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The big secret. Unique candidates

Greg Savage

It is a scandal how much work recruiters do that they do not get paid for. And it’s getting worse. But there is a way to get a greater return on your efforts. Sadly, 90% of recruiters have no idea how.

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Relationship Building Tips for Recruiters

JazzHR

When you’re handed down a req to fill from one of your hiring managers, do you just copy and paste the job description and put it out to the free job boards, hoping to find a good fit? Or do you take the time to get to know: Your hiring manager’s needs. The talent pool. The best sources for that talent pool. Industry or requisition-specific trends. 61% of hiring managers say recruiters don’t have enough understanding of the reqs they are handing them.

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Meet Viv, Your Next Generation Recruiter

Social Talent

“Jane just handed in her resignation. We’re going to need a permanent replacement who can handle her workload and a temp who can start next Tuesday to cover her until the perm replacement arrives. I’d like to meet 4 people in my office next Friday after lunch. Let me know when its all confirmed”. Sound like a typical conversation between a hiring manager and her recruiter?

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What Kind of Recruitment Marketer Are You?

Recruitics

Like in marketing, each recruitment marketer has their own specific style and tool set. That’s because, although there are a number of best practices every recruitment marketer should keep up with, the ways in which this talent acquisition function is carried out at your organization truly depends on the size of your company and your business goals.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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All You Need To Know About A Terrible Employer Brand Through Memes

Spark Hire

In a lot of ways, a company’s employer brand is like a meme. Everyone likes a relatable, fun one, but one that is outdated and boring just annoys people. And if it’s something everyone has seen a million times before, they aren’t going to connect with it. There are countless things that contribute to your employer brand. Everything from the wording in your job descriptions to your social media presence affects what talent thinks about your company as a place to work.

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20 Hilarious Office Awards to Embarrass Your Colleagues

Social Talent

Download each of the following printable award certificates and have fun determining which of your coworkers you want to award or poke a little fun at! Oh, and don’t forget to tweet, pin, post and otherwise share. Happy Friday Recruiters! Download The “Eternally Late” Award. Download The “How Was Your Weekend” Award. Download The “Personal Space Ignorer” Award.

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How to Become an Authority Within Your Niche

FireFish Software

Becoming influential in the recruitment industry is difficult. Fortunately, I’ve got some tips and advice from my own experience that could help. Influence is “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something…” Successful recruiters already do this well. But if you’re new to the industry or going it alone how do you build your reputation?

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How to Source and Attract Multi-Generational Talent in a Tight Labor Market

RecruitLoop

Given the war for quality talent, we have an imminent need to adopt a multi-faceted sourcing and recruitment strategy capable of attracting the best candidates from every generation.

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Forget About Hiring Slow, Hire Right!

Hoops

‘Hire slow, fire fast’ is a mantra that is repeated as gospel in the talent sourcing and recruitment community. According to a Harvard Business Review article , sticking to this principle allows companies to be highly selective about new hires to ensure cultural fit as well as job fit. Following this template, getting to the offer stage requires phone screens, multiple interviews, and shadowing team members.

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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 to Prepare for an Interview in Less Than 30 Minutes (Infographic)

Social Talent

Is there anything worse than asking a candidate all of the run-of-the-mill questions in an interview, only to discover that it’s quite clear that the person has done little to no research on the company? It probably won’t come as a surprise that this is the number one issue that employers cite when it comes to hiring. So, if you’re a job seeker, there really is no excuse for showing up to an interview unprepared!

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Here’s How Delta Air Lines Makes the Most Out of Award Wins

Glassdoor for Employers

As an employer, winning awards can feel great. It’s good for employee morale. It looks good for company executives. It’s a good.

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Coming soon to a LinkedIn log-in near you…

Good To Know

“Thank you for attempting to log in to LinkedIn. From now on, you’ll need to log in via your Office 365 account. Don’t have Office 365? Lucky you, we’re happy to help you set up an account.

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New Journalism Grads Are Abandoning the Field: Here’s What They Want to Do Instead

Indeed

The shift to an online world where information is available to everyone has revolutionized the news business. Today, anybody, anywhere with a smartphone can follow the headlines as they unfold in real time. But there’s a flipside, too: Most of this information is consumed for free, which makes funding a large-scale news entity very difficult. As a result, the news about the news business is often discouraging, especially when it comes to jobs.

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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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5 Admin Skills That a Candidate Can’t Fake

Social Talent

You’d be forgiven for thinking that getting candidates for admin roles is a piece of cake because they’re a dime a dozen. But, nope. It’s not even close to being the case! Sure, if you’re a recruiter that primarily works on temporary admin-based roles, you might find it easier to attract applicants, but (and this is a big but…) admin skills are probably the easiest ones for candidates to fake.

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7 Steps to Dealing With Performance Review Positively

FireFish Software

One bad week leads to another and suddenly you’ve not hit your targets in two months. You know things aren’t working, your manager knows it, and now you’re on performance review. Your heart sinks and you think: 'They want me gone.' Well, hold your horses. Performance review is serious, but you do have the opportunity to change things. You can turn it around.

