November, 2020

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How to reject job applicants with grace

Social Talent

“ People feel with their hearts… and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”. – Emily Brontë in “Wuthering Heights” Rejection stings no matter the context. It signifies a failure or inadequacy and usually presents after having exposed yourself in some regard. From proclamations of love or submissions of creativity, rejection prowls around these actions.

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What ‘The Dark Ages of Recruitment’ can teach us post-COVID

Greg Savage

Every second article I see is about how recruitment will change post-COVID. Mostly it’s BS as the majority of recruiters will go back and do exactly as they have always done. I explained that here. Of course, the opportunity to make changes has never been better, and the smart ones in our industry are working […].

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3 Ways to Use TikTok to Boost Your Employer Brand

Rally Recruitment Marketing

TikTok has taken off like wildfire, and many companies have taken notice and have started creating Recruitment Marketing content for the platform. Gen Z and millennials make up 62% of TikTok’s audience , so it is a great channel for reaching and building brand awareness with students, new grads and early career audiences. That being said, since the platform is new and different from other channels in our typical Recruitment Marketing roster, some employers are still considering how to jump in.

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How Workplaces Are Pivoting to Achieve World Class Cultures for Hiring for 2021

Lever

References to agility and reimagining employee experience proliferate the digital space amid conversations around this upcoming year’s workplace strategies. As well, this McKinsey survey lays the groundwork of technology-fueled speed and efficiency as a key enabler of a high-performance culture; 800 executives. Read More. The post How Workplaces Are Pivoting to Achieve World Class Cultures for Hiring for 2021 appeared first on Lever.

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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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Discover The Different Types of Employee Engagement Surveys

ClearCompany Recruiting

Your employees are your greatest asset. Too often, organizations do not provide enough opportunities to give and receive feedback. Employee sentiment is measured too sporadically, or the insights that your employees provide are not utilized into actionable change. By using employee engagement surveys, leaders can gather data on the satisfaction of their teams and can identify trends to create benchmarks for future reference.

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Can Employers Order Workers to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

Proactive Talent

The Thanksgiving holidays are almost upon us and as of Saturday, November 21, 2020, according to CNBC….

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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Greg Savage

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […].

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HR Tech to Elevate Your Virtual Candidate Experience

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Hi Rally community! My name is Leah Ramsey and I’m the Vice President of HR Maximizer. My team focuses on recruiting for the healthcare industry. We’ve always been a tech-focused team, but this year, we’ve learned even more about how technology can help elevate the virtual employee and candidate experience. In this blog post, I’d like to share some of what I’ve learned this year as we had to rapidly scale-up hiring for healthcare workers, and describe the specific HR tech tools that have helped

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15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline

Lever

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are top of mind for many executives and talent professionals. We’re making progress, but there is still much work to be done. Women and people of color are underrepresented in leadership positions, certain job categories, and entire industries. Read More. The post 15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline appeared first on Lever.

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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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10 Reasons To Use ClearCompany for Performance Management

ClearCompany Recruiting

Having a solid performance management strategy that employees feel is fair and designed to support their personal development will boost organizational productivity, employee growth and engagement, and overall company success. The problem is that most companies don’t have a performance management approach that employees feel good about and trust. Traditional performance management practices were built largely to support HR’s administrative needs to rank employees and document performance discuss

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Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions

Katrina Kibben

Women often talk themselves out of jobs they could thrive in because of the listed requirements in job postings and I hate it. The post Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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The importance of e-learning in a culture of remote work

Social Talent

Referring to COVID’s effect on how people are operating has almost reached the lofty status of a cliché. But it’s impossible not to acknowledge the gargantuan shifts. Its nefarious tendrils have fundamentally changed how we work. We’ve all had to adapt to some degree. But now is not the time to press pause on learning and development. With swathes of employees working remotely, e-learning has triumphantly risen to fill this gap.

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A Savage ‘Christmas Special’. Australia, NZ & the U.K.

Greg Savage

The Savage Truth Book is closing in on 10,000 copies sold. I have no idea if that’s any good, but it’s about 9,500 more than my pre-publishing estimate. More importantly, it really seems to have helped a lot of people judging by the hundreds of notes I have received, and the many shout-outs on LinkedIn […].

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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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3 Steps to Choosing the Best Hiring and Talent Technology

Allegis Global Solutions

Hiring has changed beyond all recognition since the pandemic struck earlier this year. In response, hiring organisations have been forced to adopt new digital strategies to engage, hire and onboard talent, which will inevitably have a long-term impact on the industry. Today’s talent leaders are challenged on how to effectively harness talent technology within a new operating model; one that supports the end-to-end talent process and drives strong performance.

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Hiring Manager Interview Performance is the Key to Recruiting Experience

Survale

Your recruiting experience is only as good as your hiring managers. No matter what you do to make sure candidates are well informed with regular communication. No matter how much recruiters treat candidates with respect, just one bad interview experience can wipe it all out. Are you measuring interview performance? Are you using candidate feedback to understand what’s working and what’s not with your recruiting experience?

