Tue.Jun 25, 2019

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Innovation and Profitability: How Diversity Drives your Team

Zartis

Having diverse people and diverse perspectives in a team is indisputably a good thing for any business. Research shows that there is a direct correlation between gender, ethnic and cultural diversity and profitability in an organisation. What’s more, diversity leads to innovation – a key ingredient for successful and sustainable technology businesses.

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Interview red flags for employers: 5 common myths about candidates

Workable

“Do you know why I invited you to this interview?”. “I guess it’s because I have the right skills for the job?”. “Well, yes, you’re qualified, but what really stood out to me in your resume is your birth date. My son was born on that day, too!”. True story. Years ago, when I was interviewing for a different role, I heard that I was lucky enough to be considered for the job since I celebrate my birthday on the same day as the hiring manager’s son.

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Politics and the Workplace: How to Hire and Get Hired in an Increasingly Polarized World

Recruiter

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Survey: More Than Half of Workers Embrace Flexible Options

Allegis Global Solutions

People are working differently than they did in the past. A recent Allegis Group Pulse survey found that 54 percent of working respondents reported some level of career activity as a flexible worker. Some worked as full-time contractors at one employer (38 percent) while others worked as traditional employees with “side jobs” as freelancers (nine percent) or as freelancers working for multiple customers (eight percent).

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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The Danger of Assumptions

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Laura LaBine from LaBine and Associates in the San Francisco Bay Area (USA). Laura is a member of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors, with responsibility for the network’s practice groups. LaBine and Associates is a boutique recruitment firm specializing in placing highly skilled individuals with clients in the cybersecurity, clean energy, high tech, fin-tech and other industries.

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5 Self-Development Tactics Every Recruiter Should Practice

FireFish Software

Self-development is important in every career, but in a target-centric industry like recruitment, it’s essential. Yet it’s crazy how little time we dedicate to it – we’re so busy running around thinking about how to help our candidates that we forget to stop a minute and think about how we can help ourselves. If you take self-development seriously, you will become a better recruiter – there’s absolutely no doubt about that.

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Getting Your Employee Referral Program Just Right

Katrina Kibben

If you're dedicated to getting your employee referral program right, it's not about more posters or bigger bonuses. The post Getting Your Employee Referral Program Just Right appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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How to Establish a Great Brand Reputation that Attracts Better Talent

RecruitLoop

We all know it’s important to present your company in the best light. But often, this can be ignored when it comes to promoting how your company is perceived to potential new employees. This is called “employee branding,” and it’s important. In this article, our returning guest blogger tells us how to best position your business to attract the very best talent!

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9 Ways To Build And Maintain Your Talent Pool

Harver

With 67% of large companies having difficulty filling roles, building and maintaining a talent pool is a great help for successful recruiting. Start now!

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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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Creating An Employee Referral Program? Here Are Some Great Examples To Get You Started

ConveyIQ

Employee referral programs (ERPs) are the crown jewel of many talent acquisition departments’ recruiting strategy. Selective hiring drives profitability and workplace efficiency, but referral programs happen to come with culture benefits.

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Best Practices for Amplifying Your University Recruiting Program

HackerRank

How can one team of recruiters provide an immersive hiring experience for tens, hundreds, or even thousands of university candidates ? We asked our in-house Customer Success experts—who’ve worked with some of the biggest university recruiting programs in the world—to dispel the best practices they’ve learned. Few recruiting disciplines are as complex, or as competitive as university recruiting.

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New Hacks Replace Old Hacks

Boolean Strings

It’s never boring with sourcing tools and sites. Things change all the time and, at times, we lose tools. A major #OSINT publication Bellingcat writes that last week was “a hell week for research”: The past week dealt several blows to open source researchers. First, Facebook made major changes to its Graph search interface, effectively breaking previous methods to search public posts from the site.

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HackerRank Partners with IBM Kenexa BrassRing

HackerRank

Used by over 1,500 customers across industries and around the world, HackerRank is the industry-leading and enterprise-grade technical skill assessment platform. With scalable team management, advanced compliance features , security and privacy controls, and a guaranteed 99.5% uptime, companies spend less time setting up and worrying about systems, and more time meeting hiring goals and shipping products.

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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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3 Strategies for Attracting Remote Workers to Your Company

The Muse

Want to combat the talent shortage? Use these three strategies to expand your candidate search and attract remote workers to your company.

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4 Strategies for a Better Health Benefits Experience

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Your benefits are missing the target if employees don’t engage with them. Meghan M. Biro offers four strategies for making sure your benefits programs succeed in engaging employees. The post 4 Strategies for a Better Health Benefits Experience appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Just 39% of Canadian Co.’s Are Online: What Can This Tell Recruiters?

