December, 2017

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He made $150k by changing the KPI

Greg Savage

This is a story about innovation. It’s also about leadership, measurement and fresh KPI thinking. And it’s about making money. I learned the lesson in a Board Meeting with my client Donald Stout, MD of Now Careers in Sydney. (Now Careers has several offices in the UK and 2 in Australia) Donald and his management […].

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Some Useful Tips to Help Students Spot Fake News

JazzHR

December 21, 2017 A few days ago we published on our Facebook page this beautiful visual featuring some interesting tips to help you spot fake news. The visual is created by IFLA and is available for.read more.

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6 Game-changing Ideas to Differentiate Your Candidate Experience

Lever

83 percent of talent say that a negative experience has changed their mind about a company or role they once liked, while 87 percent of talent say a positive interview experience can change their mind about a company or role they once doubted. Those two stats say it all - a candidate’s experience with your team can truly make or break their decision to join.

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The Recruiter Life Survey

Talent Hero Media

This 10-question survey on the life of a recruiter is designed to dig deep into your work life to uncover what you're doing today and where you'd like to go in the future. The post The Recruiter Life Survey appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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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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The Last Post

The Whiteboard

Der derrrrr…der derrrrr…der der da da da da da da da daaaaaaaaa. Yes it’s the last post. The Last Post. The last Whiteboard blog post of 2017 and also the last time you’ll be hearing from me on a regular weekly basis on this here blog ging forum. The Whiteboard will continue in 2018 but it’s time for some new voices in the recruitment industry to have their say.

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The dumbest thing a recruitment manager ever said to me.

Greg Savage

It was one of the million cups of coffee I have with recruitment company owners every year. And don’t get me wrong. I love those meetings. This is where I learn, and keep my finger on the pulse. This particular guy wanted to talk about business development. He needed to crank up client acquisition. The […].

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Air Force Research Lab development integrates Internet of Things on to a wearable 3D printed chip

JazzHR

The Internet of Things is, alongside 3D printing, one of the key emerging technologies that should be disrupting the way industry works and the ways that people engage with it over the upcoming years. A recent breakthrough by the Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with American Semiconductor saw these two technologies combined in a pioneering way.

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Startup Recruiting: Scaling a People Function for Explosive Growth

Lever

At this year’s Talent Innovation Summit , we sat down for a fireside chat with Mathew Caldwell. Prior to founding Rocket Power, he led the people function at Instacart, and was tasked with growing the 50-person company by 120 people per quarter. With 2 recruiters, 1 sourcer, an ineffective applicant tracking system, and no metrics, he was at a typical early stage startup.

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The Future of Work: Solving Problems Through a Flexible Workforce

Entrepreneur

Innovative companies ask themselves two key questions: What products or processes do we think the marketplace will want next? What talent do we need to deliver that?

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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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The "Extended Random" Feature in the BSAFE Crypto Library

Yoh

Matthew Green wrote a fascinating blog post about the NSA's efforts to increase the amount of random data exposed in the TLS protocol, and how it interacts with the NSA's backdoor into the DUAL_EC_PRNG random number generator to weaken TLS.

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How to Get a Candidate to Say YES to Your Job Offer!

Social Talent

There’s nothing quite like the frustration of nurturing a candidate through the trials and tribulations of a hiring process to the point at which they are made fantastic offer… only to have them turn it down. It’s hard not to get excited when you find an ideal candidate with the skills, experience and je ne sais quoi that make them perfect for a role.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Two questions great recruiters ask every time

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘Two questions great recruiters ask every time’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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5 Labor Trends and Disruptions Impacting Jobs in 2018

Glassdoor for Employers

Glassdoor’s chief economist reveals 5 trends in the labor market that will disrupt the way companies attract, hire and retain employees in 2018.

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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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Lever's 2017 Year in Review

Lever

Where did 2017 go? With 13 days left in the calendar year, we're taking a moment to reflect upon everything that went down at Lever during the first 352. Hint: they were packed to the brim - with new product launches, customer love, and and momentous milestones. While we couldn’t possibly catalogue every standout moment, we recapped many of our favorites month-by-month in this post.

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How an R&D Mindset Brought Teachers and School Leaders Closer Than Ever

FireFish Software

Great. Another bogus professional development day with a guest speaker, a workshop, and a 50/50 chance that the lessons and/or message of the day will find its way into a classroom for any length of time. Chances are, we’ve all sat through professional development exercises and wondered where the relevance for our own practice was. Sit-and-get PD rarely engages our interests and, at best, only temporarily sparks inspiration.

