Wed.Oct 12, 2016

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The True Cost of a Bad Hire

JazzHR

There’s a lot of different opinions on what it costs an organization when they don’t make the right hiring choice. But the bottom line that everyone agrees on is that it can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it isn’t just a monetary impact – it can be detrimental to the company’s morale and productivity. And hiring doesn’t come cheap – according to a study from Monster, small business owners spend $1,872 to hire someone new.

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How to: Source and Engage Candidates on Instagram

Social Talent

The image posting social site, Instagram, now has 400 million active users. 30% of internet users are using it, and over 60% of those 400 million users log in daily , making it the second most engaged network after Facebook. Oh, and a whopping 90% of users are younger than 35 , making it one of the most popular websites among Millennials. Yes, Instagram is currently the 15th most popular site in the world, and it’s popularity along with it’s users are growing by the minute.

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Newton’s Growth in Fort Collins Featured in BizWest Article

Newton Software

We’re Not the Only One Excited About Newton’s Growth! It appears the secret is out about Newton’s growth! Yesterday, BizWest, a media and publishing company that covers business news, data and economic statistics for the northern Colorado area, published an article highlighting the rapid expansion of Newton in Fort Collins. Why Fort Collins? In 2013, […].

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Ready for Your Next Tech Interview? Take the Quiz to Find Out

Yoh

You’ve sent out countless resumes, and finally your hard work has paid off — you’ve scored an interview for the IT job of your dreams. Now comes the hard part — the interview.

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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 to Keep the Peace with Political Talk at the Office

CareerBuilder

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’re well aware that election season is upon us. In fact, chances are you’ve participated in a few discussions on this topic – perhaps even in the workplace. While a little discourse and debate can be healthy for workers, when it comes to politics, things can go from healthy to heated in a matter of seconds.

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Don't Pull A Disappearing Act On Rejected Candidates

iCIMS

What’s worse than interviewing and getting rejected? Interviewing and never hearing back from the company.

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How to Find and Hire an Embedded Software Developer

Stack Overflow

Unlike many other software development roles, embedded software development isn’t quite as straightforward. In fact, it’s extremely challenging to understand what an embedded software developer does on a daily basis without any basic knowledge embedded software. In the simplest terms, embedded software controls devices that the typical consumer doesn’t think of as a computer.

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How Resume Tracking Software Can Make Your Life Easier

iCIMS

Resume tracking software can help you save countless hours when recruiting and many headaches.

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Talent Wars: The Return of the Recruiter

Recruiting Daily

Regardless of our education and training, we as recruiters by in large do three things: We find people, we interview and we extend offers. All opportunities for training, development and starting to tell our story in a way that changes perceptions.

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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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The future starts now: How to prepare for the talent acquisition of tomorrow

Allegis Global Solutions

How should you be preparing for the future of talent sourcing?

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Survale’s 2016 Candidate Experience Survey

Survale

Survale’s 2016 Candidate Experience Survey is now available for free download. It’s no surprise that successful organizations pride themselves on building the highest caliber workforce possible. In the face of low unemployment and scarcity of available talent, companies today heavily invest in the process of recruiting, onboarding and subsequently retaining highly valued employees.

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How to Hire Quality Engineers through Campus Recruitment

Talview

Have you heard of the phenomenon called, “unusually empty talent pool”? Who am I kidding - we can all relate to it. Campus recruitment season is here, and all you can think of is making sure you cover the best colleges first, so you don’t have to pick from the leftovers.

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4 Fundamental Requirements Your ATS Needs to Fulfil

WebRecruit

Assessing applicant tracking systems can be difficult; many systems have crossover features, some require a hefty investment and some are more moderately priced. With so much choice on the market, things can get overwhelming. As such, it’s important to keep your business’ requirements at the forefront of your mind at all times. However, before starting to look at the in-depth functionality of the systems you’re considering, you need to check that they meet the basic requirements.

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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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Employee Engagement Is Not Enough!

Brandon Hall

Employee engagement is not enough to realize business success. Find out why by attending Brandon Hall Group ’s webinar , sponsored by O.C. Tanner , How to Influence Great Work and Create a Culture of Success , at 1pm ET on Thursday, October 20. What does it mean to prioritize engagement at your organization? Almost all organizations conduct employee engagement surveys, and I have even seen from Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Employee Engagement Survey that there is a shift, especially among high-perf

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Phil & Sebastian’s New Store Opening – Ramble

SmartSearch

This short video was created to highlight the design, build and some of the thought that went behind the third Phil and Sebastian’s location in Calgary’s Mission community.

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Convincing Your Clients to Use Independent Recruiters

Top Echelon Contracting

If a company uses recruiters, it uses one of two types: internal recruiters. or independent recruiters. Of the many trends that have emerged in the recruiting industry since the Great Recession, one of them appears to involve.

