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Do you really know how to reference check?

Social Talent

Do you really understand the purpose of a reference check? I mean really? The reason you are completing a reference check is to confirm the information you already have. That’s it. What a reference check is not: A chance to convince you you’re making the right decision. Let’s face it, if you need convincing at this stage, perhaps it’s an indication of some internal doubts you may have about that candidate.

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Total Talent: Getting From Promise to Reality

The Staffing Stream

Nowadays, the most pressing question staffing leaders have about deploying freelance knowledge workers isn’t “why”—it’s “how.” Organizations from P&G to Microsoft make bold proclamations about including independent workers in their broader talent strategies, while conference organizers devote panel after panel to the many benefits freelancers offer big companies: cutting-edge skills, agility, speed.

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4 Steps to Emotive Copywriting in Recruitment Marketing

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you log in to your favorite social media platform by the sheer amount of posts, events and ads that appear on your feed? If so, you’re not alone. Every day we’re all bombarded online with so many different forms of content that it can be difficult to cut through the digital noise and get your messaging noticed. This is where the art of emotive copywriting comes into play.

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3 Areas Talent Analytics Makes a Major Impact

ClearCompany Recruiting

Data analytics have revolutionized the way we do business — Marketing executives can track customer preferences to predict behavior. CFOs can get a real-time look at different business lines to track income, costs, expenses across the organization. HR executives, too, can leverage data analytics to understand talent trends, job fit, retention efforts, and recruiting strategies.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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HR Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2020

ViziRecruiter

Over the past few years, HR trends have shifted focus to creating a positive candidate experience, strengthening employer branding and embracing social recruitment. Each year, slight variations to these trends emerge, proof that not only are they effective, but becoming increasingly important to HR departments and the C-Suite alike. 2020 trends continue to focus on these essential elements for successful recruitment in a candidate-driven market, with a new, all-encompassing phrase that sums up t

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Recruitment Marketing – Social Media Stats that will drive your strategy in 2020

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest contribution is from Amanda Davies, a marketing consultant and business coach with Green Umbrella Marketing – a recognized brand known within the recruitment industry for providing social media management services, coaching, design and online marketing strategies. We are suddenly sprinting towards the end of 2019. As usual it seems, we’re commenting ‘where has this year gone.

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How to Establish an Effective Recruitment Budget Strategy

ViziRecruiter

Developing a recruitment budget is often presented as a challenging task for HR managers and recruiters. We frequently see a deficiency in wiggle-room when it comes to creating space in the allotted budget for new ideas, surprise expenses, and so on. There are set costs that take precedenceover additional expenses year after year. With this continuous process set in place, how should you be conducting cost-benefit analyses to ensure you’re optimizing efficiency in your recruitment budget?

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Candidate Experience – Measure what you want to Improve!

GoHire

Candidate Experience is a term being used quite a bit in talent acquisition and recruiting teams, but what exactly is a “candidate experience”? What is Candidate Experience? Candidate experience is the sum of interactions that an individual has with a company, or the company brand, where they might seek employment. These experiences might come from word of mouth referrals, search results from a job board, a couple of visits to the companies career site, good or bad mentions in social

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Hiring and Retaining a Dispersed Workforce

Glassdoor for Employers

Remote work is no longer a thing of the future — it’s very much how we work now. Eighty-four percent of Millennial workers (Source: “ The 2017 Deloitte Millennial Survey ,” 2017) report some degree of flexible working arrangements at their current employers, and advocates claim benefits can range from increased workforce diversity, productivity, and retention to reduced stress and costs.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How To Use LinkedIn To Source Top Candidates

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

LinkedIn is the social network of a recruiter’s dreams, used by some 660 million professionals in 200 countries. Built specifically for the purpose of networking, it’s where people go to update their virtual resume, look for jobs, and develop beneficial professional relationships.

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2019 favorite story: Skilled Trades at BAE Systems, Inc.

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 3 minutes. A 2018 report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute projected that over the next 10 years, there could be as many as 2.4 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. This talent shortage exists because more high school graduates are choosing four year colleges over a career in the trades, often at the urging of their parents who believe a four year degree is the ticket to long-term success.

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RallyFwd Recap: 5 Ways You Can Provide a Future-Forward Candidate Experience

Rally Recruitment Marketing

We were blown away by the calibre of candidate experience insights our world-class speakers covered at RallyFwd Virtual Conference, See the Future of Candidate Experience. Since we partnered with the Talent Board and the Candidate Experience Awards to put on this event, many of our speakers were multiple time CandE award winners. Their forward-thinking approaches to candidate experience really sets their organizations apart from hiring competitors – and, as we learned, helps to support the

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Get Ready, Gen Z Candidates Are Coming in 2020

JazzHR

The oldest millennials turn 39 in the new year. Millennials may have changed the workplace , but things continue to evolve as Generation Z eases into adulthood. Generation Z includes anyone born after 1997 , according to the Pew Research Center. In 2020, the oldest Gen Zers will be 23. Done with internships and college exams, they’re now seeking entry-level employment.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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3 Tips for Recruiting During the Holidays

Proactive Talent

As the holiday season approaches, it’s likely you’ve started planning the perfect dinner, shopping for that ugly Christmas sweater, and discussing New Year’s shenanigans. But how does a recruiter get a candidate through the entire hiring process with limited time left in the year? With a proactive and adaptive approach, you can still be successful without compromising anyone’s holiday vacations.

