Linkedin Talent Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A great candidate experience can help you engage more job seekers and sway your top-choice candidate toward accepting your job offer over another. Candidate experience is how a job seeker perceives a company’s brand throughout the hiring process — from the job description to the interview process to follow-up communications.

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HackerRank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So, to understand how to set candidates up for success early in their career, we spoke with Mary Teolis, Talent Acquisition Manager, Early Careers, at UKG. One key aspect of our strategy involves establishing strong partnerships with local college campuses and student-led organizations that align with our company culture and values.

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Professional Alternatives

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Start by crafting a compelling job description that clearly outlines the responsibilities and requirements of the role. When evaluating candidates, it’s important to not only focus on their technical skills but also assess their cultural fit within your organization. Find your dream job or top talent now!

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Glassdoor for Employers

MARCH 14, 2019

Spend less time on the job description. Business owners and hiring managers tend to write lengthy job descriptions that include paragraphs about the company, job duties and responsibilities in addition to a long list of required skills, Markow said. Related: The Ultimate Job Description Checklist ].

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The Hire Talent

MAY 7, 2023

Below, you’ll learn how to conduct a skills gap analysis and assemble a workforce that can execute even the loftiest goals. This analysis has many pseudonyms — talent gap analysis, job gap analysis, competency gap rubric, and competency gap analysis, to name a few — but the purpose is identical.

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Hundred5

JANUARY 18, 2024

Skills assessment tests focused on soft skills are a great way to start the interview process and often include strategic interview questions that you can customize to develop interviews tailored to every job role. Further Reading: How to Implement Skills-Based Hiring (the easy way) What are strategic interview questions?

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CareerBuilder

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Social media is a fast and easy (and free) way to advertise your job opportunities, communicate with candidates, educate them about your company and build awareness about your corporate culture. The right keywords will also serve to optimize your job posting for search engines like Google. Time Waster #3: Vague Job Descriptions.

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Hundred5

JANUARY 4, 2023

Everything from compelling job descriptions to the perceived company culture and employee referral program falls under the employer brand. This could be the result of many factors: poor job ads, unappealing careers page, no referral program, bad company culture, invisible to job seekers… the list goes on.

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Hundred5

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Okay, so let’s see how you can set up virtual interviews that are a win-win for all, and speed up match-making the right candidate with the right job. #1 1 – Outline the hiring process in the job description. Tip : Try introducing skills assessments to the process to streamline it beyond virtual interviews.

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Hundred5

JANUARY 8, 2024

The interviewer can help by ensuring that, from their end, it’s a distraction-free zone. 10 tips for developing a winning virtual interview process Okay, so let’s see how you can set up virtual interviews that are a win-win for all and speed up match-making the right candidate with the right job.

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HackerRank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By embracing this new model, you’re not just selecting candidates who can do the job today but those who can grow with your company and adapt to future needs. Go beyond basic job descriptions — engage with the team and the hiring manager to understand what tasks the new hire will be doing and what skills they need to excel in that role.

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Recruiting Blogs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Many interviewers make the mistake by hiring on the basis of the job description templates. A successful interviewers know that they need to hire the best talent by finding the perfect fit for their company’s specific company culture. Tip#3: Ask the behavioral interview questions.

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ApplicantStack

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

At some point in your role as a hiring manager you’re going to be faced with the question of how to hire employees. You need to find the person who has the skills, work ethic, and fit for your culture. How do you hire employees? More importantly, how do you hire the right employees? Step #1: Create a Job Description.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

JULY 20, 2017

Read on to see if you’re guilty of any of these common mistakes and learn how to fix them quickly and effectively. Your job description is all about the “skills” and “experiences” required, instead of the work that needs to be done. Some people swear by behavioral interviews, those “Tell me about a time…” questions.

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Hundred5

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Either you’re in the camp who believes they’re a waste of time, or you think they’re a great way to evaluate soft skills, cultural fit, and work style. Personality tests help evaluate the candidate’s character traits to better understand the person’s values, motivation, and common behaviors. The right answer is in the middle.

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PowerToFly

AUGUST 2, 2021

Interviewees must come prepared with the following: Thoroughly read the job description. Be prepared to explain your experience as it relates to the job. My advice for your interview prep is to rely on the job description. Make it obvious for the interviewer why you'd be best for the position.

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Workable

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Although the interview process can be daunting, preparation is the key to building your confidence and proving that you’re the best candidate. Learn how to ace an interview with 19 steps that will help you stand out and succeed. Before the interview. Reread the job description. Before the interview.

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Hundred5

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this way, they differ from standard interview questions, which typically focus on the role and industry-specific skills first, and company culture fit second. Manager interview questions focus on: Standard interview questions focus on: Understanding how the candidate deals with difficult situations.

