Sat.Jan 14, 2017 - Fri.Jan 20, 2017

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Inbound Recruitment: What You Need to Know

ClearCompany Recruiting

Social recruiting. Candidate experience. Employer branding. There’s no doubt recruiting has seen a ton of changes and new ideas over the last decade. We know how important it is to build relationships with talent , especially passive candidates who have skills and rapport. Unfortunately, the wrong approach can be just as detrimental to engaging applicants as the more traditional elements like salary and job offer process.

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The real secret to building a personal online brand

Greg Savage

The modern recruiter knows that ‘brand’ is key. And the smart modern recruiter knows how to amplify that brand via ‘personal digital marketing’ This blog will get far less readers than my normal fare because anything to do with ‘social’ and ‘digital’ turns many dinosaur recruiters off, quick-smart. But please, be wiser than that, because […].

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Why It's Time to Banish the Term 'ATS'

Lever

We live in a world of mislabeled things. How often do you actually put a suit in a suitcase? “Computer” originally meant ‘calculating machine’ - but think about how much more you do on a computer than simply calculate. And in 2017, there aren’t many DJs left spinning actual discs.

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5 Steps to Writing Good Employer Brand Content

Proactive Talent

Employer brand content goes above a traditional op-ed piece on the latest in entertainment, politics, or gossip. The content published on employer sites represents not only your company but your employee's experience, workplace culture, and gives you the ability to humanize your brand through great storytelling. Below are some tips for writing good employer brand content that will center around just that.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Before You Write Job Descriptions, Answer these Seven Questions

ClearCompany Recruiting

The best recruiters treat job seekers like their customers. Job descriptions are often the only advertising space you get for your position. Write a requisition that is too long, full of irrelevant information, or uninteresting and your potential candidates will move on. This is especially true of the best talent; they know they can be choosy.

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5 Stats That Prove Why a Strong Employer Brand is Critical

Lever

Some of the hardest business cases to make are the ones where it’s hard to tie the thing you’re going to bat for – like building a strong employer brand – directly back to results.

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Talent Acquisition In The New Year: Are You Ready?

Spark Hire

We just started 2017, but it’s clear we need to prepare for a lot of changes coming this year. This is especially true in talent acquisition. According to ManpowerGroup , 40 percent of companies worldwide had trouble filling jobs last year. In order to make this year better, you can expect there to be a lot of new trends impacting how we hire employees this year.

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Social Media Recruiting Tools: 6 Networking Sites You Need to Use

iCIMS

We outline the top six social networking sites that recruiters should be using to find top talent.

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Mid-January Office Feels That Everyone In An Office Will Understand

Social Talent

*deep breath*. There’s no turning back now. 2016 is well and truly gone. 2017 took off without a hitch, we’re now cruising and everything seems pretty ok-ish. Working in an office has many advantages most of all that it provides a sense of togetherness, a trench warfare type style of motivation. We’ve taken so time to dissect those limbo-like feelings that everyone seems to go through around this time of year.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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7 Product Updates to Kick Off 2017

Lever

Another year, another Polish Party. A beloved Lever tradition, Polish Party is the annual block of time our Product and Engineering teams devote to deploying a series of small but significant improvements that delight our users. Throughout the year, our customer-facing teams compile feedback and develop a list of recommended updates to make our system run smoother.

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The Free Resource for Recruiting Top Talent

Entrepreneur

This inbound recruiting technique helps build a remarkable candidate experience by ensuring strong alignment between the candidate's values and your company values.

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How To Create A More Dynamic Interview Process

Spark Hire

Though interviewing can be time-consuming for a hiring manager, its importance should never be underestimated. When your interview process is in peak condition, it enables you to get a 360-degree view of a candidate in a way that a resume simply doesn’t illustrate. From there, you’re better able to make a hiring decision that serves your company well in both the short- and long-term.

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How EY Got Their Graduate Recruitment Programme So Right

Social Talent

Have you started thinking about your graduate recruitment campaign for 2018 yet? Yes, we know May is still another 5 months away, but the best students are already one step ahead of the game when it comes to deciding what companies they want to apply to when they finish college. But before you dust off last year’s campaign, STOP! If you want to attract the cream of the crop of graduates for your organisation, you need to think outside the box.

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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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Calm Before The Storm

The Whiteboard

2016 was mental. Do you remember? Or is it all a distant memory already? Mentally busy, that is, for many of us in recruitment. I know it was mental in many other celebrity-deaths, global-politics, underdog-sporting-heroes kind of ways but I’m here to talk about recruitment. Many agencies posted strong results, all the while made to work harder than ever for every piece of work alongside increasingly stretched but sophisticated internal recruitment functions.

