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10 Passive Aggressive Notes Around the Office That We Can All Relate To

Social Talent

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a passive aggressive note in the office? Or maybe you’ve been the one to post an anonymous note to your co-workers, letting them know that it’s not okay to use your special mug, or drink your almond milk, or even eat your sandwich (here’s looking at you, Ross Gellar). In the name of research, we’ve trawled the internet to find 10 of the most passive aggressive notes that have ever been left around the office.

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Madison Buys absoluteIT… plus Live-Blogging From #RhubNZ

The Whiteboard

Quick one from me today as I’m posting this live from #rhubnz as the energetic Jim Stroud prowls in his socks through his keynote speech about how recruitment might look ten years from now. Give us a wave Jim… There’s only really one major topic of conversation in our own #nzrec community this week though. Earlier this week it was announced that AWF Madison Group had acquired absoluteIT in a $15.3m deal.

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The Unique Way EVERY Recruiter Should Be Attracting Top Talent

Social Talent

Richard Branson once tweeted: “The art of storytelling can be used to drive change”. And over the last few years, science has proven that stories are actually able to change people’s attitudes and opinions. In fact, according to neuroeconomist Paul Zak , personal and compelling stories “engage more of the brain, and thus are better remembered, than simply stating a set of facts and inspire people to take action”.

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The Top 5 Mistakes Hiring Managers Make

iCIMS

The hiring process can vary wildly from company to company. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, every organization has their own values and definitions of a good hire.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Improving the Hiring Process

NPA Worldwide

We are continuing to hear members complaining about an employer’s broken hiring process, too many interviews , and great candidates who “got away” or removed themselves from consideration. With more and more companies lamenting the dearth of qualified candidates, it’s even MORE important to make sure that good candidates don’t become disillusioned and drop out.

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How Office Culture Should Influence Recruitment

AkkenCloud

Organizational Culture: “The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization.” — Business Dictionary. An anthropology cliché tells us that culture is to humans what water is to fish. You probably don’t think about it, but your family has a culture. So does your neighborhood and your country.

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Best Practices For Building An Effective, Compliant Background Check Policy

SmartRecruiters

For many HR professionals, just getting a background check completed is enough. But the actual best practices around getting them are usually at the bottom of a professional’s priorities. Ignoring best practices though, is an increasingly risky proposition. For one, it opens your company to legal risks, as violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act have become a trigger for lawsuits.

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What Company Clues Can You Pick Up at the Interview?

Undercover Recruiter

Before a job interview, most candidates are aware of the standard pre-interview preparation that’s expected of them. Researching a company and its management online has long been a prerequisite for a successful interview, not just to inform the applicant of the kind of company to which he or she is applying, but more importantly, to. View Article. What Company Clues Can You Pick Up at the Interview?

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Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Charlotte Marshall, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Symphony Talent

In light of the recent Olympic games, the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference, SmashFly Transform™, and our love of recruitment marketing pioneers everywhere, our Recruitment Marketing Champion Series will. The post Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Charlotte Marshall, Thermo Fisher Scientific appeared first on SmashFly 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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How Valuable is Your Social Media Following?

FireFish Software

Thousands upon thousands of social media followers… that’s the dream, right? Not if those people don’t care about your brand, agency, or job ads. After all, good social media management takes a considerable amount of effort so there needs to be a positive return on your investment. With this in mind, we’ll look at: Quality vs. quantity. The importance of engagement.

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Use Design Thinking to Create the Ideal Candidate Journey

Newton Software

Enhance Your Candidate Journey with Design Thinking In preparation for our October Bootcamp, in our previous blog post, we discussed how you can apply a sales funnel framework to ensure that you nurture candidates through every step of the candidate journey. Although this is a great starting point, if you really want to delight your […]. The post Use Design Thinking to Create the Ideal Candidate Journey appeared first on Newton Software.

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Why Recruiters Need Emotional Intelligence (Now, Like Never Before)

Undercover Recruiter

We talk at length about how and why the candidates we recruit must be high on the EQi scale but often fail to turn the mirror back on ourselves. As we rely more on data in the recruitment process, the value of recruiters rests in the ability to practice high levels of emotional intelligence to. View Article. Why Recruiters Need Emotional Intelligence (Now, Like Never Before).

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This Most Absurd Excuses Workers Used to Call in Sick This Year

CareerBuilder

No one should be forced to go into work when they are sick — not only is it bad for the employee’s health and productivity, it’s also bad for the health of everyone around that person. But some employees are going to great lengths to get a free, personal day off work. Slightly more than a third of workers (35 percent) said they have called in to work sick when they were feeling just fine in the past year.

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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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How to Optimize Your Career Page in 3 Simple Steps

Breezy HR

Recruiters are such special snowflakes! So focused, so driven to build relationships over data sets. Coming from a lifelong marketer, this is high praise – conversion rates and optimization tests are my bread and butter (and jam, come to think of it). While I appreciate that your job isn’t about what color button will drive.5% more clicks, or which display placement provides an extra fraction of a minute on the page, I’ve noticed some easy wins you might be missing on your career pages.

