Sat.Aug 22, 2020 - Fri.Aug 28, 2020

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How to Take a Digital Break When Your Job is Online

Hundred5

Illustration: Kezia Gabriella. I’ve been working from home as a freelance journalist for two years and I’m acutely aware of how my work hours have only increased in the past few months. My days have melted into nights and at one point I was waking up at 4 a.m. to answer emails because it was only afternoon somewhere else in the world. These days, when I’m not on my laptop working, I’m probably on my phone scrolling through the news or social media.

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5 easy ways to maximise your learning today

Social Talent

New skills are great – it’s just the diligence, time and patience to learn them that often holds us back. Right? Wrong. What if we told you that it’s actually less about what you learn, and more about how you learn. Here are five tips to help you maximise your learning today. 1. Make it bitesize. Do you find sitting down to do hours and hours of reading difficult and tiring?

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How my fear saved my recruitment company in a recession

Greg Savage

I had a significant experience during the massive downturn of the ‘90s. It taught me a crucial lesson about leadership in tough times. It was something I did. And I did not even know I was doing it! I was running Recruitment Solutions, a company I had founded with two others. We had a golden […].

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Onboarding Tools and Tips for an Adaptable Onboarding Process

ClearCompany Recruiting

Studies have shown that organizations with strong onboarding processes see retention rates increase by 82% , yet only 12% of employees believe their company does an adequate job of onboarding new hires. With companies at various stages in returning to work, recruiters need to have an adaptable onboarding process that fits all employees' needs. What works best for an in-person onboarding experience might not translate well for a remote experience.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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TribePod: Cancel Culture Comes to Proactive Talent

Proactive Talent

On this episode of TribePod, we are doing something a bit different. Our company recently received some publicly shared feedback that we were practicing cultural appropriation by using the word “tribe” in the name of our podcast and video series. We discussed the matter internally and ultimately decided to keep using the word.

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12 Companies Ramping Up Their Diversity & Inclusion Efforts - and How You Can Too

Glassdoor for Employers

While more diverse than in the past, it's no secret that corporate America suffers from a lack of diversity and inclusion. Nowadays, companies are being more intentional about ramping up their diversity and inclusion efforts to show solidarity and support to their underrepresented employees. Thankfully, many companies are now realizing that increasing diversity and inclusion within the company is not only good for society, it's also good for business.

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Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes

Katrina Kibben

Your LinkedIn profile should be written for a human, not a machine. Here are the 4 ways you can do that and stop making common mistakes. The post Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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TribePod: An Interview with a Mom Boss - Brittany King

Proactive Talent

In this episode, Courtney Lane interviews "Mom Boss" - Brittany King. Brittany King is a passionate, self-proclaimed hope Dealer who has created a bold reputation for herself as a speaker and talent acquisition consultant due not only to her triumphant life journey but her commitment to helping people impact the world for good. Whether she is speaking from the stage or doing corporate consulting, Brittany’s superpower lies in her ability to deliver actionable strategies on how to turn change int

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Customer Spotlight: Talent Optimization in the Time of COVID-19

Lever

We’re a long way out from being “through” COVID-19. Non-essential businesses are just now opening up, and organizations that quickly adopted a remote work strategy are only now beginning to talk about what it would look like to bring employees back into. Read More. The post Customer Spotlight: Talent Optimization in the Time of COVID-19 appeared first on Lever.

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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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Behavioral Interviewing: The Achilles Heel of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Glassdoor for Employers

"Tell me about a time when you…". I'll stop there. We've all been on the other side of the table when a hiring manager or recruiter asked us a behavioral interview question. And if you're a college-educated, white collar worker, chances are you had something impressive to share, going as far back as college when you may have had a leadership position in student body government or a competitive internship.

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NEW FEATURE: Offer Letters from Hireology

Hireology

You can now add offer letters as a hiring step. Offer letters have always been the critical, final step of the hiring process. And now you can create, send and have candidates accept offers from your Hireology account. This means you’ll no longer have to manually manage the offer letter process outside of your hiring platform – saving time, inbox clutter and ensuring that your offer details are 100% accurate for your final-round candidates.

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How Upskilling, Reskilling & Continuous Learning Can Help Retain Talent

SmartRecruiters

Education is a lifelong activity. Employers that recognize and embrace this truth by investing in the ongoing development of their employees stand to benefit in numerous ways. Retaining talent is a surprising struggle today. In fact, 82% of employees said a lack of progression would influence their decision to leave a company, and progression comes in many forms.

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3 New KPIs to Track in a Job-Short Market

FireFish Software

As we shift from a candidate-short to a job-short market, the recruitment KPIs that have a real impact on your agency are changing. By refocusing your recruiters’ KPIs to suit this new market, you’ll be motivating them towards goals that actually matter to your business instead of targeting them on meaningless goals like cold calls and job ad application numbers.

