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5 Admin Skills That a Candidate Can’t Fake

Social Talent

You’d be forgiven for thinking that getting candidates for admin roles is a piece of cake because they’re a dime a dozen. But, nope. It’s not even close to being the case! Sure, if you’re a recruiter that primarily works on temporary admin-based roles, you might find it easier to attract applicants, but (and this is a big but…) admin skills are probably the easiest ones for candidates to fake.

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7 Steps to Dealing With Performance Review Positively

FireFish Software

One bad week leads to another and suddenly you’ve not hit your targets in two months. You know things aren’t working, your manager knows it, and now you’re on performance review. Your heart sinks and you think: 'They want me gone.' Well, hold your horses. Performance review is serious, but you do have the opportunity to change things. You can turn it around.

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76% of Candidates Want to Know About Day-to-Day Responsibilities

CareerBuilder

Recruitment and hiring can be a complicated business, so CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior Study took a look at it in simple terms: What do candidates want to know? According to the study, the question on 76% of job seekers’ minds is “What would my day-to-day job be?” Fifty-seven percent are wondering what skill sets employers consider negotiable versus non-negotiable skills.

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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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3 Things Effective Technical Job Descriptions Have in Common

Stack Overflow

Anyone who has written a technical job description has probably gotten a lot of advice on how to do it well. You know they shouldn’t be wordy, but you have so much to say about why candidates should want to work for your company. You want to use an inviting tone, but you also want to avoid using too many buzzwords. Those tips probably sound straightforward at first, but applying them to how you write a technical job description is much more complicated.

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5 Essential Tips to Find Your Candidate Match

iCIMS

Here’s a startling fact: 77% of hiring managers surveyed say recruiters’ candidate screening is inadequate.[1] Ouch.

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How to Ensure Your Best Applicants Accept Your Offers

Recruiting.com

We’ve all been there. You finally find the ideal candidate after weeks or even months of interviewing applicants, so you confidently extend an offer of employment. But for some reason, you’re completely blindsided with a rejection. You thought the candidate was the perfect match, so why didn’t they? If you want your best applicants to. The post How to Ensure Your Best Applicants Accept Your Offers appeared first on Recruiting.com.

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FAQ: How to Use Your Glassdoor Profile to Your Advantage

Glassdoor for Employers

In our recent webinar, Your Glassdoor Profile & How to Use It To Your Advantage, we talked about Glassdoor basics including how.

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5 Essential Tips to Find Your Candidate Match

iCIMS

Here’s a startling fact: 77% of hiring managers surveyed say recruiters’ candidate screening is inadequate.[1] Ouch.

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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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6 Ways Charity Work Creates a Cheerful Culture #MondayMotivation

Undercover Recruiter

Hosting charity events in the workplace has a huge impact, not only on those you’re raising money to support, but also for the team behind the event and the people involved. Supporting a charity should always be about helping others in a selfless way, however it also provides a special opportunity to bring people together for a common cause, promoting generosity and.

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Recruiters – 3 Easy Tips To Increase Placements in 2016!

FeeTrader

The mid year is a good time for reflection and self-improvement and to see how our recruiting resolutions are faring. We all ask ourselves how we can make ourselves better in our personal and professional lives. All too often, our grandiose plans for self-improvement fall by the wayside with seemingly more pressing life tasks, but here are a few ideas to get back on track that can be accomplished whenever you have a few minutes to spare.

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Walmart and GM: Making Investors and Employees Happy

JWT Inside

Fortune recently published this year’s list of America’s most profitable companies, and two of our very own clients, Walmart and General Motors, made the Top 10. Obviously, this is good news for their investors; but what about their employees? How do they feel about their jobs? Well, the good people over at Glassdoor investigated and have graciously shared some of their findings.

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The Year of the Candidate at HireRight

HireRight

As I mentioned in my last post, 2016 is the Year of the Candidate at HireRight. You’re probably thinking, "Please spare me another empty marketing initiative that seizes on the latest industry buzzword.". Well, let me assure you, this is nothing of the sort. The post The Year of the Candidate at HireRight appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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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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The Future of Job Ads is NOT Video

Recruiting Blogs

At a recent conference there was a lot of talk about several new online services designed to assist with creating videos specifically for jobs. Off the back of this, one of our regular clients even grabbed me and suggested we film every hot job moving forward (this from a company with over 600 live jobs!). The premise holds appeal, with video now the most popular content online and the average user spending 1.55 hours per day viewing video, having video job adverts is logical to get greater visi

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The Best Sources for Finding High-Potential Recruiters

Top Echelon Contracting

In my last few blog posts for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I’ve been addressing the topic of hiring recruiters. With that in mind, below are some of the best sources for finding high-potential recruiters for your firm: Successful sellers. The post The Best Sources for Finding High-Potential Recruiters appeared first on Top Echelon.

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4 Considerations for Your Mobile Recruiting Mix

ExactHire Recruiting

Mastering the art of social media utilization isn’t the only key to implementing an enviable mobile recruiting strategy. Factors such as external job boards, search engines, jobs page design and other communication channels can’t be ignored either. In order to thrive in what might be called the “mobile recruiting wild,” these elements must be addressed.

