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What I Learned Writing 60 Job Posts in 60 Days

Katrina Kibben

These are the lessons I learned by speaking with over 100 practitioners about their job posts. The post What I Learned Writing 60 Job Posts in 60 Days appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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6 Ways to Identify Your Most Coachable Candidates and Employees

Recruiter

Organizations worldwide have embraced workplace coaching in recent years, and for good reason: Coaching can improve employee interpersonal skills by 50 percent and reduce employee stress by 35 percent, among other benefits.

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Be Like Seagal

The Whiteboard

Most of what I know about recruitment, and much of what I know about life, I’ve learnt from the movies of Steven Seagal. I’m not even joking. For those who don’t know who Seagal is, let me explain. Imagine it’s 1987 and a 6ft4in slightly tubby martial arts instructor with a prematurely receding hairline decides to become a movie star. Imagine this person has no discernible acting talent and runs like he competes at the other Olympics.

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Top 5 Recruitment Marketing Priorities for 2019 (Plus, Resources to Turn Your Priorities into Action!)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

The start of a new year brings new hiring goals, a new Recruitment Marketing budget and a fresh outlook on all the ways we aspire to move our talent acquisition strategies (and our own careers) forward. But already, the harsh realities are settling in: There are more business partners to support, critical improvement projects to spearhead, time needed to select the right vendors, new channels to try, and just overall increasing demands on our time, resources and budgets.

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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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Top 9 Onboarding Questions Answered

Lever

In many companies where resources are limited, once the offer is signed there is little done afterwards. Hiring managers and people teams can often miss the opportunity to roll out the red carpet and truly make a new hire feel welcome.

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How To Transform Your Recruitment Process In 2019

Social Talent

New Year, New Processes. We’re just about halfway through January and if you haven’t nailed down your recruitment processes for 2019, then you might want to start planning. The new year is always full of fresh opportunities with eager candidates racing to apply for vacant jobs. Finding the best talent early should be a priority for any recruiter and with the right processes put in place, you can be sure life will be made easier.

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Top Recruitment Marketing Priorities for 2019 (Plus, Resources to Turn Your Priorities into Plans!)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Is it just me, or as Recruitment Marketers have we become pretty comfortable with being torn in ten different directions at once? Often, we have multiple internal stakeholders wanting our “marketing magic” at the same time to improve the way their group attracts, hires and communicates with talent. And of course, add that to the fact that our teams are still much smaller than those that our marketing counterparts work on.

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Lever Launches ADP Workforce Now® Connector to Improve the Speed and Quality of Hiring

Lever

Talent acquisition software leader unveils new integration that transforms how companies engage, hire and onboard new talent.

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Which Employees Should You Invest in? 3 Strategies on How to Make That Choice.

Entrepreneur

With unemployment low, you need to enrich and empower your company's existing leaders so they'll stick around. Here's how.

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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 KonMari Your Recruiting Career

Social Talent

All over the world, millions of people are staring at individual items in their homes, asking ‘does this spark joy?’ From Christmas decorations to Pokémon cards, cargo pants to novelty hats, the world is having a clear-out. Marie Kondo, Japanese organisation consultant, has written four best selling books on the art of decluttering and organisation, and the benefits of living and working in a space that ‘sparks joy’ Her recent Netflix series Spark Joy With Marie Kondo has

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5 Inspiring Books for Recruitment Marketers in 2019

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Outside of digging in and learning on the job, my go-to way to find ideas, discover new strategies and be inspired is by reading. Books have helped me frame pitches and ideas in new ways, facilitate meetings more purposefully and carve out more distraction-free time to be creative. As the future of work changes at a rapid pace, I find it easier to stay up-to-date with a few good books on my shelf.

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How Recruiters Can Overcome Buzzword-itis

Glassdoor for Employers

Nothing dulls a job description more than an over-indulgence of buzzword phrases such as “enthusiastic and motivated,” “winning attitude” and “willingness to learn.” While there’s no harm in throwing in a buzzword here and there, including them without substantive accompanying requirements leaves applicants hungry for more. Define the Nuances of the Buzzword.

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How to Make the Move from Contingency to Retained Recruitment

FireFish Software

If you’re a recruiter who’s used to pitching your services on a contingency basis, it’s likely the idea of selling a retainer to a client sounds like a pretty daunting task to you. But making the move to bring retained search into your recruitment offering isn’t half as scary as you think, and the pay-off is huge!

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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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You Need This Advanced Sourcing Trick For Google

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 to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How reverse engineering URLs can help you find awesome candidates.

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Why Colleges Aren’t Preparing Students for Work – and What Employers Should Do About It

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Danny Iny dropped out of school at 15 to start a business. He also got an MBA at a top business school in Canada. Guess which decision he considers the mistake? “My own experience was that quitting school was a great choice. I had a ton of opportunities, experimented with things that I never otherwise would have been able to,” says Iny, author of “Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and […].

