Thu.Aug 04, 2016

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Trust Me, I’m A Recruiter

The Whiteboard

Quick one from me today as I’m more snowed under than the South Island. I enjoyed an article shared by SEEK yesterday about Trust in the Workplace and the startling statistic that 83% of kiwis did not trust all of their colleagues. It got me thinking about the recruitment industry and how central the theme of trust is in everything that we do.

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15 Reasons Why Pokémon GO is NOTHING like Recruiting

Social Talent

Ok, let’s just keep it real for a minute. We get that Pokémon Go is the hottest thing on the planet at the moment. And sure, it’s getting people up and moving, out in the fresh air, putting pedometers to work, yadda yadda yadda. We get it. But let’s get one thing straight. Pokémon GO is NOTHING like recruiting, despite what you may or may not have heard.

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It’s No Game: How Augmented Reality Will Level-Up Your Recruiting Efforts

iCIMS

Augmented reality has changed the way millennials are playing video games, but how will it affect the way you recruit?

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‘Recruiting’ vs ‘Hiring’ and the Importance of Capturing First Class Talent

Jobsoid

Hiring and Recruitment New companies need employees to work for them and help establish their business. Companies that already exist need to constantly replace employees that have left them to keep their company running at optimum capacity. This […]. The post ‘Recruiting’ vs ‘Hiring’ and the Importance of Capturing First Class Talent appeared first on Jobsoid.

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Balancing Cost and Care: 3 Key Considerations for Cost Optimization in 2024

Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.

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How to Write Job Titles to Attract More Applicants

Glassdoor for Employers

Job boards are an excellent resource for any business owner looking to fill a position. However, they can be a pricey investment.

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How to Commit To Change

FireFish Software

Future gazing was the theme of the Firefish blog throughout July. We looked at innovative hiring trends on Tinder and Whatsapp , we explored why employer branding is important, and we considered some head scratchingly abstract interview questions. Now, it’s all well and good talking about innovative trends shaping the future of recruitment, but we also need to pause and consider how we’ll embrace and use them in our day to day.

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Seven Reasons to Choose Plum over DiSC

Plum.io

One question that we are asked a lot at Plum is, “How are you different from surveys like DiSC?” DiSC has been around since the WWII era, and while this longevity adds credibility, it has stayed the same as opposed to adopting current and improved scientific methodologies and practices. When we were designing Plum, we built our service to pick up where DiSC left off.

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4 (FREE) Ways to Kick-Start Employee Engagement & Boost Morale

Yoh

As an on-site manager working at a client location, I noticed something was a bit off. There was a great divide between the interactions of on-site contractors versus full-time employees. And, it became pretty obvious that it was taking its toll on employee morale.

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3 Things Developers Wish Appeared More Often in Recruitment Emails

Stack Overflow

Developers have made no secret of the fact that if they had to choose, they’d prefer being recruited over email. However, that doesn’t mean that any old recruitment email will make them excited about continuing the conversation. Your initial outreach to a developer is one of best chances you’ll have at making a good first impression, so understanding what they look for when they read recruitment emails will help you stand out from the competition.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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Company Culture: What Your Employees Really Think

Undercover Recruiter

Mary had been looking forward to seeing the results from her organization’s annual employee engagement survey. She was proud of the culture the management team had fostered – one that she believed encouraged collaboration, innovation and honesty. She had managed a team of more than 20 people and, from her point of view, believed they. View Article. Company Culture: What Your Employees Really Think.

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The Key Recruiting Metric You’re NOT Tracking: Source of Influence

Symphony Talent

The Key Recruiting Metric You're Not Tracking: Source of Influence from SmashFly Technologies Move over source of hire, there’s a new metric in town: source of influence. The post The Key Recruiting Metric You’re NOT Tracking: Source of Influence appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Tips on How to Attract the Right Candidate BuzzFeed Style

BroadBean Technology

BuzzFeed, the buzz word for everything “ content marketing ” based, released figures at the beginning of the year highlighting that they were getting five billion content views per month. FIVE BILLION!! That’s a lot of views, but how does BuzzFeed manage this incredible feat? We could provide you with a detailed breakdown of all of their activities, the excellent journalism, or their zeitgeist-like ability to stay ahead of the current trending topics, but the simple answer is that they have a Go

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Your Next Great Hire Starts With a Solid Intake, and This Checklist

1-Page

A great intake sets the foundation for a great experience for hiring manager and candidate alike. But it’s not just about discovering who the ideal hire is. It’s also about clearly understanding why your ideal hire would, and should, choose you. Here’s the reality – as we’ve explored before on the 1-Page Blog, technology is playing an ever-increasing role in doing the grunt work in discovering who you should go after, and even helping assess if they’re the right fit.

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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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Three Tips for Nailing Your Employment Branding

Breezy HR

Employment Branding is the process of defining an organization’s identity and reputation in the hopes of attracting the best possible talent. In today’s job market, highly-skilled candidates have a large variety of options and pay attention to companies whose branding resonates with them. Sites from Glassdoor to The Muse to location-specific sites like Built in Chicago all feature in-depth company profiles, giving potential hires a peek behind the curtain before they even decide to interview.

