Mon.Jul 31, 2017

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Great recruiters live on the ‘edge’.

Greg Savage

Today’s recruiter is never ‘done‘ You are never ‘trained’, ‘expert’, or ‘finished with learning’. It’s constant renewal, up-skilling and starting again. That is your challenge from today on. I like the concept of ‘living on the edge’ because it suggests being alert, being dexterous, being nimble. I encourage you to adopt as your mantra, from […].

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The Secret To Investing in Learning That Sticks

Social Talent

For years I have been working in the area of learning and development both in the academic and corporate world. I have learned, that there is much more to learning than presenting and delivering high-quality content. We all know that in today’s world if we don’t stay current and continually invest time into personal development, we will inevitably fall behind.

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'Location, Location'? It Isn't Everything: Here's How to Attract out-of-Town Talent.

Entrepreneur

Expand your search beyond your own backyard by convincing candidates that you're seriously interested in their success.

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What is Social Selling and Why Recruiters Need to Embrace It

FireFish Software

Social selling is a key growth area for salespeople, and it’s a practice that recruiters can benefit from. When it comes to prospecting and reaching potential clients, social media provides a direct route for efficient B2B conversation. To help you get the most from social, w e’ve put together an eBook that covers what social selling is, why you should embrace it, and how you can implement it.

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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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Easy Onboarding Tips: Little Things Can Make a Big Impact

Glassdoor for Employers

Conducting a proper onboarding can have long-term benefits – and it’s the little details that make the biggest difference. Here’s what you can’t miss.

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4 Ways Recruiters Can Tackle the Skills Gap

Undercover Recruiter

There’s been a lot of media buzz about the skills gap in recent weeks, with the Open University warning of a skills gap that costs companies more than £2bn a year. Meanwhile, The Week saw Brexit as a major factor in the overall gap, and The Recruitment & Employment Confederation suggested temps will be used. View Article. 4 Ways Recruiters Can Tackle the Skills Gap.

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5 Tips to Launching an Effective Learning Management & Employee Development Program

Visibility Software Recruiting

Are you considering implementing a formalized employee development program? It is an investment that’s likely to pay off. Organizations with a career development program in place enjoy up to 250 percent higher productivity. And the benefits don’t stop there. Reduced turnover , higher employee engagement levels, increased innovation and improved risk management are some of the additional benefits companies realize when they implement a formal training and career development program.

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Can Recruiters be Successful & Balanced? A Recruiting Yogini Says ‘Yes’

MightyRecruiter

Successful recruiters get to the top echelon of their profession thanks to a varied skillset and the drive to find the perfect candidate against all odds. Ultimately, it can be this same never-let-up mentality and intense motivation that can be a recruiter’s undoing. But, if you believe Jodie Garrison, it doesn’t have to be that. The post Can Recruiters be Successful & Balanced?

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How to conduct customer surveys that engage customers and enlighten you

HR Zone - Talent

Voice of the Customer How to conduct engaging customer surveys.

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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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15 Steps to Becoming a Great Boss

The Hire Talent

Here’s our top 15 picks for what makes a great boss: You understand that your employees make up a great part of the success of you and your company. -Failure to understand that your employees have a valuable contribution toward your own or your company’s success is a recipe for disaster. Failure to recognize that. Read More. The post 15 Steps to Becoming a Great Boss appeared first on The HIRE Talent.

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2017 ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship Recipient, Laura Mather

Talvista

The Anita Borg Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on the advancement of women technologists, announced that Laura Mather , founder and CEO of Talent Sonar , will receive the 2017 ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship. The award will be presented as part of the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, held October 4–7 in Orlando, Florida.

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HireRight’s 2017 Benchmark Report – A Trip Around the World

HireRight

We’re used to organizations running background checks employees who work for banks, medical facilities, public and private transportation, schools, and other conventional organizations, but it may also be prudent to consider screening individuals involved in other pursuits. Here are a number of questions we asked with responses from different regions.

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Inside LinkedIn’s New Report: Tapping Into Today’s Candidate

Phenom People

In case you missed it, LinkedIn just released their latest report, Inside the Mind of Today’s Candidate. Interning at a company that is extremely passionate about improving candidate experience, I thought this report was interesting. It provides thirteen critical insights from the mind of today’s candidate so that recruiters can work smarter and more efficiently.

