Sat.Oct 13, 2018 - Fri.Oct 19, 2018

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7 Secrets of Companies Who Are Unexpectedly Winning the Talent Fight

Proactive Talent

There are plenty of “obvious” candidates for companies who are doing amazing things to attract, hire and retain great talent within their business. They show up on the pages of HBR, Fast Company and Forbes, either filling our news feeds or staring at us from magazine covers on airport newsstands. But what about “the rest of us”? If you aren’t a part of those obvious companies, are you relegated to always being a “runner up” in the race for quality talent?

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How to Stress Test Your 2019 Hiring Plan

Lever

You’ve got your company’s hiring plans for 2019. Now you have to plan out your talent acquisition staff headcount to meet those goals. It can feel like looking into a crystal ball with only your best guess coming back to you. You could be at least a little bit worried about meeting your targets—after all, it’s your performance goals on the line, not just your company’s.

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Candidates are Calling the Shots

The Whiteboard

The tide has been turning for some time, and now more than ever it feels like a candidate’s market out there. In recent weeks I’ve seen bidding wars kick off over decidedly average candidates, egos growing disproportionately alongside; contractors who might have been scrambling for gigs six months ago now screening calls, too bombarded with need, and Average Joe reaching out for a tentative chat and finding numerous options that tick the boxes for ‘dream role’.

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10 Instagram-Worthy Employee Experience Ideas

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Instagram is a great channel to use to provide candidates with an inside look into your organization and motivate them to join your team. One of the most effective types of content that my team at WeddingWire leverages on Instagram is employee generated content. What is employee generated content, you might be wondering? Employee generated content, also called EGC, refers to social media content that is created and shared by employees.

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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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How Tech is Changing the Way We Manage Performance

ClearCompany Recruiting

Performance reviews have long been an integral part of performance management, but the time for change has come. New guidelines have been introduced to turn outdated methods into an effective performance management plan. Performance Management technology has revolutionized the way reviews are handled, feedback is given and employees are engaged. So, where has HR tech impacted performance management?

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3 Ways Millennials Have Changed Candidate Engagement Strategy

JazzHR

When the oldest millennials entered the workforce at the turn of the century, they found an environment dominated by baby boomers and Gen Xer’s. In the succeeding two decades, millennials have made a significant impact on American work culture. Today, candidate engagement strategies need to address millennial job hunting habits, or companies risk missing out on talented professionals.

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How New Home Star Builds Remarkable Candidate Persona Campaigns

Rally Recruitment Marketing

At New Home Star, we’re always on the look-out for the very best sales people to join our rapidly growing team. To help with our mission of attracting the best talent from across the U.S., we set out to define the personas of the types of people who were most likely to excel in our open roles. After defining our candidate personas, we also set up some specific Recruitment Marketing campaigns intended to attract this group.

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Behavioral Based Interview Questions

Lever

When it comes to interviewing, there are several different strategies and interview question types that can gauge candidate readiness and fit (examples of cultural fit interview questions ).

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Why Most Recruiting Fails

Katrina Kibben

If the recruitment marketing plan doesn't feel right, don't do it. This post is about that lesson and the most important criteria for doing what works.

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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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Holiday Hiring Trends Every Employer Needs to Know

JazzHR

Winter is coming, and the influx of shoppers is coming with it. In a strong job market where the number of seasonal positions heavily outweighs the number of available, quality workers, a more tactical hiring approach will need to be taken. Flexibility is crucial. Timing is paramount. Click the image below to see our latest infographic around the holiday hiring trends you need to know: The post Holiday Hiring Trends Every Employer Needs to Know appeared first on JazzHR Notes.

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How New Home Star Builds Unique Candidate Persona Campaigns

Rally Recruitment Marketing

At New Home Star, we’re always on the look-out for the very best sales people to join our rapidly growing team. To help with our mission of attracting the best talent from across the U.S., we set out to define the personas of the types of people who were most likely to excel in our open roles. After defining our candidate personas, we also set up some specific Recruitment Marketing campaigns intended to attract this group.

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Building a Best Place to Work Starts with Inclusion

Lever

We’re beyond excited that we have been recognized as a Best Place to Work for All by Fortune. Coming off our #1 spot for the best place to work in the Bay area earlier this year, we’ve been talking about what being a great place to work means to us. Building a great company and culture isn’t trivial work, it’s something we take incredibly seriously.

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The Inmail Subject Lines That WORK

Social Talent

The art of the email subject line has been one of the biggest challenges of marketing teams the world over since, well, email. We know that good recruiters also display the traits of good marketers, so what can they learn about subject lines to increase their response rate from candidates? The good news for recruiters is that the average response rate to a LinkedIn email is 3 times higher than that of a traditional email.

