February, 2020

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Recruitment is not Tinder. And this is why.

Greg Savage

Technology and lack of skill are driving plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Transactional, keyword matching, resume spamming recruiting drones take heed. (Please). This is what will differentiate the winners from the losers in recruitment. In the end, a recruiter is as good as the number of […].

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Brand Romance - How to Attract the Best Talent

Allegis Global Solutions

Valentines clichés abound in February, but I can’t resist a nod to our romantic nature when we’re talking talent attraction. Just like wooing the person of your dreams, attracting the best talent takes a big dose of ingenuity, creativity and, yes, some courage. Or as Lady Gaga might say, no need for a Poker Face if you want to take your talent acquisition to the Edge of Glory!

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Amid Coronavirus Fears, How to Support New Remote Workers

exaqueo

Here at exaqueo, we have been a fully-remote team since 2011 and some of our team members have been remote for decades. Getting comfortable with working from home and shifting to this kind-of-policy isn’t a quick change. It requires thought and purpose, even if the decision has to be made quickly.

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Coronavirus Fears at Work: What Employers Need to Know

Recruiting Daily Advisor

News reports of deaths and illnesses from the rapidly spreading coronavirus get scarier every day. Millions of people are being quarantined. Foreign companies and governments are evacuating their people from hard-hit areas of China where the virus got its start. And even employees who don’t travel for work are getting anxious about traveling coworkers who may have been exposed.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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Tips for Giving Employee Feedback

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Giving appropriate feedback to employees can help them meet performance expectations and let them know they’re doing well. This can, in turn, help keep motivation and satisfaction levels up. Alternatively, feedback can also be used to steer employees in the right direction when they don’t meet all expectations. Feedback Tips. Here are a few tips for giving feedback to employees: Be timely.

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The Best Jobs of 2020

Indeed

When you imagine your ideal job, what do you see? Maybe you envision conquering challenging software problems at a trendy tech firm full of fun perks. Or perhaps you dream of watching your architectural sketches become sweeping structures of steel, concrete and glass. . The ideal job might differ from person to person, but most can agree on a few key characteristics: it should offer good pay, have potential for growth in its field and be in demand by employers.

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3 Concrete Ways Recruitment Marketers Can Improve the Job Application Process

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Did you know that if your job application process takes more than 15 minutes to complete, candidates are 365% more likely to drop off before clicking submit? ( Appcast ) . In some industries, this statistic may come as a surprise; but to my colleagues and I who are recruiting in the healthcare space, this definitely wasn’t a shocking number to hear.

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This is where the Billing Manager goes wrong!

Greg Savage

Why do so many great recruiters fail when asked to manage other recruiters? There are many reasons for that. The Billing Manager role is the hardest job in recruitment, although it can also be the most rewarding if you get it right. Let me count the ways it can go wrong. (3 minutes) • Wrong […].

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Star Interview Questions

Lever

The typical introductory job interview poses a variety of questions. Categorically, these inquiries are designed to assess the experience, interest, communication skills, creative thinking abilities, motivation, and cultural alignment of an interviewee to ensure a best-fit hire. Some common interview questions are. Read More. The post Star Interview Questions appeared first on Lever.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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The Future of Talent Acquisition

Allegis Global Solutions

Last December talent acquisition leaders gathered in London for the latest in our series of roundtables to discuss the future of talent acquisition and find out how they perceive their own talent acquisition function’s ability, where the pressure points lie, and how it could change for the better.

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11 Tips for Motivating Millennials

Glassdoor for Employers

A recent article by Business Leader stated that 2020 would be “ dominated” by Millennials ’. The global workforce is now 35% Millennials, with baby boomers only making up 6%. But what does this mean for us as managers? How should we adapt the way we communicate and incentivize? What is the best way to motivate Gen Y to perform? Some might say it doesn’t matter — of course, no matter what our age, we all want to be treated fairly and respectfully.

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The truth about great employer brands (that everyone seems to miss)

Social Talent

Employer brands. Every company has one. What’s it really like inside those four walls? Most companies have made at least some effort to shape the answer to that question. But knowing how to do it well is a little more tricky. Cash, conmen and coffee: the changing face of employer brands. The way I see it, employer brands have been on a bit of a journey.

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How to screen Groovy developer skills

Devskiller

The Apache Groovy programming language is one of the oldest alternative programming languages running on JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The Java-syntax compatible Groovy script celebrates its 17th birthday in 2020. People might think that development or the buzz surroundings more recent JVM languages like Kotlin have made Groovy redundant. . Well, that couldn’t be further from the truth!

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Declining profits for your boss. No bonus for you. Here is why.

Greg Savage

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […].

