Thu.Jul 25, 2019

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The 2019 Mid-Summer Recruitment Roundup

Harger Howe Recruitment

July is a dead time historically for recruitment, but it doesn’t seem to be that way for hiring-based news! Big things are coming down the road for some major social engines and we are going to break them down for you, quick and dirty.

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The Case for Creating a Great Candidate Experience

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

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The Costly Impact of Bad Hires on the Talent Acquisition Process

Spark Hire

As a talent acquisition professional, you are well aware of how costly the hiring process is for your company — both in time and money. Filling an empty role has the potential to create stress on your team, leading to a downturn in productivity. So starting the entire process over due to a bad hire is just not in the cards. . But it happens. Everyone has made the not-so-perfect hire at least once.

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Guest Post: 3 Common Labor Law Compliance Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

JazzHR

Guest post by Katie McBeth, Copywriter, TSheets by Quickbooks. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is often misunderstood. It can be easy to get confused by legal jargon or misinterpret the definition of an employee’s status and, therefore, fall short of providing accurate wages to workers. Luckily, knowledge is power, and the better you understand FLSA regulations , the less likely you’ll fall into compliance traps.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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An Age-Old Argument

The Whiteboard

This week, Google agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $11m for alleged age discrimination. For the circa 200 job seekers involved in the action, that’s a staggering $50k+ each, all without ever having to work a day at the tech-giant. Google, of course, denied the claim, stating that the candidates simply lacked the “technical prowess” to work at Google.

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Startup vs. Giant: Tech Workers Weigh in on Company Size

Indeed

With unemployment near a record low and tech workers in particularly high demand , this group has lots of options when it comes to choosing a job. One major consideration is company size: Should they work for a smaller startup or a tech titan? When we think of the tech world, we often think of it as binary: composed of tiny incubators hoping their idea is the next big thing, on the one hand, and behemoth corporations with a city-sized campus on the other.

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Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread

Workable

Some people call it a corporate retreat. Others call it a company gathering. Still others call it an all-hands. Workable CEO Nikos Moraitakis calls his company’s own tradition of the company retreat simply as “the summit”. It was an idea that took form over time, he explains, and grew into something more. Something with energy and purpose of its own.

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3 Things Developers Told Us About What Makes a Great Job Listing

Stack Overflow

At Stack Overflow it’s our mission to match great employers and developers looking for new opportunities. However, our mission doesn’t end with providing smart targeting to show job listings only to the developers with the relevant skill set. We also help companies to better understand their audience and draft job listings that resonate. To be able to do this, we commit to continuous research into which job listings perform best.

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Wish Improves Hiring Process by 96%

HackerRank

Wish is a mobile e-commerce platform that streamlines the transaction process between buyers and sellers. Their mission is to provide everyone access to the most affordable and convenient shopping experience on the planet. Wish supports 500,000 merchant partners as well as over 300 million users. Wish needed to quickly scale their engineering organization to support their success.

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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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How To Live And Work With An Abundance Mindset

Forbes Human Resources Council

An abundance mindset will have a direct and positive impact on the success and results you experience in business and in life.

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10 Activities to Improve Communication and Collaboration Today

Recruiter

We put so much emphasis on hiring the right people for the job, but we often overlook two important components of any new employee's success once they're in the role: collaboration and communication. Eighty-six percent of employees pinpoint a lack of collaboration and ineffective communication as the key causes of workplace failures. Fortunately, such failures are not inevitable.

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5 Reasons Why Inboarding Matters As Much As Onboarding

Harver

How to keep your employees engaged and your organization productive? Invest in inboarding and provide your workforce with everyday learning experiences!

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The World Is Flat, But International Recruiting Is Still a Bumpy Road

Recruiter

Thanks to globalization, living, studying, and working overseas have become nearly frictionless for many. Ambitious, goal-oriented professionals now have the opportunity to gain exposure on the international stages of their respective fields. Meanwhile, more and more business are looking to break free from geographical constraints and tap into international talent pools.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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The Quick Guide to Recognition in the Healthcare Industry

Achievers - Recruiting

Are you eager to improve employee engagement in the healthcare industry? Lauren Brittingham , Director of Organizational Development at Bayhealth Medical Center, has some words of advice. In our recent webinar covering employee recognition best practices, Brittingham reveals how she was able to successfully drive recognition across Bayhealth Medical Center, with 85 percent of all employees receiving at least one recognition each month.

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Reducing Fear And Loathing Of AI In The Workplace

Forbes Human Resources Council

The path to reducing fear and loathing of AI in the workplace is through demystification, change management, action and education.

