Sat.Jul 08, 2017 - Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled “Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed“ Let me know what you think!

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Onboarding New Leaders: 5 Tips to Help Executives Make a Smooth Transition

ClearCompany Recruiting

Onboarding is an important piece of the hiring process, and one that more and more leaders are working to improve in their organizations. Onboarding starts before the first day and carries on to the job offer, new hire documentation, training and goal setting for performance management. Though it is such an integral part of any new hire’s development, the conversation usually focuses on those employees who are entry or associate level.

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: 3 Quick Tricks for Cold Recruiting Emails

Lever

Cold recruiting emails just aren’t your thing, right? You do all you can to make them stand out, and candidates just won’t respond. It’s time to accept that other recruiting tactics - referrals, inbound applicants, and meeting candidates at events - are more rewarding methods for you than sourcing. Right?

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Standard Questions For A Job Application

ExactHire Recruiting

When approaching your employment application design , it can be helpful to divide questions into two categories: standard and job-specific. Standard questions are asked of all applicants, regardless of the job selected. Whereas, different sets of job-specific screening questions are presented to candidates based on the jobs to which they choose to apply.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Just the Facts: Company Leaders Have a Huge Impact on Candidates

JazzHR

Business leaders have an enormous impact on every aspect of the companies they work for. They set the tone and chart the course. They embody an organization’s values, drive its vision, and establish company culture. And while great leaders build great businesses, the effects of a bad leader include plummeting profits and stock prices, lower staff engagement and retention, and even an inability to attract top talent.

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How to Leverage Design Thinking in Talent Acquisition: Introduction

Lever

We’ve made it our mission to make hiring a better experience for every stakeholder in the process. Recruiters, we want you to spend more time learning about your candidate’s favorite hackathon than getting mired in scheduling hell. Hiring managers, we want you to breeze right through feedback submission because it’s that seamless. Candidates, we never want you to get asked the same question over and over by a team of interviewers again.

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The Shifting Sands of Candidate Communication

The Whiteboard

Your usual blogger is AWOL once again this week, so it’s up to me to battle through 500 non- libellous words. The world is awash with recruitment technology currently; An endless list of start-ups attempting to use automation and AI to replace or enhance the fat-tie-knotted recruitment barbarians of old. A new one brought to my attention this week, fighting out of Indianapolis, is Canvas.

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Promoting from Within: Why Leadership Development and Mentorship Programs Matter

JazzHR

Career progression is the top priority for the next generation of workers , and it should be for today’s employers, too. Investing in your employees’ professional development is a critical part of a business strategy focused on long-term success. Providing opportunities for training and career growth to people within an organization builds and transfers knowledge, helps retain staff, and is attractive to potential candidates.

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5 Ways Technology Can Help You With Diversity Recruiting

Social Talent

A new Deloitte survey confirms diversity pays off. They found diverse and inclusive workplaces generate 30% higher revenue per employee and are twice as likely to meet or exceed financial targets. According to their research, 68% of companies are focusing their diversity efforts on recruiting and exploring technology to reduce bias in recruiting. To help you move the needle, here are 5 ways to recruit diverse candidates using technology. 1.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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6 Exit Interview Questions to Aid Recruiting

Lever

An exit interview helps organizations learn why employees are leaving, and how they can improve to become a better workplace—but it has many recruiting applications as well. The feedback your organization receives can be used to more effectively manage your employer brand, expand your talent pool, and close more of your top-choice candidates. If your recruiting team isn’t already reviewing exit interview questions and answers, you should be.

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Creating Noise or Disrupting an Industry: A Look at Google Jobs and the Potential Outcomes

Proactive Talent

Google has recently released the next big step in changing recruitment marketing with it’s Google for Jobs feature. Now whenever a search is engaged that is identified as a job related in nature, Google will automatically aggregate job listings from nearly all job boards, third party and company career pages alike. This comes as a major disruption to a marketplace that was otherwise cornered by giants like Indeed, Monster, and CareerBuilder.

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End of the Week Humor

JazzHR

The Summer is rolling along. For those of you that weren’t on vacation, you’ve put in a long week of work and deserve a few minutes of humor to finish off your week. Have a great weekend and be on the lookout for our new blogs next week! The post End of the Week Humor appeared first on JazzHR Notes.

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Importance of Video Interviewing for the Hiring Manager

HarQen

Remember when you were dating and your wise grandparent said, ‘Don’t worry __ (insert your name here) , when you meet the right person, you’ll just know’? . Oh, if everything else in life were just that easy, right?! Yet, there is something to be said about that subtle voice that tells you when you’ve met ‘the right someone’. As our communities, geographies and cultures intersect with the assistance of technology, it has been interesting to see the personal success stories of people utilizing

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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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5 Ways to Get Your Summer Intern to Accept Your Offer

Lever

We’re officially halfway through the summer, and interns at companies large and small are ramped up and have hit the ground running. For undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, the summer intern experience is a truly valuable one in their early career development. They seek to gain real-life workplace knowledge, establish connections, and line up full-time employment opportunities.

