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20 Creative Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day 

Achievers - Recruiting

Employee Appreciation Day is right around the corner — March 6, to be exact. This is the perfect opportunity to show your employees that you value their contributions and that you’ve been paying attention to their needs. . Why should you bother with Employee Appreciation Day? Because low employee morale will tank your productivity — costing America’s businesses up to $550 billion each year.

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How HR Leaders Can Earn—and Keep—a Seat at the Leadership Table

Recruiting Daily Advisor

There’s no denying that the role of the Human Resources professional has vastly changed with the “future of work.” No longer are HR pros simply responsible for recruiting and retaining talent. The role now requires HR leaders to be strategists who proactively solve for problems before they even arise. With that in mind, equipping HR with the tools necessary to cut down on time spent sourcing talent and get straight to the insights needed for strategic hiring (and business decisions) is more impo

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How to Write a Resume that Doesn’t Get Sent into a Black Hole

WizardSourcer

Are you someone in the market looking for a new job? Well, then you need to have a resume that doesn’t get sent into a black hole ATS abyss. In order to land a job you need to have a well written resume. The majority of people and myself included learned how to write a resume during their high school years. We were taught to list out our job duties in chronological order, you may list out awards or extra curricular activities.

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Are these the two dumbest recruiters in history?

Greg Savage

Sometimes you have to wonder at how ignorant some people can be. I know, not a nice way to start, but wait till you hear this. This encounter happened a few years ago, but something similar happened last week and it is so common, I have to vent. I was coming back to Sydney from […].

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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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4 Reasons to Add Pre-Employment Assessments to Your Hiring Process

JazzHR

Choosing the perfect employee from a pool of candidates can be challenging. While resumes and screening questions provide a snapshot, they don’t always tell the full story. That’s where pre-employment assessments come in – These tests use a standardized design to evaluate candidates on a range of softer skills like aptitude, personality, and cognitive ability.

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How Quality Career Pages Attract Quality Candidates

JazzHR

Picture a job description for a technical writer that’s riddled with typos. Or a page advertising a web developer position that doesn’t load correctly. While these examples clearly show that the employer desperately needs some help, they aren’t exactly engineered to tempt top talent. . When creating a careers page, recruiting and marketing teams must be mindful of what candidates will see — and how they’ll react.

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How Do Top Executive Search Firms Find Candidates?

Executive Search Insights

Executives often ask: “How do executive search firms find candidates? What can an executive do to get on recruiter radars?” Having spoken to literally thousands of executive search recruiters over the years (my firm provides technology and support services to headhunters), I felt it might be helpful to outline how C-Level and other senior executive jobs are filled.

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Time to Fill or Time to Candidate: Which Metric Should You Be Tracking?

Recruiter

Filling any type of vacancy requires a combination of art and science. For as much as you want to quickly fill an open position, you must ensure you're filling it with a candidate who has both the requisite skills and the necessary cultural fit. On the other hand, the quest for a great candidate can lead to analysis paralysis, which may cause a company to pass on stellar talent in the hope of finding that "perfect fit" for the role.

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4 Ways to Capitalise on Rejected Candidates

FireFish Software

Too often in recruitment, when our candidate gets rejected, we ignore them until another suitable job comes along. But a great recruiter knows how to make the most out of a bad situation!

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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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3 Ways to Make Giving a Part of Your Company Culture Year-Round 

Recruiter

Doing good and good business are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, good business relies on goodwill. Gallup polls consistently show that roughly 70 percent of US employees are not engaged in their work. That's terrifying. Low engagement means low productivity, high turnover, and overall stagnation — or worse, decline.

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Integrating Automation With Human Experience Is The Key To Recruiting Success

ConveyIQ

Automated solutions have become one of the biggest innovations in recruiting over the past decade, and they’re making it easier than ever for recruiters to streamline the hiring process. In fact, 63% of talent acquisition professionals say that artificial intelligence has changed recruiting at their organization by shortening hiring times and improving candidate pipelines.

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What American Companies Get Wrong — and Right — About Work/Life Balance

Recruiter

Are you working too hard? If you're a senior-level employee based in the US, the answer is almost certainly yes. That's not a casual observation — it's one of the findings of Doodle's recent report on work/life balance at American companies. Forty percent of the executives Doodle surveyed said they face "tremendous pressure" to put in longer hours.

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How To Lead Employees Through Technology Changes

Forbes Human Resources Council

To help lead employees through changes to the technology they use for work every day — and to empower each team member to succeed — consider these five steps.

