Fri.Nov 08, 2019

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6 Unique Questions to Ask at the End of an Interview

PowerToFly

In an interview, it's hard to anticipate what questions an interviewer will ask, but there is one that they are guaranteed to ask every single time (and it may be the most important question of the interview): "Do you have any questions for me?" Asking thoughtful questions is vital for three reasons: 1) If you say no, you are telling your interviewer that you think you know everything already (you don't) or you are not prepared. 2) It can further establish you as the ideal candidate for the role

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How Societal Influences Affect the Gender Pay Gap

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The gender pay gap was front and center at this year’s Emmy Awards, thanks to Michelle Williams’ powerful speech about gender equality. We should expect to see this issue raised again throughout award season, particularly as recent research revealed that Hollywood’s gender pay gap is among the highest of any industry, with female stars earning about 25% less than male stars.

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5 Productivity Hacks That Could Transform Your Staffing Agency

AkkenCloud

Almost every staffing agency could probably use a few hacks to help them be as productive and efficient as possible and making more placements than ever. Agency owners that are set in their ways about the way they have always done things tend to fall behind their competitors because they are scared of trying new things. However, a business should be ever-evolving, as is the business landscape.

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#WorkTrends: Ageism and Its Impact on the Modern Worker

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Good news for employees, but kind of concerning for employers. In the coming months, the Supreme Court could make it easier for federal employees to prove that they were discriminated against on the basis of age. I saw some fascinating research in Forbes recently that shows ageism starts as early as the age of forty-two. Forty-two? We deal with isms today in the workplace, but we don’t tend to focus enough on ageism.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Employment Specialists Can Help You Tap an Underutilized Talent Pool: People With Disabilities

Recruiter

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 30 percent of the 15.3 million Americans between ages 16 and 64 with disabilities participated in the workforce in 2018, compared to 74 percent of Americans without a disability.

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Cut Workplace Conflict and Improve Productivity With These 5 Tips

Recruiter

Conflict is bound to arise anytime opinions differ — which means conflict is a fact of life in the workplace. Indeed, 85 percent of employees report experiencing conflict at work, and 29 percent say the conflict is nearly constant. But conflict isn't always a bad thing. Handled maturely, it can lead to creative solutions, facilitate new ideas, and challenge the status quo.

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Surveyor job description

Workable

Use this surveyor job description to advertise your open roles and find reliable candidates for your company. Feel free to modify responsibilities and requirements based on your needs. What is a surveyor? Surveyors estimate property boundaries for construction projects. They also provide useful data for mapmaking, mining, and legal purposes. What does a surveyor do?

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Streamline Yourself: Rejecting the No-Win Stories That Make You Fear Success

Recruiter

There's a reason race cars, bullet trains, and supersonic aircraft have streamlined shapes. The faster a vehicle is meant to go, the more engineers have to take into account an invisible force bent on slowing them down: drag. You probably experience a similar phenomenon when you get up to speed on a project. The more momentum you create, the more invisible forces seem to slow you down.

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The Evolution of Job Advertising Performance Data

Jobvite

See how you can lower your costs and drive more of the best candidates into your pipeline. Remember when posting a job was as simple as copying and pasting a job description on the site that you felt was the ‘best’ for your job? You’d post a job based on intuition or where you thought it might perform well. Or, you’d stay with the status quo and re-sign with your existing job board contacts to avoid the work associated with finding new or better vendors.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Keys to Building a Real Estate Team

The Staffing Stream

As a real estate agent, it is easy to become overwhelmingly busy with paperwork, and scheduling when you are trying to increase your sales volume. Not to mention you also need time to interact with your clients, and provide them with the best real estate experience possible. At times accomplishing all of this can seem impossible, luckily there is a solution though.

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The Effects of Postponed Retirement on the Recruitment of Young Workers

RecruitmentJuice

Recession and economic instability have left a big dent in how society views retirement and recruitment. Due to financial hardships, more and more elderly employees seek to postpone their retirement. They wish to enjoy work benefits for as long as possible and to gain a few additional years to save for old age. In […]. The post The Effects of Postponed Retirement on the Recruitment of Young Workers appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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How to survive as a startup CEO

Vervoe

The last time I endured such a powerful apprenticeship, with such a steep learning curve, was when I served in the military. Don’t get me wrong, I learned a lot in every job I had and throughout each of my university degrees. But nothing compares to this. In each of those experiences I knew what I had to achieve and I had some idea about the method I should use in order to achieve it.

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5 Reasons Why Technology Drives Success in Staffing

PandoLogic

As someone intimately familiar with the hiring process, you know the needs and challenges of filling your organization’s open positions. You also know that it’s all about relationships—and that those can’t easily be replaced by an algorithm or an AI.

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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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Real Estate, Recruiting and Sourcing: A Love Story of Sorts

Recruiting Daily

“building out a mass of maybes does not a hire make.” There are more than a few parallels between recruiting and real estate. No, this isn’t a diatribe about how candidates are like houses. They’re not, and frankly, we might all benefit from a little more emphasis on the human factor, but that’s a […].

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The Evolution of Job Advertising Performance Data

Jobvite

See how you can lower your costs and drive more of the best candidates into your pipeline. Remember when posting a job was as simple as copying and pasting a job description on the site that you felt was the ‘best’ for your job? You’d post a job based on intuition or where you thought it might perform well. Or, you’d stay with the status quo and re-sign with your existing job board contacts to avoid the work associated with finding new or better vendors.

