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Recruiting: How to Start 2015 on the Right Track

Spark Hire

We decide that we will eat healthier, exercise more, spend less money, etc. When you’ve had a long hard day on the phone, interviewing candidates and speaking with hiring managers, the last thing you want to do is to have to organize your desk before you call it quits for the day. You can also set resolutions for your recruiting goals.

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HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR CANDIDATE SCREENING PROCESS

Plum.io

workers were engaged in their jobs in 2014” according to this year’s Gallupp poll. This low level of employee engagement has a strong correlation to high turnover rates in 2014 of 15.7 %. The interview process should focus on getting to know how candidates think, act, and strategize. “Less than one-third (31.5%) of U.S.

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Amping up equity for women at work

Achievers - Recruiting

Since establishing in 2014, many of the employee-led groups that exist at Achievers today have spurred from AWN, which is a testament to what happens when you provide women and allies with the support and resources needed to build a diverse and inclusive culture. Take time to interview potential mentors to find the right fit.

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5 Ways to Revolutionize Candidate Experience

Brandon Hall

According to the 2014 Brandon Hall Group Social Talent Acquisition Study, only 8% of companies are trying to improve candidate experience with their social recruiting practices. Maybe we make follow ups a higher priority than more phone interviews. It comes back to basic principles that are exercised consistently over time.

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10 Simple Yet Effective Ways Recruiters Can Work Better

Social Talent

Ask yourself this – how often do you stop working on a specific task under the ruse of ‘multitasking’, when in reality all that you’re actually doing is moving away from it because you’ve either hit a stumbling block or simply grown tired of the exercise? Was the interview panel too intimidating? I’m guessing, quite a lot!

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What's in a name - the introduction of name blind recruitment

Recruiting Blogs

Employment tribunal outcomes favouring the individual increased between 2013 and 2014 with an average settlement figure of £1,000. There’s no getting away from the fact that at interviews stage an applicant’s heritage is revealed in full. But that’s another blog.).

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When Recruiting Meets Marketing, and How We Slashed Our Time to Hire to Two Weeks

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We ended up interviewing 26 of the best software engineers in San Francisco, that truly fit the criteria we were looking for, and in the process cut our time to hire to just two weeks. The response rates and cold-to-interview conversion we reached from three email outreach campaigns we ran. San Francisco’s unemployment rate was 3.1

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