December, 2018

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2019 Will be the Most Challenging Market for Recruiters in Years

WizardSourcer

2018 will soon be a distant memory, but the challenges faced will follow recruiters into 2019. As you ring in the new year, you will need to start thinking of your recruiting strategy. Based on trends and projections, this year may be the most challenging market to find top talent in years. Candidates are scarce and the job market is still booming, make sure you are aware of the specific areas you need to be aware of.

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7 Steps to Improving Candidate Experience That Don’t Require a Big Budget

Social Talent

Over the years there have been continuing discussions within the recruitment communities regarding candidate experience. All of the above has given rise to the notion of ‘The Candidate’s Hierarchy of Needs’ , at the top sit things like surprises and branded presents, and at its base lies the need to receive an answer; “let me know what is happening with me throughout the process”.

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3 Recruitment Marketing Trends Here to Stay in 2019?

Rally Recruitment Marketing

For the second year in a row, Rally and The Muse have partnered to report on the biggest Recruitment Marketing trends from the past year. These three trends are the clear standouts from 2018 – and they aren’t likely to go anywhere anytime soon! The reason why? These trends represent a massive shift in candidate expectations that we need to respond to as Recruitment Marketing professionals.

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Do you have a ‘lets-p**s-candidates-off’ strategy?

Greg Savage

The massive criticism of agency recruiters over the treatment of candidates? Often justified. Plenty of poorly trained recruiters around, and plenty more who don’t care enough to make an effort. But understand this. Agency recruiters do not come in every morning and have a meeting to decide how they are going p**s their candidates off […].

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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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Interview Questions to Discover Commitment and Motivation

Lever

Finding employees with the right skills for your job is hard, but finding highly skilled and highly motivated new hires is even harder.

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Funny Out Of Office Messages For Recruiters

Katrina Kibben

Fun (and funny) templates recruiters can use to say "I'm out of the office.". The post Funny Out Of Office Messages For Recruiters appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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How To Hire For Temporary Roles

Social Talent

‘Tis the season of retail rush, and many businesses require a helping hand at this time of year. Temporary and contract roles can be easy solutions to many problems, but for recruiters, can sometimes be a difficult thing to get right. What are the problems, benefits, and solutions when hiring for temporary roles? We take you through everything you need to know….

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6 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged During the Holiday Season

Entrepreneur

In the workplace it can be hard to balance a festive atmosphere while simultaneously keeping employees focused and productive.

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My key recruiting tip for 2019

Greg Savage

Chill over Christmas, for sure, you deserve it. And I wish you a safe and fun holiday period. But hit 2019 with a plan. This one!

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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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Interview Questions for Developing Others and Teams

Lever

When interviewing candidates, you’re assessing them for a myriad of skills and traits. To start designing an effective interview, you can use these behavioral interview question examples to build out your interview questions and process.

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5 Social Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Glassdoor for Employers

Social media has had a massive impact on almost every aspect of business — and recruiting is no exception. Today’s candidates use social media to find their future employers, and as a result, recruiters have embraced platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook as valuable recruiting channels. Consider these statistics : 80% of employers say social recruiting helps them find passive candidates. 70% of hiring managers say they’ve successfully hired with social media. 91% of employers are using

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Top-Rated Workplaces: Culture

Indeed

Culture — everybody talks about it, but how do you get it? And what does it look like? Culture can be one of the most defining aspects of a company, and great culture happens when company values are supported by behaviors, systems and practices. What that means is it’s not enough to just say what company values are — employees must feel those values in their experience of what goes on in the company day to day.

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Education Vs Soft Skills: When Do You Need Them?

Social Talent

At SocialTalent , we know that recruitment news travels fast. With the hustle and bustle of working life, it can be hard to keep track of the latest news and trends in the world of hiring. That’s why every Friday we bring you the latest innovations, breakthroughs and big news in our industry. Research recently published by Cardiff University has revealed that focusing on grades and academic achievements may not be the best way to go towards ensuring a role for candidates.

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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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Bullets: Are they really necessary in job postings?

