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Why Writing Skills Are Important for Every Job—and How to Improve Yours

The Muse

Writing skills matter for every job. Here’s how to improve your writing skills and show them off in a job search. (Plus examples!).

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How to Break Into a Recruiting Network

NPA Worldwide

Joining a recruiting network can open up so many doors of opportunity. Recruiters come into a recruitment network to expand their reach, build their revenues, and to better serve clients and candidates. But for new members, it can be intimidating to jump in – How do I build relationships with these longtime members who all know each other and already work with each other?

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Stop Promoting Workplace Failure and Accepting Mediocrity [Podcast]

TalentCulture - Recruiting

In the world of work, we tend to be tolerant — perhaps overly tolerant — of failure. Of course, no business sets out to fail. And yet, we often find […]. The post Stop Promoting Workplace Failure and Accepting Mediocrity [Podcast] appeared first on TalentCulture.

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15 Tough Interview Questions Candidates Won’t Expect

The Hire Talent

As professional recruiters, we know that we have to go beyond run-of-the-mill interviews and draft some tough interview questions to challenge the candidates when we want to hire talent. We are not talking about those weird – how many pianos are there in New York – types of questions, although we will share some in the future. This guide will focus on tough interview questions and answers we expect from the candidates to give us in-depth insight into their soft skills, attitudes, behavior, criti

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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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15 Thoughtful Ways To Show Your Employees Appreciation For Their Support

Forbes Human Resources Council

As the economy begins to recover, business leaders are looking for ways to recognize and celebrate the sacrifices and adjustments their team members have made for the greater good of the company.

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Introducing Custom Portals in Zoho Recruit

Zoho Recruit

As a recruiter, building a strong employer brand is of paramount importance. Having a seamless communication with clients, candidates and contacts can help you attain better talent faster and find candidates in a short supply market. Custom Portals in Recruit allow administrators to extend Recruit access to their clients, contacts, and candidates. A portal user.

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5 Ways to Land a Remote Internship

Professional Alternatives

Like many jobs, internships can now be done remotely and the transition to remote internships does not have any diminishing impact on the outlooks of students or recent graduates. Whether an internship is remote or in person, it is a great way to boost your skills, enhance your resume, and even make connections that can eventually assist you in succeeding in the job market.

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Qualities to Look for in Entry-level Candidates

Key Resource Group

Potential over skills. With experienced talent in short supply, it’s beneficial to change your outlook when it comes to hiring and learn how to identify the qualities that predict success in any role, regardless of experience. Sometimes in a tough candidate market, we have to put our experience expectations aside and focus on finding the characteristics that top employees possess.

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

Maintain positivity. Communicate clearly. Embrace hope. These are the three things that Jenn Donahue , a leadership coach and retired U.S. Navy officer, keeps in mind when building a resilient team. “Resilience is the process for adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, or significant sources of stress,” she tells SHRM. “It's how we cope under stress and, once the stressor is dissipated, how quickly we are able to return to normal.”.

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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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Comment encourager la formation en milieu de travail?

Jobillico

Une entreprise qui désire encourager la formation en milieu de travail peut avoir de multiples options. La mise en place de programmes de formation continue est bénéfique pour les employeurs et les employés. Dans le monde des affaires, il n’y a pas de pire ennemi que la stagnation. L’un des meilleurs moyens pour les entreprises d’éviter de s’enliser dans des modes de pensée répétitifs est d’encourager l’apprentissage sur le lieu de travail.

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RallyFwd May 5: Speakers Announced!

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Hi, Rally community! I have one question for you — who’s ready to rally forward? We all want to put the last year behind us. On a professional level, it feels like everything about talent acquisition has changed. But the future is what we make it, right? As Recruitment Marketing, employer branding, recruiting and HR practitioners, we have an opportunity to seize this moment and lead the way forward.

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[PODCAST] Storytelling about Jobeo with Brent Skipper

Recruiting Daily

Storytelling about Jobeo with Brent Skipper Welcome to the Use Case Podcast, episode 76. This week we have storytelling about Jobeo with Brent Skipper. During this episode, Brent and I talk about how practitioners make the business case or the use case for purchasing Jobeo. Jobeo’s video hiring platform intends to change how job searches are […].

