Thu.May 12, 2016

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RCSA New Zealand Gasping for Relevancy

The Whiteboard

It’s been quite a while since The Whiteboard took a look at the RCSA and the role it plays in our New Zealand recruitment industry. Almost five years in fact. Somehow, we must have become distracted by other events and goings-on and overlooked the work being done by our “… leading industry and professional body for the recruitment and the human resources services sector in Australia and New Zealand.” But then this morning I learned that things aren’t going quite s

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8 Statistics You Have to Know About Hiring and Working with Millennials

Social Talent

As more baby boomers (born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s) are retiring, the global workforce landscape is expected to slowly start changing as the millennials (born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s) start entering into the scene. It is imperative for employers to know and understand these Generation Y-ers, as millennials are expected to make up the workforce by 46% by 2020.

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5 Secrets to Boost Your Offer Acceptance Rates

Newton Software

Never Get Blindsided By an Offer Rejection Again. Due to the competitive landscape of today’s job market, finding and closing top candidates has become increasingly difficult. For this reason, when you do find the ideal candidate, you want to be certain that you do everything in your power to guarantee that they accept the position. Every employer has experienced a candidate walking out on an offer, and it hurts.

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Who Would Make a Better Recruiter: David Brent vs Michael Scott

Social Talent

It’s the ultimate showdown of the office buffoons: David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais) from the UK Office vs Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) from the US Office. Both are general managers of their respective branches for large paper distribution companies and they are both equally idiotic as each other – we love them both. But have you ever thought about which boss would make a better recruiter?

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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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All You Need To Know To Start Every Interview With A Bang

Spark Hire

There’s nothing worse than watching a promising candidate struggle during a job interview. They give rambling answers, sweat profusely, and draw one too many blanks. You just hope they can turn things around. But the truth of the matter is, the interview might be going south because it got off to a rocky start on your end. Whether it’s a gruff welcome or a confusing first question, there’s a lot that the interviewer might do to set an interviewee up for failure.

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5 Red Flags To Watch for in Your Next Candidate Interview

CareerBuilder

In Hollywood and pop culture, the rite of passage into adulthood is often characterized by a myriad of zany events. In reality, most of us face the transition when we move out from under the wings of our parents and begin to live our own sovereign lives. For me, what I remember most was a sit-down conversation I had with my father. It began with him beckoning me from my bedroom into our kitchen, where I found him sitting at one end of the table with a seat pulled away for me at the opposite end.

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Talk Like a Winner

FireFish Software

Words are an effective tool to communicate branding, culture, and identity. When well placed, they can attract the right people to your website, increasing reach, engagement, and conversion rates.

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3 ways to improve recruitment marketing with video

Workable

In today’s market, where 51% of employed workers are open to a new job despite not actively looking for one, recruitment marketing is more important than ever. In fact, companies that aren’t using marketing tactics as part of their overall recruitment strategy are missing out on the opportunity to find, attract, engage, nurture, and convert people into engaged candidates.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Pitching Like a Pro

Undercover Recruiter

No matter what industry you’re in, there will come a time when you’ll need to win some new business or impress a potential client or customer. You’ll have to rock them with a pitch that not only blows them away, but also shows that you can provide the answers to the questions they’ve been trying. View Article. A Beginner’s Guide To Pitching Like a Pro.

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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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All the best places to recruit designers

Workable

As product and technology teams become increasingly entwined, the number of professionals who identify as a ‘designer’ is on the rise. Many jobs titles include the word ‘designer’, f rom product and industrial designers to interaction and user experience. There are visual designers, graphic designers, surface pattern designers —and that’s before we’ve got started on furniture, clothes or architecture….

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Obama administration found to be illegally funding of Obamacare

Staffing Talk

" "Congress authorized reduced cost-sharing but did not appropriate monies for it", writes United States District Judge Rosemary Collyer in her ruling against the administration. "Congress is the only source for such an appropriation, and no public money can be spent without one." [.

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4 Types of Horrible Hiring Managers (and How to Find Candidates Who Can Work With Them)

Linkedin Talent Blog

While many recruiters know that people usually leave a job because of their manager and not the company, how many of us actually fold that knowledge into our day-to-day recruiting efforts? The fat is, for the candidates we find, a bad boss can overwhelm a great compensation package and killer culture, while a great boss can make them overlook the fact that a company has a bit of a brand problem.

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Hyperloop one step close to reality

Staffing Talk

" If I were younger, I'd want a job helping build the 700moh @HyperloopOne. It just had its first test run. Apparently, it will reduce that worlds-most-boring highway 5 trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles to 30 minutes.<iframe width="280" height="158" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_jAPZRbF8tI?rel=0"… [.

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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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30 Tweet Worthy Twitter Tips

Harger Howe Recruitment

Twitter is a very useful recruitment tool. As of March 31,2016, Twitter stated that there are 310 million monthly users! Another important note is that 83% of Twitter users are using the network via mobile in an increasingly mobile world. Twitter has become a highly relevant facet in peoples’ work and personal lives, so it’s essential that you stay up-to date on Twitter strategies.

