Sat.Apr 25, 2015 - Fri.May 01, 2015

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Preboarding Employees for the Long-Haul

ExactHire Recruiting

Fighting to attract and keep good employees is a challenge for all companies; but it appears to become more relevant in smaller to medium sized businesses. Companies not only want to find and keep good employees to avoid high turnover rates, they need to create a partnership with employees. In doing so, smaller businesses provide a layer of protection to their own entrepreneurial success.

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6 Valuable Lessons Recruiters Can Learn from YouTube’s BIGGEST Stars

Social Talent

Fact: video is now the preferred medium for online consumption. On Facebook alone, 3 billion videos are being viewed on a daily basis and each active user is watching about 3 videos on the site per day. While on the daddy of online video hosting sites, YouTube, over 4 billion videos are watched per day. LinkedIn predicts that video will account for 69% of all consumer internet traffic by the year 2017, while Cisco predicts that by 2018, 79% of all internet traffic will be video.

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Glassdoor Adds New Personalization Tools to Improve Inter.

Glassdoor for Employers

In a highly competitive global jobs market, recruiters want every edge they can get to hire great people quickly and within budget. And as any great recruiter knows, it’s about telling a personalized story in the places where you can reach top candidates. With that, Glassdoor is introducing a new localization feature to its Enhanced Profile , an employer branding product giving employers the ability to easily localize their Enhanced Profile and better market themselves in locations where they ar

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The Path to Employee Engagement

HarQen

Employee Engagement ensures that your employees are actively focused on organizational goals and motivated to contribute to the success of your organization. Companies spend a lot of time and money trying to discern if their employees are engaged. The problem with this ideology is you are very likely using paint to cover a crack in your foundation. Know What You Are.

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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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Spark Hire Interviews Vendors at 2015 SHRM Talent Management Conference and Exposition

Spark Hire

Without fail, San Diego kept it classy for the 2015 SHRM Talent Management Conference and Exposition ! After a very busy couple days at the event, we’re back in Chicago and want to share a couple highlights from the show. Spark Hire CEO, Josh Tolan, took to the halls of the Manchester Grand Hyatt to conduct video interviews with a couple of the vendors—this is what they had to say about the expo.

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How to Find the Good in Bad Reviews

Glassdoor for Employers

Are bad reviews bad? Getting constructive criticism can sometimes sting. Your immediate reaction may be to get defensive and even offended, but we have found that bad reviews can be good for business. Utilize reviews to make your company a better place and use your response as a powerful recruiting advantage. Stay calm, take a deep breath and find the good in bad reviews.

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#SudsAndStaffing Talks Hiring Live from Lakefront

HarQen

We moved #SudsAndStaffing up a day and boy was it worth it. We go to spend some time with Lakefront Brewery’s Front of House Manager, Carson Wolfmeyer. The Takeaways. Hiring does not have to be hard if you concentrate on being awesome. If you have a great product and it’s evident your company’s leadership cares about and invests in your employees, finding and retaining employees is not difficult. [ Timestamp – 17:06 ].

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How to Decide When it’s Time to Hire a COO for Your Startup

Spark Hire

As with any startup business, there comes a point when you need to consider your position in the company and how many job responsibilities you can handle efficiently. Many entrepreneurs start out running everything and adding staff as their business grows. Once your startup business begins growing, it is time to consider your role in the business and startup hiring strategies to add top-notch people to your team to drive more success.

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How to: Search Followers of Other Twitter Accounts to Find Great Candidates

Social Talent

Each week, we receive lots of questions about various issues related to social media and the art of social recruiting. But when a particularly interesting Twitter-related query came in to us last week, we felt we needed to share the solution with you all. The question we were asked was: How can you search the followers of someone else’s or another company’s Twitter account?

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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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3 Ways Workplace Transparency Affects Employers

Glassdoor for Employers

How does “salary transparency” affect your hiring efforts and employee productivity? These are just some of the questions Glassdoor Chief Economist Dr. Andrew Chamberlain set out to explore in the latest Glassdoor Research report “ Is Salary Transparency More Than a Trend? T he report explores lessons from various economic literature on how workplace transparency affects labor markets.

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Why you need to try Meerkat or Periscope for recruitment

Beamery

If you’re not sourcing on social media, you’re definitely missing a trick (maybe a few tricks). The problem is that the major social networks, (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), are pretty crowded – it’s hard to stand out. As a result, exploring less popular networks has a lot of recruitment potential – to help you decide where to focus, we’re breaking down some of the less high profile social networks that could be useful for sourcing.

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Helpful Tips for New Recruiters

Spark Hire

Working as a recruiter is a rewarding way to connect with others, helping them to find passion and success in a new career path. However, for a rookie recruiter, the field may feel overwhelming. If you’re new to recruiting and are looking to make your mark, keep these tips in mind: Work on building your network: Success in business ultimately comes down to networking, but this is especially true for those working in recruiting.

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What Bersin’s 2015 Talent Acquisition Factbook Tells Us About What’s Broken in Recruiting

Symphony Talent

Last week, Bersin by Deloitte released its 2015 Talent Acquisition Factbook, and the numbers tell the story that every talent acquisition leader knows firsthand: It’s costing more and taking longer to hire. The average cost per hire is now around $4,000, and the average time to fill has reached 52 days, compared to around $3,500. Continue Reading → The post What Bersin’s 2015 Talent Acquisition Factbook Tells Us About What’s Broken in Recruiting appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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3 Reasons to Use Glassdoor Self-Serve Job Posting Solution

Glassdoor for Employers

Whether you’re a small business trying recruit or hiring manager with a growing team at a large corporation, you need an easy-to-use tool to help you find great candidates – and do so, all within your recruiting budget. This week Glassdoor officially introduces our self-serve job posting solution for hiring managers looking to post up to five open positions.

