Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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Anatomy of an Effective Job Posting Strategy

Hiretual

The “post and pray” strategy is shaky ground for your job posting strategy to rest on – especially in today’s employment market. Job openings in the United States are outnumbering the unemployed like no other time in history. Both active and passive job seekers are being more selective about their career choices because they now have more options to consider.

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The Math On AI For Recruiting: It Works!

Ideal

Have you been curious as to if the numbers and costs associated with AI for recruiting would be positive in your company? The discussions about AI in the recruiting process have been robust in 2018 and 2019. More and more companies are adopting these solutions, or some form of machine learning and artificial intelligence, but there’s a lot of companies out there still doing things in an old-school, manual way.

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8 Key Metrics for Measuring Your Recruiting Events

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Digital recruitment strategies reign supreme. However, there’s one (mostly non-digital) piece of the recruitment pie that still works for practitioners looking to boost their efforts even further. I’m talking about recruiting events! Good old fashioned face-to-face communications provide better engagement and personalization for job seekers, and they give companies a higher chance of connecting with passive candidates.

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Cut the Conflicts and Improve Productivity with These 5 Tips

ClearCompany Recruiting

Where there are differing opinions, conflict is likely to arise. 85% of employees report experiencing conflict at work , and 30% say the conflict is nearly constant. That isn’t always a bad thing, though — it often leads to creative solutions, facilitates new ideas, and challenges the status quo. But, when conflict goes unchecked, it can become counterproductive and can deteriorate team dynamics.

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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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Social Media Recruitment Strategies That Work

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Social media has become an increasingly valuable tool for job seekers when they’re looking for their next career opportunity. And social media recruiting strategies have become a key way for companies to find and connect with right-fit talent. But it takes a lot more than a social media profile for employers to use these platforms to their full advantage.

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The Rundown on Measuring Your Recruiting Events

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Digital recruitment strategies reign supreme. However, there’s one (mostly non-digital) piece of the recruitment pie that still works for practitioners looking to boost their efforts even further. I’m talking about recruiting events! Good old fashioned face-to-face communications provide better engagement and personalization for job seekers, and they give companies a higher chance of connecting with passive candidates.

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How an automated ATS reduces friction in the hiring process

JazzHR

It takes an average of 36 days to fill an empty position , but is that length of time really necessary? Traditional hiring cycles are burdened by friction at nearly every stage of the process, from getting approval to make a hire all the way to the decision period. By reducing friction through automation, recruiters can spend their valuable time on tasks that move processes forward.

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Three Assumptions Standing Between Employers and the Workers They Need

Allegis Global Solutions

When it comes to today’s in-demand skills, the supply of talent is tight. From engineers and programmers to marketing, management, and trade skills, employers are not only challenged to find the people they need to fill critical roles; they must compete for those people. Also at issue is the fact that such competition is growing beyond traditional realms to include companies both within and outside their industries that need people with the same capabilities.

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How to Get Employees to Fill Your Jobs

FireFish Software

‘Employee advocacy’ is a marketing tactic where employees promote their company as a great place to work in order to attract new candidates. You really can’t underestimate the power word-of-mouth marketing with stats like this: Companies that have an employee advocacy strategy in place are 58% more likely to attract and 20% more likely to retain top talent !

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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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10 Techniques Job Seekers Can Use To Stand Out During An Interview

Forbes Human Resources Council

Don't give the same answers every other job candidate is giving in your next interview. Human resources experts share some effective strategies for making a great first impression.

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4 Ways Freelancers Can Earn Money Online

AkkenCloud

More and more people are now looking to make use of the growing digital age and work from home. Whether it’s freelancing in a profession such as accounting or programming it’s not uncommon for people to make use of remote working and work from home rather than in the office. Not only does it mean they have the freedom to work wherever they like it also means they can manage their own time how they see fit.

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Ask the Indeed Economist: What Are the Jobs That People Don’t Leave?

Indeed

For some job seekers, this might sound like a dream come true: you find a job you love so much that you never leave it. But for recruiters, this mindset poses both opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, jobs that people stay at can be more attractive and marketable to candidates. But on the other hand, in a tough labor market it may be hard to draw candidates away from these “sticky” fields to fill other roles.

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Employee Spotlight: How Hireology Employees Strike a Balance of Hard Work and Fun

Hireology

This post is part of our Hireology employee spotlight series. Continue reading to learn more about a day in the life as a Hireologist! Name: Joe Manglardi . Team: Customer Success. Role: Manager of Customer Development. Introduction. I joined Hireology in November of 2018 – it’s hard to believe it’s almost been almost a year! I was the first external hire to join our newly established upsell team and was recently promoted to Manager of Customer Development.

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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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The Truth Doesn't Have to Hurt: How to Give Constructive Interview Feedback to Sales Candidates

Recruiter

Constructive criticism makes us stronger, and many professionals believe it is the challenging points in their careers that push them to reach their greatest successes. As Henry Ford famously said, "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." More and more professionals are adopting a Ford-style mindset — and they're even applying it to the job search.

