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4 Industry-Changing Recruitment News Stories You Must See this Week – 7th November 2016

Social Talent

In fact, LinkedIn encourage recruiters to look up salary ranges before your next intake meeting and using it to guide the job description and candidate profile being sourced. It shifts your focus to developing clear messaging about the value your job/company will bring to the candidate. totalling 1,132,844 in September.

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Newsday Gets Hammered On Disability Language in This Job Posting

Ongig

On the heels of 7 Controversial Stories About Job Descriptions , here’s another cautionary tale of poor wording in job postings. Wendy found a job ad posted by Newsday, the Long Island-based newspaper in New York, for a general assignment reporter. ” This Newsday job posting was clearly exclusionary.

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8 Recruiting Secrets for Attracting and Finding Seasonal Temp Workers

MightyRecruiter

Similarly, other sectors, such as warehousing and transportation , experience dramatic increases in openings: The numbers have more than quadrupled over the past decade, from 42,500 in 2006 to over 200,000 this past year. Just think of the number of Amazon retail sales over the holiday season, and this growth rate makes a lot of sense.

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Different Cultures, Different Ways to Find and Hire Employees

NPA Worldwide

Selpe provides executive search services in the areas of automotive, mining, services, retail, healthcare, transportation, and construction. The first attempt to select people in a scientific way dates back to 207 BC, when officials of the Han Dynasty in China created a long and detailed job description for civil servants.

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5 Recruitment News Stories to Kickstart Your Week! – 28 Sept 2015

Social Talent

His CV detailed his job description and information about the military capability of an out-of-date radio surveillance system. A warning to job seekers perhaps? The most famous gathering of startups and technology companies, the Web Summit , is moving from its birthplace of Dublin to Lisbon from 2016.

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4 New Job Post Stats That Will Help You Attract Candidates

Linkedin Talent Blog

In other words, women were less likely to apply to any given job post they saw—which means there may be more female talent out there than your applicant pool might suggest. A recent study found that job descriptions with “masculine” words made women less interested in the job—even though it didn’t make them feel less qualified.

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How Employers Can Uncover Opportunities in a Changing Labor Market

Indeed

As you write job descriptions and screen candidates, consider carefully whether a college degree should be required for the role you’re filling. When you can, extend opportunities to job seekers who might lack a degree but have diverse and valuable experience to offer your organization.