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Declining profits for your boss. No bonus for you. Here is why.

Greg Savage

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […].

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How Do You Think Outside the Box as a Recruiter?

FireFish Software

Thinking outside the box isn’t just a cliché, it’s an essential tactic that you need to practice every day if you want to stand out from the crowd as one of the best recruiters in your industry. I use this term a lot when I’m talking to recruiters, and more than a few times I’ve been asked: “But what do you actually mean by this?” or “How do I go about thinking outside the box?”.

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Five Reasons Why Candidate Care is So Important

Undercover Recruiter

As recruiters, looking after our candidates is a vital part of our everyday role. After all, if our candidates aren’t happy, we haven’t done our job! It’s imperative to maintain close relationships with them and inform them of any updates in their job search. You should also aim to accommodate their individual aspirations and personalities […].

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12 Promising AI Startups Exploring the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence

Eightfold

We built the Eightfold platform on the power of artificial intelligence. While we’ve chosen to apply that power to enhance talent acquisition and talent management , plenty of AI startups are using the technology to revolutionize other industries. For this post, we wanted to highlight 12 of these AI startups that are making waves and bringing change.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting Inclusive Developer Meetups or Events In Your Office

Stack Overflow

Why Host Events? Events are a fantastic way to grow, activate and retain your community members and are engaging for employees as well. When I worked on the developer community team at Keen IO from 2015-2017, I helped host a ton of events. By the end of my time there, I think I’d personally helped to host at least 30 events in our office. Many more took place without my support, in part because of this handy guide and checklist I put together for our internal team.Hosting events can be tim

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The Lily pads or the stone

career.place

The Lily pads or the stone It’s 2020 and, like many Americans, I decided to kick off my new year with a popular resolution – weight loss. But this year, rather than start with the gym membership that would ultimately go unused, I took it nice and easy and started with a brisk Sunday walk around the lake. As I walked along the lake side, I picked up a small stone and threw it into the water.

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Staffing Firms Facing an Uncertain Economy: Invest in Technology Now to Position for Success

Recruiting Daily

As we turned into a new year and decade in 2020, we have heard continued concerns reflecting economic uncertainty- in fact, in our own recent GRID (Global Recruiting Insights and Data) survey of staffing professionals, 64 percent listed economic uncertainty as a top challenge for this year, while 45 percent expect a recession, a […].

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What We've Learned From Putting More Women in Leadership

Recruiter

What characterizes a good hire? The answer is as unique as the position you're trying to fill. A few years ago, ElectrifAi was a very different organization. In fact, we even had a different name. Our team was structured like those of many modern tech companies. We hired based on whoever was the most qualified candidate for the job. At least, that's what it seemed like on the surface.

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10 of the Most Successful Business Leaders Share Their Secret to Discovering Great Talent

Linkedin Talent Blog

Ray Kroc, the man who grew McDonald’s into the hugely successful global franchise it is today, famously said, “You’re only as good as the people you hire.”. Ray was right: No one builds a great company alone. That’s why successful business leaders know that finding exceptional talent is the key to ensuring their companies thrive. To help you follow in the footsteps of giants, we rounded up interviewing tips shared by some of the world’s most influential business leaders.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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How to source info on the lesser known sites.Dev!!

Recruiting Blogs

DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen. This can be a great place to find candidates however a lot of recruiter do not search here. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true Method called Xraying. .

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Top 6 Ways to Motivate Your Employees

Jobsoid

It is on a Monday morning and your employees walk sluggishly into the office. They look tired and frustrated. And one thing is crystal clear to you: No one is motivated to get back to work. This is what happens in most businesses across the world today. The song, “Thank God its Friday” is one […] The post Top 6 Ways to Motivate Your Employees appeared first on Jobsoid.

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What’s Your EQ, and Why Does It Matter?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Liam walks into an important meeting and sits down. Within minutes, the group’s attention is on him and his division. One of the top executives asks him a tough question, and he freezes. The executives infer that Liam isn’t as competent as they believed. They fail to realize he is a high performer and that his team has great respect for him. Source: Constantin Stanciu / Shutterstock.

