Thu.Jan 12, 2017

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The Top 4 New Places to Source Candidates in 2017

Lever

In 2016, we watched more and more recruiters realize that to hire the candidates they wanted, they couldn’t pray for a qualified pool of inbound applicants - they had to actively seek them out.

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A New Year Heralds New Recruitment Firms

The Whiteboard

Welcome back recruiters of New Zealand, or whoever else, or wherever else you may be. For it it is not only recruiters who read this blog you know? (Hi Mum *ahem*). But I’ll stick to the recruitment topics, for the time being at least. It may be a bright and brand new year but you know what they say, “ if it ain’t broke don’t fix it… ” Well despite repeated attempts to break this blog from initial satire, through to shock, scandal, title-tattle, complete ir

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Accelerate hiring with Lever's mobile enhancements

Lever

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a psychological theory developed in 1943, argues that until certain basic, bottom-of-the-pyramid needs are met, humans will not attempt to pursue higher order needs. Typically the bottom of the pyramid consists of physiological needs like food, water, sleep -- the basics.

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Work Smarter: 3 Things You Can Do To Recruit More Efficiently

HarQen

Paul Graham’s essay “ Life is Short ” is one of the best things I’ve read all year. The way Mr. Graham speaks about his time really got me thinking about what I do when I’m at work and at home. Thinking about how you spend your time either at work or outside of it is an important exercise. Here are the three biggest areas recruiters have told me they spend the most time each day as well as some helpful tips.

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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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15 Funny Interview Questions

Social Talent

So you’ve got a candidate sitting in front of you for an interview. Their CV is so perfect it’s basically printed on solid gold but how do you know what they’re really like? Imagine if they started in the office and it turns out they eat a kitten for lunch every day? Ok that was a little extreme, but what if they’re the type of person to go to the kitchen without offering anyone else tea?

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7 problems with recruiting in IT, and the importance of Time [our small research]

Devskiller

We talk a lot to recruiters, hiring managers, company owners, but also developers and programmers. We hear a lot about problems, so we decided to put them down, and come up with some solutions. IT takes time. Time is expensive. According to Fastcompany.com , in the last 4 years alone, the price of recruiting went up from 13 to 23 days on average. And no one likes to waste something as precious as time.

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Recruiting Tips That Will Make Your Life Easier

Spark Hire

Finding the perfect team member to add to your existing roster of talent is no small task. A qualified hiring manager knows you have to weigh the professional’s knowledge base alongside their personality and ability to mesh well with the company’s existing culture. Because this task comes with a fairly high degree of pressure, there’s also a lot of frustration that can stem from the hiring process.

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6 New Year’s Resolutions Companies Can Make to Be Considered for Best Places to Work

Glassdoor for Employers

The advantages of being a Glassdoor Best Places to Work are many, but perhaps one of the greatest rewards is how it.

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9 Alternative Career Choices to Enter After Recruitment

Undercover Recruiter

Whether you started the role as a recruitment consultant with a longstanding career in mind or, like many people out there you fell into the role, there’s no doubt that working in the field teaches you a lot of invaluable skills which can be transferred into a variety of alternative careers. Moving on from recruitment can seem. View Article. 9 Alternative Career Choices to Enter After Recruitment.

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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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How Your Current Tech Team Should Guide Your Developer Hiring Strategy

Stack Overflow

Although partnering with your current tech team to create your developer hiring strategy sounds straightforward to most recruiters, following through on that best practice isn’t always natural. On the one hand, you feel confident in your abilities and don’t see the need to involve anyone else. But on the other hand, you don’t want to nag your tech team about participating in your interview process, even though you know their input will ultimately help you make sound decisions.

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Diversity Is Hard, Says Obama. And The Figures Show, We Have A Long Way To Go To Get It Right

1-Page

President Obama has delivered his farewell address in Chicago, ending his eight-year administration with unemployment near a ten-year low and with wages and incomes on the rise. But amidst all the applause, Obama acknowledged that the progress that had been made wasn’t enough. Obama pointed to race relations and suspicion of immigrants as a threat […].

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Are You Wasting Your Money on Employer Branding?

Phenom People

Employer branding has been coming of age since the early 2000’s and it seems that it has finally landed as one of the top priorities for 2017. More and more companies are engaging in developing an employer brand – starting with an underlying employee value proposition (EVP), and ending with a library of content targeted. Read More.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Leadership 360 Assessment

FlashPoint

Developing Leaders with 360 Feedback. Simply put, we can’t become better leaders without feedback. 360-degree feedback assessments are widely used in organizations and have become a central part of the leadership development process for more than 85% of Fortune 500 companies.

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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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These 3 Speech Patterns Will Immediately Reveal If a Candidate is a Star or a Low Performer

Linkedin Talent Blog

If your job candidate is constantly speaking in the present and future tense during the interview, you may want to pump the breaks. Why? Because this is a signal that you are talking to a low performer. As it turns out, high performers actually speak differently than low performers. And, this is great news because when you know the differences you can apply that "word data" to make better hiring decisions.

