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How to Recruit Candidates With Zero Relevant Work Experience

Undercover Recruiter

In the recruitment world, most sectors and disciplines are extremely “talent” short, therefore, hiring managers have to become more receptive and agile to hiring potential employees who do not necessarily possess the most relevant (if any) work experience pertaining to the role required. What is the recommended process to ensure the match is still suitable.

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Guest Blog: The Three Step Approach to Long Term Diversity

JazzHR

Major businesses have been feeling the pressure to diversify their workforces for more than twenty years. In response to this pressure, many have employed a number of different diversity programs with varying degrees of success. But what result characterizes success for a diversity program? According to experts, businesses should be trying to increase the number of women and minorities in management , as well as reduce biases throughout the company.

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Should You Hire Job Hoppers? Here’s a Data-Driven Answer

Yoh

There is no denying that employers around the world have been struggling against job hoppers and are trying to retain their talent for longer durations.

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How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Event Plan (Example Included!)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Recruitment Marketing should play a role in helping to ensure that your Talent Acquisition team’s recruiting events are a success. In this post, I’ll share the approach we take at Qualtrics to boost the brand and pipeline building possibilities associated with the recruiting events our TA team attends. First off, who should “own” events? And where does Recruitment Marketing fit in?

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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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What to Look for in a Modern Recruitment Platform

ClearCompany Recruiting

Recruiting software is highly utilized by talent acquisition teams. In fact, 75% of hiring professionals used either applicant tracking or recruiting software to improve their hiring process. Unfortunately, because implementing a new system or transitioning to another tool can be such an undertaking, organizational leaders either hesitate to choose a platform or deal with clunky programs.

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Moving The Onboarding Process Away from Spreadsheets

ExactHire Recruiting

There are two types of people: those who love spreadsheets, and those who are hopelessly disorganized. Ok, perhaps that’s an over simplification, but I’ve yet to come across a highly organized person who doesn’t have a solid grasp–and a tinge of excitement–for creating and using spreadsheets. That being said, in some instances your favorite spreadsheet application, whether it be Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or something else, is being made obsolete by the emergence of new SaaS platf

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5 Tips for using Text Recruiting to Engage (and Hire!) Candidates

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Americans look at their phones an average of 47 times per day. And for Gen Z that number rises to 86 times per day, according to Deloitte. Because people are so attached to their phones, text messaging is an incredible channel – still relatively untapped – that savvy recruiting teams can leverage to see major results. What kind of results, you might wonder?

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5 Do’s and Don’ts When it Comes to Engaging with Candidates

JazzHR

Candidate engagement is a moving target. Hiring managers and recruiters need to think strategically to remain competitive in the tight jobs market. Here are five do’s and don’ts of the engagement experience: DO Identify Existing Engagement Challenges. To improve candidate engagement metrics, you need a thorough understanding of where you stand today.

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How to Prepare for the Next Headcount Meeting with Your CFO

Lever

Being that 2019 is around the corner, there has never been a more important time to get in front of headcount planning and ensure your team is staffed for recruiting success. But doing so often requires sign-off from your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who may or may not be able to assess how likely your team will be to hit future growth plans for your company.

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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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How Stacy Zapar Manages Internal Expectations

Social Talent

When it comes down to managing internal expectations, Founder & Principal Recruiter at The Talent Ag friend, Stacy Zapar knows a thing or two! Every company wants to hire the brightest sparks out there, however, understanding what that candidate looks like is a key component. Managing internal expectation is never as straightforward as you think.

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5 Tips for using Text Messaging to Engage (and Hire!) Candidates

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Americans look at their phones an average of 47 times per day. And for Gen Z that number rises to 86 times per day, according to Deloitte. Because people are so attached to their phones, text messaging is an incredible channel – still relatively untapped – that savvy recruiting teams can leverage to see major results. What kind of results, you might wonder?

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Sustainable Hiring: How to Grow Your Teams for the Long Term

JazzHR

High first-year attrition rates can be very costly for companies. As reported by OfficeVibe, it takes an average of 27 business days and $4,000 to make a single hire. There are hidden costs as well, such as the lost productivity of an open position and the expense of training new employees. Hiring managers should look for new ways to promote candidate engagement and hire for the long term.

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Keyword Search: How to Sound Like A Sourcer.

Allegis Global Solutions

Most sourcing professionals would disagree with the overarching thesis that they could effectively be replaced by pretty much any preteen, or anyone who's ever seen a couple episodes of Catfish , but that's because they don't want anyone to know that finding people online has never been particularly challenging.

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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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LinkedIn’s new ATS: TalentHub and more from TalentConnect 2018

Social Talent

LinkedIn is stealing the spotlight this week. Currently, the company’s focus event, LinkedIn Talent Connect is taking part in Anaheim, California. Thousands of the world’s best and brightest minds in the industry, including our own Johnny Campbell , are gathered together to discuss the future and be the first to see some hotly anticipated LinkedIn releases.