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ClearCompany Partner Spotlight: Checkr

ClearCompany Recruiting

Checkr aims to build a fairer future by improving ones’ understanding of the past. By working alongside companies and leaders of all kinds, Checkr’s platforms enable users to hire at scale, improve compliance, and streamline operations. Using preliminary background screening tests and assessments, you can easily save both time and money for your organization.

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Ageism Is On the Rise and Getting Employers into Trouble - Here's How to Avoid It

Glassdoor for Employers

Recently, the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation tripped up and stated out loud the ageist beliefs that many executives keep to themselves. Mark Read, CEO of the $17 billion corporation WPP, was asked about the balance of TV and digital skills in his organization. His response : "We have a very broad range of skills, and if you look at our people - the average age of someone who works at WPP is less than 30 - they don't hark back to the 1980s, luckily.".

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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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Burning at both ends: The growth of employee burnout

Social Talent

As the pandemic has ravaged the working landscape, it has given rise to a multitude of worrying issues – burnout being one of the most austere. It is, of course, understandable on one hand. The tectonic shifts in how we carry out daily life have been immense. With the strains of uncertainty, change and fear proliferating into every atom of our being, it’s no wonder that employee mental wellbeing is teetering more precariously than ever. .

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Agency Recruiters and Talent Acquisition. New era – better outcomes

Greg Savage

I have done over 100 webinars since COVID struck. This one drew almost 1,000 attendees. The feedback was probably the best too. The topic was the drawcard. How can Agency Recruiter and Internal Talent Acquisition work better together? As I so classily say in the webinar, it is currently so often a ‘ vicious cycle […].

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Diversity And Inclusion: A Complete Guide For HR Professionals

Ideal

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace (D&I) is a term you’ve probably heard several times by now. The concept has continued to gain traction in the corporate world as its benefits have become increasingly clear. Josh Bersin, leading industry analyst and researcher, calls diversity and inclusion one of the hottest topics of these few years. He has said that it is “not an HR program, but a business strategy.

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Having Recruiting Tools Does Not Make You a Recruiter

NPA Worldwide

Thanksgiving is this week in the United States. Due to travel restrictions related to Covid-19, a lot of people aren’t traveling to relatives’ houses for dinner, instead opting to stay home and do it themselves. So this past weekend, I took inventory – I have a roasting pan, a turkey baster, a thermometer, twine, a carving board, a knife… I’m all set, right?

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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 Supercharge Your Engagement Strategy

ClearCompany Recruiting

Employee engagement, trust in management, and positive culture have always been key pillars of healthy organizations and productive teams. These pillars of employee engagement and organization trust become even more vital during periods of uncertainty, change, and business or economic slowdowns when leadership really needs the team to pull together.

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5 Trends Reshaping How We Work After COVID-19

Glassdoor for Employers

What's going to happen to how we work next year? Here's a topline summary of the five most compelling workplace trends Andrew Chamberlain, Ph.D., Chief Economist and Director of Research at Glassdoor, sees emerging in 2021 based on his new research report. These trends are what we believe will take hold as the pandemic continues to unfold - and assuming no other major unforeseeable event takes place in the coming year.

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How COVID-19 could change performance reviews (for good)

Social Talent

An unprecedented year calls for unprecedented changes – especially in how we work. As the calendar is beginning to tick into its final month, EOY performance reviews are rearing their heads. But how can we accurately assess what employees have “achieved” in such uncertain times? It’s an issue that has clearly been on the mind. Even as far back as March, Facebook announced that it would be giving all 45,000 employees the same ‘exceeds expectations’ performance review.

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Why so many recruitment managers got fired in Covid.

Greg Savage

Plenty of Agency recruitment managers were fired as soon as the pandemic hit. That was shocking at an individual level, but no surprise, because in every downturn companies unload expensive middle managers in droves. I have seen it countless times. Even in good times, many, many recruitment companies decimate their profit level because of this […].

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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Ditch Annual Reviews. Rewrite Your Job Description.

Katrina Kibben

Coronavirus changed everything. This year, instead of the typical annual review, write a more accurate job description. Here's why. The post Ditch Annual Reviews. Rewrite Your Job Description. appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Using a Recruiting Firm vs. Hiring an In-House Recruiter

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Henry Goldbeck , of Goldbeck Recruiting. Goldbeck Recruiting is a recruitment and executive search firm located in Vancouver, BC. As true employment consultants, they bridge industry expertise and headhunting excellence with human resource support throughout the hiring process to improve the success of a new recruit. Since 1997, they have filled challenging positions in industries and expertise areas like sales, engineering, biotech, accounting & finance, manuf

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How to interview a senior developer (with interview questions)

Devskiller

By its very nature, making, testing, and maintaining all software is a complex venture. As a result, every member of the development team has an important contribution to make. This is particularly true for a senior developer. They have to be able to write great code, and must also take on a wide range of other roles, many of which can have a crucial effect on your company’s record of success. .