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Why Observable Behavior Alone is Not Enough: A Study on Predictive Behavior in Hiring

Recruiting Daily Advisor

DISC is one of the most valid and reliable instruments of its kind, originating back to Dr. Marston’s work in 1928. It is estimated that over 30 million DISC assessments are used or sold yearly across the globe. However, it is not enough to only understand or apply DISC theory for critical hiring, training, conflict resolution, and other significant business needs.

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Mapping the Candidate Journey to Improve Recruiting Results

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SMS Recruiting Dos and Don't Straight from the Pros - Breezy HR

Breezy HR

SMS text messaging is the hot new thing in recruitment, and with some powerful numbers to back it up, we don't expect it to go away any time soon.

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Engage Talent at Events by Creating a Consistent Candidate Experience

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Nearly every aspect of life is now online. Booking doctor’s appointments, consuming news, dating – even grocery shopping and buying cars can be done via the internet. And of course, this digital transformation has made its way to the recruitment and hiring process. Candidates can now complete every step of their journey digitally. But even though job seekers are relying so heavily on the internet to find the next step in their careers, there is still one offline element of the candidate ex

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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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Thinking Outside the Box to Source a Diverse Candidate Pipeline

Lever

In a recent webinar titled Inclusion in Action: How to Source Diverse Talent , our speakers shared their best strategies and tips to build a more diverse candidate pipeline. They reviewed some tried-and-true platforms tactics, like using LinkedIn’s People Also Viewed section and recruiting from underrepresented communities on GitHub. But they also shared some phenomenal out-of-the-box ideas to source a diverse candidate pipeline.

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Baby-Making & Work

The Whiteboard

I turned 31 in March, which seems to be the precise age people’s vernacular shifts from, “Are you going to have kids? Oh, you should!” to “Are you pregnant yet? Start trying. NOW. You don’t want to leave it too late!” Gentle rebuttals that I’m happy child-free and not entirely sure I ever want kids, certainly not right now, are met with fervoured adamance that my feelings don’t matter.

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How to Attract & Retain Entrepreneurial Job Seekers

Glassdoor for Employers

There are many people, especially in this gig economy, whose mindset is that of a self-employed contractor—even those whose salary emanates from a corporation. If courted to, these entrepreneurial personalities become valuable assets to a company’s full-time staffing strategy. In the following article, we explore the entrepreneurial job seekers’ mindset and bottom line value, along with strategies for attraction and retention.

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8 Tips For Improving Email Communication With Your Employees

RecruitLoop

Sending too many internal emails or not paying enough attention to what you’re saying can turn employees off and disengage them. There are better ways to ensure that your emails actually accomplish what you want them to do. Check out this guest post from Susan Guillory.

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How to Hire in a Tight Labor Market

Indeed

It seems that almost every week there’s another article in the news about how tight the labor market is. With so many opportunities for job seekers, recruiting and hiring pose new challenges for employers. How is it possible to attract great candidates when the labor market is so tight? Before getting to specific strategies, let’s take a closer look at the current context and what it reveals about the future.

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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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Podcast: Learn About the Challenges of Getting Your Business Off the Ground

AkkenCloud

AkkenCloud CEO, Giridhar Akkineni shares his entrepreneurial journey with Josh Patrick on the Sustainable Business Podcast. He talks about what it takes to get a business off the ground. You’ll learn about some of his challenges and ones Josh has had as well. This is a real hands-on session and one you’ll want to watch! You can find the episode right here via YouTube.

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Sleep: The Trendy Benefit Recruiters Need

SmartRecruiters

With employee burnout on the rise and recruiters reporting more work with fewer gains, maybe everyone just needs a good night’s sleep. Back-to-back networking events, four interviews, and a pile of resumes to review before leaving the office. Sound familiar? With a constantly evolving demand for their efforts, recruiters often face an exhausting workload.

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How to Save Money and Offer Employees Better Coverage with Self-Insurance

TalentCulture - Recruiting

When faced with the annual challenge of ever-increasing health insurance premiums, many employers succumb to what they feel is their only option: raising already-high employee deductibles to offset costs. Employers can’t keep doing this, especially in light of a survey by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants that says 80% of workers would choose a lesser-paying job with good benefits over the same job with no benefits but 30% more salary.

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Forget Cultural Fit and Look for Cultural Impact

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

While hiring for culture fit is go-to move, it tends to stifle diversity because it can perpetuate unconscious bias. Instead, use these four hiring practices to focus on determining how workers will impact the culture.

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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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Is Your Recruitment Process Millennial Friendly?

Vervoe

Employees are your most valuable asset, and if you want your business to thrive, you need to find and hire top talent. However, despite the different channels that you can use to identify and get in touch with the right people for the job, it can’t be denied that there are various challenges that you’ll have to overcome during the process. Given that millennials are currently the largest generation in the labor force, it’s clear that you need to adjust your recruitment process to appeal to them.