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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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Using Recruitment Marketing to Boost your Candidate Pipeline

BlueWave Resource Partners

The concept of Recruitment Marketing is one of the least talked about and least utilized concepts in the talent acquisition space right now. Teams (both companies and agencies) that take advantage of this have the ability to dramatically increase their candidate pipelines, decrease their average speed to hire, and create a more engaging candidate experience among other things.

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Overcoming Bias in Recruiting to Create a Culture of Diversity & Inclusion

HackerRank

Overcoming bias in recruiting is one of the first steps to creating a culture of diversity and inclusion. While eliminating bias as a whole isn’t feasible, taking steps to minimize bias can help you to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization. It’s a function of knowing your history, doing the work to seek underrepresented candidates, and treating diversity recruiting as a separate function from traditional recruiting.

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Should You Relocate? What to Consider if You’re Thinking of Moving (More than Temporarily) During the Pandemic

The Muse

If you’re thinking of moving during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. But should you? Here’s what you need to consider about your life and career.

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How to Read the News Behind Paywalls

Boolean Strings

I love reading Recruiting Brainfood and the industry discussions that Hung holds so well. Unfortunately, in the newsletter and in Facebook discussions great shared content is often behind a paywall. Here is what you can do about it. Copy the URL and rid of its part after ? Use the operator cached: followed by the URL, for example: cache:nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/09/the-robot-revolution-has-arrived-feature.

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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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Exclusive Job Orders Lead to Better Outcomes

NPA Worldwide

Yesterday I saw a crazy headline claiming that lowering your fees would lead to more money. My initial instinct was that this must be another fluff piece from some recruiter who focuses on high-volume, low-margin deals. And then I thought it must be the latest “how to save your business in the pandemic” advice. I’m a firm believer that fee integrity is really important, so I wasn’t going to give this piece the time of day.

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Don’t Shoot the Advertiser

The Whiteboard

Posting ads are the backbone of our industry. If you’ve ever had to explain what you do for a living to an elderly relative or a member of the Amish community, chances are you’ve said “and then we post an advert” Now, those too dumb to understand the importance of our industry will ask “why don’t companies just advertise the roles themselves?” If you remember your objection handling; they need to focus on doing whatever it is they do in order to keep the lights on, they don’t have time to sit th

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9 Most Effective Tips to Boost Your Chances of Getting a Job

Jobsoid

There are so many people who settle for a less exciting job and do not strive for their dream job, which leads to so many different problems. Once settled with a job a person does not like, he either changes the jobs so often that companies simply do not see him as a serious employee […] The post 9 Most Effective Tips to Boost Your Chances of Getting a Job appeared first on Jobsoid.

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Free Webinar | Sept. 14: Leadership Tactics That Promote Diversity and Foster Happier Employees

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

Join our expert Kanika Tolver and special guest Minda Harts, author of The Memo, as they discuss how leaders can provide a more inclusive working environment, especially for women of color.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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Show Your Talent Acquisition Appreciation for Global TA Day 2020!

Recruitics

#GlobalTADay is NEXT WEEK, and we’ve got big plans for September 2 – do you?

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5 Tips for Working Better With Other Teams—Even While You’re WFH

The Muse

Here’s how one company collaborated across teams to successfully launch a new product while working from home.

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3 Tools That Will Help You Generate Recruitment Sales Leads

FireFish Software

In a sales-driven recruitment market, you need to spend more of your time canvassing for new business instead of sourcing candidates. Searching for the right leads takes time if you’re going to do it properly, so anything that can automate this part of the process is going to make your life a lot easier right now. Here are some go-to tools that’ll set you up with relevant recruitment leads so you can focus on warming them up and converting them into new business….

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How to Find and Land a Job on the Hidden Job Market

iMPact Job Talk

Below the surface of all the publicly posted jobs is a world of opportunities not being advertised to the average job seeker. Here are a several ways you can access them. The post How to Find and Land a Job on the Hidden Job Market appeared first on iMPact Business Group.

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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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SmartDreamers Perspectives: How RMA Can Impact the Auto Industry

Smartdreamers

Today, the auto industry faces a number of unique challenges: creating cars that drive themselves, developing engines that can run more effectively on alternative fuels, and introducing greater digital connectivity into the automotive ecosystem are just the tip of the iceberg. Each of these challenges is also, of course, an opportunity. After a difficult period during and after the global recession, automakers are in an exciting position—they’re actively redefining the future of how people move

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Ace Your Administrative Assistant Interview by Learning How to Answer These 10 Questions

The Muse

What hiring managers are looking for—plus advice on how to craft your responses and sample answers.

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Four DE&I Training Courses Added to Comply Advice & Action

Namely - Talent

More and more, small businesses are recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), but many still need help figuring out where and how to begin. This week, we’ve added four DE&I training courses to Comply Advice & Action , powered by ThinkHR.

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