I need to ensure my hires knew what they were getting into?

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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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Great News! Your Best Performers Will Leave

Entelo

When you make hires, you do so under the belief that they’ll stick around for awhile. They’ll contribute to the culture, bring exciting new blood to the team, close deals, ship products, or write blog posts (ahem). While you want top performers to stick around for as long as possible, at a certain point you’ll need to level with the fact that most employees are not going to reach retirement still working for your company.

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Panel: Job Ads Suck with @BillBoorman + @StephenODonn

Recruiting Blogs

If I did a search for "job ads that suck," a couple articles - including quite a few from our websites would pop up. It's a fact - most job ads are very poorly written. They're some of the worst content on the internet, and that's saying a lot. . However unlike that blog from a 12 year old about One Direction or your really lame memes, there are far greater consequences to these poorly written job ads than embarrassment. .

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Video Interviewing: The Wave of The Future and Why You Should Catch It

Hiring Thing

Traditional hiring methods take 45 days on average to hire a new employee at an average cost of $1,500 — $5000 per hire depending on the type of position. With more applicants per positions this time and cost can expand quickly. Additionally, the cost of hiring the wrong candidate can. Continue reading.

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Creating a Culture of Ownership and Accountability

Glassdoor for Employers

One thing I’ve learned (the hard way) from founding a rapidly growing company is without ownership and accountability you literally cannot grow your business. In fact, without employee ownership and accountability, your business is dying. Ownership offers the freedom for employees to deliver results. It’s about them taking initiative and responsibility for their work.

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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 Long is Too Long for a Candidate to Wait?

CareerBuilder

I’ve recently re-entered the job market in search of my next career challenge. As a recruitment specialist, I might be a bit critical when it comes to a company’s careers website, social media presence and application process. What has surprised me is that — in a world of professional profiles, applicant tracking tools and smartphones — the application process can still take so much time.

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Best Jobs in 2016

NPA Worldwide

I read with interest Glassdoor.com’s listing of the Best Jobs in America. Sometimes I think there is a direct relationship between the best jobs and the most highly recruited candidates. According to Glassdoor, what makes a job the best job is the combination of compensation, demand for the skill, and advancement opportunities. Those in recruiting and HR know that hot job categories and in demand skills are multipliers when it comes to compensation.

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Inbound and Down: How Hubspot Hacked Employer Branding.

Recruiting Daily

If you work in recruiting, there’s probably a good chance that while you’ve felt the effects of public relations (which is almost always collateral damage), you don’t have any real insight into what PR does on a day to day basis. Hell, it’s rare that we even hire for PR; most of the time, this function operates with a certain degree of anonymity in any large organization, as they’re the one group that’s probably more powerful – and more enigmatic –