Sat.Mar 28, 2015 - Fri.Apr 03, 2015

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12 of the Best Worst Resumés the World has EVER Seen

Social Talent

'Are you sure your eyes ready for what you about to see fair recruiter? Because there’s still time to turn back… Ok, just don’t say I didn’t want you! These are 12 of the best worst resumés, recruiters just like you have had to witness first hand: This resumé from the world’s greatest proofreader: This resumé from Troy Green who likes to get straight to the point: This resumé from a non-native English speaker that’s giving it his best shot, who also has a tal

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Happy Easter, and introducing the “new girl”

The Whiteboard

'As is the tradition, there’s no Whiteboard this Good Friday. Instead, we’ll take the opportunity to introduce the newest member of Team Rice/virtualRPO. Anastasia Lee is our new Community Manager, having recently returned from an agency recruitment career across the ditch. She’ll be getting to know a good number of you as she builds and manages our talent community over the coming months.

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4 Ways to Manage Change in Your Business

Glassdoor for Employers

'Does any change in your business throw your employees for a loop? That’s only natural, because we humans are wired to have a fight-or-flight response to change. However, it can cause problems for your business. Learning how to manage change can make the difference between retaining your valued workers and constantly hiring replacements. Here are four steps to help employees handle change.

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3 Ways to be a Good Mentor to Your New Hire

Spark Hire

'After hiring a new employee, it’s often easy to think that all of the hard work is over. However, our job as managers has just begun. Whenever you hire someone new on your team, it is your responsibility to not only be a leader to your new hire, but also a mentor. When thinking about previous mentors I’ve had and what made them great mentors, there are 3 things to consider when being a mentor to a new hire. 1.

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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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How Tech Giants are Shaping the Workplace of Tomorrow (Infographic)

Social Talent

'The workplace is evolving. 3 out of 4 graduates now believe that the traditional 9 to 5 office culture will end and make way for more flexible working hours and more unusual work spaces. And no one understands this better than the tech giants of Silicon Valley. These giants know that in order to get the most out of their employees (and attract the best talent) they not only need to look after their financial needs, but also their physical and emotional wellbeing on a day-to-day basis.

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Why You Need to Consider Gen Z Now

Glassdoor for Employers

'The moment your recruiting team cracks the code to successfully recruit Millennials , along comes a new candidate pool to worry about: Gen Z. With the first members of this generation graduating in the next two years, now’s the time for your company to adapt its search and recruiting efforts to welcome and target this audience, ideally with the same proactive urgency Millennials demanded.

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How to Track Employee Productivity without Micromanaging

Spark Hire

'As a manager, you want to ensure that your employees are staying focused during the work day, but micromanaging just isn’t enjoyable for anyone. Morale is better when you’re able to treat your team members like adults, plus it frees up your schedule so that you can get more done too. When you’re looking to maintain or increase employee productivity without hovering over everyone’s desks all day, keep these tips in mind: Set clear goals.

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4 Things the Best Staffing Firms Do Better

CareerBuilder

'People pay attention when you’re paving the way in staffing and recruiting. It’s an industry that works hard to keep everybody happy and rarely receives due credit—especially for putting together all-star teams that affect bottom lines. Despite the tall order—or, rather, because of it—clients and talent recognize who is leading the future of staffing.

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Building A Virtual Team: Tips For #Hiring Remote Employees

SmartRecruiters

'When you’re building a virtual team, you need employees who are self-motivated, trustworthy and have the skills needed to hit the ground running. These are important characteristics for any employee, of course, but they’re even more critical for someone who’s going to be working from a distance. It’s not always realistic to interview virtual candidates in person, so how can you be sure you’re choosing the best fit for the job and your company’s culture?

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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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Missed our Webinar on Sourcing Secrets?

Jobvite

'Andre Boulais, Strategic Accounts Director at Jobvite. Finding your future hires, whether you’re a recruiter, a dedicated sourcing resource, or a team, it can be a challenge understanding how to get started. I recently had the privilege of presenting my thoughts and successes sourcing candidates on a webinar with Workforce.com. We covered a lot of content during the webinar, which didn’t leave a lot of time for questions.

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A Recruiter’s Guide on Candidate Submissions

Spark Hire

'A recruiter’s job is not only to identify top talent and sell that talent on a job opportunity. It is also a very important part of a recruiter’s job to be able to properly present candidate submissions to hiring managers. When you are able to put together a well planned and concise submission, your chances of success are much greater. The first step to making a candidate placement is to get the candidate in front of the hiring manager and you can do that with the right presentation.

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4.9 million more female workers in America’s workforce since 2001

CareerBuilder

'A recent CareerBuilder special report explores how an increasingly diverse population is affecting the composition of nearly 800 occupations by gender, age and race/ethnicity. Among key findings, data shows that there are more women in the workforce today than at any point in U.S. history. In 2014, 49 percent of jobs were held by women, compared to 48 percent in 2001.