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The Best Informational Interview Questions to Ask

Lever

According to the 2019 Benchmarking Industry Report, the average candidate spends 2.8 onsite interview hours before a hire is made. This varies greatly based on role and job level, but in the most cases, 3-4 hours is not a lot of time. Read More. The post The Best Informational Interview Questions to Ask appeared first on Lever.

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Computer Skills to Put on a Resume

SimplyHired

Lorem ipsum began as scrambled, nonsensical Latin derived from Cicero’s 1st-century BC text De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. The post Computer Skills to Put on a Resume appeared first on Career Advice.

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Measuring the Business Benefits of Flexibility: A Win for All Sides

TalentCulture - Recruiting

As always, I’ve been following the trends that are really going to change the way we work. Among them: the need to continue evolving our concept of the workforce and the tools changing how, where, and when we work. Generation after generation is moving closer to a completely digitally-enabled form of working. We’re now welcoming the first wave of Generation Z into our organizations.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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5 Ways to Use Christmas to Boost Your Social Media Followers

FireFish Software

Christmas is the perfect time to work on building your social media followers. At this time of year, we all have a bit of Christmas downtime to play with, and everyone’s looking for something to engage them online – so take advantage of this! Here’s a few different ways you can use the festive period to tot up likes, shares and followers for your social media accounts.

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3 Ways To Activate Your Employer Brand Internally

ConveyIQ

You probably already know the importance of a strong employer brand, but did you know that it’s just as important to find ways to activate it? That means creating clear strategies related to your mission, your values and the things that make your company unique. According to LinkedIn’s Employer Brand Statistics report , companies with a strong employer brand reduce their cost-per-hire by 50% and see a 28% reduction in employee turnover.

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Step up your social sourcing and get set for 2020 now

Workable

Premium job boards are a good way of reaching qualified candidates. But they still only target active jobseekers. To stand a better chance of hiring the perfect fit, you need a richer talent pool. Which means casting your net wider to include passive candidates too. And where better to find both than on social platforms? Why social sourcing matters.

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Warning: You’re Losing Money by Not Hiring Sales Executives

Naviga Recruiting

There are a variety of reasons why sales reps fail, from bad company onboarding to a wrong cultural fit. But perhaps the number one reason sales reps are unsuccessful is a lack of sales leadership. This can be prevented by hiring sales executives that can train and lead your sales team. Not having strong sales […]. The post Warning: You’re Losing Money by Not Hiring Sales Executives appeared first on Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search.

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The 4 Dysfunctions of Recruiting & How You Can Successfully Overcome Them

Speaker: Trent Cotton, VP of Talent and Culture at Hatchworks

Are you tired of falling into the same recruiting rut, facing the same obstacles over and over with mediocre results? Recruiting in this market is definitely challenging, but your recruitment process doesn’t have to be. Join Trent Cotton in this exclusive webinar to learn how to overcome the four dysfunctions of recruiting with Sprint Recruiting. Sprint Recruiting opens up a new world for recruiters by applying the AGILE methodology to the recruitment process!

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There’s Nothing Soft About Soft Skills in the Workplace

Indeed

There’s a lot of buzz about soft skills these days and a growing awareness that these personality traits, habits and behaviors are key to professional success. But what role do they actually play in the workplace and beyond? It might seem that soft skills in the workplace such as emotional intelligence, creativity and flexibility wouldn’t matter as much in an era of nonstop technological innovation.

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The Age of the Super-Recruiter: An Interview with Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Cofounder of Talview

TalentCulture - Recruiting

The challenges we face in terms of hiring span from finding the right talent to finding the technology that makes it possible. And we’ve seen an incredibly fast-paced phase of innovation in the field. At the forefront are leaders like Sanjoe Tom Jose, cofounder and CEO of Talview. Sanjoe is passionate about making hiring easier with cutting-edge AI and machine learning-based technologies.

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Step up your social sourcing and get set for 2020 now

Workable

Premium job boards are a good way of reaching qualified candidates. But they still only target active jobseekers. To stand a better chance of hiring the perfect fit, you need a richer talent pool. Which means casting your net wider to include passive candidates too. And where better to find both than on social platforms? Why social sourcing matters.

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Adapt Now to New Candidate Behavior or Lose the War for Talent

Source2

By now, you’ve likely felt the impacts of the current job market. Unemployment rates are near all-time lows, while turnover continues to creep up. What you may not have considered is how and why candidate behavior has changed, and the ways those changes – which won’t be reversing anytime soon – can impact your bottom line.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Festive Video Ideas to Boost Employee Engagement

VideoMyJob

Most businesses have a mix of clock-watching minimum effort makers and enthusiastic workers who arrive at every staff event (social or otherwise) too early - on a scale of 1 to 10, how engaged are your employees in the lead up to holidays?

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The Age of the Super-Recruiter

TalentCulture - Recruiting

An Interview with Sanjoe Jose, CEO and Cofounder of Talview The challenges we face in terms of hiring span from finding the right talent to finding the technology that makes it possible. And we’ve seen an incredibly fast-paced phase of innovation in the field. At the forefront are leaders like Sanjoe Tom Jose, cofounder and CEO of Talview. Sanjoe is passionate about making hiring easier with cutting-edge AI and machine learning-based technologies.

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Hireology Hosts Insp(H)ireology Career Training Event

Hireology

On December 5, Hireology welcomed participants from three local Chicago organizations to our first Insp(H)ireology event. The purpose of the event was to increase awareness of tech career paths and help provide economic opportunity for communities that are typically underserved in Chicago. The organizations that participated in the event included: re:work training : Rework’s mission is to reshape hiring trends and empower Chicago’s underrepresented communities by providing free career trai