January, 2017

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How to Lower Your Cost Per Hire in 2017

ClearCompany Recruiting

As a recruiter, finding the best talent for the job is only a portion of your concerns. You also have to find a candidate who fits the organizational culture and at a low cost.

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Employee Benefits That Will Help You Win Top Performers

Lever

Top performers have a choice in where they work. While a great company culture and strong compensation strategy can go a long way in attracting them to work for your organization, employee benefits also play a crucial role in winning top talent for your team. In fact, 60 percent of candidates are likely to take a job with a lower salary but better employee benefits.

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How Important is Hiring for Company Culture Fit…Really? [VIDEO]

ExactHire Recruiting

In this ExactHire vlog, listen to ExactHire Co-Founder, Jeff Hallam, explain what we can learn from a high profile sports team employee termination, and offer tips on how to better assess a job candidate’s potential ability to fit in with your corporate culture. Video Transcript: Hi, today’s topic is to talk a little bit about culture, and when I talk about culture not so much in terms of what you can do to make your culture better…it’s not really my realm of expertise at all.

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6 Unconventional Sites for Sourcing Talent

Proactive Talent

Recruiting never sleeps. There will always be candidates to hire, job requisitions to be filled, and the demand for top talent will never cease. However, candidates are becoming even more segmented across the web, they’re not spending most of their time on active channels like job boards or Linkedin, and the most in demand are constantly bombarded with recruiting messages so standing out is key.

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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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How to Add a LinkedIn Button to Your Gmail Signature

Social Talent

Make your email signature work just that little bit harder for you by adding a link to your LinkedIn profile in the form of a LinkedIn button. Here’s our step-by-step guide for how to do so: Step 1. Login to your LinkedIn account and click the Profile button to go to your personal profile: Step 2. Once in your profile, take note of your personal profile URL, which in my case is https://ie.linkedin.com/in/siofrapratt.

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How to Turn Your Workplace into the Best Recruitment Tool Ever

ClearCompany Recruiting

Workplace environment has become a pretty big part of the whole employment package. Job seekers scour career sites and social media pages to get a glimpse at the offices and dress code of companies they’re interested in working for, and candidates make a note of scoping out the hallways for personality clues when called into an interview.

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7 Conversations You Should Initiate with Every Hiring Manager

Lever

If you’re a recruiter, chances are you've brought your hiring managers some pretty terrible candidate fits at one point or another. Knowing how deeply they care about building the right team, your ultimate goal is to help them find the best people. Needless to say, it's beyond devastating when the two of you don't see eye to eye.

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The Changes To Professional Communication You Need To Know About

Spark Hire

Communication is fluid. What was common verbiage twenty years ago now sounds odd when thrown into everyday conversation. For instance, imagine what you’d think if a person was saying how “groovy” their new job is. It would affect your perception of them and they type of communicator they are. As a recruiter, your professional communication skills are especially valuable.

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The Link Between Employer Branding + Employee Referrals

Symphony Talent

We live in a time when we have more information and more choices than we can ever imagine or need. As consumers, we have virtually unlimited choices when. The post The Link Between Employer Branding + Employee Referrals appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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7 Trends That Will Define Recruitment in 2017 (Infographic)

Social Talent

LinkedIn has released their annual Global Recruiting Trends 2017 report. Based on a survey of 4,000 corporate talent acquisition leaders across 35 countries, the report was created to help us understand how recruiting leaders perceive the importance of their teams, the top metrics and priorities they track, how they spend their budgets, and where they’d like to invest in the coming year.

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Corporate Recruiters: Who Is Your Customer?

Recruiting Toolbox

Want to be a better Talent Advisor? Want to get out from under the crushing, overwhelming feeling of being unable to please every Hiring Manager you work with? Who is your customer? If you’re a corporate recruiter, you’d probably say the hiring manager, or maybe the candidate. But, I want to challenge us to think differently about the idea of “customer” in the context of providing good customer service to our clients.

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7 problems with recruiting in IT, and the importance of Time [our small research]

Devskiller

We talk a lot to recruiters, hiring managers, company owners, but also developers and programmers. We hear a lot about problems, so we decided to put them down, and come up with some solutions. IT takes time. Time is expensive. According to Fastcompany.com , in the last 4 years alone, the price of recruiting went up from 13 to 23 days on average. And no one likes to waste something as precious as time.

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The Top Articles and Reports for Talent Predictions in 2017

Lever

Every new year, the talent industry's leading minds and organizations release a flurry of articles and reports on the trends they’re observing, and their predictions for the coming year. So you don’t have to go digging through Google to find them, we’ve assembled what we think are some of the best in one spot.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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How to Become a Better Leader in 2017

Yoh

The start of the New Year is often a good time to reflect on goals, accomplishments, challenges and more. As the leader of your organization, it’s a good time to assess how well you’ve done managing team members, deadlines and more.