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The Remote Worker Ransom Letter

Katrina Kibben

This remote worker ransom letter was inspired by an 8-mile drive that took over an hour just a few weeks ago. This is what your team really wants if you demand they come into the office next week. The post The Remote Worker Ransom Letter appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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New Report: 4 Fundamentals for a Total Talent Advantage

Allegis Global Solutions

Why Does Access to the Total Talent Supply Matter? With unemployment at historic lows, the demand for workers with critical skills far outstrips the supply. And yet, successful organizations continue to secure talent with the speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to get work done and lead their markets. What are they doing right? For a growing portion of companies, the answer begins with meeting the workforce where it is today.

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How to Balance Speed and Quality When Making Hiring Decisions

Glassdoor for Employers

Good things take time — especially in recruiting. The wait for quality hires is stressful for recruiters, who generally want to fill openings sooner rather than later. On average, it takes 24 days to fill a job. This lengthy process can drain a company’s resources, which is why some employers jump the gun by making quick hires instead of good ones.

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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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Three unexpected challenges of Growth Hiring (and how to overcome them)

Social Talent

Entering a period of growth is challenging for your business. The most cursory of Google searches will provide you with pages worth of content about managing cash flow , staying competitive and the struggle to find the right talent. And rightly so. These are significant challenges of Growth Hiring. . However, we’re interested in the challenges you might not have predicted coming your way.

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What are Transactional Surveys for Talent Management

Survale

What are Transactional Surveys for Talent Management. Do transactional surveys play a role in your talent management strategy? Your talent acquisition? Your talent programs design? What is transactional talent feedback you ask? Transactional feedback is a method of gathering input after each interaction. I don’t like to call them surveys because they are actually short, quick, pulse feedback requests.

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Eat the Frog and Other Time Management Tips

NPA Worldwide

In the world of time management tips, you’re likely familiar with the “ Eat the Frog ” concept. American humorist Mark Twain is often credited with the origin of this saying, paraphrased as if you eat a live frog every morning, nothing worse will happen the rest of the day. In other words, if you get your most unpleasant task out of the way first, the rest of your day will be easier and smoother.

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Hireology Simplifies Hiring With New Mobile App

Hireology

Available on iOS and Android this summer, the app is one of several Hireology platform enhancements improving the auto retail hiring journey in 2020. . Hireology, the leading recruitment CRM for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, announced a new mobile application, available this summer. The mobile application will enable hiring managers to engage candidates on-the go, hire faster, and avoid losing applicants to competing job offers in the tight labor market.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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4 Ways Data is Shaping the Future of Hiring

SmartSearch

The staffing industry has always been about people. And that’s why, historically, hiring professionals have needed to possess excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills in order to build rapport with hiring managers and job candidates. . While this will continue to be the case in 2020, we cannot ignore the fact talent acquisition has quickly become a numbers profession too.

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How to Identify Forward-Thinking Candidates

Glassdoor for Employers

In an economy continually disrupted by technological and cultural shifts, hiring managers and HR leaders must strive to adapt. This includes shaping interviews that vet the most forward-thinking performers who will help steer the company ship forward while also adjusting sails amid changing winds. For example, are candidates keeping their finger on the pulse of how artificial intelligence (AI) will elevate their performance?

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Continuous Listening: How to Strengthen Employee Communication

TalentCulture - Recruiting

This is the first in a two-piece guest series on Continuous Listening. Human Resources departments own many responsibilities that directly contribute to the overall success of a company. According to Sari Levine Wilde, managing vice president of Gartner, “The businesses that are successful today and in the future, will be those that win when it comes to talent…This means helping employees build critical skills and developing employees into leaders.

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How AI Will Reconfigure Human Roles in 2020 and Beyond

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Innovations like self-driving vehicles, intelligent virtual assistants, and healthcare robots have fueled both anxiety and optimism about jobs and automation. But actual adoption in recent years hasn’t been the stuff of science fiction: Automation was primarily focused on simple computational tasks (such as credit scoring) and analysis of structured data.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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What Should Candidates STOP Doing?

Undercover Recruiter

There’s probably a whole list of definite no-nos for candidates but this week our panel of experts share their advice on what they think should never be done in the hiring process. You might be telling your candidates some of this already, but if you’re not, feel free to add them on. Kerri-Ann Hargreaves STOP […]. What Should Candidates STOP Doing?

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NADA Show 2020: 10 Reasons to Visit the Hireology Booth

Hireology

NADA Show 2020 will take place in Las Vegas from February 14 through 17. The annual show gives attendees the opportunity to learn about the latest automotive trends, products and technologies, and make connections with fellow industry leaders. Between the tight labor market and decreasing new vehicle profit margins, hiring qualified employees and driving profit has never been more challenging for dealers.

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7 TA & HR Books That Should Be on Every Recruiters Bookshelf

SmartRecruiters

An effective recruiter is an informed recruiter. Equip yourself with the knowledge to succeed by adding these reading recommendations to your list. No matter what your career is, one of the best things you can do to develop yourself professionally is to attend industry conferences. Take Hiring Success as an example. It provides recruiters and talent acquisition practitioners across the world a chance to come together under one roof, network with old and new acquaintances, and perhaps most import