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How to Write Job Adverts that Candidates Love

FireFish Software

The clue is in the name: job advertisements. When it comes to promoting a client’s vacancy, the key is advertising it. This might seem self-explanatory, but time after time, job adverts are written with the sole purpose of communicating what the client wants from a new hire. Simply put, they’re job descriptions, more fit for internal use, than candidate directed marketing.

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How Social Media Can Become Your Recruiting Weapon

RecruitLoop

Apparently 50% of employers who use social media recruiting strategies find an issue on a profile that influences them to reject a candidate. Where would you fit on the spectrum?

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Just-in-Time Hiring is Dead

Symphony Talent

Sorry to be a downer, but just-in-time hiring is dead. Correction: it’s a talent acquisition strategy still alive and well in many organizations, but job-led, transactional hiring is. The post Just-in-Time Hiring is Dead appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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What Benefits Are Companies Offering Developers?

Stack Overflow

I just started my new job here at Stack Overflow, and like most of us, one thing I think about when considering a career move is what kind of benefits a company offers. Firms looking to hire developers can create a company page here at Stack Overflow. This means that we here on the Data Team can explore what types of benefits companies offer developers and how those benefits change across companies of different sizes or in different locations.

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Must-Have Applicant Tracking System Features for Effective Recruiting and Hiring

Newton Software

The Applicant Tracking System Features That You Can’t Do Without These days, choosing an applicant tracking system (ATS) can be confusing. Most platforms for internal hiring do roughly the same thing and with over 200 ATSs available on the market, it’s easy to get lost in feature matrixes. Although every ATS has their share of […]. The post Must-Have Applicant Tracking System Features for Effective Recruiting and Hiring appeared first on Newton Software.

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Differences Between Productive and Busy People

TalentLyft

We read this post and simply loved it! Originally it was shared on LinkedIn by Conor Neill and we had to share it here. Being productive today is really defined differently than it used to be. Today's technology is moving so fast and people tend to look busy more than they really are, but productivity is all that matters. Here's the difference between productive and busy people.

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New Research: Fortune 500 Make Strides in Recruitment Marketing

Symphony Talent

If you think recruiting is hard as hell, welcome to 2017. U.S. employers are entering 2017 facing a fiercely competitive job market in which skilled talent is in. The post New Research: Fortune 500 Make Strides in Recruitment Marketing appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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Why it’s Essential to Assess Software Skills During the Hiring Process

RecruitLoop

At what point during the recruitment process should you conduct a skills assessment of a potential new hire? Here are some great suggestions.

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How to Correct an Employee Who is Also Your Friend

Glassdoor for Employers

You spend a lot of time with your employees. It’s inevitable that friendships will bloom over the years. This makes things all.

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5 Ways to Beat Blue Monday

FireFish Software

Today is the most depressing day of the year. Great start for a blog post, eh? Well, it’s not all doom and gloom. Yes, the festive period is done. Sad, forgotten Christmas trees are discarded to fester in the January rain. It’s cold. It’s miserable. Yet, for recruiters, this dark January cloud has a silver lining. So, chin up, read on, and discover 5 ways to beat Blue Monday….

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Best Talent Acquisition Articles 1.20.2017

Symphony Talent

Friday is here – and so is this roundup of the best talent acquisition articles we read this week. If you’re looking for industry trends, recruiting tips and. The post Best Talent Acquisition Articles 1.20.2017 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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9 Ways To Improve Your Candidate’s Apply Experience

SmartRecruiters

This is a guest post from our Marketplace Partner LinkUp. As the job market continues to favor the applicant with a low unemployment rate of 4.7%, employers need to be strategic in making a positive lasting impression. To attract top talent in a competitive talent economy, it’s more important than ever to offer a delightful candidate experience. What companies are starting to realize is that a clunky application experience, confusing interview processes, lackluster communication, and no rejectio

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Recruiting Secrets from Some of the World’s Best Employers

Undercover Recruiter

The job search agency Glassdoor has just announced its ninth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, celebrating the Best Places to Work in 2017 across North America and parts of Europe. They choose their winners by putting together anonymous employee reviews which have been shared with them over the last 12 months. Users were asked how they. View Article.

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The 5 Most Unique Employer Branding Campaigns

Beamery

To compete for the best talent, some companies are pulling out all of the stops with their Employer Branding campaigns. Job seekers are judging your talent brand with the same scrutiny as customers evaluate consumer brands before making a purchase – you’re missing a trick if brand is not a big focus in 2017. When you sit down to define your brand strategy for this year and beyond, you’ll need ammunition and ideas for the meeting.