Sat.Dec 01, 2018 - Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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7 Steps to Improving Candidate Experience That Don’t Require a Big Budget

Social Talent

Over the years there have been continuing discussions within the recruitment communities regarding candidate experience. All of the above has given rise to the notion of ‘The Candidate’s Hierarchy of Needs’ , at the top sit things like surprises and branded presents, and at its base lies the need to receive an answer; “let me know what is happening with me throughout the process”.

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Where’s My New Hire? How to Handle a Ghosting Candidate on Day 1

Recruiting Daily

“Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake — much as we relive, brood and smolder over our pasts.” — Author Elizabeth Bowen About seven years ago, with the rise of online dating and dating apps, came the term ghosting. In essence, it meant that two […].

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Do you have a ‘lets-p**s-candidates-off’ strategy?

Greg Savage

The massive criticism of agency recruiters over the treatment of candidates? Often justified. Plenty of poorly trained recruiters around, and plenty more who don’t care enough to make an effort. But understand this. Agency recruiters do not come in every morning and have a meeting to decide how they are going p**s their candidates off […].

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Interview Questions for Developing Others and Teams

Lever

When interviewing candidates, you’re assessing them for a myriad of skills and traits. To start designing an effective interview, you can use these behavioral interview question examples to build out your interview questions and process.

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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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How to Pick the “Perfect” CRM for Your Company

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Hello again, Rally Community! In my first New to Recruitment Marketing blog post, How to Create a Recruitment Marketing Role at Your Organization , I mentioned that I’d share the process we took at Appian to find the “perfect” Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) platform for our new Recruitment Marketing function. So, here goes! First things first, I want to focus on the word “perfect” for a moment.

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[WHITE PAPER] Lights, Camera, Apply! How to Use Video in your Recruiting Strategy

Proactive Talent

As 2018 draws to a close, everyone is reviewing their budgets and action plans for 2019. If you’re wondering what you should be prioritizing when it comes to your recruiting strategy next year, we can tell you right now…video! Drastically improve your recruiting and talent attraction with this one simple prioritization. In an effort to provide our readers and followers with some tangible, helpful information, we are releasing a new white paper fully dedicated to the topic.

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Phone Interview Questions to Ask

Lever

You’ve sourced some great candidates, but now it’s time to give them a phone or pre-interview to validate that they’d be a good fit for your role.

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Drip Email Marketing Campaigns: What They Are and How Recruitment Marketers Can Use Them

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Let’s face it: good candidates have a lot of options on the table today. They’re likely getting contacted by recruiters about opportunities on a regular basis and they won’t have time to respond to everyone who reaches out to them. So, how do you cut through the noise and stand out from other voices? By developing a strong Recruitment Marketing lead nurture strategy that involves drip campaigns.

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6 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged During the Holiday Season

Entrepreneur

In the workplace it can be hard to balance a festive atmosphere while simultaneously keeping employees focused and productive.

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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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5 Social Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Glassdoor for Employers

Social media has had a massive impact on almost every aspect of business — and recruiting is no exception. Today’s candidates use social media to find their future employers, and as a result, recruiters have embraced platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook as valuable recruiting channels. Consider these statistics : 80% of employers say social recruiting helps them find passive candidates. 70% of hiring managers say they’ve successfully hired with social media. 91% of employers are using

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Bullets: Are they really necessary in job postings?

Katrina Kibben

Are we all just blindly following bad behaviors and busted job posting templates by using bullets? Maybe. The post Bullets: Are they really necessary in job postings? appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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2018 in Indeed Job Searches

Social Talent

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Taking stock and looking back on the past twelve months in the world of recruitment can be a daunting task, so today we’ll focus on job searches. This week, Indeed have published a report of trends in job searches in 2018, offering a glimpse into social trends worldwide. Emerging trends. “Government adviser” has seen a huge spike in searches (2,730%) ahead of Brexit, while wage specific search “£10 an hour” increased b

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The Risks of Candidates Climbing Back Down the Corporate Ladder

Entrepreneur

Should you hire people into more junior roles than their last role? You can, but here are the potential pitfalls to consider.

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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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Bad news for businesses affected by Brexit uncertainty

Workable

With just months to go until the UK leaves the European Union, and no deal yet in place, many employers continue to worry about the possible impact of Brexit on UK businesses and the labour market. Although 25% of UK businesses currently employ staff from the EU, an August 2018 survey reveals that over 50% of UK business leaders would be put off employing someone from the EU after Brexit changes the UK’s immigration laws.

