Tue.Apr 04, 2023

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Reskilling vs Upskilling: What's the Difference? | ClearCompany

ClearCompany Recruiting

The pandemic kicked off a persistent labor shortage — more than 50 million people quit during the Great Resignation. Today, labor force participation is at just 62% , and 87% of companies expect to face shortages over the next few years. And there’s a mismatch between available talent and open jobs, meaning businesses are having a hard time hiring new employees with the right skills.

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Things to know when considering using a Recruiter

ApplicantPro

Recruiters. We've all heard of them. A lot of us have used them or have been recruited by them. And, if you're a hiring manager with an open position you're currently struggling to hire for, you may even be toying with the idea of using a recruiter right now. Before you turn to recruiters, here are a few things you should consider. What is a Recruiter?

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Social Media and Employer Brand Awareness

ExactHire Recruiting

“Don’t use social media to impress people. Use it to impact people.” This quote by Dave Willis, an author, accentuates the power of social media in today’s society. Companies are vying for customers to buy their products and services along with competing fervently for key talent. To establish a competitive edge in recruitment and sales, companies seek to reach a global audience through their use of social platforms.

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Have you heard about Indeed's new policy?

ApplicantPro

Have you heard about Indeed's new policy? Indeed has over 300 million visitors EVERY month! They also deliver over 2 TIMES as many hires GLOBALLY as their competitors do. As the #1 job board in the world, there's no doubt that getting applicant traffic from Indeed is essential! And making sure we're always following Indeed's policies will help to ensure your job visibility is not harmed in any way.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Reimagining Leadership in a Hybrid World, with L. David Kingsley

Social Talent

Leadership has undergone a monumental transformation over the last few years. With the proliferation of hybrid work and a growing awareness and appreciation of the need for flexibility, it’s drastically altered how employees want leaders to show up for them. The why has become so important, particularly around where and how we work. It’s not enough to just simply demand compliance and enact arbitrary rules – leadership must evolve to cater for a new way of working, one which values

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Job Hopping Bias: What Recruiters Can Do

Katrina Kibben

Job hopping myths need a reality (and data) check. Why is job hopping a bad thing, anyway? Here's how recruiters can help change that POV. The post Job Hopping Bias: What Recruiters Can Do appeared first on Katrina Kibben's Blog.

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Top Tips on Managing Salary Expectations of Your Recruitment Candidates

FireFish Software

With the current market situation being still very much candidate-driven, it shouldn’t shock you as a recruiter that salary is going to continue to be a huge part of the conversation with any potential candidate you’re trying to place. Most employers across all sectors plan at least a 4% salary increase for their employees, with a quarter budgeting for 5%-7% increase.

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The Real Cost Of Training A New Hire

Vervoe

While training a new hire can be challenging, it is an essential part of building a strong team and maintaining a successful business. Although the process requires patience, time, and effort, in the long run, it can be a rewarding experience for both the new hire and the company in question. Unfortunately, many organizations misjudge the true cost of training a new hire and make the mistake of assuming that the primary expenditure is their agreed-upon salary.

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Employee Handbook Telework Policies

Recruiting Daily Advisor

COVID-19 changed the face of the employment environment for the foreseeable future and beyond. With the proliferation of remote work arrangements, it is essential for employers to define their policies, requirements, and eligibility to engage in remote work programs in order to streamline the process, establish expectations, and avoid legal entanglements.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Swinging for the Fences: How Kraig Sanders Went From Umpiring to Empowering PrismHR’s Partnership Program

Prism HR

Baseball is underway with the start of the 2023 season, so we caught up with Kraig Sanders to find out more about how he went from umpiring in the minor leagues to sliding into his current role as PrismHR’s director of partnerships. Today, Sanders is called upon to help PrismHR’s robust network of Marketplace partners offer integrated HR solutions—human resources not home runs; well, on second thought, actually both—to PrismHR customers, their small and mid-sized businesses and their employees.

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How Some Companies Hire Fewer People Yet Grow Faster

Recruiting Daily Advisor

When growing your business, think twice before adding to your personnel; it might not be necessary. In fact, adding to your labor costs could make it harder to reach your organization’s scaling goals. It’s a common misconception that if you want to see massive growth, you need to onboard additional people. This common belief—infiltrating circles of seasoned entrepreneurs and HR executives—often stems from the fact that it’s relatively easy to understand and measure the impact o

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Top 10 Recruiting KPIs & How Recruiters Can Achieve It?

Recruiters Lineup

Recruiting is a critical process in any organization. Getting the right people in the right roles can be the difference between success and failure. Therefore, it is essential to measure the success of recruitment efforts. Recruiting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the metrics that recruiters can use to measure and evaluate their recruitment strategies.

