Sat.Dec 10, 2016 - Fri.Dec 16, 2016

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How to Get the Most Out of Self-Appraisals

ClearCompany Recruiting

When it comes down to writing a great self-appraisal, a lot of questions come to mind. What are they used for? How are you supposed to promote yourself without coming off as a show-off? Is this really the best use of my time? For the last question, it honestly depends. For some companies, self-appraisals are nothing more than a formality; But used correctly, they can have a big impact on your career.

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4 Recruiting Technologies That Every Early Adopter Should Have on Their Holiday Wish List

Lever

What’s on your recruiting technology wish list this year? Tis the season of giving, and not only is it the perfect time to ask for that new sweater you’ve been yearning for, but it’s the perfect time to ask your boss for a new toy as well. 2017 planning is afoot, including decisions around budget and new investments, so don’t miss the opportunity to make the case for a tool that can give you a competitive advantage in your job.

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6 Essential Elements Your Job Ads NEED to Include

Social Talent

Do your job ads attract the number and the quality of candidates you desire for your open roles? If you answered ‘yes’, then congratulations! You have cracked the art of writing effective job ads. No mean feat! But for those of you who feel like you could do with a little help in that department, we’ve drawn up a list of the six most essential elements each and every one of your job ads needs to contain in order to be successful: 1.

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5 Steps in Optimizing the Relationship Between the Recruiter and Hiring Manager

Proactive Talent

The recruiter/hiring manager relationship is one of the most sacred relationships in the sourcing world. Without constant effective communication good candidates can be lost in the shuffle and potentially lost altogether. Research by Bersin by Deloitte revealed that developing strong relationships with hiring managers is one of the top drivers of performance in a talent acquisition strategy.

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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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Applicant Tracking Systems: A data-driven guide to making the right choice

ClearCompany Recruiting

Are you aware that there are over 220 applicant tracking systems on the market today? Chances are there will be many more that evolve in the next few months or even years, but how are you supposed to make sense of which system to use when the market is so crowded?

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What’s the Best Piece of Advice You’d Give to a Newbie Recruiter?

Social Talent

Last week, we turned to you, our incredible legion of followers , to ask what practical advice you would give to anyone starting out in recruitment. And you didn’t disappoint! In fact, you answered in your droves, letting us in on your extensive knowledge and expertise. As a result, what follows is some of the most invaluable advice you will ever receive when starting out in this industry (or at any stage of your recruiting career for that matter!

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Emoji Recruiting…

The Whiteboard

…Or more specifically, recruiting for an emoji translator. Fancy taking on an assignment like that? Us recruiters in New Zealand are typically more resourceful and innovative than most. Out of necessity, due the small size of our talent pool, we have had to develop sourcing and recruiting skills with a sizeable dollop of creativity in order to fulfil our clients’ requirements.

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How to Convince a Candidate that a Job Offer is the Right One

FireFish Software

So, you’ve put forward a candidate, the client has made an offer and… your star candidate drags her heels. You’ve tried everything. She’s been out for lunch with the client, she’s visited the client’s office, and she’s perfect for the job and she wanted it too. But now something has changed and she’s reluctant to sign on the dotted line.

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What do Oil Price Increases Mean for Jobs in Oil-producing States?

Indeed

At the end of November, Opec announced a deal between oil producing nations to help curb global oil production. While this is welcome news that could help support an industry which has been struggling since oil prices collapsed in mid-2014, some skepticism remains about the viability of the agreement. Although where oil prices will be next week or next month is—as always—up for speculation, it appears that for now they hit bottom in early 2016.

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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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Watch: Happy Birthday Social Talent!

Social Talent

Wrap the gifts, blow up the balloons, light the candles and get those party poppers popping, Social Talent is turning 6 years old this month! Yes, we’ve been making it our mission to help professionals the world over, work smarter and live happier for just over half a decade now. In that time, we’ve created a world leading expert learning platform containing 45 missions, that’s helped over 10,000 people become qualified ninjas.

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6 Must Read Books for Every Recruiter

RecruitLoop

On Amazon alone, you'll find more than 7,000 books and publications related to the recruiting profession alone. Here are 6 must read books for every recruiter.

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10 Rules of Fight Club. Otherwise Known as the Christmas Party

FireFish Software

As a business owner, I totally understand how the Christmas Party can quickly turn into your worst nightmare! I mean, nothing could possible go wrong when you get a bunch of recruiters together that love to party…. With many years of Christmas partying under my belt, here are my 10 golden rules for a successful recruitment Christmas party….

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Attract Top Talent As A Small Company

Spark Hire

Today, it’s a race for most companies to win top talent over their competitors. But don’t assume that you don’t have a chance in the battle simply because you are a smaller business with a lesser-known brand. Here are seven key things that small companies can offer to improve talent acquisition in today’s highly competitive job market: 1. Upward Career Growth.

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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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Do Employee Referrals Hurt Diversity?

