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How to Balance Cultural Fit with Diversity

ClearCompany Recruiting

Hire for cultural fit, but make sure there’s room for diversity. Why? Because with a strong company culture, employees are happier and more productive and diverse teams outperform less diverse teams by an average of 35%. It’s decided: teams are to hire similar people with many differences. Confused yet? There’s no denying the validity of both fit and diversity in the hiring process, but where do we draw the line between too much of either or not enough of one?

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4 BIG LinkedIn Product Changes That Will Change the Way You Recruit (Forever!)

Social Talent

I have a confession to make. It’s been over 2 years since I actually wrote a blog post. I used to write 5 posts a week but as we have scaled Social Talent I’ve had to focus on our training curriculum, product design and growing a business from 11 employees at the beginning of this year to what will be nearly 70 by this time next year. So, what has me typing away on my notepad in a Starbucks in LA, giving our brilliant daily writer, Siofra, a much needed day off from blogging?

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50 at 5.0! Fifty Reviews and 5 Stars

Glassdoor for Employers

We live in a world where transparency is king when it comes to workplace culture. People today, more than ever before, have not just many options when it comes to their career choices – they have information. Companies can no longer attract great talent on the basis of their revenue or products and services alone. Case in point – a recent LinkedIn survey revealed that, according to jobs seekers, a company’s employer brand (what it is like to work at the company) was more than twice as likely to

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Four favorite talent-themed moments from Launch Scale

Lever

Launch Scale is a fascinating conference. The brainchild of Jason Calacanis , the LAUNCH franchise exists to ‘support founders and inspire innovation’, and there was plenty of inspiration on tap on day one of this two-day event for startups in San Francisco.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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How to Reject Job Candidates Who Aren’t the Right Fit

Spark Hire

You finally found the perfect candidate for your open position, and they accepted your offer. It’s time to celebrate! But, before you break out the balloons, there’s one last thing you have to do — tell all of the other candidates the position has been filled. Rejecting candidates isn’t fun and can be uncomfortable for everyone involved. When those candidates are close runner-ups, letting them down and letting them go hurts.

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How to Make Your Employees Feel Valued

Glassdoor for Employers

When the economy is dragging, nurturing employees may go on the back burner; in turn, employee morale begins to drag. Even within a robust market, companies immerse energies in staying ahead of the innovation curve or beating the competition, thus dimming the mentoring light. In these scenarios, courageous employees who reach out to management for stretch opportunities and promotions often face rejection, further toppling their morale.

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Suds and Staffing Episode 39: Grit VS Grades in the Workplace

HarQen

Kristen Hamilton’s article Why Grit Matters More Than Grades in the Workplace had a big impact on Sam when he read it, and for good reason. Last week on Suds and Staffing he and Dave dove in and discussed the grit versus grades in the workplace. The Takeaways Grit is learned, grades are earned – You can [.]. The post Suds and Staffing Episode 39: Grit VS Grades in the Workplace appeared first on Transforming Recruiting Into a Strategic Advantage with HarQen.

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What Your Interviewing Process Says About Your Company’s Culture

Spark Hire

While some managers see the hiring process as a necessary evil in order to keep the best talent in their office, in reality how you hire speaks volumes about your organization. Smart managers review their hiring process regularly in order to ensure that it’s streamlined and up-to-date. Here’s how your hiring process directly impacts a candidate’s perception of your business.

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How to: Drastically Improve Your Candidate Experience

Social Talent

Blockbuster was once one of the world’s leading retailers. After being founded in 1985, it enjoyed soaring popularity throughout the late 80s and early 90s, as the world piled into hundreds of it’s retail stores to rent the latest VHS or order the newest DVD. It seemed customers couldn’t get enough of Blockbuster’s offering. T hat was until Blockbuster stopped listening to their demands and failed to recognise their customers’ shift in preference towards online movie stre

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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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3 Reasons Why Candidate Personas Will Help You Hire

Glassdoor for Employers

It’s no secret that recruiting the right people is one of the biggest challenges to business growth. Jobvite’s 2015 Recruiter Nation Survey , released at the end of last month, revealed that 56% of recruiters find the lack of skilled or qualified talent to be a key stumbling block. Competition for the best talent is fierce. Candidates can be very choosy about where they want to work and, once they’re in the role, there’s no guarantee they’ll stay for long.

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What can a corny motivational poster teach you?

NPA Worldwide

Today’s blogger is Amy Teske, NPAworldwide Membership Engagement Manager. Amy joined the NPAworldwide staff in June 2015. We’re happy she’s here, and happy for the extra blogging horsepower as well! How are you engaged and inspired? Have you ever associated your engagement and inspiration with a message from a motivational poster ? Probably not…but sometimes as corny and outdated as it seems, the message can be a thought starter and a way to reflect on certain situations we face in our careers.

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6 Reasons to Invest in Your Employees NOW

Spark Hire

As a small business owner, it is key to understand the importance of employee investment early on in the business. If you wait too long before you invest in your employees your business will likely see high turnover rates as well as lack the potential to grow and improve. There are 6 reasons why you need to invest in your employees now. 1. It shows you appreciate your employees.

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The Most Hated Words Among Recruiters

Social Talent

Moist – the most hated word among women the world over, according to a new survey. Yes, when Knix Wear polled 500 women, before “squirt”, “panties”, “chunky”, “curd” and “flap”, the word “moist” was voted the most offensive among women. In fact, there’s even a Facebook group called ‘I Hate the Word Moist’ which boasts nearly 7,000 followers!