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Top 10 Interview Questions for Managers [CHECKLIST]

TalentLyft

Looking for the best interview questions for managers ? Check out this handy checklist of the top 10 manager interview questions. Asking these questions will help you identify candidates with the skills and traits necessary to excel in managerial positions. Read More.

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Social Media Statuses That Will Always Engage Candidates

FireFish Software

Keeping candidates engaged on social media is never an easy task, but you’d be surprised how far a well-written status that follows the right formula can take your posts. Follow these guidelines to make sure every status you post scores you brownie points and gets eyes on your roles (and away from your competitors’!).

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Is the Internet Actually Making It Harder to Reach Younger Job Seekers?

Recruiter

We live in the age of unobstructed connectivity. Thanks to the internet, everyone you could ever hope to reach is just a tweet, chat, or email away. Which, paradoxically enough, might actually be bad news for recruiting firms hoping to connect with younger job seekers.

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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 Hire an Administrative Assistant

Vervoe

We’ve covered how to hire call center reps – and in this next installment, we’re offering some tips for hiring great administrative assistants. A good administrative assistant can be hard to find. This position requires a unique combination of soft skills and technical talent, depending on the company and role. Over the past decade, their role has evolved to include a diverse set of skills far beyond answering phones and scheduling appointments.

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Quality over Quantity: Make Sure Your Emails Get Read

Crelate

There’s no denying the importance emails serve in the workplace. Everyone uses email. The effectiveness and ease at which information is shared and stored is a godsend for communication all over the world. The downside? The fact that everyone uses email, we get too many messages every day! Through the myriad of email messages people receive throughout the day, it becomes easy to gloss over an email without reading it thoroughly.

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Hiring a Recruitment Marketer: How to Get it Right

FireFish Software

In our competative candidate-led market, it’s those recruitment agencies who take their marketing seriously that will lead the way forward and show the rest of the industry how it’s done. And although we’ve come a long way in accepting that recruitment is marketing just as much as it is sales, we still seem to be making mistakes when hiring our Recruitment Marketers, and continue to massively underestimate the impact this hire can make to business!

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3 Reasons Your Job Listing Isn’t Attracting Top Talent (and How to Fix It)

RecruitLoop

Job listings play an important role in the hiring process, but often they can unintentionally be causing your business more harm than good. In this post, our guest author Addison Burke shares three reasons why your ad may seem undesirable to potential candidates and proposes strategies to make your company appear more attractive!

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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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When the Talent Market Is Tight, Don't Settle for B Players — Hire A Potentials Instead

Recruiter

The market for the best talent in 2019 is brutal! The overwhelming majority of top performers — "A players," as they are known — are extremely satisfied at their current firms. Business is good, and A players are doing purposeful work that makes them feel fulfilled both culturally and monetarily. That is all great news for them and their current employers, but not so much for companies and recruiters looking to add talent.

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How to Convince Your Hiring Manager to Star in Your Next Video Job Ad

VideoMyJob

It’s no surprise that job seekers want to hear from the people they will be working with, and reporting to, when considering an opportunity. Does it surprise you that your company’s mission and values, and a long list of responsibilities and requirements (written in the third person) is not the kind of compelling content that makes a candidate click ‘apply now’?

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Considering Hiring Work At Home Employees: What are The Benefits

RecruitmentJuice

Today’s employee seeks diversity. No longer are they the Nine to Fivers of yesterday. Life is fast-paced. There’s the get things done now, get it done quickly and move on to the next problem mentality. Job seekers today are more educated, sophisticated, and demanding. Employers must move forward with new means and methods. Benefits must […].

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The Importance of Company Culture

RecruitLoop

What makes a company truly successful is its culture. A company’s culture is the heartbeat of the team, and it is what separates a truly successful company from one that’s only semi-successful. A strong company culture translates into a community of workers with the same goals in mind.

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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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The 6 Pillars of a Recruiter's Personal Brand

Recruiter

For a recruiter in today's historically tight talent market, your personal brand carries extraordinary weight. When a candidate googles you, what do they see? When a prospective client is comparing recruiters who can handles their tough-to-fill roles, what information are they finding about you? All of that constitutes your personal brand, and it can make or break you as a recruiter.

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5 Technology Tips Every Employer Should Use to Hunt Top Talent

Undercover Recruiter

Competition for talent is fierce. Despite some global economic uncertainty, such as Brexit casting a shadow over the UK and Europe, employers haven’t slowed down with growth and hiring plans. Ambitious professionals are changing jobs and careers at a steady pace. Companies need every advantage in the recruitment process. With more Gen Z employees entering.

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Three Steps for Planning Your Employee Wellness Strategy

Namely - Talent

Employee wellness has evolved from a buzz-worthy trend into a real strategy for successful companies. When employees are healthy, they can reach their full potential, do more productive and creative work, build positive relationships, cope with common stressors, and make a more meaningful contribution. Stressed employees are often on their way to burnout , which leads to reduced productivity and increased absenteeism.