Wed.Nov 09, 2016

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When and How to Use Different Interview Techniques

Lever

In most organizations (if not all), interviewing candidates is an imperfect practice. Interviewing can help you find your ideal hire, but it also sometimes results in the downright wrong hire. While it can be nearly impossible to completely eliminate all bad hires, trying different interview techniques can certainly help you reduce them.

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7 Incredibly Useful FREE Online Recruitment Resources/Tools

Social Talent

At Social Talent we’re all about working smarter so that you can live happier, and very often working smarter means utilising a range of specially designed online recruitment resources and tools to help you get the job done. Over the years, we’ve introduced you to numerous online tools each with one purpose and one purpose only, to make your working life easier.

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Top 5 Screening Best Practices

JazzHR

You developed the job profile, wrote the description and posted it to your engaging careers website. Congratulations. You just mixed a job well done with a hungry job market. In other words, you just loaded the water with a whole lotta’ chum. Now you get to sit back, hold on tight, and wait for the sharks to circle. Just kidding. A million responses to your carefully crafted post won’t mean anything if you can’t pick the great white out of the pack.

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Why You Should Hire for Potential (Not Experience)

Beamery

Interviewing is hard. It’s tough to assess a candidate’s potential, and all to easy to rely on job requirements and experience. If you’re looking to improve quality of hire, focusing on potential and a candidate’s ability to grow within your organisation could give you better results than just looking for required experience.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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What Are the Hidden Costs of Employee Referrals?

Newton Software

Employee Referrals: Golden Ticket to Recruiting or Fool’s Gold? Employee referrals are touted as the golden ticket to successful recruiting, and for good reason too. Studies have found that referrals offer: -Higher quality candidates -Higher retention rates -Reduced time-to-hire -Cheaper acquisition costs For these reasons, at Newton, we believe that a well-thought-out employee referral program […].

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3 Scientifically Proven Methods to Increase Workforce Productivity

Yoh

Not all business owners take into account that their employees work an average of five hours a day at their desks and that they're paying them for that time. This is a big deal because in the ‘work output to time spent working’ ratio, those five hours often don't add up.

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The Importance of Exit Interview Feedback from Developers

Stack Overflow

Employee retention is hard. Retaining technical employees is even harder. Developers receive an absurd amount of emails from recruiters every week, each one tempting them with cooler benefits, a larger paycheck, or an innovative new product to work on. Developers like challenges – and if they feel like their current role is getting stale and not allowing them to explore and grow in the way they want to, another company might snatch them up.

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How to Use Talent Pools Successfully

iCIMS

Using talent pools can be an extremely effective way of finding the right person for the job, fast.

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What to Do When Your Company Elects a Shocking Boss

Undercover Recruiter

Many of us have had to deal with a shocking boss at some stage in our careers. They appear first as wolves in sheep’s clothing, seeming lovely enough from the outset, not unlike most other professionals you shake hands with. Their manipulative, patronising, harsh and cutting attributes tend to creep up slowly, catching us by surprise. There’s.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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7 Ways to Provide Your Interns With a Valuable Experience

RecruitLoop

Whether paid or unpaid, or simply providing extra experience for interns to place on their resumes, the internship program should be a valuable one.

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Rational Recruiting: Big Data Myths Debunked

Recruiting Daily

Have you ever been inside a factory? The sounds of machines cranking, the hustle and bustle of the room, the smell of steam. There’s something to admire about this image of efficiency, where every element has been tuned just right to produce whatever product it makes at the maximum rate while every piece of the […].

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3 Salary Negotiating Tips You Need to Know

Glassdoor for Employers

Your company’s approach to compensation is part of your employer brand. How you handle offers, promotions, yearly increases, bonuses, equity and benefits.

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Job Satisfaction Among Employed Veterans is Dipping

CareerBuilder

Providing veterans of the U.S. military with gainful employment is no small task, but many U.S. employers are stepping up to do their part. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey , 37 percent of employers plan to actively recruit veterans in the coming year, on par with last year. Additionally, nearly half (47 percent) say they’ve hired a veteran in the past twelve months.

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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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Feeling Average? 4 Ways to Differentiate Your Recruiting Strategy

Jibe

What does the word average mean? The dictionary says “having qualities that are seen as typical of a particular person or thing.” No employer wants to be seen as average, but, by default, most fall into this category. The question is, should you be investing in breaking free—differentiating your recruiting strategy ? Of course, no employer truly wants to be average.

