Mon.Nov 14, 2016

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Keen for the weekend? Can you wait 224 days?

Greg Savage

I went on a cruise. Not my normal ‘thing’, but it was pretty good. Saw lots of cool places and ate too much. The usual, I suppose. I also met some of the most fascinating, hard working and impressive people I have ever met. And none of them were passengers! You see I am fascinated […].

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How to Use Instagram for Social Recruiting

FireFish Software

You no doubt have a social recruitment strategy that includes the likes of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, but what about Instagram? Surely it’s just for sharing pictures of #brunchgoals or your morning #yoga poses right? Wrong! Of course, you’ll still find these kinds of images, however, Instagram can also be used as part of a wider social recruitment strategy to increase candidate and client reach and engagement, as well as being a useful sourcing tool if you know where to look!

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5 Essential CV Writing Rules You Can’t Ignore

Undercover Recruiter

An attractive CV can be your gateway to your next big career move, but many job seekers CV’s fall short and fail to get responses from their applications. Writing an interview-winning CV can be difficult if you don’t fully understand what recruiters and hiring managers expect to see. So CV writing service StandOut CV has. View Article. 5 Essential CV Writing Rules You Can’t Ignore.

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The Essential “Culture Fit” Interview Questions

SmartRecruiters

After four years of startup life, I’ve come to hate the question, “ is this candidate a culture fit ?”. I hate it almost as much as I am repulsed by the over-used word “ hacking.” I hear it every day and it makes me cringe! Now don’t get me wrong: culture is important. A company’s culture is its personality. It is the environment in which the team operates, which is affected by its mission, goals, and leadership.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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8 Reasons to Hire a Graduate

RecruitLoop

Thinking about hiring a graduate? It might seem like a leap of faith, but this could be the best decision you ever make for your business.

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Why Should Your Company Have a No Meetings Day?

Glassdoor for Employers

Why should your company have a no meetings day? It happens far too often. You get to the office with a coffee.

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The Blind Spot Preventing You From Finding a Career You Love #MondayMotivation

Undercover Recruiter

If you’re like most people, you began attempting to figure out your ideal career direction by first reflecting on who you are and what you want in life. You considered past experiences, took self-assessments, and tried to imagine what new career would be right for you. This is a natural starting place, since any career. View Article. The Blind Spot Preventing You From Finding a Career You Love #MondayMotivation.

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How and Why Small Business Employers Should Promote from Within

CareerBuilder

For small business owners who can’t find the high-skilled candidates they need for hard-to-fill positions, a great solution might be closer than they imagine. Promoting from within enables employers to augment the skill set of existing employees to correspond with growing company demands. Benefits of dealing with someone who already “knows the ropes” at your small business include: Ability to hit the ground running.

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4 Interview Tactics That Turn Developers Off

Stack Overflow

Because finding qualified developer candidates is such a difficult task in itself, it’s easy to think that you’re bound to hire someone once you’ve managed to schedule a few interviews for a role. However, the reality is that your initial sourcing activities amount to just the first step in your developer hiring process. In fact, some of the most common interview tactics actually end up driving candidates away.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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What Is Inbound Recruiting? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Jibe

Inbound recruiting is a methodology that uses digital marketing strategies to engage targeted groups of passive and active job seekers at different phases of the recruiting funnel. It combines elements of both employer branding and recruitment marketing to attract, nurture and convert candidates as well as to retain current employees. Inbound Recruiting Vs.

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2 Ways to Get Easy Access to CareerBuilder Content

CareerBuilder

We are making it easier than ever to access our content – from blog posts and exclusive research to product information and guides. Here’s how: 1. Subscribe to our NEW RSS feed: Add our new RSS feed for real-time alerts when our latest articles, videos and flipbooks become available. This will be replacing our current feed, so make sure to update your subscription with the new link. 2.

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Behind the Scenes of Background and Reference Checks

HireRight

We’re often asked what goes on “behind the scenes” of a background check. What do you ask references? What do you verify when you contact the candidate’s schools? What do you verify when you check employment history? The basics are usually pretty well understood, but some details may not be obvious and even seem mysterious. While background checks including reference checks may vary from employer to employer, and from one background check company to another, this article examines the most common

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Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Recruitment Agency

Top Echelon Contracting

This is a good time to start in the recruiting business. After all, placements in the Top Echelon recruiting network are up nearly 20% from this time last year. In addition, a total of 22 recruitment agencies joined the Network.

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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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RecruitingLive With Dean Da Costa Round 2

Recruiting Daily

If you’re in sourcing and don’t know Dean Da Costa, you’ve probably been living under a rock somewhere. Let’s get out from under there, shall we? This week’s RecruitingLive is with a guest we all know and love for his digital tool expertise – Dean Da Costa. If there were an Amazon for sourcing and […].

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8 Reasons to Hire a Graduate

RecruitLoop

Thinking about hiring a graduate? It might seem like a leap of faith, but this could be the best decision you ever make for your business.

