Sat.Dec 12, 2015 - Fri.Dec 18, 2015

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2015 Wrap-Up: The Biggest HR & Recruiting Stories of the Year

Leoforce

2015 has been quite a year. The U.S. Women’s National Team won hearts across America as they brought home the World Cup trophy, tween hearts everywhere were broken as Zayn Malik parted ways with the hugely popular boy band One Direction, and many hearts were finally allowed to join together as the U.S Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. The list of monumental events could go on and on.

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Farewell to a Tumultuous Year in Recruitment

The Whiteboard

There’s something of the “last day at school” vibe in the air today. Even though there are still, officially, four days of work next week, there’s a fair number of recruiters I’ve spoken to who are hanging up their sourcing gloves for the season today. As is usually the case at this time of year, there’s a mixture of muted satisfaction at another year in recruitment done, coupled with an ever-encroaching feeling of heavy-lidded exhaustion creeping into the u

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How Being a Parent Can Help You Be a Better Recruiter

Social Talent

Hello everyone, Sue here, I am new to the Marketing Team here at Social Talent after making the jump from Customer Support. I studied Cinematography and Film production in college, so seeing the production side of things here really grabbed my interest and made me beg Johnny for a new role! In short, you’ll be hearing more from me, but this is my first blog, so please… be nice.

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Tip Sheet: Hiring for Startups

Lever

Growing a team from scratch can feel like a black hole. To shed some light on the process, we spoke with successful founders and talent leaders for their advice on everything from how to grow, to interviewing tactics and mistakes to avoid.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Why Candidate Experience Will Be More Vital Than Ever in 2016

CareerBuilder

It is no surprise to anyone involved in recruiting that the focus on candidate experience has come around as an agenda item the last few years. Every time you turn around, a new article is talking about talent shortages, skill gaps, and challenging hiring issues. CareerBuilder’s research found that more than half of companies say it’s getting increasingly difficult to find quality talent.

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The Year in Job Search: How Job Seekers Reacted to Big Games, Politics & Bond, James Bond

Social Talent

As the world’s biggest job board, Indeed are in the unique position of being able to constantly monitor the ebb and flow of job search to help job seekers and employers find the best match. And with 180 million unique visitors coming to the site each month, some of the world’s biggest events are often reflected in the way people search for jobs.

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“Culture Fit” isn’t a bad word: 3 tips to hire for it

Lever

The importance of startup culture is the talk of the Valley. You can have the most impressive founders or “disruptive” idea, but it won’t amount to much without deliberately investing in an engaging culture that attracts top talent and makes them want to stay. Whether you’re a founder, an engineer, a salesperson, or any other employee in a startup, being a steward of the culture is absolutely part of your job.

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Suds, Staffing and Life: Jason Voorhees And Recruiting

HarQen

Sam read an interesting article that Jennifer Wood wrote for Esquire about the movie franchise Friday the 13th. What really stuck out to him was that before becoming a wildly successful movie franchise Friday the 13th, started out only as a movie poster. The Takeaway Before writing a script or filming anything, Sean Cunningham thought, “what would [.].

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Hiring Great Is A Team Sport

Hoops

When it comes to filling open positions, the relationship between hiring managers and HR is equal parts exhilaration and exasperation. Hiring managers want the best people available and they want them identified, screened, interviewed and hired yesterday. Meanwhile, HR is hard at work posting the position, sorting through resumes, and setting up interviews.

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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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Social Talent’s 2015 Christmas Party Extravaganza!

Social Talent

We honestly didn’t think we could top our 2014 Christmas party in Lisbon. It was warm, it was sunny, we had a beautiful dinner, we drank some amazing cocktails and we had a fabulous Air B’n’B apartment. But it turns out, with double the amount of people, Madrid’s quirkiest bar and the best nightclub we’ve ever been too, we easily topped last year’s festivities!

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LaSalle Network Recognized as a Best Place to Work

Glassdoor for Employers

Over the years, my goal has to been to retain our people at LaSalle Network because they are really good at what they do and we want them to stay. My theory is if we hire great people and retain them, we’ll grow and evolve as needed. So far, this theory has worked out to be true. We have been an Inc. 5000 company for nine years in a row, and are obviously growing.

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Suds, Staffing and Life: How do you Handle Trends?

HarQen

In 2004 Metallica released the documentary Some Kind of Monster, which followed them as they recorded their St. Anger album. The documentary captures an argument the group had about guitar solos and whether they should follow the trends and not have them, or stick to what helped make them famous. Last week on Suds, Staffing and [.]. The post Suds, Staffing and Life: How do you Handle Trends?

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Hiring Great Is A Team Sport

Hoops

When it comes to filling open positions, the relationship between hiring managers and HR is equal parts exhilaration and exasperation. Hiring managers want the best people available and they want them identified, screened, interviewed and hired yesterday. Meanwhile, HR is hard at work posting the position, sorting through resumes, and setting up interviews.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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33 Must Know Facts About Women in Tech (Infographic)

Social Talent

According to Coupofy , within the world’s 8 largest tech companies, positions for females are growing 238% faster than men. A fact which inspired them to create an infographic that takes a look at some of the most successful women in the industry and their roles as founders, leaders, and venture capitalists to discover the role that women play in the tech industry today.

