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Recruitment is marketing. Are you ready for that?

Greg Savage

There is a new reality in recruitment, which Agency recruiters who want to thrive need to understand, and act on. Clients are not going to pay you to screen candidates that they can get from job boards or other traditional sources. In fact; Any recruitment business model that relies on candidates making proactive applications for […].

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10 Diversity Hiring Statistics That Will Make You Think

ClearCompany Recruiting

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue.

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How Non-Techies Can Find the Right Tech Talent (Infographic)

Social Talent

For anyone within the tech and IT industries, knowing the correct lingo and techno terminology is essential in getting by in your day-to-day job, so how are recruiters supposed to be able to find tech talent if they don’t know the lingo themselves? Any recruiters out there who don’t know their java software from their java coffee beans will need to check out the latest research Modis have done on how non-tech recruiters are able to find the right tech talent.

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Glassdoor’s 2015 Recruiting Metrics: Revealed

Glassdoor for Employers

It’s planning time! It’s time to figure out your 2016 recruiting goals, strategies and tactics. It’s also time to nail down the budget and resources you need to hit those goals. And of course, you aren’t done until you’ve convinced your boss that your budget requests are reasonable. Last year, we published our complete 2014 Recruiting Budget for recruiters around the world to see what Glassdoor’s hiring goals were and how we accomplished them.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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6 Millennial Recruiting Techniques You Need to Know About

Spark Hire

Millennials are taking over today’s workforce. According to the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce study by Elance-oDesk and Millennial Branding, Millennials will be the largest generation in the U.S. workforce as of this year. In fact, the study found that 28 percent of Millennial workers are already at management level. Unfortunately, while the study found that 82 percent of hiring professionals believe Millennials bring a unique set of skills to the workplace and are more technically adept th

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What Millennials Want in a Candidate Experience (from an Actual Millennial)

Symphony Talent

Millennially speaking: What makes a great candidate experience? As a millennial who has spent a fair amount of time looking for a job, I’ve learned a ton about the candidate experience (maybe a little too much). I know that there are plenty of articles trying to explain how our crazy millennial minds work and label. Continue Reading → The post What Millennials Want in a Candidate Experience (from an Actual Millennial) appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Recruiters, Don’t Let 2016 Be The Year You Dropped The Ball

Jobvite

Every year it bemuses me to see just how many articles are published predicting the future of recruitment. They always appear around this time of year too. It’s as though the transition from one year to the next is going to somehow miraculously produce a seismic shift in the way that recruiters operate. Of course it’s not. What I find more compelling is to look at the pain points and undeniable trends we can see in the market right now – and then project forward what these mean recruiters

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5 Fun Ways Supervisors Can Recognize Employees

CareerBuilder

I’m a big fan of what the team at The Marcus Buckingham Company , or TMBC, is doing when it comes to employee engagement, particularly around front-line leaders of people. TMBC has found that the attitudes and behaviors of front-line supervisors have the biggest impact on employee engagement and retention. We should be focusing our training and development efforts on these leaders to help us improve employee engagement and drive retention — and to prevent recruiters and staffing profession

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How to Conduct Successful Performance Reviews

HRsoft

Performance reviews are often one of the most dreaded processes within the organization. Employees dread it because it is both a grueling and mind numbing process. Studies conducted have shown that less than 50% of employees believe that performance review helps in career progression because of the lack of transparency between management level and themselves.

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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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Temp Employment To Grow 13% Over Next Five Years

Staffing Talk

'" Temporary employment is expected to grow 3% from 2014 to 2015, and 13% from 2014 to 2019, according to new data just released. [.

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Preparing for Millennial Employee Churn [Infographic]

HireRight

Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y, or those born between 1982-2004 ) now comprise the largest generation in the workforce. In fact more than a third of all American workers today are Millennials. You’ve probably already hired Millennials and will be hiring more. But don’t expect them to stay long. Millennials are twice as likely as 30-somethings [.].

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Stop Hiring the Disengaged!

SmartRecruiters

'I’m always amazed when I see an obvious job mis-fit. If you’re like me, when you experience poor customer service from a person who is obviously ill-suited for the role you think, “Why the heck did they put this person in the job? Is she/he a relative of someone in senior management?”. Years back when we were contacted to assess the attributes of one Vice President of Human Resources, we were a little shocked at the results.

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Biggest Global Recruiting Trends of 2015 So Far (Infographic)

Social Talent

I think we can all agree that 2015 has absolutely flown by! One minute it was January, the next we ended up here in November! How did that happen so fast?! But while the year might not be over yet, 2015 has already proved to be an important year for the development of the recruitment industry and has marked the start of a number of key changes in how we source and how candidates look for jobs.

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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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Glassdoor Halloween Contest: See Which Companies Won

Glassdoor for Employers

A few weeks ago, we shared 6 Ways to Win Halloween in the Office , including throwing a party, encouraging costumes, and providing spooky treats. Many employers rose to our challenge of entering the first ever Glassdoor Halloween Photo Contest , too. Hundreds of companies used the Glassdoor app to post photos of their companies getting in the Halloween spirit.

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8 Candidate Red Flags You Need to Watch For

Spark Hire

It’s only natural for candidates to want to put their best foot forward during a job interview — even if that means stretching the truth or holding back potentially game-changing information. For hiring professionals, the mask that job interviewees tend to wear can make it tricky to really get to know the candidate and evaluate their ability to perform well in any given role.

