Wed.Jul 01, 2020

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Great recruiter. Great bloke. Great shame.

Greg Savage

Duncan Cunningham died nine years ago this month An excellent recruiter, a great bloke and a loyal friend. As we bemoan our fate during COVID I can’t help but remember this kind, generous man who left his family before he reached the age of 40, and no doubt would have tackled this time with the […].

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Labor Statistics and the Future of the Gig Economy

Allegis Global Solutions

April saw a job loss of historic proportions in the US. The May jobs report brought a surprise turnaround. What does that mean for the future of work?

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How to Screen Candidates Over Video

FireFish Software

For the most part, lockdown has been really tough on the recruitment industry, but there’s one real positive that’s come out of it: Video screening candidates has become the standard.

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15 Jobs You Can Do From Home—or Anywhere You Choose

The Muse

These jobs give you the flexibility you need to work from home, whether you’re a parent or caregiver, have a disability or chronic illness, or just want to make your own schedule.

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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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Who Are Your 'Friends'? Inclusive Leadership Starts With Your Social Circles

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

How can we expect to show up and be inclusive leaders in our workplaces if we live the majority of our lives in communities surrounded by people who only look like us?

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A Brief Guide to Letting Black Entrepreneurs Be Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

If you want to make the business world more inclusive and equitable, stop seeing Black founders as a cause worth supporting and start viewing them as the innovators and difference-makers they already are.

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Job Scam or Legit Opportunity? 5 Red Flags to Look Out For

Recruiter

According to a report from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), job scams were the riskiest scams facing consumers in 2019. The BBB assesses scam risk along three dimensions: how prevalent a scam is, how likely consumers are to lose money to a scam, and the average amount of money lost to a scam. Along those lines, the BBB.

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Key IR35 Considerations for April 2021

Allegis Global Solutions

In 2000, the UK government put into effect the IR35 tax legislation – officially known as the Intermediaries Legislation – to stop contract workers from running their payments through limited companies or partnerships to avoid paying income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs.).

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5 Ways To Improve Employee Development

McQuiag

What does it take to build a strong employee development program? These days, many companies offer some sort of employee development to their staff but not all programs are created equal. Some companies view development as just one of those things they have to do every now and then. A box to be checked on your way to your annual review. But companies who invest in development as a way to drive new ideas and new innovation within their ranks see a very different impact of providing these sorts of

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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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Why you need stories in employer branding right now

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 6 minutes. At Stories Inc, we are often asked why we focus so intently on stories in employer branding. Uncovering compelling employee stories and bringing those stories to life in engaging content may seem to be a narrow concentration of expertise. However, the impact of stories in employer branding and recruitment marketing reveals why stories are our vocation and passion.

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4 Insanely Effective Tips to Improve Your Lead Conversion Funnel

Lusha

We often think of our lead conversion funnel as some kind of impenetrable fortress; after all, once leads are in, how could they ever think of slipping away? In reality, it’s more like the pipes under your kitchen sink. Even the best plumbing jobs can spring leaks—and if it goes ignored long enough, it floods your entire home… A lead conversion funnel has four stages: awareness, interest, consideration, and action.

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Making the Most of Working from Home

BlueWave Resource Partners

By now, a majority of companies have moved from working in the office to working from home to stay safe during the pandemic. Since remote life might be more of a long-term situation, it’s time to make yourself comfy in your home office! Set up a dedicated office space. Work with what you’ve got! You don’t have to build out a spacious area for work (but if you have that luxury, then go for it!).

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My Best Diversity Custom Search Engine

Boolean Strings

From my tests, this Diversity CSE performs better than any other I authored, but please try it and let me know, OK? Like any other CSE, it needs to be tested using diverse searches to see how well it works. This Custom Search Engine – [link] – reliably searches for several types of Diversity implemented as refinements on top of LinkedIn X-Ray: The CSE also provides image search for the same refinements, allowing you to verify whether your search was successful visually.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Talent Pipeline in a Post-Covid World

Recruiting Daily

Over the past two months, the Covid-19 pandemic has compelled organizations to reassess their business priorities. Survival strategies have replaced conversations around growth and diversification. When the world is still coming to grips with the impact of the pandemic, it might be contentious to begin discussing talent acquisition. However, given the current situation, business resilience, […].

