Sat.Oct 21, 2017 - Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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No, actually, recruitment does NOT build character

Greg Savage

I was chatting to a recruitment company owner the other day, and we were debating about how tough Agency recruitment is as an industry. He went on to say how the rigours of learning the recruitment business was excellent for ‘building character’. And of course he was half right. There is no doubt that Agency […].

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3 Ways Netflix's Recruiting Researchers Make Sourcing Strategic

Lever

As two members of Netflix’s talent team took the stage at our Talent Innovation Summit , they immediately explained that while their roles entail sourcing, they aren’t “sourcers”. Instead, Tennyson Jones and Michael Orozco introduced themselves as Recruiting Researchers. Intrigued, we were eager to unpack the reason behind this differentiation. Why did Netflix build a team of “recruiting researchers”, and how does that role differ from that of “sourcers”?

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Powerful Ways Technology Helps With Diversity Recruiting

ClearCompany Recruiting

Diversity hiring is beneficial to both your colleagues and your company. If you want to increase engagement, productivity ( inclusive teams outperform their peers by 80% ), and even profits ( 6% greater revenue ), diversity is the answer.

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Recruiter Roundup – The Tools Recruiters Use

Talent Hero Media

Recruiters answer "What is the most important single piece of advice you would give to a new recruiter at the start of their career?". The post Recruiter Roundup – The Tools Recruiters Use appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

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

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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California Ban The Box

ExactHire Recruiting

Less than 75 days until the new year! 2018 will be here quickly along with new legislation that directly impacts our daily employment processes. One key piece of legislation that will impact the hiring processes for many HR professionals is the passage of California AB 1008 on October 14, 2017. This legislation is also called the California Fair Chance Act but is also known commonly as California Ban the Box legislation.

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50+ Insights into Good Employer Qualities

ClearCompany Recruiting

An increase in revenue, better performance, a larger talent pool and more engaged employees are just a few of the benefits of being a great employer. According to SHRM , 88% of U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job. This is the highest level of employee satisfaction we’ve seen in over a decade, and there are well-defined reasons behind this.

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The Case for Predictive Analytics in HR

JazzHR

Predictive analytics are used in all kinds of industries to, as their name implies, make predictions based on available data. In the banking industry, for example, they can be used to decide whether or not to grant loans to certain types of customers, while in marketing they’re used to decide how to best allocate promotional dollars. Simply put, rather than rely on gut instinct, with predictive analytics you’re using data and models to develop a scientific approach to decision-making.

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Call Yourself A Recruiter?

The Whiteboard

So. Call yourself a recruiter? I don’t mean that in a sneering or belligerent way, no suggestion that I’m looking down my nose at your recruitment expertise (or lack thereof). No. I’m just rephrasing a question that caught my attention on LinkedIn earlier this week, a question posed by a “Senior Recruiter” in California who was clearly undergoing a period of existential angst over her moniker within her chosen profession.

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How an Employee Performance Evaluation Can Help You Measure Quality of Hire

Lever

The three most discussed recruitment metrics tend to be time to hire , cost per hire, and quality of hire—with the last being the most difficult to measure. Quality can be measured in many different ways, and can be quite subjective. However, it is arguably the most important thing to measure. It doesn’t really matter if you fill a role quickly and cost-effectively, if you don’t have a good hire to show for it.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Looking To Engage With Future Talent? Here’s How!

Social Talent

Every company wants to hire the best candidate available to them. Talented employees are the driving force behind a company’s success. However, many companies find themselves rushing important hires when ultimately, the wrong hire could seriously damage their company. Depending on the role, company, and candidate, the time to hire will vary. But to ensure the hiring process runs smoothly, it’s important that you are organised and that you have your hiring process locked down.

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Why Online Reputation Management for Recruiters is Important

Proactive Talent

Recruiters are some of the most externally facing people at the company. With that, their online reputation can make or break their ability to do their job well and can come with some major personal risks as well. Online reputation management for recruiters is a topic often overlooked and undervalued. With the rise of social media use in business, personal use such as sharing photos, special moments, statuses, and something not instantly recognizable, but our routines, opens the door to a host o

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 19: How To Empower Candidates During The Hiring Process

Spark Hire

@SusanLaMotte from @exaqueo is here to teach you how to #empoweryourcandidates. Click To Tweet. In the 19th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Susan Lamotte, Founder and CEO of Exaqueo, gives us some ideas on how to empower your candidates during the hiring process. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan : My name is Josh Tolan and I’m the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the world.

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5 Lessons from Hamilton on Winning the War for Talent

Glassdoor for Employers

George Washington was clearly an expert recruiter, and the first truly informed candidate may have been Alexander Hamilton. The talent takeaways from the Broadway sensation are many.

