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Understanding “Quality of Hire” in Tech Recruitment

HIRED

One of the best ways to retain an employee is to, of course, start with the right candidate. Because Hired provides such transparency in the tech recruiting process, it’s easier for both employers and candidates to enjoy better matches. Use resume screening and pre-employment assessments to filter out unqualified applicants.

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Turnover Taking Its Toll? Consider These Strategies for Securing Top Talent

FlashPoint

Turnover is a profit killer, so of course you want to minimize it. Service/product and employment brand. To become a talent magnet, you must also develop your organization’s employment brand. Build and communicate a top employer brand. Start to think of yourself as an employer of choice.

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You’d Better Ask Somebody: Why Employee Referrals (Still) Matter in Hiring.

Recruiting Daily

If you’re like most employers today , you’re likely spending almost all of your time, budget and bandwidth on all other external sources of hire (eg job boards, search agencies, career sites, social media) which are historically much more expensive and less effective, than you do on generating and nurturing referrals.

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15 Common Phone Interview Questions to Screen Candidates Fast

The Hire Talent

Of course, now we have enough tech tools to conduct an interview from a reasonable distance and still have a satisfactory “live” conversation with applicants. A phone interview takes the edge off a little for the candidates, but it does not mean they should present themselves unprepared. What did you do?

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Balanced Teams: Why Atlassian got rid of the concept of cultural fit

Transformify - Recruiting

Aubrey, Atlassian has developed a remarkable strategy around talent acquisition, employer branding, onboarding and retention. Of course, at some point in time, we ask candidates about their desired salary as we have a budget and want to be sure that the expectations can be met. What does diversity hiring mean to you?

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We asked recruiters to give their biggest pains in tech recruitment

Devskiller

Technical recruitment courses. Employer Branding. Interviews techniques. Employer branding. Behavioral interviews. Colleagues. Investigations. Self-improvement. DevSkiller newsletter. On the job. Newsletters. Candidates. Kasia Tang’s blog. Xray search. Recruiter Lite. Sourcing tools.

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Hiring Manager effectiveness is the key to great recruiting (and our new Interview Training site is live)

Recruiting Toolbox

I actually think great hiring managers are the secret sauce to great recruitment – more than your public employer branding messaging, the number of twitter followers your company has, what ATS you use, how much you pay, and whether or not you have an internal sourcing team. Beyond Behavioral Interviewing.