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How to Create Job Postings That Stand Out

Hospital Recruiting

Vitaliy Vodolazskyy/123RF.com. In a good talent market, it’s important to boost your institution’s brand and show prospective hires why they should beat a path to your door. In today’s excruciatingly tight talent market, it’s absolutely mandatory. The race for qualified applicants is fierce, and your competitors are using every advantage they can: so should you.

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Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread

Workable

Some people call it a corporate retreat. Others call it a company gathering. Still others call it an all-hands. Workable CEO Nikos Moraitakis calls his company’s own tradition of the company retreat simply as “the summit”. It was an idea that took form over time, he explains, and grew into something more. Something with energy and purpose of its own.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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A Lesson in Employer Brand Authenticity Inspired by the U.S. Soccer Federation

exaqueo

The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) has been the governing body of soccer in the United States for more than 100 years. It’s also an employer. As an organization, it has done amazing things to promote the sport and build interest in a country of spectators more often focused on football and baseball. Yet, as an employer, it’s been faced with an existential crisis over fair pay for its senior men’s and women’s national teams.

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Production Worker job description

Workable

Use this production worker job description template to advertise your vacancies and find the best hire for your warehouse or factory. Feel free to modify requirements and responsibilities based on your specific needs. What is a production worker? A production worker helps with the proper functioning of assembly lines in factories and warehouses. On a daily basis, they’re responsible for all the production processes, for example they operate machinery and assemble equipment parts.

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The 50 Most Used Adverbs in Job Descriptions (and which ones you should delete)

Ongig

A talent leader asked me when she should use adverbs in writing job descriptions. It turns out using too many adverbs in your job descriptions reduces your apply rate (more on that below). Reminder on the definition of adverbs: adverbs are intensifier words that give greater definition to an adjective, verb or other adverb. Most adverbs end in “ly” such as highly and preferably but about 32% of adverbs do not end in “ly”, such as not , well and also.

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6 Tactics LinkedIn’s Product Team Used to Cut Its Time to Hire in Half

Linkedin Talent Blog

A year ago, the hiring process for LinkedIn’s Product team was, well, suboptimal. Feedback from interviewers was sporadic. Candidates had anywhere from one to 12 interviews, with an average of eight onsite. And the average time to “approved for hire” was 83 days. To fix this, Ryan Rolansky , the SVP of Product, brought in Amy Schultz as the new head of recruiting for his team.

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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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Data-Driven Early Talent and University Recruiting

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the eigth episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. Working with Universities to identify and hire early talent has been an integral part of the recruiting process for many companies.

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5 Pieces of Job Advice for New Grads - What I Wish I'd Known

PowerToFly

Dear Recent College Grad, Maybe you've just started your first real full-time job. Or maybe you're off taking an obligatory backpacking trip in some remote corner of the world, convinced that the month between now and your start date will last an eternity. Or perhaps you're still searching for a job and feeling a bit jealous of your classmates that have already been hired.

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Growing Your Staff? Try Remarketing to Old Applicants First

CareerPlug

Learn how to start with candidate pool immediately when you rehire for a position. The post Growing Your Staff? Try Remarketing to Old Applicants First appeared first on CareerPlug.

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8 Ways to Land a Job You Love

Recruiting Blogs

8 Ways to Land a Job You Love. Every professional has the ability to land their dream job, however, this is not the result of random happenstance and rather the result of intentional and strategic efforts in pursuit of a position they truly desire. So why do so many professionals, especially young professionals, struggle to land their dream job? The answer is a lack of ambition and patience.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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SCP Hot Jobs

SilverChair Partners

1. Executive Assistant to support the CEO of a global advisory-focused investment bank. $120-150K plus bonus and benefits. 2. Executive/Personal Assistant to support the CEO at a rapidly growing financial tech firm. $130-140K DOE plus bonus, benefits, and equity. Great projects in this role! 3. Personal Assistant to a successful, entrepreneurial CEO. $100-150K DOE plus bonus and benefits.

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Lost your job? 4 tips to help you bounce back

Key Resource Group

“Our jobs are much more than just the way we make a living. They influence how we see ourselves, as well as the way others see us. They give us structure, purpose, and meaning.” – HelpGuide. Embarrassed, worthless, and depressed are just a few of the damaging emotions that come along with getting fired. Although this is never an easy thing for anyone to deal with, you must continue to move forward!

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We Met Leaders of Two Fast-Growing Companies in NYC

PowerToFly

PowerToFly was excited to host an evening of "cocktails and conversations" on July 17th that highlighted two fast-growing, New York-based companies. Hosted at the gorgeous AWS Loft , located at 350 W. Broadway in the heart of NYC, and moderated PowerToFly's Lauren Hagerty , by our guests braved sweltering city heat for a night of networking with the teams from 2U , who are changing the way we approach education, and Plectica , creators of cutting edge visual mapping software.

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