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Centrify is Having Fun Stopping the Bad Guys

Glassdoor for Employers

When Centrify was notified that we were chosen by our employees to be on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in SMB this year, we could not have been happier. Centrify was founded in 2004 to address a growing problem — securing organizations against the ever increasing number of cyber threats. And to help solve that problem, we rely on our great people: people who are energetic, motivated and collaborative.

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What Top Talent Looks for in Your Company Brand

Spark Hire

Starting and growing a new business comes with many challenges. One of the big challenges for your startup as you enter the growth stage is to attract top talent. When you are competing with larger corporations for the best talent, it’s important to know what top talent is really looking for in your company brand. What does the future look like for your company?

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How Employers Can Bridge the Communication Gap With Veterans

Entrepreneur

Military service imbues people with the values employers prize but getting vets to talk about themselves is often a challenge.

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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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8 Fact-Filled Recruitment News Stories this Week – 14th December 2015

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: U.S. Workers Rely First on the Internet When Job Hunting. According to brand new research conducted by the Pew Research centre , Americans are as likely to turn to the Internet when searching for a job as to their friends and connections, and many of those who do consider the Internet more important than any other resource.

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What Makes FinancialForce a Best Place to Work?

Glassdoor for Employers

The best part about coming to work at FinancialForce.com every day is the people. Company perks. Sure, we have great snacks, Philz coffee, fun company-wide events like our offsite in Tiburon, frequent happy hours and an epic holiday party, time off for volunteering, an amazing view of San Francisco at our headquarters, a perfect location in downtown Chicago and our UK office is in Harrogate; which has been named the happiest place to live in the UK for the third year running.

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4 Reasons Your Client Isn’t Calling You Back

Spark Hire

Having a client drop off the face of the earth isn’t an unheard of situation in recruiting. However, if this is happening to you on a frequent basis, then there is something you need to change in your process when it comes to the recruiter-client relationship. When reassessing your relationship building process with your clients, consider 4 key reasons why your client may have stopped communicating with you. 1.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Sourcing Untapped Talent on AngelList

Lever

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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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Listen…Did You Hear That? Do You Have Good Listening Skills?

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Rob Mosley , Senior Director of Training & Development for Next Level Exchange. Rob comes to Next Level from MRINetwork™ Corporate in Philadelphia, PA, where he served as the Chief Learning Officer, responsible for all leadership training and sales development of 1,100 offices worldwide. We’re excited that Rob will be one of the featured speakers at our 2016 Global Conference.

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Expedia: #1 Best Place to Work in the UK

Glassdoor for Employers

We still have so much to achieve, but what an honor! It is such a fantastic accolade to have received the #1 Best Place to Work UK in 2016 award by Glassdoor. I’ve worked at Expedia for just nine months, and I can honestly say that this is the best place I’ve ever worked. The fact that this award is voted on by our own employees is a testament that we are doing something right.

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4 Candidate Questions You Need to Know in the Interview

Spark Hire

You’re getting to the end of an interview with a promising candidate, and you start to relax — the hard part is over. Now, you just need to finish up, by answering some questions from the candidate. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. In the interview, you are the representative for the company. It’s your job to accurately portray the position to the candidate, and convince them to come on board.

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80% of Baby Boomers Would Take Lower Salary for Better Experience

CareerBuilder

It’s a commonly held belief that most people become more fiscally conservative as they age – so it may be a bit surprising to learn that baby boomer job seekers are more likely to accept a lower salary in exchange for a better candidate experience than are their Gen X and Gen Y counterparts. According to CareerBuilder’s 2015 Candidate Behavior study , 80 percent of baby boomers indicated that they would compromise on salary if it meant a more enjoyable hiring experience, compared to 76 percent o

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Specialty Drug Interest Is Skyrocketing – Can Your Pharmacy Benefits Keep Up?

New approvals for weight loss drugs, gene therapies, and biosimilars are on the minds of employers. However, 48% of employers still need a strategy to manage their use and costs. Find out how other organizations are preparing their specialty drug benefits for the future.

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4 Things Talent Acquisition Doesn’t Know About Nurturing Candidates

Symphony Talent

Talent acquisition used to go like this: post a req on a job board, attract some applicants, make a hire. Now, that path probably gets you the same candidate leads—many of which you might have already disqualified. There are only so many active job seekers in the world! Unemployment is at a seven-year low, and it’s taking increasingly. Continue Reading → The post 4 Things Talent Acquisition Doesn’t Know About Nurturing Candidates appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Why Grand Rounds Aims for Best Places to Work

Glassdoor for Employers

“How do you explain the negative Glassdoor reviews?” I received this question a few years and a couple companies ago, while interviewing a data science candidate. She was a sought-after candidate in a low supply/high demand field who we very much wanted to come on board. (She didn’t.). It was the first time I’d heard of Glassdoor and it cemented my appreciation for how job seekers – not to mention customers, investors, reporters and other major stakeholders – use the tool to get an inside look a

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How Hiring Will Change in 2016

Spark Hire

Hiring trends evolve constantly, especially as HR technology changes. Those who are involved in their company’s hiring need to remain aware of these developments in order to ensure that their business remains competitive and continues to recruit the most talented employees that their industry has to offer. With 2015 coming to a close, here are some hiring trends to watch out for in the new year: Quality of hire > length of time it takes to fill the position.

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