Tue.Oct 18, 2016

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How to Achieve Work-Life Balance as a Recruiter

Social Talent

Many people will raise at least one eyebrow to the suggestion that a balance of work and life is possible in recruitment. The old rulebook will dictate that if you’re in the industry, you should be working hard and accept that your time outside the office will diminish. It’s a fair exchange for the high financial reward. Recruitment’s never been a 9-5 job.

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International Talent Is Interested in Hard to Fill, High-Skill US Jobs

Indeed

In this election cycle, immigration is a leading topic of conversation. Both parties have called for reforms to immigration policy, and the candidates have vastly different proposals in this area. In addition to capturing the attention of the public generally, these reforms are of particular interest to employers across the country. In many sectors, employers rely on international talent to mitigate shortages in hard to fill roles.

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5 Finance Skills That a Candidate Can’t Fake

Social Talent

We’ve all heard the expression, that “in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Now, if that isn’t proof that candidates in the financial sector will forever be in high demand, we don’t know what is! Rounding up our series on the top 5 skills that candidates can’t fake , today we’re shining the spotlight on candidates in the world of finance.

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How To Talk About Organizational Leadership With Candidates

Spark Hire

As you interview job candidates , you’ll need to hit on hot button issues they inevitably want to know more about. Things like salary, the kinds of clients you work with, upcoming projects, and job expectations need to be discussed to ensure that everyone is on the same page. However, potential new hires will also have questions about the kinds of people leading your organization.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Social Recruiting Tips: How to Recruit on LinkedIn Effectively

iCIMS

You will never get a second chance at a first impression, and because recruiters spend their days trying to connect with the next great hire, their social media personas speak volumes about them and their company.

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How to Recruit on the Cheap

Glassdoor for Employers

When was the last time your boss said, “spend all the money you need to get the job done”? If your organization.

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Pimp Your Emails, Because You’re Worth It

Undercover Recruiter

Email is trapped in a strange place. It’s possible you have an ageing Gran who still thinks it’s post that comes from Yorkshire, whilst at the other end of the continuum some companies are now engaging with potential recruits via apps such as Snapchat. Current hype would have you believe that Outlook is a graveyard, View Article. Pimp Your Emails, Because You’re Worth It.

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7 Pitfalls to Avoid in Managing Remote Teams

RecruitLoop

Remote teams can work just as well as in-office teams by encouraging productive communication, choosing the right team members, and staying connected.

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Applying a Sales Funnel Framework to the Candidate Journey

Newton Software

Think of Your Application Process as a Candidate Journey More than Just the Candidate Experience Candidate experience is one of the hottest topics in recruiting and hiring, and for good reason. An enjoyable candidate experience boosts your applicant to candidate conversion rates, increases the effectiveness of your hiring process, and builds a strong employer brand. […].

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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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Memes Tell Lies and So Do Job Ads

Undercover Recruiter

I’ve been a little busy lately (for ‘busy’ read ‘writer’s block’). While thinking about what to write next, it hit me out of the blue! Or should I say, Richard Branson told me… Let me explain. On LinkedIn (a recruiting gem) there are countless memes flying about (for the less hip recruiters out there, a meme.

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What can your sourcing strategy learn from Elon Musk's Mars mission?

Allegis Global Solutions

Your brand could learn a few lessons from Elon Musk's mission to Mars.

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One Proven Way to Increase Career Site Engagement – Recruit Forward

Jibe

Considering how important career sites are to the modern candidate journey, talent acquisition teams should be thinking of new and innovative ways to drive more engagement on them. We’ve seen over a quarter billion job seekers pass through the Jibe platform. And when we look at the data, one strategy for boosting career site engagement stands out above the rest: put job search front and center.

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The Recruitment Marketing Potential of Beacon Technology

JWT Inside

First off, what exactly is Beacon Technology? A Beacon device, or iBeacon , allows for push communication and data collection between multiple devices. This technology operates using mobile apps that “listen” for signals from the Beacons and then react to them based on a user’s location in the physical world. With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a low-energy and low-cost form of wireless personal area network technology, Beacons and their paired apps can determine a user’s position relevant to the B

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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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Women in Leadership Share Challenges of Workforce Diversity, Pillars of Success

Entelo

Being a woman in the workforce lends itself to unique challenges. While many companies support gender diversity , workplace equality remains an initiative yearning for action. So often the picture painted for working women isn’t favorable. We’re 15% less likely than men to be promoted, earn less than men for same roles, and continue to be professionally underrepresented, holding under 30% of roles in senior management.

