Wed.May 04, 2016

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A Glossary for Tech Recruiters: Part 1

Social Talent

Do you know your CI tools from your VCS tools? Do you know what the main C++ frameworks are? We can all agree that IT is an industry that’s chock-full o’ jargon. Because of this, it’s very easy for recruiters who aren’t tech wizards (or ninjas, in that case) to get confused by all of the language, terminologies, and tools required to source tech talent effectively.

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The 6 Best Alternatives to LinkedIn for Recruiting

Beamery

LinkedIn makes everything pretty easy – you might even ask why you need to bother looking for alternatives for recruiting. It’s essentially developed into a huge, professional A-Z, supposedly stuffed full of great candidates that are waiting for you to contact them. The problem is that it sending messages to candidates on LinkedIn is hit and miss.

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What Recruiters Can Learn from Leicester City

Social Talent

This week Leicester City shocked the sporting world when the ‘little team that could’ romped home to win the Premier League title and a legacy that will last long after the season has passed. What can we, as recruiters, learn from Claudio Ranieri’s Foxes successes on the pitch? Incentivise your team’s performance in a meaningful way.

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Secrets to a Successful Tech Culture: A Chat With CareerBuilder’s CIO

CareerBuilder

While it’s true that members of CareerBuilder IT team often walk around the office in jeans, t-shirts and flip flops – and enjoy things many other tech companies do, like half-day Fridays in the summer and wellness reimbursement — there’s something about the culture at CareerBuilder that’s different enough to make employees not only join, but stay — often for many, many years.

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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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10 Job Search Tips for College Grads

Yoh

It’s finally here – graduation day! There are probably plenty of people telling you what to do next, but is anyone preparing your next real journey: finding a job.

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Procrastination – it’s the one activity that we’re all good at!

RecruitmentJuice

I meant to write this blog last month… but you know how it is. You might think that I’m joking, but sadly I’m not! Why is it that we are all so good at putting off what we need to do, whether it’s at work or in our private lives? The simple answer is that it’s human nature — we don’t like having to do tasks that are not enjoyable or aren’t a priority — but I believe it goes deeper than that.

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Candidate, May the Feedback Be With You

Undercover Recruiter

Interviewing for a new job is a stressful process; one that requires multitasking, concentration and commitment. It is also like a long and drawn-out battle; competitive and full of causalities. Candidates have to storm past other troopers and directly face off to hiring managers who put them through their paces, testing their suitability and stamina over a number of battle rounds.

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$11.9 million in remedies collected: don't overlook ofccp transparency rules

BountyJobs

Recently, it’s been a priority in the United States for the OFCCP to increase protection for those who feel affected by the gender gap. This includes an expansion of transparency – it’s now officially illegal for companies to discriminate against employees who talk about it in the workplace.

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Coding Bootcamp vs Computer Science Grad: Who’s the right fit for your startup?

1-Page

When you’re building your early team, you’d know that trying to master every skill yourself doesn’t end well. You could learn to code yourself, but you probably have better things to do. So how do you hire the best programmer for your team from the ever-expanding pool of college grads, coding bootcamp alumni and self-taught techies? You need to know who’s going to hit the ground running while being the right fit on your team.

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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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Obamacare troubles: 15% to 30% premium increases coming

Staffing Talk

" From the WSJ:In Oregon and Virginia, the first two states to make insurers premium proposals for 2017 public, several big insurers are showing how those projections bear out.Providence Health Plan, currently the largest insurer for people buying coverage through the Oregon health exchange, is seeking an average increase… [.

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How the New LinkedIn Recruiter Speeds up Searches

Undercover Recruiter

This post is sponsored by LinkedIn. The new LinkedIn Recruiter is helping talent acquisition professionals take a central role in business strategy. In recruitment, as in all areas of business, time is of the essence. Between meetings with hiring managers or clients, candidate interviews and conference calls, recruiters – both agency and in-house – often find themselves lacking.

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Highlights From the Spring 2016 Health Care Guide

CareerBuilder

Spring has sprung, and while the weather continues to warm up, hiring is already hot for those in health care. According to CareerBuilder’s Q2 2016 U.S. Job Forecast , 44 percent of health care organizations are planning to add full-time, permanent headcount in the second quarter — exceeding the national average by 10 percentage points. If you’re a recruiter or hiring manager in the health care industry, you’ve got to stay on your toes and at the top of your game if you want to woo the best tale

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How to Ace College Recruiting

Jobvite

Ready to retool your college recruiting strategy and reap the results this year? Read on to learn how to supercharge your college recruiting effort and attract and engage the best young professionals. Download. The post How to Ace College Recruiting appeared first on Jobvite.

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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 Benefits of Hiring Temporary Workers for Small Businesses

CareerBuilder

Forget outdated notions of temporary workers being unmotivated people unable to commit to regular employment. Plenty of quality talent can be found in today’s so-called “gig economy,” including specialized freelancers, retired professionals looking to remain active, college students wishing to boost their skills and income, and parents needing to balance work with other obligations.

