Sat.Jun 06, 2015 - Fri.Jun 12, 2015

article thumbnail

Greg Savage UK Speaking tour!

Greg Savage

You read my blog (sometimes). Perhaps you have seen a video through Recruitment Juice, or elsewhere. You may have even attended one of my London or Manchester Masterclasses in 2013 or 2014. But now I want you to join me in 2015. Please. In conjunction with REC I am speaking in England again, with all […].

Video 235
article thumbnail

2015 Social Talent Sourcing Challenge – are you good enough to win it?

Social Talent

Here it is folks… the Sourcing Challenge to make you sweat! Are you a good enough sourcer to win it? The Rules: 15 minutes to complete 10 questions. Each question only has one possible answer. It’s a computer correcting your test so give the computer what it asks for. Challengers with the highest score will be entered into a draw to win an Apple Watch and a 12-month license to the Black Belt in Internet Recruitment from Social Talent.

Sourcing 153
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Scan for a Cultural Fit

Glassdoor for Employers

Who you would rather work with: the person you avoid eye contact with during morning coffee break, or the person you’d like to grab a beer with after work? Most people would probably choose the latter. Think about how much time you spend at work – roughly 40 hours a week, oftentimes even more. So it makes sense to prefer being around people you feel comfortable with.

Culture 131
article thumbnail

Free Webinar – How To Use Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates

Web Based Recruitment

Video Marketing & Social Media Advertising For Recruiters. Home. Candidate Attraction. Recruitment Videos. Mobile Recruitment. Training Courses. Using Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates. Recruitment Events. About Us. Speaking. Contact Us. Blog. Free Webinar – How To Use Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates. June 9, 2015 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment The use of online video is growing all the time and is now officially the fastest ever growing form of online media.

Video 120
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How to Tell When You’re Investing in the Right Candidate

Spark Hire

Prior to extending a job offer to a candidate, you want to verify that the individual you’re considering bringing on board is worth the investment. Spending time and money training this person only to find that they’re a poor fit is a drain on your business’s resources, as well as on your time. Before you make an investment you later regret, consider these questions: Is this person competent?

How To 119

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Attract and Retain Talent in Industries with High.

Glassdoor for Employers

Retaining talent in niche industries like hospitality and senior services takes work. Unlike the tech industry, these organizations don’t have a Google-sized budget, and the nature of the job presents different challenges. Dwayne Clark, founder and CEO at Aegis Living , saw a distinction visiting Google’s campus about nine months ago, and realized his industry had a special challenge when it came to retaining talent.

Industry 131
article thumbnail

How Recruitment Videos Can Help Get Your Jobs Noticed And Shared

Web Based Recruitment

Video Marketing & Social Media Advertising For Recruiters. Home. Candidate Attraction. Recruitment Videos. Mobile Recruitment. Training Courses. Using Online Video To Attract Targeted Candidates. Recruitment Events. About Us. Speaking. Contact Us. Blog. How Recruitment Videos Can Help Get Your Jobs Noticed And Shared. June 8, 2015 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment.

Video 115
article thumbnail

Why a Good Hiring Process Matters

Spark Hire

Hiring is an essential part of keeping a business moving forward, but for many managers the hiring process is also slightly overwhelming. It takes a significant amount of time and energy, plus there doesn’t always appear to be a proper method to the madness. If you’re looking to beef up your hiring process, ensuring that you’re only bringing top talent on board, consider these points: Make it easy for people to apply.

Hiring 119
article thumbnail

A Foolproof Guide to Hiring Millennials (Infographic)

Social Talent

Ah, millennials. Born between the early 80s and late 90s, this generation continues to baffle researchers, marketers, and pretty much everybody else. Just Google “millennials” and you’ll see there is no shortage of articles and studies about this most elusive of creatures. So it’s no wonder that Millennials present a challenge to employers as well.

