Sat.Oct 01, 2016 - Fri.Oct 07, 2016

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The people with the best people always win. Always.

Greg Savage

Technology? Yes, you got to have the best, and you have to know how to use it. But the point of difference in recruitment is still people, and in my view that will increasingly be the case. Stands to reason. Everyone who is a serious player will be able to afford the best technology. But […].

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Recruiting Ninjas: 5 Ways to Build a Niche Network

ExactHire Recruiting

Sales and recruiting have a lot in common and I think just about any recruiter out there would agree with that. Given this similarity in function, you can imagine the path to success for both is likely similar. All good salespeople and recruiters know that networking is the key to any long term success. Successful networking involves repetitive and constant effort.

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A Lesson on Workplace Motivation (Infographic)

Social Talent

Is employee engagement at the forefront of your mind when you’re recruiting for a role? If not, it really should be. Reports show that only 31.5% of U.S workers are actually engaged in their jobs, costing companies up to $550 billion every year due to lost productivity. So it’s all well and good for recruiters to place a candidate in a role, but if they aren’t actually motivated enough to fulfill their duties in that role, it’s not just a big ol’ waste of time, but

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The Secret Ingredients You Need To Improve Talent Acquisition

Spark Hire

Those in charge of hiring can typically rattle off a solid list of traits that attract a job seeker to an open position within their business. Factors like salary and health benefits will always matter when it comes to recruiting efforts, regardless of the age of the person you’re talking with or the type of position that’s available. However, there is a range of other components that professionals are seeking out as they look for their next career opportunity.

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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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Being a Small Business Can Be a Big Recruiting Advamtage

Entrepreneur

Small companies can offer prospective employees important advantages they won't find at a larger organization.

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How to: Use Strengths-Based Recruitment to Improve Your Placements

Social Talent

Source: www.adp.com. It’s happened to everyone: A candidate looks great on paper. She has all the right education and experience. She’s articulate, has great references, and appears to be the “whole package.” Yet when she takes the new job, it’s a disaster. Her performance is subpar, and she never quite takes to her new role, and she’s looking for a new position within a few months.

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The Top Issues In Healthcare Recruiting Are.

Hoops

Filling positions in the healthcare industry is growing more and more difficult each day. No one is more acutely aware of this than hiring managers in the space, who find themselves struggling to attract and retain quality personnel. So what are the top issues in healthcare recruiting? Here are two. Competition for scarce talent is a huge problem in the industry.

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When Are Candidates Most Likely to Apply for Jobs?

FireFish Software

Simply placing an advert on your website and marketing it out via social media is not enough. Especially if you want to attract the very best applicants. Recruiters need to understand their audience and they need to know what the peak times are for publishing a job advert. Fortunately, we’ve done that research for you. We've analysed data from over 150 recruitment agencies and we’ve determined the times that candidates are most likely to apply for jobs.

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Why You Should Provide Your Salary History to Employers and Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

It has recently become a very popular point of contention for job seekers to refuse to offer salary history to prospective employers and the recruiters they use to source talent. While in some instances this may make very good sense, particularly if someone was significantly underemployed or underpaid, in most cases it is creating an unnecessary hurdle that may cause a candidate to be excluded from consideration for a job they really want.

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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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When You Should Email Candidates (And How To Schedule Them In Advance)

Social Talent

When do you usually send emails to your candidates – as soon as you get to your desk in the morning, right before you leave the office in the evening, or just at random times throughout the work day? You may think that the time at which you send emails to doesn’t matter. So long as it’s delivered and sits in the candidate’s inbox, they’re bound to see it, so what difference does the time that it’s sent make?

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Don't Do Anything On This List If You Really Want The Job

Hoops

There is plenty of info on the web about how to ace a job interview. But knowing how you could potentially blow it is just as important - it only takes a second to lose the rapport you’ve built with a hiring manager. Here are a few mistakes to avoid at all costs: With stiff competition and a lot on the line, many job seekers are tempted to “massage the truth” on their resume or when talking about past jobs.

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5 Simple Ways to Stay Focused at Work

FireFish Software

We’ve all been there, it’s 60 minutes before an important client meeting, you are reviewing your notes before you head out and your phone buzzes. There’s no harm in having a sneaky peak at it, is there?

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The Only Recruiting Metrics That Actually Matter

Beamery

Without analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway – Geoffrey Moore, Author of Crossing the Chasm. As a workforce, we talk a lot about being “data-driven” We discuss “ KPIs “, wax lyrical about “ OKRs ” – but does any of it actually make a difference? Are we actually getting closer to the important recruiting metrics?

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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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5 Traits of a Superstar Tech Recruiter

Social Talent

If you’re a tech recruiter, you’ll know all too well that it isn’t always a walk in the park. You really need to have your wits about you if you want to attract top-notch talent when you’re in such a competitive and candidate-driven market. We’ve always said that the hiring game is much like a courtship and that is without a doubt the case when it comes to tech recruiting.