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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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17 Tips to Help Recruiters Stay Sane

Social Talent

In the height of hiring season, it can sometimes seem like there will never be a moment of downtime again. How can you review and streamline your hiring process when you can’t even keep up with it!? The key is to plan in advance—way in advance. If you’ve been in your role for more than a year, you know when your slow hiring periods come around. For most industries, it’s likely just before and after the holidays.

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Great Opening Lines From Cover Letters

SimplyHired

The post Great Opening Lines From Cover Letters appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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Candidate Experience Case Study: Feedback Turns Candidates Around for Kimball Midwest

Survale

Kimball Midwest is a Survale client, as well as a quarter billion-dollar force in the industrial maintenance sector with a great story tell in a brand new candidate experience case study. When the Company was considering ways to increase their sales hiring capabilities, the Sales Recruiting Department identified candidate experience as an untapped opportunity to improve hiring results.

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Seven Reasons AI Will Take Over HR–and One Reason It Won’t

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Artificial intelligence (AI) has streamlined many human resource processes. These sophisticated computer programs excel at recognizing patterns, planning, and adapting in ways that mimic human thought. Unlike people, however, who can grow tired, bored, or even bring unconscious biases into their decisions, AI programs are fast, tireless, and efficient.

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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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9 Recruiters That Resemble Terrifying Horror Villains

Social Talent

With Halloween just around the corner, we thought we’d get a little bit spooky and look at 9 types of recruiters that resemble horror villains. Safe to say, you definitely wouldn’t want to bump into any of these characters! Voldermort. This dark magical looney is the type of recruiter that won’t go away and never takes no for an answer. ‘Not interested’ simply doesn’t register with them.

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New Grads: Should You Include Your GPA in Your Resume?

SimplyHired

The post New Grads: Should You Include Your GPA in Your Resume? appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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Does Ageism in Tech Really Exist?

Namely - Talent

While leading tech companies openly publicize their organizational diversity data in terms of ethnic and gender composition, little data has been shared about the age makeup of the tech workforce. Age, and how it impacts the way a worker is treated, is not a veiled issue within the tech industry. In recent years, a flurry of stories have surfaced about experienced tech workers being laid off and replaced by younger employees , or older employees remaining unemployed for unfairly long periods.

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AmazingHiring – a tech talent search engine [expert interview]

Devskiller

Sergey Dmitrichenko is CEO and co-Founder of AmazingHiring. Sergey started his career in tech recruitment in 2006 after graduating from a leading Russian technical university (Bauman Moscow State Technical University). In 2011 Sergey founded recruitment agency “GMS” – nowadays one of the best IT-recruitment agency in Russia & CIS. AmazingHiring is the Ultimate Search Engine for Technical Talent.

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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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RoundUp: What Have California and Facebook Done to Make Recruiment News?

Social Talent

Facebook releases work histories. Facebook has been testing its own resume service to help create a smooth process between people browsing and applying for jobs via mobile. Work histories allows Facebook members to add more detail to their work and education sections on your About section of your profile. However, these do not appear publically on your profile.

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GDPR Ready - How Engaged is Your Recruitment Database?

FireFish Software

Your recruitment agency may take pride in its 10,000-strong candidate database, but when was the last time you checked how engaged it really is? We’ve created a simple 4-step guide to calculating how engaged your candidate database is, so you can get a clear and truthful picture of your data in preparation for GDPR.

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The 4 Cornerstones of Employee Retention

Glassdoor for Employers

A company’s profitability is directly linked to the retention of key performers. Leadership relies upon consistent team member performance.

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How to Avoid Common Job Interview Mistakes

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by Workopolis: Job seekers are not the only ones trying to make an impression during a job interview. Hiring managers and recruiters are also on the spot, and without realizing it, you might be turning off talented candidates. Have you noticed people turning down job offers or second interviews? You might be making some very. View Article.

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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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How is the UK Letting Female Engineers Down? (Infographic)

Social Talent

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the engineering industry in most countries attracts more men than women. RS Components have created an infographic that gives us insight into the number of female engineers in European countries and it’s not a good reflection on the UK. The Uk has the lowest number of women working in engineering; only 8.7% of the 640,300 strong engineering workforce are women.

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How to Use GDPR to Your Recruitment Agency’s Advantage

FireFish Software

GDPR has the power to send most agency owners into a state of panic, but have you considered how the changes could actually benefit your business? Whilst the new Data Protection legislation will undeniably throw up a few new obstacles for how recruitment businesses operate, it’s not all doom and gloom.

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Your Holiday Party Planning Checklist

Glassdoor for Employers

A printable, shareable and visual guide to making sure your company celebrations are merry and bright this season.

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