April, 2018

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How to create a pleasant job interview environment

JazzHR

The job interview: A major step that both candidates and hiring managers often approach the wrong way. The candidate may prepare in-depth answers ahead of time. But maybe, they fail to have an organic, personable conversation with the hiring team. Meanwhile, the hiring manager may ask surface-level questions that don’t accurately assess the candidate’s suitability for the position.

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TL;DR Grad Salaries, Blind Hiring & The War For Skills

Social Talent

Get the most important recruitment news delivered to you every Monday with our TL;DR updates. Time is valuable, so make sure you use that time wisely to catch up on the latest industry news. Highest Graduate Salaries. Graduate Programmes have blossomed in recent times, with many applicants finding them an excellent stepping stone when leaving college.

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This piece of advice changed a recruitment business forever

Greg Savage

I quite often get emails and messages from people who have appreciated or acted on my advice. I won’t lie to you, it’s gratifying when the experience you pass on, helps others. Keeps me going to be honest. But sometimes the impact of a little guidance is pivotal in a business, and so I decided […].

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The Ugly Truth About Your Unstructured Interview Process

Lever

The interview process is your opportunity to find the right candidates for your open role, and to sell those candidates on working at your company. However, an unstructured interview process in which candidates may each experience different steps, questions, or assessments, can do quite the opposite. The ugly truth is that an unstructured interview process can have long-term, negative consequences for your organization.

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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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What’s Missing in Your Talent Lifecycle?

ClearCompany Recruiting

Every organization defines and maps out their talent lifecycle differently. Stages will vary, processes will be different and connections between each phase will be unique to the company’s priorities. That being said, there is (or should be) one standard in every organization’s talent lifecycle – the center. Here at ClearCompany, we have always had a strong focus on uniting the traditionally disjointed stages of the talent lifecycle.

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From Transactional to Human: A Hiring Process Awakening

Spark Hire

The future of your hiring process is here, kicking mindless transactional processes to the curb. In fact, in LinkedIn’s 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report, recruiters said by using a strategic combination of new interviewing tools, artificial intelligence, diversity, and data, the focus is being placed back where it belongs — on candidates. To help you break out of the mundane hiring process of search, schedule, screen, interview, rinse, and repeat, we asked the pros how they’re moving i

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How (and Who) to Hire For a Startup

Social Talent

For the right candidate, the startup life offers unique attractions. The smaller staff size and developing procedures tend to foster more casual, faster-paced workplaces. Startups offer plentiful opportunities for advancement and collaboration. A dream job for the right person! A startup may not be the right place for someone who craves stability, predictable procedures, and a sky-high salary.

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I went to Dublin to talk ‘leadership’. And the craic was good!

Greg Savage

I just got back from Ireland. A huge week of recording 20 hours of recruitment training for the Social Talent Training Platform (Launches 10th May, look out for that. Speak to Richard Bromhead) But also two big presentations to the local recruiters on ‘Leadership’, and what that really means. The first was organised by my […].

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5 Ways Your Team May be Giving Candidates a Bad Interview Experience

Lever

Your talent acquisition team works hard to build strong talent pipelines for each of your organization’s roles. The last thing you want to see is that your pipeline is leaking your best candidates. But if your candidates have a bad interview experience, that’s exactly what will happen. Eighty three percent of talent said a negative interview experience could change their mind about a role or company they once liked.

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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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How Losing Top Talent is Impacting Your Bottom Line & What to Do About it

ClearCompany Recruiting

Losing a top employee can be a nightmare for just about any manager. Knowing that the team will be down another set of hands is stressful even if you were expecting it. If employee turnover has been a persistent problem, leadership is scrambling to hit deadlines while the talent acquisition team tries to fill roles. Unfortunately, this situation is all too real if your organization hasn’t been giving employee retention the right attention.

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Unconventional Secrets to Hiring a Great Team as a Startup

Entrepreneur

Embrace these counterintuitive tips and build the foundational team that will equip your team for future success.

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Report: What is the Best City for Job Seekers?

Indeed

With unemployment at a 17-year low and job creation numbers on the rise, the news for job seekers has been good recently. But of course, industries and opportunities vary across this vast nation, and the job market in sunny Los Angeles is not the same as in windy Chicago. Meanwhile, every job seeker has different priorities—for some it may be living close to family, for others it’s work-life balance or salary.

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5 Stellar Strategies You Can Use To Recruit Passive Talent

Social Talent

The Gold Mine. For any recruiter or HR Manager, recruiting the best of the best is at the top of their agenda. Never settle with someone that is merely ‘OK’, you should be aiming for the best talent out there. They are the ones who are going to make the biggest impact on your business. And do you know what type of candidate has all those traits?

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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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Taking a recruitment start-up to $60 M and a public listing.