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A Leadership Awakening Is Underway

The Staffing Stream

I read something this week about 2020 being the year of “2020 Vision” and that phrase stuck with me. 2020 has certainly been the year we did not see coming. That much is clear. But now that it is here and we are in the middle of it, literally at the halfway point: What have we learned and what are we learning? The reason the term “2020 Vision” made an impression on me is that it feels like we are starting to see clearly for the first time in a long time.

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High volume recruiting: 11 best practices to ace the campaign

Rakuna.Co

Having a lot of positions to fill? Here’s everything you need to know about high volume recruiting, from the basics to the best practices.

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This Scientist Found Meaning by Pivoting to a Teaching Career

The Muse

Joey Patterson, a science and math teacher at Success Academy in New York City, left his research job and found a fulfilling career teaching children.

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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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4 Tips to Easily Improve Your Lead Conversion Funnel

Lusha

We often like to think of our lead conversion funnel as an impenetrable fortress; after all, once leads are in, how could they ever slip away? In reality, it’s more like the pipes under your kitchen sink. Even the best plumbing jobs can sometimes spring a leak—and if it goes ignored long enough, it can damage your entire home. A lead conversion funnel has four stages: awareness, interest, consideration, and action.

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5 Examples of Employee Training and Development Programs

TalentLyft

How to make your training and development programs stand out from the pack? Learn from the top companies with innovative learning and development programs! Discover how L&D programs look like in Amazon, AT&T, SAS, Etsy and Pilot Flying J.

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Avionté RAW: Real Analytics Weekly – Week 25

Avionte

Week 25 continued a positive Assignment and Hours growth rate. Week 25 continued a positive Assignment and Hours growth rate but showed an interesting decline (albeit slight) decline in Gross and Total Bill. I am still concerned about a fundamental recession, particularly spurred by a pronounced second wave. However, at this time – almost every number we look at shows strengthening.

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Three steps to creating an actionable response to Black Lives Matter

career.place

“We want to draft an actionable statement in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, but we can’t seem to agree on what to say or what to do. Do you have any advice?”. This was a question I recently received, and I love it. With so many organizations issuing statements that have nothing behind them – no actions, no organization support, no intent.

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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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3 Networking Opportunities to Help Your SMB Grow These Days

Lusha

Networking has always been an important business skill. Knowing the right people can help you connect with the perfect business partner, secure Grade-A talent to work for your company, and win meetings with top industry professionals. But networking has never been as crucial as it is right now. As the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, your ability to network can help your SMB stay afloat during this difficult time and better prepare it for future success.

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Three steps to creating an actionable response to Black Lives Matter

career.place

“We want to draft an actionable statement in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, but we can’t seem to agree on what to say or what to do. Do you have any advice?”. This was a question I recently received, and I love it. With so many organizations issuing statements that have nothing behind them – no actions, no organization support, no intent.

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Three Strategies For Fighting Systemic Racism In The Modern Workforce

Forbes Human Resources Council

Companies and employees need to engage at the community level if they want true diversity.

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What Makes the Cisco Employer Brand Team So Successful?

Rally Recruitment Marketing

The Employer Brand team at Cisco is doing something very right when it comes to their Recruitment Marketing strategy! At the 2020 Rally Awards , the Cisco team took home no fewer than 4 first-place awards in the following categories: Best Careers Blog. Best Employer Brand Video. Best Use of Organic Social Media. Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign. To learn Cisco’s secret sauce to employer branding and Recruitment Marketing success, the Rally team interviewed Carmen Collins, 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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NAS Webinar: Five Ways to Improve Your Career Site

Nas Recruitment

Your career site should be the focal point for your recruitment marketing strategy – the place where you drive all candidates, let them view your jobs and tell them your story. Join Matt Adam, EVP and Chief Talent Strategist, and Jennifer Henley, VP of Client Services, for a 30-minute session that will help you understand what job seekers are looking for – and where your site might fall short.

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Effectively finding a perfect brand name for your organization

Recruiting Blogs

The reputation of any organization is a consequence of the hard work and the dedication of the employees that are being involved in the daily tasks for the smooth functioning of the company. However, brand naming is as well considered as the most prominent contributing factor for the development of any organization. In this advanced era, there is a myriad of service providers and online tools available that assist the companies to find a business name effectively.

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How Can a Global Crisis Benefit Remote Work Culture?

Namely - Talent

“There’s no place like home.”. We’ve all heard the cliché, but people in today’s world actually seem to mean it. Whether they work remotely or love to shop online from the comfort of their own couch rather than in store, people embrace the sentiment more now than ever before.

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