Wed.Dec 06, 2017

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The Future of Work: Solving Problems Through a Flexible Workforce

Entrepreneur

Innovative companies ask themselves two key questions: What products or processes do we think the marketplace will want next? What talent do we need to deliver that?

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SocialTalent is a Finalist in the Global EdTech Startup Awards!

Social Talent

The SocialTalent team are delighted to announce we have reached the final stages of the Global EdTech Startup Awards ! 600 startups from 70 countries applied and we are so proud to have been listed as a finalist among such great competition! GESA 2017, alongside the Award for the Most Promising EdTech Startup of the year, will choose Startup winners for 3 new divisions: . 1.

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4 Ways Tech Recruiters Should Use GitHub to Evaluate Developers

Stack Overflow

A technical resume only scratches the surface of a developer’s career story. It might show you a few bullet points about previous jobs and programming competencies, but there are so many other details that you need to know before hiring a programmer. Fortunately, lots of developers aren’t shy about sharing their work on GitHub. A lot of what you’ll find on a typical GitHub profile might not make sense to you if you’ve never written a line of code.

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How to Create an Interview Scorecard (and Why You Need One) Plus a Free Template

Capterra

Update 12/5/17: This article has been updated to remove old references and outdated links, and to add additional information. Interviewing a job applicant without using a scorecard is like going running without tracking your distance. Sure, you did all the work and you’ve got the fatigue and experience to show for it. But, you have no way of measuring your success.

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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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How to Interview and Identify Top Candidates

Glassdoor for Employers

Four top companies who made the Best Places to Interview list weigh in on how to create a great candidate experience that surfaces the very best hires.

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How Can Recruiters Attract More Women to Tech Roles?

Undercover Recruiter

Let’s be honest, the stats aren’t great. Just 17% of people working in the tech sectors in the UK are female. Are employers doing enough to attract more women into tech roles? IT, technology and subjects alike are predominantly studied by males, so is it really the employers’ fault? As recruiters, what can we do? How. View Article.

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4 Employee Referral Downers

iCIMS

The four most common practices to avoid when building a employee referral program.

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Fear and Loathing in Helsinki

SmartRecruiters

Photo credit: Sami Välikangas. Over a lightning-fast 48 hours in the slushy Finnish capital, the hippest tech-fest on earth puts start-ups, VCs and uber-nerds into a socio-cultural blender and comes out as more than the sum of its parts. It’s 10:46 am when the revelation begins to take hold. All around are open booths, folding chairs around black tables at which hundreds of meetings are taking place, business cards being exchanged, deals being done, future collaborations being planned.

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Everything You Need To Know About SaaS Recruiting Software

Ideal

SaaS (“software as a service”) recruiting software refers to on-demand software, whereby the database and features are hosted in the cloud. It’s essentially the prevalent model of recruitment software delivery right now. The benefits of SaaS recruiting software. Cost effectiveness: You save money because SaaS recruiting software doesn’t need IT infrastructure, maintenance, or staffing costs.

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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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How ForeSee CX Suite makes analyzing data easier

SmartRecruiters

Organizations spend an enormous amount of time and resources collecting data about their operations and customers, data which can prove invaluable in a number of ways. However, deriving meaningful, actionable. The post How ForeSee CX Suite makes analyzing data easier appeared first on ForeSee.

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Meet Rebecca Martinez: RecruitLoop Recruiter In Sydney, Australia

RecruitLoop

In this post we're shining the Recruiter Spotlight on Rebecca Martinez, one of our awesome recruiters working in Sydney, Australia . or is it really Atlanta, Georgia? Shhh! That might be her little secret.

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47 Sourcing Manager Interview Questions

Top Echelon Contracting

A client has given you a job order to find a sourcing manager. Now, you need great sourcing manager interview questions. You need strategic sourcing manager interview questions to find the best candidates. You can do a phone or in-person.

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A Recruiting Lesson From Baseball: Sometimes, It’s Not About the Money

Recruiting Daily

I am now, and have been most of my life, a baseball fan. The off season is always interesting, especially seeing the movers and shakers coming and going through free agency and trades. However, every once in a while a mega-deal happens that’s sort of like Haley’s Comet coming again through the sky. This is […].

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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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How To Develop Effective Leaders for Current and Future Roles

FlashPoint

Photo by Lindsay Henwood on Unsplash. Focus Development on What's now and what's next. Learning and development has faced the same dilemma for a long time: what is the best balance between developing leaders for a current role while also preparing leaders for the next role? Naturally, our time and attention get divided between in-place development—helping an employee excel in his or her current role—and next-place development—guiding him or her toward what’s coming in the next role.

