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Gold Medal–Winning Paralympian Shares 5 Tips for Creating a More Inclusive Workplace

Linkedin Talent Blog

Liz Johnson has a pretty good idea of just how much people with disabilities can do. Liz ( pictured above ) has cerebral palsy, which has left her right side much weaker than her left. She’s won gold medals in swimming at the Paralympics and the world and European championships and set world records in the 100-meter breaststroke. To top it off, she has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Swansea University in Wales-gained whilst training for the Paralympics and World Championships.

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Recruitment 2025, Step One: Figure Out What Skills You Will Need

Recruiting Daily

One, two, three Based on the title, you may be thinking to yourself, “Recruitment 2025? But it’s barely 2020!” I hear you, but the fact is, the recruitment 2020 conversation started upwards of five years ago, so it’s time we start talking about what’s possible and how to prepare for it. Cue Sam Cooke, singing, […].

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Recruiters. Competing on speed and price alone is suicide

Greg Savage

How do we thrive in a competitive recruiting world? What is the way to differentiate in 2020 and beyond? Here is the tip. It is what technology cannot do that our clients will continue to pay for. Don’t get me wrong. Technology is reshaping our business and having leading-edge technology is crucial, in as much […].

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90% Recruiting Email Response Rates Aren’t Folklore

Katrina Kibben

A 90% response rate on recruiting emails isn't folklore. It's real life when you use this tactic. The post 90% Recruiting Email Response Rates Aren’t Folklore appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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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The A to Z of Remote Hiring

TalentLyft

Remote work is the future - if you let it be that. The number of people working remotely is on the rise. If you’re thinking about hiring remote employees, this guide is for you! Read More.

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Making Age Diversity A Priority For Your Company

ConveyIQ

The last decade has seen a big increase in diversity and inclusion initiatives related to hiring, yet age discrimination remains a challenge. In fact, 61% of American workers over the age of 45 report seeing or facing age discrimination at work and 38% believe the practice is “very common.” And with 35% of the workforce expected to be over 50 by 2022, adequately addressing age discrimination is becoming increasingly important.

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Should You Hire For The Right Soft Skills Instead of Qualifications?

Recruiters Lineup

In today’s changing work landscape, where many people choose to go freelance for flexibility, and whole companies opt to work with remote teams in order to become more global, it’s easy to look past the importance of soft skills when hiring. When your employees are in and out of the office all hours of the day, thrive on solo-work and sometimes only get to meet each other over Skype — you may be willing to overlook their poor interpersonal skills, as long as they are the most qualified peo

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The Top 10 Frameworks and What Tech Recruiters Need to Know About Them

Stack Overflow

As programming matures and application development becomes more complex, developers need more than just an understanding of programming languages. They need to know the frameworks that make creating applications in these languages easier. A framework is a set of tools, classes, and functions that serves as the platform on which to build a full application.

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5 of the Best Company Career Site Job Searches

Ongig

Career site job search is vital. Did you know that some candidates leave your company career site if there is no job search at all? And if you have a career site job search already, it better be good. Tech-savvy candidates want the job search experience to be as quick and relevant as the searches the make just about every day on Google.com, Amazon.com, Netflix.com, etc.

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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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Candidates’ Priorities in the Modern Workplace

Undercover Recruiter

As recruiters, we need to understand what makes our candidates tick. To gain a deeper insight into candidates’ priorities, Tiger Recruitment recently commissioned a survey of 1,000 UK employees, with interesting results. The survey revealed that the following values were most relevant to job seekers across the country, indiscriminate of sector or industry.

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5 Employee Stories that Capture the Thanksgiving Spirit

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 3 minutes. It’s turkey time! Besides all the mashed potatoes, stuffing, and pecan pie you’ll be consuming on Thursday (or is that just me?) this week provides the opportunity to reflect and keep things in perspective. Who and what have added value to my life in the past year? Recruitment marketers — Thanksgiving isn’t limited to the dining room table.

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A Decade of Recruiting Recruiters – Rice Consulting Turns 10

The Whiteboard

My fellow Director Sean Walters has chosen probably the best possible week weather-wise to go camping this week and so, rather than immersing you into a triple-dose of the young la’ Scotty’s blogs, I’ve decided to prise the lids off my old Whiteboard pens and see if there’s any juice left in them. As it happens, the timing is quite providential, as this is the last of our weekly blogs before Rice Consulting turns 10 years old next week.

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3 Ways to Master Next Year’s Candidate-Driven Market

JazzHR

The unemployment lows we’ve seen throughout 2019 are expected to continue into the new year. In 2020, recruiters will have to work harder than ever. With fewer qualified applicants coming your way, you may find yourself scrambling to impress top talent, not the other way around. . To get ahead in 2020’s candidate-driven market, you’ll have to take a flexible approach — in more ways than one. . 1.

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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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#WorkTrends: The Importance of Second Chances

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Our guest on #WorkTrends this week is Michelle Cirocco, the Chief Responsibility Officer of the sales and marketing technology firm Televerde. She is responsible for extending Televerde’s business model to disempowered populations. We discussed criminal reform and its impact on the workforce, eliminating bias in the hiring process, and how organizations can connect with, and potentially hire, individuals with criminal records.