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How to Evaluate Enterprise Staffing & Recruiting Technology

TargetRecruit

(By Bobby Bartlett, Enterprise Sales, TargetRecruit ) In my time working with small, mid-sized, and enterprise level staffing and recruiting organizations, I’ve seen many different flavors of evaluations. Evaluating enterprise front, middle and back office recruiting technology that will essentially run your organization is very difficult and often fails.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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It’s Time to Evaluate Hiring Requirements

Recruiting Daily Advisor

2020 is under way, but unfortunately, 2019 problems still exist. For instance, unemployment remains low and candidates still have the upper hand in picking who they work for. On top of all this, the skills gap continues to grow and educational institutions are doing little to prepare students for the new world of work. As a result, the onus is now on employers and hiring managers to reevaluate which skills are necessary to get the job done. .

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How to Evaluate Enterprise Staffing & Recruiting Technology

TargetRecruit

By Bobby Bartlett, Enterprise Sales, TargetRecruit. In my time working with small, mid-sized, and enterprise level staffing and recruiting organizations, I’ve seen many different flavors of evaluations. Evaluating enterprise front, middle and back office recruiting technology that will essentially run your organization is very difficult and often fails.

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Understanding the FARM Components of Compensation

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Have you heard of the acronym FARM as it relates to compensation? I first heard this term from a BLR ® webinar run by Paul Dorf, the Managing Director of Compensation Resources, Inc. (CRI). In that webinar, Dorf noted that a compensation strategy has to incorporate all of the objectives of compensation: to direct what you’d like employees to focus on (through incentives and variable pay), to be able to attract new talent to the organization, to be able to retain existing employees, and to motiva

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How to Evaluate Enterprise Staffing & Recruiting Technology

Recruiting Blogs

[link] 300w, [link] 768w, [link] 700w" sizes="(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px" /> (By Bobby Bartlett, Enterprise Sales, TargetRecruit ) In my time working with small, mid-sized, and enterprise level staffing and recruiting organizations, I’ve seen many different flavors of evaluations. Evaluating enterprise front, middle and back office recruiting technology that will essentially run your organization is very difficult and often fails.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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How Manager Feedback and Interview Evaluations Improve Hiring in 2020

ApplicantStack

Updated February 17, 2020. If you aren’t using candidate evaluation forms , you aren’t collaborating effectively. Candidate Evaluation Forms For Interview Feedback. What is a candidate evaluation form? It’s a tool that allows members of the hiring team to rate applicants based on the same criteria. 8 Ways Candidate Evaluation Forms Improve Recruiting. 1.

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Should You Train Someone to Take Your Job?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In some organizations and for some people, the prospect of training another employee to do what they do can be intimidating. For others, it can be empowering. What makes the difference, and how can companies and their learning and development staff create an environment where “working themselves out of a job” becomes the norm and not something to be feared?

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Develop an Organizational Culture and Understand It’s Implications

CuteHR

It is the people that make an organization. Even by hiring the best talent, putting in the necessary effort and walking an extra mile for their growth, development, training or onboarding won’t suffice, if organizational culture is not conducive enough. For the same reason, it has surfaced as an even bigger priority than just producing quality work.

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Countering the Child Care Crisis

Recruiting Daily Advisor

As an HR professional, you are likely keenly aware of the child care crisis. Parents spend exorbitant amounts of money on child care, if they can even find child care in their area. Costs and constraints lead to large percentages of new mothers not returning to work, not because they don’t want to but because they can’t. Source: nukeaf / Shutterstock.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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AstraZeneca

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 5 minutes. This AstraZeneca case study details how Stories Inc. provided team branding. AstraZeneca Case Study. AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that makes medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. They develop, manufacture and sell pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. These products treat disorders affecting oncology, respiration, neuroscience, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal health.