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The Robots Are Coming- Which Jobs Will They Take First? (Infographic)

Social Talent

We have written extensively about AI , who hasn’t!? It’s one of the most fascinating topics in every industry. The same questions are racing through everyone’s minds. How will it make our lives better? Who are the people championing the movement? And, most importantly; how will it affect me? Research from PwC has cleared some of this up for us.

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Recruiting for Tech Diverse Talent in a Noisy World

Allegis Global Solutions

Diversity recruiting, already a focus of considerable dollars and attention, gets even harder when you’re recruiting in one of the most competitive verticals, namely tech.

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 16: How To Avoid A Slow Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Samantha Lambert from @BFMweb w/tips on how to speed up your #hiring Click To Tweet. In the 16th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Samantha Lambert, Director of Human Resources at Blue Fountain Media, provides actionable tips for what to do when you have a slow hiring process. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan: Hey everyone, my name is Josh Tolan and I’m the founder and CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the world.

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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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60 web development software specialist interview questions

Devskiller

The days of Web Development being pretty HTML mockups are long gone. Today’s Web Development is excruciatingly demanding in technical terms and there is a growing demand for a web development software specialist. According to Quora and Gooroo.io, for knowledge of Javascript (the main language for frontend development) companies could dash out up to 188k salary average.

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The Roundup: UK’s Financial Sector Could Be £43 Billion Richer Post Brexit

Social Talent

As always, it has been a busy week within the recruitment bubble. If there’s one thing that’s true about recruitment – you’re always kept on your toes. No two days are the same! That’s why, we’re here to fill you in on the latest news that’s happening within the recruitment world. We care about keeping you in the know!

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Recruitment Marketing, Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding Aren’t Interchangeable

Symphony Talent

It’s amazing when we, and our thinking, can evolve quickly. But a lot of times, things get lost in translation – we take what we know about one. The post Recruitment Marketing, Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding Aren’t Interchangeable appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Recruiting isn’t “just like sales”

Workable

People say that “recruiting is just like sales,” as if it’s an obvious fact. It isn’t. It’s reductive rubbish. As a former recruiter and salesman, the “recruiting is sales” buzz-phrase is particularly annoying, because it suggests that a salesperson can easily replace a recruiter, as if a candidate is just another interchangeable thing to sell. This idea is wrong and it insults both candidates and recruiters.

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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 Build the Very Best Team for a Recruitment Agency Startup

FireFish Software

It’s a well-known fact that most recruitment startups are founded by ex-recruiters that have done well for another company and feel that they can now go it alone. It’s an exciting journey, but of course, it’s hard going too. In the first 3 – 6 months, when your adrenalin is flowing, you’ll literally be able to work round the clock! However, before you know it, you quickly find yourself doing at least 10 different roles and wondering what a social life used to look like.

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10 of The Most Creative Recruitment Ads That Are Just A little Bit Cheeky

Social Talent

1. How cheeky is the Burger King ad? Source: Global Recruiting Roundtable. 2. Laazi calls a spade a spade. Source: Pinterest. 3. Challenge Accepted. Source: Blogspot. 4. Reverse Psychology works every time. 5. Nothing like a bit of healthy competition amongst friends. 6. There’s always more underneath the surface. 7. All is not what it seems. 8.

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Swap, Collaborate, and Listen

NPA Worldwide

Our guest blogger is Jason Elias of Elias Recruitment in Sydney, Australia. Elias Recruitment is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy, finding lawyers for employers of choice, across private firms, Indigenous rep bodies, not for profits and corporates, across Australia. Jason is the Secretary/Treasurer of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors and received our Chairman’s Award in 2014.

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How to source candidates: An FAQ guide

Workable

Good candidate sourcing helps companies proactively find and hire qualified people. Here, we answer frequently asked questions about candidate sourcing to help you build strategies to attract active and passive candidates. What is sourcing? What is the difference between sourcing and recruiting? How does sourcing affect recruiting? What is a Sourcing Specialist?

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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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Top 5 Talent Acquisition Strategies from the MLB

iCIMS

Talent acquisition strategies direct from MLB coaches’ playbooks, right on time for the trade deadline.

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Contractors Are People Too: How to Enhance the Experience of Company Culture Beyond Full-T…

Glassdoor for Employers

More and more smart companies are realizing there’s a lot of talent to mine outside the confines of full-time, in-house employment. And it’s easier than ever to leverage that talent, thanks to the collaboration tools that help people maintain seamless communication, wherever they are.

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6 Time Management tips for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

In the recruiting business, you often have to “wear many hats” – especially if you work for a small firm or are an independent recruiter. There’s always work to do. We hear over and over recruiters are inundated with job orders, and just don’t have the time to do things like draft up and post job descriptions, or respond to the numerous emails and phone calls they get daily, because they’re focused on scouting top talent.