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Young and Savvy vs. Older and Wiser: Workplace Ageism in the Spotlight

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The AARP reported in its January/February 2020 AARP Bulletin that it found thousands of examples of age-related phrases in job advertisements on LinkedIn, Indeed.com, and Monster.com. In 2007, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg raised a furor when he was quoted as saying, “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical.

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The Benefits of the Temp-to-Hire Recruitment Model for Employers and Employees

AkkenCloud

The average 90-day contract allows employers to assess in-depth a candidate’s skills and strengths. In fact, Temp-to-Hire is a longer-term extension of assessing job candidates based on having them provide work samples that demonstrate specific areas of competence. Temp-to Hire makes the recruitment process more efficient.

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MidWest TechRecruit ‘19 is just around the corner! [Recruiters can’t miss]

Hacker Earth

Lou is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007), The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench Media, 2013), and the Lynda.com Performance-based Hiring video training program (2016). Director of LinkedIn Talent Solutions, LinkedIn. Holly Lignelli.

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How to screen Data Science skills

Devskiller

To confirm that, a recent survey analysis by KDNuggets has shown graduate degrees with the name ‘data science’ began to emerge in 2007, with an enormous spike of enrolments 2012. Browsing a candidate’s LinkedIn and GitHub accounts can be useful to gauge the outline of a candidate as well to view their proficiency in open-source projects.

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Staffing News of the Day, August 21, 2013

Staffing Talk

ASA posts highest staffing index (96) seen in June, July, or August since 2007 [Recruiter]. LinkedIn: A “middle man” who charges everyone, manipulates the database, and isn’t concerned with matching qualifications? [IT Staffing agency in South Florida, TempsASAP, is offering all jobseekers a free skills assessment [Watchlist News].

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7 Incredibly Intriguing Recruitment News Stories this Week – 6th June 2016

Social Talent

And, according to Recruitment Grapevine , LinkedIn is a possibility as a potential buyer having been active in the area (they recently bought a similar operation in Connectifer ). LinkedIn Release First Annual Veteran Insights Report. This is what they found: 2016 Veteran Insights Report from LinkedIn for Good. With more than 2.1

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7 Unmissable Social Recruiting News Stories – 13th July 2015

Social Talent

In the news this week: 1 Million Publishers Now on LinkedIn. More than 1 million members have now published a post on LinkedIn! The ability to publish on LinkedIn is now available to all English speaking members and will be very soon for every language. LinkedIn is NOT the Ultimate Career Site, Twitter Is.