Wed.Jul 17, 2019

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Candidate Sourcing: Your Perfect-Fit Strategy - Breezy HR

Breezy HR

Want a candidate pipeline that puts you ahead of the competition? It's time to get proactive. Check out our guide to building your own candidate sourcing strategy.

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Celebrating Emojis: How Emojis Have Made Recruiting Fun AND More Effective

Jobvite

Who doesn’t love seeing a ??, ??, or even a ?? in a text response? Can you beat the instantaneous feeling of relief and satisfaction you get in seeing a positive emoji response, knowing that your message landed? It’s crazy to think that it wasn’t long ago that, both in our personal and professional lives, we would send an email full of sensitive information, or just plain full of feelings, and then we’d agonize for hours (ok, some of us may have obsessed a couple of days) at the inevitable email

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If You Want to Attract Remote Candidates, You’ve Got to Speak the Language

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Content that speaks directly to candidates and provides them with the information they are looking for during their job search process is one of your best ways to attract and engage talent and get them to hit that “Sign up for our talent network” or — better yet — that “Apply” button. But what if the content you have isn’t quite hitting the mark, especially when it concerns a growing trend among job seekers?

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High Employee Turnover? Keep Your Top Performers

ApplicantPro

Earlier this year I spoke at a conference for auto dealers and talked with a guy running a department at a dealership with 100% employee turnover. One. Hundred. Percent. Now, the average auto dealer has about 75% turnover--higher than the 60% retail turnover rate, and the food services industry turnover rate that's slightly higher. And it's a great deal higher than the ~20% employee turnover rate across all industries.

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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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3 Ways to Improve Engagement With Prospects When Recruiting

RecruitLoop

Recruiters often tell us the challenges they face when engaging potential candidates. Read the tips below on how to use multiple platforms to successfully engage with your prospects.

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Candidate Engagement

Crelate

Are you engaging the right candidates? How are you measuring engagement? Making sure your job postings and communications reach the right audience of qualified candidates is a constant challenge in the recruiting and staffing industry. Addressing the needs of potential candidates is important, and you should measure what works best to stay on top of recruiting the best talent.

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The Definitive Definition of an A Player

Recruiter

Perhaps no element of human resources and talent management is more misunderstood, and in some cases controversial, than the notion of an "A player," or top-performing employee. Once the subject is broached, the conversation immediately turns to questions about whether it is possible to build a team entirely of A players — and if doing so is even a good idea.

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Why Do You Need an Employee Referral Platform?

EmployeeReferrals.com

Even companies that have well-established applicant tracking systems may not be getting the most bang for the buck when it comes to employee referrals because they don’t have dedicated employee referral software. So what does employee referral software do? There are three main components to an effective employee referral platform: Keep track of jobs, referral candidates, hires, and referrers.

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Leaving Is Easy — Keeping Employees on Board Is Hard: 4 Retention Tips for a Tight Talent Market

Recruiter

In today's tight talent market, with the US unemployment rate recently hitting a 49-year low, unhappy employees can simply switch jobs without much hassle. However, turnover is still extremely costly for the organization, making employee retention as important as ever. Since I cofounded BIA nearly 20 years ago, it has been a priority of mine to create and maintain an environment where people actually want to come to work, and.

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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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The Best Sourcing Tool

Recruiting Daily

I’m sure you have seen vendor sponsored white papers galore that claim that they have created the best sourcing tool ever known to humanity. It is AI powered, comes in a variety of colors is inexpensive and even does the dishes! While the dishes pile up on me I’d like to also, respectfully, refute […].

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How to Get Your Recruiters Engaged With Your New Tech

FireFish Software

When you’re introducing brand new technology into your business, getting your recruiters to fully engage with the product and use it properly is vital if you want to avoid wasting your time, and even worse – your money.

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What Interviews Can Tell Us About Long-Term Culture Fit

Forbes Human Resources Council

Committing to culture add means finding connections in interviews, especially when they aren’t always obvious.

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Candidate Engagement

Crelate

Are you engaging the right candidates? How are you measuring engagement? Making sure your job postings and communications reach the right audience of qualified candidates is a constant challenge in the recruiting and staffing industry. Addressing the needs of potential candidates is important, and you should measure what works best to stay on top of recruiting the best talent.

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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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12 Considerations For Implementing Nontraditional Working Hours

Forbes Human Resources Council

Moving toward nontraditional work hours is starting to become a popular trend for many companies, but is it the right choice for yours? Find out with this insight from Forbes Human Resources Council experts.