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Search Solution Group Recognized as a Best Place To Work for the 6th Consecutive Year!

Search Solution Group

Search Solution Group named one of the Best Places To Work for the 6th straight year by the Charlotte Business Journal Our recruitment firm’s flourishing culture that celebrates both individual success and team accomplishments along with our “grit, responsiveness, integrity, and teamwork” core values are directly responsible for the company's outstanding continual [.].

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Younger Workers Crave Instant Gratification. Here's How to Give It to Them Without Causing Distraction.  

Recruiter

Gen. Z workers want immediate access to data that shows them how they're performing.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In this week’s list of our must-read articles for talent professionals, there’s more good news for advocates of the 4-day workweek: Microsoft tested the shorter week for an entire month at its Japan offices and found clear benefits, including a whopping 40% boost in productivity. You’ll also be able to read about a meme (“OK, boomer”) that’s surfaced a simmering rift between generations, a startup that wants to create a better sexual harassment training, and a true story of espionage at a social

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Is The 4-Day Work Week Coming? Microsoft Says It Boosted Productivity

PowerToFly

Microsoft Japan piloted a 4-day work week this summer and the results speak for themselves. According to a recent NPR article recapping the test: There was a productivity boost of 40% Electricity costs fell by 23% Printing decreased by 60% So how did it work? This August, workers at Microsoft Japan worked four days a week, but earned their normal five-day paychecks as part of "Work Life Choice Challenge 2019 Summer" Standard meetings ran 30 minutes (rather than an hour) & attendance was capp

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In this week’s list of our must-read articles for talent professionals, there’s more good news for advocates of the 4-day workweek: Microsoft tested the shorter week for an entire month at its Japan offices and found clear benefits, including a whopping 40% boost in productivity. You’ll also be able to read about a meme (“OK, boomer”) that’s surfaced a simmering rift between generations, a startup that wants to create a better sexual harassment training, and a true story of espionage at a social

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We Loved Meeting S&P Global's Women Tech Leaders in Denver

PowerToFly

Denver has become one of the most rapidly rising tech hubs in the United States and PowerToFly was thrilled to be back in the Mile-High City for our second event on October 24th which was also our second event with industry giant S&P Global. Hosted by PowerToFly's CEO Milena Berry , this special invite-only evening began with a keynote address by Marcus Daley , CTO, S&P Global Ratings, who spoke more about S&P Global's mission and company culture.

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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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Ken Coleman Honored as MSA 2019 Finalist

KNF&T Staffing Resources

KNF&T is proud to announce that our temporary employee, Ken Coleman , was honored this week as a finalist in the Massachusetts Staffing Association ( MSA ) Staffing Employee of the Year Awards. MSA’s Staffing Employee of the Year Awards honor a select group of staffing employees that are the heart and soul of the staffing industry. We are so excited that Ken was among these remarkable finalists.

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WORKSHEET: Recruitment marketing content plan

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 2 minutes. You’re probably eyeing 2020 and picking the challenges you’ll tackle next year. Perhaps you’re improving the candidate experience, relaunching your careers site, or proving your employer value proposition to candidates. Whatever the recruiting and branding problem, you’ll need compelling employee story content to solve it.

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Search Solution Group Recognized as a Best Place To Work for the 6th Consecutive Year!

Search Solution Group

Search Solution Group named one of the Best Places To Work for the 6th straight year by the Charlotte Business Journal Our recruitment firm’s flourishing culture that celebrates both individual success and team accomplishments along with our “grit, responsiveness, integrity, and teamwork” core values are directly responsible for the companies outstanding continual [.].

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5 Reasons You Need A Talent Acquisition Strategy

JazzHR

Guest blog by Frank Hamilton from The Word Point. Talent acquisition is not recruitment, and to be successful at it, the CEO would require a proper strategic plan. Below are some reasons why you should establish and adopt a talent acquisition strategy. 1. Applying a Talent Acquisition Strategy Helps you stay Competitive. The top competitors in your field are where they are not by luck or coincidence.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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What Do Workers Really Want? New Survey Explains

Recruiting Daily Advisor

A high-performing workforce is essential for any business to be successful. And while most companies strive to keep employees engaged and productive, it’s difficult to know which workplace factors will make a positive and sustainable impact. In order to attract candidates and motivate current employees, companies first need to know: What do workers want?

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Media Staffing Perspective From 26-Year Veteran Laurie Kahn

Media Staffing Network

Laurie Kahn has been helping media companies hire full-time employees since she founded Media Staffing Network in 1993. Given her broad and lengthy experience, I wanted to talk to her about the state of TV recruitment, how it has changed over the years and what advice she could offer to those TV companies that need staff and those candidates who are looking for opportunities. by Paul Greeley November 7, 2019 12:43 GMT.

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Top Jobs Expected to Grow the Most By 2026

Recruiting Daily Advisor

You may wonder why we’re planning for 2026, considering we haven’t even made it to 2020. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” Benjamin Franklin once said. So, what better time to prepare for the future than the present. What will the job market look like in 2026? And which jobs will be the most in-demand roles? We’ve got the answers, so keep reading!

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