Sat.Mar 09, 2019 - Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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Searches for Purple Squirrels Should Die

NPA Worldwide

Recruitment and search have become increasingly more difficult for independent recruiters. Independents are the NPAworldwide constituency; that is my motivation for examining this subject. Let’s take a look…. Employers have taken back the massive quantities of simple-to-fill positions that they shared with recruiters in the early 2000s. These have gone in-house or they have gone to online and AI-based services that can bang out the 15 new sales reps needed in every city across North America or w

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12 crucial ‘Communication Commandments’ for real leaders

Greg Savage

It is obvious, but much of what defines a good leader is their communication style. What you say. How you say it. When you say it. And also, importantly, what you do not say. I have made all these mistakes myself, and sum up my learning for you in what I egotistically like to call, […].

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5 Expert Ways to Share Your Team’s Culture With Candidates

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you work in Talent Acquisition, you’re likely familiar with the term EVP (short for Employer Value Proposition). But have you heard about the TVP yet? TVP stands for “Team Value Proposition,” and it helps candidates understand the unique value they would get from joining a specific team, business unit or location at your organization. Your TVP should answer: Who’s on the team?

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Creating Inclusive Candidate Searches

JazzHR

Targeting the gender wage gap has become one of the biggest trends in business, as socially conscious employers seek to form more egalitarian organizations. Creating a more balanced and diverse workforce begins with hiring, and even if you have the best intentions, some accidentally problematic wording in your job listings could limit the reach of your candidate search.

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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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How to Get More Women to Apply to Your Job Postings

Proactive Talent

In the interest of Women’s History Month, we’re tackling an issue that is very near and dear to our hearts: female job applicants. This is an incredibly relevant topic as more and more companies are (finally) starting to understand the need for a move toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Critical initiatives like this always start with small shifts.

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Refresh Your Careers Blog: 7 Examples to Inspire You

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Careers blogs are an important channel for communicating your Employer Brand and confirming candidate interest. Employee blogs provide important info at a key stage in the candidate journey to help candidates understand if your organization is the right fit for them. While careers blogs are definitely effective, there are some challenges that come along with creating and maintaining a compelling blog that people actually want to read.

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What Are the Best Channels for Sourcing Candidates?

JazzHR

With unemployment at its lowest point in years, employers are being forced to get increasingly creative when it comes to finding and recruiting candidates. Fortunately, the digital age has provided no shortage of channels for sourcing candidates, which include a whole host of competing job sites, as well as an ever-expanding list of social media platforms.

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How to Get More Women to Apply to Your Job Postings

Proactive Talent

In the interest of Women’s History Month, we’re tackling an issue that is very near and dear to our hearts: female job applicants. This is an incredibly relevant topic as more and more companies are (finally) starting to understand the need for a move toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Critical initiatives like this always start with small shifts.

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Addressing Disability in the Workplace

Social Talent

This post originally appeared on the Direct Employers Association blog. . Despite a desire to build a diverse workforce and a willingness to help, accommodation requests can often be an uncomfortable work situation to address. What are the grounds for a valid request? If it is determined that one is not needed, how does one have that conversation? The potential pitfalls are innumerable.

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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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4 Recruiting Trends That Will Make You Feel Lucky

Spark Hire

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, let’s talk about luck. In the recruiting industry, skill is absolutely essential but you have to admit, it doesn’t hurt to be lucky. All in all, it is a lucky time to be a recruiter. Current trends and technology make it easier to find great talent quickly and effectively. We talked to four experts about what’s making them feel lucky when recruiting right now.

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Recruiting Feedback Case Study: The Recruiting Revenue Connection

Survale

In our latest recruiting feedback case study , Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) demonstrates that asking the right questions at the right time can dramatically affect overall recruiting effectiveness AND uncover powerful connections between recruiting and revenue generation. With highly regarded brands like Kona Island Brewing, Widmer Brothers, Redhook and more, Craft Brew Alliance is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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The Best Jobs in the U.S.: 2019

Indeed

Which sounds more like your perfect job: managing a construction team, or analyzing high-volume data sets? Everyone will have a unique answer. However you define it, two factors are universally important: there need to be open positions, and they need to have appealing salaries. Job seekers can focus their efforts by knowing which industries and job titles offer the most opportunities and the highest pay.

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Employer Branding Tips (From A Marketing Department)

Social Talent

For marketers (like the one writing this blog), it can be hard to let go of the company branding and messaging, to open it up to collaboration, but as businesses change and transform, employer branding has expanded it’s role to the entire business. One of the most note-able collaborations is between the marketing team and in-house recruiters / hiring managers.