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5 Tips to Build a Better Network

SmartRecruiters

'For many businesses to continue to grow and thrive, it takes more than just excellent products and services. It takes building awareness and a loyal customer base. It also requires patience and resilience to make it through the difficult times. And it takes building a community of partners, contacts and allies for continued success. There is no substitute for a great network, even as our definition of what makes a network becomes more elastic as our preferred ways of connecting and sharing info

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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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5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 3.28.15 to 4.3.15

Symphony Talent

'Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing and other recruitment trends. This week we’ll be talking about mobile optimization, optimized job postings, sourcing teams, makers vs. managers and Easter candy. Before we get started here’s our best content and tweet of the.

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Managing risk and understanding operating models for European programmes

Allegis Global Solutions

'The right MSP can mitigate risk and increase quality of service for your European contingent workforce programme.

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Q2 Hiring Forecast Shows Economy Springing Alive

CareerBuilder

'The second quarter of 2015 is here, as well as the six things you should know about hiring and pay for April – June, according to CareerBuilder’s quarterly jobs forecast. 1. More employers are hiring. The slowly-but-surely recession-recovery pace we’ve endured is continuing to yield good news. In the second quarter, 32 percent of employers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, up from 26 percent last year. 2.

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Life of the Third Party: Why I Left Corporate Recruiting for Contingency.

Recruiting Daily

'For the last seven years now, I have enjoyed the comfortable, predictable and somewhat steady life of an in-house recruiter, which, let’s face it, has its advantages. Reqs and candidates come to you, you actually get to interact with the hiring manager and internal stakeholders to inform and influence decisions, and you get a steady salary, benefits and all those other perks that come along with being a part of the corporate world.

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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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Q&A with Elyse Schmidt: On Content Strategy, Start-Ups & Weird Dreams

Symphony Talent

'Applaud our new hire! Elyse is the newest addition to the SmashFly team as our Content Strategist. She’ll tell you more. What should we know about you? Born and raised in Chicago, I’m an avid sports fan, can handle the cold and love me some pizza. I currently live outside of Nashville, TN with my. Continue Reading → The post Q&A with Elyse Schmidt: On Content Strategy, Start-Ups & Weird Dreams appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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What To Do If Your Social Media Content Is Not Being Read

Sirona Consulting

What is the impact on your social media talent acquisition and engagement if no-one is reading the content that you are sharing on your chosen social media platforms? If you are either creating or curating the wrong types of content to an audience that isn’t interested, then you are in trouble if that is part of your strategy. This is something I regularly see when initially reviewing social media activities of new clients I start working with.

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3 Highlights From the March 2015 Jobs Report

CareerBuilder

'Like a model accidentally giving away a $22,000 car on “The Price Is Right,” the March jobs report — released this morning — was an epic fail. The final count of jobs added in March didn’t come anywhere close to what economists were expecting. U.S. employers added a mere 126,000 jobs in March (100,000+ LESS than the expected 248,000); unemployment rate remains at 5.5%.

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Job descriptions - the elephant in the room

Allegis Global Solutions

Are your job descriptions letting you down?

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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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Tell Me About A Time When You Didn’t Suck at Interviewing.

Snark Attack

'At its core, recruiting is more or less an exercise in making a good first impression; from the 6-8 seconds the average recruiter (if such a thing exists) spends reviewing a resume to the reported 35 seconds job seekers spend, on average, reading an online job description, making an immediate impact is imperative for both […].

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Last Call: Your Chance to Be the World's Greatest Sourcer

Entelo

'The World''s Greatest Sourcer is off to a swift start! We''re just a week deep and a few challenges into the competition, but from what we''ve seen, this contest is on fire. We don''t need water, but we would like you to join the party! Hundreds of contestants are duking it out for the title of none other than the World''s Greatest Sourcer, and there''s still time to put on your sourcing hat, freshen up your hunting skills, and hit the ground running.

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How to Build an All-Star Talent Strategy

CareerBuilder

'With droves of Americans hunting for work and plenty of business owners seeking the right workers, you’d think companies would have an easier time finding talent. However, the problem frequently isn’t lack of talent or lack of initiative, it’s the lack of a solid talent strategy —the game plan for acquiring and keeping the workers that create success.

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Managing risk and understanding operating models for European programmes

Allegis Global Solutions

The right MSP can mitigate risk and increase quality of service for your European contingent workforce programme.

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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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Transparency Is a Bottom-Line Issue

FlashPoint

Transparency is not only good for employee happiness but also great for the bottom line. According to a 2013 study of more than 300 organizations with 40,000 confidential employee responses, management transparency was found to be the number one factor in determining employee happiness. Just as investors have demanded increased transparency from corporations, so too do employees want the same from their leaders.

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The State of Recruiting and Background Screening in 2015

HireRight

'At HireRight, we recently conducted our annual employee background screening benchmark survey, polling several thousand recruiters, human resources managers, executives and business owners. While we generally focus on the state of background screening, we also like to explore larger business trends. The results provide valuable insight into trends and business challenges, as well as common [.].

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A Doctor’s Perspective: Why Support Staff are the Unsung Heroes of the Office

CareerBuilder

' March 30 marks National Doctors’ Day , a time to honor physicians for the care they provide to their patients. Yet, if you were to ask any physician what helps them to be the best doctor they can be, they’d likely say the support they receive from their staff. From the nurses who work with patients, to the administrators working behind-the-scenes coordinating medical services, each support staff member plays his or her own part to ensure the success of a health care practice, which ultimately