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Seasonal Hiring – Don’t Let It Be Your March Madness

ExactHire Recruiting

Seasonal hiring. The two busiest times for this type of hiring for many companies are before the summer and before the winter holidays. Its okay to be picky when hiring, even for seasonal staff, because the other option is having to retrain (or release) a new employee halfway through the season.

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How One HR Pro is Helping Talent Successfully Fly the Coop

Recruiting Daily Advisor

However, it wasn’t until 2007, when she was working in a U.S. For most full-time roles, overly focusing on “getting a butt in the seat” as quickly and cheaply as possible actually hurts us, because it takes away what should be the focus—making the right hire, who will be successful long-term. foreign service. Kathryn Minshew.

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Interview Balancing Act: Candidate Experience vs. Assessment

Entelo

You want to hire the best person for the job. Hiring a unicorn expert to slay a dragon isn’t your best strategy. This principal applies whether the candidate is “must hire” or “not so much.” These guidelines should enable hiring teams to make a great impression on candidates and to make the right hiring decisions.

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Don't Become Blockbuster Video: 5 Steps To Build Your Employer Brand And Attract Today's Workforce

Recruiting Blogs

With unemployment at its lowest level since August 2007 (4.6%), and millennials increasingly entering the workforce ( up to 75% by 2025 ) with high turnover rates (average tenure of 1.6 Companies with strong employer brands enjoy 50% lower cost per hire, 2.4 The rest, as they say, is history. Recruiting is no exception.

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Online Training Helps Improve the Human Resources Experience For Everyone

Recruiting Blogs

Gone are the days when hiring expensive consultants and facilitators was the only option. Management is able to track employees’ progress, as well as access quizzes and other retention exercises to ensure that everyone is engaged in the learning process.

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Podcast episode #10: Step into the future with Josh Bersin

Workable

You were probably finding it harder and harder to hire people. And companies were trying to starting to realize they needed to hire internally because they couldn’t hire externally. He said, “Great recruiters hire great people.” And if you remember right before the pandemic, the unemployment rate was around 3.8%.

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Non Compliance With Contingent Workers Can Cost You

Staffing Talk

” At stake is $7 billion in taxes and penalties for misclassified workers that the IRS believes it can add to federal coffers during the next 10 years, and they are hiring lots of new inspectors to go after it. Microsoft decided to comply and paid employment (back) taxes for the workers and even hired some of those workers as employees.