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5 Ways Split Placements Promote Recruiter Business Development

Top Echelon Contracting

As a recruiter, there’s nothing like making that full-fee placements. It’s like a loaf of freshly baked homemade bread. A two-hour nap on a rainy Sunday afternoon. A tall glass of cold lemonade on a hot summer’s day. Okay, maybe.

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Spotify Thinks Big and Crafts an Ambitious Job Description Targeting President Obama

Linkedin Talent Blog

President Obama just gave his farewell address to the nation, and is ready to go on a well-deserved holiday. However, Spotify has other, big plans for him. The company’s CEO just tweeted out a job description, boldly aiming to snag the one candidate in the world whose skill set fits: President Obama. Here is the tweet by the CEO: And here is the entertaining, tongue-in-cheek description for the President of Playlists (admittedly the line about being able to curate “a celebratory, 'I just found m

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Why Passion is the Keystone of Success

Entelo

This is the sixth in a series of ten posts on hiring candidates for characteristics linked to high performance. Each post focuses on a key candidate trait, why it matters and how recruiters can develop processes to correctly and fairly evaluate for it. So far, we’ve covered the science of first impressions , the important difference between hiring for personality versus character , how to hire candidates committed for the long haul , how to find and hire motivated candidates , and how hiring tea

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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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Top 7 Reasons To Set Up A Recruitment Business

Recruiting Blogs

Earn more money. Nothing in life is guaranteed however employed recruiters only get to keep on average around 33% of what they bill. As a self-employed recruiter you should be taking at least 70% of your placements, even taking account of the running costs of your business. That’s well over a 100% pay rise! Look forward to Mondays! I can speak from the personal experience of my first recruitment business, on Sunday nights I couldn’t wait for the next day to get back into work again.

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Things Have Changed: Why Overtime Pay Rule Changes Are Long Overdue.

Recruiting Daily

With a new presidential administration poised to take office, the outlook for many areas of public policy remains unusually uncertain. Not least of these, of course, is the federal rule changes regarding overtime pay, which has lately been relegated from landmark legislation to policy purgatory. While an estimated 4.2 million American workers were scheduled to start receiving […].

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Lack of Leadership

ExactHire Recruiting

HR is into acronyms. Whether self-created, representative of the latest certifications or handed down by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDL), HR professionals swim in a sea of acronyms. So as SMS texting language emerged over the last decade, HR was better prepared than most. However, there is one acronym that HR simply cannot (and should not) tolerate: “LOL.”.

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If Only I Had Known That Sooner! 8 Tips for New Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Bill Benson with WilliamCharles Search Group located in Grand Rapids, MI. WilliamCharles is an executive search and professional recruiting firm specialized in finding managerial and executive talent in finance, HR, operations, sales/marketing as well as president/CEO roles. They have a concentration of clients in Michigan but they also work across the US.

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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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This Year’s 12 Most Outrageous Job Interview Mistakes

CareerBuilder

What is the most unusual thing a candidate has done in a job interview this year? Invite you to dinner? Bring toys to the interview? CareerBuilder released its annual survey of the most outrageous interview mistakes candidates have made, according to more than 2,600 hiring managers and HR professionals nationwide. This year’s list includes: Candidate asked to step away to call his wife to ask her if the starting salary was enough before he agreed to continue with the interview.

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Making the Case for a Total Rewards System

HRsoft

There are many advantages to implementing a total rewards system in your company. In addition to gaining a more thorough understanding of base pay, bonuses, and equity, total rewards allows employees to develop meaningful insights about benefits and other employment perks. This can help them see the “big picture” of all of the advantages there are to staying with your company.

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Should HR Be Texting Applicants?

ApplicantPro

If anyone in the HR industry would have told you that texting applicants would be the most effective method for applicant engagement five years ago, corporate recruiters would have laughed in their faces. Well, times have changed. Texting applicants is now not only one of the most efficient means for communicating with job seekers, some applicant tracking platforms have included texting applicants as one of their latest software launches.

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5 Easy Tips to Make the Hiring Process Cheaper

Recruiting Blogs

Although the process of hiring new employees can drain a business's finances, there are ways to save money along the way. These strategies benefit small companies, established businesses, and highly successful enterprises. . Promotions. . Most managers spend a lot of money on advertising when they try to find new employees who can tackle important jobs.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor has created an open enrollment sample letter (with a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today!

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Uncubed

2016 was the year the online job listing finally went belly up. This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. It’s a massive preference shift. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

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Enhance Candidate Experience Using Applicant Tracking System

Recruiting Blogs

Recruitment is an important process for any company as it brings the brightest candidates into the firm. However, at the same time this process can be time consuming and lengthy for both recruiters and the candidates. Thus, companies have moved on using An applicant tracking system(ATS) or Recruitment software. An ATS can streamline the tedious process of recruitment by digitalizing the entire process into a single system.