Thu.Oct 13, 2016

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What Our Resumes Would Look Like If We Didn’t Bend the Truth

Social Talent

Have you ever, oh let’s say ’embellished’ the information that appears on your resume? Perhaps you’ve thrown in a language that you only kinda-sorta speak, or you’ve rounded up your college grades, or even the length of one of your previous jobs? Don’t be ashamed – we’re all guilty of playing around with the details on our resumes at one point or another.

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How To Avoid The 3 Most Common Hiring Mistakes

Hoops

Sometime, hiring managers are so eager to fill open positions that they end up making mistakes that could lead to accidentally hiring the wrong person. If you focus on attracting the right kind of candidates and have a well thought out evaluation process, you can easily identify and hire top talent. Here are a few missteps hiring managers consistently make when interviewing job seekers, and how to avoid making the same errors.

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????The ABCs of a Learning & Performance Management System????: A Poem

Social Talent

At Social Talent, we know what it takes to drive recruiter performance. Our online performance platform has been proven to increase the output of recruitment teams, and it continues to change the way recruiters think about sourcing and engaging talent. But for those of you who have yet to discover how our wide range of learning tools and our performance metrics can help you make more high quality hires faster, we pondered how best we could explain what we’re offering.

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6 Recruitment Strategies Every Start-up Founder Should Know

Jobsoid

A company is only as good as its employees and this is exactly why start-ups in the growth stage need good hires. While every entrepreneur wants the best candidates to make a big impact, identifying and attracting A-players […]. The post 6 Recruitment Strategies Every Start-up Founder Should Know appeared first on Jobsoid.

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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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How Marketing Can Add Value to Your Recruitment Process

FireFish Software

The job market is buoyant but with massive changes in how clients buy and candidates search for jobs, traditional recruitment has never been tougher. The time is now for you to embrace digital marketing in order to gain a competitive advantage in your sector.

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White Paper: Overcoming the Struggle of Hiring Auto Technicians

Hireology

(Note: Below is the first section of our latest paper on attracting and hiring great automotive technicians. To skip ahead and read the entire white paper, please click on the download link at the bottom of the page.).

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How to Evaluate Developers During the Resume Screening Stage

Stack Overflow

If you’re anything like I was when I was a recruiter, you probably have a list of qualifications that you feel that you need to see on a developer’s resume. There’s a lot of pressure to find candidates that your hiring managers would be excited to interview, so it makes perfect sense to be selective. However, it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a developer is an ideal candidate for the job because of a long list of tech languages on his or her resume.

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Should You Be Hired By a Robot?

Undercover Recruiter

You’re sitting in a plush reception waiting nervously for your job interview. Sophie, you are told, is now ready to see you. You walk into the meeting room and are greeted by a two-foot-tall robot. As she asks you her questions, she compares you against data from successful workers. If there’s a match, the job. View Article. Should You Be Hired By a Robot?

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5 Tips for Business Networking

NPA Worldwide

Our guest blogger is Taufik Arief from People Search Indonesia, PT , based in Jakarta. People Search Indonesia, PT serves top multinational, local conglomerates as well as start-up companies in ASEAN, and successfully recruits top and mid-level executives for their clients. Taufik is currently serving on the NPAworldwide board of directors. Coming to a networking event (club) is a continuous investment made by people in the business community.

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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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All About The Benjamins: Motivation Over Money

Recruiting Daily

As recruiters, we have to know how to ask the right questions that will lead us to the motivation of a candidate - not just checking boxes and using interview score cards.

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Why It’s Important to Measure Interview Satisfaction Ratings

Glassdoor for Employers

With so many companies competing for the best of the best talent out there, recruiting in today’s candidate-driven market can be tough.

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A Close Look at “Open to New Opportunities”

Boolean Strings

Signaling that one is “Open to New Opportunities” without alarming your boss is certainly a good idea for a job seeker. Recently, LinkedIn introduced this feature. If you are a job seeker, there are a couple of things to be aware of here. (1) The signal you send gets only to LinkedIn Recruiter product subscribers. That subscription is quite expensive.