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Social Media Recruiting for Small Businesses: 4 Tips to Get Started

CareerBuilder

Did you know that about 890 million people a day use Facebook? While it may be tempting for a small business leader to write off this huge audience as mostly interested in posting vacation photos and sharing brownie recipes, visitors also gather plenty of news and opinions from such platforms. If social networking isn’t part of your recruitment strategy , your small business may be missing out on valuable opportunities to connect with potential employees and failing to take advantage of an outle

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Hired Announces $30M in New Funding

HIRED

Today during my fireside chat with Kit Eaton of The New York Times at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, I announced an incredibly exciting milestone for Hired. We have accepted a second close of our Series C funding, bringing the total for this round to $70 million, and our total funding to over $100 million. This funding came primarily from limited partners Glenmede Trust and Ontario Pension Board , with additional pro-ratas from existing investors.

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7 Ways to Provide Your Interns With a Valuable Experience

RecruitLoop

Whether paid or unpaid, or simply providing extra experience for interns to place on their resumes, the internship program should be a valuable one.

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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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4 Must-Do's for a Successful Partnership With Hiring Managers

Linkedin Talent Blog

Recruiters and hiring managers are like peanut butter and jelly, except when the peanut butter wishes the jelly would have told her about that Master’s requirement before she posted the job. Okay so the analogy falls apart a little bit, but the fact remains that recruiters and hiring managers would, in an ideal world, work in tandem to find and keep the very best hires.

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Key LinkedIn Changes That You Can’t Afford To Miss

Prominence

Does your recruitment agency have a LinkedIn Company page? If so, you need to read this blog or risk not being ready for key LinkedIn changes due to roll out anytime now. It’s long overdue but LinkedIn has finally started to make a number of changes to its desktop platform, this includes a new news feed and company page layout/design. As a recruitment agency, LinkedIn is obviously one of the main branding channels, so it’s important to make a few key changes prior to the new roll out so your bra

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Social Media Recruiting for Small Businesses: 4 Tips to Get Started

CareerBuilder

Did you know that about 890 million people a day use Facebook? While it may be tempting for a small business leader to write off this huge audience as mostly interested in posting vacation photos and sharing brownie recipes, visitors also gather plenty of news and opinions from such platforms. If social networking isn’t part of your recruitment strategy , your small business may be missing out on valuable opportunities to connect with potential employees and failing to take advantage of an outle

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What is the Gig Economy and How is it Affecting Talent Recruiters and Employers?

TalentCircles

With the new administration taking office soon, it’s anyone’s guess (and boy are people guessing) what will become of the economy in the near future. At present, though, the “gig economy” appears to be alive and well. While it doesn’t.

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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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Job Satisfaction Among Employed Veterans is Dipping

CareerBuilder

Providing veterans of the U.S. military with gainful employment is no small task, but many U.S. employers are stepping up to do their part. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey , 37 percent of employers plan to actively recruit veterans in the coming year, on par with last year. Additionally, nearly half (47 percent) say they’ve hired a veteran in the past twelve months.

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How Your Dealership Culture Could Be Costing You Sales

Hireology

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Hiring Right – 10 Tips to Finding and Hiring the Right Employee

ExactHire Recruiting

There is no magic approach to finding and hiring the right employee. However, there are some best practices you can implement that will increase your odds at success. Here are 10 tips to finding and hiring the right employee. Make a Plan The first step in any successful endeavor is to first get organized. Hiring is no different. If you fail to plan in the hiring process you plan to fail.

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5 Ways to Recruit Salespeople Who Can Deliver Immediate Results

Recruiting Blogs

Salespeople are the heart and soul of nearly every enterprise. without the right salespeople, your business will not be able to grow or profit. Even the best customer service will not be helpful if there are no customers to serve. But recruiting the best salespeople can be a challenge -- after all, they are often being courted by multiple companies at once.

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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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12 Ways to Use a Video Interview Platform

Talview

For a tool as powerful as Talview, there are unlimited possibilities. Based on varied use cases seen across customers we have identified the top 12 ways of using Talview. Here's the list of how to use Talview to screen, select and onboard quality talents in various scenarios.

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Veterans Day 2016 a special and weird day!!

Recruiting Blogs

Veterans Day 2016 a special and weird day!! . Veterans day 2016 a day that is very special as is all Veterans days. Veterans day is a day where we do honor to those who have fought for the freedoms we all enjoy. This Veterans day carries a very weird addition to it, as it follows the 2016 Presidential Election. An election that will forever be known as the election of settling.

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HR Directors Spend a Month Recruiting for Open Positions

Undercover Recruiter

New research from Robert Half UK highlights the lengthy recruitment process some HR directors go through. HR directors are spending a month (let’s call it February at 27.59 days) on average recruiting for open positions within their organisation, which can result in them losing out on talented candidates who accept jobs from other companies who are.

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