Thu.Mar 31, 2016

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End Of An Era for Rice Consulting

The Whiteboard

Good morning recruiters of New Zealand. Great to see so many of you at the #RicePowWow last night, especially as it will be my last. I was tempted to make this announcement last night, but opted instead to confide in a few of you in person, before issuing this press release on my recruitment blog of 5 years, The Whiteboard. Every recruiter has a shelf life, it’s a tough gig to maintain, and I really do take my hat off to those “career recruiters” out there.

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5 FREE Ways to Attract All-Star Employees

Glassdoor for Employers

Wouldn’t it be great if all the Harvard graduates, international superstars and MBA qualified candidates wanted to work for you? How much more productive would your company be if your staff was made up of all-star employees who not only knew how to work together as a team, but who also responded well to challenges, contributed bright ideas and moved your company forward?

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The leadership illusion

Workable

What would you say about a global industry worth $45bn annually that was delivering no apparent value? An industry which has grown by 39 percent in the United States in the last five years. One that attracts ever more investment even as its returns are seen to diminish. You might conclude that it was a failure, and an impressive one at that. This is the leadership industry, a complex that now encompasses colleges, gurus, corporate departments, startups, foundations, consultancies, publishers, th

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3 Simple Ways To Rekindle Your Love of Interviewing

Spark Hire

While adding to your team is exciting, over time, the interview process can begin to feel like a chore. Between filtering through resumes and trying to factor in time to meet with candidates and deliberate with your team, it’s a high-stress process. However, infusing energy back into interviewing positively impacts both hiring managers and candidates alike.

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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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1 in 4 Workers Plan to Change Jobs This Year, Latest Job Forecast Finds

CareerBuilder

CareerBuilder released its most recent job forecast today, which found that 25 percent of workers plan to change jobs this year. Good timing, too: 34 percent of employers are planning to hire full-time, permanent employees over the next three months. Even more — 37 percent — plan to hire temporary or contract workers. The outlook isn’t just good news for those who want to change jobs, but also for college students on the cusp of graduation as well as those who want to re-enter the wo

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How to Manage Career Disappointment

Undercover Recruiter

There will always be a point in our career where regardless how hard we try, how much we commit, and how successful we feel, things just do not progress at the pace we desire or in the direction we are hoping. The hardest part is knowing the difference between this time being a need for patience, or. View Article. How to Manage Career Disappointment.

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5 paid sales automation tools that’ll boost your revenue

RecruitmentJuice

Did you know that 90% of news businesses will fail? Every entrepreneur starts off with the best intent to disrupt the industry, to democratise usage, and to change the world. But it still boils down to dollar and cents to keep your business afloat. Ultimately, website traffic and Facebook likes can’t pay the bills. Whether you are a small business owner, solopreneur or a freelancer, you can increase your revenue by implementing the right tools and creating a strategy that has been proven

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4 Things Developers Look for in a New Job Opportunity

Stack Overflow

Before you reach out to a developer about an opening on your tech team, it’s important to understand what they care about. Sure, compensation is often one of the first things developers consider about any job opportunity , but it’s not always enough to convince top tech talent to jump at the chance to join your company. Based on what we found in this year’s developer survey , here are a few things that developers prioritize when they think about the possibility of switching jobs.

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Shining a Spotlight on Jobvite Customers

Jobvite

Every day, thousands of customers in 160 countries use Jobvite to source the best talent on the market, grow employee referrals, create amazing candidate experiences, and lower recruiting marketing costs for their organizations. Innovation in recruiting technology is a two-way street. It doesn’t happen without our customers! Our customers expect the highest standards in talent and technology, and we are driven to meet and exceed their expectations by creating innovative recruiting technology tha

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Reverse Engineer Employee Referrals For Better Results

ROIKOI

Employee referrals are one of the best sources of hire, but you can make them even better. Most referral programs ask employees to look at job openings, go through their contacts, and make possible matches. Even with software, this process is time consuming for employees. If your organization has 100 open jobs, here's how you can reverse engineer your employee referral process to be 100 times more efficient with smarter sourcing.

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Learn from Investigative Journalists

Boolean Strings

Searching the Internet is an important part of Talent Sourcing activities in Recruiting. So it is for some other professions, including, for example, Librarians, Private Investigators, and Investigative Journalists. We could learn from each other – I feel that we don’t do that enough. I’d like to bring to my blog readers’ attention a few excellent resources shared […].

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Shining a Spotlight on Jobvite Customers

Jobvite

Every day, thousands of customers in 160 countries use Jobvite to source the best talent on the market, grow employee referrals, create amazing candidate experiences, and lower recruiting marketing costs for their organizations. Innovation in recruiting technology is a two-way street. It doesn’t happen without our customers! Our customers expect the highest standards in talent and technology, and we are driven to meet and exceed their expectations by creating innovative recruiting technology tha

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Reverse Engineer Employee Referrals For Better Results

ROIKOI

Employee referrals are one the best sources of hire, but you can make them even better. Most referral programs ask employees to look at job openings, go through their contacts, and make possible matches. Even with software, this process is time consuming for employees. If your organization has 100 open jobs, here's how you can reverse engineer your employee referral process to be 100 times more efficient with smarter sourcing.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Shining a Spotlight on Jobvite Customers

Jobvite

Every day, thousands of customers in 160 countries use Jobvite to source the best talent on the market, grow employee referrals, create amazing candidate experiences, and lower recruiting marketing costs for their organizations. Innovation in … Continued.

