May, 2015

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Have YOU got the DNA of a modern recruiter?

Greg Savage

There has been endless talk about the future of recruitment, and I have suggested that there are brilliant opportunities for recruitment companies, if they make the right changes. But what about the desk recruiter? The foot soldier? The person who is actually at the coalface of client and candidate interaction? What must they do to […].

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Why You Shouldn’t Always Treat Candidates like Customers

ClearCompany Recruiting

There has always been deluge of advice asking employers to treat their candidates like customers. In order to make a great candidate want to work at your company, you need to cater to their needs, make sure they feel special and offer them things like benefits, perks, and higher pay that your competitors don’t. It’s sound advice, for the most part, but as it turns out, following the “ treat candidates like customers ” point of view doesn’t always work.

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Local Recruitment For Local People

The Whiteboard

I’ve blogged a few times before about the deterioration of the traditional recruitment models and the need for today’s recruiters to evolve and develop their offerings to meet the changing demands of clients in the future. So it was with great interest I read about Auckland recruitment firm Razzbri launching a new freelancing platform Yudoozy to connect contractors with employers and cutting out the middleman (ie agency recruiters).

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Andy Headworth – Social Media Recruitment Book Launch

Web Based Recruitment

Video Marketing & Social Media Advertising For Recruiters. Home. Candidate Attraction. Recruitment Videos. Mobile Recruitment. Training Courses. Using Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates. Recruitment Events. About Us. Speaking. Contact Us. Blog. Andy Headworth – Social Media Recruitment Book Launch. May 21, 2015 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment I was fortunate to be invited to attend a private book launch party last night.

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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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Understanding Job Posting Terminology

Recruitics

Recruitment marketing used to refer to writing a job description and posting it to Monster or CareerBuilder. You were able to judge success solely on the number of responses that came through to your job. Today recruitment marketing covers a wide range of outlets including job boards, aggregators, social media channels, RSS Feeds, video, and more. To figure out which medians yield the best results, you need to monitor a handful of metrics.

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Chris Savage (yes, Chris) Recruiter Breakfast. Don’t miss this.

Greg Savage

More than 15,000 people globally have attended Chris Savage’s inspirational presentation on igniting efficiency and effectiveness. It just works. And it is a perfect antidote to the chaotic, often unproductive work-style of most recruiters. Chris Savage is one of Asia Pacific’s pre-eminent public relations, marketing and communications industry leaders.

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4-Point Checklist for Successfully Engaging Tech Candidates

Social Talent

Tech recruiters have one of the toughest gigs in the recruitment industry. Fact. But you already knew that right?! The vast majority of the talent you’re trying to source are currently in full-time employment and are inherently passive in nature – in fact, a whopping 81% of developers are employed full-time, 5% are employed part-time and 11% are employed as freelancers or contractors.

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Triumph and Disaster: How Recruiting Mimics Sport

The Whiteboard

I’m often reminded of the close ties between the roller coaster world of recruiting to the giddy, emotion-laden world of professional sport. The ups and downs of running a recruitment desk and steering a recruitment business through the choppy waters of business appear, to me, tightly woven with the same triumphs and tragedies played out on the fields of play in all competitive sports.

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Web Based Recruitment Launch Online Video Training Course For Recruiters

Web Based Recruitment

Video Marketing & Social Media Advertising For Recruiters. Home. Candidate Attraction. Recruitment Videos. Mobile Recruitment. Training Courses. Using Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates. Recruitment Events. About Us. Speaking. Contact Us. Blog. Web Based Recruitment Launch Online Video Training Course For Recruiters. May 14, 2015 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment.

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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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20 Of The Best Quotes From Leadercast 2015 #thebraveones

Unbridled Talent

Last week, I was honored to be the emcee at the Leadercast: Northern Kentucky host site for Leadercast Live , the largest one-day leadership event in the world, with over 100,000 attendees. Each year, Leadercast brings together an All-Star lineup of business and political leaders, sports figures, social activists and world class communicators at a live event in Atlanta, Georgia, which is simulcast to hundreds of host sites across the world.

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Work is no longer work - the growth of freelancers

Allegis Global Solutions

Freelancing is on the up, and it is bringing many benefits to specialists.

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3 Hiring Tips for Entrepreneurs

Spark Hire

Once it is time to start hiring for your startup business, it can feel overwhelming when deciding what to look for in candidates. In order to ensure a startup is on the right track, there are 3 key things entrepreneurs need to hire for: 1. Hire doers. The last thing entrepreneurs need in their new startup is a bunch of managers or supervisors. When you are hiring, avoid the temptation of hiring a lot of management staff.

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4-Point Checklist for Successfully Engaging Tech Candidates

Social Talent

Tech recruiters have one of the toughest gigs in the recruitment industry. Fact. But you already knew that right?! The vast majority of the talent you’re trying to source are currently in full-time employment and are inherently passive in nature – in fact, a whopping 81% of developers are employed full-time, 5% are employed part-time and 11% are employed as freelancers or contractors.

