Sat.Jul 02, 2016 - Fri.Jul 08, 2016

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10 Outrageous Office Gadgets You’ll Wonder How You’ve Lived Without

Social Talent

Could your office do with some sprucing up? Today, we’re giving you a taster of some of the office gadgets on the market, from the wacky, to the unnecessary to the downright outrageous! Get ready to be blown away folks… 1. USB Posture Alert Reminder. Do you find yourself constantly slumping in your chair? Well, with the USB Posture Alert Reminder system, you no longer have to worry!

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How To Make A Great Employee A Brand Ambassador

Spark Hire

While social media may have started as a place best reserved for pictures of your lunch or your pets, it’s since become a highly useful way for professionals and businesses to communicate. Social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook can also have a major influence on how clients and potential employees view a particular brand. Individual employees are also able to have a significant impact on how their employer is perceived, and this influence extends beyond social media.

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The Real Cost of a Bad Hire

Newton Software

Breaking Down the High Cost of a Bad Hire. A quote that we live by here at Newton states, “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Although this phrase was coined by Red Adair, the famous oil well fighter who gained fame in the ‘50s and ‘60s, its message has transcended the boundaries of time and profession, and is seemingly even more relevant today than ever.

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A Guide to Mentoring for Career Success

Undercover Recruiter

The benefits of mentoring throughout various career stages has been the basis of many great debates. With the transition to a coaching leadership style, many individuals believe that this removes the need for promoting the benefits of mentor programs or seeking out a career mentor. The reality is however that successful people still have mentors. View Article.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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How to: STOP the Domino Effect of a Bad Onboarding Process (Infographic)

Social Talent

How’s your organisation’s onboarding process? What do you do to ensure that employees are engaged in their work and the company from day one? Do you welcome new starters with an employee handbook? Are they given sufficient technical training? Are they assigned a mentor? Are they told the performance expectations of their new position? Or do you make up one of the 68% of companies who don’t have any formal onboarding process in place?

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How To Be A Culture-Driven CEO

Glassdoor for Employers

How does a company raise a 2-star Glassdoor rating to 4.1 stars? Great question. Our live panel, Actionable Advice From Glassdoor’s Highest.

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Do You Really Need an SOW Management Program?

Yoh

As with any program or process you set up in a company, establishing a need for it is always a no-brainer. The same goes for a Statement of Work (SOW) management program. However, the problem is, if you aren’t paying enough attention to your projects or don’t understand how much you really need to be involved in your SOW projects’ processes in the first place, then how do you know you even need one?

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5 Biggest Challenges Modern Recruiters Face

Social Talent

Source: Gratisography. In today’s borderless global environment, companies face a vast array of challenges such as social & technological changes, cultural diversity, aging populations and political instability (Brexit!). A consequence of this is that there is an ever-increasing focus on effective recruitment. Hiring the right candidate has never been more important as a company’s ability to find, attract, and ultimately recruit skilled talent is going to determine how successful they

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Recruiting and Sourcing Developers on Github: The Complete Guide

Beamery

It’s no secret that recruiting developers might just be one of the toughest parts of every sourcers day. If you’re still trawling LinkedIn relentlessly you’re missing a trick. You need to take advantage of social networks like Github to source top engineers. So why should you use Github for recruitment? Well, sourcing on Github is free, but more importantly, Github is a pretty important part of most serious developer’s workflow.

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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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Employee Recognition Ideas Developers Actually Want

Stack Overflow

It’s common knowledge that people want to be recognized – in some way, shape, or form – of their achievements and hard work. This rings especially true in the workforce. Who wants to work for a company that fails to see them as a valuable employee and instead sees them as just another number? Recognition works to motivate employees to continue succeeding in their roles, strive for bigger and better things, and can help improve retention rates.

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Is Silicon Valley Still the Top Tech Hub?

Indeed

For a long time now, employers have noticed a persistent talent shortage in the tech world. As a result, tech workers can command high salaries and have a lot of freedom in where they are going to work. In fact, according to a new survey of high-demand tech professionals conducted by Indeed’s elite tech recruitment service Indeed Prime , 88% of tech workers currently intend to leave their present employer for another job opportunity in the future.

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Twitter: 7 Things EVERY Recruiter Should Be Tweeting About

Social Talent

Does the idea of tweeting as part of your daily work make you want to run for the hills? Have you resigned yourself to the fact that you’re ‘just not a Twitter person’? Sure, Twitter can be daunting if you’ve never used it before, but it can also be one of the best ways to build your personal brand and make a name for yourself in the recruitment industry.

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Scale Up Your Business – 5 Tips for Hiring the Best Talent

Jobsoid

Today’s businesses are all about minimizing expenses and efficiently using man power in the most integral of business processes. Most corporations, irrespective of size or scale, have moved recruitment activities online, and hiring new talent with the help […]. The post Scale Up Your Business – 5 Tips for Hiring the Best Talent appeared first on Jobsoid.

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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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Employee Recognition Ideas Developers Actually Want

Stack Overflow

It’s common knowledge that people want to be recognized – in some way, shape, or form – of their achievements and hard work. This rings especially true in the workforce. Who wants to work for a company that fails to see them as a valuable employee and instead sees them as just another number? Recognition works to motivate employees to continue succeeding in their roles, strive for bigger and better things, and can help improve retention rates.

