Thu.Nov 10, 2016

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8 Quick Tricks to Level Up Your Cold Recruiting Emails

Lever

You spent hours poring over your manager’s sourcing tips from your last 1:1, polled your friends to see which one of four recruiting emails they’d actually reply to, and even put holidays like National Cupcake Day (that’s today, by the way) on your calendar so you could have something to talk about in your LinkedIn messages. Still, your reach-outs must have an invisible “I’m not worth replying to” sign on them, because your response rate hovers at around 0%.

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Why You Should Avoid Hiring Cookie Cutter Employees

JazzHR

Don’t hire that cookie cutter employee – pleads Liz Ryan , CEO and Founder of Human Workplace. Although it is very tempting to hire the candidate that checks off every item on your list of hiring requirements, Ryan advises this could be a stagnating decision. “The only organization that would benefit from the arrival of a cookie cutter employee is one that plans to shut itself off from the world,” says Ryan.

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How to Build Your Personal Brand in 5 Minutes a Day

Social Talent

When you spend your days juggling recs, meeting with clients and hiring managers, and (we hope!) trying to offer a high-quality experience to the dozens of candidates that you are dealing with at any given time, it’s easy to put building your personal brand on the back-burner. But contrary to popular belief, building your personal brand doesn’t need to be a hugely time-consuming task for recruiters.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Include Salary Ranges In Your Job Ads

NPA Worldwide

Today, Michelle Burke from Social Talent (an NPAworldwide Endorsed Program) shares with us her 10 reasons why you should include salary ranges in your job ads. Michelle is a Content Marketing Executive at Social Talent, providing training in internet recruitment, sourcing, headhunting techniques and much more. Find more of her articles on the Social Talent Blog.

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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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A Deep Look at the Data: How Are Veterans Doing in Today’s Workforce?

Indeed

In the past few years veteran employment has been brought to the forefront of hiring conversations, in part because of Joining Forces — a national initiative that aims to provide employment, education and wellness services to U.S. military veterans. Through this program, more than 50 companies have pledged to hire more than 110,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.

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Talent acquisition: Onboard or risk man overboard

Allegis Global Solutions

Why you need to fully onboard new talent to prevent man overboard.

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Four Recruitment Trends To Watch Out For This Coming Year

Jobvite

If you’ve been following my series of recruiting articles here on Jobvite, then you’re hopefully approaching the next 12 months with a renewed optimism about the results you’ll be able to generate from social media. But what else does the recruitment industry have in store for us over the coming year? In a break from my usual social recruiting advice, today I’m sharing four trends that I think we can expect to see gather significant momentum this next year: The Rise of LiveChat in Recruiting.

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Facebook Takes Aim (and Fires) at The Recruitment Sector

Prominence

Facebook has announced its new jobs feature. To confirm, this isn’t Facebook for Work/Workplace by Facebook – it’s Facebook formally entering the jobs market. Find our what this means for you here.

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8 Ways Your Interview Totally Put That Candidate Off

Undercover Recruiter

Where job interviews are concerned, I guess candidates are sort of supposed to feel like the inferior ones who have to win over their superiors aka the interviewers. To some extent that power play is totally fine, given candidates are vying against a number of competitors to bag the role and really have to prove themselves. The trouble with this is, when a candidate.

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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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Candidates Evaluation Scorecards for Making the Best Hiring Decisions

Jobsoid

If the information required for decision making is scattered and no evaluation scorecard is used then categorizing and screening the right candidates can be a daunting task. Manual methods can take a lot of time and paper work […]. The post Candidates Evaluation Scorecards for Making the Best Hiring Decisions appeared first on Jobsoid.

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3 Common Misconceptions About Hiring Remote Developers

Stack Overflow

For a growing number of companies, remote developers have proven that the right people, equipped with the right tools can be incredibly valuable members of any software development team. However, even though the benefits of offering remote working options seem obvious to some, many companies still focus their developer hiring strategies around finding the best local tech talent.

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How Agencies Can Attract the Best Recruitment Consultants

Undercover Recruiter

Talented recruitment consultants are hard to come by. The good ones rarely leave because they are heavily incentivised to stay where they are. If they do, then often it is because they want to get out of recruitment and do something totally different. So how do you find them and how can you make your. View Article. How Agencies Can Attract the Best Recruitment Consultants.

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Breaking Bad: Making Sense of Salary Negotiation

Recruiting Daily

Salary negotiation isn't one of the hot buzzwords, even though we talk about it every day. In this podcast, we cover strategies, advice and tools to help.

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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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Four Recruitment Trends To Watch Out For This Coming Year

Jobvite

If you’ve been following my series of recruiting articles here on Jobvite, then you’re hopefully approaching the next 12 months with a renewed optimism about the results you’ll be able to generate from social media. But what else does the recruitment industry have in store for us over the coming year? In a break from my usual social recruiting advice, today I’m sharing four trends that I think we can expect to see gather significant momentum this next year: The Rise of LiveChat in Recruiting.

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Participate in the High-Impact Learning Survey!