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Hundred5

JANUARY 31, 2024

Creativity emerges from diverse company cultures that harness as many viewpoints as possible. Here’s how to make diversity work for you. For businesses, hiring more diverse candidates boosts retention rates, leads to more innovative thinking, and helps build an inclusive workplace culture.

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Brazen Recruiting

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Of course there may be some risks, but with such risks are also recruiting approaches and interview tools that help assess a candidate’s ability to mesh with an organization’s culture and lead effectively. How to limit the risk. For example, job descriptions should focus on success factors over specific skills.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MAY 5, 2021

I want to talk about how we can mitigate three major risks as we scale up. One of the greatest risks to an organization’s culture can sneak up on us. I asked how many of them began actively recruiting for new roles within their first few weeks on the job. Not unusual but, wow, what a risk to culture, right?

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Hundred5

AUGUST 11, 2023

Hiring a manager is different from hiring an employee in the following aspects: leadership skills, experience, impact, cost, cultural fit, and the evaluation process. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. How is hiring a manager different than hiring employees? Rockefeller ?

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 15, 2021

When we hire talent, we need to look beyond job descriptions and focus on finding people who match the organizational culture to become assets and future leaders. However, it would help if you focused on those that match your organizational culture the best. How to Test Communication Skills. Communication.

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Breezy HR

MARCH 1, 2017

We’ve already talked about what defines a structured interview , and why structured interviews are such good predictors of job performance. Now, we’re going to show you how to run a structured interview – using consistent interview questions that show you the best people for the job, every time.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I worked with our facilities manager to write up the job description, source and screen candidates, interview, facilitate the hiring decision, and make the offer. Too often, we brand the culture, the benefits and pay, the focus on inclusion, but we don’t brand the actual work. He’s also been a two-time No.

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Recruiting Daily Advisor

APRIL 2, 2021

List the Requirements Needed to Get the Job, Not Do the Job. When writing the technical section of a job description, far too many companies fill the technical requirements with a list of every technology the software engineer might work with. Train Engineers How to Interview Candidates.

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Beamery

JULY 20, 2016

The vast majority of hiring managers focus on skills, searching for candidates that ‘tick all the right boxes’, limiting the importance of cultural assimilation. No one can argue with a hire that matches the job description. You then may have to make slight edits to your new ‘cultural requirements’. Start at the top.

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4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Soft skills are those hard-to-pin-down capabilities like communication and leadership that are difficult to quantify, but that play an outsized role in both job performance and cultural fit. How would you handle it if your manager asked you to try a new approach on a project? How do you respond to change?

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Unbridled Talent

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can you really get to know them and what matters to them — beyond their boilerplate (ahem: boring) job description? How do you get past the standard spiel and talk about the juiciest parts of their work? and a recent survey found that only 2 in 10 employees feel strongly connected to their organization’s culture.

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Unbridled Talent

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can you really get to know them and what matters to them — beyond their boilerplate (ahem: boring) job description? How do you get past the standard spiel and talk about the juiciest parts of their work? and a recent survey found that only 2 in 10 employees feel strongly connected to their organization’s culture.

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Hundred5

JUNE 22, 2023

People who have completed loads of interviews but had no formal training – Even though they may have a lot of experience with interviews, they may not be aware of the latest trends in interviewing. As for the latter, let’s look at how to change their minds. How to persuade managers that they need training?

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Recruiting Blogs

JUNE 6, 2023

In order to determine what you should ask as an interviewer, you first need to pose some questions to yourself: What are the hard skills, soft skills, and experience you require in the position? What personality traits would contribute to success on your team, and within your organizational culture ? Good luck and happy hiring!

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Manatal

JULY 11, 2022

Key among the actions in this strategy is talent – highly skilled and agile employees, strong company culture and a good talent pipeline. Before we go down to the nitty-gritty of how to scale up with the right recruitment technology, let’s clarify some definitions. Second, prepare well-structured interview questions.

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marenated

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Here’s how to survey, get employee feedback, manage, recruit and hire to your values. Put values into all job descriptions , career site copy, FAQs, email communiques and advertisements. They have also been challenged to go through each value and see how it plays out in the people and culture around them.

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Hundred5

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

They’re also a great way to compare candidates with similar hard skills and select those who are a better fit for your company culture. Understand how the potential candidate might interact with internal (colleagues, managers) and external (customers, suppliers) peers and stakeholders. Should you assess for good and bad personalities?

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Recruiting Blogs

JUNE 6, 2023

It is the fundamental opportunity to determine whether they're a good fit for the company culture, personable in nature, and easy enough to communicate with. However, conducting effective interviews that unveil all the pros and cons of a candidate within a short time window available to you can be challenging.

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Devskiller

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We also know that the people who best know how to make it better are the people who are actively engaged in the process and know their biggest pains. 4th to 5th rounds of interview. Understanding the job description. How to determine the knowledge and experience of candidates. Cultural fit. How to use bots.

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