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Job Spotter App Gives Small Businesses the Power to Crowdsource Job Advertising

Indeed

Many small businesses rely solely on help wanted signs to advertise that they’re hiring. That’s all set to change thanks to Indeed’s new mobile app, Job Spotter. Currently available on Google Play in the US and Australia and with a iOS version in development, Job Spotter uses crowdsourcing to help small businesses reach online job seekers. The model is simple: App users snap pictures of local “help wanted” signs and upload them directly to Indeed.

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Blogging for Recruiters: 8 Practical Tips To Get You Started

Social Talent

Content should be the lifeblood of your recruitment marketing strategy. It is largely accepted that content is the fundamental tool for recruitment marketing as without content, there is nothing to promote. One of the easiest methods to generate content for your recruitment marketing strategy is blogging. “Blogging” we hear you say, “isn’t that for the marketing department?

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July Expert Sessions – Application Best Practices & New Features!

Newton Software

This month we have an especially exciting schedule of Expert Sessions. We couldn’t be more excited to invite everyone to take some time this July to hear from our Experts about what Newton has to offer. July Expert Sessions. Find the full schedule below and click on the links to register. Wednesday, July 6 : Sharing Jobs on Social Media. Newton offers two great tools to share jobs on social media.

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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 to show value and get cost savings from your MSP in an inflationary labor market

Allegis Global Solutions

MSP can deliver cost savings other than keeping rate cards low.

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These Are The 25 Best Paying Cities for Software Engineers

Glassdoor for Employers

Are you currently hiring software engineers? Recent Glassdoor data reveals the 25 Best Paying Cities for Software Engineers, by identifying the ‘real.

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6 Unmissable Recruitment News Stories this Independence Day – 4th July 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: New LinkedIn Report Reveals the Latest Job Seeking Trends. In an effort to understand what it takes to make candidates jump from one company to another, LinkedIn have conducted one of the largest surveys of professionals globally. And the findings are very positive from a recruiters perspective! The site asked over 33,000 people around the world about their job seeking habits and this is what they told them: An incredible 90% of global professionals are open to hea

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Hiring Through 2016 Will Stay Steady, But the Skills Gap Persists

CareerBuilder

Hiring trends in the back half of 2016 will look similar to the second half of last year, with one notable difference: higher wages. Based on CareerBuilder’s Midyear Jobs Forecast, more than half of employers plan on raising current employees’ wages, and 39 percent will begin offering higher starting salaries in the next six months. These rising wages are driven largely by competition for talent.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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#Noise

The Recruiting Inferno

Authored and cross-posted with Pete Radloff and Derek Zeller. We didn’t turn it on, but we can’t turn it off, off, off. Sometimes I wonder how did we get here. It seems like all we ever hear is – Noise. ~Kenny Chesney. Lately, there’s been a growing amount of anger, disillusionment, and Straight-Outta-Compton need for attention across the social galaxy.

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Recruiting Whiz Vids: 10 Tips for Leaving Candidate Voicemails

Symphony Talent

In our newest video series “Recruiting Whiz Vids,” the SmashFly Opportunity Consultants offer a quick marketing lens to recruiting and sourcing outreach, providing tips on how to improve. The post Recruiting Whiz Vids: 10 Tips for Leaving Candidate Voicemails appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Tinder, Video Games and New Recruitment Hiring Practices

FireFish Software

In the past, all a recruiter needed was a telephone. From there, they could reach clients and candidates, filling jobs with only the most basic of tools. Times have certainly changed. Now, recruitment is increasingly data driven, and jobs are less easily defined. Clients want more from applicants, and candidates have skillsets that don’t always suit traditional jobs and industries.

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Better-Than-Expected Job Growth in June, BLS Report Shows

CareerBuilder

After disappointing job growth in May, the U.S. economy got a much-needed boost in June, adding 287,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent employment report – and far surpassing economists’ expectations of between 175,000 and 180,000 jobs. These numbers are also a giant leap from May’s dismal job numbers, which the BLS originally reported as 38,000 jobs and revised to an even more gloomy 11,000 jobs.

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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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#Noise

The Recruiting Inferno

Authored and cross-posted with Pete Radloff and Derek Zeller. We didn’t turn it on, but we can’t turn it off, off, off. Sometimes I wonder how did we get here. It seems like all we ever hear is – Noise. ~Kenny Chesney. Lately, there’s been a growing amount of anger, disillusionment, and Straight-Outta-Compton need for attention across the social galaxy.

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Split Placement Story: “Efficiency Equals Money”

NPA Worldwide

In a network, independent and boutique agencies look to add value to their clients and candidates by positioning themselves as global recruiters covering all specialties without losing their culture or personal service. When you are electing to involve another recruiter on a search, the efficiency you both show will always close deals. Here is a story of a brand new Sydney based member reaching out to another member.

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7 Characteristics of Résumes Bound for Instant Rejection

RecruitLoop

Here are 7 application and résume atrocities that should prompt you to instantly reject a candidate.