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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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7 Best Hiring Practices for Small Business Owners in 2019

Glassdoor for Employers

As you grow your small business , you may need more people on your team to help you achieve your goals. The employees you hire set the foundation for your company’s success, noted Joanne Markow, founding partner of Boston-based career coaching organization GreenMason. “Your hires are your connection between you, your customers, your brand, your livelihood and your legacy,” Markow said.

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Okay, let’s talk JOYN

The Whiteboard

All right, we’ve skirted around the elephant in the room long enough. It’s time to talk JOYN. Not that this is a new topic for me – most meetings these days, the question comes up. Everyone wants to know what the deal is with JOYN. How does that work for me? Aren’t they in, like … competition with me?! The rabbit hole deepens from there.

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How to Train for Grit: Transform Potential with These Targeted Strategies

Indeed

Soft skills are often assumed to be inherent traits; either someone has them or they don’t, right? Wrong! A growing body of research shows that people can be trained to develop personal and behavioral attributes. . Grit — the powerful combination of passion and perseverance — is a strong predictor of future success, and it’s just one of the many soft skills that can be learned.

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Searches for ‘Monday to Friday’ jobs are on the rise

Social Talent

Searches for ‘Monday to Friday’ jobs are on the rise, suggesting growing jobseeker interest in regular work schedules, according to research by global job site Indeed. Indeed economist Pawel Adrjan (Indeed) states: “As employment in the UK surges to a new record high and getting a new job becomes easier, we might expect that the way people search for jobs is changing too.

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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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SEO For Recruiters

Talent Hero Media

In this video, we discuss the fundamental SEO concept you need to understand if you want to optimize your recruiting site and drive new leads. The post SEO For Recruiters appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent

Katrina Kibben

Talent personas are the creative genius behind great recruiting strategies that attract junior tech talent. The post Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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It’s Time for a Chat – about Chatbots, That Is

SmartSearch

Still think chatbots are creepy and impersonal? It’s time to shift your mindset. Mobile technology has taken over the staffing and recruiting landscape. Instantaneous, global exchange of information is now the norm. Job seekers’ and employers’ expectations for real-time service are rising. People want on-the-go, 24/7 service across communication channels.

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Reactive to Super Strategic Recruiter in 3 Simple Steps

Social Talent

After over 1,600 responses from hiring professionals based in 92 countries, the results of our Global Recruiting Survey for 2019 are in, and the results reveal quite a lot that we expected about today’s hiring landscape, but also quite a bit that we hadn’t expected. The main theme that ran through the results was that there are two distinct types of professionals operating in the hiring world today.

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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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Social Media Stalking Tips Every Recruiter Needs to Know

FireFish Software

As recruiters, social media stalking is practically in our job remit. This is just the world we live in nowadays! And whilst candidates have a responsibility to ensure their social media presence is presentable if they want to be taken seriously in the professional world, we also have a responsibility to offer them guidance. We know our clients will scope out any candidate online that we send their way, so it works in both our favours to do our due diligence on their social profiles and help the

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What Generation Z Expects from the Candidate Experience

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Generation Z is moving into the workforce, causing more disruption in the job market. They’ve arrived during record-low unemployment and when the search for talent at all levels is extremely competitive. These workers, the oldest of whom were born in the mid-1990s, may be the first digital natives your company hires, and the role of technology during their candidate experience will be crucial.

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7 Clear Signs It’s Time to Hire Your First Employee [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Do you work crazy hours, day after day, week after week? To become familiar with the signs that it might be time to bring on your first employee, check out this infographic created by our friends at Fundera.

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How To Coach any Type of Learner on Your Team

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 to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How to Coach Any Type of Learner on Your Team.

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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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Recruiting to Build a Dream Team

Undercover Recruiter

A dream business team will comprise a well-balanced group of people who complement each other, challenge each other and bring out the best in each other. They will work efficiently together and be equipped and supported to achieve business objectives and results. If you are recruiting for a new candidate to join an existing team, View Article. Recruiting to Build a Dream Team Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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The Art of Effective Feedback: 7 Strategies Every Manager Should Embrace

Recruiter

What separates the best managers from the rest? Our research shows that they coach more and manage less. In other words, they support, teach, and challenge their team members to achieve their goals. One of the key skills of being an effective coach is the ability to deliver helpful feedback. However, giving good feedback at work is a challenging skill to master.

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10 steps guide on how to manage remote teams

Hacker Earth

Technology has been an enabler at workplaces. With the advent of solutions such as the Cloud, employers are now empowered to hire and manage a workforce that is no longer confined to brick-and-mortar offices. Gone are the days when organizations had to follow an office-based work culture and suffered losses when the employees couldn’t make it to the office.

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