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Crap KPI’s. Dumb managers. Unhappy recruiters: Or the smart way.

Greg Savage

Recruiters love to be busy. Or to be more accurate, they love to feel busy. Same goes for many recruiting managers. If everyone is busy, busy, busy, they are happy. Happy, but dumb. Because yes, activity is key in recruitment. But smart activity is what we want. So many recruiters are currently getting better and […].

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Recruitment Roundup: Interview Tactics From Facebook’s Director

Social Talent

Welcome to another week of our recruitment roundup, where we share with you the latest news in recruitment. Here are the latest stories to keep you in the know! Facebook Director Reveals Interview Insight. Interviewing for a job can be daunting at the best of times, with many candidates letting their nerves get the better of them. Sometimes a candidate will have everything rehearsed and stick to their script.

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What is the Best URL for My Job Pages?

FireFish Software

As a marketer working in a recruitment agency, often the responsibility of optimising your agency’s website falls to you. One important SEO consideration to make is whether you should structure your website with subdomains or off your www. domain as a subdirectory. To help you make the right decision, here’s how to pick between subdomains and subdirectories.

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Stop Worrying Recruiters: A.I Will Help You, Not Hurt You

Undercover Recruiter

Artificial Intelligence is here, and it’s here to stay. The general outlook has been gloomy, especially when it comes to the safety of our jobs. The stats really are scary. PwC (2017) estimates that 38% of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years, and 30% of existing jobs in the. View Article. Stop Worrying Recruiters: A.I Will Help You, Not Hurt You.

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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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6 Million Reasons to Hire and Support Our Vets

Recruiting Daily

By Chris Grace and Frank Gaudio Right now there are six (6) million job openings in the United States. We know how to fill 495,000 of them. Hire a vet. There are nearly a half-million unemployed veterans today across the country, and with a million more veterans expected to transition to civilian life over the next […].

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Five Ways To Be More Human At Work

Forbes Human Resources Council

This is a note to all humans out there: Each one of us can focus on our own simple actions to recognize the humanity in those around us, and thereby bring out our own.

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8 Reasons Short-term Hiring Could Boost Your Business

Undercover Recruiter

The summer months tend to see annual leave requests flood in as people plan trips abroad, staycations and childcare during the school holidays. However well-planned, coordinated (and well-deserved!) staff holidays are, employers can still be concerned about keeping everything on track and ensuring productivity doesn’t drop. One solution to this is to recruit temporary staff.

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TA Open Mic Night: When Big Data and Recruiting Collide

SmartRecruiters

What an excellent way to spend some great time last week at The Bureau – one of Paris’ hottest venues as we hosted our first ever Success Circle. It was an intimate gathering of roughly 40 attendees each as passionate as the next about the recruiting world. The agenda was fairly straightforward – getting anyone who lives and loves TA and has an opinion about the next wave of recruitment innovation under one roof and having Fun!

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Staff Auditor interview questions

Workable

These sample Staff Auditor interview questions will help you identify and hire qualified candidates for your open roles. The post Staff Auditor interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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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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Recruiting Humans: RecruitingLive w/ Jo Weech

Recruiting Daily

In the early 2000’s, there was a push to treat recruiting almost like an assembly line. Once the resume came in, you just drove it down the line treating people like widgets. One of the reasons this has happened because recruiters look at the process through the eyes of the company, not the eyes of the […].

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Creative Storytelling: How to use Purpose in High-Volume Hiring

Stories Incorporated

This post was originally published on the SmashFly Technologies Blog. Whether you’re hiring a new class of summer interns, increasing your sales force by 20% every quarter or recruiting call center professionals all year, hiring a high volume of people for one type of position requires a creative boost in recruitment marketing content and campaigns.

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5 signs that your ATS needs to be replaced

Bullhorn

Everyone has heard of the myth: if you throw a frog into boiling water, it will jump out immediately. But if you place it in a pot of cold water and slowly bring it to boil, then it will stay there. How can recruiters make … Read more. Het bericht 5 signs that your ATS needs to be replaced verscheen eerst op Connexys Int. Recruiting Software.

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Creative Storytelling: How to use Purpose in High-Volume Hiring

Stories Incorporated

This post was originally published on the SmashFly Technologies Blog. Whether you’re hiring a new class of summer interns, increasing your sales force by 20% every quarter or recruiting call center professionals all year, hiring a high volume of people for one type of position requires a creative boost in recruitment marketing content and campaigns.

