Thu.Jul 28, 2016

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Commoditising Candidates in Competitive Times

The Whiteboard

Hello again. I’d rather have started with “Talofa” but my recent holiday to beautiful Samoa seems to sadly be a distant memory already! Whilst I can wholeheartedly recommend switching off from “the grid” and shutting down all mobile devices and sources of news to achieve a truly relaxing break, you do need to be prepared for the jarring deluge that accompanies the simple act of turning your phone back on.

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10 Interview Mistakes Candidates Make That Every Recruiter Can Relate To

Social Talent

We feel for you recruiters sometimes. There is A LOT of work that goes into not only finding and sourcing quality candidates but also efficiently screening them for the interview stage, where things can get…interesting! Today we are going to list the top 10 interview mistakes candidates commonly make that every recruiter can relate to. Read on for some Friday Funnies!

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How Small Recruitment Agencies Can Beat Larger Firms

NPA Worldwide

Big recruitment agencies have some real advantages. But with size come some traits and characteristics that are not always as positive as they may seem. Small recruitment agencies have some distinct advantages also, but a strategy must be put in place to exercise these strengths in order to outposition the big firms. Here are some thoughts on how small can beat big….

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Where Are the Highest Paying Cyber Security Jobs?

Indeed

Today, cyber crime is a major concern for every type of business or government organization. A series of high-profile breaches has highlighted the apparent ease with which hackers can steal sensitive information — so it’s little surprise that demand for cyber security professionals is rising. In fact, according to a recent analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics figures from Stanford University , demand is expected to grow by 53% through 2018.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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A Recruiter's Guide to Talent Pools

FireFish Software

Waiting on clients, waiting on applicants, waiting on the phone to ring – the recruiter’s job is often a reactive one. But it doesn’t have to be. Some recruiters can predict the future. How do they do so? By proactively digging deep talent pools. Read our recruiter’s guide to talent pools and find out how you can glimpse the future too.

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7 Ways to Spot a Specialist Recruiter From a Generalist in Disguise

RecruitLoop

What is your so-called ‘specialist’ recruiter really offering you? Are you getting real value for money? Are they a specialist or a generalist in disguise?

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How to spot disengaged employees

Workable

What makes disengaged employees stand out? They’re unlikely to send you a memo, although you can get some insight from employee engagement surveys. A disengaged employee is difficult to define. They might be actively disengaged, spreading negativity and performing poorly. But, they might also just be doing the bare minimum, going through the motions without a hint of enthusiasm.

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5 Things You’re Forgetting to Do Before Sending Your Resume

Undercover Recruiter

If you could choose between a beautifully tailored outfit designed to fulfil all of your wildest fashion dreams or a ready-to-wear baggy tee from some random retailer, which would you pick? That’s a rhetorical question. You’d obviously want that tailored outfit. Did I mention it comes with bespoke pockets? Well, it does. In the age of personalization, View Article. 5 Things You’re Forgetting to Do Before Sending Your Resume.

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Overcoming The Fear Of Feedback

Glassdoor for Employers

Mary considers herself a good manager. Whenever one of her employees struggles with an assignment, she swoops in to help them put.

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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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How to Explain Why You Stayed in the Same Job so Long

Undercover Recruiter

If you’ve been fielding a bit of push-back from people saying you’ve stayed in one job too long, you’re not alone. Let me start by saying; there’s no such thing as the ‘perfect candidate’ Forget profiles on paper, all humans have imperfections and they’ll show sooner or later. Rough career edges won’t always be deal breakers, as few.

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Differentiated service models - How to approach workforce management solutions that go across borders

Allegis Global Solutions

What is the best course of action for managing your workforce in small, satellite locations?

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What We Learned About Boosting Your Brand at #gdpanel

Glassdoor for Employers

When you have a strong employer brand, your employees are more engaged and recruiting is easier. But how do you get there?

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Overcoming Recruiting Challenges: How an Automated ATS Can Help

TargetRecruit

Staffing firms typically contact TargetRecruit with several specific goals and a list of high level requirements as they evaluate Applicant Tracking Systems. These requirements vary for every staffing company, in fact, no two staffing company’s requirements are exactly alike. The ultimate objective, however, is always the same: “Increase our staffing company’s sophistication as an enterprise by automating workflows, business processes, and communications to increase placements and bottom line pr

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Marketing Miss: Recruiting Ads For Clicks

Recruiting Daily

I went to college with marketing in mind. I applied to go to college as a business major. I would become a marketer and write jingles about chips and childhood. Easy enough, I thought. I’m creative. I can do this. In addition to a lot of extra curricular yet mandatory BS, my first business class was a 6 week introduction to the major; a class the administration required for every incoming freshman, it walked you through each element of a business from operations to finance and teamed you up with

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Talentwunder Office Warming

Talentwunder

On 27th of July we celebrated the moving to our new office at Torstr. 33. Customers, partners and friends had the chance to have a look behind the curtains at Talentwunder: . If you want to also visit us for a coffee or mate, please message us!

