Wed.Feb 15, 2017

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How to Use Social Media for Employer Branding

Lever

Top-tier talent has a choice in where they work, and employer branding helps you attract them to your organization. We can’t all be a Google or a Facebook, where the employer brand is well known and drives the best talent in the world to our career pages. Instead, we must promote our employer brand – and social media is a fantastic opportunity to do so.

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Do We Still Need Recruiters? (Hint, the answer is yes!)

HarQen

With all the technologies available to help increase recruiting efficiency, one can argue that we’ve reached the point where we no longer need recruiters. Hold Your Horses. Technology has, for the most part, made our lives easier. However, it hasn’t reached the point where it can start replacing jobs that require personal interaction. Think I’m wrong?

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Trends That Will Improve Your Recruitment Strategy (Infographic)

Social Talent

New trends come and go like the wind. With that being said, two trends that have featured significantly within the industry of late are Technology and Diversity. This year highlights more than ever how important a recruitment strategy is to a business, with hiring processes changing at a rapid pace. Our working environment is changing and with change comes new opportunities.

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9 Ways to Recruit the Best Talent for Your Startup

Entrepreneur

These are the strategies you need to know to find and keep best of the best.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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So You Got a Federal Contract. Now What? – The Guide to OFCCP Compliance

Newton Software

OFCCP Compliance Quickstart Guide for Federal Contractors So you finally got that federal contract or you are seriously considering submitting a proposal for one. Either way, that’s great news! With spending on federal contracts hovering around $450 billion (yes, billion!) each year, the government offers a great source of business for your company.

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5 Reasons Your Employees Quit & What To Do About It

Glassdoor for Employers

How many times have you changed jobs? If you’re anything like the typical American worker, you’ll have changed employers about 12 times.

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You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling … in Your Job Descriptions

Symphony Talent

The story I’m about to tell isn’t coming from Hadley “SmashFly’s communications person,” but rather Hadley “the passive candidate” that SmashFly successfully converted in 2016. Last January, a. The post You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling … in Your Job Descriptions appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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3 Ways that Retailers Can Make the Apply Process Candidate-Friendly

SmartRecruiters

It is no surprise that the greatest talent acquisition priority is improving the candidate experience. It makes sense. We live in an Experience Economy where success is defined by the happiness of our customers, employees, and even candidates. A positive experience is a non-negotiable in retail where customers and candidates are one in the same. And retailers are beginning to pay attention.

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Straying outside of your core business – what are the potential risks?

RecruitmentJuice

There have been a lot of talks at recruitment conferences over the past years, discussing the “inch-wide, mile deep” premise of becoming a true expert in your chosen market place. Focusing in on a specific sector, knowing all the main players and developing an extensive network is key to achieving this. I’ve personally worked with many recruitment companies in over 50 different sectors.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Introducing Our Developer Blog: Smart Up

SmartRecruiters

What happens when you encourage your entire software development team to experiment out in the open? Well, that’s what we’ve asked our engineering team in Krakow, Poland to do. Our team is comprised of some of the best developers out there, who love experimenting, hacking, and creating new things to not only drive their own projects, but build some of the coolest features for your SmartRecruiters Talent Acquisition Suite.

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What Does an Acquisition Mean for Your Employees?

CareerBuilder

Upon learning that the small business at which they work has been acquired, employees are bound to have a variety of feelings and questions. While they might be excited over the possible opportunities this action may produce, they likely also worry about the effect it will have on them personally. As the small business’s owner, you may be thrust into the role of middleman.

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Tips for bulk resume uploading to your candidate database

Workable

True, most job seekers have profiles in places like LinkedIn or Indeed. And smart hiring teams use recruiting software like Workable to build a fully-searchable, resume database out of the rich, structured data found online. But there are always those elusive candidate resumes that have slipped through the online net and sunk to the bottom of your offline candidate database.

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Why Hacker Threats Create a Boom in Cybersecurity Recruitment

Undercover Recruiter

With cyber-attacks increasing across the world, so does the demand for cyber-security jobs. In an uncertain world, hackers are outpacing government and corporate defences, and one of the main reasons is poor cybersecurity. The global cybersecurity skills shortage has left many companies and nations vulnerable to attacks. A reported 86% of global business and IT.

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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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Recruiter Goals: What You Need to Know

Top Echelon Contracting

Everybody sets goals. You might even set daily goals for yourself, like making sure you get that workout in or clean your home. But, what about recruiter goals? You should set recruitment goals to help motivate and encourage you in.

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What is Automated Interview Scheduling and Why Recruiters Need It

Yello

02/15/2017 // By Steve Tiufekchiev // Talent Acquisition. In between setting up phone screens, sourcing new candidates, actively recruiting at hiring events and moving candidates through the interview process, time is a valuable commodity for talent acquisition professionals. If your organization’s interview scheduling process is chaotic, inconsistent and filled with manual processes, automated interview scheduling can help.