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Candidate Engagement

Crelate

Are you engaging the right candidates? How are you measuring engagement? Making sure your job postings and communications reach the right audience of qualified candidates is a constant challenge in the recruiting and staffing industry. Addressing the needs of potential candidates is important, and you should measure what works best to stay on top of recruiting the best talent.

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5 Reasons You Shouldn't Post Jobs Manually

PandoLogic

In your role as a talent manager, your goal is likely to hire high-quality talent ideal for your open positions as quickly and efficiently as possible. The key to this task is to conserve your time and spending, which is.

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Why — and How — Your Company Should Embrace Older Workers

Linkedin Talent Blog

More than half of Americans over the age of 50 are being pushed out of their jobs, long before they’re ready to retire, according to a recent study from ProPublica and the Urban Institute. And research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business found, unambiguously, that: “A lot of Americans who are sitting at home not working want to be working.”.

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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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Why Every Company Should Write Its Own Obituary

Recruiter

Why work? The reasonable response might once have been "to make money," and for some that's still true. But as our economy has evolved and work options have proliferated, the answer has changed for a growing majority of people. These days, many of us want more than just a paycheck. To find, keep, and motivate great talent, businesses leaders must identify and share with the world why working at their organization is about achieving something more, together.

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Why Do You Need an Employee Referral Platform?

EmployeeReferrals.com

Even companies that have well-established applicant tracking systems may not be getting the most bang for the buck when it comes to employee referrals because they don’t have dedicated employee referral software. So what does employee referral software do? There are three main components to an effective employee referral platform: Keep track of jobs, referral candidates, hires, and referrers Provide tools for employees to make referrals Facilitate engagement with employees Tracking Companies tha

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Effective Recruitment Job Advertising Methods for Headhunters

Top Echelon Contracting

Okay, so we have recruitment marketing and recruitment advertisement (or recruitment advertising). Although they sound like they might be the same thing, there is a difference between the two. What exactly is that difference? Recruitment marketing involves gaining more exposure.

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7 Great Reasons to Be a Travel Nurse!

BlueSky

It’s no secret that many nurses and healthcare workers are passionate about their work and find it very rewarding. But, some medical professionals have carved out an even more unique career path that affords special opportunity. These folks work as travel nurses.

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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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Careers Site FAQs: How They Help Candidates — and You

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Candidates need more than a job description and a ready-to-go resume to submit an application. Sure, those are important components, but job seekers want more than that. They want an in-depth look at a variety of factors about your company, including what it’s like to work there, what your culture is like and what the application process entails. As a Recruitment Marketing and employer branding practitioner, you know how crucial this information is, and how you need to include it on your careers

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Talent Board Candidate Experience Workshop - Chicago

ConveyIQ

ConveyIQ is excited to sponsor the next the Talent Board Candidate Experience Half-Day Workshop in Chicago on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify - Recruiting

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. In her role, Lopez is responsible for providing vision and leadership to the diversity, inclusion, and equity program across Cision’s global orga

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What Recruiters *Really* Want in an ATS – Part 1

Newton Software

Recruiting is one of the most demanding roles available in today’s fast-paced job market. So many industries have a major need for talented candidates. This means recruiters must work overtime to connect quality candidates with their dream jobs. There are many technology solutions and software platforms available to help recruiters manage the multi-dimensional requirements of their jobs.

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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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Celebrating Emojis: How Emojis Have Made Recruiting Fun AND More Effective

Jobvite

Who doesn’t love seeing a ??, ??, or even a ?? in a text response? Can you beat the instantaneous feeling of relief and satisfaction you get in seeing a positive emoji response, knowing that your message landed? It’s crazy to think that it wasn’t long ago that, both in our personal and professional lives, we would send an email full of sensitive information, or just plain full of feelings, and then we’d agonize for hours (ok, some of us may have obsessed a couple of days) at the inevitable email

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4 Ways to Build Agile Teams Using People Analytics

Visier - Talent Acquisition

It’s no wonder that “disrupt or be disrupted” has become a popular business adage. The average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 is projected to shrink to just 12 years by 2027 (it was 24 years in 2016). . As a result, established incumbents are scrambling to survive and transform into startup-like agile organizations. But the term “agile organization” may actually be a misnomer. .

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How to Drive Technology Adoption at a 200-Year-Old Company

Yello

This STRIVE 2019 session recap is based on a presentation by Norfolk Southern. . At well-established companies with decades of structures and processes in place, it can be challenging to transition to new ways of working. Adopting new technologies, changing mindsets within the organization, and communicating change in a positive and efficient way can be an uphill battle.

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