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Manager Feedback and Interview Evaluations

ApplicantStack

You currently have a mission-critical position to fill and a fairly tight deadline to hire a qualified person to do the job. You have posted the position on your website and other outside resources like Monster , CareerBuilder , Indeed and Craig’s List. What comes next is a stack of resumes—more than usual since there are so many people out of work in our current economy.

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How recruiting on social media enables age discrimination

The Getwork Blog

You and your mother are both looking for jobs. You both use a well diversified job search strategy of networking and searching reputable job search engine like LinkUp. You quickly find that social media sites like Facebook have algorithms that have intuitively learned of your job hunt. You start seeing targeted ads about jobs that may be of interest to you right on your page, but your mom does not.

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Why You Should Create a Candidate Journey Map ASAP (Template Included!)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Let’s take a moment to be fully honest with each other: not all of our content performs the way we want it to. There are times when I’ve published a piece of content I had high hopes for, only to watch it fall flat. I’ve put hours of my time into content that didn’t land the attention of the group I was going after. Or maybe people noticed the content, but they weren’t compelled to actually click the link or follow my call to action.

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10 Unique Candidate Screening Questions You Should Always Ask

ClearCompany Recruiting

We know you’ve seen them, the 10,000 articles out there about interviewing. The “how to’s” the “do’s and don’ts” and, of course, the “best practice” articles that flood the internet. It can almost convince you to believe that interviewing a new applicant is simple, or at least easy to follow given this “quick recipe to interviewing success.”. Let’s cut it down to brass tacks; even seasoned recruiters and HR professionals occasionally have trouble with interviews.

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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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5 Ways to Narrow Down Your Candidate Pool When Filling a Role

JazzHR

Narrowing down your short list of qualified candidates can take up too many hours of the day. To optimize your list early on in the process, consider these tips: 1. Make your descriptions more specific. If your HR department is getting bombarded with unqualified applicants, the problem could lie within your job descriptions. A valuable description is not so vague that it encourages everyone to throw his or her resume on to the pile.

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Recruiters as Marketers: 3 Ways to Help Build Marketing Capabilities in Your Recruiting Teams

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Raise your hand if you have pitched a ‘pilot program’ lately. Maybe even one this week? As Recruitment Marketing professionals, we are usually the first to introduce new concepts, tools and ideas into our Talent Acquisition organizations. Finding new technologies and innovating is fun, but can also be hard when you want something to go from pilot to practice.

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Top HR Bloggers You Need to Follow

ClearCompany Recruiting

The world of HR is constantly changing. So much so, that it can seem impossible to keep up with the latest best practices, tech and innovations. While outlets like SHRM and HRCI are clearly very helpful, there is also an entire world of HR bloggers whose work you can benefit from. By subscribing and following their words, you can easily know the who, what, when, where and why of the latest HR news.

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4 Tips for Building Employee Surveys

JazzHR

Employee surveys can provide great insights into how employees feel about your organization, its operation and their daily workloads. The information gained from these surveys gives stakeholders a first-hand look at what life is like for employees. This information supports your efforts to continually improve your business. Here are four tips for building effective employee surveys: 1.

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Are you a proactive recruiter?

Social Talent

Acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes. . Are you spending your working life reacting to what is going on around you? Are you waiting for the meeting to start before you fully understand what’s being discussed? Or, are you awaiting an open position to seek out the ideal candidate? It may be time to embrace proactivity in your working life – trust us, you won’t look back.

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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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Recruiters as marketers: 3 ways to help build marketing capabilities in your recruiting teams

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Raise your hand if you have pitched a ‘pilot program’ lately. Maybe even one this week? As recruitment marketing professionals, we are usually the first to introduce new concepts, tools, and ideas into our organizations. Finding new things and innovating is fun, but can also be hard when you want something to go from pilot to practice. The team I work on is encouraged to find what’s new, test it, and see where it may fit into our organization.

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8 Fail-Proof Ways to Optimize Your Resume for the ATS

ClearCompany Recruiting

72% of submitted applications are never read by an actual person. And, 62% of employers who use this software admit some qualified candidates are likely being filtered out of the vetting process by mistake. Does that surprise you? We know very well technology has its faults, but we also know there are usually ways to work around the kinks. These systems scan resumes to determine if a candidate’s qualifications match up with what the company wants in an employee.

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Working Together: ADP and JazzHR

JazzHR

HR software is instrumental to the success of a growing business. It allows the team to manage and digitize various processes, automate manual work, and ultimately stay organized. When different pieces of an HR software toolkit have the ability to seamlessly integrate, it provides invaluable benefits, improving efficiency and reducing human error. If you’ve worked in Human Resources for any time at all, chances are you’re familiar with ADP.

