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Gender-blind hiring is BS. Here’s why so many companies are failing.

Recruiting Daily

Blind hiring aims to remove any and all identifying information (personal, demographic, etc.) from the recruiting process so that recruiters and hiring managers can evaluate candidates based on their abilities alone. Sounds good in theory, right? The reality of blind hiring is something different altogether. So much so that recruiters, as well as […].

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Gray Area: A Simple Framework for Winning with the Aging Workforce

Breezy HR

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Candidate Quality: How Your Job Description Helps You Get Closer to the Hire

Indeed

Do you ever look at your candidate list and wonder why some people thought the position you posted was a good fit for them? You’ve read through their background and are unable to connect the dots. Well, you’re not alone. Although finding a new hire can be time consuming, the process will be much faster if you set the appropriate expectations about your positions early on.

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How to Define Your Employee Value Proposition: The DIY Approach

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you want to take charge of your company’s Employer Brand, a good place to start is by defining your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Your EVP consists of the tangible and intangible rewards (i.e. the value) employees can expect in exchange for their time and effort working for your company. The EVP is all about understanding why your employees love working for your company.

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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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An unforgettable welcome for your new hire

Lever

At Lever, the moment a new hire signs an offer letter is the best part of our day. We have the same high bar for everyone who joins our 200+ person team, so whether we built a relationship with a candidate for months or we sped them through a whirlwind, week-long process, we’re never less than completely pumped at the prospect of welcoming a new member on board.

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Maximizing Your Recruitment Marketing with Programmatic

Proactive Talent

Say you and your friend both own the exact same Dodge Ram pick-up truck, but one of you uses it to tow a boat to the lake and the other uses it for mostly inner-city commuting. You’re going to have drastically different MPGs, but it isn’t due to the vehicle, it’s because of the way it was driven. While you have the same vehicle (technology) the goals and objectives are much different (outcomes).

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Soft Marketing for Recruitment Marketers: What is it and What’s the ROI?

Rally Recruitment Marketing

In traditional marketing, we sometimes talk about hard versus soft marketing techniques. This isn’t a topic I’ve seen explored much from a Recruitment Marketing perspective, but I think it’s worth talking about because it can be easy for organizations to prioritize hard marketing approaches at the expense of soft marketing – but both are really important!

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Global Employment Trends: How Hiring Models Are Evolving.

Allegis Global Solutions

Given the talent shortages across North America, and the EMEA and APAC regions, companies are feeling the pressure to improve their ability to secure the workforce they need, and employers will continue to engage talent solutions partners to better acquire and manage talent across all work models.

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9 Strategies to Attract More Women in Tech

Glassdoor for Employers

Hiring and retaining women to work in STEM fields presents a unique challenge for employers. Women constitute slightly more than half of college-educated workers, but make up only 25% of college-educated STEM workers.(1). However, employers who invest in hiring and retaining women in STEM careers can reap significant rewards. The World Economic Forum has projected that correcting gender segregation in employment and in entrepreneurship could increase aggregate productivity globally by as much as

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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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2019 Recruiting Trend Predictions: Recruiting Feedback-Driven Hiring

Survale

So every year we see a crop of recruiting trend predictions coming from everywhere. Most are self-serving and this article is no different. The rise of recruiting feedback driven culture looms so large on the recruiting horizon that I can’t ignore the prediction, even though I am co-founder of the platform that is in large part enabling this trend. While it may be self-serving to predict that 2019 will be an inflection point for recruiting feedback-driven culture, I forward the prediction from a

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How to Shape Your Employee Value Proposition: The DIY Approach!

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you want to take charge of your company’s Employer Brand, a good place to start is by defining your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Your EVP consists of the tangible and intangible rewards (i.e. the value) employees can expect in exchange for their time and effort working for your company. The EVP is all about understanding why your employees love working for your company.

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I Want It That Way: Personalizing Recruitment Automation Messages

Katrina Kibben

How do you personalize recruitment automation and make candidates feel something even when the machine is doing the talking? The post I Want It That Way: Personalizing Recruitment Automation Messages appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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3 Capabilities the Software Industry Needs, to Solve the Developer Talent Crunch

Entrepreneur

Today, we see more and more job descriptions for developers asking not only for test-driven experience but also behavior-driven design and development experience.

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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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How to Build a High-Performance Recruitment Team for 2019

FireFish Software

The whole concept of what makes a ‘good’ recruiter, and what’s needed to create a high-performance recruitment team, has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years. Yet, as an industry we’re stuck in our ways: We still look to the same old sh*t KPIs, techniques and strategies when building our teams. But this needs to change if we want to continue getting the best out of our recruitment teams in 2019 and beyond.