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Transitioning to the 4-Day Working Week: Could It Work in Recruitment?

FireFish Software

A few years ago, the London Business School published an article predicting that by 2020, 50% of the UK workforce would be remote. When I saw this, I wrote a blog on why I thought building remote teams would be a real challenge for the recruitment industry.

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Complete web developer salary data

Devskiller

Wondering how much a web developer earns? We’ve created an in-depth guide to the web developer salary in the US based on data from PayScale, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, and Indeed.com. This roundup will help you to make a competitive salary off when hiring a web developer. Take a look! In this article, we’re going to cover the following topics: What is a web developer and what does a web developer do?

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Why a Talent Acquisition Strategy Is Your Small Business’s Secret Weapon

Glassdoor for Employers

When it comes to hiring top talent, small businesses often feel at a disadvantage. Many small businesses think they lack the resources to put into recruiting tools and personnel. But it doesn’t need to be that way. . Ultimately, talent acquisition is an investment for your business. While it may seem daunting to invest in new strategies and tools to attract top talent, it will ultimately pay off for your business in a variety of forms. .

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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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Hiring Freelancers: Project-based Versus Time-based Engagement Model

Transformify - Recruiting

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Jim Barnish, Managing Partner, Morgan Hill Partners. Jim, lots of companies hire freelancers to complete short -term projects. Is this valid for Morgan Hill Partners, too? The strength of gig workers and freelancers is in bringing in the right person, at the right time to complete a specified project at hand that our team has need of

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How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Clients

FireFish Software

Giving constructive feedback to candidates is something we’re used to doing every, but when was the last time you gave honest feedback to a client?

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Thanksgiving Thoughts for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

Here in America, it’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a time to reflect and express gratitude for things that give your life meaning. In the recruiting world, this may be a time where candidates assess whether their work gives them satisfaction and if they find it meaningful. With the start of a new year coming up, candidates may be at the point where they want to make a change if they don’t feel they are making a positive impact in their current job.

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Googling: Science or Art?

Boolean Strings

When Google started out, it had a database of indexed pages searchable by keywords and advanced search operators such as site: Gradually, Google began adding semantic search features. (It has been reworking its storage, Index, accordingly, to contain “knowledge” type of data about stored pages). Here are the most significant semantic-oriented additions over the years.

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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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Why Do We Need an Easy Candidate Screening Process?

RChilli

Screening the right candidate is the first step towards quality recruitment. It is a process of determining whether candidates are fit for a specific job based on their education, experience, qualification, etc. I am sure you will agree that resume screening consumes a lot of time for the recruiters.

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4 Tips on Taking Your Recruitment Business Global

Undercover Recruiter

Setting up a recruitment business anywhere isn’t a task to be taken lightly, but once you start to go international things become more complicated. While this shouldn’t be a deterrent, it’s important that ambitious entrepreneurs with worldwide dreams consider the move from every angle and plan strategically. So before you start setting foot outside of.

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Inside Recruitment Marketing Podcast: Why and How to Use Recruitment Marketing Data

Smartdreamers

Every day, you work hard to roll out a recruitment marketing strategy that will attract the top candidates on the market. But to successfully pull off your latest talent acquisition feat, you'll need to gather and measure recruitment data from a variety of sources. The question is: How and why do you do so? In the first episode of the Inside Recruitment Marketing Podcast, Tarina Pop , Head of Recruitment Marketing at SmartDreamers, will answer that question and more.

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3 Tips to Fill Your Home Health Care Roster with Qualified Employees

Hireology

As the demand for home health care services continues to increase, it’s critical for you to build a roster of qualified, compassionate employees who can provide top-notch care. But in today’s competitive hiring market, it can be challenging to attract and hire top talent for your open roles. . With the right technology in place, you can staff for success at your home health care agency.

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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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Hack: Use 500 Keywords, Not 32, on Google

Boolean Strings

Google’s limit of keywords is 32. It’s a challenge for long OR searches, especially for diversity sourcing – for example, searching for women’s first names, Latino last names, or diversity colleges. I am no fan of long ORs on Google (definitely not to list synonyms for a word), but in cases like the above, or searching for target companies or locations, I admit, long ORs would be useful, and 32 is limiting.

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Careers page: Your complete guide to attracting the best candidates

JobAdder

Think back to the last time you applied for a job. Perhaps you came across a job ad, clicked on it to apply, and was taken to the company’s careers page. How often did you think to yourself, ‘wow, this company really knows how to sell its vision and make me want to be a part of their journey!’. Now look at your careers page from a candidate’s perspective and be honest.

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Why Your Employer Brand Should Inform Your Job Postings

Smartdreamers

Employer branding has never been so important. With the shift in the job market to a candidate-centered focus, how you present your company, your EB, and your brand voice is of paramount importance. You need to position yourself as the employer of choice, so when passive job seekers decide they’re ready to jump ship, they know where to look.