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Think Big, Act Bigger: The 2016 Recruitment Marketing Ideabook

Symphony Talent

What’s better than a book full of interesting ideas? A book full of interesting ideas you can actually use today (or tomorrow, if you need a little more time!). In this changing landscape of talent acquisition — where candidates are the new consumers and the competition for great talent is getting fiercer every day —. Continue Reading → The post Think Big, Act Bigger: The 2016 Recruitment Marketing Ideabook appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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LinkedIn Referrals + SmartRecruiters Inaugurate New Era of Referral Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

We at SmartRecruiters have always been the first talent acquisition platform to deliver the deepest level of integration with LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions products, including a seamless LinkedIn Apply process, one-click LinkedIn job posting , support for managed LinkedIn contracts and the best LinkedIn Recruiter integration in the market. About that last, it’s bi-directional and real time. .

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6 Ways to Boost Revenue as a Recruiter

Spark Hire

Great recruiters are constantly thinking of ways to better perform and boost revenue. There are 6 key things that you can do in order to increase your revenue and achieve success. 1. Direct Marketing. Do you have excellent candidates but no existing job openings? If you want a chance at placing those candidates and increasing your revenue, you need to be engaged in direct marketing activities every week.

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7 Things You Should Never Say to Your Boss (EVER)

Undercover Recruiter

Are you friendly with your boss? Are they someone that you can laugh and joke with or are they someone you are petrified of? Whichever situation, it is, there are some things you should never say to them. Ever. Here’s our run down of the top 7: I can’t: When it comes to work, there is. View Article. 7 Things You Should Never Say to Your Boss (EVER).

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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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CDW Answers Questions from Latest Webinar on Recruitment Marketing

Symphony Talent

It’s time to modernize your talent acquisition strategy with recruitment marketing tactics that will help you find, attract, engage, nurture and better convert top talent. But, you can’t do it with your ATS alone―it needs a technology partner. SmashFly’s Chris Brablc and CDW’S Rick Rosario discussed why and how a Recruitment Marketing Platform is integral.

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The Staffing Trends that Should be on Your Radar Right Now

CareerBuilder

We recently sat down with Gerard Mulder, CCO at Textkernel, to pick his brain about the importance of semantic search, how firms are struggling with big data, the next big trends and challenges for the staffing industry – and more. As Chief Commercial Officer and co-owner of Textkernel since 2005, Gerard Mulder has helped build up Textkernel to the international company it is today.

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How to Put a Stop to In-Office Time Wasters

Spark Hire

Spending five minutes here or 10 minutes there on non-work related activities can quickly accumulate, resulting in major chunks of time going to waste each day. However because these time wasters happen in the form of conversations over the coffee pot or other seemingly harmless activities, it’s often hard to identify them. Here are some key time wasters to keep an eye out for: 1.

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3 Ways School Districts can Improve Talent Acquisition

Recruiting.com

How can academic institutions best position themselves to attract the right candidates for their school? According to Slate.com, teachers say a financial incentive, like subsidized tuition or loan forgiveness, might pique their interest, but, they ultimately came to teaching—and stayed—for the kids. Of course salary is an important aspect of any job, but, when it.

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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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Stay Interview Research – What Questions Should You Be Asking?

HRsoft

If you want to engage and motivate your employees on a consistent basis, then here is a simple step you can take – conduct stay interviews. Stay interviews have proven themselves to be one of the most effective ways to make your employees think about why they want to stay at your company. However, if your stay interview is conducted only for the sake of going through a process, it is only going to end up wasting your employees’ and managers’ time.

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10 Absurd Excuses Workers Have Used to Call in Sick

CareerBuilder

Let’s be real – we’ve all toyed with the idea of (or actually gone through with) taking a “mental health” day before. In fact, according to a new CareerBuilder survey, 38 percent of employees have called in to work sick when they were actually feeling perfectly fine, up from 28 percent last year. Maybe work was overly stressful and they needed a break to clear their heads … or maybe they just wanted to lay in bed all day covered in snacks while watching Netflix.

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Jobvite Infographic: 2015 Recruiter Nation Survey

Jobvite

The newly expanded 2015 Recruiter Nation Survey, formerly known as the Social Recruiting Survey, revealed many new insights into recruiters’ current priorities, expectations for the next year, and challenges they face when hiring top talent. Check out our infographic below for insights on how recruiters view selfies, spelling errors, or a lack of social presence.

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Is it time to revamp your contingent workforce management program?

Allegis Global Solutions

What to do if you've outgrown your approach to your contingent workforce.

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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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How to Put a Stop to In-Office Time Wasters

Spark Hire

Spending five minutes here or 10 minutes there on non-work related activities can quickly accumulate, resulting in major chunks of time going to waste each day. However because these time wasters happen in the form of conversations over the coffee pot or other seemingly harmless activities, it’s often hard to identify them. Here are some key time wasters to keep an eye out for: 1.

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3 Fall To-Do’s for Your 2016 Staffing Plans

CareerBuilder

If you’re a staffing industry leader, you’re probably also an early adopter — meaning that when you notice a trend, innovation or new technology you explore the opportunity. So what are the trending issues within staffing and recruiting as we approach 2016? We’re glad you asked. In September 2015, CareerBuilder surveyed over 200 members of the staffing industry in our Q4 Pulse Survey in order to give you a fall checklist for your staffing plans as the New Year approaches.

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Jobvite Infographic: Future For Hire

Jobvite

We weathered the economic storm of the 2008 recession—but what does the future hold for job seekers? Here’s an infographic snapshot of upcoming talent trends that paints an optimistic picture for many hopeful candidates. The post Jobvite Infographic: Future For Hire appeared first on Jobvite.

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