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What makes a good client?

NPA Worldwide

It takes a lot of time and filled job orders for a recruiter to develop a good relationship with a client – as a recruiter, you must produce results, build trust and be dependable for your clients. But a relationship is a two-way street and it takes more than an employer saying “just find me this candidate” and paying you a fee to cultivate a successful business partnership.

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7 Tips to Improve Recruitment

Entrepreneur

Here's something you might not know: Fridays are a great time to post a help wanted ad.

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Pareto’s Principle: A Simple Rule for Recruiting Efficiency

Beamery

Vilfredo Pareto would be pretty surprised to learn how many top executives rely on the basic principle that he came up with when analysing the pea pods in his garden. Pareto observed that approximately 80% of the land in 19th century Italy was owned by 20% of the population – while working on this theory, he found that it didn’t just apply to wealth distribution, there were correlations across almost every field.

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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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5 Canada Recruitment Trends That You Need To Know

Social Talent

When compared to many of its global counterparts, Canada’s recovery and employment record has been pretty strong since the Great Recession. Despite not fully recovering to pre-recession levels, Canada is on the right path with the 6.9% unemployment rate expected to decrease slowly in 2017 and analysts projecting growth until 2020! This means it’s going to get tougher for Canadian recruiters to attract top talent over the coming months and years.

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The Spectrum of Untapped Tech Talent and the Myth of Diversity Hiring

Yoh

With a growing tech candidate gap of up to five open positions for every developer , and the need to innovate and bring new perspectives and ideas to keep a competitive edge, diversity hiring has become a hot topic for most. Diversity hiring is crucial for staying ahead of the curve, and for filling the tech gap. So what gives? Where’s the real gap?

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7 Things to Consider Before Engaging a Recruiter

RecruitLoop

You wouldn't hire a lawyer without asking them a few questions, would you? Well there’s a lot to uncover before engaging a recruiter too. And rest assured finding out up front will save you a lot of angst in the long run.

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15 CV Mistakes Costing You Interviews

Undercover Recruiter

Your CV is an important part of your armoury when looking for a job. It has to look good and be as close as possible to the job description to get you through to the next stage. As one of the first documents that someone will ask for to represent your capabilities, your CV should. View Article. 15 CV Mistakes Costing You Interviews. Undercover Recruiter - Career & Recruitment 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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Recruiter Efficiency: Are You Keeping Up?

ConveyIQ

To dig into how today’s hiring funnel actually works and what real recruiting processes look like, we’ve asked recruiters (anonymously) to provide candid feedback on what their current relationship with hiring managers looks like. It seems like most recruiters and employers still have a ways to go to improve their relationship. Check out these recent recruiter quotes: […].

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Build a Winning Business Case for MSP Solutions

Yoh

The use of contingent labor, like temporary employees, contractors, and freelance talent, is expected to encompass almost fifty percent of the workforce population by 2020. Leaving many organizations to wonder: “What is the best way to start a business case to effectively manage the hiring processes and costs of this multifaceted workforce population?”.

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5 Things You Should Consider When Hiring a Marketing Expert

RecruitLoop

Here's a list of what you should consider when hiring a marketing expert to design a strategy that will make your products and services more alluring to prospective customers.

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Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Mike Hennessy, SmashFly

Symphony Talent

In light of the recent Olympic games, the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference, SmashFly Transform™, and our love of recruitment marketing pioneers everywhere, our Recruitment Marketing Champion Series will. The post Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Mike Hennessy, SmashFly appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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Are Happier Employees More Productive?

CareerBuilder

Google is known for offering employees perks that will make them happier, such as great food and play rooms. This strategy is based on the belief that happier people are more productive. Is it worth investing in your employees’ happiness? And, as a recruiter, should you prefer happier candidates? A recent study by Oswald, Proto and Sgroi published in the leading journal in labor economics in 2015 offers some answers based on a series of clever experiments: 1.

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Hangry vs. Happy Worker: How Food Influences Mood

Undercover Recruiter

The clock change is imminent, we can’t remember summer and the lure of the duvet feels stronger than ever, leaving us with no choice but to search ‘mood boosters’ on Google! Mood is a tricky commodity. A low mood is influenced by so much; often fickle by nature it can come and go or creep. View Article. Hangry vs. Happy Worker: How Food Influences Mood.

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October Expert Sessions – The Latest in Newton’s ATS

Newton Software

Become an ATS expert – Join our October sessions Use the links to register below. Please note: Expert Sessions are for Newton customers only. Wednesday, October 5: EEO Overview Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection for every applicant, minimum requirements for every job. As a hiring professional, you have a lot […].