Hiring 140
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

7 Must-Ask Exit Interview Questions

Glassdoor for Employers

One of the best ways to get honest feedback is to ask employees who no longer rely on you for their livelihood. Exit interviews can reveal powerful insights that you wouldn’t have access to otherwise. You can conduct exit interviews face-to-face, use a service like Survey Monkey, or encourage company reviews on Glassdoor. To make the most of exit interviews, utilize these seven questions: 1.

article thumbnail

SudsAndStaffing Epsiode 23: What do you do With Bad Jobs?

HarQen

Sam and Dave discuss what to do with bad jobs in this weeks episode of #SudsAndStaffing. The Takeaways. How do you treat your job? When looking at an open position the best way to treat it is like it were a product. Advertising your job is more appealing than posting a list of tasks that need to be done. [ Timestamp – 10:43 ]. Can you take your bad job off the shelves like New Coke?

article thumbnail

3 Ways Social Media is Changing the Way Recruiters Do Business

Spark Hire

Social media is key in today’s recruiting business. Not only has it allowed us to network with existing or potential clients, but it has also opened the door to how we find our candidates. There are 3 ways that social media has made business easier for us when it comes to identifying the right candidates. 1. Ease of advertisement. One of my favorite things about social media is the ease of advertisement that it offers to businesses, particularly staffing businesses.

article thumbnail

20 Industries that Look to Have Huge Job Growth Through 2019

CareerBuilder

As technology and globalization continue to change the makeup of the U.S. workforce and push the economy in new directions, we’re seeing some breakout stars when it comes to job growth. New data from Economic Modeling Specialists Intl., CareerBuilder’s labor market analysis arm, shows that a diverse group of industries is coming out to play — and we’re not going to see them slowing down anytime before 2019 when it comes to bringing on new talent (and more of it).

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Rockstar Recruiter Series: HubSpot

Glassdoor for Employers

Today’s post marks the first post in our new Rockstar Recruiter Series. Every few weeks, we’ll bring you interviews with rockstar recruiters from around the globe. Interested in being featured? Email us for more information. I’m impressed when a candidate : Does their research and is able to teach me something, either about HubSpot or the marketplace itself.

article thumbnail

Recruiting the Millennial Generation: How it Differs and Where to Start

AkkenCloud

For years, companies have labeled Millennials as entitled and narcissistic. But as savvy employers can tell you, this simply isn’t true. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are just different. As a generation , they’re more confident, tech savvy, optimistic, and connected than previous generations. But they also differ in what they want, the skills they bring to the table, and how they communicate.

Twitter 87
article thumbnail

3 Ways Video Interviewing Can Help Recruiters Close the Deal

Spark Hire

As a recruiter, the most important part of your job is closing deals. If you are not closing enough deals when it comes to candidate placements, you will not be successful. The Staffing Stream walks us through challenges we face when closing the deal on the candidate side: addressing the possibility of a counter offer, poor communication, unrealistic expectations, and working with a candidate who does not willingly share information.

Video 111
article thumbnail

How Online Company Reviews Can Impact #Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

Job candidates have never been in a better position to research potential employers, and employees have never been more empowered to spill it all when it comes to reviewing their current workplace. Sites like Glassdoor , Vault and CareerLeak give interview candidates and employees the unprecedented opportunity to share the inside scoop on what it’s really like to interview or work at a particular workplace; and this is leaving many employers feeling more than a little uncomfortable at the prospe

Survey 84
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How to Prioritize Diversity Recruiting

Glassdoor for Employers

Have you given any thought to whether you have the right team in place to keep up with your competition, compete in the marketplace, innovate or propel your organization’s future growth? If you take a look at your company’s road map over the next few months (or years), chances are you’ll be facing multiple product launches, globalization, maybe even an IPO.