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5 Ways Recruiters Can Manage Tricky Hiring Managers

Social Talent

Hiring managers often grumble about the quality of candidates, while recruiters complain that hiring managers have impossibly high standards. A recent Deloitte study found that more than 60 percent of hiring managers report that recruiters do not understand the jobs they are recruiting for, while over 80 percent of recruiters reported that they understood the jobs they were looking to fill.

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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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The Robots Are Coming…Slowly

The Whiteboard

When it comes to clickbait blog topics, “HR Tech” and “the future of work” are the LinkedIn equivalents of “naked singles in your area” Most of these articles tell us of a brave new world. A world where AI is harnessed to decide which tie you are to wear, your route to work, and who the new superstar employee sitting next to you will be.

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4 Reasons Company Diversity Issues Persist and How to Resolve Them

Glassdoor for Employers

In 2014, Google released their employee diversity statistics for the first time, revealing that only two percent of their employees were African.

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New Charity of the Year: St. Michael’s Hospice

Hireserve

At Hireserve we pride ourselves on supporting local charities, and last year we embraced our very first Charity of the Year initiative, raising over £1,100 for Contact the Elderly. This year, the team voted to partner with a brand new Charity of the Year. We surveyed the team once again on the causes they’d like to support, and which particular charities they wished to partner with for the 2018/19 year.

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What Happens to The Candidates That Get Bored of Your Application Process?

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise we kept it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! It’s one job identifying the best candidates for a role.

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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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The People Behind the Podiums: A Background Primer on Diana Kinnert

SmartRecruiters

Get to know one of our most anticipated Hiring Success 18 Europe speakers, an author and advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, before she takes the stage next week in Berlin. The bar’s been raised higher than normal in here. Long-legged stools spindle the space between floor and bevelled plank, where Diana Kinnert rests her elbow, leaning forward to sip her lemonade.

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Why Your Company Should Be “Urgently Interested” in Inclusion

Glassdoor for Employers

Diversity – and the struggle to successfully incorporate it into company culture – has been at the forefront of the corporate world.

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Marketing, Meet HR #HRTechConf

Katrina Kibben

The relationship between HR and marketing doesn't have to be so difficult. Here's how, live from HR Tech Conference 2018.

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Strike A Pose: The Top Roles In Fashion Recruiting Right Now

Social Talent

Think the fashion industry is an impenetrable fortress? Think again! Indeed, has identified potential employers and roles for those inspired by the glitz and glamour of 2018’s London Fashion Week. Those who dream of a career surrounded by supermodels, expert photographers and the most coveted designs and fabrics in the world need not fret for 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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The Gig Economy and its Role in Redefining the Workplace

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Donna Moores – Content Strategist, Blogger and Writer at HandMadeWritings. Her opinions are her own. Unconventional work arrangements, referring to employment arranged through various part-time, freelance or temporary jobs, short-term contracts and projects have become a commonality today. It differs entirely from the traditional 9-to-5 employment and has drastically […].

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Executive Recruiting: Tips for Recruiting Executives

TalentLyft

Executive recruiting is quite different than your average hiring process. To recruit the best executive for a top-level position, you need to apply advanced recruiting methods. In this blog post, you will learn the best recruiting tips for recruiting executives. Read More.

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How to Start Conversations With Talent in a Hyper-competitive Candidate Market

Indeed

With unemployment at record lows, today’s job seeker has options. Employers have to be proactive when it comes to finding candidates. Even when you find someone who’s great for a role, it can be hard to catch their attention, especially if you’re recruiting for high-skill, hard-to-fill roles. Imagine opening an inbox to a flood of messages from recruiters every day: you’d quickly tune out.

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Use These 5 Strategies to Create Positive Change and Increase Happiness in Your Job

Entrepreneur

If you're feeling stuck in a rut, try these strategies used by 'workplace mavericks.'.

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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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How to Turn Your Database into a Valuable Candidate Network

FireFish Software

Storing unengaged, dead candidate data in your recruitment database is not only counter-productive – thanks to GDPR, it’s against the law now too. And with candidates now having so much more control over their personal data, we need to work a lot harder to earn the right to keep it. But the good news is, we can make this work for us!

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Landing Your First post-College Job Just Got Far Less Terrifying

SmartRecruiters

Recruiting’s digital revolution has been a boon for job seekers around the world, and now students and recent graduates have a tool designed to connect them with the best employers possible. Your first job out of college probably felt like the most important event of your life, and for many, looking back, it was as pivotal as if felt back them.

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How Niche Sites are Changing Social Media Recruiting

SmartSearch

How Niche Sites are Changing Social Media Recruiting. Utilizing social media websites has long been a popular recruitment method. Social media is a fantastic networking tool, and the profiles that people create often serve as resumes for potential employers. But obviously, major social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have personal benefits for many users.