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Witness The Homesickness

The Whiteboard

Charles Darwin would be proud of us consultants! Survival of the fittest at it’s finest. Like the nomad children of the Andaman sea who eyes have adapted to swimming underwater in search of food, we consultants will for sure pass on a thicker than average skin gene to our bloodline. This industry builds up your tolerance for farewells I feel. I have seen countless consultants come and go in my time couple that with pals I came over with going back home.

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The future of recruiting: How you can hire exceptional employees

Workable

It’s a common phenomenon to see companies struggling to hire exceptional employees – in fact, 76% of hiring decision makers say attracting quality candidates is their biggest recruiting challenge. They may attribute this to a talent shortage, their company’s reputation or not knowing where to post jobs. But what if the problem lies with the way the recruiting process is archetypically designed?

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How to Get an 8x Response Rate to Your Cold Emails to Passive Candidates

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Manan Shah – Cofounder at Recruiterflow. His opinions are his own. The average cold email response rate is about 5%-8%! To put that in perspective, you need to reach out to 20 people to get one response. The key part of this statistic here is “average” and being “average” is not […].

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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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5 Innovative Ways To Boost Your Personal Brand As a Recruiter

Social Talent

Personal Branding. For every hardworking and successful recruiter, a key weapon in their arsenal is having a strong personal brand. There’s no use being shy and unwilling to market yourself as a recruiter. The industry is changing rapidly and you need to make a choice – either evolve with the times or get left behind. The majority of your personal branding efforts will be done online, therefore having a strong online presence is essential.

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10 Qualities That Returning Caregivers Bring to the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

While employers and recruiters may initially hesitate to hire a return-to-work caregiver, they may want to reconsider. Candidates who have been out.

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Finding the Best Candidates

NPA Worldwide

Have you considered the position descriptions you write and the advertisements you make for finding the best candidates? Are you in search of great candidates or great employees…the best hire? Candidates must meet a certain level of expectation to get through the recruitment process that human resources and independent recruiters set as a multi-level screening exercise.

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5 Ways Text Interviews Will Surprise You

Undercover Recruiter

Recruiters are at a disadvantage in today’s hyper-connected society. There are several barriers that run the risk of impeding talent acquisition, including a negative candidate experience, ineffective employment branding, drawn-out recruiting processes, and the inability to reach a busy, on-the-go workforce. Given the high pressure of acquiring top talent in today’s competitive job market, recruiters.

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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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Talent Connect | Everything You May Have Missed

Social Talent

Did LinkedIn host some kind of conference this week? Talent Connect is LinkedIn’s three-day gathering of the world’s leaders, influencers and innovations in talent. In the past, the conference has platformed game-changing announcements from the platform, and this year was no disappointment. This year’s theme explored From Insights to Impact, focusing on talent intelligence, development, community building and that ever elusive future of work.

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7 Ways to Deliver a Stellar Employee Experience

Glassdoor for Employers

At the highest level, employee experience or EX illustrates everything that people encounter, observe or feel over the course of their time.

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Why Criticism Can Be Good For You

NPA Worldwide

It can be hard to swallow constructive criticism, but accepting criticism can be the key to getting promoted at work. Understanding what you’re doing wrong and being able to think of a solution to correct it is a crucial part of showing your commitment to growing and climbing the ranks in a company. Accepting criticism is a challenge that really puts to test your “soft skills,” like being a do-er, fixer and thinker.

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5 Deal-Breaking Questions Recruiters Forget to Ask Clients

FireFish Software

The best hires come out of great recruitment briefs, and the best briefs are a result of recruiters asking their clients all the right questions. So, if you only ask the same basic questions time and again, you’ll always get the same (or worse) results. Ask these well-considered, loaded questions during briefing stage, and you'll set yourself up nicely for a winner!

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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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LinkedIn Release Their Latest Super Tool: Talent Insights (and the results are awesome!)

Social Talent

The Origins of LinkedIn Talent Insights. LinkedIn houses a grotesque amount of data that could be revolutionary if harnessed and packaged appropriately for the talent industry. Everybody- especially LinkedIn- has known this for years. LinkedIn Talent Insights , the company’s first self-serve data and analytics product is set to make a big impact. Talent Insights provides companies with access to LinkedIn’s global database of 575M+ professionals, 20M+ companies and 15M+ active job listings, to he

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How to Hire Collaborative Employees

Glassdoor for Employers

Being collaborative is an important trait for employees, and when companies write job descriptions, a form of the word often is sprinkled.

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6 Strategies for Leaders Who Want to Flood Their Workplace With Great Ideas

Entrepreneur

Your perspective isn't the most important one in the room.

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