Social Talent

JULY 20, 2015

What does your Twitter bio say about you? Or importantly perhaps, what does it really reveal about you to others? Your bio is one of the major factors that people take into consideration when deciding whether or not to follow you on Twitter, but it’s even more important than that. Not only is your bio is searchable within Twitter, but thanks to Google’s latest indexing update, it’s also one of the most visible descriptions of you on the Internet.

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Glassdoor for Employers

JULY 20, 2015

As an employer or recruiter , you certainly want to fill open positions with the best talent you can find. But this process can be challenging. Recruiting for new or highly technical positions can require a fresh approach and updated strategy. Keep in mind that many of these hard-to-fill positions didn’t exist 10 years ago. Others require such technical skills or specialized experience that finding appropriate candidate can seem utterly impossible.

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Spark Hire

JULY 21, 2015

Your job as a hiring professional isn’t just to find the best fit for your company and the job at hand. After all, who’s to say the job candidate you want also wants you? Chances are, your first-choice candidate isn’t just interviewing with your company, but with a handful of others — which is why it’s equally important to sell your company and the position to candidates.

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Lever

JULY 22, 2015

The most strategic recruiters know that you need to proactively source candidates if you want to hire the best talent. They know that “spraying and praying” will produce volume, but that most will be average or under-qualified. By sourcing candidates instead, you are in complete control of the quality of talent in your pipeline.

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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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The Whiteboard

JULY 23, 2015

While most kiwi sporting interest is currently centered on the approaching rugby world cup , the world’s attention is more heavily weighted towards the impending start of the English Premier League season (that’s soccer for you readers out there who believe all balls should be egg-shaped, and I know that’s a majority of readers on this blog).

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Spark Hire

JULY 22, 2015

A successful hiring manager recognizes that personality type plays a major role in the hiring process. While some people have no problem walking into an interview and answering questions rapid-fire style, others find this totally daunting. For shy candidates, the hiring process can become a nightmare. Working with these individuals and helping to understand how to make them comfortable is important, as it takes all personality types to make a business thrive.

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NPA Worldwide

JULY 21, 2015

Today’s guest blogger is Liz Carey, network coordinator for NBN, operators of www.searchbankingjobs.com and www.searchaccountingjobs.com. NPAworldwide and NBN merged in September 2014, and our two networks are working toward a full integration effective January 1, 2016. We’re happy to have Liz on our blogging team. In New England, a favorite summer activity for many is fishing.

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Symphony Talent

JULY 23, 2015

As the competition for qualified talent increases, and as candidates act more like consumers in using numerous touch points for decision making, talent acquisition teams should be asking: How do we gather data on interested candidates, and how can we use it? How do we offer candidates a compelling relationship with our employer brand at. Continue Reading → The post Be Better in Recruitment: Do as Amazon Does appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Glassdoor for Employers

JULY 22, 2015

This article originally appeared in Fortune. Employees want to know what goes on behind closed doors. The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer for: How do you build trust with your employees? is by Robert Hohman, CEO of Glassdoor.

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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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Spark Hire

JULY 24, 2015

When considering candidates, it’s easy for hiring managers to get caught up in only searching for skill and expertise. However, it is important to understand that candidate personality is something necessary to pay attention to and assess to ensure a good cultural fit within your business. There are four personalities hiring managers should look for in a candidate: 1.

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CareerBuilder

JULY 24, 2015

In March of 2013, I became a father for the first time. My wife and I were doubly blessed with twins — a boy and girl. I realized quickly that the pundits were correct: Nothing prepares you for being a full-time parent. Fortunately, being in academia, I had significant discretion in planning my schedule. I could stay home three mornings a week while my wife worked.

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Jobvite

JULY 23, 2015

For the last 5 years, Jobvite’s Job Seeker Nation Study on behavior and social networking has uncovered many intriguing trends. Most recently, we’ve seen the economy bounce back from the Great Recession, enabling more companies to hire and increasing the demand for high-quality workers. The post Jobvite Infographic: The 2015 Job Seeker Nation Study appeared first on Jobvite.

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Glassdoor for Employers

JULY 22, 2015

This blog post is the second in a series of five posts based on our webinar with Greenhouse , 10 Hiring Manager Recruiter Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them. Within an organization, each team or department should work side by side like cogs in a well-oiled machine. The partner relationship between recruiter and hiring manager is a terrific example: one cannot function successfully without the work and cooperation of the other.

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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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Spark Hire

JULY 23, 2015

When it comes to sourcing non-local talent, budgets for costly flight tickets might not be an option for most organizations. Hiring top-notch talent doesn’t have to break the bank and the solution is as simple as two words: video interviewing. There are a few reasons why companies are now more likely to use video interviewing technology to connect with non-local talent.

