Wed.Apr 29, 2020

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Recently Laid Off? Here Are the First 5 Things You Should Do

JazzHR

Data from the U.S. Department of Labor reveals that some three to six million American workers have filed for unemployment every week for the past five weeks. As of April 23, 2020, that adds up to a staggering 26.5 million workers recently laid off. When factoring in those already experiencing unemployment prior to the economic downturn, Fortune estimates a real unemployment rate of 20.6%.

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Pros and Cons of Providing Employee References

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Does your organization have a policy on providing references for former employees? What conclusion have you come to on this topic? For a topic that seems straightforward on its surface, it’s actually one that has many parts to consider. Right now, as many organizations have had to make the unfortunate and difficult decision to terminate a large portion of employees, it’s more important than ever to know what your organization will do in terms of employee references when these individuals apply f

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5 Things Candidates Can Do to Stand Out Today

Jobvite

Use these tips to get noticed by hiring managers! The current state of remote recruiting has led talent teams to diligently consider reimagining their talent acquisition process es. Jobvite customers know that attracting the best talent is accomplished with a marketing-inspired approach, but how can candidates market themselves to help organizations pick them out of a crowd?

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3 Steps to Building an Employer Brand Team for Growth

Rally Recruitment Marketing

While not all teams may be in growth mode at the moment, given the current public health crisis and economic uncertainty, there are sunnier days ahead. As such, investing in an employer brand (EB) function to nurture candidates and drive brand awareness could be a strong value add now more than ever before. . In addition to that, some of you may be on teams that are urgently recruiting for frontline and essential workers.

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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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12 hours of Savage video learning. Available now!

Greg Savage

Thanks to the RCSA we are able to present Savage Online Streamable recordings from my last three speaking tours I am really grateful to the RCSA in Australia who have agreed to forgo commercial advantage and offer almost 12 hours of my recorded training modules at a heavily discounted price. Original price $1,100 for all […].

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Healthcare Recruiting During a Crisis

Recruitics

How Healthcare Talent Acquisition Leaders are Navigating COVID-19. Recruitics hosted a webinar on "Healthcare Recruiting During a Crisis: How TA Leaders are Navigating COVID-19 & the Impact to Recruitment Marketing" and here are some of the top takeaways from that webinar.

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4 Things That'll Make You Feel Positive About Recruitment Right Now

FireFish Software

The recruitment industry has been one of the hardest hit in the Covid-19 crisis. Huge numbers of recruiters have been furloughed or made redundant and hiring has pretty much ground to a halt in some industries.

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After COVID-19: Improving Your Employee Wellness Program

TalentCulture - Recruiting

The impacts of COVID-19 and the measures governments and organizations are taking to contain it right now are unprecedented. The hourly breaking news headlines of outbreaks and cancellations have our heads spinning and have kept the wellness of our families, friends, and co-workers top of mind. Companies like Google led the way in implementing work-from-home policies to keep their employees safe; now remote work is mandatory as part of stay-home, stay-safe policies.

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Embracing the New Normal: Survey Shows How Employees Are Adjusting to Remote Work

Recruiter

As the results of a survey of 2,000 US office workers conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Citrix reveal, work certainly has a new look. Beds have become desks, bathrooms serve as conference rooms, kids and pets crash virtual meetings, and video calls capture awkward moments when we think our cameras.

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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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What Are The Pros and Cons of Using LinkedIn As A Recruitment Tool?

Jobsoid

Social media for recruiting purposes has been a fascination for most hiring teams these days. There would be hardly any recruiter or hiring professional who is not using any social media portal in their routine life. Social media has made life a lot easier for busy hiring teams! Recruiters look around for means to fill […] The post What Are The Pros and Cons of Using LinkedIn As A Recruitment Tool?

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30 Videos Recruiters Can Make This Week to Build Goodwill Equity

VideoMyJob

30 I hear you protest? Yep, 30. You don’t need fancy tools, just pick up your phone, shoot, send. If you’re lucky enough to have access to a premium video solution like VideoMyJob, you can get a bit fancier, but these ideas don’t need fancy, they need empathy, optimism and they need you to step up and step into action!

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Remote Persuasion: How to Be a Successful Communicator While Working From Home

Recruiter

As social distancing becomes the new normal throughout the world, professionals across industries have to make drastic and immediate changes to their work and presentation styles. With the total transition to working from home, business leaders, lawyers, and sales and marketing teams are navigating new terrain: effectively communicating to achieve a desired outcome while working remotely.

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Using Your Hands vs. Boolean Builders

Boolean Strings

My Dad was a simple man. For him, life was about figuring out what is right and wrong and then doing the right thing, which he expected of others – and didn’t hesitate to tell them. (Needless to say, I did many things wrong.) But, in his Partial Differential Equations, he was quite intuitive and subtle, often thinking and speaking in metaphors, as Mathematicians do.

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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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Nine Crucial Tips For Developing A Viable Workplace Risk Management Plan

Forbes Human Resources Council

Risk management is an issue that a lot of companies have without even being aware of it. Here's how small business leaders can solve problems at their root cause and develop an effective risk management strategy for their organization.

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What's The Secret To Team Success?