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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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Motivational Interviewing for Physician Recruitment

Hospital Recruiting

dizanna/123RF.com. It’s not surprising that medical students, physician residents, and fellows develop tunnel vision while advancing their professional careers. There’s just no time or space to plan for what happens at the end of the academic rainbow. This may lead to deferral of important employment related plans and unanswered questions, both large and small.

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13 Features Staffing Agencies Should Look For In An Applicant Tracking System

TrackerRMS

Top staffing agencies know that in order to compete, they need streamlined and efficient job posting, screening, and hiring processes. And a premium Applicant Tracking System can help your agency to reach those goals. But with so many different options out there, how are you supposed to know what to look for? What features are key to increasing productivity and creating a smoother workflow for your recruiters, candidates, and clients?

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Don't Be Scared — and Don't Be Hasty: How to Nail Your Unlimited PTO Policy

Recruiter

For some workers, unlimited paid time off (PTO) is a reality — and most of those employees who don't have it yet want it. In fact, a recent MetLife study shows that 72 percent workers are interested in unlimited PTO. Yes, "unlimited" here really does mean "without a limit" — "infinite," if you wish. Slowly but surely, more and more.

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How To Network At A Conference

BlueWave Resource Partners

Conferences are a great way to stay up-to-date in your field and network with people in your chosen industry. For many jobseekers, the trade show floor and happy hours can seem like the perfect time to make an impression on stakeholders in a dream company. However, overeager job hunters handing out resumes may come off less charming than you think. It is possible to make meaningful connections with business contacts at your next conference.

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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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To attract or not to attract great talent

career.place

To attract or not to attract great talent – 3 tips to avoid the pitfalls of biasing job description language While a rose by any other name still smells swee.

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Four Ways To Find Your Voice At Work

Forbes Human Resources Council

Using your voice to be an agent of change can help make work more equitable, inclusive and employee-centric.

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To attract or not to attract great talent

career.place

To attract or not to attract great talent – 3 tips to avoid the pitfalls of biasing job description language While a rose by any other name still smells swee.

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Overcoming the ‘Win at all Costs’ Mentality: Take a stand against cheating

The Staffing Stream

Winning means everything. Our culture praises winning and ignores the means by which it occurs. The end justifies the means. A level playing field is no longer the starting basis for competition; if you want to win, ethics are a casualty from the start. Some might consider that hyperbolic, but it’s hard to deny that cheating has not only become acceptable, it’s quietly encouraged and it pervades our daily activities more than you realize.

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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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The Four Aces Of Leadership

Forbes Human Resources Council

Leadership is not a position or title. It can’t be awarded; it must be earned.

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Research Highlights Feb. 24-March 1

Brandon Hall

Cornerstone-Saba Plus New Research on Learning Strategy, Technology. This was a big week for Learning & Development, starting with Cornerstone’s announcement that it is acquiring Saba. Michael Rochelle, Brandon Hall Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, weighs in on the impact. We also released research assets on learning strategy and learning technology.

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The Importance And Challenges Of Employee Alignment

Forbes Human Resources Council

Alignment forms a “cultural bracket,” a psychological and sociological foundation for any interaction within or without the company.

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Open Your Doors to Working Moms Who’ve Taken a Career Break — It Will Give You a Competitive Edge

Linkedin Talent Blog

This coming Sunday marks International Women’s Day, an important time for us to celebrate working mothers everywhere. As a working mom myself, I’m happy that LinkedIn is using the occasion to shine a light on the experiences faced by women returning to work after taking a career break. Becoming a parent changes your life — believe me, it transformed mine completely and unimaginably — and the transition from employee to mother to working mother can be a significant and sometimes challenging shift

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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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Overthrowing The Dated Recruitment Process

Forbes Human Resources Council

It is time to start focusing on people as individuals during the interview process.

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Use This 3-step Win-Win Hiring Program to Ensure You Land the Right Candidate

Linkedin Talent Blog

When it comes to finding that perfect candidate, I’m always looking for a “Win-Win Hiring” outcome. This means that both the hiring manager and the new hire both agree it was the right decision one year into the job. While defining hiring success with this outcome is a worthy goal, it requires some significant reengineering of your hiring process to achieve it on a consistent basis.

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Changing TalentStrategies in APAC

The Staffing Stream

In my last post , I outlined the many talent challenges employers are facing in APAC. While the ever-complex and ambiguous people landscape in this region means there will never be a one-size-fits-all approach to total talent solutions, there are a number of strategic changes that need to be considered for businesses to truly compete for top skills in APAC.