Thu.Jun 09, 2016

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Jobseekers Swipe Right

The Whiteboard

There’s been a lot of interesting stuff shared by commentators from our recruitment community this week but something that really stood out for me was the article shared by Mark Sumner revealing SEEK’s large investment in the so-called “Tinder for Jobs” app Switch. Just like the prefix “Uber for…” denotes something with the potential to radically disrupt (but rarely actually does), so the prefix “Tinder for…” seems to denote something t

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This Is How You Add Personality To Your Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Whether you realize it or not, your company has a personality all its own. Your employees, values, and company culture all contribute to what makes your organization special. But does your hiring process let that uniqueness shine through? A 2015 LinkedIn survey found that 83 percent of job seekers would change their mind about a company after having a bad interview experience.

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Let's Get Realistic With Your Numbers

FireFish Software

Recruiters are often an optimistic bunch. They predict future sales with absolute certainty, but these deals don’t always pan out. This can lead to some uncomfortable conversations with managers in order to achieve what was forecasted. Now, at the half way point of the year, it’s important to take stock. You need to look at your numbers and honestly evaluate how likely you are to achieve your predictions.

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Why You Should Be A/B Testing Your Tech Job Listings

Stack Overflow

When it comes down to it, recruiting is an awful lot like marketing. So if marketers are constantly A/B testing their landing pages or calls-to-action, shouldn’t recruiters be doing the same for their job listings?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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This Is How You Make Working With Recruiters Easier

Entrepreneur

What to do when a recruiter may see a job candidate as a perfect fit but the hiring manager views them as a bad choice?

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Why Laughter Is the Life of the Office

Undercover Recruiter

Having a chuckle at work can have some serious benefits for your business. Not only does it affect employees’ wellbeing & state of mind, but it also can boost precision and productivity. Where has laughter gone? It’s been suggested that children laugh around 300 times a day, and an average adult laughs only 4… a statistic. View Article.

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Different Cultures, Different Ways to Find and Hire Employees

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Robson Barbosa from Selpe in Brazil. Selpe provides executive search services in the areas of automotive, mining, services, retail, healthcare, transportation, and construction. Robson serves as the NPAworldwide managing director for Latin America. According to the Harvard Business Review , hiring good people has been a challenge for over two thousand years.

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Your Time-to-Fill Fact Book

iCIMS

The time it takes to fill open positions continues to increase. Find out why it matters, and what to do about it, in our latest eBook.

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Why Were May’s Jobs Numbers So Low?

Indeed

Last week, I wrote that we were all on Fed watch , waiting to see if the results of the June jobs report would encourage the central bank to raise interest rates. But while consensus forecasts estimated the economy would add 160,000 jobs from May to June, the results came in far lower. The US economy only gained 38,000 jobs in May—a strong message to the Fed not to raise rates.

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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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Your Time-to-Fill Fact Book

iCIMS

The time it takes to fill open positions continues to increase. Find out why it matters, and what to do about it, in our latest eBook.

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Is Freelancing For You?

Undercover Recruiter

Scoring a full time job with a decent salary is no longer the ultimate career dream. These days, more and more people want flexibility, autonomy and better work-life balance. They want to be their own boss, manage their own schedules and buck the 9-5 trend. It’s not all that surprising that so many people are opting for. View Article. Is Freelancing For You?

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Your Time-to-Fill Fact Book

iCIMS

The time it takes to fill open positions continues to increase. Find out why it matters, and what to do about it, in our latest eBook.

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Big Data and Analytics: Digitizing Information To Get Ahead In Hiring & Business Performance

TargetRecruit

Over the last 100 years, most of life’s interactions involved paper in one way or another. Bank checks, birth certificates, property deeds, tax forms, receipts and tickets, paper money, newspapers, magazines, business cards…the list is endless. If the last age was the paper age, then this is definitely the digital age since we have seen, and continue to see, the digitization of everything in the list above.

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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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Employee retention, Islam style

Staffing Talk

" <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/Pierre_Roger92">@Pierre_Roger92</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Laure94100">@Laure94100</a> enfin un citoyen responsable qui vacue ses poubelles. je lui dis Bravo ! <a href="https://t.co/8klai1HpYc">pic.twitter.com/8klai1HpYc</a></p>&mdash;… [.