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How to Keep the Peace with Political Talk at the Office

CareerBuilder

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’re well aware that election season is upon us. In fact, chances are you’ve participated in a few discussions on this topic – perhaps even in the workplace. While a little discourse and debate can be healthy for workers, when it comes to politics, things can go from healthy to heated in a matter of seconds.

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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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Hireology Pro Tip: Organize Your Applicants with Tagging

Hireology

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Facebook Recruiting May Be Coming to Groups

Harger Howe Recruitment

Facebook groups are a unique, currently ad-free space within the Facebook empire, but that may change soon. Yesterday, Josh Constine published an article called Facebook tests ads in Groups, its next potential cash cow that noted testing of ads within groups is already underway. While at first this move might seem like yet another way that Facebook is moving toward total commercialization of the social media entity, it could be a positive step toward more dialed in Facebook recruiting.

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"Filling a Leadership Vacuum" by Doug Peckover

Recruiting Blogs

In my effort to invent new ways to expand the range of possibilities available to Executive Recruiters/Management Consultants, I am currently working on a fascinating project with Inventor Doug Peckover who was awarded priority rights to the invention of "tokenization" security in 2005. Doug's invention is now widely used (in various modified forms) throughout the secure payments industry, and companies like ApplePay, SamsungPay, Verifone, etc. all use tokenization methodologies to prevent fraud

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3 New (And More Accurate) Ways to Calculate the ROI of Employer Branding

Beamery

How do you know your new Employer Brand program is working? How can you actually calculate the ROI of Employer Branding and share it with your team? The value of branding will always be hard to track, but in the long run, creating a brand that candidates remember and identify with will be hugely valuable to your company. The issue is, to justify investing resources in branding, you need to show that it’s working… Traditional techniques to measure the ROI of Employer Branding.

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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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Unrealistic Expectations

Recruiting Blogs

I still run a desk at my shop Sterling Consulting Group. Keeps me semi out of trouble and in the fray. Real time information from candidates and clients alike. It’s almost like having a looking glass or a machine that can see the future, maybe not 100% accurate but a solid glimpse anyhow. I field calls on a daily basis from candidates that are “on the bench” looking for their next gig.

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5 Reasons Why You Aren't Getting Quality Hires

Linkedin Talent Blog

Get your running shoes on—chasing purple squirrels is about to get a whole lot more intense in 2017. That is, unless you know exactly what it is that attracts the elusive top talent. To help with that, LinkedIn released our annual Global Recruiting Trends 2017 report. Based on surveys from 4,000 corporate talent acquisition leaders across 35 countries, we learned what recruiting leaders care most about, the challenges they predict will come, the priorities they’ve identified and the trends they

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HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ‘WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT?’

Recruiting Blogs

One of the most maddening questions ever to come out of the interview process is "What is your greatest accomplishment?" This question is uncomfortable for a number of reasons. You might be afraid of giving the interviewer a wrong answer, or you don’t feel particularly accomplished in your current position. Why this question is so popular: Every interviewer is different and possesses their own reasoning for their interview questions.

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How to Write an Enticing Job Description (Hint: Get Emotional)

Undercover Recruiter

This article is written and sponsored by Breezy HR – an intuitive, flexible and affordable ATS that thinks everyone on your team can get emotionally invested in your recruiting and hiring. Breezy – A Breath of Fresh HR. I’m begging you: if you want to write an ah-mazing job description, stay far, far away from the. View Article. How to Write an Enticing Job Description (Hint: Get Emotional).

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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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Managing Performance

Recruiting Blogs

No longer an annual event. Naturally, I am fascinated by how businesses operate and what management styles work in certain situations. Recently, I have focused my attention on how postindustrial age hierarchy is not working and what that means for companies who are conventional in their human capital management structure. Early in my career I worked for a large corporation.

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How to Manage Candidates on Indeed

Indeed

Everything you need to track hiring progress and applicant status is in the Indeed Employer Dashboard. Understanding the Employer Dashboard will help you manage your recruitment campaigns for optimal hiring results. When job seekers apply to your jobs and show up as candidates in your employer dashboard, using candidate statuses keeps your hiring organized.

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4 Reasons Video Interviews are here to Stay

Recruiting Blogs

Whether you’ve tried them or not, I’m guessing you’re familiar with the invasion of video interviews. When they infiltrated organizations several years ago, maybe you thought they were just a phase and wouldn’t stand the test of time, yet here we are. Video interviews have been used by an astounding 60% of organizations across the US and that number grows every year with some businesses using video interviews to manage drastically increasing hiring volumes.

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