Sat.Nov 07, 2015 - Fri.Nov 13, 2015

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Our SEEK Recruitment Awards U-Turn

The Whiteboard

It’s Thursday as I write this week’s blog post, and for good reason. You see, it’s the 2015 SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards tonight and there’s a very real chance I won’t quite be able to cajole my brain cells into enough worthwhile use to pen anything sensible tomorrow. I’ll still be able to recruit though…that sh*t’s easy.

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Biggest Global Recruiting Trends of 2015 So Far (Infographic)

Social Talent

I think we can all agree that 2015 has absolutely flown by! One minute it was January, the next we ended up here in November! How did that happen so fast?! But while the year might not be over yet, 2015 has already proved to be an important year for the development of the recruitment industry and has marked the start of a number of key changes in how we source and how candidates look for jobs.

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LinkedIn’s New Non-Boolean Search Functionality

Boolean Black Belt

I originally published this post on LinkedIn, but am reposting here to ensure my blog readers catch it. When I attended LinkedIn’s Talent Connect 2015 conference in Anaheim, CA and I was able to take some video of Eddie Vivas, Head of Talent Solutions Product for LinkedIn, formerly the Founder and Chief Product Officer at Bright.com (acquired by LinkedIn), talking about and briefly demonstrating LinkedIn Recruiter’s new search interface and functionality.

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How VMware Recruits and Retains Military Veterans

Glassdoor for Employers

While serving as a military police sergeant for the U.S. Army, Aaron Dumbrow was accustomed to higher-level officers paying attention to his reports from the field. When he entered the IT field after medical retirement from the Army, Dumbrow wasn’t sure his voice would continue to be heard in the same way. But soon after joining cloud solutions provider VMware as a senior systems engineer , Dumbrow was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from the company’s CEO, following up on his recent st

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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3 Tips for Nurturing Your Talent Pipeline

Lever

Sourcing great candidates is only the beginning of a proactive recruitment process. Regardless of whether or not a potential candidate is looking to make a move, bring them into the loop. You can't start nurturing a potential lead too soon. Take the time to get to know them, and sell them on the vision of your company, the mission, and the team. When the time's right, you'll be the first person they'll call.

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6 Ways to Showcase your Company Culture through Social Messaging

Spark Hire

There are many different ways to go about recruiting candidates. However, if you want to be sure to target today’s top talent you need to advertise your company culture through social media. Today’s top talent is interested in not only a good paying job, but a career with a company that has a welcoming culture. There are 6 ways to make sure you are clearly showcasing a positive company culture through social media. 1.

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Can a Recruitment Firm be Built to Last?

NPA Worldwide

Today’s post is from Nerissa Reyes from AVANTI People Partnership International in Manila, Philippines. Nerissa is currently serving as chairman-elect on the NPAworldwide board of directors and was previously both secretary/treasurer and a regional director for the recruitment network. She lives and works across several countries including Jakarta, Sydney, London, and Manila. .

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Introducing Glassdoor Switzerland, Glassdoor Austria and.

Glassdoor for Employers

Glassdoor’s mission is to help people everywhere find a job and company they love and help employers hire top talent. When we announced our most recent round of funding last January, we set our sites on continuing to expand services to both job seekers and employers around the world. Today, our global footprint continues to expand as we launch localized platforms in Switzerland , Austria and Belgium.

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The Secret to Fantastic Candidate Engagement Great Recruiters Don’t Tell You

Social Talent

How many unread emails do you currently have in your inbox? I have 12. My colleague Reza has 11, George has the slightly larger number of 473, while Laura has a staggering 26,532… It’s not that we all actively decided not open and to ignore these unread emails, the truth is we were probably all busy when they arrived on our inboxes. By the time we had a chance to look at them, 10 new emails had arrived in our inboxes, pushing those other emails further down and out of sight.

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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 Give Candidates What They Want From An Interview

Spark Hire

A 2015 Talent Trends report from LinkedIn found that 83 percent of the 20,000 professionals surveyed said that a negative interviewing experience can change their mind about a position or company. It’s a job seekers market. If your interview process leaves a bad taste in a candidate’s mouth, they’ll move right to the next opportunity and you’ll lose out on quality talent.

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Infographic: Big Data Tells the Story of Successful Recruiting

SimplyHired

The post Infographic: Big Data Tells the Story of Successful Recruiting appeared first on.

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Tips to Finding Better Candidates: Part Three

Glassdoor for Employers

In parts one and two of a four-part series to help talent acquisition professionals find better candidates, we looked at ways to build an arsenal of marketing assets and channels, then refine the message to influence the ideal talent you want to attract. In part three, we focus on nurturing finalist candidates by getting smart about the interview process and setting realistic expectations with candidates to avoid “buyer’s remorse” after they come on board.

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More Employers Are Hiring Veterans, But Is It Making an Impact?

CareerBuilder

Break out your American flag pins (or, if you’re Brooke Shields circa 1980 , your American flag-themed halter top): Veterans Day is tomorrow. While many companies honor military veterans with complimentary haircuts , coffee or Build-Your-Own Grand Slams on Veterans Day, and others offer discounts on products and services throughout the year, there’s another way more and more companies choose to recognize former members of the military: by hiring them.