McQuiag

What’s the secret sauce that makes teams come together rather than drift apart? Few managers would argue an effective team is worth it’s weight in gold but not all of them can articulate how those successful teams got that way. There’s no denying there are many elements with the power to impact, and potentially derail, a team. The organizational culture a team works under can change a team’s dynamics, as can managerial style, or workload and resource distribution.

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Visier COVID-19 Case Data Available on GitHub

Visier - Talent Acquisition

Visier is committed to helping organizations react, respond, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To assist with data-driven decisions for crisis management and workforce planning, Visier is providing curated COVID-19 data to the general public. Visier has made this data publicly available via GitHub under a creative commons license. This allows all organizations and individuals to have access to curated and daily refreshed COVID-19 dataset.

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3 Important Reasons To Invest In Employer Branding

Valuehire

If you follow Hire Value Inc. on Twitter , you will have noticed one of our most recent tweets declares “organizations that invest in employer branding are three times more likely to make a quality hire”. The same holds true for companies who continue to invest in creative advertising; looking to attract new customers, why would your employer brand be any different?

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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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Effective Ways to Reduce Retirement Plan Expenses During Uncertain Times

Namely - Talent

There is not much written about how retirement plan sponsors should weather situations like the one we’re facing now, mostly because these are unprecedented times. However, the virus that’s causing a meltdown on Wall Street shouldn’t create a meltdown in your office. Knee-jerk reactions like eliminating all equities or terminating a plan altogether can have far reaching consequences.

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This isn’t our usual working from home: parenting and working during COVID-19

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 11 minutes. I have been a member of the remote workforce and a parent who works from home since 2009. I’ve worked from home as a mom of babies, toddlers, preschoolers, big kids, sick children. It has never been as difficult as parenting and working during COVID-19. This baffling time in history has not turned one-third of the workforce with kids into regular “teleworkers.

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4 Things Every Sales Candidate Will Want You to Know Post-COVID-19

Recruiter

COVID-19 has had an unquestionable impact on the economy — and especially on sales professionals. According to HubSpot, the weekly average of new deals created on its platform dropped by 17 percent during the week of March 16, and then by 23 percent during the week of March 30. The number of deals closed on the platform around the world fell by 21 percent, compared to the previous year's Q1 averages.

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Kanban Boards vs. Scrum Boards: How Are They Different?

Hundred5

Right now, project managers are falling in love with Scrum and Kanban boards. If you need a way to schedule your tasks and teams, either or both of these frameworks will do the trick. Whether you are working on your own from home or have a large team to manage, these boards will help you schedule your work as efficiently as possible. If you are interested in using these systems, it’s worth spending time learning more about Kanban boards vs.

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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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Business Is Changing — The Way You Communicate Needs to Change, Too

The Staffing Stream

More quickly than many of us could’ve imagined, the world has changed. Each of us, in nearly every facet of our lives, is being asked to adapt — to change the way we interact in public, the way we school our kids, and the way we work. At the beginning of the year, most businesses in the staffing industry, TextUs included, were thinking a lot about leads, about building their brand, about making sure their customers were happy.

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5 Examples of Awesome Employee Testimonials & Content

Ongig

Employees are one of your biggest assets in recruiting. That’s why the best career sites feature an employee testimonials/branding section. Did you know: “Candidates trust the company’s employees 3x more than the company to provide credible information on what it’s like to work there.” – Career Arc. Employee reviews are social proof that helps persuade others who trust your employees more than you.

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Covid-19 Fallout: Recruiting and managing workers with potential addiction issues

The Staffing Stream

Despite stigma that may cause some individuals to perceive addicts and alcoholics as jobless, 75% of those struggling with substance use disorder were gainfully employed. It’s quite likely you will have temporary employees on your roster, or internal staff, who are misusing drugs and/or alcohol, especially now. Self-isolation from the quarantine has led to widespread feelings of depression, anxiety and stress , all of which can exacerbate substance abuse.

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NorthRock Partners: Candidate Communications that Inform and Empathize

exaqueo

In the coming weeks, we’ll be putting organizations and leaders in the spotlight who are going above and beyond with their candidates and employees during these challenging times. First up is Lacey Stenson, Partner and Chief People Officer, at NorthRock Partners.

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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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A disservice to the economy

Recruiting Blogs

This blog post originally was posted in 2010 but it is never more pertinent now then it was when it was first published. I received an email this morning from a trusted source which indicated that a growing trend among some employers is to state in the ad for an open position " the unemployed will not be considered." Corporate America is faced with the real possibility of a labor shortage in some areas whether you believe it or not.

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[Survey] How is Your Company Preparing to Return to the Office in the Wake of COVID-19?

Namely - Talent

As states begin to loosen their Coronavirus social distancing restrictions and stay-at-home-orders, workplaces are beginning to discuss what going back to work will look like. How is your company preparing? We want to hear from you: what kind of return-to-work plans have you created? Will your company remain remote, even as cities open? Will you still offer shareable snacks?

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Value Proposition is a Not a Four-Letter Word

Recruiting Daily

Value Proposition is a Not a Four-Letter Word The phrase “Value Proposition” recalls cliché corporate buzzwords like synergism or paradigm shift. If I hear it up in conversation, I tend to zone out and drift to pleasant thoughts. I’ll give you a cliché that is appropriate. Have you heard of the phrase “peeling back layers of an […].