Diversity 111
article thumbnail

Employees Talk: SmashFly Named One of Boston’s Best Places to Work

Symphony Talent

You know how they say things happen in 3s? It proved true for us at SmashFly recently: We launched a new version of our Total Recruitment Marketing Platform, more than a year in the making. We released the results of our first survey, “Beyond Employees: Employee Referral Programs Redefined.” We were named by Boston Business. Continue Reading → The post Employees Talk: SmashFly Named One of Boston’s Best Places to Work appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

article thumbnail

3 Ways to Invest in Your Startup Team

Spark Hire

As an entrepreneur, it is normal to be concerned with keeping cost low. However, as Entrepreneur points out, you shouldn’t overlook investing in your people even in the startup phase. As you are adding staff to your team, make sure that you are taking into consideration different ways you can invest in your employees and let them know that they are valued.

article thumbnail

Why Companies Need To Take A Second Look At Hiring Military Veterans

SmartRecruiters

A lot of companies boast about their military hiring initiatives, but when it comes right down to it, few companies really do a good job of it. Despite their good intentions, companies often find that military experience isn’t easily translated into civilian jobs so they skip over them in favor of someone with the formal degree or certification on their resume.

Hiring 83
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The Hierarchy of Recruitment Content

Glassdoor for Employers

Can we all agree that your job postings and job descriptions are no longer getting the job done? Applying for a new job is asking for someone to change their entire life, and the roughly 500-word list of requirements isn’t going to compel someone to blink twice, let alone go through your arduous application process. So you need something that will attract passive candidates , validate active candidates’ interest, and answer the questions of your best candidates.

article thumbnail

Employees’ Most Unusual Time-Wasters at Work

CareerBuilder

Most all of us, at some point or another, avoid doing the things we actually need to do by doing things we prefer to do in the present moment: It’s a classic case of procrastination. And while some people gravitate toward virtual activities of tending a farm or crushing on candy to feed procrastinating urges, others waste time on Facebook or other social networks, take a million bathroom breaks, incessantly check their phone for updates, daydream, or find something else REALLY IMPORTANT to

ATS 78
article thumbnail

How to Achieve an Organized Hiring Process with Video Interviews

Spark Hire

A hiring process that lacks structure and organization will obviously not yield desired results and can potentially delay a hiring decision being made. Moreover, a slow, lengthy hiring process is damaging to business because it can turn qualified candidates away from your company and onto your competitors’. Having vacant positions go unfilled for weeks or even just a few days can also cause your business to lose a significant amount of revenue and productivity.

Video 102
article thumbnail

6 Ways To Lead and Hire for the Company of Tomorrow

SmartRecruiters

One of the greatest challenges companies face in the future is hiring and retaining a strong workforce. According to a recent study by Deloitte, work place turnover is likely to approach nearly 25% in the next few years and just over 40% of those who want to resign would remain for more money and/or a promotion. Yet, when they stay it only lasts on average approximately 1 year before they leave the company.

Hiring 82
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Job Boards Aren’t Dead, Just Different.

Snark Attack

Innovation and competition have always gone hand in hand, and the recruiting technology industry has historically been no exception to this rule. One has to look no further than only a few years back to see evidence of a trend that, like most history, seems to be repeating itself, as “job boards” rebrand, retool and […].

article thumbnail

Staffing Is Not Dying, It Is Changing

Staffing Talk

" Are recruiters obsolete and staffing firms’ days numbered? Will technology completely replace what my firm and my colleagues do for our clients and contractors? If you Google these questions you’ll get plenty of opinions: our demise has been predicted for more than a decade and just as vociferously denied as well.… [.

article thumbnail

What Ails Talent Acquisition? A Shortage of Innovation

Brandon Hall

For the past few weeks, I’ve been hard at work analyzing results of Brandon Hall Group’s Talent Shortage and Hiring Practices Study. Launched in April, this study examined the so-called talent shortage by identifying the greatest pain points in talent sourcing, and assessing where real skills gaps exist versus where reactionary recruiting models are seriously limiting the ability to find, attract, engage, and hire quality candidates.