Social Talent

Our 2016 recruiting benchmarks report confirmed what we all anecdotally already knew: Referrals are gold. Just how gold? An average of one in every 16 referred candidates is hired, compared to one in every 100 candidates across all sources. To put it another way, if a recruiter’s pipeline was filled only with referrals, that recruiter would be able to make six hires for every one hire made by their peers.

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9 Tips to Ensure You Run an Effective End of Year Performance Review

RecruitLoop

There’s plenty of advice out there for employees on preparing for a performance review. But employers need to be just as well prepared.

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Warriors’ Draymond Green shares 8 tips for keeping employees fired up in the workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

“He’s a leader, and he doesn’t care about tenure.” That’s what then-coach Mark Jackson said about Draymond Green in his rookie year.

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Teamwork counts: How To Set Up a Hiring Team For Success

SmartRecruiters

Thinking about making some great hires in 2017? Me too. Of course, as Head of Talent here at SmartRecruiters, I do have an edge – access to next-generation tools to streamline my recruiting and hiring processes. But technology alone won’t help if I’m not following some fundamental best practices for collaborative hiring. In my last post, “ Making The Right Hire: Our Best Practices Should Be Yours ,” I discussed a few of the best practices we published in our new whitepaper, “ Making the Be

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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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6 Fascinating Recruitment News Stories to Mull Over this Week – 12th December 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: LinkedIn Removes Premium Search Filters. Bad news recruiters… It would appear that LinkedIn are removing the ability for anyone not using their Sales Navigator platform, to use several premium search filters including: Years of Experience. Function. Seniority Level. Interested In. Company Size. When Joined. As reported by SourceCon , when Ira Bass discovered this was the case, he wrote LinkedIn a concerned comment, to which they replied: Image: SoureCon.

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The Online Research Candidates MUST Do Before An Interview

Undercover Recruiter

There’s nothing worse than the feeling of walking into an interview room and being thrown questions to answer without fully understanding the company and whether it’s the right organisation for you. While it’s great to ask questions during your interview, it’s best to get an unbiased view (after all the interviewee will want to sell.

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Recruiters are Now Marketers (So Start to Think Like One!)

RecruitLoop

As a recruiter you need to stand out, be different and use new or different channels to engage with your audience. Just like a marketer!

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Making The Right Hire: Our Best Practices Should Be Yours.

SmartRecruiters

I guess you could call me the original “Smart Recruiter.” After all, as the first Head of Talent here at SmartRecruiters, it was my job to quickly ramp up to scale our business – more than doubling our global team from 70 to over 140 in less than 36 months. It’s a bit ironic, of course, because our company’s very mission centers on giving recruiters like me access to innovative tools to compete for the very best talent, plus partnering with our clients to share our strategic best practices for m

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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Make Candidates Hit Reply with These 10 Recruiting Email Tips

Newton Software

10 Tips for Effective Recruiting Emails As a recruiter, there are few tools more valuable than great recruiting emails. After all, half the battle is convincing candidates that responding to you is worth their time. Unfortunately, knowing the makeup of an effective recruiting email can be elusive. It seems like every recruiter that you speak […].

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7 Career Theories to Help You Find Fulfilling Work

Undercover Recruiter

How should you live your life? It’s the fundamental question at the heart of a fulfilling and happy career. However, many people overlook the importance of keeping true to themselves throughout their working lives. We are all constantly confronted with contradictory ideals; we think we want one thing but then start to want another. We’re always trying.

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Talent Acquisition Resolutions (and How to Keep Them)

Symphony Talent

The end of the year is upon us. Now’s the time to reflect upon this past year, take stock of successes and failures and figure out how to. The post Talent Acquisition Resolutions (and How to Keep Them) appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Online Proctoring is a Growing Trend: Here is Everything You Should Know About It

Talview

E-learning is the future of learning, the global eLearning market is now $100 billion plus. The rapid growth the elearning industry has created needs for various supporting technologies.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor has created an open enrollment sample letter (with a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today!

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If You Cannot Sell Yourself, You Cannot Sell.

RecruitmentJuice

“Gavin, we have a great product, clients like it, people want to buy it, but it’s too expensive. Our competition are cheaper and, although they’re not as good, provide better value for money. Because of this, the prices that we been asked to sell at are just not realistic.”. I had just finished my talk at his sales conference and I looked at the salesperson in front of me.

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17+ Things Recruiters Must NOT Do in 2017

Undercover Recruiter

Regardless of who you are and what you do, there is always room for improvement. It’s safe to assume that all top-performing recruiters must continually strive for best practice and find ways to make their operations better, slicker, more efficient and strategic. However, honing good habits only works when there is synonymous attention on breaking bad tendancies, too.

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Gear Up for the Upsurge in Mobile Recruitment

Jobsoid

Everyone is now using a smartphone or some sort of a mobile device. Revolution in the world of technology has managed to bring the entire world in your palm. The increase in the use of smart phones has […]. The post Gear Up for the Upsurge in Mobile Recruitment appeared first on Jobsoid.