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Rejecting Offers: When to Call a Candidate’s Bluff

Undercover Recruiter

I want to let you in on a particular bugbear of mine, and one which afflicts recruiters across numerous platforms. It’s that of the great candidate who continually turns down job offers. You know the type: perfect CV, looking for a new challenge (allegedly) and would fit well into a number of the roles you’re trying to fill. Interviews. View Article.

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3 Elements of a Proactive Daily Plan for Recruiters

Top Echelon Contracting

When I first started in the business back in 1994, I was fortunate to hear Peter Leffkowitz speak at a recruiting seminar in Los Angeles. One of the sections of his training that particularly stood out to me was his. The post 3 Elements of a Proactive Daily Plan for Recruiters appeared first on Top Echelon.

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How This Hot Startup Tackled Its Candidate Experience Challenges

Linkedin Talent Blog

Sam Shank should have been over the moon. His company HotelTonight , an app that connects travelers with last-minute hotel deals, was surging in popularity on both the App Store and Google Play. But this sudden growth was a double-edged sword. Shank and his team were beginning to notice friction in their hiring processes. Interview experiences were becoming less personalized, and the company was struggling to find the rare type of person who could come on board, change the status quo, and provid

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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History of Staffing. Future of Recruitment

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? History of staffing continued. The temporary staffing and contract labor industry has transitioned from a technical engineering and clerical support dominated business, to now include every market and discipline. From legal to medical; across all platforms of recruiting from "temp to perm" to huge Global IT contractor markets; from S.O.W. projects to global outsourcing, the recruitment industry today has grown into a trillion-d

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How can we fix tech recruiting?

Workable

Technology fancies itself a meritocracy—more so than any other industry. In theory, coding ability is all you need to land a coding job. Not a rich dad or a fancy degree. Sadly, this utopian theory rarely plays out in practice. To have a true meritocracy, you need a level playing field. Those fields are hard to find. They’re even harder to make if you’re a recruiter.

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History's Most Trusted Advisors – Management Consultants. the early days

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? Management consulting. According to history, behind every great leader was a great advisor, tasked with providing exceptional insight and educated recommendations on every topic ranging from management of affairs to strategic decisions. Biblical kings had prophets, Roman emperors had the Senate, King Henry VIII of England had Thomas Cromwell, and even the Mafia had their consigliere.

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Hireology Launches Onboarding Solution to Existing Suite of Services

Hireology

New Product From the Leading Provider of Employee Selection Management Technology Automates Onboarding Process for New Hires, Offers Solution to Drive Down Employee Turnover. CHICAGO (August 4, 2016) – Hireology announced today that it is launching Onboarding, an all-new Hireology product that extends the platform’s process-driven approach to onboard new hires quickly and digitally within the existing Hireology software.

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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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What Makes a Strong Employee Benefits Statement?

HRsoft

Today, it seems that employers are willing to offer all sorts of unique perks to drive recruitment, retention, and engagement. But could it be possible that they’re going about it all wrong? One Fortune Magazine contributor seems to think so. Perks, he argues, are not the key to attracting and retaining top talent. Yet, if not perks, what are the most important elements on an employee benefits statement?

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Her: The Future of Bot Technology and Candidate Feedback

Recruiting Daily

After we teach our kids how to survive with things like getting food into their mouths instead of all over their faces, using their words to communicate instead of pointing or grunting and wiping their own butts, we move on to social lessons. Things like manners and social queues. As we teach these lessons every day in the classroom or at the grocery store, it’s inevitable that we slowly start to hear that faint echo of our parent’s voices.

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History's Most Trusted Advisors – Management Consultants. the early 1900s

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? Management consulting continued. In 1914 the first management consultancy company to service both industry and government clients was founded: Booz Allen Hamilton. Initially specializing in technical research, and later developing a niche in ‘management engineering,’ they laid their foundation using new approaches to management.

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Considering an HR Certification? An HR Veteran Offers Her Insights

Newton Software

Sara-Kate DeBord, Senior Human Resources Business Partner with Paycor, Discusses Her Experience with HR Certifications. Through our Newton Recruiting Insights series , we discovered that nearly 1 in every 4 of our users has an HR certification. Considering this finding, we wanted to take a closer look at HR certifications to understand what motivates people to obtain them.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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History's Most Trusted Advisors – Management Consultants. the early 1900s

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? Management consulting continued. In 1914 the first management consultancy company to service both industry and government clients was founded: Booz Allen Hamilton. Initially specializing in technical research, and later developing a niche in ‘management engineering,’ they laid their foundation using new approaches to management.

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The Digital World of Work: How it Has Changed HR (in India)

Bersin

I just finished an amazing week in India, including a speech at the PeopleMatters HR Technology conference in Delhi. As many of you may know, India is now the second largest internet market and the HR community in this country is terrific. I have never met so many passionate, intelligent, focused HR professionals in one […].

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Red States Lag Blue in Opportunity Work, Muting Impact of Job Gains Nationally

Indeed

We expect Friday’s jobs report to show continued strength in employment gains, but will these added jobs satisfy and provide opportunity to American workers in the long run? Last month, the US economy added a surprising 287,000 jobs and promisingly, we saw roles being added in areas with higher wage growth and salaries, namely, healthcare and financial services.