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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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3 Employee Engagement Strategies to Implement Now

Glassdoor for Employers

As a marketer at Glassdoor, I am often asked, “How do I get my employees to join the conversation on Glassdoor?”. Employers: if you’re looking for ways to engage your employees, here are three companies who are doing it well, plus tips to increase your rating and create an army of internal brand ambassadors. Tip #1: Get feedback. We know it can be tough to reach out and engage all of your employees – especially if you have 1,000+.

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Applying Moneyball Principles to Your Recruitment Efforts

NPA Worldwide

I recently watched the film Moneyball (I’m perpetually behind on movie-watching, but I digress), and was struck by how similar it is to recruitment. A little bit of background for those of you who aren’t baseball fans: Moneyball is a film starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, that is based on a book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis.

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Why Talent Acquisition Technology is Crucial to Success

iCIMS

The talent acquisition space is really starting to hit its stride when it comes to technological advancements and growth. And it's just in time too, because organizations, their recruiters, and their candidates all increasingly expect easy access across devices, friendly user interfaces, data-rich resources, and actionable insights everywhere they turn.

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5 simple steps for creating a powerful LinkedIn profile

Allegis Global Solutions

A few small improvements can help to make your LinkedIn profile far more effective.

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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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Connecting with Talent Across Borders [Whitepaper]

Spark Hire

Sometimes sourcing candidates outside of your region is beneficial for the success of your company. But how can recruiting and hiring professionals stay on budget while also maintaining a positive employment brand when sourcing across borders? Travel costs may not be an option for many organizations, so things like video interviewing solutions , social media, and mobile careers pages are among a few things discussed in this whitepaper that can help companies connect with talent more efficiently.

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16 LinkedIn Users with VERY Unfortunate Names

Social Talent

Not everyone in life is gifted with a normal name. I, myself find it hard (read: impossible) to find novelty key rings and cups with my name on them. But in comparison to the 16 people you’re about to meet, I’m one of the lucky ones. Yes, the following people are just some of the most viewed people on LinkedIn, but not because of their incredible skill sets, their experience, or their knowledge of industry (although some do have very impressive jobs), because their names are… w

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Why Investing in Your Culture is Worth It

Glassdoor for Employers

Is investing in your company culture worth it? Employee engagement programs can be tough to measure, but, ultimately, investments in your company culture and employer brand lead to recruiting cost and time savings, higher candidate quality, upped productivity levels and increased retention rates. Culture case studies. The proof is in the pudding. By investing in its employer brand and company culture initiatives, Expedia, Inc. lowered its cost-per-hire to $1,700, 50% below than the national CPH

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4 Tips for Maximizing Split Placement Network Membership

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Liz Carey, network coordinator for NBN, operators of www.searchbankingjobs.com and www.searchaccountingjobs.com. NPAworldwide and NBN merged in September 2014, and our two networks are working toward a full integration effective January 1, 2016. We’re happy to have Liz as a regular part of our blogging team. As part of a split placement network, recruiters have access to numerous tools, including expanding their geographic reach, filling jobs out of their specialty

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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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15 Ways to Streamline How You Hire Employees Online

iCIMS

Tips and Advice to more easily hire employees online. Benefits include saving time & finding an employee that's the perfect fit for your company.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 5.26 to 5.29

Symphony Talent

It’s Friday—take a lunch break and catch up on the best perspectives of the week in recruitment marketing. First, we’re highlighting the content and tweet of the week. Content of the Week Check out the “5 Essential Roles in the Modern Recruitment Marketing Team,” featured on RecruitingBlogs. Tweet of the Week Gerry Crispin of.

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How to More Effectively Gauge a Candidate’s Personality

Spark Hire

A person’s resume and cover letter speak volumes about who they are as an employee, but in order to make an informed hiring decision, you need to be able to assess a candidate’s personality to get a sense of who they really are as a person. What matters to this individual? How will they get along with their co-workers? How can you help them to thrive at work?

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The Best Times to Post on Social Media (Infographic)

Social Talent

Let me first say, well done. You’ve made the decision to include content as part of your social recruiting efforts and we salute you for it. The benefits of active content sharing for your recruiting efforts are huge. Creating and sharing unique content on a regular basis will help you build a strong network of followers, nurture that network (and rich talent pools in the process), build your reputation as an industry authority and influencer, and turn cold calls into warm calls.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Glassdoor Breaks Out Employee Reviews

Glassdoor for Employers

Employee feedback shapes an organization and is what candidates are in search of when considering one company over another. The more representative the information is of the candidate’s potential role, the more valuable the information becomes. Full-time employees and contractors, for example, typically have very different experiences and the feedback left by a full-time employee may not be representative of what a contractor could expect at the same company.

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4Tips for Maximizing Split Placement Network Membership

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Liz Carey, network coordinator for NBN, operators of www.searchbankingjobs.com and www.searchaccountingjobs.com. NPAworldwide and NBN merged in September 2014, and our two networks are working toward a full integration effective January 1, 2016. We’re happy to have Liz as a regular part of our blogging team. As part of a split placement network, recruiters have access to numerous tools, including expanding their geographic reach, filling jobs out of their specialty

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15 Ways to Streamline How You Hire Employees Online

iCIMS

Tips and Advice to more easily hire employees online. Benefits include saving time & finding an employee that's the perfect fit for your company.

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