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Overcoming Recruiting Challenges: How an Automated ATS Can Help

TargetRecruit

Staffing firms typically contact TargetRecruit with several specific goals and a list of high level requirements as they evaluate Applicant Tracking Systems. These requirements vary for every staffing company, in fact, no two staffing company’s requirements are exactly alike. The ultimate objective, however, is always the same: “Increase our staffing company’s sophistication as an enterprise by automating workflows, business processes, and communications to increase placements and bottom line pr

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The Most Popular Interview Questions to Reveal Key Soft Skills

Linkedin Talent Blog

Over 60% of hiring managers agree that screening for soft skills is tough. In fact, figuring out if the candidate has the qualities you are looking for is often the most difficult part of the interview process. That’s where behavioral interview questions can help. By looking at the candidates past behavior, you can more easily determine what they will be like to work with.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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Should You Share Diversity & Inclusion Numbers? Google Thinks So

Jibe

Diversity in the workplace is a common topic at an increasing number of businesses. Do our employees reflect our customer base? Are we missing out by hiring based on cultural fit and institutional bias? But now the digital age has pushed the issue to a new, more transparent level. Many journalists and analysts are uncovering the lack of diversity and inclusion among high profile employers.

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How to Make Your Top Salesperson Quit

Hireology

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Maintaining a Lasting Diversity Recruiting Strategy

Harger Howe Recruitment

Back in February, our President Mike Walsh wrote a blog about the importance of having a diversity recruiting strategy. This article noted the challenges to setting one in motion and possible solutions. What it didn’t cover however, was how to make sure that your efforts stay in place when the economy takes a downward turn. A recent article by Alexandra Kalev called How “Neutral” Layoffs Disproportionately Affect Women and Minorities , provides some valuable points I think are important to share

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Why INTJs Make the Worst (and Best) Employees

Recruiting Blogs

Many organizations around the world embrace the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , better known as the MBTI, to better understand and utilize their employees. It's thought by putting the right employees to work on the right projects, we'll all see better results. This is why MBTI testing is common across the corporate environment, especially in the United States.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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Why It’s Important for Recruiters to Adapt

Top Echelon Contracting

The ability to adapt in our business can best be explained by understanding the law of requisite variety. The textbook definition of this principle is that in any “closed-loop system” – electronics or human communications – the element with the most. The post Why It’s Important for Recruiters to Adapt appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Let's Show Clients Our Value By Valuing Ourselves

Recruiting Blogs

I don’t work for free. Let me re-phrase. I don’t like to work for free. . To put it another way, I totally get why people want me to work for free, but since I’m not running a non-profit (and, I would argue, if I was, I still wouldn’t work for free), and therefore I want to be paid for the work I do. Regardless of whether the business changes its mind.

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3 Tips To Make Working From Home More Productive

JazzHR

Recruiting. Engagement. Performance. Culture. Intelligence. IMHO. Hype. 3 Tips To Make Working From Home More Productive. Written by: Amanda Groves on 07.28.2016. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2015, 24% of all employed people did at least some work from home. And while telecommuting certainly has its perks, it’s easy to see how household distractions and social isolation could lead to decreased productivity and an overall less enjoyable experience.

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Where is a Technical Recruiter to turn to?

Recruiting Blogs

With all the extremely difficult jobs you have to fill, you also have to work with either outdated tools or the new tools that don't work and everything in between. The candidates you could source from CareerBuilder and Monster you would still have to pay the excessive fees and long contracts to source for candidates that wouldn't do your client any good or your recruiting business any good either?

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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5 Key Ingredients for a Successful Employee Referral Programme

Social Talent

There’s a few reasons why year after year, employee referrals are named as the number one source of hire. Not only do employee referral programmes (ERPs) attract the highest quality candidates, they also perform best on the job and have the highest retention rate. No brainer right? Your employees have access to unlimited candidate leads via their social connections (talent friends, former work colleagues and family members) so the potential to make great hires is unprecedented.

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Staffing in the 1970s and 1980s. Evolution of Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? . History of staffing continued. Imagine what it was like to be a recruiter in the early days without the use of computers, email, cell phones or internet. Recruiting offices overflowed with filing cabinets full of resumes in manila folders that were organized by index cards sorted alphabetically.

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Transparency is the New Black, with TalentCulture CEO Meghan M. Biro

Entelo

Employer branding, social strategy, and recruiting guru Meghan M. Biro hops onto Hiring On All Cylinders ahead of her Entelo Talent Powerhouse webinar next week. Meghan and the team chat about why transparency, honesty and trust are fundamental components for a high-performing recruiting organization, and why you can’t successfully build a genuine employer brand without them.