Tue.Sep 05, 2017

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How to Hire Talent Successfully in the Entertainment Industry

Lever

Most recruiters know what it’s like to get hit with a hiring fire drill. Whether you suddenly have to scale due to ambitious revenue goals or a demanding new project, those intense hiring pushes are frenzied - but ideally, they're ideally temporary. The entertainment industry is different. Here, the sudden need to hire creative talent for a new film arises often.

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6 Common Interview Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

JazzHR

Most recruiters and hiring managers are familiar with the kinds of mistakes that candidates often make when they’re being interviewed. What’s less obvious, however, are the things that they’re getting wrong themselves. Unfortunately, when interviewers make mistakes, it can turn top talent off and make them less likely to accept a position. Plus, it can result in hiring the wrong person for the job or, worse yet, open up your organization up to potential litigation.

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How LinkedIn Can Be A Lethal Weapon For Finding The Right Candidate

Social Talent

Before the world of social media, most recruiters would pop a post on a job listing site such as Indeed or Monster , and wait for the applications to come in. While they are free to use and a great way to get a job advert out to thousands, the downside is that you aren’t reaching out to your key market and it could take potential candidates quite some time before they come across your advert.

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6 Warning Signs Your Candidate Will Flake

Undercover Recruiter

Few things beat the exhilaration of finding the right person for the job. They generally come along a bit too late for comfort, after many revised job spec drafts, and much too much trawling through the internet. But then you’ve got them! Woo hoo! You call them up, give them the run-down, let them know. View Article. 6 Warning Signs Your Candidate Will Flake.

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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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How LinkedIn Can Be A Lethal Weapon For Finding The Right Candidate

Social Talent

Before the world of social media, most recruiters would pop a post on a job listing site such as Indeed or Monster , and wait for the applications to come in. While they are free to use and a great way to get a job advert out to thousands, the downside is that you aren’t reaching out to your key market and it could take potential candidates quite some time before they come across your advert.

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6 Signs You’re a Natural-Born Recruiter

Glassdoor for Employers

Are you wired to crush it in the talent acquisition game? Here’s how you can tell.

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Applying the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ to Remote Teams

FlashPoint

Photo by Paul Bergmeir on Unsplash. Virtual teams face the same challenges as in-person teams, from miscommunications and lack of accountability, to lack of buy-in for agreements and lack of trust. The growth of technology and new mediated communication was thought to be the answer to these problems. Patrick Lencioni, author of the best-selling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , writes after a recent experience working on a geographically diverse team himself that the experience was more of

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Guest Post: 3 Steps To Writing A Job Posting That Stands Out

Ideal

Hiring is an incredibly exciting time. So why simply write a cut-and-paste job posting that insinuates that you’re suffering from a real shortage of creativity? These days, the focus on providing an enjoyable candidate experience means a dry, uninspiring job posting just doesn’t cut it anymore. Here are 3 steps for attracting the best candidates through a distinctive job posting.

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NAS Recruitment Innovation and The David Group Join Forces

Nas Recruitment

Merger creates industry-leading company with over 110 years of recruitment marketing expertise. Cleveland, Ohio: We are proud to announce that NAS Recruitment Innovation and The David Group have joined forces under the NAS name. Effective on September 1, 2017, the merger further enhances our standing as a premier recruitment marketing agency and technology solutions provider.

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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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6 Tips To Hire the Best Candidates

HireRabbit

Great candidates are not that hard to find – if you’re a smart recruiter, that is. Achieving success in hiring great talent in a competitive job market comes from well-thought out recruiting strategies. Top recruiters spend time formulating sound recruitment tactics that is both efficient and effective in getting the best and the brightest employees.

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Where to Go to Learn More About Your Ideal Developer Candidates

Stack Overflow

All successful developer hiring campaigns begin with the same thing: candidate research. There’s good reason for this. Identifying their skill sets, qualifications, motivations, and goals helps you target your recruiting message. It also gives you a clearer idea of exactly which types of developers to recruit. Even though the impact of knowing your audience is obvious, you still might be thinking, “Where do I even begin?

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8 Places To Find Your Next Great Hire

HireRabbit

Recruitment has always been a daunting task for any company that is looking to expand their workforce. A good employee is hard to find, that’s why it’s important to know where you can search for the best ones. Job boards are usually where companies turn to for finding qualified candidates, but these days, there are so many other great channels that are thriving with potential hires.

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Here’s What We REALLY Need to Do to Improve Recruitment Methods

Recruiting Daily

I think there are a lot of things that are straight up broken with most companies. Probably No. 1 on any list should be the lip service/BS that we let into our hiring and recruiting processes. Executives yelp, bellow, and screech from the rooftops about “the war for talent.” They need “A-Players.” And then, where […].

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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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6 Key Traits of Top Recruiters

HireRabbit

Finding the best possible people who ca contribute to your organization is a challenge. It requires strategy and tactics to recruit and retain great talent. Top recruiters however, know how to implement well-thought out plans better than the others. They are smart in employing unique approaches into winning the game of recruitment and hiring the best candidate.