Bersin

We are excited to announce the 2016 round of the High-Impact™ Learning Organization survey! This research will help us to create maturity and core metrics related to the experience workers have with development, digital learning, learning technology, the future of worker development, and more. Details and a link to the survey provided below. or […].

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Four Recruitment Trends To Watch Out For This Coming Year

Jobvite

If you’ve been following my series of recruiting articles here on Jobvite, then you’re hopefully approaching the next 12 months with a renewed optimism about the results you’ll be able to generate from social media. … Continued.

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Top 8 Effective Ways to Choose the Best Applicant Tracking System

Recruiting Blogs

When it comes to posting various job descriptions and candidate requirements on the job portals and social media platforms, the Recruiting Software serves the best under this category. However, every organization, big or small, needs to have a streamlined maintenance of all the applications received through these job postings. This is the very basic reason why an efficient Applicant Tracking System needs to be implemented thus helping in better processing of the applications on a comparatively

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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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3 Ways to Improve Veteran Hiring All Year Round

Yoh

A recent CareerBuilder survey revealed an interesting correlation between Veteran hiring versus actual ex-military employment. Conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Career Builder, the nationwide poll surveyed upwards of 2,500 hiring and human resource managers as well as 256 full-time employed veterans.

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Rethinking the Role of Recruiters

Recruiting Blogs

Recruiters as brand ambassadors – as opposed to salespeople - for your organization. Let’s face it. It’s a candidate-driven marketplace out there. It is more difficult than ever to attract and retain qualified employees. As a recruiter, you’re charged with filling open positions with the most qualified candidates. But there’s more to it than attracting top talent; you need to find the right match for your organization so every hire becomes a productive, engaged, long-term employee.

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22 Office Dogs Who Take Their Jobs Very Seriously

Social Talent

Human candidates are overrated. If you want a dedicated, hard-working, loyal employee, call a dog. You’ll soon see why! Happy Friday, Recruiters! 1. “I’ve always believed you should dress for the job you want.” Jack churrisisísimo con su corbata nueva “en su oficina trabajando de malcriado” como nos dijo su mamá #dog #suitup #officelook #officedog.

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All You Need to Know about Administrative Jobs and its Scope in Dubai

Recruiting Blogs

From keeping the inventory of office supplies in place to giving powerful PowerPoint presentations and organizing killer office parties, an administrative assistant has to juggle between multiple and diverse roles. Sadly, most people don’t realize just how important these people are and consider them merely as someone trying to fulfill the requirement for less important tasks.

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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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Why You Need a Veteran Recruitment Plan Now

Glassdoor for Employers

Once a year on November 11th, most of us take some time to reflect on all that our military heroes have done.

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Professional Supply Chain Training Can Improve The Knowledge Of Employees

Recruiting Blogs

Supply chain is an integral part of any business process which is very difficult to handle. Without a supply chain process a business cannot sustain too long. There are millions of small and large companies and their customers are positively depended on the supply chain management. Without a supply chain management things just cannot just go out properly.

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The Three-Step Interview Guide for Education Franchises

Hireology

Hiring for your school? Not every franchise owner actively thinks about new ways to approach the interview process. But utilizing an interview process plays a substantial role in building a successful franchise team. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case for most franchise owners. Many franchise locations are lacking a clear-cut, defined hiring process, which ends up costing them money on turnover, more time on hiring and less qualified applicants, all of which affect the bottom line.

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A Look Ahead at People Analytics 2016 / 2017: Enabling Organizational & Financial Health

Bersin

Results from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 survey showed that 32 percent of the global organizations surveyed feel “ready” or “somewhat ready” for people analytics (+8 percentage year over year).[1] Among those same organizations, 77 percent think people analytics is “important” or “very important.” While the increase in the former case may look promising, […].

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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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How to Bring Military Precision to Your Hiring Process

Recruiting Blogs

Veteran’s Day is the perfect time not only to honor our service members, but also to recognize the valuable set of traits that veterans bring to the professional world. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs outlines several coveted characteristics common among military veterans, including follow through, discipline, and work ethic. Military.com also lists 10 reasons to hire vets : Accelerated learning curve.

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3 Ways to Include Your Employees in Employer Branding

Linkedin Talent Blog

You can fill your website, job ads, and social media with talk about how great your company is and how much you value your employees. But the truth is, this won’t necessarily build your employer brand. Why? Because job seekers want authenticity. In fact, the comments we received from job seekers in our annual Talent Trends Report reveal what they are looking for: “Give me a real picture of the company’s working environment, not the usual made-in-heaven company profile.”.

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Why You Can’t Build a Global Org Without Diversity of Thought and Experience: Shopify’s Anna Lambert

Entelo

The Hiring on All Cylinders team caught up with Anna Lambert, Director of Talent Acquisition for Ottawa-based Shopify. Since she started out as an HR intern, Anna leapt up the ranks and helped Shopify go from 43 to over 1,500 employees. Anna chats with the team about how she went from interviewing for a marketing position to joining as an HR hire and how she manages an international talent acquisition team across multiple offices.