Fri.Apr 05, 2019

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Talent attraction: Why Maslow thinks your job ads suck

Workable

Are you a recruiter in a terrifyingly drab business park 30 minutes from the “cool” downtown core or city center? Getting crickets when you’re trying to fill those crucial developer roles in your non-tech firm, knowing that talented developers are constantly being wooed by software giants or exciting startups? Struggling to attract candidates to your mid-sized “everytown” locale when they’re moving en masse to Silicon Valley, NYC, London or another über-fantastic metropolitan hub?

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Could Gamification Help Recruit and Retain Talent?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Using artificial intelligence (AI) on day-to-day, mundane tasks frees up recruiters and allows them to spend their time where it matters the most: with prospective candidates. As we know, the candidate experience is vital to attracting and retaining talent, but could AI be used to lure jobseekers in, as well? relif / iStock / Getty Images Plus. A new gamification platform, ImmersionOne , aims to make the recruiting process both fun and informative for all parties involved.

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Using a Team Value Proposition to Tell Better Employee Stories

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Company culture and employee experience are important for helping candidates contemplate their next career move. But a top level view isn’t enough for candidates anymore. They want to drill down deeper and find out about the culture and experience on the potential teams they may work on. In fact, LinkedIn found that 42 percent of candidates look for information on how they would fit within a team when exploring new opportunities.

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#WorkTrends: Limitless: A New Framework for Employee Engagement

TalentCulture - Recruiting

When Laura Gassner Otting was working as an executive recruiter, she had a revelation: success does not always equal happiness. Over time, she’s come to see that the people who are happiest in their jobs have achieved what she calls “consonance.” “It’s people who have carved their own path, who have figured out, ‘This is the one that I really want to do,’” she says.

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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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5 Questions You Shouldn’t Ask in an Interview

Undercover Recruiter

When it comes to conducting interviews, there are a handful of questions you simply shouldn’t ask the candidates in front of you. Whether it’s because your words could be misconstrued or cause offence, sometimes you need to look for a way around a certain question if you want to get to know your interviewee without. View Article. 5 Questions You Shouldn’t Ask in an Interview Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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4. Building a team of Recruiters

Recruit CRM

(This is part of a series of articles on becoming a Recruitment Entrepreneur. These articles are meant for first-time recruitment entrepreneurs and the more experienced recruiters may find some parts elementary. I shall start dwelling deeper into each aspect once we get done with the basics. If you wish to contribute to this topic please write to ajay@recruitcrm.io I will be happy to incorporate.

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Top 5 Takeaways from the Women in Tech Report

HackerRank

2019 will be the first year where members of Gen Z (those born in 1997 onward) will enter the job market en masse. For our 2nd annual Women in Tech report , we surveyed more than 12,000 developers who identify as women and found eye-opening insights on recruiting Gen Z women developers. Here are our top takeaways on how to attract the next generation of diverse tech talent from the report: . 1.

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Planning for Succession

Manatal

Imagine one day your top worker decides to resign, retire, or take extended time off for personal reasons. Or how about this scenario: you need to fire an employee, but nobody else knows how to do their work. What should you do to cope with these painful situations? In order to fill empty positions fast and well, companies should be aware of the importance of succession planning.

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hiringplug™ - Empowering Gig Recruiters

Hiring Plug

hiringplug™ empowers Freelance / Gig recruiters and boutique recruitment agencies to expand their business by providing free access to a variety of job mandates and productive tools.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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A Guide to Candidate Testing and Verification, Part 1: Prescreen Surveys and Skills Tests

Hireology

In today’s competitive hiring market, your team likely wants to speed up the hiring process as much as possible to secure top talent. But it’s critical to avoid cutting corners during the hiring process and ensure you’re only hiring candidates who are qualified and the right fit for your team. To achieve this, several steps of the hiring process should focus on candidate testing and verification.

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Should You Implement a 4-Day Workweek?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Modern-day employees claim they want a better work/life balance and more flexible work schedules; one such flexible schedule is a 4-day workweek, during which employees work 35 to 40 hours in 4 days instead of the traditional 5. Recently, 66% of workers polled by Robert Half stated that they want a compressed 4-day workweek to fulfill this work/life balance, but only 17% of their employers offered one.

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European Recruitment Tech Start Ups To Watch 2019

Recruiting Daily

Recently Unleash visited London again and as always there were plenty of start-ups I hadn’t met before. So like last year I’ll talk about the ones I’m most enthusiastic about. Now, this isn’t a prediction of success, since I usually look at the product, the quality of it and the potential of it and we […].

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Talent attraction: Why Maslow thinks your job ads suck

Workable

Are you a recruiter in a terrifyingly drab business park 30 minutes from the “cool” downtown core or city center? Getting crickets when you’re trying to fill those crucial developer roles in your non-tech firm, knowing that talented developers are constantly being wooed by software giants or exciting startups? Struggling to attract candidates to your mid-sized “everytown” locale when they’re moving en masse to Silicon Valley, NYC, London or another über-fantastic metropolitan hub?

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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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Down With The Hierarchy: How Flat Management Fosters Employee Entrepreneurship

Forbes Human Resources Council

Many legacy organizations are still relying on an outdated —and unproductive —organizational structure. Here’s why flat management works better.