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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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Keeping Employees Happy May Be Harder Than You Think

Recruiting Daily

According to recent employment retention statistics, about half of all workers (51 percent) are thinking about leaving their jobs. If you want to keep your top talent, it’s important to be thinking of new ways keep your employees happy and satisfied. However, keeping your employees happy is not as easy as giving them a larger […].

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Talent42 2017!!!! Part 3

Recruiting Blogs

Well Talent42 2017 has come and gone, and it was spectacular. 2 days of speakers covering the entire spectrum of the Staffing Lifecycle. . This is part 3 of my give back on Talent 42 2017. So I decided here to end this give back series with a listing of the tools talked about during the conference. So here we go: Email Qualifier, Hiretual, Calendy, Advanced Web Scraper, Sociallist.io, Momentum, TextExpander, Sourcing Calculator, Bit.ly, OneNote, Search Bar, Prophet, True Caller, Rapportive, Se

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If You Want Diversity – Then Listen To These Dow Jones Leaders

PowerToFly

Last week we brought together some of the most brilliant female software engineers to Dow Jones to discuss their latest product release and how gender diversity drives the company. Panelists, Anna Sedgley, COO and CFO at Dow Jones; Patricia Walsh, Technology Program Manager at Dow Jones; Katharine Bailey, Head of Product at the Wall Street Journal; and Latha Maripuri, Deputy CTO of News Corp, along with moderator Katharine Zaleski, Cofounder and President of PowerToFly, produced lively discussio

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Not Rocket Science

Recruiting Blogs

There are 5,000,000 jobs that are going unfilled because the skills just aren’t there. 5,000 jobs is a significant number. 5,000,000 is a significant impact. We still have a ton of “underemployed” in America. These skills like PLC programming, Medical Lab Technology, and Revit Design ain’t Rocket Science. They are skills and they are specific, but they can be learned.

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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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The Competitive Advantage of a Talent Rich Staffing Firm

SmartSearch

When it comes to success in the staffing business, one measure alone can accurately predict the future—wealth of talent. The more talent wealth a firm has, the more successful it will be. We’ve all experienced the benefits of organizations that are rich in talent. These are the companies we’ve come to love. When we say we love a company, what we’re really saying is we love the work being done by the exceptional people in these organizations.

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3 Ways Technology Can Boost Your Total Rewards Strategy

HRsoft

Your total rewards strategy is one of the most powerful resources you have for communicating the value of employment to your teams. Yet, unless your total rewards efforts actually reach your employees, it won’t make a measurable impact in terms of retention, engagement, recruitment, or any other indicators you’re focused on. How can you make sure your total rewards efforts are paying off?

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The Top Industries Gaining and Losing Millennials, According to LinkedIn Data

Linkedin Talent Blog

There are a lot of stereotypes out there about millennials, those born between 1980 and 1996. They love avocado toast (apparently too much). They eschew once beloved products and pastimes, like bar soap and golf. And they’re prone to dramatic gestures to get what they want, like reinventing their careers as serial job-hoppers. But that last one isn’t just a stereotype—it’s true.

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HR Challenges During The Summer (And What To Do About Them)

Spark Hire

As an organization and as HR professionals, how do we deal with the summertime and the HR challenges that come with the season? It brings back great memories and it is a great time to celebrate. However, from an HR perspective, as well as an organizational perspective, it can be quite challenging to face. Here are some of the things that you can do as an organization to tackle these common HR challenges: Implement flexible work schedules.

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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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4 Must Haves in Today's Employee Referral Landscape

EmployeeReferrals.com

*This piece was produced as a collaboration between the best minds at SilkRoad and Employee Referrals. If you haven't looked at SilkRoad yet, you should. As the global leader in Talent Activation, they'll help you win the war on retention by helping you personalize talent journeys to activate people and keep them onboard. *. Recruitment is challenging work.

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Interview with Sylke Sergel from EOS

Talentwunder

Before we go deeper into the subject, we would be happy if you could tell us something about your person and your career. Gladly, I am Sylke Sergel , Head of Corporate Human Resources at EOS in Hamburg. I was born in EOS, 1974, in the Rhineland. After the Abitur I studied business economics and always worked side by side. Through the job, my interest in personnel work has developed.

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Best 10 Company Career Pages for 2017

SmartRecruiters

Is working in your organization a dull and dreary chore? The careers section of your website might make it seem so. That’s a shame. I see so many career pages that are so boring and lifeless when I know the company is actually an exciting place to be. Remember that your main careers page is not just a place to collect information from candidates. It’s your introduction, your chance to make a great first impression.