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Why the best hospitals use automated reference checks

iCIMS

To become a top place to work, you need to hire great people. One way to make strides within a competitive market is to observe and replicate what top-ranked hospitals do to hire talent. Simply put, iCIMS SkillSurvey automates the process of getting feedback from references. But sometimes that’s easier said than done.

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The Importance of Reference Checking

RecruitLoop

Reference checks are an absolutely vital part of any recruitment process. And regardless of how impressive a candidate may have been when you interviewed them, no recruiter should ever let the reference checking process slip through the cracks.

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Reference Checks: Sample Questions and Best Practices

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

If there is one thing candidates and hiring managers can agree on, it’s that reference checks can be a pain. The cost of a bad hire is probably more than you think. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, the resources required to recruit, hire, and onboard a new employee can be as much as $240,000.

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What if candidates took references?

The Whiteboard

Unfortunately, hiring managers very rarely see it this way. And when a hiring manager is interviewing, and he or she controls the budget, it is the candidate who dances like a performing monkey. What would they say if a reference was given in confidence? From some ivory tower, or in a utopian future, this would be the case.

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Passive Candidate Engagement––A Playbook: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Talent Pipeline Active and Flowing

When it comes to hiring, the rules of engagement are always changing. Tap new sources and find the best of the bunch via online reference-checking and candidate referrals. Educate your hiring managers to interact with this audience. Practice ongoing brand awareness and relationship management.

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7 Tips for Conducting a Proper Reference Check

RecruitLoop

It’s frightening to think of the number of people who will actually make a hire without even carrying out any reference checks at all. This can become a very costly exercise indeed.

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Don’t Hire A Liar – Reference Check Tips

ExactHire Recruiting

Applicants should be aware that we are all interconnected in this digital age, and verifying resume content is easier than ever through reference and background checking. Reference checks provide a great opportunity to ask questions about a candidate and get feedback, ideally candid feedback, from other people who know the candidate.

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The Road Map to Improving the "Quality of Hire" in Your Organization

Speaker: Matt Craven, Talent Acquisition Project Manager, Schneider Electric

Hiring the right people and creating a strong and productive workforce is critical to the success of any organization. Likewise, bad hiring decisions will stifle an organization’s ability to expand and impact their bottom line financially. times that employee’s salary in order to replace the “bad hire”. Are references enough?

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Soft Skills, Hard Benefits: Assessing the Key Predictors of Successful Hires

The workplace continues to evolve and hiring managers are looking for candidates with more than just the basic core competencies to get the job done. Collecting references from former managers and colleagues to collect critical success predictors. What you might be missing and how the process should work. Past performance.

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Dice 2018 Recruitment Automation Report

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are rapidly changing the way many recruit and hire talent. Read Dice's first-ever Recruitment Automation Report to discover how you can employ new, cutting-edge technologies to source and hire tech talent faster.

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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology. This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity.