Sat.Mar 25, 2017 - Fri.Mar 31, 2017

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How to Convince Management to Give You a Larger Recruiting Budget

ClearCompany Recruiting

Around 62% of companies expect their hiring volume to rise , but only 42% say their recruitment budget will increase. Once again, HR is going to be asked to do more with less. Asking for additional budget, even for a program you really could use, can be daunting. So it’s crucial to be prepared.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion Part 1: Fixing Your Culture

Lever

We believe passionately that diverse and inclusive companies make for more innovative, engaged, and happy teams, and we speak with forward-thinking talent leaders all the time who feel the same. We’re writing this series on how to cultivate diversity and inclusion in the workplace because people are ready for the next level of discourse around diversity and inclusion; one aimed at actual solutions.

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Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017

Talent Hero Media

Three killer online marketing ideas that will help your recruiting firm stand out in a crowded market in 2017. The post Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017 appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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A Brief History of Recruiting Software + Problems that Software Now Solves

JazzHR

HR teams and recruiting managers have come a long way since the days of paper, faxed, and emailed resumes. In celebration of how far we’ve come, here’s a short history of technology in recruiting, followed by three major recruiting problems that recruiting software now solves. Pre 90s: paper resumes, manual data uploads, inefficient and expensive job fairs.

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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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How Recruiters Can Balance Having Heart with Being Strategic

ClearCompany Recruiting

The current job market is candidate-driven; Meaning companies are competing for talent more than ever. Every day as a position remains open, it is costing a company time, money and productivity. With 45% of employers saying the time to fill positions has increased since 2014, turning candidates into employees quickly is vital to a company’s bottom line.

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Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017

Talent Hero Media

Three killer online marketing ideas that will help your recruiting firm stand out in a crowded market in 2017. The post Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017 appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Why Succession Planning Matters

JazzHR

Succession planning is a key strategy for any business, large or small. Simply put, it’s about ensuring that an organization’s employees are constantly being developed to fill key roles. Theoretically that means that a company shouldn’t have any trouble appointing an existing staff member to step up and take over a role in the event of retirement or attrition.

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Using Video Interviewing to Enhance Your Candidate Experience

HarQen

In our series about the Candidate Experience we have taken a look at the current state of the Candidate Experience , and explored ways companies can enhance their Candidate Experience. There are a fair amount of negative stigmas that video interviewing (or an on-demand phone interview) can have when presented to candidates or companies who are unfamiliar with it.

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Employee Retention: 4 Tips to Keep Top Talent at Your Organization

Lever

When you work hard to recruit and hire top talent, it’s a shame when employees leave for another opportunity. Your people are your competitive advantage and when they move on, so does their knowledge. This leaves you with more than just an empty seat, it leaves you with an expertise gap that nobody else may ever fill in quite the same way. While you can’t expect that every employee will stay forever—the median employee tenure is 4.2 years —there are some things you can do to increase your employ

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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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Social Recruitment Is Losing Its Way

The Whiteboard

Thanks to everyone who attended the RicePowWow last night, it was a great evening. The talk from Jacqui Wall from Umbrella on building resilience in recruitment is certainly coming in handy with the somewhat fragile nature of me and my team this morning. One comment made last night, out of the many, many comments, really grabbed my attention though.

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A Smarter Approach to Keeping up with EEOC Regulations

JazzHR

If just the mention of EEOC regulations fills you with dread, don’t worry, you’re not alone. While keeping up with the workforce discrimination laws that the EEOC sets forth may seem like a daunting challenge, doing so is incredibly important. Not only do you and your organization run the risk of breaking the law if you don’t, you could also be missing out on the many benefits of running a diverse organization.

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A People-First Approach to Recruiting

Proactive Talent

When I was working for a large Silicon Valley software company, our VP of Product Marketing showed me an Inmail that he had received from one of our internal recruiters saying that he was a “perfect fit” for a role on our QA team. He thought it was hilarious, but told me to tell my colleague that he was going to pass…. There are incredible products out there that allow us as recruiter to do “personalized” mass mailings to thousands of potential candidates.

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5 Important Interview Questions To Ask Your Candidate

Social Talent

When a recruiter is interviewing a candidate, they are trying to see if that person has the ideal skills and traits to succeed in the proposed role. A lot of work goes into getting quality candidates in through the door, and it’s up to the recruiter to make a proper judgement with regards to picking the right person. Therefore, when talent comes knocking, it’s important that you ask them all the right questions.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Candidate Experience Q&A With HarQen’s CEO

HarQen

For the final post in our month log series about Candidate Experience, I sat down for a short Q&A with our CEO, Ane Ohm. What are your thoughts on Candidate Experience being the new big thing in HR and Recruitment? I’m strongly in favor of providing an exceptional candidate experience, but the current focus seems to have the wrong lens. What I hear from candidates has to do with transparency and speed.