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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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How to Help a Candidate Show Their Personality in an Interview

Spark Hire

Interviews are a nerve-wracking experience for everyone involved. The candidate is trying desperately to put their best foot forward, unsure what the interviewer wants to hear but trying to deliver it. The hiring manager, on the other hand, is hoping to get a sense of what this candidate is really about, knowing that they may be supplying canned answers just to get a job offer.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 11.9 to 11.13

Symphony Talent

One more Friday, five more great articles (plus a new template!) Check out SmashFly’s favorite content, tweet and perspectives of the week in recruitment marketing. Content of the Week Once you’ve attracted the right leads (hopefully you used this to map out your target personas), what are you going to communicate to them? We. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 11.9 to 11.13 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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From Pipedream to Pipeline: A Closer Look At Quality of Hire.

Recruiting Daily

The amount of time it takes candidates to go from passive prospects to active applicants has increased significantly since the job market surplus shifted (along with the balance of power) from too many candidate to too little talent. Despite the cutthroat competition for new hires, employers are taking longer than ever before to finally decide on a final candidate.

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Attract More Millennials Using These 4 Workplace Tweaks

Entrepreneur

They're not earthshaking changes, but they'll get the attention of 18 to 34 year olds.

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Ask an Expert: Stump Our I-9 Pros With Your Compliance Questions

Speaker: Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright

Ensuring I-9 compliance has never been more important…or more confusing. If you’ve struggled to find answers to your specific I-9 and compliance questions, join WorkBright, the experts in remote I-9 onboarding, for a free webinar where a panel of industry leaders will discuss: I-9 compliance tips and best practices Pros and cons of I-9 Alternative Procedure Exploring other options to facilitate I-9 remotely Open audience Q&A for all things I-9 compliance Bring your questions and hear from I-

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Essential Qualities to Look for When Hiring RNs

Spark Hire

When you’re in charge of hiring RNs, you’re in a critical position, as these employees are irreplaceable when it comes to a healthcare organization’s functionality. Hospitals that experience a shortage of nurses, for example, are unable to properly provide care to their patients. Additionally, current staff members become severely overworked. When you’re looking to add RNs to your team , here are some of the traits you’ll want to watch for: Work ethic.

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Veteran Initiative: Recruitment Marketing Best Practice Series

Symphony Talent

The Recruitment Marketing Best Practice Series highlights tips and real-world examples from the 13 practices researched in the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card Report Card for the 2015 Fortune 500. Why is it a best practice? Candidates with military experience have immense potential to add value to your organization. They understand discipline and hard.

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4 Ways to Reduce Your Time to Fill with Candidate Nurturing

BountyJobs

Recruiting is a reactive process for many companies. Once an opportunity opens up, recruitment professionals struggle to find the right candidate for the job as quickly as possible. However, there simply aren’t enough qualified candidates to go around. Top-tier talent is in high demand, and has more offers to choose from – including counter offers.

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Pros and Cons of the Various Drug Testing Specimens

HireRight

What is the preferred specimen (urine, saliva, hair) for use in a workplace drug testing program? Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut answer. The choice depends on a variety of factors including: federal regulations, a company’s level of risk tolerance, desired detection length, costs, and the type of testing required – (pre-employment, random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident [.].

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Spark Hire to Exhibit at TechServe Alliance Conference & Tradeshow

Spark Hire

We’re going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali. This time, for the TechServce Alliance Conference & Tradeshow! Visit Spark Hire at Booth 115 to learn how video interviewing can enhance your IT and engineering staffing efforts. We’ll be exhibiting at La Quinta Resort & Club — Waldorf Astoria, Palm Springs, CA, November 12-14, 2015.

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3 SEO Tips from the Recruiter’s Guide to Digital Marketing

Symphony Talent

Our eBook adventure with Matt Charney of Recruiting Daily has come to a close (at least for this year!) with this final installment of the Recruiter’s Guide series. In the Recruiter’s Guide to Digital Marketing, we’re reviewing the core concepts of digital marketing and how to use it to optimize the most important part of the. Continue Reading → The post 3 SEO Tips from the Recruiter’s Guide to Digital Marketing appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Three Management Lessons Learned from Coaching

iCIMS

My eldest son (age five) just started his first season of soccer. This is his first experience with organized team sports and my first experience as a father of an eventual world class athlete (OBVIOUSLY!).

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Why Am I Submitting My Employer History Again? And other Questions Annoyed Job Candidates Want Answers For

BountyJobs

There’s a lot of talk about candidate experience in the recruiting world – how candidates are treated during the application, interview, and post-interview process affects what they have to say about your company, and whether or not they land the job. The number one most annoying aspect of the application process for candidates – you’re not communicating well enough with them.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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The Five A’s of Becoming an A-List Recruiter

Recruitalicious

How does a new recruiter become an “A-list” recruiter? This thought is on the minds of many who are just beginning their recruitment careers. I have spent more than ten years as a recruiter, with the last two-plus years working specifically in the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry at Cielo. Never have I been surrounded by so many others who share the same passion and drive for recruiting.

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How Transparent is Your Recruitment Marketing? [WEBINAR]

Symphony Talent

Today’s hiring economy is highly complex and competitive ― and finding top talent is harder than ever. Unemployment is at a seven-year low, and it’s taking increasingly longer to hire. In fact, attracting candidates and retaining current employees is a lot like attracting and retaining customers. Consumers can take up to 12 touch points with. Continue Reading → The post How Transparent is Your Recruitment Marketing?

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Three Management Lessons Learned from Coaching

iCIMS

My eldest son (age five) just started his first season of soccer. This is his first experience with organized team sports and my first experience as a father of an eventual world class athlete (OBVIOUSLY!).

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