Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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The London cabbie who put me to career shame

Greg Savage

This is a true story. Every word. It was my last night in London after two weeks of hard work (OK, and a bit of RWC). A few beers, and into a cab. It was there, in that taxi, that I met one of the most extraordinary people I have ever encountered. The cabbie and […].

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How To Make Recruiting Your Company's Top Strategic Priority in 2016 [With QUIZ]

Lever

Almost every company under the sun claims to care deeply about talent acquisition. Organizations in growth mode have to work extra-hard to keep up with their aggressive expansion targets. At larger companies, it can take a Herculean effort just to cover attrition and tread water. But the stats don’t lie: PwC's 17th Annual Global Survey shows that 93 percent of CEOs recognize the need to change their strategies for talent, but 61 percent haven't even taken the first step.

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5 Steps to Better Job Description Click-Through Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

In most organizations, marketers don’t own the task of writing job descriptions for new opportunities available within their organization. This responsibility generally belongs to people in human resources or recruiting. And even if those folks have marketers review a draft before it posts (at least for marketing positions, that is), many times the urgency of the request prevents anyone from worrying about fine-tuning the job listing’s content.

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Human Clouds on the Horizon

The Whiteboard

Hello recruiters of New Zealand and beyond, it’s just lovely to see you again. We’re still in that fuzzy period where our brains reluctantly haul themselves away from holiday mode and try to fit themselves back into the world of work. For many, it’s even harder than squeezing our lightly tanned and sea soaked feet back into the purgatory of leather work shoes.

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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 Best Boolean and Semantic Search Tool

Boolean Black Belt

While many people are hungry for specific Boolean search strings to copy and paste and for search tools that make searching for people “easier” and even “do the thinking for you,” there simply is nothing that can come remotely close to what you can do when you think properly and ask the right questions. That’s right – the most powerful thing you can incorporate into your people search efforts isn’t Boolean logic, a search “hack,” Chrome exten

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5 Steps to Better Job Description Click-Through Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

In most organizations, marketers don’t own the task of writing job descriptions for new opportunities available within their organization. This responsibility generally belongs to people in human resources or recruiting. And even if those folks have marketers review a draft before it posts (at least for marketing positions, that is), many times the urgency of the request prevents anyone from worrying about fine-tuning the job listing’s content.

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Don't miss your next great superstar employee

Hoops

Hiring, like most areas of business, is about wins and losses. It’s about making the right decisions at the right times, eating the costs of wrong decisions and hopefully learning from them. Recruiters are always on the lookout for superstar hires that can make a difference from day one. But sometimes, great hires are overlooked. Whether it’s résumé overload, time pressure to get jobs filled, or great interviewing skills which don’t translate to effective job performance, top performers don’t al

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13 Scarily Bad Job Ads ????

Social Talent

If you post job ads on a regular basis (or even of you don’t!), do yourself a favour and follow @JobPostShame on Twitter immediately! The folks who run the account do their best to “showcase the best of the mistakes” found in job adverts all over the world in an effort to get recruiters the world over to take more care and pay more attention to the job ads they post.

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The 8 Best Recruiting Lines of All Time

Leoforce

It’s a new year, full of new opportunities. We thought you could use some inspiration to continue being the passionate, persuasive, savvy recruiters you are, so we compiled a definitive list of the eight best recruiting lines ever used. Enjoy, and recruit away! 1. Booker T. Washington, African-American leader and educator, to George Washington Carver, African-American inventor, on coming to teach at Tuskegee University.

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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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Liza Galliher | Business Development

ExactHire Recruiting

Liza joined ExactHire in August 2016 as our Business Development Specialist after several years of sales experience at a technology firm in Washington, DC. Liza serves as our main point of contact for our clients who are in need of our software solutions for their organizations. Previously, Liza worked at WeddingWire Inc. in a similar consultant role, and even more recently she worked as a Behavioral Clinician at Meridian Health Services utilizing her educational background in psychology.

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Don't miss your next great superstar employee

Hoops

Hiring, like most areas of business, is about wins and losses. It’s about making the right decisions at the right times, eating the costs of wrong decisions and hopefully learning from them. Recruiters are always on the lookout for superstar hires that can make a difference from day one. But sometimes, great hires are overlooked. Whether it’s résumé overload, time pressure to get jobs filled, or great interviewing skills which don’t translate to effective job performance, top performers don’t al

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8 Intriguing Recruitment News Items this Week – 11th January 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: 9 Stats That Will Help You Write Better LinkedIn InMails. Last week , LinkedIn gave us 9 key stats to help us provide a great candidate experience. This week, they’re helping us boost our InMail response rates by giving us 9 stats will help us write better LinkedIn InMai ls. Let’s take a gander shall we? 1. 87% of professionals are open to new job opportunities.

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What Are Your Recruitment Resolutions?

HarQen

The New Year is an opportunity for a fresh start, making improvements, building on your success or some combination of all three. We are just two weeks into 2016, it’s not too late to act on, or think about your recruiting resolutions. Where Should I Start? Going through your hiring process will give you an [.]. The post What Are Your Recruitment Resolutions?