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How to Give Constructive Feedback to Candidates and Hiring Managers

Linkedin Talent Blog

According to LinkedIn’s Talent Trends report , 94% of candidates want to receive feedback after an interview. But, giving feedback isn’t easy. In fact, providing useful and honest feedback without offending someone is extremely difficult. However, it's possible! And, it’s an art that every recruiter needs to master. The candidates and hiring managers you work with will inevitably make mistakes—we’re all human—and it’s on you to give them feedback that will help set everyone up for success in the

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Shally Steckerl’s Favorite Sourcing and Productivity Tools

Entelo

A sourcer is only as good as their tools. After all, without a functional email account, strong WiFi connection or a decent computer, the amount of work even the most committed and talented sourcer is able to accomplish is limited. But, assuming you have all of the above, what else out there can help you take your work to the next level? Well, you’re in luck, because in honor of the 2017 World's Greatest Sourcer competition , we spoke with sourcing guru and WGS judge, Shally Steckerl, to get an

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10 employee etiquette to follow

Recruiting Blogs

Understanding the fundamental rules of employee behavior and etiquettes can have a direct impact on your job experience and your success in the office. There are some unspoken rules that every employee, whether new or old, should follow when they are at their workplace. You need to conduct yourself like a professional if you want to be recognized as one.

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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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Check Out Virginia Mason's Career Site, Powered by Phenom People

Phenom People

Check Out Virginia Mason's Career Site, Powered by Phenom People. kristina.evans…. Wed, 12/06/2017 - 10:00. candidate experience. Founded in 1920 and consistently ranked as one of the top medical centers in the United States, Virginia Mason consists of eight regional medical centers. by. Justin. Noll.

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Trial Hires

Recruiting Blogs

If your business model requires proven profitability for a given hire, you may use some form of trial hire to make sure your new hire is profitable. Some 100% commission sales positions are a fit for this. Other roles typically involve a high percentage of hires that don’t stick for one reason or another. If the job is difficult and not very high paid, employees may have a tendency to give up or there might be a good number of unreliable candidates in that field.

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Job fair recruitment: A planning guide for employers

Workable

Job fairs are like speed dating for recruiting. At a set time and place, companies and job seekers meet and try to find out if they’ll match. To make sure you promote yourself at a job fair and attract the most qualified candidates, take some time to plan your job fair recruitment strategy. Here’s our planning guide to help you get started: Before participating in a job fair.

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3 Recruiting Guidelines to Live By (That Helped Us Hire Our Director of Client Success in Two Weeks)

Leoforce

Here’s a story of a valued candidate experience and quick hiring success that I was able to witness, firsthand… “Within an hour of opening the position, my inbox was full of candidates who were interested in the role.”. – Justin Turner, National Sales Director, Leoforce. That’s every recruiter and hiring manager’s dream. A populated pipeline with top talent interested in and excited about the role.

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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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Candidate Experience: Definition, Statistics, Creation & Best Practices

Beamery

Candidates expect the same treatment as consumers. They want relevant engagement from companies based on where they are in the candidate journey , and what the kind of role that they’re actually interested in. They want the same level of personalization that they receive from sophisticated marketing departments. It’s not just marketers they expect it from now though, this is the kind of experience they expect from recruiting teams.

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VIVAHR, Named One of Most Innovative Companies in Arizona

VIVAHR Recruiting and Hiring Tips

VIVAHR is a finalist in the 2017 Arizona Innovation Challenge. VIVAHR, a ground-breaking applicant tracking software that focuses on culture marketing, becomes a finalist for the 2017 Arizona Innovation Challenge. Phoenix, AZ- It was announced Wednesday that VIVAHR is a finalist in the 2017 Arizona Innovation Challenge. The Innovation Challenge is powered by the Arizona Commerce Authority and is a program in which local businesses compete to win a $250,000 prize.

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#NextChat Recap: How to Win the Talent War on Your Own Turf

marenated

Employees are leaving companies faster than ever, and one of the main reasons is lack of career development and advancement opportunities offered by their employer. In order to keep employee retention high, managers need to be active in employee development focusing on making communication a priority. Did you miss #NextChat? @Erin_RBM has the recap you need: Click To Tweet.

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How an ATS can hire faster and smarter with AI?

RChilli

The current recruitment system calls for a smart and strategic process. An applicant tracking system brings uniformity in the entire hiring structure and helps recruiters by reducing hiring time. But can an ATS work efficiently without using any latest technology? Right, this is where artificial intelligence kicks in to help an ATS deliver quality results.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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The Future of Work is Hiring Success

SmartRecruiters

SmartRecruiters’ Founder and CEO on where the current revolution in recruitment will take us. Hiring managers, recruiters, executives: Close your eyes. Relax. Think about the last time you hired someone amazing. Find a name. Breathe. Think about what you were able to achieve together. Feels good, right? What you are experiencing is called Hiring Success.

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Which Factors Should Employers Consider Before Choosing Right Payroll Software?

Recruiting Blogs

In today’s fast paced startup ecosystem, a meticulous approach is must for running a company – be it small or large. In light of this, companies that carry even slightest of HR and payroll mistakes can throw their entire business off the track. Therefore, it is crucial for business owners to invest in a right payroll software solution so that they can easily handle and manage their employees’ records appropriately.

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The Recruiting Trends The World Predicted Would Define Recruitment in 2017

Social Talent

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” -George Santayana. Admittedly that’s a rather foreboding way to begin a blog post, but I was feeling dramatic. Last year, we and every other recruitment blog on the planet wrote articles about what recruiters needed to know in order to be successful in 2017. These articles range some the frustratingly vague with tips like “try using the internet to source candidates” while others dug deep and provided s