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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 20 Hottest Companies for Job Seekers in 2018

Indeed

With the unemployment rate hitting record lows, the battle for talent is on. Big or small, every company has to fight to win the attention of today’s savvy job seeker. Of course, everybody is different and has a unique set of priorities, so there is no single way to attract talent. That said, there are some things that many people find attractive — for instance, the opportunity to perform meaningful or innovative work, high wages, flexible conditions and the potential for career growth opportuni

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Don’t blame AI for gender bias – blame the data

Workable

In early October, Reuters reported that Amazon – which emphasizes automation as a major part of its brand – had scrapped its experimental automated recruiting tool. The reason: its resume-analyzing AI discriminated against women by penalizing their resumes. This reported malfunction doesn’t mean that the system was a sexist failure, nor does it say anything about the merits of machine learning or AI in recruitment.

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6 ‘Positive’ Phrases that Lose You Business in Recruitment

FireFish Software

In my ten years of working as an agency recruiter I made a LOT of calls, and over time I learned (the hard way) that there are some phrases that will almost always lose you business, no matter how convincingly you say them. Now that I’m in an internal role, I hear agency recruiters use these same phrases on an almost daily basis – and it instantly puts me off working with them!

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Get Real! Are Your Recruitment Expectations Totally Unrealistic?

Social Talent

Unrealistic Expectations. The war for talent & skills has intensified over the past few years and it doesn’t look like it’s about to slow down anytime soon. Attracting and retaining top talent is a priority for most companies. However, many companies in today’s age struggle with their identity and try to portray themselves as something they’re not.

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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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Saving Money on Recruitment Tools

NPA Worldwide

I’m doing some planning for 2019 and received sticker shock when I saw a quote for services I’m going to need next year. It’s forcing me to completely rethink the way I purchase and use this particular service, as the cost is about 50% more for next year. (And last year the price went up about that same percentage from the previous year.

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Why You Should Make Room for Uncomfortable Conversations in the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

Are you passionate about starting a conversation in your workplace about diversity and inclusion (D&I), but you’re not quite sure where to.

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How Employee Referrals Impact Retention

iCIMS

EmployeeReferrals.com has mined data from our long-term client companies to calculate the median employment duration for referral hires and non-referral hires. Our study encompasses over 50 companies and 91,000 employees.

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€2M seed secured for video-based recruitment startup

Social Talent

Job UFO, a Berlin-based start-up focusing on video recruitment has secured a €2M seed for their business. The app helps to facilitate job applications through video, and focuses on the individual personality of the candidate. The app includes personalised CVs and the ability to upload a personal application video. The service has the capability of integration into online platforms, so that it can be embedded into company career pages.

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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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5 Warning Signs a Job Candidate is Wasting Your Time

Spark Hire

The recruiting and hiring process takes a significant amount of time and money. The last thing you want is to give tire kickers much face time. The challenge is this: how do you know if a candidate is serious or not? Be on the lookout for these five warning signs a job candidate is wasting your time. They Don’t Follow Through on Communication or Are Sloppy About It.

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Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! Read More.

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ConveyIQ Closes $5.5 Million Financing to Fuel Rapid Growth of Talent Communications, Industry Veteran Larry Murff Joins as COO

ConveyIQ

ConveyIQ, the leading provider of enterprise Talent Communication and recruiting automation software, today announced it has closed $5.5 million in funding led by SC Ventures, with participation from existing investors 3TS Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and other current investors. The funding will help drive ConveyIQ’s leadership position and rapid adoption by fueling sales & marketing, new product expansion and the partner ecosystem.

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The Secret to Avoiding LinkedIn FOMO

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise we kept it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How to mine LinkedIn’s data so you’re not missing out on key results.

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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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Hiring Seasonal Employees – When, Why, and How

Newton Software

Seasonal hiring is one of the most cost-effective solutions to solving the common problem of a predictable influx of customers that puts stress on a company’s workforce. And this dilemma exists in practically every industry: from hospitals to manufacture to construction—all companies at one point or another will need to consider if hiring seasonal employees is right for them.

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9 Recruiting Hacks to Accelerate Your Hiring in 2019

TalentLyft

If you want to accelerate your hiring in 2019 , here are 9 great recruiting hacks ! Implementing these recruiting hacks will improve your hiring process with little to no effort at all. Implement these recruiting hacks to stay ahead of the competition and attract the best candidates in 2019! Read More.

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8 Advertising Strategies Every Business Owner Should Use To Hire New Employees

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michelle Deery Michelle is a content writer for Heroic Search. Her opinions are her own. Hiring new employees is one of the most challenging parts of running a business. Every new hire can have a huge impact of a business’s culture and performance, so the stakes are high. After […].