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Maybe the worst recruiter blunder ever?

Greg Savage

I worked a desk as a recruiter for many years. And I was a pretty good recruiter too. Not great, mind you. Just good enough to have a lot of fun and make a bit of money. I also made some monumental stuff-ups. And I don’t mean the odd lapse of judgment. I mean enormous […]. The post Maybe the worst recruiter blunder ever? first appeared on Greg Savage.

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WHY YOU SHOULD BE INVESTING IN EMPLOYER BRANDING-RIGHT NOW!

Proactive Talent

Quite recently, Microsoft made headlines by announcing that they will soon post salary ranges for all job openings. To quote the Daily Mail ….

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5 Tech Hacks for More Professional Recruitment Video Calls

FireFish Software

Whether you’re running video interviews, having a meeting with a client online or an internal meeting with your colleagues, you want to come across professionally when beaming in from your living room.

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8 Expert Formatting Tips for Designing a Resume that Lands Interviews

Yoh

It doesn't matter whether you are applying for an internship or a job as the CFO of a company. Having a well-designed resume can make the difference between selection and rejection. Resume design is arguably just as important as the information on the resume. After all, recruiters can spend mere seconds looking through your resume, so they need to be able to find your key qualifications quickly.

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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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Helping Staffing Firms Hire: 3 Tips for Common Staffing Challenges

Hiretual

hireEZ Launches EZ Rediscovery and EZ Insights to Give Outbound Recruiters a Competitive Edge >>. Log In. Solution. Sourcing. Engagement. Insights. NEW. Rediscovery. NEW. Integration. Collaboration. EZ Sourcing. Unleash Access to Untapped Talent Pools. AI Sourcing. Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Boolean Builder. EZ Engagement. Direct and Scalable Candidate Engagement & Interview Scheduling.

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10 Ways To Streamline Daily Workflow Patterns And Get Stuff Done

Forbes Human Resources Council

Starting with the end-user is one of the easiest ways to enhance innovation, find better ways to complete tasks and include new voices and opinions.

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What Lizzo's Reaction to Being Called Out for Ableist Song Lyrics Can Teach Us About Allyship

The Muse

Even well-intentioned allies can mess up and accidentally harm a marginalized group. Lizzo has given us an example of how to respond.

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Optimising Your Workforce for the Best Way to Get Work Done

Allegis Global Solutions

Note: This article originally appeared in Human Resources Director – Asia and was written by Mel Hearse.

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5 Inspiring Career Pages & How You Can Build Your Own with Manatal

Manatal

Commodities that society puts the highest value on change constantly. First, it was gold, followed by oil, and in the past few years, it was data. But that has changed yet again. Now, it’s all about amazing employees that are worth their weight in gold for all businesses – small and large. After all, great companies are built when a diverse group of employees, who believe in collaboration, team up to create magic – together.

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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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InfoMart Supports LiveSafe Resources and Promotes Supplier Diversity at WBENC National 2022

TalentCulture - Recruiting

A longtime advocate of both supplier diversity and giving back to their community, InfoMart used its sponsorship platform to promote other women-owned businesses and to shine a light on the important work being done by LiveSafe Resources, a local domestic abuse shelter. The post InfoMart Supports LiveSafe Resources and Promotes Supplier Diversity. at WBENC National 2022 appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Why The Talent Acquisition Funnel Could Kill Your Business Growth

Forbes Human Resources Council

The talent acquisition process you have been following all this time could be what has set you up for stalled growth at best and serious issues at worst.

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Benefits of Exploring Business Ownership Through Franchising: Part Two

The Staffing Stream

In part one of this series, we talked in-depth about how to find the right franchisor for you and also highlighted the benefits of business ownership in the staffing industry specifically. In this next article, we will go into more detail about finding the right location for growth, what franchisors are looking for in a franchisee and taking the next steps toward franchise ownership.

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The Good Search CEO a Diversity Speaker at Harvard IT Summit

The Investigative Recruiter

For Immediate Release The Good Search CEO is a Diversity Speaker at Harvard University’s IT Summit Westport, CT: Krista Bradford, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Good Search is a featured diversity speaker at the Sixth Annual IT Summit at Harvard University. Ms. Bradford is appearing on a discussion panel, “Diversity in IT:… The Good Search CEO a Diversity Speaker at Harvard IT Summit.

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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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15 Questions to Help Improve Candidate Engagement

Jobvite

Nurturing candidates has one overarching purpose. To convert top talent into new hires for your open positions. By continuously engaging with candidates — whether passive or active — through multiple engagement strategies across the hiring journey, you can offer a seamless experience that delivers results for your recruiting function. Candidate engagement typically is a continuum that spans recruitment marketing , the hiring experience, and new hire engagement.

