Tue.May 10, 2016

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The Key to Reducing Employee Turnover is to Begin During Recruitment

Lever

Employee turnover can be devastating to your organization. It can cost you anywhere from 30% to 400% of your employee’s annual salary, including recruitment and training costs, reduced productivity, and lost opportunities. As the talent shortage worsens, this cost will only increase as it takes longer to identify and hire qualified talent. Smart organizations are looking at ways to reduce turnover throughout their entire employment lifecycle — beginning with the recruitment process.

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The Rise and Rise of the “Glassdoor Generation”

Social Talent

When you researched your last holiday, did you look to see what other people had said about the hotel before you booked it? When you made a reservation at that Italian restaurant last weekend, did you do so on the back of a friend’s recommendation or the customer reviews you had read about it? Or when you were last searching for that big ticket item, did you check out which brands were most highly rated among your peers?

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How To Adapt Your Hiring Process For Video Interviewing

Spark Hire

Video interviewing makes adding talent to your team easier, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before. Instead of having to waste time shuffling candidates in for first-round interviews — only to find that they simply aren’t qualified for the position — you can quickly watch dozens of one-way video responses from interested individuals.

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10 Ways Having Happy Employees Can Increase Profit

RecruitLoop

Here are 10 things you can do immediately to ensure you have happy employees and improve your bottom line.

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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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Newton Bootcamps – Offering a Recruiting Expert Community Since 2014

Newton Software

Flex Your Hiring Muscles With Newton Bootcamps. At Newton, our mission is to improve the practices of hiring managers and recruiters everywhere. Sure, we sell an applicant tracking system, but being a “vendor” is not what defines us. Rather, we like to think of ourselves as a partner to any talent acquisition practitioner interested in their personal growth, career development and becoming a recruiting expert!

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Split Placement Etiquette: 6 Rules for Success

NPA Worldwide

NPAworldwide turns 60 this year. Our members have made a LOT of split placements during that time. We think we’ve learned a few things about how to succeed at splits. While it’s true there are a lot of different ways to be successful, there is some split placement etiquette to follow that can make it a smoother process. Below are a few tips whether you are supplying the job or the candidate: If you have the job….

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SEO 101 for Talent Acquisition

Symphony Talent

SEO 101 for Talent Acquisition from SmashFly Technologies In a world where 76% of candidates spend time searching and researching information about employers before they ever apply, a competitive advantage lies in understanding how SEO can improve your career site, content and job ads. SmashFly’s Digital Marketer (and aptly named “SEO Joe”) Joe Brady discusses.

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Lessons from our Recruitment Marketing Masterclass

Workable

Companies are working harder than ever to fill their jobs with qualified candidates. The knock-on effect of this is that recruiting has come to resemble marketing more closely than ever before. The emergence of new job requirements, often spurred by globalization and technological advances, have created skills shortages around the world. As a result recruitment marketing is no longer a shiny “nice to have” it’s now an essential part of an employer’s strategy.

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What Self-Taught Programmers Want Employers to Know

Stack Overflow

Self-taught programmers are on the rise. In fact, 69% of developers we surveyed this year said they are at least partially self-taught while 13% said they are only self-taught. While some developers are still learning the traditional way (the route of earning a Computer Science degree), many are studying in new and innovate ways , such as through coding boot camps, online tutorials, or from on-the-job training.

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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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How to Plan Your Career Around Digital Disruption

Undercover Recruiter

Regardless of how hard we try, the reality is that the world of work is changing on a global scale. Existing job roles will shift to meet the demands of a new work environment, and these shifts will vary across industries, businesses and employees. What we don’t know now, we need to know tomorrow, and what. View Article. How to Plan Your Career Around Digital Disruption.

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Robot-Proof Jobs and the Skills Gap of the Future

CareerBuilder

In March 2016, Google’s Alpha Go program beat one of the best Go players in the world, Lee Sedol. Google’s program performance is based on its ability to learn without being explicitly told what to do. Programs like Alpha Go will continue to become more and more common, and, at some point, will likely be able to replace workers in many jobs. Right now, some of the positions most researched by employers include administrative assistant and business development manager.

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AI is Coming at Recruitment Like a Speeding Train

Good To Know

Brilliant article by my friend Rob McIntosh just came out, on the SourceCon sub of ERE.

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7 ways cRPO can boost contingent worker value proposition

Allegis Global Solutions

As the contingent workforce grows, offering these workers a strong value proposition is key.

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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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CASE STUDY: 5 Keys to Recruiting Success à la Dave Sgro

Top Echelon Contracting

[A note from the editor: We’ve often highlighted the successes of our customers over on The Pinnacle, our blog for Top Echelon Network members. But now, we’ve decided to run a case study series on our public Recruiter Training blog, too. Our hope is that. The post CASE STUDY: 5 Keys to Recruiting Success à la Dave Sgro appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Deduping Data Matters: The Hidden Costs of Duplicate Data

People Data Labs

Hello, this is Laura from the Department of Redundancy Department.