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2 Common Questions Recruitment Marketing Analytics Can Help You Answer

Recruitics

Last year, the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) reported that two-thirds of companies that participated in their annual survey said that they’re having a more difficult time hiring now than in the past. And in 2017, that trend is continuing with 40 percent of global employers reporting talent shortages–the largest such reporting since 2006.

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10 Must-Watch TED Talks for Every Recruiter & Hiring Manager

Glassdoor for Employers

As recruiters and hiring managers, we’re laser focused on finding good people who will be effective in their positions. Our closeness to.

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6 Ways To Create Great Content As A Recruiter

Social Talent

As a recruiter you want the best and brightest candidates attracted to your job roles. You want to create a great impression of your company from all angles and the key to this is great content. Content marketing is a powerful a force and it brings with is all the benefits that make your company shine brighter than your competitors. We have assembled this guide to creating great content as a recruiter so you can start to reap the benefits and get noticed by amazing candidates.

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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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Optimize Your Hiring With Newton’s Recruiting Metrics Spreadsheet

Newton Software

Easily Track Your Hiring Performance With Newton’s Recruiting Metrics Spreadsheet Truthfully, we think it’s a crime for any modern recruiting or HR department to be hiring without an applicant tracking system. However, if you’re still building that business case for new recruiting technology, we’re here to help you in the meantime. A Practical Approach to […].

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5 Critical Steps to an Effective Job Advertising Strategy

Recruitics

Recruitics is a recruitment marketing analytics and automation platform that makes it easy for companies to achieve amazing results from their talent acquisition strategy. We work with the nation’s largest corporations, staffing companies, and job boards to drive more applicants to their online job postings, hire great talent, and meet their recruitment goals.

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7 Perfect April Fool’s Day Office Pranks

Glassdoor for Employers

Work wins are usually measured in the ability to foster collaboration, beat goals, close deals, exceed standards, crush numbers, gain allies, and.

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10 Of The Best Interview Blunders Made By Candidates

Social Talent

Interview blunders…where do we begin. Yeah, you hear some horror stories, but you don’t ever think that it might one day happen to you. I mean c’mon, who would wear a leather jacket to an interview? Seriously though, there are candidates that go above and beyond to exceed all expectations. So much so that you’re left picking your jaw up from off the floor in disbelief.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Change Recruitment

Beamery

There’s a deep human fascination with the idea of artificial intelligence. From Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous “I’ll be back” in Terminator , to the famous Japanese robot hotel , deep down, the idea of creating a machine that functions like a human gets us going. It’s not all good though, a quick Google search shows you what we’re worried about – losing our jobs and robot overlords!

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Candidate-centric approach to hiring: 10 lessons from Jill Macri (Airbnb)

Devskiller

In his fictional letter , author & entrepreneur Bryan Adams discusses his tumultuous relationship with recruitment industry. The poignant letter focuses on the importance of filling open racks at the speed of light with a simultaneous lack of respect for candidates involved in the process. Here’s what he has to say: “We always said we’d put the candidates first. (…).

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How companies succumb to sunk cost culture

Workable

In theory, companies are meant to act rationally, efficiently and in their own economic self-interest. But humans manage them, so they succumb to irrational thinking. The sunk cost fallacy is one of the most popular forms of irrationality. It’s a staple topic in introductory economics classes. And it’s a key cultural trait of badly-managed companies.

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Recruitment News: LinkedIn Gets Trendy and Sweden Gets Sexy

Social Talent

With a fresh week on the horizon here are the stories that are circulating in the world of recruitment news. What’s The Story with LinkedIn? Trending stories will appear on the top right-hand side of the homepage. LinkedIn is introducing Trending Storylines , a feature already available in the US and will be rolled out across all users from this week.

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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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4 of the Very Worst Sales Emails Ever

FireFish Software

At Firefish, we get loads of spam emails every single day and all we do is click the spam button. Well, for the most part. But for the last month or so, my colleagues have forwarded over some of the worst recruitment email spam they've received, and I wanted to share some really bad examples with you. So, after weeks of putting up with being the office spam filter, here are 4 of the very worst sales emails ever.

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Interviewing Candidates? 4 Ways to Improve the Experience

Spark Hire

Technology has transformed the hiring process in a short amount of time. The way we connect with candidates, publicize job openings, and conduct interviews has changed drastically in less than a decade. When used properly, these innovative strategies can streamline your hiring process and improve the overall experience for the candidates. When you’re looking to implement technology effectively into your hiring process, here are a few key pieces of technology on which to focus your attention: An

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Final-round interview questions

Workable

Looking for final interview questions to ask candidates as part of the interview process? This template offers employers examples of good final-round interview questions. How to conduct a final interview. A successful hiring decision requires a few stages: resume screening, two or more interview rounds and, in some cases, skills-based assessments. Invite qualified candidates to a final interview to identify the best fit for your organization before you make your job offer.