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Posting Updates that Matter on LinkedIn Company Pages and Profiles

Harger Howe Recruitment

In today’s world, most companies and their employees are on LinkedIn. However, lots of companies and individuals either underutilize or misuse their pages. In our business, we like to create career-based pages and recruiter profiles that engage current and potential employees while still remaining professional. LinkedIn put together a great SlideShare called Best Practices for Publishing Posts on LinkedIn and we feel that those ideas are a great base for a solid personal LinkedIn profile and by

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Opower Adds Considerable Female, Minority Talent with Entelo Diversity

Entelo

When it comes to their company’s diversity, Opower (NYSE: OPWR) is not an organization to shy away from the facts. Last week, the technology firm published a comprehensive diversity and inclusion dashboard to provide insight into who exactly comprises their company, and the internal efforts they are making to create a more representative workplace. Chief among these efforts is Entelo Diversity : an advanced search filter we built to allow companies to source from groups that are underrepresented

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How Recruiters Can Make Faster Pies with Low-Hanging Fruit

Top Echelon Contracting

You’ve probably heard that it is not a good idea to pick low-hanging fruit. My question is: Why the hell not? I enjoy picking low hanging fruit. It’s within easy reach and requires minimal effort. I don’t enjoy dealing with. The post How Recruiters Can Make Faster Pies with Low-Hanging Fruit appeared first on Top Echelon.

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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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Increase the Diversity in Your Campus Recruiting Program

Recruiting Blogs

Diversity recruiting continues to be a core element of overall college recruiting programs. Nearly 71 percent of employers responding to NACE's 2015 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey. How can your campus recruiting team contributes to your organization's diversity recruiting efforts and expand the diversity efforts within your current campus recruiting program?

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Insurance: Fast Track Recruiting

CareerPlug

There are over 2.5 million people employed in the trillion-dollar insurance industry in the United States. Read that again…2.5 million people…trillion dollar industry. As an independent agency, that means there is A TON of competition out there when you are looking to hire. It also means that there is an opportunity to make a lot of money. Hiring a top producer for your agency can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased revenue.

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Why you don’t need a social media strategy for your employer brand

Recruiting Blogs

Blasphemy! We’ve been reading article after article about how Snapchat is where to reach millennials, and at the very least I need an active Twitter feed! Yes, that’s right, I don’t think you need to worry about a social media strategy for your employer brand…but more on that in a second. First, I want to share two personal stories. Learning something new is overwhelming A few years ago, I taught myself to program.

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What The Voice can teach us about the hiring process

Plum.io

The best in the business looking for the next best! Each week millions of viewers invest an hour of their evenings in watching as potential candidates are given the opportunity to achieve their dream. We are entrenched in the process, caught up in the candidates, and become cheerleaders for the best to make it through. . The Voice’s tagline is that they are t he best in the business looking for the next best.

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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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Sourcecon Spring 2016 Part 8!!

Recruiting Blogs

So This is the first session on day 2 of Sourcecon, which was entitled “The Blueprint to Achieve an 85%+ Response Rate” by Stacy Zapar. First off Stacy is amazing, one of the best speakers I have ever heard. The first thing she discusses in the intake meeting with the hiring manager, she says be more than an order taker. Ask questions, go over the job description, and make sure you have all the info you need and that you set the rules of engagement.

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4 tips for hiring smarter, not harder

WebRecruit

Those of us who have experienced a certain measure of success in life are liable to attribute it overwhelmingly to our own hard work – after all, why wouldn’t we? Many recruitment agencies , however, know the truth – that at least as often as hard work, it is personal connections that get us ahead. It’s something to think about when you next undertake a staff recruitment campaign.

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What If We Thought of Our Employees as Volunteers?

Recruiting Blogs

I believe it is important to think differently as a recruiter or leader. Today’s post is about our employees. How we treat them is derived by how we think of them. Because we pay them, many believe this should be enough for them to keep coming back, give us their best, and do as we say. Today, I would like to challenge that idea and suggest we think of our employees as volunteers.

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3 Things to Include in a Total Rewards Statement

HRsoft

Today, employers are going to great lengths to engage and retain their talent, because the costs of dwindling employee engagement and turnover are extraordinarily high. Yet, there’s one tool that can drive employee engagement and retention while making employees happier which many business leaders overlook: the total rewards statement. When employees have a clear understanding of how they’re being rewarded, they’re more likely to contribute above-and-beyond efforts at work.

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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 Sophisticated Recruitment Marketer's Glossary of Acronyms

Recruiting Blogs

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How Business Performance Management Software Helps Companies Achieve their Goals

HRsoft

Every organization is constantly in the pursuit to achieve goals – this is precisely what drives companies and enables them to improve = business results. It makes sense, then, that the best way to achieve better results is to optimize your goals strategy. Business performance management software can enhance your current goals strategy to help your company outperform its competitors.

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Convincing Top Candidates to Consider and Accept Your Job Offer

TalentCircles

With the lower unemployment rate allowing job seekers to be in the driver’s seat and technology enabling companies and recruiters to reach more people than ever before, finding good talent is taking a backseat to winning over that talent. Here’s how to make the most of your efforts to convince top candidates to consider—and accept—your job offer. Make all of your recruiting activities accessible on the mobile platform If you’ve ever lost, forgotten or neglected to charge your smart phone, you’re