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MondayFunday: Leprechauns and Moms

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s been a busy spring for the ExactHire team, but we managed to fit in 2 MondayFunday events. March featured a cut-throat Nerf shootout (sounds violent, but I can assure you it was not), and April saw us channel our calm, creative, contemplative sides as we painted and decoupaged (?) picture frames for the mothers in our lives. Two extremes, I know, but both activities helped us accomplish our planned objectives: We had fun!

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10 Things that Grind the Gears of Passive Candidates

Social Talent

Many recruiters are still playing catch up when it comes to developing sourcing tactics for passive candidates. As was discussed in our blog post on 5 Things Not to Put in Your Job Ads , the job market is candidate-driven once again but most companies still follow antiquated hiring practices. Well given that the global workforce is made up of 70% of passive candidates, there’s a good chance that the candidate you find isn’t actively looking for a career change.

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Job Boards: 3 Great Ways to Ensure you Retain Your Clients

Recruitics

Why have job boards been able to survive the dramatic evolution of online recruitment and job searches? The answer is really quite simple: They’ve found ways to continue to provide value for their clients. Therefore, any job board serious about continuing to compete in today’s online employment market needs to keep client retention top of mind. This means finding new and creative ways of proving your value, time and time again.

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Developing a Thriving and Engaging Online Talent Community

Social Talent

What Exactly is a ‘Talent Community’? Online talent communities is fast becoming a hot topic in the recruitment space today with endless articles and opinions from commentators specialising in the area. Despite this, very little is still known about online talent communities and how they can be effectively utilised by recruiters. But how do you define what a talent community is?

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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5 Time Management Tips for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

One of the biggest challenges a recruiter faces is trying to manage a schedule and predict the events of the day in an industry of constant change. What happens when you face an unexpected fall-off, a position goes on hold, or your client changes their requirements? You won’t get far in this business if you just give up – you have to adjust your strategy and plan your time to accommodate everything that’s on your plate.

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Boomerang Employees: Who They Are and Why They Are on the Rise

Yoh

From LeBron James’ rejoining the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014 to Steve Huffman, co-founder (and former CEO) of Reddit, returning back as CEO in July 2015, boomerang employees are literally making a comeback. Find out who they are and the surprising impact they are making on recruiting and workplace culture.

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Attract Top Talent with Target Personas and Real Content

Symphony Talent

Recruiters have to do more than ever to successfully attract and engage top talent. The good news is there are best practices that recruiters can borrow from their marketing colleagues to make a significant impact on building their candidate pipelines. Our new quick guide How to Attract Top Talent With Personas and Content shares strategies. Continue Reading → The post Attract Top Talent with Target Personas and Real Content appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Hireology to Present & Compete at DrivingSales Presidents Club 2016

Hireology

Next week, owners and managers in the automotive retail industry will gather at the DrivingSales Presidents Club 2016 event in South Beach, Miami. It is here where Hireology CEO, Adam Robinson , will both speak at a workshop and compete for the Most Valuable Insight Award at this “unique and exclusive event” for dealer executives and industry thought leaders.

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Are Cover Letters Obsolete to Developers?

Stack Overflow

Hundreds of years after De Vinci introduced the first resume , job applicants and employers alike were presented with the cover letter – a document in which candidates provide additional information on their skills and experience. Fast-forward to the 2000’s, where a lot has changed. Technology reigns supreme, and you’d be hard to find a company that isn’t looking to hire a developer (or 20).

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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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6 Ways to Keep the Peace at Work

Undercover Recruiter

We’ve all had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with people that we do not like. It’s not necessarily them, or maybe it is, but their personality doesn’t fit yours or your taste in people. That’s fine, as long as you weren’t a d**k about it. During university days, campus was big enough to. View Article. 6 Ways to Keep the Peace at Work.

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How To Tell If Your Recruiting Team Is Over Capacity

ROIKOI

There’s no doubt that every team in your organization works hard. However, your recruiting team is one that is more likely to be overworked than other teams. And while some teams may find extra pressure motivating (think: sales), the effect on your recruiting team is negative. If your recruiting team is working over capacity, the rest of your organization is working at a much lower capacity.

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Outside-the-Box Ways to Use Social for Employer Branding

Jibe

Employer branding is everywhere in 2016. The importance of branding in the recruitment of today’s job seekers cannot be understated. Yet, many companies are lacking when it comes to building a brand that candidates find appealing. This can have profound impacts on the success (or lack thereof) of talent acquisition. There are many ways for companies to improve their employer branding, with a popular choice being the use of social media.

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[Infographic] Placements and Production in a Split Placement Network

Top Echelon Contracting

How successful are recruiters who participate in a split placement network? Are they struggling recruiters hoping that membership will allow them survive the profession? Hardly. In fact, Top Echelon conducted two polls of the recruiters in its split placement network. The post [Infographic] Placements and Production in a Split Placement Network appeared first on Top Echelon.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Championing Talent Acquisition Professionals

Brandon Hall

Talent acquisition professionals want their solution provider to help them navigate and benefit from the rapid technology innovations, and to strongly support them in their transition to the new technology or tool. I deeply admire talent acquisition professionals and their tenacity at helping their organizations find, attract, and hire quality talent that is aligned with their organization’s values, culture, and mission.

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WHAT ARE HIRING MANAGERS LOOKING FOR?

Recruiting Blogs

Tapping inside of the mind of a hiring manager is no easy task. Often, qualified candidates are dismissed because they do not meet the hiring manager's expectations which leaves many candidates wondering- what exactly are hiring managers expecting? Trying to pinpoint an exact skill-set would be impossible. But job seekers do not have to be left completely in the dark.

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Why Working From Home Is Good for Your Employees

Glassdoor for Employers

Working from home is more common than ever, with technology continually disrupting the landscape of how and where we can do our jobs. While many benefits exist for the company who provides work-from-home set-ups, such as savings in overhead and 24/7 accessibility to key players, equally as many benefits abound for employees who choose the work-from-home option.

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Effective Recruiting Strategies for Recruiters

Recruiting Blogs

The field of Recruitment has also evolved due to the changing times. Unlike the Traditional Recruiting Methods that weren’t very effective, the Modern Methods use Social Media as a recruiting strategy as it is not only cost effect but also speeds up the process. Nevertheless, for recruitment to be successful there are other aspects that have proved effective but in collaboration with Social media.

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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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5 Reasons Why Millennials Find Temporary Work Satisfying

AkkenCloud

The millennial generation has been in the workforce for several years now, and baby boomers and generations X and Y are starting to understand younger people’s new mentalities about employment. At first, some members of older generations considered millennials to be lazy because they weren’t getting jobs. However, the more the economy struggled, the more it became obvious that millennials were forced into having to think about employment in a different way.

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60% Employers Use Social Media to Screen Job Candidates

CareerBuilder

If you’ve ever found yourself accidentally checking out a job candidate’s wedding photo album on Facebook, cringing at a candidate’s Instagram quote, or following along with a candidate’s live-Tweeting of their run-in with Ryan Gosling at the grocery store – when all you initially meant to do was get a peek into their personalities and qualifications – you’re far from alone: Today, not only do the majority of employers go on social media to check up on candidates, but the number of those w

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Registration Now Open for Glassdoor’s 2016 Summit!

Glassdoor for Employers

We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Glassdoor Summit Sept 13-14 in San Francisco! The talent acquisition landscape is rapidly changing, and organizations now need to connect the dots between recruiting, talent attraction, and culture in order to stay in front. In its third year, the Glassdoor Summit is a one-of-a-kind event that brings together dynamic presenters to share how industry leaders are transforming employer branding and recruiting through transparency.

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Make Data-Driven Decisions Quickly Across Every Aspect of Your Business

TargetRecruit

It is challenging to grow any business without access to informative reports and analytics, and not useful if you do have access, but have bad data or missing data. When businesses collect data, it is an opportunity to gain insight about how the business functions. And the best results come from a fully digital, end-to-end platform that captures all of the business’ functions including marketing, sales, recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, workforce management, billing and customer satisfactio

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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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How to Use a New Talent Management Strategy to Win the Escalating Hiring Wars

Capterra

“People are our greatest asset.”. Does your company live this adage? We’ve heard this aphorism so often we’ve become numb to its profound truth. And for many, if not most organizations they are empty words. But if your organization wants to win the escalating and spreading global battle for talent , you’ll need to ensure they mean more than that. To win, you’ll need a new talent management strategy.

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How to Use Google Analytics to Measure Mobile Recruiting

ExactHire Recruiting

This isn’t a beginner’s guide to understanding analytics; however, even if you are new to recruitment analytics I encourage you to read this post for its tips for using Google Analytics to measure mobile recruiting activity. Then, find your favorite marketing department buddy and plan to explore Google Analytics with his or her assistance. Why Should You Track Recruitment Site Activity?

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How CEB is Using Employee-Led Groups to Foster Diversity and Inclusion

Linkedin Talent Blog

Considering they’re a company providing best practice insights, it makes sense that CEB would prioritize diversity. After all, there are countless studies out there that show diverse companies outperform non-diverse companies, along with creating larger societal benefits. What’s more interesting is to see how CEB goes about having a diverse workforce.

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Fear And Loathing Among Recruitment Leaders

The Whiteboard

I was fortunate enough to be involved in the RHUB Edge conference this week, which was focused (for a change) more towards the agency side of recruitment. There was not one single mention of some sourcing hack to squeeze a new Boolean string into some hitherto unheard of forum to coax out some purple unicorn IT developers, but plenty about productivity, lead generation, leadership, marketing and communicating.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Minimum Wages Around The World [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Minimum wages vary drastically throughout the world. Recent amendments in some US cities will make their minimum wages some of the highest in the world right up there with Australia, Luxembourg and France.

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How Hackathons Can Help You Re-imagine HR

Linkedin Talent Blog

People have a lot of opinions about HR, many of them negative. In fact, Peter Campelli addressed this issue in a recent article, “ Why We Love to Hate HR and What We Can Do About It.” According to him, the most vocal critics claim that HR managers “focus too much on ‘administrative’ and lack vision and strategic insights.”. And recently, HR has been trying to change this perception by moving beyond solely focusing on processes and effectiveness to creating compelling employee experiences.

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What’s happening at DevSKiller? #April2016

Devskiller

This year has already been very busy, we do feel that we are really going global! . Each month we start working with customers from new countries and our Month-over-Month for the third month in the row exceeded 100% growth. But enough about financials, in the past 4 months we’ve made a lot of big changes in DevSKiller to make it more flexible. We’ve been listening to our customer wishes and evolving so that it is more user-friendly and convenient to use.