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7 Tips for Effective Mobile Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

Mobile recruiting was introduced in 2007 and as it continues to rapidly evolve, job seeker behaviors are changing quickly too. It might surprise most recruiting leaders that 90 percent of job seekers now utilize mobile devices when looking for a new opportunity. What shouldn’t be surprising is that the experience during your company’s hiring process can determine whether a candidate pursues the opportunity further and ultimately accepts a job offer.

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3 Things to Consider Before Expanding Your Staffing Business Internationally

Spark Hire

If your staffing business is thinking of expanding to include work overseas, there are several things that you should consider before even submitting a bid or signing a contract to do international staffing or project work with another business. 1. Investigate employment laws and requirements. First and foremost, you need to look into employment laws and requirements for the country you are considering doing business in.

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Competitive Pay and Training on Agenda for the Class of 2015

CareerBuilder

by Rosemary Haefner, chief human resources officer of CareerBuilder. The class of 2015 has one more reason to celebrate: In the best outlook since 2007, 65 percent of employers are planning to hire recent college graduates this year, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder. Even better, one third of employers will offer higher pay than last year, and 1 in 4 will pay $50,000 or more.

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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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What #Mobilegeddon Means for Recruitment Websites

NPA Worldwide

By now, you’ve probably heard about #Mobilegeddon, Google’s recent algorithm update which puts more importance on a site’s “mobile-friendliness.” Ultimately, this will impact Google page rank by rewarding mobile-friendly sites with higher page rank, while “unfriendly” results could see a dramatic drop-off. Why is this important for recruitment websites?

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Recruiting & Hiring Picks Up as 2015 Unfolds

SmartRecruiters

What a difference a year can make, especially in an economy that just keeps arching upward. A year ago, the U.S. Department of Labor said the number of available job openings had stalled, suggesting that perhaps the recovery had lost some steam. But despite the blip, which turned out to be temporary , health care job openings led the way. Positions in transportation and IT — bellwethers of business growth — lagged considerably behind.

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The Increasing Popularity of Video Interviews for Staffing Pros

Spark Hire

As the battle for acquiring top talent continues to heat up, staffing pros are taking advantage of the readily available resources to ensure they are providing their clients with rockstar candidates who have the potential of being great employees. Among the most popular tools are video interviews. Below are several reasons why this tech has taken the staffing industry by storm and become a powerful must-use tool for staffing pros: Time-Saving Solution.

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65 percent of employers plan to hire recent college grads

CareerBuilder

In the best outlook since 2007, 65 percent of employers are planning on hiring recent grads, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey. That number is up from 57 percent last year, a sure indicator that the Class of 2015 has great career prospects. That’s not to say they won’t face challenges, though, in entering the career market—and hiring these recent grads means utilizing their fresh education and building upon their blank slate of experience.

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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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Feminism Makes Me Sad.

Recruiting Daily

Oh, Ellen Pao. How badly I want to support you. You’ve probably heard about Ms. Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins. She’s now interim CEO for Reddit, and has ruled that salary negotiations are off the table for new employees. Because women suck at negotiating. Or (even worse) if they’re GOOD at it… they’re ball busting b **s who are labeled “greedy”.

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Dear 2015 #ERE attendees: Free Your Mind!

SmartRecruiters

From what? The 4 biggest lies still in recruiting today. When in flight to this years ERE recruiting conference I found myself reflecting to 4 years ago, when I was very likely a conference attendee similar to you. I was a talent acquisition leader with a large global organization and we had just begun the first phase of a global Taleo deployment. I came to ERE to shop for widgets and bolt-on solutions to try and make Taleo more modern and effective.

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Key Recruiting Strategies for the Hospitality Industry

Spark Hire

A hotel’s staff directly correlates to that facility’s success. Hotel staff members have a major impact on a guest’s stay, for better or for worse. To ensure that your customers are anxious to return for another visit soon, keep the focus on hiring the very best that your industry has to offer. Here’s how you can recruit top talent in hospitality : Write out a job description.

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Lifting the Veil on Candidate Behaviors

CareerBuilder

The month of May is busy for most talent advisors across North America. We begin with high hopes of wrapping up talent reviews and filling our remaining open requisitions. We end the month by jockeying for face time with executives who have compressed calendars due to Memorial Day vacation plans. Even if your schedule is a little crazy, you should begin thinking about your upcoming staffing challenges for the third quarter.

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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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Turning employees into brand advocates and avoiding online disasters

Allegis Global Solutions

How to make the most of social media at your organization.

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6 Critical Contract Staffing Back-Office Considerations

Top Echelon Contracting

Are you thinking about moving forward with adding contract staffing to your business model? If so, step one is figuring out how you will handle the “back-office” tasks – the legal, financial, and administrative issues involved in being the contractors’ legal W-2 Employer of Record. This involves more than your traditional recruiting, or “front-office,” tasks.

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Aberdeen Report: Getting Social About Today's Sourcing

iCIMS

This report will dive into the value-add of using social sites to identify top talent in an era where social networks dominate.

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