Sat.Jan 17, 2015 - Fri.Jan 23, 2015

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If you care about success and profit in recruitment, read this…

Greg Savage

'600 recruiters are already signed up for this event. We expect that number to climb to 800. That is a phenomenal level of interest, witness to the fact that many in our industry are determined to thrive in a challenging new environment. The Early Bird discount closes this week, 23rd January Please don’t miss out […].

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Skin in the Game: Recruiters and Tattoos

The Whiteboard

'Am I soon to be the last remaining recruiter left without a tattoo? With conversation in our own office around Sean Walters’ upcoming sleeve tattoo opus joined this morning by news that internal recruiting maverick Mark Sumner is getting himself inked soon too, it’s starting to feel that way. When I started in recruitment at Hays it seemed to me that recruiters were a pretty formal, corporate and conservative bunch.

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Speaking With Passion – Job Seekers Can Learn From The Seattle Seahawks

ExactHire Recruiting

Well, the Super Bowl matchup is set. And although my hometown team took quite the proverbial…uh…kick in the face (is that a proverb?), I believe the two best teams from the 2014 season are headed to Phoenix. I’m still trying to purge the Colts-Patriots game from my memory and extract foot from mouth. The Packers-Seahawks game was obviously the best matchup of the two.

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The Top 45 Most Annoying Office Habits

Social Talent

'Do you display one or more of the 45 most annoying office habits according to Mashable ? Because if you do, you are the devil!: 1. You have awful coffee breath. 2. You constantly chew crunchy things at your desk. 3. You never accept help, even when it’s obvious you need it. 4. You interrupt conversations. 5. You will not shut up, ever. 6. You talk to yourself all day long. 7.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Asking for Employee Feedback Should Start on Day One

Glassdoor for Employers

'The following blog post was written by Joel Ballezza ( @JoelWho ), Engagement Marketing Manager at Expedia, Inc. Employers hire new talent for a variety of reasons: market expansion, employee turnover and to bring unique stills to the team. However, beyond the details of a job description or a new hire’s resume lives an often underutilized, but powerful capability that every new employee brings: fresh eyes.

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Don’t Hire A Liar – Reference Check Tips

ExactHire Recruiting

Have you ever looked at a resume and wondered if it was too good to be true? Unfortunately, sometimes that is a legitimate question. Honesty is always the best policy. This not only applies to personal life, but to professional life as well. Recruiters have limited time to review resumes, so applicants need to convey positive attributes and display themselves in the best light possible on that piece of paper; however, lying–or even exaggerating–is unacceptable.

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The Top 10 Buzzwords To Cut From Your LinkedIn Profile In 2015

SmartRecruiters

'LinkedIn has come out with its fifth annual list of ten words that are most overused by its 332 million members worldwide. Again, the 12-year-old professional networking site cautions against profiles where people describe themselves as motivated, passionate, creative, strategic and responsible, driven to show off a track record that shows they are expert in their field.

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Job Candidates Are Going Mobile: Are You?

Glassdoor for Employers

'If you want your small business to stand a chance of attracting the best and brightest employees, you need to understand “Gen Mobile.” And no—that’s not another name for Millennials. Gen Mobile employees can be any age; they’re defined by their preferences for using mobile devices at work and for being able to work anywhere (not just in an office).

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The Better Way to Make a Job Offer

Spark Hire

'After going through the sometimes grueling process of candidate interviewing and selection, it can seem like the worst is over once you have decided which candidate you want to move forward with. After all, the candidate was interested in your position and company. Surely the candidate will accept your job offer ! No matter what position you are hiring for, it is important to look at your job offer process and ensure that you are making the best offer that will work out for your company and t

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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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What Are Your Five Words To Ruin A Job Interview?

CareerBuilder

'Chances are, if you hire people for a living, you’ve experienced your share of unimpressive interviews. Job seekers come in unprepared, they don’t have great answers to your questions or they just seem like they want to be anywhere else but there. In fact, we recently wrote about common interview mistakes. But have you ever sat across the desk from a prospective employee and had to hold in a gasp after he or she uttered something completely inappropriate or ridiculous?

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How To Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile For Recruitment and Talent Attraction #infographic

Sirona Consulting

'Over the last few weeks I have spent a fair amount of time helping corporate recruitment teams focus on improving their LinkedIn profiles. The objective was to ensure the recruiters get found in more relevant LinkedIn search results, and then have profiles that are appealing enough to generate a positive action by the reader. This has proved successful and has resulted in dramatic increases in profile views and more appearances in searches.

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Going Beyond LinkedIn

Glassdoor for Employers

'Interested in how you can take your recruiting strategy beyond LinkedIn? Many recruiters rely on LinkedIn to find top talent, but candidates often spend their time elsewhere. In our webinar Going Beyond LinkedIn: How Smart Recruiter’s Find Today’s Candidates , we explore the pros and cons of LinkedIn as a recruiting platform and dive deeper into five strategies you can use to recruit beyond LinkedIn.

