Tue.Mar 12, 2019

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Searches for Purple Squirrels Should Die

NPA Worldwide

Recruitment and search have become increasingly more difficult for independent recruiters. Independents are the NPAworldwide constituency; that is my motivation for examining this subject. Let’s take a look…. Employers have taken back the massive quantities of simple-to-fill positions that they shared with recruiters in the early 2000s. These have gone in-house or they have gone to online and AI-based services that can bang out the 15 new sales reps needed in every city across North America or w

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Employer Branding Tips (From A Marketing Department)

Social Talent

For marketers (like the one writing this blog), it can be hard to let go of the company branding and messaging, to open it up to collaboration, but as businesses change and transform, employer branding has expanded it’s role to the entire business. One of the most note-able collaborations is between the marketing team and in-house recruiters / hiring managers.

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How to Do Recruitment Sales in a Candidate-Driven Market

FireFish Software

Selling your recruitment services in a candidate-driven market works quite differently to how you’d approach it when the market is job-driven. With more roles on the table than there are top candidates to fill them, agency recruiting is no longer about reactively filling positions as they come onto the job market, but about proactively seeking out quality talent and using them to guide your recruitment sales strategy.

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How to Get More Women to Apply to Your Job Postings

Proactive Talent

In the interest of Women’s History Month, we’re tackling an issue that is very near and dear to our hearts: female job applicants. This is an incredibly relevant topic as more and more companies are (finally) starting to understand the need for a move toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Critical initiatives like this always start with small shifts.

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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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How UCSF Created a Candidate Experience that Feels Like the Ritz

Lever

What do stellar candidate experiences and seamless implementations have in common with the Ritz Carlton? To find out, we sat down with Jay Budner, Executive Director of Strategic Talent Development at UCSF, to discuss why a white glove approach makes or breaks these two important critical components to your hiring experience.

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Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent

Katrina Kibben

Talent personas are the creative genius behind great recruiting strategies that attract junior tech talent. The post Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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5 Email Tips for Effective Leadership

RecruitLoop

An effective leader has to be consistent in their communication with both employees and business partners. Use these 5 email tips to establish effective leadership and correctly depict all your ideas through email communication.

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Why You May Be Losing Staff Due to Lack of Training Opportunities

Undercover Recruiter

The word “value” is something which is unfortunately not often associated with recruitment. “Need”, yes, “Cost” definitely, but not “Value”. My team and I want to address this, and I guess if you’re wanting to grow or sustain your recruitment business, then you do too! Being that the UK Recruitment industry is worth over £30Billion (a pretty. View Article.

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5 Challenges Recruiters Face on Snapchat

Smartdreamers

Snapchat: it’s not just for kids anymore! As this unique social platform has grown from something you’d barely heard of and didn’t want to try into an intriguing platform for directly interfacing with your target personas, whether that’s as a traditional marketer or a recruitment marketer. As hiring and recruitment marketing are increasingly moving away from traditional channels like job boards towards the sites where potential future employees actually spend their time (think Facebook, Reddit,

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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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Review of Machine Sourcer

WizardSourcer

Machine Sourcer is a new browser extension that enables recruiters to source less and convert more by automating your targeted LinkedIn outreach. You can easily build and save targeted lists on LinkedIn using this tool. After, you’ve created your lists you can then automate the outreach and send them all personalized inmail messages. . This extension was recently launched in the Chrome store.

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[Ep.4] Three Easy Ways to Identify Employees for Your Employee-Powered Recruiting

Firmplay

SUBSCRIBE TO FIRMPLAY'S NEWSLETTER. Email *. Success! You’ll be the first to know when there’s a new post :). How do you identify the right employees to participate in your Employee-Powered Recruiting efforts? Coming to you all the way from Key West, Florida, Jason shares with you three simple ways to find employees who would be great for your Employee-Powered Recruiting.

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What Story Does The 2018 Staffing Buyer Study Tell Us?

Recruiting Daily

Chicago is home to great pizzas, sports teams, and “Da Auto Show,” a renowned annual event advertised broadly. Admittedly, my husband and I trek out yearly to gawk at rows upon rows of “da” gorgeous vehicles. However, we depart with few, if any, plans to purchase a ride, let alone the $4.5M Lamborghini Veneno (pictured […].

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On the difference of “why this position” vs “why this company”

Zartis

Did you finally start the interview process with that company that you liked since forever? Well done, that’s a brilliant first step! Now all you have to do is convince them they should be just as excited as you are. Two questions inevitably come up in all interviews and they can set the tone for your excitement: Why this position? Why this company?

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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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Why You Need To Accept Applicant Feedback At Every Step Of The Hiring Process

ConveyIQ

At ConveyIQ, we are massive supporters of accepting applicant feedback throughout all the stages of the hiring process. You may take input from your applicants once they are hired, but do you take the time to get feedback as applicants leave the hiring process? Today we are going to talk about the importance of taking feedback continuously.

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The Biggest Challenges In Retail Recruiting (And How To Tackle Them)

PandoLogic

Retail is one of the most volatile, fast-paced industries out there. Organizations need to be able to adapt to changing technology, changing customer bases, and changing seasons. Recruiting against these elements can be a major task. Let’s look at some.