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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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Improve Applicant Sourcing With Owned And Shared Media

ExactHire Recruiting

With so many options for attracting job seekers, it can be daunting to determine which recruitment marketing tactics to employ to find top talent. However, if we put on our content marketing hats and think about how the customer buying cycle parallels the applicant sourcing process, our task at hand becomes much simpler. Like many other modern models , it’s helpful to think of this journey as a continuum rather than a linear process.

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How Performance Reviews Reinforce Gender Bias

Glassdoor for Employers

The existence of a major gender disparity in the tech industry, particularly in the male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley, is common knowledge. The percentages of female employees working at major tech companies are pretty dismal: 32% at Facebook , 31% at Apple , 30% at Twitter and Google and 24% at Intel. The disparity between men and women is even greater when aggregating for women working in technical position s.

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6 Employer Branding Techniques You Need to Know About

Spark Hire

You’re walking down an aisle at the grocery store when you realize none of the packages have labels. The shelves are lined with blank boxes, cans, and cartons. You know what you’re looking for, but can’t figure out what anything is. After all, you can’t tell a can of caviar from a can of cat food without some branding. Suddenly nothing seems appetizing and you start searching for an exit instead.

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Agency Recruiter Spotlight: Deb Fonseca

BountyJobs

We have a lot of recruiters on our platform – they all have niche specialties, and they’re all working towards placements that will make their clients not only bubble over with excitement, but will make an impact on an organization overall. We’re spotlighting Deb Fonseca, President of Starboard Search and a successful user of the BountyJobs platform.

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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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What Should You Eat Before a Job Interview? (Infographic)

Social Talent

When it comes to job interviews we all know preparation is vital, but how many of us consider proper nutrition in the build up to an important meeting? Not many I’m guessing! Well, as I’m sure you’re aware, a healthy diet is essential for optimal performance of body and mind, so it pays to understand what’s in the food that you eat.

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5 Companies with LGBT-Friendly Offices

Glassdoor for Employers

We all know that where you work is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in your life—your candidates feel the same way. And, there are many factors that play into what makes a company a desirable place to work and why candidates apply to your jobs. Individuals specifically seek companies where they can feel comfortable being themselves. No employee should feel like he or she has to hide a part of his or her identity.

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How to Determine if Your Candidate has an Entrepreneurial Spirit

Spark Hire

As a new business owner, it’s important that the initial people you hire in your business have the entrepreneurial spirit that you have. When you are hiring your key players, you need to know what to look for in order to make sure you are hiring top talent. Look for Risk Takers. One of the key traits that entrepreneurs have is the ability to take risks.

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SmashFly Secures Series B Funding to Fuel Growth

Symphony Talent

Today marks an exciting milestone for SmashFly, our employees, our customers and our partners. I’m excited to share the news that SmashFly has raised $22 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by SmashFly’s existing investor, OpenView Venture Partners. We plan to use the funds to accelerate research and development. Continue Reading → The post SmashFly Secures Series B Funding to Fuel Growth appeared first on SmashFly Technologies Blog.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Create a Consistent Interview Process That Includes a Test Drive

Entrepreneur

It's vital to have an interviewing process that goes beyond asking candidates about their resumes or posing brain teasers to them.

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What Is Culture? Hint: It’s Not Work-Life Balance

Glassdoor for Employers

“The pursuit of balance in the workplace too often feels like a win-lose proposition, either way you look at it.”. Quick. Define culture. It’s hard, I know. It’s kind of like describing love. There are no perfect words to express completely how we feel about our kids or significant other. But, we know love when we feel it. And this seems to be the case with “culture” when describing the indescribable about agency life.

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How Celebrating Small Wins Can Enhance Company Culture

Spark Hire

Celebrating big wins is something that seems to come naturally to many companies. Quite often, the small wins are overlooked and forgotten. As a small business, it’s important that you are recognizing these small wins in addition to the big wins. There can be long lulls between the big wins at times and if you want to build company morale and motivation among your team, it’s important to have a way to recognize small wins along the way.

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Employers Share the Strangest Interview Mistakes They’ve Encountered

CareerBuilder

Interviews can be incredibly stressful for job seekers. Often when an interviewee makes a mistake, it’s merely this nervousness showing through. However, there are some job seekers whose behavior is so strange that it’s hard to chalk it up to nerves. As part of CareerBuilder’s recent interview mistakes survey, employers shared the biggest mistakes or most unusual things job candidates have done during the interview process.

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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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Why The Best Candidates Care About Company Culture

Recruiting.com

According to Personnel Psychology, top performers are 400% more productive than average performers. If your company wants to recruit and hire top performers, understand what they want and need most from their employers. Fortunately, the answer isn’t just a generous paycheck. Because top performers often know their worth and potential, they are more selective about where.

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Glassdoor’s 5 Recruiting Trends to Watch in 2016

Glassdoor for Employers

Many employers have set finding higher quality candidates as one of their top goals in 2016. But before talent recruiting really heats up, Glassdoor is revealing 5 Recruiting Trends to Watch in 2016 , identifying key factors that will impact how people find jobs and how employers will recruit this year. According to a recent survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Glassdoor, 45% of people say they are currently job searching or plan to search for a job in 2016. 1 This suggests it cou

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Retaining Company Culture Comes Down to Hiring the Right People

Entrepreneur

'What should remain consistent is the mission and vision, but roles and competencies change and evolve.'.

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