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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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4 Common Mistakes Most Recruiters Make (and How to Avoid Them)

Linkedin Talent Blog

When a candidate turns down an offer or the hiring authority screens out 100% the candidates who made it to a final interview, most of us can’t help but wonder if there was something we could have done differently. While it’s easier to blame the hiring manager or candidate, you have to ask yourself: Did you really understand what was most important to your candidate and hiring manager?

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The 4th of July- Our Independence Day!!

Recruiting Blogs

The 4 th of July is the biggest date in the history of our country. It is the day we became a FREE, new nation. It is a date that we as Americans should hold sacred because it is the date when we actually became Americans. While we celebrate this significant event and date lets also remember those that fought so hard and not only opened the door for this to happen but smashed down.

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Here’s How Women Are Working To Improve Their Workplaces

PowerToFly

Last Monday, we gathered at Casper’s headquarters with some amazing women across several industries to talk about tangible ways we can improve workplaces for women. Our panelists included Avielle Wolfe, a developer at thoughtbot who ungendered their bathrooms, Jennifer Betit Yen , the President of the Film Lab ( www.film-lab.org ), a non-profit production company that promotes and supports ethnic and gender diversity in media, Erin Grau, the Vice President of Digital Operations at The New

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Recruitment Agency Marketing Budget as a Percentage of Gross Profit – Are Times Changing Again?

Recruiting Blogs

Over the last three months we’ve been touring Australia and New Zealand with Recruitment Yarns – it was great to see the number of senior recruitment leaders who are very passionate about their recruitment agency’s brand. One of the most frequent questions we were asked during the tour was around recruitment marketing budgets, specifically ‘what should be spent on marketing delivery and paid advertising?’.

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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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Top 9 Most Obscure Interview Questions Ever

Phenom People

Interviews can make many people pretty nervous, but getting a completely obscure, non-business related question like some of these can really throw someone off guard. Employers believe that asking these types of questions allows the interviewer to see a candidate’s “true colors,” but they could be considered over the top. And yes, these are.

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For the Greater Good: How Partnering with a Charity Can Benefit Your Business

Recruiting Blogs

In the business world, for-profit and non-profit organizations are often described as completely different entities with little to no relation to one another. What many business owners fail to understand, however, is the mutual benefit that can accrue when a for-profit business partners with a non-profit charity organization. Here are just four of the ways such a partnership can benefit your business.

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4 Ways to Show Job Seekers Your Company is a Firecracker

Spark Hire

Fireworks are arguably one of the most exciting spectacles of summer. People with varying backgrounds from all over drive for miles, sometimes hours, just to see the bright, bursting flashes in the sky. Job seekers are looking for the same thing in employers. The kind who deserve a good ol’ fashioned “oh” and “ah” when looking at their career site, job postings, and current team members.

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How To Reduce Your Cost While Working With Recruiting Firms

Recruiting Blogs

Working with a recruitment firm is a smart and effective way to handle the hiring process at your organization. Recruitment firms come with a vast network of connections and can more quickly and efficiently locate, evaluate, and secure top talent. According to the Wall Street Journal, companies with more than 10,000 employees globally pay a median figure of $1,949 per hire.

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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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TRANSFORMIFY WINS 2017 FIRST WOMEN AWARD

Transformify - Recruiting

Transformify won a prestigious First Women Award at the glittering ceremony that took place in London on Thursday June 29th. The CEO of Transformify , Lilia Stoyanov, took home the First Women Disruptor of the Year Award after impressing the esteemed panel of judges. Created by Real Business and supported by the CBI, the First Women Awards continues to be a distinguished programme that inspires the next generation, fuels entrepreneurial passion and galvanises women to be a force for change.

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The Pros and Cons of Automating Your HR Processes

Recruiting Blogs

Currently, a lot of human resources departments are automating their HR processes. This has brought about mixed fortunes in that there are both advantages and disadvantages associated with streamlining the HR processes via information and management systems. If you are considering automating your HR processes, you should take time and reflect on the various pros and cons associated with it before reaching a decision.

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5 Ways Outsourcing Benefits Administration Saves Your Company Money

Social Talent

Small businesses are often reluctant to outsource functions that they believe can be taken care of in-house. Case in point? Human resources, or more specifically benefits administration. Why pay someone else to do something that you can handle just as easily in house, and save the money? The thing is, handling these tasks in-house isn’t always efficient, nor does it save your business money.

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