Mon.Feb 20, 2017

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Nine changes recruiters must make – now!

Greg Savage

Everyone is telling recruiters they need to change. Hey, half my blogs touch on the same theme! So, you might be thinking, “OK, I get it. Change is key. But specifically, in what areas is this change meant to take place?” Good question!

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Social Media In Hiring…Fair Use or Unfair Access?

ExactHire Recruiting

A colleague asked a thought provoking question the other day…Do companies address social media in hiring, and if so, how? Good question. In a world where the hiring process is meant to be black and white in order to make an effective hiring decision based on an applicant’s professional experience, how do employers address a gray area of accidental or intentional viewing of applicants’ social media profiles within the hiring process?

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Sigmar’s CCO Talks National Employment Week & The Talent Summit

Social Talent

This week I had the pleasure of catching up with Sigmar’s CCO, Robert MacGiolla Phadraig, where he explained to me the process behind The National Employment Week as well as who’ll be speaking at the upcoming Talent Summit on Wednesday, 1st March. Here’s what he had to say. Q: Sigmar launched The National Employment Week back in 2011.

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Mobile Recruiting: Here's the Guide You Can't Live Without

Entrepreneur

Mobile recruiting is a great tool; but one wrong move, and a serious hiring mistake could be made. Here's how to avoid that.

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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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How Will Generation Z Affect the Workplace?

Glassdoor for Employers

No two generations are the same. The attitudes, passions, strengths and weaknesses of each generation are molded by the world around them.

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How To Make Better First Impressions On Candidates During the Hiring Process

Spark Hire

While job seekers are focused on wowing hiring managers in order to snag an offer, it’s equally important that those tasked with finding new talent make a positive impression, too. As the job market gets more competitive for hiring managers, a strong first impression helps your business stand out and continue to attract the most qualified professionals that your field has to offer.

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How to Set Up a Recruitment Agency Without an Office

FireFish Software

For a new recruitment agency owner, the dream is a brand-new office, with city views, gleaming computer screens, an expensive barista style coffee machine, and big, comfy leather chairs. But, with remote working, cloud software, and the average cost of a single desk in London's Zone 1 sitting at £790 per month, a physical office space might not be the best investment for an agency just starting out.

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Top 10 Employee Referral Reward Ideas

TalentLyft

Many HR professionals say that referrals are their best employees. They get hired faster, they learn faster, they are more loyal and stay longer with a company. Thus, having a well structured employee referral reward program is extremely important. Use this list of top employee referral reward ideas to encourage your existing employees to refer friends and family for your open job positions.

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9 Steps to Creating an Amazing First Week for Your New Hire

CareerBuilder

You’ve found someone with the talent and passion to truly make an impact on your small business. Now, do everything you can to help your new hire feel welcome and important. Use these nine tips to create an effective, unforgettable first week that will set the tone for a prosperous tenure at your small business. No. 1: Get bureaucracy out of the way.

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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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8 Indications Your ATS is So Five Years Ago

MightyRecruiter

Back in the 80s while the whole world was busy being captivated by the likes of Care Bears, the original Nintendo, and of course a plethora of hair metal, some computer scientists were hard at work building the first known Applicant Tracking System (ATS), which would revolutionize the way people find and hire talent. Fast forward to 2017, and believe it or not, some of the original ATS providers are still in the market.

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Why Talent Attraction is the Most Important Function in Your Business

Undercover Recruiter

Anybody I talk to who is super smart, recognise how important the alignment between core business strategy and talent attraction is. However, as I discussed in September after I went to the LikeMinds conference – very rarely do businesses see it that way, or more crucially – rarely do TA specialists genuinely get called in for c-suite. View Article.

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10 Ways to Re-energise Your Team for 2017

RecruitLoop

Now is the perfect time to ensure the team is back into the swing of things. Here are 10 ways to re-energise the team to help make 2017 the best year yet.

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9 DIY Headhunting Tips for Small Businesses

Undercover Recruiter

What do you do, as an in-house recruiter, when your favourite agencies have tried and failed to find suitable candidates for a key role? You might commission an executive search firm to run a headhunt, but that may not be feasible in a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) where costs might be prohibitive. Also, some. View Article. 9 DIY Headhunting Tips for Small Businesses.

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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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The Candidate Experience: Perspectives on Video Interviews, Assessments and Hiring.

mroads

In some ways, hiring looks very similar to what it did twenty years ago. People search for positions, indicate interest, and are filtered down until the most promising candidate is offered a job. However, the technology we use has upgraded considerably over time. Today employers have tools to increase efficiency and efficacy, including video interviews, automated assessments, and more.

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Top 10 Questions About Background Checks from HR Professionals [Infographic]

HireRight

We understand that background checks can seem complex and intimidating. There is not a "one size fits all" approach to a background check program. In order to help diffuse some of the mystery in background screening, we have collected various questions from HR Professionals. The post Top 10 Questions About Background Checks from HR Professionals [Infographic] appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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Find 50,000 more Data Scientists with one small search adjustment

Recruiting Blogs

One of the most sought after skill sets these days is the Data Scientist. Commanding high salaries and high fees, these candidates are worth their weight in gold, but a huge proportion of them are currently being missed. Each of the hundred odd Analytics-focused Recruiters we’ve worked with tend to start their Data Scientist Boolean search with: “Data Scientist” AND ….

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Learn to Optimize Job Posts for Best Exposure

Jobcast

When it comes time to find well-qualified employees for open positions in your company, you have a lot of competition for their attention. And you also have to persuade them that they do, in fact, want to find a job: Sixty-two percent of currently employed people aren’t even looking. In today’s attention-grabbing world, your first reaction might be to think a shorter job description works better, but it doesn’t.

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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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How Slack will change recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

It’s going to happen faster than you think. In fact, it’s already happening. Most of the innovative HR and recruiting tech companies have Slack apps. If they don’t, they’re most likely designing and building them right now. Including my team at Drafted. But most of these Slack apps are being designed as a small “value add” to the existing service these tech companies provide.

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STAYING AHEAD IN YOUR RECRUITING NICHE

Staffingsoft

Being the best in your niche will require resilience, hard work and creativity. If you want to stay ahead, you have to be ready to roll up your sleeves and work for what you want.

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How to source on the lesser known sites!! Yelp

Recruiting Blogs

Yelp is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops, hosts and markets Yelp.com and the Yelp mobile app , which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service Yelp Reservations and online food-delivery service Eat24. The company also trains small businesses in how to respond to reviews, hosts social events for reviewers, and provides data about businesses, including health inspection scor