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CareerBuilder

JULY 21, 2015

Between resumes, applications and cover letters, you get a lot of information about candidates during the recruitment process. Still, there are some points of consideration that go into finding the right candidate that don’t necessarily come up on a resume. So how can you keep track of your notes and impressions about candidates from the first time you meet them — and potentially all the way through the interview process?

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SmartRecruiters

JULY 22, 2015

There are lots of bad job interview questions out there. (If you want to see how you would fare against some good interview questions, take the free quiz “ Could You Pass This Job Interview? ”). My numerous studies and interviews with hiring managers have revealed that the following three job interview questions are the ones used by the majority of interviewers.

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Symphony Talent

JULY 24, 2015

We had an awesome week; it’s always great to attend an insightful conference in your own city, so kudos to the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference. We’ve also been paying attention to the best pieces this week in recruitment marketing to send your way. Enjoy. Content of the Week Inspired by our recent webinar with. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 7.20 to 7.24 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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.

Spark Hire

JULY 20, 2015

Regardless of how thorough your company’s hiring process might be, inevitably you’re going to discover that you probably have at least a few blind spots that may be preventing you from acquiring the type of talent you’re looking for. In order to stop this from limiting your business’s success in the future, be aware of these common hiring process weaknesses: You don’t make an offer fast enough.

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CareerBuilder

JULY 21, 2015

Hiring managers are a notoriously judgmental group of people—nearly half of employers (49 percent) say they can tell within the first five minutes of interviewing a candidate if he or she will make the cut, according to a CareerBuilder survey. So when you notice something a little strange about a candidate, what red flags are okay to acknowledge—and what should you grin and bear through the interview?

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Allegis Global Solutions

JULY 20, 2015

Your businesses must be attractive to TalentSumers if you are to access the best talent.

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Recruiting.com

JULY 21, 2015

Pluto may be many things but a branding guru it is not. Making headlines for what will rightly go down in history as an epic triumph, we can’t help but notice a direct correlation between the increasingly popular dwarf planet and employer branding. In terms of creating a brand story candidates can’t help but flock. The post 5 Lessons from Pluto on Employer Branding Don’ts appeared first on Recruiting.com.

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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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Spark Hire

JULY 23, 2015

Though video interviewing was first associated with high-tech businesses, it’s actually becoming a widely accepted way to recruit new talent, while saving money and time. For school districts, it’s an especially useful method for finding new teachers. Here are some reasons why school districts can benefit from utilizing video interviewing technology in their hiring process: It prevents teachers who are currently employed from having to take time off during the year to come interview: A teacher w

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CareerBuilder

JULY 20, 2015

It’s no secret that salary is often one of the biggest drivers of a candidate’s decision to accept a job offer. Who wouldn’t want to make more money, right? Well, according to CareerBuilder’s 2015 Candidate Behavior Study , the highest salary isn’t always the highest priority for a candidate. The study found that more than 3 in 4 candidates (77 percent) are willing to accept a salary that is 5 percent lower than their expected offer if the employer created a great impression through the hiring p

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Allegis Global Solutions

JULY 24, 2015

In a tightly regulated industry such as financial services, SOW management is more important than ever.

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Recruiting.com

JULY 22, 2015

We all remember the recruiting days of old. The days when we printed job openings in the local newspaper or publication, then waited patiently for the CVs to start rolling in. We’d select a few of the top candidates to proceed with the process, and the other “maybes” would go into the filing cabinet, or. The post Why Recruiting Strategy Should Exist Beyond the Filing Cabinet appeared first on Recruiting.com.

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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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Spark Hire

JULY 23, 2015

Though video interviewing was first associated with high-tech businesses, it’s actually becoming a widely accepted way to recruit new talent, while saving money and time. For school districts, it’s an especially useful method for finding new teachers. Here are some reasons why school districts can benefit from utilizing video interviewing technology in their hiring process: It prevents teachers who are currently employed from having to take time off during the year to come interview: A teacher w

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CareerBuilder

JULY 22, 2015

One of the key responsibilities of talent advisors is to maintain continual awareness of trends related to the changing needs and wants of the workforce. This is necessary to ensure the companies they work for are able to attract, recruit and retain the talent needed to meet business needs. And just what is it that the workforce seems to want these days (beyond more pay – which few would turn down)?

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Jobvite

JULY 23, 2015

From social recruiting to communication campaigns to the application of real-time sourcing analytics, here are 5 must-have strategies currently dictating the future of sourcing. The post Jobvite Infographic: 5 Ways To Source Tomorrow’s Top Talent appeared first on Jobvite.

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