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High-Tech with High-Touch: Designing the Talentegy Client Success Model

Talentegy

Our engineering team here at Talentegy is hard at work developing and testing the platform as we get ever closer to our launch this Summer, but I’d also like for everyone to know we’re just as hard at work developing our Client Success model to ensure we are setting a new bar for Client support and satisfaction.

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5 Ways to Jump-start Your Career

Recruitalicious

We all have goals we want to achieve in our careers. We make plans and have the best intentions to stick with them, but it’s all too easy to slip back into bad habits. Here are a few pointers to help keep you on track. 1) Strategize . Plan, plan and then plan some more. We should all have an ultimate goal in mind for our careers. However, this is essentially pointless, if we haven’t planned how to get there.

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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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When Talent is Scarce, This is Where Recruiters Should Focus Their Efforts

Linkedin Talent Blog

When it comes to a recruiting strategy, I usually advocate a 40-40-20 sourcing mix. This means spending 40% of your time networking, 40% searching for candidates online and using campaign marketing to get them to respond to your messaging, and 20% of your time creating compelling job posts that are reverse engineered to be found by those who are looking.

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Carrot v's Stick

Recruiting Blogs

. Presidential elections and British referendums aside, the western world has been drifting generally towards the left for some decades. In such an environment you might imagine the argument about carrot or stick management styles would be something of a no contest. Yet closer inspection across a range of businesses and industries suggests otherwise.

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How to Improve Employer Branding to Recruit Top Talent

Hiring Thing

Study after study has been performed trying to crack the code of what job candidates are looking for in a great employer. What makes them tick? What are the deciding factors when choosing which job offer to accept? The reality is, today’s top talent is seeking much more than just. Continue reading.

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Should Recruiters and Employers Really Care If Candidates Smoke Weed?

Recruiting Daily

I was recently watching a bunch of those old black and white movies from the “Golden Age” of Hollywood. While I’d seen most of these classics before, this time I noticed a recurring theme that somehow struck me this time around: no matter what film, in practically every shot and scene, someone is smoking a […].

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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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The Most Common Hiring Mistakes

Hiring Thing

Recruiting new employees is a demanding process that requires careful consideration and preparation. In order to avoid hiring a wrong person and then having to start all over again, you should evade making some of the most common mistakes that can make the entire hiring process tiresome and difficult. The. Continue reading.

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Recruiting on Instagram: the Ultimate Playbook

Beamery

Back in late 2011, a little known mobile app that went by the name of Instagram, had a healthy but still relatively small legion of about 10 million users. . Fast forward 5 years, and that little legion has ballooned into an army of over 400 million active users. 30% of internet users are using it, and over 60% of those 400 million users log in daily , making it the second most engaged network after Facebook.

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What is a Performance Appraisal, and How Can You Get the Most From It?

Capterra

We’re doing performance reviews all wrong. Rather than the typical let’s-have-a-tense-meeting-every-six-months (you know, the method that stresses out you, your employees, and gives very little meaningful data or actionable feedback), studies have shown that people prefer and benefit from ongoing, consistent information on how they’re doing. Most people agree that the traditional format of performance appraisal is going the way of the dodo.

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JazzHR + AmCheck: A Match Made in HR

JazzHR

Our family of integrations is growing! We’re pleased to officially announce our strategic partnership with AmCheck, the country’s largest independent Payroll and HCM outsourcing service. This collaboration is one for the books, and we can’t wait to tell you all about it. Here’s what you need to know: For those of you not familiar with AmCheck, they were founded in 1996 to provide a full suite of flexible HCM services including payroll, human resources and benefits to businesses of all sizes.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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How Vector Space Matching Technology is One-Upping the ATS’s Ability to Unearth Your Top Applicants

MightyRecruiter

2017 is going to be a very busy year for recruiters. Fifty-six percent of companies indicate that their hiring volumes will increase this year , but only 35 percent of businesses anticipate adding recruiting staff to manage the extra workload. That means efficiency is going to be more important than ever to recruiters and hiring managers who will need to fill more vacant positions than ever in a 40-hour workweek.And that’s exactly why MightyRecuiter has rolled out its new vector space matching f

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10 Ways Recruiters Can Survive and Thrive in a Recession

1-Page

The current economic picture is pretty rosy. Reuters reports that Wall Street stocks surged to record highs and the US dollar and bond yields rose after President Donald Trump said he would release a “phenomenal” tax plan in the next few weeks. Unemployment is still well below five percent of the labor force, and inflation […]. The post 10 Ways Recruiters Can Survive and Thrive in a Recession appeared first on 1-Page Blog.

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Why Structured Interviews Help You Predictably Hire the Most Successful Candidates

Breezy HR

Fact: Using structured interviews increases your chances of hiring a successful candidate. Why? Because science. And studies. And experience. But before we dive into science (or studies, or experience), let us have a quick chat about the essence of unstructured interviews vs structured interviews, so we’re all on the same page. What Are Structured Interviews vs Unstructured Interviews?