Thu.Sep 29, 2016

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Cutting Drug Deals with Recruitment Deals

The Whiteboard

Rumours have been swirling around Auckland’s recruitment community this week after a story emerged in the Herald at the weekend about a cocaine sting at a hairdressers in Newmarket. It appears as if the hairdresser, a fashion designer, and a patched gang member have been using the business as a conduit to supply cocaine. The bit that really got tongues wagging across our industry (which is so unlike us recruiters!

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3 Key Takeaways from the 2016 NADA Dealership Workforce Study

Hireology

The results are in: According to the 2016 NADA Dealership Workforce Study, the retail automotive industry had a monumental 2015. Dealers from coast-to-coast saw overarching trends of long term growth: vehicle sales, transaction prices, and rooftop employment numbers leading to more profitable businesses. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

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What Does an A+ Recruiter Look Like?

FireFish Software

We all know that recruiters have a bad reputation. Candidates often complain, feeling as though they’re treated like commodities, and clients often argue that recruiters don’t take the time to listen to what they need from a new hire. But do recruiters get a fair shake?

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What You Missed at the 2016 Contingent Workforce Strategies Summit

Yoh

Just back from Staffing Industry Analysts’ (SIA) always enlightening Contingent Workforce Summit (CWS) in sunny Las Vegas. Apart from the occasional surprise Elvis sighting, the summit was as expected; a great chance to talk to close to 300 companies about how to best navigate the challenges of today’s workforce.

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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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Digital Interviewing 101: The Most Popular Questions Today

ConveyIQ

Part 1: The Basics Q: Why would recruiting teams consider interviewing differently? A: It’s a candidate-driven world out there and the Internet makes it easier for candidates to find you. It’s also easier for candidates to find your competitors. Hiring teams that are able to screen the most candidates the fastest and proceed to identify […]. The post Digital Interviewing 101: The Most Popular Questions Today appeared first on Take the Interview.

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Split Story: Stepping Outside of Your Specialty or Reach

NPA Worldwide

Making split placements outside of your specialized niche or industry is a strategic business move that can add significant revenue and help attract multinational clients. So why is everyone not doing it? Stepping outside of your comfort zone is scary. It is often intimidating putting yourself out there when you are unsure of who and what you will encounter.

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What’s Coffee Got to Do With Recruitment? Everything

Undercover Recruiter

Coffee-holics unite in agreement that every day should be National Coffee Day. The great news is, for many, today is really is! The majority of businesses rely heavily on both the caffeinated and social perks of coffee. In fact, our internal research suggests 73.4 percent of employees drink coffee, making it much more popular than. View Article. What’s Coffee Got to Do With Recruitment?

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Workers with Side Hustles Are an Asset to your Business

CareerBuilder

As a human resources professional or a manager within your company, it can be very easy to be skeptical of employees who have jobs outside of their full-time positions at your office. You might think: What are their motivations? Are they not satisfied working here? What if they like their other job better? Rest assured, 71 percent of workers with a side gig say they do not want it to replace their full-time position, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

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The “What, Why & How” of Employee Engagement

JWT Inside

Employee engagement is a critical part of an organization’s success. But what is employee engagement? Why does it matter? And more importantly, how is it achieved? Employee engagement is an approach to company culture where employees are actively committed to putting forth their best efforts at work; are aligned with the organization’s values and goals; and are motivated to contribute to its success.

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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 Your Tech Job Listings Aren't Attracting the Right Candidates

Stack Overflow

How exciting is it to see that your inbox is suddenly overflowing with applicants to an urgent technical opening? I still have vivid memories of diving into large piles of applications with high expectations, only to find that nobody was qualified for the job. As challenging as it is to write tech job listings that make developers want to work for you, it’s even more important to write copy that grabs the attention of the right candidates.

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4 Unexpected Places Where You Might Find Your Next Hire

Linkedin Talent Blog

When it comes to a recruiting strategy, the immediate direction companies turn to is job board advertisements, connecting with others via LinkedIn and talking to institutions like universities in the community. And while that might be all your company needs to build a team, a little creativity to spice up your recruiting game is always worth considering – especially when competition is only getting tougher.

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Invisible L&D

Bersin

Our jobs as L&D professionals was easier 10 years ago. Information flowed from the top of the organization to the bottom. Managers and facilitators had the most information, which they then imparted to employees like benevolent overlords. But that is no longer true. Technology and frustratingly self-sufficient learners often means that employees know more than […].

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Are You a LinkedIn Recruiter Pro or Novice? [QUIZ]

Linkedin Talent Blog

As a recruitment professional, you've gotten familiar with LinkedIn Recruiter. But, do you really know how much you do (or don't) know about the tool? In 2013, the LinkedIn Certified Professional-Recruiter exam was launched to help talent acquisition professionals like you become credible experts in Recruiter , stand out on the network, and advance your career.

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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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Workers with Side Hustles Are an Asset to your Business

CareerBuilder

As a human resources professional or a manager within your company, it can be very easy to be skeptical of employees who have jobs outside of their full-time positions at your office. You might think: What are their motivations? Are they not satisfied working here? What if they like their other job better? Rest assured, 71 percent of workers with a side gig say they do not want it to replace their full-time position, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

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Things you need to know about the career that you choose

Recruiting Blogs

There are many life changing decisions that you will have to make and if you make a right decision, you will not go wrong in life. Before making any decision, you should have an idea about who you really are and you have to know your interests and passions. When have a proper idea about the previously stated factors, making decisions that are the best for you will not be a problem.