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Bad Hires Take Longer to Replace During the Pandemic, Finds Survey

Recruiting Daily Advisor

According to CareerBuilder, the average cost of one bad hire is $14,900, and given all the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, your company simply can’t afford to waste these precious dollars hiring and onboarding for the same position. Not only is it costly to replace a bad hire, but it’s also time consuming. Source: fairywong / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty; Companies today have more at stake if they make a hiring mistake, finds new research from global staffing firm Robert Half.

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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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The Rise of the Chief Diversity Officer

Ongig

Adding a Chief Diversity Officer to the C-suite is a growing trend in companies of all sizes. In this post, I answer 2 questions: What is a Chief Diversity Officer? What does a Chief Diversity Officer do? And I provide: Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer salary ranges Chief Diversity Officer job description examples Popular job titles for Chief Diversity Officers.

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How Can Recruiters Assess Candidates Accurately?

Recruit CRM

It may be easier to go with the flow whilst conducting job interviews , but sometimes even while following your entire hiring checklist, you might end up making a bad hire. According to the Department of U.S Labour, a wrong hire can cost your company almost 30% of that candidate's first-year earnings ! There are other limitations that come along with this though such as— poor productivity, additional training costs, replacements etc.

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How Can Leaders Become Better Interviewers of Job Candidates?

Brandon Hall

Current State. Most leaders and hiring managers struggle with interviewing, Brandon Hall Group research shows. There are multiple causes: Lack of training Perceived lack of time to prepare for interviews Lack of standard interview questions and practices Perception by many managers that they know a good candidate when they see one and believe their “gut” will tell them who is a good hire.

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What Are Your Interns Saying About Your Company?

GradLeaders

Watch the Video on YouTube. What are your interns saying about you? “Structured” vs “Confusing”. “Cutting-edge” vs “Lots of paper”. “Learned so much” vs “Mostly busy work”. “Would love to work there!” vs “Don’t bother…”. When your interns head back to school, they will be talking about their internship experience. Make sure you are delivering a structured, cutting-edge experience that helps create happy, productive, long-term employees.

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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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Innovative Ways to Use Content Marketing to Recruit Top Talent

The Staffing Stream

Content marketing deals not only with the attraction of customers for purchasing a certain product. It is one of the powerful tools used by staffing suppliers for getting the brightest minds to their companies. Do you know which techniques they use? Recruiting top talent is the key to the sustainable growth of any company. The problem is that modern employees focus their attention not on wages but on the corporate culture.

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“Purpose-Driven” is Not Enough

Recruiting Daily Advisor

As organizations and their leadership continue to evolve and develop strategies for engaging their people ever more deeply in work, an important notion has developed which some, is seen as the key to the puzzle to find the source of “purpose” connected to that work, then to establish that as the motivation or “driver” for the efforts of the enterprise and allow, cajole, compel, and coax employees across the enterprise to connect to this purpose, which will then lead to deeper levels of personal

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HCM Talent Technology Roundup April 9 2021

Recruiting Daily

HCM Talent Technology Roundup April 9 2021 Press play to listen to this article! OutMatch Launches Single ‘Hiring Experience Stack’ OutMatch combined capabilities in assessments, video interviews and reference checking to deliver what the company calls a more “humanized” hiring experience. In the words of CEO Greg Moran, the new Hiring Experience Stack will […].

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Mutual Mistake Helps Ex-Employee’s Bias, Retaliation Claims Avoid Dismissal

Recruiting Daily Advisor

If a terminated employee signs a contract releasing all claims against you, she can’t sue you, right? Wrong. A new Missouri Court of Appeals decision illustrates the effect a mutual mistake by the parties can have on the enforceability of the release. Read on to learn how Missouri courts analyze the issue. Facts. From 2001 to 2018, Ann McGruder was employed by a Missouri university.

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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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Employer’s Suspect Gross Misconduct Finding and Imprecise Notice Format Mean COBRA Claim Proceeds

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The gross misconduct exception under COBRA means that if an employee’s employment is terminated due to gross misconduct, continuation coverage does not have to be offered to the terminated employee or the terminated employee’s family. One of the many tricky aspects of administering the gross misconduct rule is that the decision should be made at the time of the termination.