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8 Intriguing Recruitment News Items this Week – 11th January 2016

Social Talent

Last week , LinkedIn gave us 9 key stats to help us provide a great candidate experience. While compensation naturally plays a role, the leadership of the company and work-life balance are all VERY important to today’s candidates. ‘Illegal’ Interview Questions Being Asked to Female Candidates Regularly.

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Getting People Analytics Right: Josh Bersin Shares the Right Approach and Tools

Linkedin Talent Blog

As Michael Lewis’s 2003 best-selling book Moneyball details, the team’s general manager Billy Beane couldn’t afford to bring in big-name, big-contract players, so he turned to the data to see what factors contributed most to success. There’s another analytics group that’s looking at recruiting, advertising spend, candidate experience.

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12 Strategies for Attracting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce at Your Company

Rally Recruitment Marketing

While 69% of organizations surveyed said that their workforces are more diverse and inclusive than they were two years ago, almost half of these companies said that their workforces do not actually reflect the diversity in the pool of talent that they are recruiting from. Join us on Dec.

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How to screen PHP developer skills

Devskiller

In the recent Pearson Frank Java, Web, and PHP salary survey , 32% of survey respondents hold at least one or more professional certifications. Of the respondents surveyed who hold certifications, 21% said that their salary had increased since completing their certification. . first version: 1.0 December 2008. March 2020.

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How These Companies Celebrate and Support Their Disabled Employees

PowerToFly

To ensure equality for our disabled employees, we test various work accommodations, reimagine candidate experiences, and educate people about the various visible and invisible disabilities. We audit offerings via two ways: Employee Engagement Surveys and feedback from our Employee Resource Group, PageAble.

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Skills Shortage Remains: How Are We Going to Bridge this Gap?

Jibe

The number of people with a bachelor’s degree increased 44% from 2003 to 2012, going from 3.4 Their report released in late 2014, The Shocking Truth About The Skills Gap , found evidence from all three groups to support a concerning disparity between candidates and job openings. Consider a few other statistics. million to 4.9

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Scary Movie: Mystery Applicants and Candidate Experience.

Recruiting Daily

The Career XRoads 2015 Mystery Job Seeker Survey doesn’t indict our educational systems; rather, it highlights basic failings endemic to corporate recruiting. For example, we put Mr. Stein on a six month, self-imposed bicycling sabbatical as his most recent relevant experience before beginning his current job search.