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When and How Recruiters Negotiate a Conversion Fee

Top Echelon Contracting

One of the beauties of contract staffing is the opportunity to earn a conversion fee on top of your hourly recruiter income if your client decides to hire the contractor direct. In order to get that fee, you need to have a. The post When and How Recruiters Negotiate a Conversion Fee appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Obama judge blocks move to recover homecare wages stolen by union

Staffing Talk

" From the Free Beacon:A federal judge appointed by Barack Obama blocked Illinois home health aides from recovering dues money they say was illegally withdrawn from their checks by labor giant Service Employees International Union.District Court Judge Manish Shah denied class action status to three home health aides attempting… [.

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A Physician Incentive Plan that Works

Harger Howe Recruitment

When it comes to recruiting physicians , incentives are a key element in the process, but what incentives are the most valuable to them? How do you decide where to put your recruitment budget dollars? Well, the Merritt Hawkins’ 2016 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives provides just such insights into what really matters.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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LinkedIn losing its base: "spits in my face"

Staffing Talk

" From "Recruiters who actually make placements":It figures! First day in a long time I want to use Linkedin I keep getting "Sorry, there was a problem processing your request. Please try again."What a P.o.S.Seriously. :( I get on there from time to time and poke around. I looked at, maybe 20 profiles yesterday… [.

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Contingency versus Retainer model

Recruiting Blogs

The recruiting industry is a fast growing one, and with the world of recruiting becoming an international scene, in the past five years or so we have witnessed a growth in both numbers of recruiters and in the variety of solutions. Yet, when you get down to it, in the matter of deal-types, there are still only two - Contingency and Retainer. Two models, both offer unique advantages for the trade.

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Video confrontation with the crookedest union/employment-agency of them all

Staffing Talk

" Video. Clinton union friend advised undercover reporter to lie and defraud school officials about abuse<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII">@JamesOKeefeIII</a> Confronts Clinton-Tied Union Official Who Advised… [.

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5 Interesting Things in Recruiting This Week

Recruiting Blogs

As Friday approaches and the weekend nears I wanted to point out some things that caught my eye this week. 1. Pomato , an AI for recruiting startup has some thoughts on the 'artificial intelligent' recruiter and what the future holds. . [link] 2. Expensify , a global startup that makes expense reports better release some of their own visual recruitment ads that help tell their story.

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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Dear modern women: Dogs are not your children

Staffing Talk

" <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dear modern women: Dogs are not your children. <a href="https://t.co/a7pWdNmmZJ">https://t.co/a7pWdNmmZJ</a></p>&mdash; Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/739975625902022656">June… [.

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Using Social Media to Vet Your Future Employees

Recruiting Blogs

These days, almost everything you put is online. And some companies are taking advantage of this to go over social media and find more information about candidates than they could cover with just a job interview. But not all companies are doing this. A 2011 survey from the Society of Human Resource Management showed that just 18 percent of companies used social networking websites to screen job candidates, and more recent numbers have increased that to just two in five.

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RecruiterMoe: The Goofball Awakens.

Good To Know

…a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. Umm… hmmm. Bad start. Maybe… Alright, I’ve been staring at an empty screen for a while now. Figured I needed to types something.

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Feeling Unchallenged? Six Rewarding Careers That Don't Get Boring

Recruiting Blogs

Challenge is one of the many spices of life. It can keep even the most repetitive careers interesting, and drive you to excel. The challenge is finding the right career path that continues to challenge you. Let's explore six careers that will always make you feel challenged. . Astrophysics. Calculating the movements of bodies too large to grasp and too far away to touch is one thing; simulating how they will interact with other bodies is an entirely different thing.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor has created an open enrollment sample letter (with a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today!

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Lamenting income inequality in a $12k Armani coat

Staffing Talk

" Lamenting income inequality in a $12k Armani coat [.

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Recruitment Challenges Staffing Firms faces and Opportunities that Automated ATS Brings

Recruiting Blogs

With the dynamism that each industry is turning to and the paradigm shift in customer demand and needs, it becomes imperative to automate the applicant tracking system. Every recruitment agency has its own set of unique business needs that a customized ATS can fulfill. Albeit, the ultimate objective remains same – Increase in productivity by automating workflows, business processing and faster and accurate communication channels to catapult bottom line profitability!

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Why Your Company Can’t Attract Good People

Glassdoor for Employers

Weary from the challenges of finding good people to work for your company, you virtually have given up. Sure, you have a.

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