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Think Like a Marketer to Increase Awareness of Your Open Roles

Indeed

In today’s tight labor market, recruiters need innovative tactics to increase awareness of their open roles and reach the right candidates. So why not take a page from the marketing playbook? You’ve likely heard about the “talent pipeline.” In marketing, there is something similar: a customer journey “funnel.” But whereas a pipeline has the same width in all its phases (and can get blocked or overwhelmed!

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3 Major Marketing Trends that Will Transfer to Recruitment in 2019

FireFish Software

Keeping on top of new marketing trends is extremely beneficial to recruiters, but not everything that comes out of marketing is going to be relevant to our industry, and it can be hard to predict which trends will stick and what will fade away. We’ve dug out the proven marketing golden nuggets recruiters can’t afford to ignore in 2019!

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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3 Reasons Recruiters Are Struggling to Perform (and How You Can Help)

Social Talent

As a manager, it can be disheartening when somebody on your team is underperforming. Especially if you thought this particular person was going to be a rockstar. Before diving into the details it’s important to realise that it’s a common occurrence that 80% of your company’s crucial work is achieved by 20% of your staff. This 80:20 rule is called the Pareto Principle and can be applied to many areas of your business.

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#WorkTrends: Why Social Media Has Failed Recruiting

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Imagine a world without hashtags, friend requests and cat videos. Pretty difficult, right? That’s how much social media has transformed our lives. However, there’s something social media hasn’t transformed: recruiting. Even though companies have more opportunities to reach qualified candidates than ever before, the results have not come anywhere close to fulfilling the potential of the power of social media.

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Opportunity Awaits: SEO For Recruiting

Symphony Talent

For years, hiring teams have ignored SEO and organic search in conversations about candidate experience and recruiting. Over the last 10 years I’ve spent writing in this industry, The post Opportunity Awaits: SEO For Recruiting appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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The Scariest Parts of the Hiring Process According to Candidates

SmartRecruiters

More than half of all candidates have major fears about the job hunt, learn the specific pain points and how recruiters can help. In a study, a recent study of 1,000 working professionals, CV library found that 55 percent are scared of key elements of the job hunt. While seeking new employment may always entail some level of pressure and anxiety, hiring teams can boost the candidate experience and better evaluate applicants by identifying the particular pain points, common to the process, and do

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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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How Should Recruiters Measure Success?

Social Talent

Have you ever found yourself walking into a quarterly review unsure of what the outcome will be? Rather than leaving your performance review to chance, we’ve outlined some of the key KPIs that every recruiter should measure themselves against. Staying on top of these key performance indicators is a great way to ensure that you stay on track week to week, and know what you’re doing when your review comes around.

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How to Prepare for a One Way Video Interview

Vervoe

The one-way video interview is on the rise : companies like Apple, Twitter, Google, and many more use a one-way video interview at some point in their hiring process. Some estimates have seen a nearly 30% increase in the use of pre-recorded interviews in the last year. While one-way interviews are a great time-saving tool for recruiters, they can be an awkward experience for the candidate.

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Think Like a Job Seeker

Undercover Recruiter

Through my years of working in the Talent Acquisition industry, I’ve come across many professionals who have varying views on how to attract and find the right talent. Most professionals take a pray and post approach to finding talent. Instead of thinking outside the box to find talent, they rely on the traditional job boards, View Article. Think Like a Job Seeker Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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3 Recruiting Tactics That Need to Make a Comeback

Spark Hire

There’s no more exciting time than when your company is growing. Your team creates positions to reach more customers and pursue new business endeavors. Right now, there’s also an unfortunate downside to expanding your organization: a lack of talent. In fact, 77 percent of companies planned to increase their workforce by at least 25 percent, per our 2018 Growth Hiring Trends report.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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Marketing Leftover Candidates

NPA Worldwide

If you’re a recruiter, you’re likely familiar with the term “leftover candidates.” These are the candidates that didn’t receive an offer from your client – there could be two, three, or more from each project. What do you do with them? If you’re like many recruiters, they sit in your database stagnating until the next time you have a similar search.

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Step Up Your Recruiting Game by Using the Rockefeller Habits

Recruiter

Thirty years ago, I joined a staffing and recruiting firm as marketing director and began working my way up the ranks. I eventually became a partner in the organization. In 2005, I learned about the Rockefeller Habits and began practicing them in both my personal and professional lives. For the uninitiated, the habits were developed by Verne Harnish based on the business practices and.

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The Recruiting Process is a Series of Questions

Undercover Recruiter

The recruiting process can be full of roadblocks, bumps, and workarounds that eventually lead you to a great hire. Getting through each step of the process involves a lot of work, but is there a way to smooth things out and ensure the process doesn’t take such a toll on your team? Yes, there is. View Article. The Recruiting Process is a Series of Questions Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.