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Survale to Exhibit at 2016 Talent Aquisition Tech Conference

Survale

CandE Awards Sponsor Survale will be exhibiting at booth #308 at the upcoming Talent Acquisition Tech Conference, November 15-16, 2016. Survale will be demonstrating its “always-on” candidate satisfaction capability within its state-of-the-art Employer Satisfaction Platform. Survale integrates with your career site and ATS to gather candidate feedback and online behavior, providing organizations an up-to-the-minute view of their candidate experience – from first visit to interview to

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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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Real Life: How a Horrible Candidate Experience Hurts Your Brand

Jibe

The candidate experience is at the forefront of most recruiting strategies in 2016. Providing job seekers a seamless hiring process is more important than ever, especially with candidates gaining the upper hand. Yet many companies still provide terrible experiences throughout the application and interviewing processes. Chances are you know someone who has had a bad experience.

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Deadline and Prizes for the Sourcing Challenge

Boolean Strings

As I have promised, here are the formal rules for the Sourcing Challenge. Answer the questions in a comment here – Are You an Advanced Sourcer or Researcher ? Partial answers are welcome; you do not have to post all the answers in one comment. It’s OK to add an extra comment where you change your mind on an answer as well. The post has 12 questions.

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A Close Look at "Open to New Opportunities"

Recruiting Blogs

Signaling that one is "Open to New Opportunities" without alarming your boss is certainly a good idea for a job seeker. Recently, LinkedIn introduced this feature. If you are a job seeker, there are a couple of things to be aware of here. (1) The signal you send gets only to LinkedIn Recruiter product subscribers. That subscription is quite expensive.

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Internal Screening: Part Three of a Five-Part Recruiting Series

Applicant Manager

This is part three of our five-part series about effective recruiting in a candidate driven market. By: Edna Nakamoto and Jessica Barrett. In part two of our five-part series on recruiting, we took a look at resources, strategies and processes. We’ve already briefly touched on the topic of internal screening, but today, we’re going to further unpack this important topic.

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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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Interview body language: Fake it ‘till you make it

Recruiting Blogs

Most people have no idea that the majority of communication is non-verbal. If you go into an interview and only focus on the words you use, you’re leaving your most powerful tool behind. An interview is a daunting yet unavoidable experience that no body is exempt from, and is crucial to your future. Ultimately an interview is your one chance to showcase the best you that you can possibly be.

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5 Key Elements for Setting Onboarding Expectations

Top Echelon Contracting

If realistic expectations are not established between you and your new employee a state of mutual mystification will result whereby neither of you will have a clear understanding of what to expect from the other. To begin the employment relationship.

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How NOT to Sell a Job to a Candidate

Recruiting Blogs

Let’s face it – given the choice, we’d pick a permanent employee over a temp time and time again. The benefits of taking on an employee full time are obvious, but this world of ours is far from perfect, and we all know that sometimes taking on a temp worker is not only necessary, but smart. As a business owner, you know where your strengths lie and where the gaps in your skillset exist.

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How I Navigated Know Your Worth Internally at Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

My first thought was “Oh sh*t—How do I deal with this?” When we launched Know Your Worth™ internally, I experienced the tool.

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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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Buying HR Technology – Advice from a Recruiting Company

Yoh

What does recruiting have to do with buying technology? Quite a lot if you think about the connection today between recruiting and technology.

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Top Takeaways from HR Tech 2016

Recruitics

Last week, Human Resource Executive held their annual HR Technology Conference and Expo in Chicago. The conference, also known as HR Tech, brings together the top providers of HR technology in the space and “focuses on the business process and organizational success enabled by technology.”. This year’s conference was one of the largest and most successful yet.

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Are You a Good Boss? [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Being a good boss is about keeping those who really respect you away from those who haven’t quite yet made up their minds!

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Vend Recruiters Designing the Art of Rejection

The Whiteboard

The differences between agency and in-house recruitment are well documented. Age old fables like in-house recruiters hating sales, not “cutting it” in agency land, or being more admin focused have rubbed shoulders in recent years with more progressive ideas of recruiters preferring a broader strategic approach versus those with a more one-company mindset necessary to develop employer branding, workforce planning and key stakeholder engagement initiatives.

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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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3 Key Recruiting Tactics Which Propelled GE’s Transformation Into a Software Company

Linkedin Talent Blog

When GE started recruiting for its newly-formed digital business, GE Digital, back in 2012, the most common reaction from prospects was: “If we want to work in software, we go to a startup or Google. GE is a hardware company.”. Definitely not what a recruiter wants to hear when tasked with hiring 800 software engineers in six months. At the time, the company’s brand was associated solely with light bulbs, kitchen appliances, and mechanical engineering jobs which tech candidates saw as completely