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How To Work Faster: 7 Tips To Get Work Done Before The Deadline

Hundred5

Have you ever found yourself hitting a wall at work? You have so many projects piled up, but you can’t do anything more than stare blankly at your computer screen… overwhelmed with stress and anxiety… unsure of where to even begin. You just can’t seem to get yourself to focus and get things done. If this sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone.

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Employee Retention - Do’s and Don’ts

RippleHire

Over 13 million workers quit their jobs in the first quarter of 2022 at approximately 3 percent of the total workforce every month, according to the US bureau of Labor. What this means is that a lot of people are trigger-happy to leave their employers for better opportunities.

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Salary, Flexibility, A Winning Culture: What The Class Of 2022 Is Looking For In A Job

Forbes Human Resources Council

There's good reason to ponder new graduates' expectations.

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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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Assessing Risk: A Quick and Intuitive Framework

Forum One

Considering and assessing risk—meaning, all the things that can go wrong in a project—is understandably scary. In a web redesign, for example, thinking ahead and saying out loud, “What if this content doesn’t migrate the way we planned?” or “What if our most important stakeholder expects a feature we didn’t know about?” can feel like setting ourselves up for failure.

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Get a Look Inside the Interview Process at Karat: Q&A with Trenton Miller

PowerToFly

Trenton Miller is a senior manager in recruiting operations at Karat^ , the first dedicated technical interview marketplace. With over a decade of experience in technical recruiting at companies like Amazon, Google, and Remitly, Trenton is passionate about equipping diverse professionals with opportunities to strategically grow in their careers. We sat down with Trenton to learn more about the work Karat is doing, what types of candidates they’re looking for, and how you can stand out in the int

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What You Need in Order to Become a Trucker

Recruiting Blogs

One career that has some allure and nostalgic charm in the minds of many is being a truck driver. While the idea of traveling across the country for a living may be attractive to some, becoming a trucker is in no way easy or as simple as one might think. Beyond just having a high school diploma, there are a number of qualifications and other factors for you to consider.

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5 Steps LGBTQ+ Employees Say Companies Can Take to Be More Inclusive

Linkedin Talent Blog

Despite momentous leaps forward in LGBTQ+ rights over the past few decades, the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in the workforce can range dramatically from one country — or even one company — to the next. This unequal footing has left many LGBTQ+ people unsure where they stand at work and in the job market. A new LinkedIn survey of of over 1,000 LGBTQ+ working professionals in the U.S. found that almost a quarter of respondents (24%) are closeted at work because they feel their sexual

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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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3 ways a jobs board could send your career into overdrive

Recruiting Blogs

Many senior executives claim they are hired via the simple act of word of mouth, or that a recruitment firm found them, chatted to them, and headhunted them. . Sure, both methods can work in your favour when you’re looking to make the leap from an adequate, well-paying position to one that is more up your alley and even better paying – but let’s first consider the best way to be discovered, in the first place.

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Retirements vs Quits: Getting to the Bottom of the Great Resignation

Slayton Search Partners

By now, the term “Great Resignation” has reached cliché status, providing us with a caricatured vision of a great exodus of workers, boxed possessions in hand as they leave the building once and for all. But the sore truth is that millions of employees continue to re-evaluate their careers and seek new opportunities, leaving employers to redefine their retention initiatives.

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When Should You Upgrade Your Applicant Tracking System

RippleHire

It’s the new age of digital-savvy, where 79% of the candidates use social media to find a job.

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How to Hire in a Candidate Led Market

Hireserve

For the first time since records began, there are more job vacancies than unemployed people in the UK. With resignations at an all time high and unemployment at only 3.7% (its lowest rate in 50 years), it’s fair to say that the market is currently driven by candidates, not employers. . So, with this post-pandemic talent shortage in full swing, how can organisations continue to recruit the best candidates?

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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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Caregiver Return to Work

Recruiting Daily Advisor

As the war on talent continues to put pressure on employers of all sizes, many are contemplating how and when a return to the workplace might unfold. In the past two years, employees have experienced more flexibility and integration of work and home than ever before. While this has been a luxury for many, it has also been a necessity for some- especially working family caregivers.

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Persistence is powerful – here's how to stay focused in your current job search

Recruiting Blogs

Not everyone kicking off a job search has an executiv e coach or mentor in their corner. And, that’s ok – these individuals come with a hefty price tag. But if you’ve had any career coaching in the past, you’ll know exactly what a high-level coach would tell you as you set out on this rewarding journey. By Vanessa Rogers on behalf of Executive Placements.

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This is Us: What’s the FMLA Got to Do With It?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

For six seasons, fans of the NBC hit drama This is Us tuned in each week to watch the Pearson Family saga unfold and to have a collective soul cleansing cry. This is Us delicately weaved in and out of multiple time periods to tell the heartwarming story of Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore) and their children, Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz), and Randall (Sterling K.