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What a UX Expert Can Tell Us About Candidate Experience

JWT Inside

First impressions are everything, and if you intend to attract the best possible talent, then the hiring experience needs to reflect that intent by putting your best foot forward. Carefully and intentionally crafting a hiring experience is one of the best ways to do this. We know by now that the candidate experience often begins with a job posting. And yet very few companies plan their job ads with consideration for the user experience.

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5 Ways Digital Interviewing Can Speed Up Your Screening Process

MightyRecruiter

In a fast-paced recruiting world where candidates are behind the wheel, a strong time-to-hire rate is more important than ever. But according to a recent Glassdoor study , the average time-to-hire rate in the United States is 23.8 days, up almost one full day since 2014. Longer time-to-hire rates put a burden on candidates—they’re less likely to stick around waiting if they don’t hear back from you, or they may hear from a competitor first.

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How to Use Psychology to Increase Your Employee Retention Rate

Capterra

What could you do with $25,000? A lot, most likely. Buy new equipment, start a new marketing strategy, hire a ton of interns to get you coffee. Well guess what? Losing even one recent hire after training can cost your company $25,000 , if not way, way more. Employee tracking software can help, but first you need to understand the psychology behind your employee’s behavior.

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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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The Top 5 Ways Candidates Want to Learn About Your Company Culture

Linkedin Talent Blog

Your culture is the beating heart of your company. And understandably, most candidates want to get a real feel for what working at your company will be like on a day-to-day basis before they accept an offer. The question is: what's the best way for you to show them. To find out, we surveyed over 14,000 professionals around the world. It turns out, the number one way that candidates everywhere want to experience your culture it is in person, during a visit to your office.

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Applying the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ to Remote Teams

FlashPoint

Photo by Paul Bergmeir on Unsplash. Virtual teams face the same challenges as in-person teams, from miscommunications and lack of accountability, to lack of buy-in for agreements and lack of trust. The growth of technology and new mediated communication was thought to be the answer to these problems for virtual teams. Patrick Lencioni, author of the best-selling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , writes after a recent experience working on a remote team himself that the experience was more o

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Have you picked out the most suitable online recruitment software?

WebRecruit

More and more these days, the success of a given company’s hiring campaign hinges on the online recruitment software it is using. But with so many platforms out there that are continually claiming to be the best on the market, how can you be sure of the one that aligns best with your own needs? First, you need to determine what those needs are. Picking new hiring software for your company isn’t just a case of going for whatever has the longest specification sheet or the lowest price.

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Good Cop/Bad Cop

Recruiting Blogs

HI! I'm Adam! I'm a recruiter! Oh, you want your dream job? SUPER! Let me see your resume? OH THIS IS PERFECT! I WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING! What's that? you aren't getting interviews? What would I change if I were you? NOTHING. YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE. IT'LL HAPPEN IF YOU REALLLLLLY WANT IT. DON'T WORRY, YOU'LL SEE!! Oh, hold on, my co-worker wants to speak to you.

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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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Weekly Diversity and Inclusion News: August 30 - September 5, 2017

ROIKOI

How a lack of diversity can cost you. 4 attributes of an inclusive workplace.

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What’s wrong with Sourcers!!!

Recruiting Blogs

I am taking a break from my series on lesser sites, to write this post because of a few interactions I have had over the last week or so with “sourcers”. These interactions led me to wonder what is wrong with sourcers these days. . I have been contacted several times, by sourcers asking me were they could look for certain niche skills. I provided several locations, tools etc.

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An SEO Primer for TA Landing Pages

Clinch Talent

As you may know, the first place a typical job seeker goes online isn’t a job board. it’s Google. With the new Google for Jobs (which Clinch customers benefit from automatically ), if you follow Google’s Guide, your actual Job Postings may appear. But what about your Career Site Landing Pages? There are somewhere between 100-300 million career based queries (depending on who you believe) on Google and not all are job based, so it makes sense to get your landing page content to appear more often,

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Company Cords: 4 Easy Tricks to Setting up a Business Computer Bank

Recruiting Blogs

When it comes to setting up computers, peripherals and accessories in your office, you really want to avoid ending up with a tangled mess of cables that resembles a colorful plate of spaghetti. Too many exposed cables will not only make your workplace look unsightly but may also present a tripping hazard that your staff will be afraid of. What you want to do is apply a few cable, wire and cord management strategies to make your life easier.

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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3 Must Dos When Creating An Employer Brand Video

Rezoomo

Follow @rezoomo_com. Over the past few years companies have been competing to make themselves stand out in order to win the best talent. They have been thinking of innovative ways to sell their employer brands to attract candidates to their roles. With video claiming 75% of online traffic , video really is starting to become king when it comes to branding.

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Your Company Hired the Wrong Candidate. Now What?

AkkenCloud

Hiring new employees can be a sensitive and grueling process, both financially and in terms of employee time. Onboarding costs are usually about 20 percent of the new hire’s annual salary, and that, when paired with a loss in productivity and employee morale, is something you don’t want to waste. However, every company has experienced the conundrum of hiring the wrong employee.

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3 things that do nothing to encourage candidates

WebRecruit

Even the most diligently managed recruitment approach might not bring great results for your firm if you make amateurish mistakes that turn away the best talent instead of attracting it. You may imagine that your own company would never do such a thing – surely, your hiring woes are more because of a lack of relevant talent out there right now, than your own failure to engage suitable candidates.