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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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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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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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Open Minded Hiring Leads to Richer and Diverse Talent Pools

Social Talent

We’re blue in the face highlighting the benefits of practising a more open and inclusive hiring strategy. Diverse companies consistently outperform non-diverse companies. Nikki Hayford , beloved SocialTalent presenter and founder of Unikseek has worked tirelessly to help companies become more open-minded in their hiring practices. The benefits of open-minded hiring.

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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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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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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.

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Agile TA: The Next Generation Operating Model for Talent Acquisition

Symphony Talent

Constant innovation is a fundamental requirement for companies to stay relevant, yet few have the foresight to prioritize this effort. One often overlooked function within a company is. The post Agile TA: The Next Generation Operating Model for Talent Acquisition appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Make Your Company People-Focused in 3 Steps

Glassdoor for Employers

No matter your industry, there’s likely an elephant in your boardroom: employee turnover. Workers, especially Millennials, just aren’t sticking around as long.

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Awkward Names That Will Make Any Recruiter Sweat

Social Talent

We all like to think that we’re calm, cool and collected in any social situation… We are, of course, always wrong about this. As a recruiter, you spend time honing your phone skills and practising the best ways to engage with candidates and making them feel comfortable. Sure, you’ve had hiccoughs along the way, but all in all you’re pretty confident about your ability to engage with anyone who has a pulse.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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What Can You Learn from Candidate's Body Language?

TalentLyft

Ability to read candidate's body language is an invaluable skill for recruiters. If you learn how to read your candidates’ body language , you will be able to find out more about them and make better hiring decisions. Read More.

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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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Hire Top Talent on a Dime With This Expert Hiring Strategy

Spark Hire

A remarkable 77 percent of rapidly growing companies plan to increase their staff by 25 percent in the coming year, according to research for a recent report done by our team here at Spark Hire. With such a high rate of growth anticipated, companies must be strategizing around large hiring budgets, right? Not necessarily. Actually, only 16 percent of rapidly growing companies said they’re increasing hiring due to the lower taxes they expect to pay this year.