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Headcount Heroes: Affirm Doubles Their Engineering Offer Acceptance Rate

Lever

Affirm, a fintech startup in San Francisco, is at the top of its game. On a mission to give shoppers more purchasing power, they’ve already granted more than one million loans to consumers since their founding five years ago. To top it all off, their most recent funding round will likely put their expected valuation at nearly $2 billion.

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How Much Should Employers Really Care About Job Seeker Attention Spans?

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s no secret to job seekers that recruiters have shorter attention spans than ever. For example, how many recruiters do you know who claim they spend an average of six seconds to review a resume? But, hey, that’s just part of the hustle if you’re a Herbert Simon fan… “[What information consumes is] the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” – Herbert Simon, Nobel winner, Economics (1978) However, the tables have turned for employ

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My Name is Not Natalie

The Whiteboard

I was born on the 24th of March 1988, christened Natasha Maria Foster and for the next 25 years largely called by that name, or some close variation of. Then I started working in recruitment and suddenly, inexplicably, my name became Natalie. It is still one of my favourite things, to post an advert calling for candidates with strong attention to detail and be flooded by emails proudly stating one’s such ability – addressed to the wrong name.

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50 Tools Every Sourcer and Recruiter Should Know in 2018

Proactive Talent

As sourcers and recruiters, we all operate with the same 24-hour day. Sometimes those day feel long, and other times they aren’t long enough for everything we need to get done. But smart recruiter knows that utilizing sourcing tools is the secret to tackling those big to-do lists. We've updated our list this year to include artificial intellgence into the mix as well as updating outdated tools and crowdsourcing everyone's clutch tool.

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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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Understanding the value and view of the hiring process

JazzHR

There’s been a lot of talk lately in human resources and recruitment blogs about improving the candidate experience – but what does that really mean? The candidate experience is the job applicant’s perspective of the end-to-end job application to onboarding process. At each stage, the candidate may have feelings and impressions about the process that positively or negatively affect his or her opinion of the potential employer.

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Understanding the value and view of the candidate ‘s hiring process

JazzHR

There’s been a lot of talk lately in human resources and recruitment blogs about improving the candidate experience – but what does that really mean? The candidate experience is the job applicant’s perspective of the end-to-end job application to onboarding process. At each stage, the candidate may have feelings and impressions about the process that positively or negatively affect his or her opinion of the potential employer.

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Facebook’s Head of Diversity: There Should Be a Diverse Candidate for Every Open Role

Glassdoor for Employers

“When we talk about diversity, we’re not talking about ticking boxes.” Cutting straight to the point, Facebook’s Global Head of Diversity Maxine.

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Why Your Small Business Should Rethink Entry-Level Hiring

Hireology

Entry-level hiring is expected to be a major small business focus throughout 2018. According to recent data, 41% of employers say the hardest positions to fill are entry-level. One of the primary reasons entry-level positions are difficult to fill is, the requirements of many positions don’t match the skill sets of job seekers who are truly entry-level.

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How Can You Hire More Developers With the Same Tech Recruitment Budget?

Stack Overflow

A 2017 LinkedIn study found that recruiters expected to hire more with the same budgets they had the previous year, citing automation and other recruitment technologies as the primary reasons. But recruiting developers requires a unique approach, and the most effective ways to engage with potential candidates simply cannot be automated. Still, you’re probably curious if it’s possible to hire more developers than you did in 2017, but without increasing spend in any category.

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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 Simple Tactics That Will Turn Your Cold Calls into Warm Calls

FireFish Software

Despite what you’ve probably heard, cold calling in recruitment isn’t totally dead and buried – it’s just evolved. Cold calling will always have a place in business development for recruiters, but it’s true that nowadays you’re far more likely to have success if you warm those cold leads up first!

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How to Recruit and Hire a Remote Workforce

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by MightyRecruiter Every organization needs to hire the best employees they can get. Many businesses need specialized skills that are already scarce, yet the talent available locally is already tapped out. It’s particularly tough for SMBs with strong technical cores, who compete with deep-pocketed multinationals for the same customers, and the same talent.

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The Value of Silver Medalists in Your Recruitment Strategy

Yoh

Robert Metcalfe, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Apolo Ohno, Mark Spitz… What do these famous Olympians all have in common? They all started out as individual silver medalists. But, as the familiarity of their names prove, they did not let the fact that they didn't receive gold medals bring them down or stop short their athletic career. Instead, they went on to become Olympic superstars and won gold medals as well.

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What Does Your Super Bowl Ad Look Like?

NPA Worldwide

For the 2018 Super Bowl, marketers paid more than $5 million per 30-second spot to capture the attention of more than 110 million viewers, according to Sports Illustrated. Advertisers vied to win over audiences with memorable messages… similarly, recruiters do the same thing. How do you differentiate your message so yours is the one clients and candidates are talking about at the water cooler the next day?