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Job descriptions that convert: 5 tips from a copywriter

Kallidus

Job descriptions that convert: 5 tips from a copywriter. So you’re recruiting for a new role and it’s time to write the job description. I’m not a writer , you might say, it just needs to be a list of expected tasks or output, you insist. While this is the minimum expectation for a job description, if you really want to attract top talent and create job descriptions that convert the best candidates, it’s time to ramp things up a notch.

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The Best Online Sources for Remote Team Members

Recruiter

In need of a marketing expert to build your brand? Looking for a copywriter to create content for your website? Wish you had someone on your team who could build you a brand new website? Regardless of what you need, there are remote workers all over the world who could get the task done for you. But is hiring a remote employee the right move for your business?

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Mental Health at Work: Lean Into It

Achievers - Recruiting

We live in an era of shattered stereotypes and new frontiers. Monumental demographic shifts, the evolving women’s movement, heightened cultural sensitivities and, of course, the ubiquity of new technologies have fundamentally altered our culture. More specifically these sweeping changes in a short amount of time have changed the places that we work.

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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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Engaging in Social Media for Business Success

The Staffing Stream

For many leaders, navigating social media is a mystery, best solved by internal marketing teams, external marketing agencies or is meant for millennial leaders only. To some leaders, social media is a nuisance and not worth bothering about. For others, it’s a new and improved way to develop and enhance their networking “chops”. Many, however, feel it is something they need to do, are encouraged to do, but most readily admit that they jump in without any overarching strategy.

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How To Leverage Data To Improve Your Recruitment Process

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

We’re living in the age of big data. Technology makes it easier than ever before to gather information not only on prospective candidates but on the hiring process in general. Most will agree that more data is a good thing; it’s knowing what to do with it and then putting it into practice that becomes the challenge.

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GradLeaders at the National Society for Experiential Education Conference in St. Pete Beach!

GradLeaders

GradLeaders had a great first experience at the NSEE conference in St Pete Beach, Florida in September. Having partnered with Co-Op offices in many career centers & business schools, we were able to also connect with representatives from other academic departments that have their own experiential learning programs. With all the unique internship programs being represented at the NSEE, we are able to explain how the flexibility of our system can match many different processes and procedures

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Embracing Digital

Recruiting Blogs

Digital marketing and technology is taking the world by storm. With an estimated 2.1 billion active users , Facebook has changed the way people communicate around the world. And, it’s not just Facebook. Instagram has become a source of revenue for countless businesses, YouTube is making it easier to communicate to millions of younger consumers, and organizations like TechCrunch, Y Combinator, and 500 Startups are growing digitally-focused businesses building new CRMs, tracking devices, and algor

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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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Why Attend a PowerToFly Event?

PowerToFly

What happens when you fill a room with smart women experienced in engineering, UX design, and data science, and let them connect with company leaders? In our experience hosting over 100 networking events in the past 2 years, the answer has been pretty great things: learning, shared stories and experiences, and sometimes, new jobs! Back in February, we did just that, bringing together over 100 women to learn about the latest innovations at vacation rental company, Vrbo.

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Do you know the numbers?

Recruiting Blogs

Unemployment Rate: 3.5% (Down). Underemployment Rate: 12.6% (Down). Job openings were at 7.1 million on the last business day of August (Down). Jobs Openings Rate: 4.4% (Down). Number of hires were at 5.8 million on the last business day of August (Down). Hires Rate: 3.8% (Down). Labor Force Participation Rate: 62.7% (Down). Turnover Rate: 3.7% (Down).

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Finding Your Purpose Is a Team Effort: A Millennial Perspective on the Workforce Experience

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What is Executive Search?

Recruiting Blogs

An executive search is carried out to find candidates who are suitable for senior executive roles. If you want to start your own executive search firm all you need is quality relationships with people already serving in executive roles. Executive search is very different from regular recruitment because a large amount of money and time goes into recruiting for these roles.

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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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5 Questions to Ask that Will Help You Find Your Selling Points

BlueSky

No doubt the hot job market and growing healthcare industry bode well for medical recruiting agencies. However, basic economics dictates that supply always catches up with demand. While great staffing companies always stay busy, it’s still important for organizations to differentiate their services from those of competitors.

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Are You Meeting Gen Z's Expectations?

RChilli

Over the years, you must have witnessed a lot of transformation in the recruitment process as we did our best to attract millennials. Time is here when Gen Z is joining the workforce. To ensure that you are using the right recruitment strategy to hire Gen Z, you must understand what their expectations are and what can you do to meet them through technology.

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How to Hire: 5 tips for public service recruitment

Workable

Public service recruitment teams may struggle to attract talent (especially millennials ); when was the last time you heard a child say their dream job was in government? The public, and generally non-profit , sector isn’t exactly included in lists of ‘cool’ places to work. That adds to the challenge of hiring in an industry that’s regimented and budget-constrained to begin with.

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