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Pay For Top Performance: 5 Reasons Why Compensating Your Top Performers Should Be Your Top Priority

TalentGuard

Top performers are a company’s greatest asset, but they will leave if they are not valued and compensated fairly. If you do not have a compensation plan that will allow your top performers to thrive, you will pay the price. Here are the 5 Reasons Why Compensating Your Top Performers Should Be Your Top Priority. To learn more about Compensation Planning: Request a Compensation Planning demo.

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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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Why Giving Salary Ranges During Interviews is a Bad Idea

Linkedin Talent Blog

As a recruiter, you’re going to get the salary question from nearly every candidate you interview. And, for most recruiters, the best way out of this is to give a somewhat wide salary range, with the hope of making both the candidate and hiring manager happy. For example, you might go to the hiring manager and say, "I have a great candidate who will take between $50,000 and $60,000 a year." Then you'll go to the candidate and say something similar: "I’ve talked to the hiring manager

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Why You Should Use a Strengths-Based Performance Management System

HRsoft

Employers want their associates to perform at their very best, and while there are many ways to help them do so, one of the most effective tactics is using a strengths-based performance management system. Below is some compelling evidence that shows how tapping into your employees’ existing strengths through your performance management system could yield significant results: Improving Strengths Makes Employees Happier.

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Successfully Courting Top Passive Candidates: 5 Important Tips

Recruiting Blogs

Your next new hire could easily be sitting at their desk at this very moment, completely ignorant of your existence, or at least of your need for them. Recruiting passive talent has been part of staffing – especially for crucial upper-level positions – for as long as recruitment itself has been an organized effort. Some may cast aspersions on the practice, claiming that it reflects negatively on the image of the organization.

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The Messages You Deliver to Employees through Total Rewards Software

HRsoft

Sometimes, employers think that simply offering employee benefits is enough to show employees that they’re valued. Yet, the current workforce is driven by communication. In order to deliver important messages surrounding total rewards, you need an outlet through which information about employee benefits statements and more is made accessible and clear.

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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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The New Talent Strategy: Contingent Workers

Recruiting Blogs

We've long heard that there's a skills gap in many industries- healthcare, the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) have had particular difficulty in finding top talent. Companies across the nation have felt the sting of trying to recruit top talent to fill open positions. They don't call it a war for talent for nothing. But when candidates are in short supply, a solid talent strategy should be in place to address finding qualified candidates that consists of more tha

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How a Compensation Management Solution Can Facilitate Employee Recognition

HRsoft

Money is a motivator; this is something that business leaders have acknowledged for decades. Recently, however, it’s become increasingly apparent that money alone does not have the power to engage and retain today’s employees, who seek more ways to feel recognized for their work. The key, then, is using a compensation management solution that fairly and competitively rewards contributors for their efforts in a way that illustrates the company’s appreciation for employees’ dedication.

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Poetic Justice: Why Machine Learning Matters in Recruiting and Hiring.

Recruiting Daily

The first time I used Waze was a revelation. This was not because of the network effects it generates, but more importantly, because of how transparently the application’s user interface (UI) exposes them. This means every time I open the Waze app, I’m implicitly participating in the system. In doing so, I help improve every other user’s driving experience, and as an added bonus, all the other Waze users participating around me improves mine, too.

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How HR Software Can Build Stronger Work Relationships

HRsoft

Work relationships: they might sound as if they’re less important than some of the other aspects of business, such as performance and results. But as it turns out, strong work relationships are actually critical to both performance and results, and today’s workforce deems them necessary. A recent Mattersight survey found that nearly 50% of Millennial employees feel that a “communicative, emotionally-satisfying culture” allows them to perform better at work.

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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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Workplace Compliance Checklist for Small and Medium-Size Employers

Newton Software

Employment Law Guide for Small and Medium-Size Employers. Workplace compliance is in a constant state of flux. Just look to the recent passing of the new overtime rule for proof of this. As an employer, you must always be aware of which laws apply to your business and how they affect you. Unfortunately, this can be incredibly challenging especially as your organization grows and new laws and regulations enter into the mix.

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6 Ways HR Leaders Can Help Humanize the Startup Organization

Recruiting Blogs

Even a decade back, businesses were only concerned about productivity, and the entrepreneurs took great interest in generating profits. The trend hasn’t quite changed now. Even today, passionate business owners strive hard towards driving growth in their dream ventures. However, there have been transformations. Present-day businesses are knowledgeable about the significance of human resources, and consider HR as an integral part of the organization.

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HR Driven Trends in Enterprise Integration

Recruiting Blogs

Ten years ago, it seemed the enterprise software market had reached a state of maturity with a few major players controlling the majority of the market and little opportunity for new entrants or radical innovation. And then came the shift to the cloud—with the mobile revolution close on its heels. These disruptive changes have ushered in a new era of enterprise integration that presents both opportunities and challenges.