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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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6 Tips For Creating an Executive Summary

SimplyHired

The post 6 Tips For Creating an Executive Summary appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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New Resource: The Hireology Applicant Sourcing Playbook

Hireology

When it comes to hiring, it’s important to have a diverse sourcing strategy in place, to increase the likelihood of attracting quality candidates. Top businesses invest in an effective, measurable sourcing strategy that includes job postings across their career site, job boards and social media. Do you have a process in place to attract quality candidates from top performing sourcing channels?

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How team communication tools improve collaboration in a recruitment process

Recruiter Flow

This is a guest post by Nadiia at Chanty team. Read more about her at the bottom of the post. Team communication is important for a reason. Everyday conversations help team members establish healthy relationships and streamline information sharing while improving the way people… The post How team communication tools improve collaboration in a recruitment process appeared first on Recruiterflow Blog.

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What Companies With a Great Candidate Experience Do That Others Don’t

Recruiting Daily

The longer I write about recruiting and hiring, the more I believe that the candidate experience needs to be at the heart of how every organization recruits and hires people. And the longer I write about recruiting and hiring, the more clearly I see that is not the case. This thought popped into my head […].

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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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New Laws Affecting Your Recruitment Strategies

Hospital Recruiting

In cities and states across the country, new legislation is aimed at leveling the playing field for applicants to find gainful employment. Legislators are banning employers from requesting information from applicants that reveal past criminal history and/or salary history in a wave that’s extending beyond local jurisdictions. How will these new laws affect your hiring protocols?

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6 Smart Marketing Strategies for Hiring Success

Jobsoid

As the war for top talent gets fierce and candidates continue to focus on company culture before finalizing a career decision, recruiters are becoming more innovative with their recruitment strategies to get the team they need. Focusing more on marketing, here are 6 techniques that recruiters can use to hire better with significantly less effort: […].

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How to Conduct a 10-Minute Remote Interview

The Hire Talent

Remote interviews and phone screens provide a unique opportunity to assessing candidates that in-person interviews do not. During a phone screen, you are relying on only the voice on the other end of the line and not as many other cues that in-person interviews provide. This enables you to distinguish subtle signs that you might. Read More. The post How to Conduct a 10-Minute Remote Interview appeared first on The HIRE Talent.

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By the Numbers: February 9, 2018

BountyJobs

Ear to the Ground: Recruiting Pros Reveal Top Data Points and Challenges for 2018. We’ve been fortunate enough to attend multiple talent acquisition events as sponsors, presenters, and attendees, all the while meeting some of the best folks in recruiting. These discussions, whether from casual meetups or formal roundtables, have been filled with such valuable insights that we decided to organize and share these golden nuggets.

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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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…but they lied to me… I just can’t believe it… They lied to me

Tony Beshara

Here’s the problem: hiring authorities, no matter what they say, are afraid of hiring. They are afraid of making a mistake in hiring. For this reason, they are going to tell you as a candidate all kinds of cockamamie stuff. It’s not that these people really want to intentionally lie to you. They don’t. But they’re not sure of just exactly what they’re going to do in the hiring situation.

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RECRUITMENT IS MARKETING WHAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE

Rezoomo

“The war for talent is over. The Talent won.” – Josh Bersin. In the past employers who implemented talent acquisition programmes as part of their recruitment strategy were the game changers. Hunting down the best talent and filling their talent pools to the brim put them ahead of the game, but now the war for talent is out of the hands of employers and in the hands of the candidates.

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Serial harassers and useless background checks

The Getwork Blog

We’ve all heard the nightmarish stories. The ones where an employee harasses at job after job with little to no consequence. It’s boggling how this person maintained — even excelled at — a career! Didn’t someone complain? Why weren’t they fired? How do they keep getting job offers? These stories happen everywhere, from small mom-and-pop shops all the way up to the White House.

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Stolen Valor and Fake Resumes

Recruiting Daily

As a Gold Star Dad, I have a strong sense of respect and admiration for the men and women who support our country by serving in the military. Every single one of them contribute to the backbone of our national security. Their service is essential to preserve the American way of life. I have had […].

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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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ApplicantStack and Google for Jobs

ApplicantStack

ApplicantStack has integrated with Google for Jobs to make finding the right candidate even easier. ApplicantStack and Google for Jobs : You can now automatically push your jobs to appear in Google for Jobs. Google for Jobs is a new job search engine powered by Google and is a job search tool which boosts the exposure of your job listings to help you attract more relevant candidates to your roles.

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How to Create Moments That Matter in the Candidate Experience

exaqueo

As talent acquisition and human resources professionals, we are often caught up in the business-side of hiring; we forget it’s people at the heart of our work. We look at recruiting as a process and reviewing applications as a task we can’t wait to cross off our to-do list.

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Insurance Careers Movement: Top 5 Ways to Get Involved

The Jacobson Group

The insurance industry faces a real and immediate talent crisis. Annually, four million Baby Boomers retire nationwide. Within insurance, nearly 50 percent of the workforce will be retired by 2034. At this rate, the industry will need to fill 400,000 positions by 2020 in order to remain fully staffed. Unfortunately, less than one in ten young professionals are interested in working in insurance.