Fri.Apr 27, 2018

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TL;DR: Gaming, Stress, And Getting The Balance Right

Social Talent

Ever find yourself too busy to keep up to date on the latest recruiting news and trends? Are you spending your morning smiling and nodding at the water cooler wondering where your colleagues find the time? SocialTalent ‘s Too Long; Didn’t Read (TL;DR) is here to get you up to speed with everything you might have missed this week, including gaming, stress, and managing that all important work/life balance.

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Your 30-Day-Out Crash Course to GDPR

Symphony Talent

We’re in the final stretch – GDPR becomes enforceable on May 25. In less than 30 days, GDPR will no longer be a future event for talent acquisition. The post Your 30-Day-Out Crash Course to GDPR appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Small Business Hiring Trend: How to Effectively Manage Remote Employees

Hireology

About 90% of small businesses plan to add new employees in 2018, largely due to a strong economy. And a growing small business hiring trend is reaching outside the local candidate pool to hire remote employees. While many small business roles – such as personal trainers or home care aides, to name a few – require an employee’s physical presence, ever-evolving technology is powering accessibility to remote employees as the latest small business hiring trend.

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How to Get the LinkedIn Profile for the Job You Want

Undercover Recruiter

It’s a question nearly every one of us gets asked at some point during our school life by a teacher, “What do you want to do/be when you grow up?” And whilst that answer can change a million times from the age of five till about 12, it’s really after that stage that people really. View Article. How to Get the LinkedIn Profile for the Job You Want Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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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 to Make the Most of Your Remote Workforce as an Entrepreneur

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Payman Taei the founder of Visme. His opinions are his own. In a relatively short amount of time, technology has changed the lives of business professionals in a wide range of different ways – some of which could have been predicted and some of which few saw coming. […].

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4 Signs of a Good Interview and 3 Red Flags

Top Echelon Contracting

It isn’t always a piece of cake to tell if a candidate you recruited is doing well in an interview. Although you and your client have an idea of what you’re looking for, it’s important to spot tell-tale signs of.

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Two Timeless Lessons in Sourcing (UK)

Boolean Strings

This is a guest post from Martin Lee. Back in 1999 when I started my career in this business as an IT “new business” contract recruiter, we used search software called ISYS. I had to make maybe a 100 cold calls to generate one live requirement; I wasn’t the best sales guy. Needless to say, when I got a requirement I had to provide a candidate pretty quickly or a competitor would.

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Cold Outreach Email Checklist: What six elements do you need to have?

Recruiting Daily

Checklists are boring. Same goes for email checklists. They inherently stifle and limit creativity. They seem like an unnecessary distraction to the real work that I need to do. I felt that way for years. Then, a few years back, my boss told me to make a checklist before I reached out to a candidate. […].

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Webinar – How to Make Sure Your Job Posting Does Its Job

JWT Inside

Everyone in the recruiting process has a job to do. Many jobs. That includes your job posting! At its best, your job posting is a teammate, a bold and energetic representative of the job you’re trying to fill and the organization and culture it fits into. If the posting represents the opportunity in a clear, attractive and easy-to-find way, it has a better chance of succeeding and making you, your customers and your company more successful, too.

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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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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why -- by Dr. John Sullivan. 2.

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How to Build an Effective Talent Pool: 5 Easy Ways

Recruiting Blogs

Talent Pool: A long-term recruiting strategy. A talent pool i s a group of highly-qualified candidates who are interested in working for your company. Talent pools are more than just a database of suitable candidates’ profiles. It is the most effective method for proactive recruiting. Building a talent pool is a long-term strategy for filling positions that may not even exist at the moment!

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Viewing Your Invoice

Top Echelon Contracting

Expand the Sidebar and click on the Settings icon. Click to expand the Billing section and then select Invoices. Click the View link to the right of an invoice date to view the corresponding details.

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4 Similarities Between Dating And Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

I was an eligible bachelor before I discovered my current profession as a 'senior recruiter'. I was dating on and off for several years before I started my career. To be honest neither dating or recruiting was easy for me.I had to learn a lot of things to be a professional in both. I had to sell myself, mastered in storytelling, fall down, up, and again fall down, keep the partner ( candidate in terms of recruiting ) engaged and finally recruit a perfect life partner or a candidate.

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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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Soft Skills to Look For to Help Strengthen Your Team

Hiring Thing

As a hiring manager, when you read through piles of resumes, you encounter a long list of skills promoted by applicants. However, many of these skills are generic or irrelevant to your company. Soft skills are particularly valuable because they are harder (and sometimes impossible) to teach, whereas “hard skills”. Continue reading.

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Building Your Company's Culture

Recruiting Blogs

Culture comes from the top. In fact, when we heard the term "Chief Culture Officers" we immediately thought how apt this was to describe anyone in a leadership position within a company. In this interview, Jared Lafitte he tells us about his theory on culture, and why the leaders in organizations need to act like Chief Culture Officers. What is your background and what sort of work do you do?

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What Challenges Face The Recruitment Industry When Hiring?

Rezoomo

With the recruitment industry continuously moving forward it can be hard to keep up with what is going on. There are pains and challenges constantly appearing in the pipeline and it can be hard to discover and educate yourself on what is going on. What do candidates want? Who is currently winning the war on talent? and What do other employers think about it all?

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New Research Study Assesses Assessments for Value and Impact

Brandon Hall

Brandon Hall Group’s new research study, Assessing Assessments: Value and Impact looks at how organizations make talent decisions, which impacts organizational performance and culture. The findings are quite interesting. Download a free copy here. Some highlights: The majority of organizations use assessments to make talent decisions. Organizations using pre-hire assessments are more likely to see year-over-year improvement in quality of hire (44% vs. 32%) and employee retention (32% vs. 23%) th

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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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Weekly Roundup: Top Headlines in Talent Acquisition, April 27, 2018

ConveyIQ

Your ConveyIQ Weekly Roundup is a collection of the most popular articles on recruiting, hiring, talent acquisition, candidate experience and HR tech. ERE. Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why. Time-to-fill averages have been on the rise since 2010, and increasing this metric has seriously negative impacts on recruiting teams.

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Updates from Houston

Harger Howe Recruitment

We have been doing some spring cleaning here at the Houston office. in fact, we will actually be moving to an entirely new building in mid May! After 10 years at our current location, we are excited about our new space. It will also be larger than our current office and offer us the opportunity to continue to grow. Check out this beautiful photo from the front lobby of the new building!

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4 Things Every Recruiter Needs to Know About Facebook's Latest Scandal

Harger Howe Recruitment

We've been seeing Mark Zuckerberg's face during his Congressional testimony everywhere. on the tv, on the internet, even in the newspaper! He's been analyzed, criticized, and even made into memes. But what does it all mean? Why exactly was he testifying in front of Congress anyway? And how is this scandal going to affect how recruiters and HR professionals use Facebook?