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6 Best Recruiting Tools Of 2018 [Infographic]

Ideal

In 2018, hiring volume is again predicted to increase with 61% of recruiters expecting to hire more people. According to SourceCon’s State Of Sourcing Survey, increased hiring volume coupled with stagnant recruiter headcount means the most important trend to learn and understand for recruiters are tools and technology. Here’s a list of the 6 best recruiting tools you should be using in 2018 summarized in an infographic.

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10 Christmas Feels That Every Recruiter Will Understand

Social Talent

‘Tis the season for recruiting and what better way to cap off a successful year than reminiscing about all those familiar feels around Christmas. In the past, we’ve talked about what really grinds our gears as recruiters. We’ve talked about the many emotions of an in-house recruiter. But let’s not forget that there’s a reason recruiters do what they do!

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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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New! Savage Masterclass. Filling fast. Get Early Bird rate now!

Greg Savage

Savage Sell Sophisticated selling for the Modern Recruiter This series of half-day master classes will be held in March 2018, in nine cities in Australia and New Zealand. 600 recruiters have booked already! These will be sold out, so please – book now! And it’s sharply priced so Agencies can send entire teams. You must […].

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[VIDEO] Sheryl Sandberg Interview: Facebook’s Brilliant Hiring Hacks

Glassdoor for Employers

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg (COO) and Lori Goler (VP of People) share with Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman what sets the company apart as the #1 Best Place to Work in 2018. The company looks for skills over experience.

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New Powerful Search Capabilities to Find Top Candidates

Lever

Did you know that only 30 percent of candidates in a typical Applicant Tracking System (ATS) are in an active pipeline? We looked across our customers and found that the vast majority of candidates are actually in the “archives” and aren’t being considered for current roles. This amounts to thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of candidates for some companies.

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Social Recruiting – How to Attract and Connect With Top Candidates

Spark Hire

One of the best talent acquisition strategies continues to go underutilized — social recruiting. The candidate experience is one of the most important parts of talent acquisition. You want candidates to feel wanted and for them to understand how they fit into the prospective role as well as your culture. Social media is perfect for expanding your employer branding and connecting with candidates on a more human level.

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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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7 Remote Work Fails to Avoid in 2018

Stack Overflow

In 2017, 52% of employees worked remotely at least once a week. Engineers, product managers and marketers alike are adapting to a flexible work style to improve their work-life balance and increase focused work time. (Wouldn’t you want to get rid of that nasty commute?). We at Owl Labs are 40% remote ourselves, and we love to experiment with new ways to support our own distributed team.

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GDPR: What it Means For You as a Recruiter in The New Year

Social Talent

May 2018 will see big changes sweeping through businesses all over Europe. By now you will have seen the letters GDPR pop up in blogs and news sites and we want to distil all of the information, cut out the noise and help yo u get to grips with a new strategy for 2018. Even though rules will only be enforced in May companies are doing their utmost to prepare themselves now.

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How to Set Personal Recruitment KPIs to Become a Top Biller

FireFish Software

There’s nothing more demotivating than being assigned generic ‘make more placements!’ recruitment KPIs. We all want to be making more placements, but what clearly defined actions can you be putting in place to ensure you’re reaching that ultimate goal?

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Life Options vs. Stock Options: How VSC Plays by Different Rules in Silicon Valley

Glassdoor for Employers

How a company with no plans for an IPO differentiates their employer brand in Silicon Valley with flexibility, novelty and sustainability.

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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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3 Recruitment Marketing Strategies You Should be Using

Lever

Traditional recruitment strategies are no longer enough to reach great talent. Many top performers are passive candidates, and those who are actively seeking a new opportunity won’t be on the market for long. If you want to win the best talent for your team, it may be helpful to start thinking more like a marketer. Recruitment marketing strategies, like those outlined below, will help you build your talent pipeline and convert the most coveted candidates into new hires.

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Proximity in time, space & truth

Hireserve

The next aspect of uniqueness in human systems that I want to address is that of proximity. In ‘standard’ complexity agents receive signals from other agents in close proximity but don’t have knowledge of the wider system. Now this is true and no true of human systems. We are profoundly influenced by the proximate narratives of our own communities, the street stories of day to day existence not the grand and idealistic narratives of workshops and interviews where in the main people perform rathe

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4 Ways Tech Recruiters Should Use GitHub to Evaluate Developers

Stack Overflow

A technical resume only scratches the surface of a developer’s career story. It might show you a few bullet points about previous jobs and programming competencies, but there are so many other details that you need to know before hiring a programmer. Fortunately, lots of developers aren’t shy about sharing their work on GitHub. A lot of what you’ll find on a typical GitHub profile might not make sense to you if you’ve never written a line of code.

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