Greg Savage

This Podcast will be of interest to business builders, and those planning an exit. In Part 1 we cover: From Start Up to $60-Million. Surviving the 1990 Australian Recession. Leadership under fire. People Management and Coaching From Recovery to Public Listing Listing is Not the End, It’s the Beginning Optimising Growth From Acquisitions Friction and […].

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New Benchmarks Report: Discover the Keys to Sourcing Success

Lever

Candidates simply won’t answer your sourcing emails. On the rare occasions they do, you can’t even assess what you did differently to warrant a response. Ultimately, you just want to know: what are the formulae for actually hiring the candidates you source?

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Ask a Recruiter: What is recruitment marketing and why should it be part of your recruiting strategy?

Workable

Recruitment marketing is how your company tells its culture story through content and messaging to reach top talent. It can include blogs, video messages, social media, images—any public-facing content that builds your brand among candidates. In marketing, if you try to be all things to all people and you don’t know who your ideal customer is, you risk creating messaging that doesn’t resonate with anyone.

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6 Salary Questions All Managers Should Be Prepared to Answer

Glassdoor for Employers

You might think that once a candidate has signed their offer letter, the salary inquiries are over. But even after you’ve sorted.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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How Open PTO Makes Life Better for Employees and Improves Productivity

Indeed

Americans certainly work hard, but many of us play less than we might like—or is good for us. Although employees can accrue more time off as they spend more time with a company, the standard issue two weeks PTO remains a fact of life for millions. In fact, the U.S. is the only advanced economy in the world that doesn’t guarantee employees any paid vacation. .

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RIP Talent Acquisition

Social Talent

Spending 20 years in the recruitment industry will teach you a thing or two… Johnny Campbell has explored all parts of the industry, moving from recruitment roles into the SaaS sphere has given him a 360-degree view of the world of recruitment and talent acquisition. The War for Talent. In 1998 a report from McKinsey & Company shaped the way the industry spoke about Talent Acquisition.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Being a recruiter rocks!

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 ‘Being a recruiter rocks!’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Simplify your Interview Schedule with these 7 Tips

Lever

Figuring out an interview schedule can be enough to drive anyone mad. Interviewers and candidates are both busy, and availability changes often. There are a lot of moving parts, and you need the stars to align just so, in order to find a mutually available time. And the sooner, the better: your hiring manager needed the position filled yesterday, and you don’t want to lose your candidates to a competitive offer.

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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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Unlocking America’s Incarcerated Workforce

SmartRecruiters

After paying their debts to society, thousands of Americans with criminal records struggle to land a job, in large part due to recruiter bias. Shelley Winner’s dad first got her drunk when she was 11. At 13, she started smoking pot. By 34 she was using and trafficking methamphetamine, heroin, and prescription pills. After a short-lived stint smuggling drugs across state lines, she was arrested, and received a four-year sentence at FCI Dublin, a low-security prison for female inmates, 98 miles fr

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5 Ways You’re Losing Good Candidates In The Recruitment Process

Glassdoor for Employers

A candidate’s opinion of your organization will be shaped almost entirely by the recruitment process. Consider their first touch point with your.

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4 Secrets to Improve the Candidate Experience with Digital Tactics

Spark Hire

The candidate experience is one of the most important and overlooked aspects of your hiring process. To deliver an excellent candidate experience, consider all of the aspects involved. When you’re focused on attracting talent , building your employer brand, talent sourcing , and everything in between, you’re directly impacting the candidate experience.

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3 Reasons Why The Human Touch is SO Important in HR

Social Talent

The human touch is vitally important in all aspects of life. Today, our working world is evolving and everything is becoming digitalised. HR tools, emails, social media – you name it, HR use it. Therefore, is the human touch creeping its way out of HR in general and is our digitalised world harming face-to-face communication? Automation and digital processes have seen humans lose their jobs.

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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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Upskilling Talent Acquisition: The 21st Century Recruiter

Symphony Talent

This post was originally published on LinkedIn. What a remarkable time we live in: self-driving cars that take you to work as you relax on a virtual beach. The post Upskilling Talent Acquisition: The 21st Century Recruiter appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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We're Spotlighting 4 Exceptional Teams for International Recruiters Day

Lever

Today is International Recruiters Day. So we’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to pay homage to our team builders, matchmakers, and best candidate advocates. Companies across the globe - whether in San Francisco or Sydney - rely on the hard work of recruiters to reach their most ambitious milestones. Think about it: it’d be pretty hard to hit those huge revenue goals without the manpower to make it happen, wouldn’t it?

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Candidate Resentment Calculator

Survale

I came across a great tool for measuring ROI for candidate experience at a recent Talent Board Candidate Experience Workshop ( of which Survale is a major sponsor ). It’s called the Candidate Resentment Calculator. I am told it came from HireRight©, so full credit to HireRight for coming up with it. We’ve all read about how frustrated candidates can affect your bottom line.