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73% of Employers Would Negotiate Salary, 55% of Workers Don’t Ask

CareerBuilder

“Show me the money!” is evidently NOT something a lot of job seekers are saying. According to new CareerBuilder research, a majority of employers in the U.S. (73 percent) say they would be willing to negotiate salary on an initial job offer. Still, more than half of workers (55 percent) do not even ask for a higher salary when offered a new position.

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How to Reduce Stress in a New Job

Recruiting Blogs

You’ve successfully passed the interview, received a job offer, and now you are waiting for the first day at a new place. For many people, this is the most nervous and the scariest time, especially, if this is the first job ever. They are not confident in their professional and communication skills, they do not know how to behave, what questions to ask and what to do if they feel that they cannot cope with their tasks.

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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 and Why Small Business Employers Should Promote from Within

CareerBuilder

For small business owners who can’t find the high-skilled candidates they need for hard-to-fill positions, a great solution might be closer than they imagine. Promoting from within enables employers to augment the skill set of existing employees to correspond with growing company demands. Benefits of dealing with someone who already “knows the ropes” at your small business include: Ability to hit the ground running.

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Fall Sourcecon 2016 Day 2-Breakout Sessions 1

Recruiting Blogs

So day 2 Breakout session, included “Gaining a Competitive Advantage from Competitive Intelligence” by Gelnn Gutmacher and Monali Palmer, “Candidate Career Problems” By Shannon Anderson, and “Sourcing and Personal Branding” by Craig Fisher. First up “Gaining a Competitive Advantage from Competitive Intelligence” by Gelnn Gutmacher and Monali Palmer.

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2 Ways to Get Easy Access to CareerBuilder Content

CareerBuilder

We are making it easier than ever to access our content – from blog posts and exclusive research to product information and guides. Here’s how: 1. Subscribe to our NEW RSS feed: Add our new RSS feed for real-time alerts when our latest articles, videos and flipbooks become available. This will be replacing our current feed, so make sure to update your subscription with the new link. 2.

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Five key components of your Recruitment CRM that you should be using to their maximum capability

Recruiting Blogs

The lifeblood of recruitment businesses are undoubtedly its people followed very closely by its technology - or database / CRM to be more precise! As we all know, the nuts and bolts of your database are your candidates / clients, but the workflows that stem from this such as CV's, Interviews and Placements all contain crucial bits of information. In my experience, many of these workflows were managed via an in-depth reporting / analytics tool.

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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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How to Present Glassdoor Data to Executives

Glassdoor for Employers

With a Glassdoor Free Employer Account, organizations have access to a wealth of analytics, intelligence and trends – all worth tracking and.

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How to Create a Winning Employer Brand

Recruiting Blogs

Employer brand is incredibly important in a competitive talent market. Top candidates receive similar offers from a great variety of companies and thus compensation packages and interesting work are often not enough on their own to seal the deal. Top candidates want to work at a company whose brand is welcoming and inspiring. “If your brand is not seen as a positive, your recruiting efforts will be doubled in terms of challenge, and the best talent will search for companies with better reputatio

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Is Your ATS Provider A Preferred Glassdoor Partner?

Glassdoor for Employers

At Glassdoor, we’re always looking for ways to help employers streamline hiring and get the most out of their investment with us.

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VOTE in our Twitter Poll: What Does Santa Claus Earn?

Recruiting Blogs

A 2014 article concluded that if Santa Claus was paid for the work he does, he'd earn around $140,000 annually. We at the PeopleTicker thought that salary sounded too low so we did our own analysis to determine a fair salary. Now we need your help, our SkillsVillage, to validate the annual salary for one of the most sought after jobs worldwide. If you could guess Santa's annual salary, what would it be?

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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LinkedIn Updates EVERY Recruiter Needs to Know (Part One)

Social Talent

It’s been a very busy year for everyone’s favourite professional network. Not only was LinkedIn acquired for a staggering $26 BILLION by one of the world’s leading tech giants (Microsoft), but throughout 2016 they released some incredible insight reports and industry statistics, and a myriad of new and different product updates all with one goal in mind – to make our recruiting experience on LinkedIn better.

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LinkedIn's Head of HR Shares Why Company Culture Should Be Your Top Priority

Linkedin Talent Blog

When Pat Wadors , Head of HR at LinkedIn, thinks about company culture, she doesn’t consider it a nice to have – it’s absolutely critical for every company. Why? Because when it comes to business success, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” says Pat. According to her, you might have a great strategy, but if you don’t have the energy, freedom, respect, and appreciation that healthy culture provides, your employees won’t get you over the finish line.

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LinkedIn's Head of HR Shares Why Company Culture Should Be Your Top Priority

Linkedin Talent Blog

When Pat Wadors , Head of HR at LinkedIn, thinks about company culture, she doesn’t consider it a nice to have – it’s absolutely critical for every company. Why? Because when it comes to business success, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” says Pat. According to her, you might have a great strategy, but if you don’t have the energy, freedom, respect, and appreciation that healthy culture provides, your employees won’t get you over the finish line.

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