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Glassdoor Launches Gender Pay Data Analysis Pilot Program for Employers

Glassdoor for Employers

In conjunction with the United State of Women, a summit convened by the White House covering key gender equality issues, Glassdoor has.

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Recruitment Compliance Fundamentals Covered at Newton’s June Bootcamp

Newton Software

Recap of Newton’s June Bootcamp on “The Fundamentals of Recruitment Compliance” Yesterday, we hosted our June Bootcamp where we covered topics related to recruitment compliance. Throughout the webinar, our co-founder Joel Passen offered his compliance insights from 20+ years of experience as a leader in the recruitment industry. Check out a recorded video of the webinar above!

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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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Find Candidates Using Facebook With This Brand New Tool!

Social Talent

Great news, recruiters! We’ve just made it easier for you to find candidates using Facebook. ‘Facebook, you say? But I find my candidates on LinkedIn, where they actually want to be found…not on Facebook, where they share photos of their family and stories about their nightclub antics!’ Valid point, recruiters. But let’s not lose sight of this very important fact – Facebook remains the largest social network, with 1.6 billion active users on the platform.

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8 Steps to Your Pre-Interview Social Media Clean Up

Undercover Recruiter

It’s the moment you’ve spent the past two months waiting for! Finally, following day after day of scouring job boards, sending out resumes and cover letters, and hearing nothing but radio silence in return, you get an interview. Better yet, you hear back from an employer who might just be ready to offer you your dream. View Article. 8 Steps to Your Pre-Interview Social Media Clean Up.

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4 Things to Consider Before Cutting Benefits

Glassdoor for Employers

In a candidate-driven market, benefits are vital to attract candidates as well as to retain employees long-term. According to a December 2015.

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Congrats Andela on Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative investment of $24M!

Plum.io

The Plum team is really excited to congratulate Andela on raising $24 million from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ! Andela’s commitment to training African engineers to become the world’s top developers: world-class coders, fast learners, innovators, and future leaders for Fortune 500’s and start-ups, is truly inspiring.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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3 Quick-Fire Ways To Get Recruitment Insights On LinkedIn

Social Talent

There are a number of well-documented industry trends that talent acquisition managers and recruiters still need to address if they are to successfully find, attract and ultimately recruit skilled talent. The growing mismatch between skills that companies need and the available talent, the fast-changing expectations of candidates and the huge advances in mobile and social technologies are just some of the major trends affecting the recruitment industry today, making talent acquisition a function

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Announcement: Beamery Raises New Round of Funding

Beamery

It’s been a great day at Beamery, we’re thrilled to announce our latest round of funding to the world! We’ve raised $2 million in funding from Edenred Capital Partners and Grupa Pracuj to build recruiting software that lets companies connect with hiring prospects and nurture relationships long before they apply. Why are we building Beamery?

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Women in Tech: Hireology’s Julie Rodgers

Hireology

Film has the Oscars, Theater has the Tonys, and in Chicago tech we have the Moxies. Last night were the 5th Annual Moxie Awards with hundreds of attendees representing the best of the tech industry in Chicago. There were over 7,000 nominations for awards and Hireology's own General Manager, Julie Rodgers , was named a finalist for the Woman in Tech award.

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The Candidate Outreach Experiment that Got Us an Incredible 26% Response Rate From Software Engineering Candidates in San Francisco

1-Page

We’ve just wrapped up three experiments in how we recruit for some of the most in-demand roles in San Francisco, using cutting-edge marketing techniques. Long story short: we’re never going back to how we used to source and hire. I partnered with our marketing team in an effort to get a little creative and try something new, which I’ll explain below.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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8 LinkedIn Groups Every Australian Recruiter Should Join

Social Talent

Social media groups have become bustling recruiting hubs. But where do you dive in when you’re spoilt for choice? With social media being at the front line for employee recruiting and LinkedIn leading the charge, it’s important to know your way around. LinkedIn not only offers professional snapshots of prospective applicants, it also offers massive job­seeker pools of like- minded prospects you can interact with in a group setting.

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Recruiting with Robots: Is Automation a Dirty Word?

Beamery

Recruitment automation. Whenever the two words are mentioned in the same sentence you can guarantee spilt milk and hurt feelings. It also usually triggers the familiar question: are robots going to take our jobs? According to the former CEO of McDonalds USA, Ed Rensi, it’s cheaper and more efficient to buy a robot costing $35k than hire an employee for $15/hour ( the increased minimum wage many Americans are calling for ).

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76% of Candidates Want to Know About Day-to-Day Responsibilities

CareerBuilder

Recruitment and hiring can be a complicated business, so CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior Study took a look at it in simple terms: What do candidates want to know? According to the study, the question on 76% of job seekers’ minds is “What would my day-to-day job be?” Fifty-seven percent are wondering what skill sets employers consider negotiable versus non-negotiable skills.

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