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3 Steps to Creating Attractive Job Advertisements

Spark Hire

'When it comes to job advertisements, strategies have changed over the years. At one time, companies could simply post an advertisement, paying no attention to employer brand or benefits of working for their company, and receive many qualified applicants. Today, top talent will not waste time applying to a posting that does not look its “Sunday Best” as ERE describes.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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What The Candidate Experience Really Looks Like

Snark Attack

'I write a lot about candidate experience, because employers can’t get enough of this stuff. Me, on the other hand, really wish we could stop just saying s**t that’s common sense and treating it like some sort of breakthrough best practice. “The longer your job application process is online, the fewer people are going to finish it” […].

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How To Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile For Recruitment and Talent Attraction #infographic

Sirona Consulting

Over the last few weeks I have spent a fair amount of time helping corporate recruitment teams focus on improving their LinkedIn profiles. The objective was to ensure the recruiters get found in more relevant LinkedIn search results, and then have profiles that are appealing enough to generate a positive action by the reader. This has proved successful and has resulted in dramatic increases in profile views and more appearances in searches.

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Glassdoor for Employers: Release 8.1.2

Glassdoor for Employers

'Release Highlights: Featured Review. Job Seeker Influence Widget. Mobile App Update. Featured Review. We now provide EP clients with the ability to select a ‘Featured Review’ from within the Employers Center. Once selected, it will be the first review displayed on that employers profile. If no review is selected, our standard order of reviews will apply.

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3 Ways to Modernize Your Interviewing Strategy

Spark Hire

'While many companies are brainstorming different ways to improve their employer brands in order to attract top talent, many are forgetting the importance of updating their interviewing strategy. Modernizing your interviewing strategy is quite simple and can greatly improve your candidate selection. There are several easy ways to quickly modernize your interviews: 1.

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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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Recruiting Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

Jobvite

Recruiting is a fine art. You’re part PR, part private investigator, and part psychic. There is a formula involved, but then there are times when you just have to go with your gut. Everyone collects … Continued.

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Is Your Company's Need for Best-Fit Talent the Elephant in the Room?

iCIMS

How are companies unprepared for something as mission critical to performance as talent acquisition?

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New Job Board Partner: Pure Jobs

Hiring Thing

'Hiringthing is serious about jobs and recruiting. We are committed to helping our clients get the word out about their job openings, so we are pleased to announce our recent partnership with Pure Jobs, a premier job board for job seekers and employers in multiple industry and job categories, launched in 2010.

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7 Employee Retention Strategies: A Productive Worker is a Happy Worker

Spark Hire

'Every employer wants to get the best bang for his or her buck. From supplies to services to employees, it is important that every employer gives enough to get enough. The following 7 retention strategies can help ensure your employees will give their job their all and come back for more: . Salary/Bonus. The salary and bonus that an employee receives is usually the primary reason he or she takes a job.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Jobvite Secures Three Finalist Positions in the 2015 Stevie Awards for Customer Service

Jobvite

Good news! We just received word that Jobvite has been named a Stevie Award finalist for outstanding customer service in the team, department and manager categories! We’re unbelievably proud of our Customer Success group and the hard work they accomplish every day. Their dedication to our Jobvite Cares program—combined with the support and satisfaction of our customers—has earned us this distinction two years in a row.

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Is Your Company's Need for Best-Fit Talent the Elephant in the Room?

iCIMS

How are companies unprepared for something as mission critical to performance as talent acquisition?

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Identifying Seasonal Hires You’ll Want to Keep Full Time

Hiring Thing

'Now that you put away the tinsel and trees, you might start thinking about the fate of your seasonal hires. While there was an established timeline on their employment, there might be a few people you want to keep around for the rest of the year. So how can you tell the difference between a temporary employee and a future full-time employee? Now is the time to look back on the different ways they stood out during the rush.

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Do You Lie on Your Résumé? (Infographic)

Social Talent

'Have your candidates been telling little white lies or big, fat porky pies? Surely not?! Well, in an online survey by AOL.com, 26.5% (over a quarter) of respondents said they had lied on their CV in the past, or would do so in future, and a whopping 70% of college students said they would lie on their CV to secure the job they want. So how can we recruiters be sure that what our candidates are saying is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

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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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Jobvite Secures Three Finalist Positions in the 2015 Stevie Awards for Customer Service

Jobvite

Good news! We just received word that Jobvite has been named a Stevie Award finalist for outstanding customer service in the team, department and manager categories! We’re unbelievably proud of our Customer Success group and … Continued.

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How to Introduce New Technology While Remaining Compliant

iCIMS

Employee retention and satisfaction are influenced before a new-hire even walks into your building.

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Here’s Why 2015 is the Year of Mobile Recruiting

CareerBuilder

'Remember 2010? Yeah, it was a tough year for talent advisors. I wasn’t hiring anyone, either. Mobile recruiting could have been huge in 2010, but most of us didn’t need to hire employees, so it became an expense we couldn’t afford. The economy in 2015 is entirely different, though, and mobile recruiting just jumped to the top of your talent acquisition “budget priority list.” Let me show you why you need to start caring about mobile recruiting: 86 percent of active candidates use th