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3 Ways Franchises Are Using Tech To Stay Ahead

Hireology

How do businesses maintain success and keep several steps ahead of their competition? Excluding exceptional execution and good fortune, one of the more common ways franchises stay ahead of the game is by attending industry conferences—learning about new trends, issues and networking with fellow industry insiders and franchisors.

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The HR Tech Trends Everyone is Talking About

CareerBuilder

We asked some of the leading HR technology influencers and experts who attended the 2016 HR Technology Conference and Expo to share what they see as the biggest topics and trends influencing the constantly evolving HR technology space right now. Meet Our Experts. Tim Sackett is the president of HRU Technical Resources, a leading IT and engineering staffing firm, with more than 20 years of combined executive HR and talent acquisition experience.

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6 Tech Trends that are Transforming the HR Landscape

Jobsoid

Fierce competition, fluctuating economy and advancing technology have compelled the human resource department to revamp their traditional practices. From passive administration to proactive talent management, the HR department is undergoing a massive transformation as new tools and techniques […]. The post 6 Tech Trends that are Transforming the HR Landscape appeared first on Jobsoid.

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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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Election 2016: Hiring Trends In Swing States

Recruiting Daily

We all know the 2016 election will be a special one, and not just because it features two of the least popular candidates in recent memory. Less widely discussed is how this election year’s job market is another anomaly. The candidates are too busy talking about creating jobs than reflecting on the current situation. By […].

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The Adventures of Your LinkedIn Resume

Boolean Strings

LinkedIn profiles are often considered to be “new resumes.” It’s true, that if a professional fully fills out her LinkedIn profile, that profile works instead of a traditional resume, at least at the beginning stages of interviewing, at many companies. That is one of the innovations LinkedIn has brought into the area of recruiting, quite a game changer!

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Yet Another Diversity Program is Not Enough

HackerRank

This article was originally published on Forbes If our unconscious biases trigger stereotypes that influence our judgement about people, what exactly should we do when we’re on the ground? For the past 50 years or so, companies have been trying to close the diversity gaps in the workplace with diversity training programs. But real change […]. The post Yet Another Diversity Program is Not Enough appeared first on HackerRank Blog.

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The 5 US Cities Where Millennials Are Eager to Work

Linkedin Talent Blog

You must have heard this already -- by 2020, over 50% of the workforce will be made up of millennials. Or in other worlds, the millennials are coming! And, your recruiting strategy needs to adapt to meet their interests. Recently, we surveyed over 13,000 millennials to find out what they want to know about a company in order to accept a job. Now, we want to know what cities they are most interested in.

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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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Casting a Wide Talent Net and Finding Phenomenal Talent With Machine Learning

Phenom People

Having a lot of candidates for a job sounds like a good thing but most recruiters will run away from the idea because they don’t have the right tools to be able to accurate pick out the cream of the crop. To address this, companies are implementing new ways of rating active and passive candidates. Read More.

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Talentwunder at HR Tech World 2016

Talentwunder

HR Tech World 2016 in Paris. HR Tech World opens in Paris again. This year we are going to present our new user interface. The internationally recognized congress and expo has always been the pioneer in terms of the future of work and trends about direct sourcing. This event is all about networking and discovering new ways of recruiting. We would like to introduce new features of our numerously awarded talent search engine.

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This Most Absurd Excuses Workers Used to Call in Sick This Year

CareerBuilder

No one should be forced to go into work when they are sick — not only is it bad for the employee’s health and productivity, it’s also bad for the health of everyone around that person. But some employees are going to great lengths to get a free, personal day off work. Slightly more than a third of workers (35 percent) said they have called in to work sick when they were feeling just fine in the past year.

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10 Ways to Promote Collaboration at Work

Recruiting Blogs

Collaboration is a major concern of managers and for good reason. Collaboration in the workplace has a plethora of benefits. Collaboration “allows employees to feel more connected to their jobs and co-workers, reduces stress at the workplace, makes their jobs easier, allows for more work freedom, and in general makes them happier people” says Jacob Morgan , co-founder of The FOW Community.

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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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The HR Tech Trends Everyone is Talking About

CareerBuilder

We asked some of the leading HR technology influencers and experts who attended the 2016 HR Technology Conference and Expo to share what they see as the biggest topics and trends influencing the constantly evolving HR technology space right now. Meet Our Experts. Tim Sackett is the president of HRU Technical Resources, a leading IT and engineering staffing firm, with more than 20 years of combined executive HR and talent acquisition experience.

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Recruiting Developers? You'll Want to Know This Before Interviewing Them

Recruiting Blogs

One of the first steps in evaluating a developer for an open role is taking a deep dive into their resume. Whether it's a traditional resume, their Developer Story , or even their GitHub profile, one of the first things you'll look into is their education. Did they go a good school? Did they complete a Computer Science program? . But that's the old way of thinking.

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The 3 Levels of Performance Standards for Recruiters

Top Echelon Contracting

Whether you monitor them or not, activity ratios exist for every aspect of your recruiting business, therefore, you can only benefit from knowing and using them. However, without including criteria for quality, the usefulness of these ratios is limited. Monitor.