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How To Source Amazing Contractors on LinkedIn

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! Sourcing Contractors on LinkedIn. Johnny Campbell helps you get the most out of LinkedIn by thinking outside the box when it comes to searching for contractors.

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Meaningful Engagement: Making Your One-on-Ones Matter

Indeed

One-on-one meetings can sometimes feel like trips to the doctor. Most people need them, and some of us dread them. But if you show up, share the necessary information and work together, your health will improve, and you’ll both be more meaningfully engaged in your well-being. Whether it’s in the doctor’s office or a one-on-one, the risks of not working together effectively can have serious consequences.

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Using Video in Recruitment: Interview with Abby Cheesman, Co-founder at Skill Scout

TalentLyft

We interviewed Abby Cheesman, a Co-founder at Skill Scout. We asked her about the video recruitment best practices and challenges. Abbyy also presented great insights, tactics and examples of using videos to attract, hire and develop talent. Read More.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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6 of the Worst Job Ads of 2018

FireFish Software

As recruiters, we pride ourselves in writing great job ads, but of course we don’t get it right 100% of the time – and neither do employers. But to make ourselves feel better, let’s take a minute to reflect on a few of the worst, most cringey and downright outrageous job ads to have hit our computer screens in 2018.

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6 Ways to Maintain an Active Talent Pool

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jade Parker from Assignment Masters. Her opinions are her own. Many recruiters find themselves being reactive rather than proactive. They react because they do not have an active talent pool and they think they can change what happened but this is not so. Only those who take the […].

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#WorkTrends: Who Should You Hire?

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Who should you hire? It might be the most important question you ask at work. Forget meeting your quarterly goals or expanding into new markets; if you don’t find the right people for your team, you’re going to be out of the ballgame pretty quickly. That’s why this week we have double the insight for you. We’re joined by two amazing guests who are working toward creating a less stressful, more predictable hiring process.

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Recruitment Software: How to Evaluate and Choose the Best Recruiting Tool

TalentLyft

In this recruitment software buyers’ guide , you’ll learn how to compare, evaluate and choose the best recruiting tool that will perfectly fit your hiring needs and your budget. We’ll review common recruitment challenges and identify solutions offered by recruiting tools. That way, you’ll know exactly what to look for in your perfect recruitment software!

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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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When the Perfect Candidate Turns Out To Be an Imperfect Fit

SimplyHired

The post When the Perfect Candidate Turns Out To Be an Imperfect Fit appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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Key hiring metrics: Useful benchmarks for tech roles

Workable

How does your tech recruiting process compare to that of other companies? You may know your own key hiring metrics like your average time to fill or how many qualified candidates you need to make a hire, but what’s the significance of these numbers? As Hung Lee, CEO & founder of workshape.io and curator of the popular newsletter Recruiting Brainfood , told me: “I have no idea what a number means unless I have something to compare it with.

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Yes, Your Employees Are Probably Looking for Other Jobs. Stop Trying to Fight It.

TalentCulture - Recruiting

With low unemployment and growing demand for talent, it’s absolutely a job seeker’s market out there right now. A survey last year found that 82 percent of workers were open to new employment opportunities, and Gallup data from 2015 and 2016 indicated that half of all employees in the U.S. were actively seeking new jobs. The ongoing talent crunch means a huge percentage of job applicants are actively employed at other companies.

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7 Ways to Foster a Positive Work Environment

Undercover Recruiter

A key facet of any successful company lies in the working environment. A company will ultimately be limited in its successes if employers find the workplace unpleasant, negative or stressful. Yet fostering and maintaining a positive work environment can be tricky, especially when finding a balance and not ending up being underproductive and unprofessional.

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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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How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog

RecruitmentJuice

Getting information out to consumers and finding leads is a challenging process. There are so many rules to follow for search engine optimization and keywords and content. It can be incredibly confusing. On top of all of that, you’re competing with hundreds if not thousands of other businesses online to have your voice heard and […]. The post How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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Being Tolerant Does Not Mean Being Inclusive

SmartSearch

When I think about the words “inclusion” and “tolerance,” I envision two words that are polar opposites of each other. In today’s workforce, diversity and inclusion mean seeking, accepting and wanting people from different walks of life. Tolerance does not denote acceptance. It’s a hostile attitude of being faced with something you must accept but in your heart-of-heart, you really don’t.

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The 4 Keys to Good Candidate-Recruiter Relationships

Recruiter

Good candidate-recruiter relationships should be a top priority for both candidates and recruiters. Being open, honest, and trustworthy benefits both parties. Recruiters will make more placements and better serve their clients with high-quality talent, and candidates will find the roles that are truly right for them. Here are four things both candidates and recruiters should know about building great relationships with one another: 1.