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12 Ways to Improve Your Workforce’s Work-Life Balance

Achievers - Recruiting

You want your employees to be engaged in what they’re doing, so the first step is making sure they’re not overwhelmed with outside commitments. Silicon Valley CEO Raj Narajanaswamy makes a strong case for how fostering a healthy work-life balance throughout your company will contribute to better financial outcomes. He points out that work-related stress routinely costs American businesses $200 to $300 billion annually — and that doesn’t even begin to address the less quan

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How to Live Your Best Work Life, According to Mindy Kaling

Linkedin Talent Blog

Actress, writer, producer, and entrepreneur Mindy Kaling — famous for her appearances in titles like The Office , The Mindy Project and, soon, Late Night — sat down with LinkedIn Head of Global Diversity Rosanna Durruthy Saturday in The LinkedIn Studio at South by Southwest in Austin. The fireside chat was signature Mindy, full of self-deprecating humor and hilarious observations.

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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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Leadership Remedies for 5 Common Causes of Employee Burnout

FlashPoint

Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. Leadership behaviors to decrease employee burnout and increase engagement and retention. Gallup has studied employee engagement and its impact for years. In 2018, a study of 7,500 full-time employees found that 23% of employees felt burned out “very often or always” while 44% felt burned out “sometimes”.

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Diversity And Inclusion: Why Difference Matters And How Words Keep It That Way

Forbes Human Resources Council

Differences matter. Words can help differences continue to matter.

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Where did February go? Or, self care for recruiters.

Recruiting in Yoga Pants

Y'all. We need to talk about something. Taking care of yourself. Here's the thing - I spent most of February laid up with bronchitis and barely able to breathe let alone function. I did my best to keep up with work, irritated my sourcing partners and bosses to no end I'm sure (they'd never say that, they're so nice ;) ) and generally felt like s**t on toast.

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How These Companies Are Preventing Burnout in the City That Never Sleeps

PowerToFly

A 2018 study found that 1 in 5 highly engaged employees is at risk of burnout. And the General Social Survey of 2016 (a nationwide survey that tracks he attitudes and behaviors of American society) found that 50 percent of respondents are consistently exhausted because of work, compared with 18 percent two decades ago. If these are the numbers for the U.S. as a whole, imagine the numbers of New York City. a microcosm of highly competitive, ambitious workers who on top of working long days have a

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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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Project Your Ideal Image: How to Use LinkedIn Headlines Correctly

Harger Howe Recruitment

What is in a job title? Aren't you so much more than that? After all, as a job seeker, unless you are selected for interview, odds are you will likely not be able to show a recruiter your true personality. Conversely, as a recruiter, the likelihood is high that you will miss out on a lot of qualified hires simply because you don’t know how to project your company's personality digitally.

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Recruiters, you should be using social media to build your employer brand of choice!

Recruiting Blogs

Social is used incorrectly by many businesses and recruiters. Social is exactly that – a social platform where potential customers are interacting with friends, family and articles that are of interest to them. When you are posting social messages you are interrupting them so you need to be mindful of the context of your content and when it is being consumed by your audience.

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SCP Hot Jobs

SilverChair Partners

1. Sr. EA/PA to the CEO of a leading marketing and PR firm. $120-150K DOE plus bonus and benefits. 2. EA to support two Partners at a venture capital firm. $100-150K plus bonus and excellent benefits. This is a great chance to support experienced players in the industry as the business grows. 3. EA/PA/Research Assistant to support the President at a thriving investment firm. $85-110K DOE plus percentage of the company profits and benefits.

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An Evening of Tech Talks + Networking with Women Tech Leaders

PowerToFly

If you are a New York-based tech professional who is interested in attending this event, please email hi@powertofly.com to be considered for an invite. Join PowerToFly and women tech leaders from Bloomberg, Peloton, and TodayTix for an evening of illuminating tech talks and networking. This invite-only evening will include tech talks and product demos from women tech leaders at each of our featured companies followed by audience Q&A.

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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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KNF&T’s Mission Statement and Values

KNF&T Staffing Resources

KNF&T is focused on providing a best place to work for our employees and a superior experience for our clients and candidates. In line with that, we are excited to announce our mission statement and values , which reflect who KNF&T is at the core. Our mission and values not only define who we are, but also establish the foundation for which we operate each day – finding the right fit for our clients and candidates.

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Help Your Recruiter Help You

TeamBuilderSearch

Three Tips for Achieving Success in Your Search. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. -Andrew Carnegie. Whether your organization is large or small, you have competition. Everyone wants the best, brightest talent available to add to their teams. Talent means success. But finding talent takes time and expertise. That’s where recruiters come in.

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DOL Accuses Employer of Discriminatory Hiring and Development Practices

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Tech giant Oracle Corp. is guilty of shortchanging women and minority workers $400 million in the form of wages, according to a new legal filing by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Source: benjaminec / iStock /Getty. The allegations stem from a random 2014 audit by the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which enforces equal pay and other nondiscrimination requirements for federal contractors.

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