Wed.Apr 06, 2016

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23 Industry & Candidate Insights Every Tech Recruiter NEEDS to Know

Social Talent

In January 2016, Stack Overflow (one of the biggest online platforms where tech professionals can ask and answer questions of each other regarding all aspects of programming), undertook the most comprehensive developer survey ever conducted. They asked over 56,000 coders in 173 countries to share who they are, where they work, what they build, what they look for in a job and their favourite technologies.

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7 Ways to Make a Great Impression With Your Candidates

RecruitLoop

It’s critical for recruiters to make a great impression with their candidates – that is, of course, if they want their candidates to remain loyal and to not run straight into the arms of their competitors.

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How to Include Hard and Soft Skills in Your Resume

Undercover Recruiter

Through your education and work experiences, you’ve collected quite a bit of know how. Whether it be learning specific programs or tools for your industry or learning how to be more adaptable in the workplace, you want to make sure your resume reflects your skill set. When it comes to applying for jobs, skills are. View Article. How to Include Hard and Soft Skills in Your Resume.

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Crafting a Shrewder College Recruiting Strategy With Emsi Data

CareerBuilder

EMC, a global leader in enabling business and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS), currently employs 60,000 people in 86 countries around the world. Prior to fall of 2014, EMC was sending its recruiters to 125 different schools to recruit college students — a logistical nightmare that left recruiters complaining about terrible events where they couldn’t find the talent EMC needed.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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10 Trends to Help Clean Up your Job Search

Yoh

We all get into a rut from time to time; especially when it comes to finding a new job. Whether it’s been awhile since conducting your last job search or if you are currently looking but coming up empty-handed, it’s never a bad idea to hit the reset button.

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Qualified job candidates per hire: recruiting metrics that matter

Workable

How and what we need to measure in recruiting remains an active discussion. While there is plenty of data on offer from key recruitment metrics, interpreting that data in a way that will improve your hiring process is complicated. Following the release of Workable’s new Reporting Center we’re taking an in-depth look at the four key performance indicators (KPIs) we think are worth tracking in recruiting.

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Join Us at Jobvite Summit ’16 in San Francisco May 17-18, 2016

Jobvite

Jobvite Summit ’16 is only six weeks away and we are gearing up for our annual user conference gathering May 17-18 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in beautiful downtown San Francisco. This year’s theme is all about “Recruiting Reimagined.” In today’s fiercely competitive talent market, the companies that recruit successfully are the ones that constantly find ways to innovate, optimize, and stand out from the crowd.

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Why Small Businesses Are Increasing Educational Requirements for Employees

CareerBuilder

When it comes to hiring talent for your small business, are you more particular about their educational background than you used to be? If your answer is “yes,” you aren’t alone. According to recent CareerBuilder research, more than 1 in 4 small business employers (26 percent) say they have increased their educational requirements for jobs over the last five years.

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Join Us at Jobvite Summit ’16 in San Francisco May 17-18, 2016

Jobvite

Jobvite Summit ’16 is only six weeks away and we are gearing up for our annual user conference gathering May 17-18 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in beautiful downtown San Francisco. This year’s theme is all about “Recruiting Reimagined.” In today’s fiercely competitive talent market, the companies that recruit successfully are the ones that constantly find ways to innovate, optimize, and stand out from the crowd.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Hacker for hire market is booming

Staffing Talk

" From the WSJ:Intelligence analysts found that business is booming in underground markets for Russian and other hackers, according to a new report released Tuesday by security firm Dell SecureWorks Inc.Malware, which includes viruses and other software intended to disrupt computer users, is becoming much cheaper… [.

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Join Us at Jobvite Summit ’16 in San Francisco May 17-18, 2016

Jobvite

Jobvite Summit ’16 is only six weeks away and we are gearing up for our annual user conference gathering May 17-18 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in beautiful downtown San Francisco. This year’s theme … Continued.

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A decentralized 'freelance exchange'

Staffing Talk

" The idea of a decentralized freelance exchange is compelling for those of us who tire of LinkedIn spam and find Upwork slow, expensive and increasingly unhelpful.Imagine candidates maintain exclusive control over their profiles and profit monetarily from sharing its data. Imagine employers and sales people… [.

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How to Calculate the ROI of Hiring Better People

Linkedin Talent Blog

Are the people you’re attracting and hiring representative of the best people in the field? . If your answer to this question is “no,” then increasing your hiring efficiency should hardly be a priority for you. Instead, your top concern should be figuring out how to hire the best people in the field. . Ultimately, hiring the best is worth accolades from the CEO and every hiring manager who works with these stronger people.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Happy 4th: What makes America Great video

Staffing Talk

" I find these PragerU videos compelling. The one below, by an Australian, about what makes America great is no exception. Interestingly, what he says about our country's unique embrace of freedom, including the freedom to fail, is especially true about the staffing industry.Happy 4th to all you staffing professionals… [.

