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Successful Recruitment Strategies In The UK Professional Services Market

Recruitics

The UK is a hot market for professional services recruitment and retention at the current time. In the face of the Great Resignation , companies are jostling to secure candidates for roles and retain existing professionals. To combat this and secure top talent in the professional services industry, companies should invest in recruitment and retention strategies explicitly targeted at this group.

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5 Examples of Unconscious Bias at Work and How to Solve Them

Entrepreneur - Workplace Diversity

We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look like us and share similar backgrounds instead of the most qualified candidates.

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Hiring in the Oil and Gas Industry: Key Takeaways

Eightfold

After downturns during the pandemic’s early months, oil and gas company hiring has rebounded. Yet continuing the industry’s cycle of hiring and laying off workers stands to hurt oil and gas companies in the long term. An Eightfold analysis of hiring and role changes in the oil and gas industry reveals that if these companies continue to stick to traditional hiring methods and expectations, they leave themselves vulnerable to changing consumer demands, regulatory upheavals, and competition from r

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How to Write an Inclusive Job Description [Tips & Examples]

Ongig

Is your company aiming for a more diverse workforce? It all starts with an inclusive job description. An inclusive JD sets the tone for the candidates you’ll attract and eventually hire. Katrina Kibben , CEO of Three Ears Media, says: “Creating an inclusive job posting is not just about pushing your content through gender bias AI. It’s about changing techniques to provide more clarity, so any candidate from any background can understand the daily responsibilities and determine

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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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Tech Insights #3: Tech Leader Reading List

Zartis

If there is one common thread among all successful leaders, it is that they are all constant learners. Continuously expanding your understanding of the world and the industry you are in is the key to staying competitive. . Where are successful technology leaders getting their ideas and inspirations from? Find out which sources of learning helped these tech leaders grow their careers and companies. .

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How to lead an employee resource group (ERG) for your organization

Achievers - Recruiting

A treasure trove of advice from co-chairs of Achievers Proud: Trevor Cull, implementation manager, professional services, and Chantal Primeau, senior account manager, customer success. When you realize you don’t have all the answers, it’s the perfect time to begin. The DEI committee at Achievers strives to be known for its inclusive, adaptable, and socially equitable culture of belonging.

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Recruiting the Right Way: Being Intentional Will Lead to Success

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In times of urgent hiring need, companies turn to outside recruiters who can find employees to fill necessary roles. Traditionally, recruiters can quickly find a good candidate for the position, but this sometimes comes at the expense of finding a candidate who is actually a better overall fit for the company. However, recruiting firms need to turn to a new model that emphasizes finding a quality candidate rather than just anyone qualified to fill the role.

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The Brief Guide to Candidate Shortlisting: Tools, Tips & Techniques

Hundred5

Shortlisting candidates is one of the toughest yet most beneficial parts of the hiring process. Get candidate shortlisting right, and you’ll be well on your way to hiring a superstar. But, get it wrong, and you won’t just waste time and effort, but you’ll increase your risk of a bad hire. In this article, we’ll look at all things candidate shortlisting.

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11 Office Games to Connect Your Team

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Your employees know they’ve made the right move in accepting a job with your company when they begin to see their colleagues as friends and look forward to work each day. But developing tightknit teams requires you to utilize innovative planning and transparency in earning and maintaining your staff’s trust. The trick? Making a plan for your team to play together.

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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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3 Myths About Recruiting, Exposed by AI

Eightfold

Recruiters no longer need to rely solely on new candidates to fill open positions. Today, organizations are seeing dramatic results by tapping into the talent pools right in front of them. Talent rediscovery re-engages passive talent already familiar with the organization. Unfortunately, many HR functions overlook this recruiting tactic or lack the talent acquisition technology to enable re-engagement.

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Hypotheticals Can Render Restrictive Covenants Unenforceable

Recruiting Daily Advisor

On July 14, 2022, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a former employee in a dispute over whether two uniquely worded restrictive covenants against him violated Wisconsin law. The case presents new considerations regarding what employers can and cannot include in noncompete clauses with severed employees. Facts. Carlos Godina was hired by Diamond Assets LLC to work in sales and signed a contract that contained three provisions at issue in the case: two restrictive covenants (a nonco

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ScienceLogic's Rita Wharton on What It Means to Be a Servant-Leader

PowerToFly

Rita Wharton defines her leadership style as “servant-leader.” According to her, “being a servant-leader means not only being able to lead but also making an effort to relate to the people you're asking to follow you.”. She does so in both her leadership positions at work and in her community. “I'm a Girl Scout leader working with young women, encouraging them to be in touch with their community and helping them achieve what they can through the Girl Scout experience,” Rita shares.

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NodeJS – Threads and The Event Loop

Zartis

NodeJS is one of the most used technologies for web development, but there are some misleading statements on the internet. It’s often said that NodeJS is an asynchronous single-threaded runtime, but it’s also been referred to as multi-threaded, which statement is then the correct one? Well, it depends. It is widely known that Javascript is a single-threaded programming language, which may cause people to believe the first statement is empirically true. .

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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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Faces of HR: Brenda Leadley on Connection, Collaboration, and Changing the Lens of HR

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Meet Brenda Leadley, North America Head of HR at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) – a global, leading corporate insurance carrier and key business unit of financial services provider Allianz Group. AGCS is headquartered in Munich, has offices throughout North America – including New York, Chicago, and Toronto – and operates in more than 30 countries employing more than 4,000.

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How One New Leader Effectively Leveraged Her Assimilation Process

FlashPoint

A Case Study for New Leader Assimilation. Leadership transitions today are commonplace with resignations at an all-time high, and continued market disruptions causing significant restructuring to a leader's role and their teams. We recently worked with a leader who faced a big challenge. She was tasked with the leadership of a large manufacturing plant during the worst of the COVID supply chain disruptions (remember the Ever Given Suez Canal blockage?

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