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The 5 daily habits of the world’s most successful people

Beamery

'We all like to borrow from people we admire to get more productive. Highly successful Square founder Jack Dorsey strictly copied Steve Jobs, using much of Jobs’ onstage rhetoric when describing Square’s features and even insisting on being referred to as an ‘editor’ as soon as he heard that Jobs had adopted that title in some circles at Apple!

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Resume Dos and Don’ts: Making Recruiters Take Notice

AkkenCloud

Finding the right candidates has always been and will continue to be a top challenge for recruiters and their clients. And, with the job market as strong as it is now, often times active and passive candidates for employment are relying on the available new media channels and not spending as much time as they should on dusting off an old resume or perhaps creating a new one.

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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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7 Benchmark Metrics to Help You Master Your Recruiting Funnel

Jobvite

Deconstructing the Recruiting Funnel. Data is always a hot topic. Every year we learn a new data-related buzzword, from “big data” – to “data analytics” – and these days “predictive analytics” is the supposed key to the future. So it’s expected that any relevant, credible recruiting technology would provide data, big data or analytics – but, now what?

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How Data Can Drive the Next Generation of Employment

CareerBuilder

The great economic crisis of our day, a crisis of theory as well as practice, is a crisis of information.”. –George Gilder, “Knowledge and Power” Every year, millions of kids graduate high school and pursue college, or a job — or both. And that’s when the sinking feeling hits. What career do I want? What education do I need? Will pursuing my dreams leave me with tons of debt?

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Benefits of Human Capital Software

HRsoft

Human capital management is an approach to employee staffing that perceives employees of an organization as assets whose value can be quantified and whose future value can be nurtured and enhanced through continuous engagement and investment. A company with good human capital capabilities supports the personal growth of employees within the organization through a series of engagement processes held responsible by managers and supervisors. .

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What is Talent Management and How is it Different from HR?

Capterra

We all know that couple. They’re the ones who have been on-again off-again since high school. They go to all the same parties, share the same social circles, and live in the same neighborhoods. They’re so finely enmeshed with each other it’s hard to think of one without also bringing to mind the other. Even when they try to break up, their history and everything else they have in common inevitably brings them back together again.

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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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The Secret to Fantastic Candidate Engagement Great Recruiters Don’t Tell You

Social Talent

How many unread emails do you currently have in your inbox? I have 12. My colleague Reza has 11, George has the slightly larger number of 473, while Laura has a staggering 26,532… It’s not that we all actively decided not open and to ignore these unread emails, the truth is we were probably all busy when they arrived on our inboxes. By the time we had a chance to look at them, 10 new emails had arrived in our inboxes, pushing those other emails further down and out of sight.

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10 Biggest Changes to LinkedIn Groups You Really Need to Know About

Social Talent

On October 14th , LinkedIn began undertaking a massive overhaul of its current Groups feature. There are several important changes of note, many of which will directly affect how you use Groups today. So, for the sake of recruiters’ sanities everywhere, we decided to list and explain all of the most important changes being made to the feature in one place – this blog.

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Why Aren’t There More Women in Tech? (Infographic)

Social Talent

Source: Twitter.com. Women are under-represented in the tech sector. Not only that, but they’re underpaid, often passed for promotions and faced with every day sexism. It’s no wonder women are more likely to leave the industry within a year compared to their male counterparts. What’s Going On? In order to dissect the problem, we need to look at early development.

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The 10 Most Creative Resumes We’ve Ever Seen

Social Talent

Question: How many resumes pass through your hands on a daily basis? Second Question: How many of them make a lasting impression? Barring bribes, blackmail, embezzlement, theft and nudity, potential employees need to do everything they can to stand out. It may be a candidate market, but it’s still a candidate eat candidate world out there. If you don’t go the extra mile, someone else will.

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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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4 BIG LinkedIn Product Changes That Will Change the Way You Recruit (Forever!)

Social Talent

I have a confession to make. It’s been over 2 years since I actually wrote a blog post. I used to write 5 posts a week but as we have scaled Social Talent I’ve had to focus on our training curriculum, product design and growing a business from 11 employees at the beginning of this year to what will be nearly 70 by this time next year. So, what has me typing away on my notepad in a Starbucks in LA, giving our brilliant daily writer, Siofra, a much needed day off from blogging?

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The Story Behind our Non-Traditional Employer Branding Videos That Worked

Social Talent

Nicola McCarthy and George Bryan of the Digital Production team. You may have noticed over the past couple of months, we have been filling up your news feeds and timelines with videos of familiar (and in some cases unfamiliar) faces from our “delightful” team here at Social Talent. We wanted to take a step away from the norm (our norm), and do something a little different, something lighthearted and fun, (not that producing content for our wonderful online training platform isn’t fun!).

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12 Beautifully Simple Resume Designs You’ll Want To Steal

Social Talent

Figuring out how to stand out in the job search is crucial. The amount of time a recruiter spends looking at your resume is roughly six seconds – the length of a Vine video – so catching that recruiter’s eye is key to your success as an applicant. “Visual design is a great way to differentiate yourself from other job candidates,” says Dodd Caldwell, cofounder of Loft Resumes. “Design in general is increasingly important in the business world.” And he

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