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6 Steps to the Perfect LinkedIn Profile Summary [for Recruiters]

Linkedin Talent Blog

You already have the perfect photo and headline on your LinkedIn profile. Together, they lure candidates to click and scroll down to your summary. Now you have about five seconds to keep them on the page. Your summary can be the difference between a candidate responding to your InMail – and not. But writing a good summary can be hard. Usually anything worth reading takes some blood, sweat and tears to write.

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A peer to peer solution to our employee insurance mess (video)

Staffing Talk

" The workers compensation system has been rife with problems almost since its inception. Employers whopay into it, employees who rely on it, analysts who look at it, and scholars who study it all have a long list of complaints about how it does not work. It is a heavily bureaucratic, adversarial system that shortchanges… [.

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The Dynamic Duo in Recruiting: Prep and Debrief

Top Echelon Contracting

When you read the title of this blog post about the “Dynamic Duo,” you may have thought of Batman v Superman. I’m referring to another dynamic duo—the prep and debrief. If you don’t know your stats and ratios, it’s impossible to. The post The Dynamic Duo in Recruiting: Prep and Debrief appeared first on Top Echelon.

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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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Employee Retention- 4 Ways to Reduce Turnover

Recruiting Blogs

Now that your organization has decided that part of the hiring process should include a retention practice, leadership has taken a big step towards building a strong employer brand. The first part of the process is addressing potential concerns before they become an issue that impacts employee retention. This can be achieved by not just hiring better-performing candidates, but making your organization the one that employees want to stay with.

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The Dynamic Duo in Recruiting: Prep and Debrief

Top Echelon Contracting

When you read the title of this blog post about the “Dynamic Duo,” you may have thought of Batman v Superman. I’m referring to another dynamic duo—the prep and debrief. If you don’t know your stats and ratios, it’s impossible to. The post The Dynamic Duo in Recruiting: Prep and Debrief appeared first on Top Echelon.

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What you need to know to perfect your headhunt.

Recruiting Blogs

The pitch. . Once you get a “yes it’s a good time to talk” or they say no and you arrange another more convenient time, that’s the time to Pitch. . As this is one of the more interesting parts of the process, a lot of recruiters get over enthusiastic and just jump into making the headhunt calls and wing it, wrong! If you look at what percentage of time is taken making these vitally important calls, and weigh up the importance level of this part of the headhunt you’ll then understand why you sh

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Why Goal Setting Should Be a Key Part of Your Company Culture

Applicant Manager

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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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Some Top Executive Search Firms You Need to Know

Recruiting Blogs

Is your company headquartered in Silicon Valley and you are looking for the best recruiter company to provide you with suitable workers? You are not to search further as this blog is designed to intimate you on some Top Executive Search Firms you need to know. There are many of them out there but the problem is to know the one that will be ready to sacrifice time, skill, talent and even energy in order to render best and most superior service to you.

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A Hiring Manager's Guide to Fighting Through the Fluff

Glassdoor for Employers

During my annual spring cleaning, I stumbled upon a letter I wrote to Santa years ago. It was a doozy. Unlike most kids, I didn’t jump right to the point with the gift requests. Instead, I led off with three paragraphs detailing all the do-good-ery I had performed over the past year. Essentially, I wrote my own puff piece. I laugh now, but as a recruiter, I couldn’t help but note the resemblance of my letter to the referral letters I read daily.

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Employer Branding: Fad or Future? The Expert Review

Beamery

Branding building has been part and parcel of the marketing process for years. Nowadays though, the way we market our companies to candidates is becoming increasingly important. Long gone are the days of top talent beating a path to our door, nowadays the onus is on earning the best candidates’ attention. Job applications are starting to receive the same scrutiny as any other purchasing decision.

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Register for the Recruitment Marketing Masterclass

Workable

Workable Ideas , a new HR and recruitment speaker series, returns on April 26 with the Recruitment Marketing Masterclass. Join speakers from Amtrak , Clover Food Lab , Wistia , Vitamin T , Maxwell Health , and EverTrue to learn what’s different about today’s job seekers, how to make the most out of your recruiting spend, and how to build an attractive and competitive employer brand.

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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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Recruitment Software Q&A [Expert Insider Series]

WebRecruit

Are you interested in learning how software can help your recruitment process? Or perhaps you’ve already started your search for the perfect Applicant Tracking System (ATS)? For the final edition of our four-part Expert Insider Series, we caught up with Webrecruit’s Implementation Manager, Jon Tune, to talk about his role, the common queries he gets asked and why you should consider investing in an ATS. 1.

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Independent Contractors: What HR Needs to Know About Compliance

ApplicantPro

2016 is shaping up to be the year of the independent contractor as IC numbers continue to soar. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, now that employers are fully realizing the value in working with 1099 workers. There is an opportunity for both ICs and employers to benefit from working together. ICs remain in control of their work flexibility while employers gain access to the much-needed talent without the need to hire for a position.

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Recruit Your Tribe: How to Hire for Culture Fit

Brazen Recruiting

One of the most important tools you have as a hiring manager is writing job posts that communicate your company culture. If done well, you can appeal to your tribe while weeding out the rest. You sit in the driver’s seat; use these expert tips when writing job posts and watch as you build a tribe that changes the world. Wait, why do I want to hire a tribe?

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