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Social Media and Candidate Assessment: Avoiding the Perils While Reaping the Potential

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In the digital age, the lines between our personal and professional lives often blur, especially on social media platforms. While social media platforms can yield valuable insights into potential candidates and serve as powerful branding tools, they also come with pitfalls that need careful navigation.

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10 Pre-Employment Screening Best Practices for HR Department of One

ExactHire Recruiting

Fortunately, there are many options for making your life easier when it comes to pre-employment screening activities. Make sure that a credit report is only used to screen applicants in consideration for positions that have a job-related necessity for someone with no credit blemishes. Are you using all ten of these best practices yet?

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Unlocking the Secrets of Effective Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Assessing Candidate Skills

Professional Alternatives

These include: Social media marketing : Social media platforms have become powerful marketing tools, and it is essential for marketers to have a solid understanding of how to leverage these platforms to reach and engage with their target audience.

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How to Create and Maintain an Inclusive Employer Brand

Social Talent

There is so much about this exercise that could be deemed ‘tick box’, but if you want to attract and retain diverse talent, you have to understand and speak to this cohort. Use social media to lend their voice to underrepresented communities. Include pronouns in social bios. And the same applies to social media.

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18 policies every organization should have (+templates)

Workable

Social media policies The Social Media Policy offers comprehensive guidelines for employees regarding their use of social media platforms, whether for personal or professional purposes on behalf of the company. Additionally, the policy outlines potential disciplinary actions for any violations.

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Checklist: Use Metrics to Improve the Applicant Screening Funnel

ExactHire Recruiting

In this blog, I’ll discuss executing change as a result of metrics you collect during each stage of an average candidate screening funnel when recruiting potential future employees. Did you receive enough applications to offer you a sufficient number of qualified candidates at this stage of the screening process ?

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5 Methods for Screening Your Job Candidates Remotely

Contract Recruiter

Companies right now are exercising due caution. Yet with no available cure for the pandemic and a focus on remote work in many areas, a lot of candidate screening needs to be done remotely. How can your company screen candidates remotely, to hire without putting yourselves or your candidates at risk? It’s time-consuming.