Smartdreamers

Canada is a connected country. With a total population of approximately 37 million (2017), Canada boasts a whopping 34 million internet users. That means ~93% of the total population is online. And if you’re looking to grow your talent pool in Canada, that’s great news.

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7 Best Practices for Using Bullets in Job Descriptions

Ongig

How many bullets should you use in a job description? Does your job posting have too many bullets? Great questions. I’ve been asked a bunch of these job description bullet-related questions. I did my best to answer those and more below. It’s all the best practices I know about the most effective use of bullets in job descriptions. Note: I use the terms “job descriptions”, “job postings” and “job ads” interchangeably in this article. .

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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 2020 Recession: What It Means for Recruiters

Recruiter

It has been more than 10 years since the Great Recession of 2008, and talk about another recession in 2020 is only getting louder. External recruiters should be especially alert to this chatter, as they can be seriously hurt by a decline in job postings. However, a possible recession can also present an opportunity for recruiters. Recruiting may be even more important in a dire economy where companies need any and.

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Pick Your Thing. Then Never Shut Up.

Recruiting in Yoga Pants

Way back in the day I had what my team affectionately called my "Branch Manager Suit". It was a beautiful dark blue pantsuit I probably bought somewhere like Charlotte Russe or maybe Marshall's (what, it was the 90s and I was poor). All I know is when I wore this suit I turned heads, got complimented, and was treated like a dang professional!! Dress for the job you want, or something.

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Getting Ghosted by Applicants? Take These 3 Steps to Build a Better Recruiting Process

Recruiter

While the concept originated in the dating scene, ghosting — the act of going dark with no explanation — has become widespread in professional realms. Candidates are suddenly dropping out of recruitment pipelines without a word, simply refusing to respond to recruiters' and employers' messages. Perhaps this development should not be surprising.

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Assessing and Planning Learning Programs with Analytics

Visier - Talent Acquisition

It’s 2019: the war on talent is real and the economic outlook shows less growth and more uncertainty. Meanwhile, according to Training Magazine’s Training Impact Report 2018 , there’s an uptick on learning spend for large to mid-sized organizations in the US. Since an organization’s most expensive line item on the balance sheet is their workforce–and L&D has the responsibility to lift the capabilities of the entire organization –it has never before been this important for learning lead

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Are You Too Ambitious? How to Keep Your Employee Goals High Yet Attainable

Recruiter

Managers must walk a fine line when setting employee goals. Aggressive stretch goals can produce high rewards for both the company and the employee when achieved. When team members reach a goal into which they have all poured significant time and effort, they feel inspired and motivated to take on even more new challenges. The confidence boost unites the team, strengthening bonds between members and steeling their resolve to push.

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Excellent Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day

CuteHR

Employee appreciation day is a holiday widely recognized in several countries like the United States of America and Canada. Created in 1995, it remains an official holiday. The date of this holiday is the 1st of every march. Employee appreciation day today provides an opportunity for companies or organizations to show their appreciation to their employees.

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The Power of Paid Family Leave: Doing More for the Families in Small Businesses

Recruiter

Having a child irrevocably changes your life. I don't have any of my own, but you don't need to be a parent to know that having a child is a huge time commitment, especially for the first year. Yet for the employees of millions of companies across the US, a parent could have a child on Friday and be expected to report to work at 9 a.m. on Monday.

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Addressing Perceived Gender-Based Pay Disparity In The Workplace

Forbes Human Resources Council

Employee relations departments are tasked with investigating and reaching findings on EEOcomplaints. One aspect may be a female employee's claim that she is compensated differently from other employees because of her gender, a violation of the Equal Pay Act.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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'We're Not All the Same': A Former Staffing Firm Leader Offers a Peek Behind the VMS/MSP Curtain

Recruiter

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking with my friend Mindy Milligan, senior program manager at healthcare workforce solutions provider Qualivis. Mindy and I met several years ago during her time as director of nursing services for a staffing firm in South Carolina.

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What Attractive Employee Perks Should Your Business Offer?

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Nearly every business is looking to increase its employee retention rate to decrease the cost of employee turnover. So, you may be wondering what employees value more than salary that could incentivize them to stay with your company. The answer may just lie in an unexpected place: unique employee benefits. In fact, 80% of employees say they’d take valuable perks over a pay raise.

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Boost Your Productivity With These (Home) Office Design Tweaks

PowerToFly

Whether you work from home or from an office, there will always be things that are out of your control. Maybe your office is always freezing, your coworker always talks two times louder when they're on the phone, or there's construction going on right next to your building. Or maybe your boss just won't stop asking you for more than you can feasibly finish in a day.