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A Q&A with Hireology’s Talent Acquisition Manager: How We Hire in Today’s Competitive Market

Hireology

Hireology has seen significant growth throughout 2018 – we’ve received nearly 13,000 applicants, 7,000 quality candidates and hired more than 100 new employees. Leading up to the New Year, we wanted to sit down with our Manager of Talent Acquisition, Rachel Wilhelm, to discuss our hiring efforts in more detail, and how we continue to attract top talent in today’s competitive market.

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SocialTalent’s Top 5 Webinars – 2018

Social Talent

As we drift towards the end of 2018, what better time to take a look back at SocialTalent’s Top 5 Webinars! This year we welcomed some big names to our webinar series, with each individual sharing their wealth of knowledge and expertise to help you become a better hiring professional. This year saw our very own Mark Higgins share some excellent insights on how to write an engaging job ad.

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7 Steps to Build a Social Media Recruitment Strategy

TalentLyft

We broke down the complicated process of building a social media recruitment strategy into 7 easy to follow steps. In this blog post, you will learn how to choose the right social media platform, target the right candidates and successfully communicate with them via social media channels. Read More.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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How to Support Your Client After an Offer Is Made

FireFish Software

The period of time between when the candidate accepts a job offer and them reaching the end of probation period is the most volatile stage of the recruitment process. It can be a tense time for everyone involved, which is why it’s also your chance to prove yourself a true professional!

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Implementation: Do you know what to expect?

Hireserve

Implementation. A big word (and tricky to spell!) and a big process. If you’re looking at new Applicant Tracking Systems and talking to potential suppliers, it’s likely the term ‘implementation phase’ will crop up from time to time. But how much do you really know about this process and what it means for you? For busy in-house recruitment teams, the prospect of ‘implementation’ may cause shoulders to sag as they anticipate months of meetings, testing, data mig

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How to Take a Job Order Like a Pro

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn Series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise we kept it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! The post How to Take a Job Order Like a Pro appeared first on SocialTalent.

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6 Questions to Ask Before Giving Feedback

Recruiter

Giving feedback is a regular part of any job. Some people are placaters, giving generic praise whether it's warranted or not. They aim to please, but nobody likes a yes-man. Others have a habit of going on the warpath, listing anything and everything wrong in excruciating detail. Critics like that don't make for harmonious working relationships or productive projects.

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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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Giving Back: How Every Firm Can Make a Difference with Corporate Philanthropy

Indeed

Whether your firm is already involved in corporate philanthropy or just starting out, it’s always a great time to give back. Not only do consumers think highly of brands that practice philanthropy and sustainability, but employees also want to work for those companies. In fact, a company’s social and environmental commitments are a deciding factor for 64% of millennials when choosing a workplace.

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[GUIDE] How to Successfully Hire for a Startup

TalentLyft

In this guide, you will learn how to successfully hire for a startup. The biggest challenge most startups face is hiring the right people. Most startups fail because they don’t know how to find, attract and hire the right people. Don’t let that happen to you! Read More.

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3 Ways to Encourage Diversity in the Hiring Process

Undercover Recruiter

Diversity continues to be a hot topic in the modern workplace, as organizations seek to establish and develop practices that ensure they hire employees with a wide range of professional backgrounds. With the benefits of a varied workforce well-documented, hiring managers and senior decision-makers are investing time and budget into ensuring they can attract and.

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Must Ask Interview Questions When Hiring Content Creators

Glassdoor for Employers

This month’s must-ask interview questions focus on what to ask when hiring writers. In a world ablaze with content, companies need talented writers to fuel their websites, instructional manuals, blogs, social media feeds and more. When bringing new writers on board, what questions should companies ask to cull the talent pool to those writers with the necessary chops to achieve their organizational goals?

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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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How 3 women technologists built a career of their dreams

Hacker Earth

Did you know that women seeking leadership roles often report a lack of good mentors as an obstacle to their career growth. We recently ran a survey for women technologists and almost 47% of the respondents claimed that they had no tech mentors or role models to look up to. With a growing demand for technologists worldwide, organizations have a need now, more than ever, to create workplaces which support and uplift women in technology.

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LinkedIn Operators: One More and a Tip Sheet

Boolean Strings

Your new undocumented LinkedIn operator (in addition to the ones I covered in a few recent posts) is functions: , with the values from Job Function Codes. Example: functions:4 looks for people in Business Development. As with other operators, you can search for several values at the same time, and LinkedIn does assign several functions to some people (example: functions:”4 8 9 “).

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Why Your Ability to Achieve Dialogue Will Make or Break Your Results

Undercover Recruiter

When we think of leadership qualities, we rattle off platitudes like inspiring, dynamic, visionary, etc. While these characteristics are key building blocks of leadership, our latest research spotlights one common leadership aptitude that doubles as many leaders’ Achilles Heel—communication. And, we’re not talking merely about words and messages. Rather, we’re talking about a leader’s ability.