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7 Gorgeous Celebrity Homes that Will Inspire You To Work Harder

Recruiting Blogs

Do you ever wonder sometimes what life is like for the rich and the famous? What do multi-millionaires burn their cash on? A good glimpse to celebrity lifestyle is their homes. Estates owned by these filthy rich celebrities are ten times larger than average kit homes. These celebrity homes cost more than what an average American will be earning his whole life.

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Why Your Intake Meeting is Broken, And How to Fix It

1-Page

It’s no secret the disconnect between hiring managers and recruiters is a hot topic in talent acquisition right now, for all the wrong reasons. As if the recruiting and hiring process didn’t have enough wild cards thrown at it, we as internal recruiters are weighing things down by messing up one of the most important elements of success – the initial intake meeting with the hiring manager.

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“The Best Kept Secret in Boolean Search” by Mark Tortoric Sourcecon Spring 2016 Part 9!!

Recruiting Blogs

So this is the 9th presentation of the conference. Titled “The Best Kept Secret in Boolean Search” by Mark Tortorici. First Thing Mark made clear that despite what some say, Boolean is far from dead and probably not going any place soon. Below are the secrets to sourcing and making a good string. . Natural language. Verbs that describe what an individual does.

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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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5 Strategies That Have Shaped Our Recruitment Firm’s Success

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Bill Benson with WilliamCharles Search Group located in Grand Rapids, MI. WilliamCharles is an executive search and professional recruiting firm specialized in finding managerial and executive talent in finance, HR, operations, sales/marketing as well as president/CEO roles. They have a concentration of clients in Michigan but they also work across the US.

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How Can You Be a Successful Freelance CV Writer?

Recruiting Blogs

In today’s world, the number of freelancers is growing at a very great speed with people looking for professionals to do some easy tasks for them online. This has led to the development of a new field of work that stretches across the globe. You can have your CV or cover letter among others written for you for a fee. image source: pixabay.com.

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How to Avoid Optimizing Your PPC Strategy to Death

Recruitics

Performance-based advertising models, such as the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) model, help talent acquisition professionals save budget dollars by allowing them to pay for their ads only when they perform. However, as we covered in a recent post, true efficiency in a PPC strategy cannot be achieved without optimization (you can read more on that here ). Optimization can take place in a number of ways, as the article linked above shows; however, there is such a thing as over-optimization–or when you

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Pimpin’ the Group

Good To Know

Well, hello there. How you doin’? Cool, cool… so here’s the thing: I have this little group, over on the Facebok, and it’s kinda cool. If you’re into the whole “talent acquisition/ HR tech sexy” kinda thing.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Driving Efficiencies in Contingent Workforce Management

Yoh

Are you confident that you are getting the best contingent workers at the best rate while maintaining the latest labor guidelines and compliance measures? It’s an intentionally loaded question because managing your contingent workforce is full of complicated checks and balances. When HR and procurement are working in unison, they can effectively manage the processes and costs.

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9 Nifty Nuggets for Nailing a Group Interview

Undercover Recruiter

It pains me to say it, but group interviews make sense. When HR resources are tight, businesses can swap the good old one-to-one method for an all-in-one approach instead. By getting all potential candidates together in one room, employers save time and manpower money. Watching applicants operate in a group setting also offers them a great insight. View Article. 9 Nifty Nuggets for Nailing a Group Interview.

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Survey: Retail Auto Dealers Struggle with a Broken Hiring Process

Hireology

Each year, retail auto dealers spend more than $512 million to hire new people. But is that money being invested wisely? A new Hireology and DrivingSales HR Practices survey reveals that the hiring process is broken. According to the survey, dealers are wrestling with major challenges in their hiring practices, including the quality of their hires. No wonder: the survey also shows that dealers are not giving hiring managers any consistent tools and processes to work with.

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How to Jumpstart Your Inbound Recruiting

Entelo

To a certain degree, every company has inbound recruiting. The shame is that not every company has a coherent inbound recruiting strategy. It may sound counterintuitive at first, but inbound recruiting can help you make better, more efficient and effective hires at every level of your company. Inbound recruiting, in short, can be defined as drawing in applicants – but there’s much more method to that madness.

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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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Which Industries Have the Best Benefits?

Glassdoor for Employers

How competitive is your industry when it comes to benefits, and where does your company stack up? According to a recent Glassdoor survey , three in five people consider benefits and perks among their top considerations before applying for a job. As your company competes for top talent and aims to present a competitive package to candidates, is your benefits package up to par?

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5 Steps to Creating an Effective HR Business Plan

RecruitLoop

It is essential to have an effective Human Resources (HR) business plan in place. Use these five steps to help you secure the success of your business.

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2016 iTalent Competition: Recruiting and HR Technology Startups That Don’t Suck (Seriously).

Recruiting Daily

You know you’re getting old when you’re spending your third year in a row hosting a competition for HR technology startups, and even that’s only a fraction of the time I’ve spent watching this once glacial space emerge from a backwater into the sexiest category in startups today, save healthcare. Although both industries do feature geriatric end users, it’s interesting that while life has always been a lucrative business. the work part is just now becoming the next darling of capitalists,