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InnoWell reduces time to hire by 15% using Workable

Workable

The challenge. The solution. Chaotic approach to hiring leading to slow candidate-response time and sluggish pipelines. No dedicated HR function or formal recruitment process in place. Disconnected workflow with external agencies. Emails and phone calls used to share feedback, interview details and hiring decisions resulting in a lack of transparency and poor tracking of information.

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TALENT AND HR NEWS UPDATE: CULTURE AND WELLNESS

exaqueo

With flowers blooming and the promise of warmer weather just around the corner, our team has been reading up on thriving company cultures and fostering wellness with growth. In this month’s roundup, #teamexaqueo has curated 5 articles to get your nurturing wheels turning: HOW TO CREATE A WORKPLACE CULTURE OF WELLNESS FROM THE BALANCE CAREERS Employers are under intense pressure to rein in costs and increase profitability.

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Starting a New Business? 3 Tips for Staying Organized

Transformify - Recruiting

If you're getting a business off the ground, there are all sorts of responsibilities you need to fulfill from finding a location to getting the necessary permits. This is a lot to handle, and the best way to deal with it is by being organized. To make sure you have all your ducks in a row before you open your doors, follow these tips. Batching. All of your various duties can become a lot to keep track of.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Pipeline Development

Media Staffing Network

In recent articles, I have shared some tips to help stations do a better job at attracting, hiring, and retaining good employees. With so much competition to hire, it is really smart to have a more proactive stance so that when you have an opening, you already have an idea of who you will hire. We know that in today’s climate, a job-seeker who is talented will get snapped up quickly, so it is important to build a pipeline of prospective employees well in advance.

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A New Kind of Family: Refugees in the Modern Workplace

Recruiter Flow

Diversity: it’s been a hot topic over the past year. This year’s American Congress welcomed a long list of firsts and record numbers of women, and it’s just one of the modern workplaces welcoming fresh faces and big changes. Why refugees? I’m a… The post A New Kind of Family: Refugees in the Modern Workplace appeared first on Recruiterflow Blog.

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8 Lever Integrations that Help You Hire Faster

Lever

Did you know that on average, HR & talent teams have 11 HR systems of record in place? According to Josh Bersin’s 2019 5 HR Predictions , the average company now has 11 systems of record, with new apps for wellbeing, engagement, feedback, recognition, performance management, learning and even pay launching every day. HR teams can no longer operate in silos, meaning to hire and keep strong talent has truly become a team sport.

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Virtual Tech Talk with Women Engineering Leaders at DigitalOcean

PowerToFly

PowerToFly is thrilled to partner with DigitalOcean, a dynamic, fast-growing startup that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams and businesses around the world, to present a virtual tech talk and audience Q&A with several of their women tech leaders. The webinar will take place on Monday, May 6th at 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST.

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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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Small Business Big Lawsuit: How to Keep Your Employees Safe

Recruiting Blogs

Running a small business requires taking on a lot or risk. When you hire a new person to a team you are taking the risk upon your company. There is the risk that your competition could steal your customers. There is the risk that the economy could take a sudden downturn. There is the risk that your employees may not perform up to your expectations. However, certain risks could pretty much destroy your business overnight.

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Why On-Site Interviews Are Important

GoodTime

As someone who’s worked abroad, I’ve had my fair share of virtual interviews. In fact, two out of the three jobs that I’ve had post-college were all interviewed virtually without on-site interviews. Virtual interviews, while convenient, don’t necessarily lend themselves to evaluating everything you’d need to during the interview process. For me, personally, there were certainly surprises that I would’ve known about had I interviewed in person!

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New Employee Resignation: Who Should Take the Blame?

Top Echelon Contracting

Nobody likes a new employee resignation or a situation in which a new employee is fired shortly after being hired. (Recruiters commonly refer to both of these situations as a fall-off.) Except maybe the candidate who fell off. Maybe they.

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Hireserve launches new Indeed integration

Hireserve

Hireserve has launched a new integration with leading jobsite Indeed. Fully integrated with Hireserve ATS via an XML feed, this new feature ensures that customers’ jobs are published directly to Indeed. With over 200m users per month, * Indeed provides access to a rich pool of global talent. The new feature will save Hireserve customers time and reduce administration, as jobs are automatically posted on Indeed with accurate and up to date listings.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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6 eLearning Trends You Can’t Miss in 2019

Jobbatical

Are you looking for innovative ways to advance your career? Do you want to engage in effective eLearning that will help you enhance your skills and realize your full potential? Whether you’re an employer or employee, finding new ways to learn should always be on your daily plate. There’s always room for improvement, and knowledge truly is power. You certainly see a lot of new eLearning trends every year.

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IQPC switches to Workable and streamlines hiring across its global network

Workable

The challenge. The solution. 150+ hiring managers using different hiring tools. 50% of recruitment done using a manual process (emails + spreadsheets). An organization that’s hiring constantly. Poor communication with external recruiters and candidates. Deploy Workable across all 10 locations. Provide access to Workable’s 24/7 global support. Use structured workflows, pipelines, scorecards and templates to streamline and standardize process.

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March 2019 Jobs Report [Infographic]

PandoLogic

The U.S. Department of Labor has released the March jobs report numbers today and it seems as though we can collectively breathe a sigh of relief. For now. After a slow February, experts were concerned that the economy was showing.

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