Katrina Kibben

Are we all just blindly following bad behaviors and busted job posting templates by using bullets? Maybe. The post Bullets: Are they really necessary in job postings? appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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Top 7 Things Millennials Want In Their Workplace

Spark Hire

Millennials now officially outnumber Baby Boomers and make up more than 1/3 of the working group in the US. They are dominating businesses, establishing their own firms, and startups. But the most significant number of millennials are working 9-5 jobs. This number seems to be growing steadily, and at the same time changing the traditional workplace setup.

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IT Interview Questions to Ask

Lever

Success in IT roles will depend on advanced technical knowledge and practical experience managing data systems, but success in these roles won’t depend on technical skills alone.

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3 Candidate Outreach Messages That Work (& Why)

Glassdoor for Employers

When you’re recruiting experienced, in-demand candidates, first impressions can make or break the connection. That’s why seasoned recruiters know that they need to make a good first impression with their candidate outreach message. But when the average candidate receives as many as 122 business emails every day, it’s hard to stand out. To find out what makes an outreach message a successful one, we connected with Norma Jean McClain, President of TekChix , a specialized IT staffing and consulting

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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 Ways to Promote Your Company Culture to Attract New Talent

TalentLyft

Creating, cultivating and promoting a welcoming and positive company culture is one of the key ways that to attract new talent. In this blog post, you will learn 4 easy ways to promote your company culture and attract the attention of the best candidates! Read More.

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4 Workplace Trends Every Small Business Should Know About for 2019

Entrepreneur

By staying ahead of workforce and technological trends, small businesses will be in a better position to thrive in 2019.

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Creative Boundaries: Words We’re Banning From Career Sites

Katrina Kibben

There’s a fine line between creative and creepy. Know how I know? I did a Super Bowl campaign. (Also because I have a sense of humor, but that’s not the point.) The campaign was called “The Fiddling Beaver.” (1/3 of you just started giggling.) So, the beaver is going to find his dream job. He […]. The post Creative Boundaries: Words We’re Banning From Career Sites appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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Weird Job Titles 2018: The Year in Review

Indeed

In recent years, some employers have used weird and wonderful job titles to liven up their online listings or to communicate a company culture. Weird job titles are especially popular at an executive level, judging by the Chief Troublemakers, Directors of Fun and Paranoid in Chiefs of this world. However, you can find them at all levels of the workforce.

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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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The Best Recruitment Tips from Christmas Movies

FireFish Software

We all love our Christmas movies at this time of year, but did you know you’re also learning valuable lessons about how to be a better recruiter while you watch them? We’ve handpicked some of the best and wisest recruitment tips straight off the screens of our all-time favourite Christmas movies!

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The End-of-Year Recruiting Inventory

Glassdoor for Employers

In a hypercompetitive market, disrupted by technology and a myriad of other evolvements, you will find the lines of communications between hiring companies and candidate communications ever changing. In that we are now facing a candidate-driven market, sourcing your next great employee requires a bit more ingenuity than it did a couple of years ago.

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Why I Know It’s Time To Completely Recharge

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This post is by Paul Slezak, Cofounder and CEO of RecruitLoop – the World’s largest marketplace of expert Recruiters and Sourcers available on-demand. It’s been a long year. Scratch that. It’s been a damn long year. You know what? It’s been bloody long seven years. I need a break. Urgently. We started our amazing company back in 2011 and every December […].

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The Risks of Candidates Climbing Back Down the Corporate Ladder

Entrepreneur

Should you hire people into more junior roles than their last role? You can, but here are the potential pitfalls to consider.

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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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Gratitude: Year 1 of Three Ears Media

Katrina Kibben

Whether you knew it or not, you’ve helped me build Three Ears into what it is today. The post Gratitude: Year 1 of Three Ears Media appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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8 Ways to Track Underperforming Employees

Undercover Recruiter

When you hire an employee, you have certain expectations, you look forward that the employee will now add value to your company. The true measure of the value of any business is by the performance of the employees. However, there are times when employees do not perform as per expectations or their previous records as. View Article. 8 Ways to Track Underperforming Employees Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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Bad news for businesses affected by Brexit uncertainty

Workable

With just months to go until the UK leaves the European Union, and no deal yet in place, many employers continue to worry about the possible impact of Brexit on UK businesses and the labour market. Although 25% of UK businesses currently employ staff from the EU, an August 2018 survey reveals that over 50% of UK business leaders would be put off employing someone from the EU after Brexit changes the UK’s immigration laws.