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7 Recruitment Resolutions for 2017

NPA Worldwide

As everyone gets back to work post-holidays, here are a few recruitment resolutions in case you haven’t made your own list: Get more social. People have been talking about social media and recruitment for years, but there are still many recruiters not participating. Social media can help you reach new clients and candidates affordably. Start small: select one or two channels.

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8 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You This Week

Social Talent

Every Monday on our LinkedIn company page , we share some of our favourite inspirational quotes. Today, we thought it’d be nice to share a few of the best ones with you: 1. “Do what you love and you’ll never have a problem with Mondays.” 2. “Set some goals, then demolish them” 3. “Nothing good comes from your comfort zone” 4. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for” 5. “If you are persistent you will get it.

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Differences Between Productive and Busy People

TalentLyft

We read this post and simply loved it! Originally it was shared on LinkedIn by Conor Neill and we had to share it here. Being productive today is really defined differently than it used to be. Today's technology is moving so fast and people tend to look busy more than they really are, but productivity is all that matters. Here's the difference between productive and busy people.

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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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5 of the Hottest Job Titles for 2017

FireFish Software

Towards the end of every year, we see key players in the recruitment market begin to spread the word of their hiring predictions for the following year. These forecasts are usually centred around hiring methods and market trends, along with a few details on what jobs they envisage will be in demand the following year (spoiler alert: these almost always include data analysts).

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7 Stats to Convince Your Team of the Importance of Candidate Experience

Lever

Like most parts of recruiting, an outstanding candidate experience can’t be run by recruiters alone. Hiring managers, interviewers, and every employee play an integral role in helping candidates make the decision to join a company.

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Social Media Recruiting Tools: 6 Networking Sites You Need to Use

iCIMS

We outline the top six social networking sites that recruiters should be using to find top talent.

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3 Key Performance Management Metrics to Track

Breezy HR

Being an effective company depends on hiring the right talent and keeping that talent engaged. If your team members aren’t interested in or capable of carrying out their responsibilities, it will be difficult to inspire them to execute your specific business vision. Not to mention that disengaged employees often seek employment elsewhere, or can have a toxic impact on the remainder of your workforce which can lead to even more of the expensive turnover that can destroy a business.

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The 4 Dysfunctions of Recruiting & How You Can Successfully Overcome Them

Speaker: Trent Cotton, VP of Talent and Culture at Hatchworks

Are you tired of falling into the same recruiting rut, facing the same obstacles over and over with mediocre results? Recruiting in this market is definitely challenging, but your recruitment process doesn’t have to be. Join Trent Cotton in this exclusive webinar to learn how to overcome the four dysfunctions of recruiting with Sprint Recruiting. Sprint Recruiting opens up a new world for recruiters by applying the AGILE methodology to the recruitment process!

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5 News Stories To Inspire Recruiters This Week 23rd January

Social Talent

We believe that you should always be learning. A great way to improve your recruiting skills and stand out from your competitors to have a broad knowledge of your industry and the changes and trends that are affecting it. We have gathered five news stories from the week that we hope will inspire you to think a little differently about how you can do your job. 1.

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Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use LinkedIn InMail Templates

Contract Recruiter

One of the most common concerns on the minds of recruiters is how to increase candidate response rates from LinkedIn InMails. Recruiters know the problem all too well – candidates are inundated with calls, emails and InMails from recruiters, and so grabbing their attention becomes quite a challenge. My advice to increase your InMail response rate is simple: stop using templates.

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Management interview questions

Workable

These examples of manager interview questions can help you identify the best candidates for senior level positions. Use the most suitable management interview questions to assess candidates’ team-leading skills in these important roles. What to ask candidates. Managers play a strategic role in a company’s performance and growth. Their responsibilities include: Setting and tracking goals.

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Recruiters See Base Pay Increase

Glassdoor for Employers

Our chief economist, Dr. Andrew Chamberlain, found in his latest Local Pay Report that on average, U.S. median base pay growth slowed.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Perks of Using an Application Tracking System

Jobsoid

Businesses are now rapidly moving towards popular recruiting software that are proving to be a great advantage by helping the firms to find the best talent in the industry. Advanced applicant tracking systems (ATS) are being used by […]. The post Perks of Using an Application Tracking System appeared first on Jobsoid.

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The Exporter’s Guide to the Split Placement Network

NPA Worldwide

In a recruiting network, you have several different types of recruiters: importers – the recruiter working for clients who has job orders to fill, exporters – the recruiter working with candidates who solely refers talent to importers, and recruiters who do a combination of importing and exporting. It’s a great system – an importer can simply post their job order and an exporter may find a perfect match by searching their database and sending one along.

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How to: Develop Successful Talent Pipelines (Infographic)

Social Talent

Being proactive pays off, and talent pipelines are no exception. Having a ready pool of qualified candidates can return huge dividends in the end, saving both time and money and eliminating hasty hiring mistakes. The trouble with talent pipelines is most hiring managers and recruiters define them differently, resulting in confusion, frustration and missed opportunities.

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