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WhatsApp Group Chat - Need for Functional Guidance for International Recruitment

Recruiting Blogs

International Recruitment has always been a part of the Talent Acquisition Industry so I’m sure that most of us will be familiar with the process especially since we’ve gone through it at some point of time. When it comes to US Staffing or UK Staffing we’ve encountered that as well while going up the Career Ladder. But what are we supposed to do when we’re doing Asian hiring i.e. seeking Talent to fill China position and are looking for Shanghai Talent?

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Introducing Know Your Worth by Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

As Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman said at this year’s Glassdoor Summit: “Transparency is the ability to understand. Transparency is the ability to.

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How to Keep Your New Employees Motivated and Happy

Recruiting Blogs

Everyone who starts up a new business wants to be successful, but in reality, many of these new businesses will be closed within five years. It takes a lot in today’s world to simply survive, and it takes much more to grow. If you’re new to the business world, you may feel lost in how to do either of those things. Fortunately, you’re not alone. Many other new startup owners struggle, but there are ways you can get ahead.

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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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Looking to Hire an Engineer? Get Smart About Your Approach

Glassdoor for Employers

In today’s technology-dependent business world, engineers are in high demand. According to Glassdoor’s research, almost 5,000 companies in the U.S. are.

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A Teachable Moment: Recruiting, Trends and Conferences

Recruiting Daily

It’s kind of amazing what teachers do, spending hours inside and outside the classroom to prepare students to take the next step and be productive citizens. It’s one of the hardest jobs that exists, if you ask me. They deserve those summers off. In addition to the investment they make in time, they invest emotionally […].

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The Real Difference Between Job Boards and Job Aggregators

Recruitics

For industry veterans, it can be difficult to remember a time when recruitment marketing was still new and the differences between job boards and job aggregators was trivial when it came to advertising jobs online. However, as the space continues to grow, more HR and talent acquisition professionals will want to advertise their jobs online to drive more applicants to their open positions, build talent pipelines, and generate greater ROI through talent acquisition–making the distinction bet

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How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing

TalentGuard

How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing. Four-and-a-half years. That’s the approximate length of time the average U.S. employee stays at one job. Younger employees hop more often , however, with most leaving a mere two years after hire. With disengagement rates topping 71.1% in the Millennial workforce, this is hardly a surprise.

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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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Using Big Data To Recruit Smarter, Not Harder

Yoh

Big data is growing at an alarming rate. For most companies, however, less than a percent of the data collected is actually analyzed and used. A golden moment for HR and talent acquisition, companies are reinventing how they leverage big data to effectively recruit and retain top talent.

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How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing

TalentGuard

How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing. Four-and-a-half years. That’s the approximate length of time the average employee stays at one job. Younger employees hop more often , however, with most leaving a mere two years after hire. With disengagement rates topping 71.1% in the Millennial workforce, this is hardly a surprise.

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Employee Satisfaction at All-time Highs…Yet Retention is at Risk

NPA Worldwide

The Society for Human Resource Management has been surveying employee satisfaction since 2002. The results of that survey in 2015 showed job satisfaction is at an all-time high. The percentage of workers that reported being “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” was 88% of those surveyed. So before you translate these numbers to everyone is happy, consider this.

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Seasonal Hiring: 5 Mighty Recruiters Tell You How to Do It Better

MightyRecruiter

For many industries, it’s seasonal hiring season! The Wall Street Journal reported hiring booms of delivery giants FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc. Chron reported hiring booms for Macy’s, Target and Toys “R” Us. And one presidential candidate said , “We’re going to have job growth like you’ve never seen. I’m very good for jobs.” Needless to say, jobs are on the minds of the masses, and now, let’s look at how recruiters and talent acquisition leaders across the country make sure the righ

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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 to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing

TalentGuard

How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing. Four-and-a-half years. That’s the approximate length of time the average employee stays at one job. Younger employees hop more often , however, with most leaving a mere two years after hire. With disengagement rates topping 71.1% in the Millennial workforce, this is hardly a surprise.

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6 Tactical Tips for an Effective Social Media Recruitment Plan

Linkedin Talent Blog

Say you’re shopping for a car. Do you buy the first car you see in a lot? Probably not. What you do is go online, do some research, read reviews and maybe even check out your social networks to see if you know someone who’s already an owner. In other words, before you make that big purchase, there are many “touch points” that need to occur. And it’s the same for candidates – they also require a lot of touch points before they consider applying to your company, said KRT Marketing's Adriana Kevill

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How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing

TalentGuard

How to Improve Employee Retention and Company Performance with Career Pathing. Four-and-a-half years. That’s the approximate length of time the average employee stays at one job. Younger employees hop more often , however, with most leaving a mere two years after hire. With disengagement rates topping 71.1% in the Millennial workforce, this is hardly a surprise.