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6 Steps to Using Workforce Analytics in Your Recruitment Strategy

CareerBuilder

Workforce analytics plays a crucial role in helping you find the right people at the right time. The truth is, you’re likely sitting on piles of big data, but that data is worthless if it’s not accurate and applicable to your organization’s specific needs. To stay competitive in today’s rapidly evolving labor market, you need to get creative in the way you recruit candidates, and that involves finding and applying workforce analytics in new ways.

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How Recruiters Can Utilize Linkedin as a Search Engine

Harger Howe Recruitment

A few days ago, we came across an article called, The new search engine that could give Google a run for its money. This article by John Nemo brought up a great point; LinkedIn is an untapped, search-based resource. Here are some of the ideas Nemo mentioned that recruiters can use to harness the power of LinkedIn as a search engine. Content Search. As Nemo noted in his article , LinkedIn recently started allowing users to search feeds.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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3 Essential Elements for Hiring Recruiting Winners

Top Echelon Contracting

A company is known by the people it keeps.

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15 Of The Craziest Things Employees Have Said To Bosses

Social Talent

You might have read our blog post a few weeks back on 15 Wildly Inappropriate Things Bosses Have Said To Employees. This week we decided to turn the tables and find the craziest things employees have said to bosses! We found these golden quotes in the ‘ What is the craziest thing you have ever said to your boss, with or without getting fired? ‘ thread on Quora and picked our favourite 15.

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Why Leadership Coaching is a MUST

Undercover Recruiter

Employee disengagement – is it continuing to take over the American workplace? It is according to a 2016 Gallup study that points to 67 percent of employees lacking enthusiasm for their job, not feeling committed to their employer. This is a problem for employers, considering the high cost of turnover and recruitment. Companies invest in all kinds.

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5 Reasons Why You Need To Be Recruiting From The Cloud

Spark Hire

As we all know, recruitment is a competitive game. At any given time there are a limited number of vacancies and promising job seekers, while the number of recruiters competing for them is only on the up. When it comes to getting ahead and staying ahead, cloud-based recruitment systems are the best solution. Agency and in-house recruiters who are not supported by a high-powered, cloud-based RMS risk taking the long way around every task – from completing time-consuming admin to securing to

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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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eBook: How Hireology Can Save Your Franchise Time & Money

Hireology

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Employee Engagement: A Critical Part Of Your Employer Re-Branding Strategy

Jibe

Attracting and hiring the best possible talent is the goal for every recruiting team. But in 2016, this objective is harder than ever before. With the power shifting from employer to candidate, companies have to do more in order to get in front of job seekers. One of the best ways to do this is by having a great employer brand. However, many companies are lost when it comes to positive branding (or don’t have any at all!

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Design Your Perfect Talent Community

TalentCircles

Successful recruiting is difficult. If you want to do the job right, a good deal of work needs to go into the process. But that doesn’t mean you need to do all the work yourself. And it doesn’t mean there is only one way to do it. At TalentCircles we realize that while we all have similar goals when it comes to recruiting—like hiring the best talent in the shortest amount of time—we don’t all need the same exact methods or amount of help to get us to that goal.

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Saudi Vision 2030 and The Women

Transformify - Recruiting

It is no secret that the countries in the Middle East are keen to limit the dependency on oil production. However, it is a public secret that these countries are losing a major portion of their GDP due to the low inclusion of women in the workforce. A public secret as everyone knows about it, reads about it, but hardly anyone acts on it. The Saudi Vision 2030 aims to diversify the production base and support employment plans to secure employment for millions of Saudis by the year 2030 under the

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Ask an Expert: Stump Our I-9 Pros With Your Compliance Questions

Speaker: Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright

Ensuring I-9 compliance has never been more important…or more confusing. If you’ve struggled to find answers to your specific I-9 and compliance questions, join WorkBright, the experts in remote I-9 onboarding, for a free webinar where a panel of industry leaders will discuss: I-9 compliance tips and best practices Pros and cons of I-9 Alternative Procedure Exploring other options to facilitate I-9 remotely Open audience Q&A for all things I-9 compliance Bring your questions and hear from I-

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Starwood/Marriott Merger – The Ugly Truth

Hunting4Heds

I felt compelled to write a follow-up piece to my post bidding adieu to Starwood after I read yet another well-written, sincere but misleading piece on the merger between Starwood and Marriott. You can read it here. There is no doubt and no dispute that this merger is ultimately a positive for the hospitality industry and a triumph of brands. As I have stated previously, I would have preferred Starwood to stand alone and continue to innovate.

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What to Do at HR Tech: Day & Night

Symphony Talent

There’s nothing like going home, and HR Tech will be a homecoming for me (cue Kanye West…). I’m a native Chicagoan (go Bears!), but currently live in Kansas. The post What to Do at HR Tech: Day & Night appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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The Top 10 HR Technology and Recruiting Tools of 2016.

Recruiting Daily

As the 2016 HR Technology Conference gets ready to kick off next week in Chicago, it should come as no surprise that the industry’s biggest trade show expects to get even bigger, with the over 400 established players and emerging products alike crammed into McCormick Place, transforming the trade show floor (for a couple of days, anyway) […].

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