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Pros and Cons of Employee Retreats

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Employee retreats—where staff spend time together off-site for anywhere from a half day to multiple days—are being considered in a new light in the post-COVID, hybrid work world. In a still largely remote workplace without water cooler discussions and chance hallway run-ins, such retreats can represent a rare opportunity for facetime and unstructured bonding.

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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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Should I Quit My Job?

Zengig

We all have bad days at work. But if your bad days have turned into bad weeks or months, a pressing question may have crept its way into your head: should I quit my job? It’s one of the biggest professional decisions you’ll make and one with the potential to change the trajectory of your career significantly, so quitting isn’t something to take lightly.

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The 5 Advantages and Disadvantages of Job Hopping

Acara Solutions

Job hopping is the act of changing jobs frequently within a relatively short time period. In the past, employers may have viewed job hopping negatively as it could be seen as a lack of commitment or stability. However, in today’s job market, frequent job transitions are becoming more common as employees seek new experiences, opportunities for growth, and better work-life balance.

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Dealing with career obstacles in the recruiting field

WizardSourcer

Numerous recruiters and talent sourcing professionals have faced layoffs in recent times. There has been a noticeable increase in conversations around the instability within the recruiting industry. Regrettably, this is not an uncommon occurrence within our field. When companies need to adapt or alter their direction rapidly, talent acquisition teams are often the first to be affected.

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Image-to-Prompt in Midjourney

Boolean Strings

Midjourney has just released an amazing feature, invoked by the command /describe. You can upload an image and get four sample prompts to draw in Midjourney. This is “image-to-text” that creates only remote likeness to the subject. (I suppose photos of famous people and such may be better replicated). Instead, it creates four fantasies. Of course, you can edit the prompts as you wish.

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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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How To Get The Most Out Of Personality Assessments In The Workplace

Forbes Human Resources Council

Here are some dos and don’ts for using personality assessments to optimize your talent and employee growth strategy.

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Tailoring Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy While on a Budget

Recruiting Daily

For recruitment professionals, finding talent that can contribute to the company can be challenging — even more so if you’re on a low budget. If you find yourself in this situation, here are a few tips for setting up a recruitment marketing strategy on a budget. Use Virtual Recruitment Strategies One of the most incredible things about the 21st century is the ability to get to know potential hires online instead of face-to-face.

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Why We Need Resilient Leaders To Tackle The Future

Forbes Human Resources Council

Resilience goes hand in hand with adaptability and agility – the top two leadership qualities linked to driving change and altering a company’s direction.

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How To Make A Workplace Flexible

RecruitLoop

Summary: Flexibility in the workplace can have several important benefits. Most employees rate higher satisfaction with their jobs if they’re flexible, as well as having higher productivity. Talent acquisition and retention are also positively affected by allowing flexible schedules.

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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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How To Treat Talent Like Customers

Forbes Human Resources Council

What if companies treated their current and prospective talent with the same care and attention they devote to customers?

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How To Give An Employee Warning (With Template)

RecruitLoop

Summary. An employee warning is an official way for an organization to inform an employee that their conduct is not up to the organization’s standards. This can be either in regard to low performance or to other behavior that violates the code of conduct, such as altercations with other employees or excessive absenteeism.

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Candidate Experience Surveys: Essential Questions to Ask and How to Drive Results

Recruiting Daily

Candidate experience is a priority for hiring teams and HR professionals – and for good reason. The candidate drop-off rate for people who click on apply but never complete the application is 92%. Your employer brand can be made or broken, based on how you interact with candidates. In this blog post, we go over the basics of candidate experience surveys, why you should include them in your recruitment stack, and how to evaluate the results.

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How To Make A Workplace Flexible

RecruitLoop

Summary: Flexibility in the workplace can have several important benefits. Most employees rate higher satisfaction with their jobs if they’re flexible, as well as having higher productivity. Talent acquisition and retention are also positively affected by allowing flexible schedules.

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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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A Tale of Strikes, Skills and Economic Uncertainty

The Staffing Stream

The first quarter of 2023 has certainly kept the recruitment market on its toes. With strike action continuing across the public sector, the chancellor’s first official budget and a “will we, won’t we” question around the UK entering a recession (which at the time of writing stood in the latter category), it’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride. But the staffing sector continues to show its resilience to the constant economic challenges.

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Responsibilities Of Middle Management

RecruitLoop

Summary: Middle management is a very broad category that covers a lot of management positions. Generally, it’s defined as a manager that primarily manages managers but reports to a higher-level manager. The larger the organization, the more middle managers it’s likely to have.

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The Role of Storytelling in Creating Compelling VideoJobs®

Digi-Me

The true strength of any business lies in its employees. Whether we talk about managers, data analysts, or any other role, they are responsible for maintaining and managing business processes. That is why companies invest a lot of resources into recruiting young talents and experienced professionals. However, employee requirements are changing rapidly.

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