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Here's Why Your Employee Referral Program Is Backwards

ROIKOI

Think about how you currently fill job openings using employee referrals at your company. If you’re like the majority of companies, you probably look at your open jobs and ask employees for referrals to fill those positions, right? If you said yes, you’re doing employee referrals wrong. Why is this method wrong? How do you fix it? There’s an easier and more effective method for getting the most out of your referral process!

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This Job Post Is Genius.

Recruiting Blogs

This is a job we just posted that is attracting the exact type of applicants we wanted, in droves! Please like comment and share. . Job Description. . Title: Recruiter, Sales and Social Media Genius. We're not a typical recruitment agency, in fact we are far from it. So don't expect to be doing the same type of work. Expect to learn a lot and be open to trying new techniques in recruitment.

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April Fools: Why Elevated Careers Is A Joke.

Snark Attack

The first time I heard eHarmony was making a jobs play was all the way back in the Summer of 2013; I even pushed back a flight home from SHRM to attend an ancillary conference where Dr. Steve Carter, eHarmony’s Chief Data Scientist, was speaking about using their matching software for recruiting for the […].

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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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4 Reasons Why Posting Your Job As An Update Doesn't Work!

Recruiting Blogs

Most of the "marketing" activity I see across the web from companies and agencies is very basic , random and not engaging. A typical LinkedIn post or Facebook post might look like this. . "Looking for an excellent Executive Assistant with experience supporting CEO's in Media. Please contact me if you know anyone who fits the bill. . Usually there is no picture or link to accompany this lame post.

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April Fools: Why Elevated Careers Is A Joke.

Snark Attack

The first time I heard eHarmony was making a jobs play was all the way back in the Summer of 2013; I even pushed back a flight home from SHRM to attend an ancillary conference where Dr. Steve Carter, eHarmony’s Chief Data Scientist, was speaking about using their matching software for recruiting for the […].

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Sourcecon Spring 2016 Part 3!!

Recruiting Blogs

So this is the 2rd presentation of the conference. Titled “Speed & Quality: Hot to Win at Both” by John Vlastelica. John begins talking about his 10 keys to delivering speed and quality. . 1. Define the work before you define the person. 2. Get Calibrated and pre-close HM. 3. Take Control of “Speed”. 4. Push Back on Unrealistic HM. 5. Drive Alignment. 6.

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Video: How to Set Your Recruitment Advertising Budget

Indeed

Most job searches start with a search engine, and a smart search engine marketing (SEM) strategy can determine whether or not your jobs get found and filled. By using paid search tactics to amplify your job postings, you can reach more qualified candidates and make the best hires faster. If you’re like most employers, you may be thinking, that sounds great, but how do I know how much money to spend?

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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's" Interview Secrets (1)

Recruiting Blogs

Employers never need to answer why they hire or don't hire someone. Many times they don't even know why they "pulled the trigger." They don't owe you a reason for hiring you or saying "no." Your job as an applicant is to make sure they know who they are interviewing and that you actually care about the person(s) you will be working for. that you seek collaboration and synergy in your work day and all the team members will benefit from your being hired.

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22 Pet Peeves EVERY Recruiter Has About the Recruitment Industry

Social Talent

Being a recruiter can be one of the most rewarding jobs going. We get to help candidates realise their career goals and we help companies boost their profits. We are the link between great talent and their full potential and the lynchpin of our organisations. But as fabulous a job as it can be, recruitment is not without its downsides and its frustrations.

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Recruiters - Where are all the smarties?

Recruiting Blogs

The best recruiters I know are smart. Super smart! I have no doubt that the ‘phone monkey’ recruitment consultants exist, in fact are probably quite common. They say they know your market, promise you the moon and then can’t deliver. Why? Probably because they are inefficient, and are bred from an environment of take any job and make a stab in the dark.

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How to screen.NET developer programming skills to find the best – guide for IT recruitment

Devskiller

You are about to start recruitment campaign to hire.NET developer. Once you receive applications and resumes you have to decide who is good enough to get to on-site technical interview. Screening is not just looking through CV. It is a really responsible task. You don’t want to overlook a candidate with a potential and good programming skills. You don’t want to qualify weak candidates for an interview with your IT team and waste precious time of your coworkers.

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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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5 Degrees That Can Make You The Ultimate Game Changer for Any Company

Recruiting Blogs

In order to succeed at a company, you must make yourself indispensable in a constantly changing business landscape. While some of the degrees that once led to thriving careers are obsolete, new ones have risen to take their place. With one of these five degrees (a few that might surprise you!) you can gain the skills to change the game for any company in any industry. 1.

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Newton Bootcamps – Back and Stronger Than Ever!

Newton Software

Are you Bootcamp ready? Read more to find out. Program and Philosophy. At Newton, raising the bar for recruiting and hiring practices is our number one goal. We are constantly looking for innovative ways to promote the development of those passionate professionals engaged in our community, not only through our product but also through in-depth training and engagement.

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WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER YOUR MASTERS

Recruiting Blogs

What to expect after your masters degree depends on the degree area, its purpose, your professional development status during your studies (if you have work experience or continued straight through college), and the overall job market. Overall, your area-specific skills and knowledge should be cutting-edge. A masters also implies solid set of professional skills, particularly writing (See Hot Job Skills: Companies Want Staff with Writing M.U.S.C.L.E ).