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Why Recruiters Should Get Familiar with What Their Technologies Can and Can’t Provide

Entelo

One of the biggest challenges recruiters face is learning how to use different networks and platforms effectively to find people. Working with a handful of search tools and browsing through dozens of sites to source candidates isn’t productive unless you know how to use and combine these resources to their full advantage. We spoke with Irina Shamaeva, founder of the People Sourcing Certification Program , to share her thoughts on what recruiting technologies provide and how recruiters can take a

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The Price of “mis-recruiting”

Recruiting Blogs

Have you ever wondered why it takes so much time for companies to hire a candidate? As per recent research by iCIMS, the average time to fill-up a position was 44 days in 2015. Recruiting a right candidate is crucial for a business, especially small businesses, because if you hire a bad candidate to start with, the ability to succeed in everything is nearly compromised. .

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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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CASE STUDY: 5 Keys to Recruiting Success à la Dave Sgro

Top Echelon Contracting

[A note from the editor: We’ve often highlighted the successes of our customers over on The Pinnacle, our blog for Top Echelon Network members. But now, we’ve decided to run a case study series on our public Recruiter Training blog, too. Our hope is that. The post CASE STUDY: 5 Keys to Recruiting Success à la Dave Sgro appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Ziprecruiter, LinkedIn: Fraudulent Job Postings and Sharing Your Job Candidates

Recruiting Blogs

Hey Recruiters: It's time to turn on the lights and chase the cockroaches out. The story below is real and happened just this past week. It’s a story of fraud and one that has real world implications on my business. If you haven’t heard the radio commercials for Zip Recruiter, you must listen to some remote C & W station from Muleshoe, Texas. . My latest experience with Zip Recruiter.

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Lower Your Recruitment Stress by Retaining Top Talent

Harger Howe Recruitment

Retaining top talent is equally as important as running new recruitment initiatives and should be thought of as a symbiotic relationship. When a recruiter is tasked with many searches, sometimes existing employees get forgotten (even ones that were just hired!) When employees start to feel lost in the shuffle, they start looking for new positions where they feel more valued.

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How to Measure Work Ethic When Hiring Salespeople

Recruiting Blogs

Sales is undergoing a data-backed hiring revolution. What does that mean for you? It means that sales hiring, where decisions have always been dubiously based on “intuition” and “gut-feel,” is stepping up to the big-data plate and looking for a home run. Remember the movie Moneyball ? Brad Pitt, general manager of the Oakland A's outsmarts the richer ball clubs using data science, effectively building the dream team based on analytics alone.

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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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Recruiters’ Catch22: How to Define your Social ROI

Social Talent

Social has taken the recruitment world by storm. It has now become a core component of the marketing strategies for many recruiters, HR professionals and talent acquisition managers. What has accelerated this even more is the ubiquity of mobile which has been incorporated into our daily lives, enabling us to get instant access to social networking sites.

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4 Recruiting Hacks That Will Get You the Best Candidates Every Time

Recruiting Blogs

With the recovery of the United States economy unfolding at a solid pace, the scales of the job market have tipped in favor of candidates. From about 2008 to 2012, the American job marketplace was paradise for employers due to the sheer availability of qualified candidates; however, that is no longer the case. Employers are increasingly turning to job recruiters for the purpose of finding the best people to join their staff at a time when competition is tight among hiring managers.

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Sourcing talent: The best methods for filling your talent pool

Workable

Posting jobs on job boards, getting employee referrals and working with recruiters can only get you so far. For a sustainable approach to sourcing candidates and recruiting at your growing company, it’s crucial to begin to grow your talent pool. This is the database of potential candidates that could end up working at your company down the line. Every time you’re hiring you should think of it as a fishing expedition.

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5 iPhone Apps That Are Changing The Way Business Is Done

Recruiting Blogs

A business needs many tools to help them be successful no matter how big or small they are. It is up to the owner of the business to make sure that they make these tools available. In the modern world of today, smart phones have given businesses a new way to operate. For many, a smartphone can provide a competitive advantage. It can increase the efficiency of all of the employees of the business, it can improve communication for the business and it can help market a business.

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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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Can You Use Your Total Rewards Program to Motivate Employees?

HRsoft

Today more so than ever before, employers are taking a keen interest in determining what drives employee motivation. While there are certainly some performance management and managerial tactics that can be used to make employees more goal-oriented and committed at work, many business leaders wonder about the role of rewards in employee motivation – specifically, can an employer’s total rewards program drive motivation?

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9 Buzzwords You Don’t Want to Ruin Your Job Descriptions

Recruiting Blogs

You need to hire someone. It’s time to sit down and write that job description! “Let’s make it really special,” you think. “Can’t just call it a plain, old marketer, developer, or sales position. Let’s add awesome adjectives and nouns! Like ninja marketer, rockstar developer, and sales guru!”. Sure. There you have it: what others call “buzzwords.” They may sound cool, but they don’t really capture candidates’ attention in a good way.

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Are You Asking Your Employees this Critical Stay Interview Question?

HRsoft

Today, turnover is costing businesses a significant amount of money, and the prospects for the future of employee retention aren’t so bright, either. Millennials (who will make up roughly half of the workplace within four years) typically stay with a company for an average of just two years, according to Huffington Post. While these higher turnover rates may simply be a reflection of the changing business landscape, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing that can be done to improve employee rete