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What Should Your Staffing Firm Do About Negative Online Reviews?

SmartSearch

“Help: My staffing firm just received a negative review on our Facebook page. What should I do?” While you might be tempted to get rid of the comment, that’s not a good idea. Here’s why: You’ve built a wonderful business. You pride yourself on providing an exceptional experience to both clients and candidates. You’ve built a service model that has checks and balances.

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Recruiters! This Is Not How You Hire Top Talent

Social Talent

Every recruiter has their own way of doing things, with most having their own unique styles. The aim for most recruiters out there is to provide a top-class candidate experience. However, this doesn’t always seem to be the case. Today, some bad practice has snuck its way into the industry. And we’re here to take a look at some of the big no-no’s when it comes to hiring top talent.

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Job Offer Letter Feedback Changes the Hiring Game

Survale

When it comes to gathering candidate feedback, most organizations focus on the interview which is a great place to start. But given today’s highly competitive job market, getting candidate job offer letter feedback might just help you save some hires and become more effective at converting candidates to employees. 11th Annual Recruiter Nation Survey.

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3 Essential Skills Every Top Recruiter Needs

Social Talent

What are the true skills need by every top recruiter to succeed? Yes, communication is important. Sure, multitasking is key. But today, a recruiter needs to have a lot more than communication and multi-tasking skills to be a TOP recruiter. 2019 looks set to be another busy year for recruiters and if there’s one thing for sure, it’s that the need for skills is now more important than ever!

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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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You Need to Start Hiring, You Also Need to Know What That Means

Undercover Recruiter

I remember the first outsourced recruiting engagement we took on. This was in 2010, our company had 12 people and one of our top clients asked us if we could put one of our recruiters onsite to take over their recruiting efforts. As most small companies would, we said yes, didn’t ask enough questions, and. View Article. You Need to Start Hiring, You Also Need to Know What That Means Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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3 Ways to Avoid Candidate Ghosting in Your Hiring Process

The Hire Talent

Have you heard about ghosting? Ghosting is when one person in a two-way communication stops responding to the other. It’s increasingly common among relationships whose primary form of communication is through texting and online dating apps. Although the phenomenon started primarily with relationships and online dating, it has now spread to the workplace and happens.

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Google For Jobs: 7 Hacks Recruiters Need To Know

Recruiting Daily

Writing job descriptions is an exercise in measuring humanity. As a recruiter, you’re tasked with creating nuanced language to accurately describe a list of roles and responsibilities in a way that will appeal to the perfect candidates you want to hire, while also deterring the ones who aren’t qualified. All successful new hires must […].

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5 Voluntary Benefits to Boost the Appeal of Your Total Rewards Program

Recruiter

The war for talent is on, and shrewd employers recognize they need to up the ante to attract and retain human capital in this market. This realization, however, places pressure on the benefits department. Strong core benefits are key to an effective total rewards program, and employers that want to differentiate themselves in the talent market must offer voluntary benefits that appeal to a wide audience.

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Four “Lazy Operators” for Lazy Sourcers

Boolean Strings

If you source well, that implies that you are also a Lazy Sourcer. What I mean by a Sourcer’s “Laziness” is trying to get results with fewer keystrokes and mouse movements. (Those of us who type slowly – I do! – need to find ways to reduce typing even more desperately). I am a Lazy Sourcer – and am always on the lookout to do things faster.

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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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Weekly Diversity and Inclusion News: January 30 - February 5, 2019

ROIKOI

Diversity: It’s not them, it’s you. Google's workers claim the company is 'Out to lunch.'.

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How to Offer Remote Work Without Disrupting Your Business

Recruiter

Recruiters are constantly striving to attract and retain better talent, and many are increasingly using new perks to seal the deal. One of the easiest perks to offer also happens to be one of the most attractive to today's employees: the ability to work remotely.

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The Three Most Important Factors In Office Site Selection: Workforce, Workforce, Workforce

Forbes Human Resources Council

Determining a location is an exercise in analyzing and understanding the area’s labor pool and discussions with local economic development agencies.

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The 7 Questions That Will Take Your Reference Calls From Routine to Revealing

Linkedin Talent Blog

What question do you always ask when checking references for someone you’re considering hiring? Let’s say you’re going to hire a modern marketing leader, someone who will be paid around 250k a year. And let’s say you anticipate them staying for 3 years. That’s a spend of 750k – a pretty big number. Your due diligence on your top candidates should go beyond a simple box-checking exercise.

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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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Why the Gig Economy May Be Stealing Your Permanent Workforce

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Dreams of flexible schedules, the ability to work remotely, and building new skill sets while working for multiple companies—at the same time—are all real reasons why full-time workers are choosing to turn to the gig economy as a main source of employment. Stas_V / iStock / Getty Images Plus. When asked “ Which of the following best describes your employment status before you had your current contract job?

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5 Ways I’ve Failed in My Recruiting Career

WizardSourcer

I always enjoy reflecting on my past. It’s easy to remember the wins but it’s also good to focus on mistakes and failures. Recruiting is a roller coaster ride – things are never going to go as planned and in some ways that’s why I’ve enjoyed the ride. We’re always dealing with change, massive workloads, and stressful deadlines. With such high constant expectations sometimes things roll off the rails and you’ll experience failure.

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Welcome Adrienne Betenbaugh to #Teamexaqueo!

exaqueo

Adrienne Betenbaugh joins us as our Marketing Director, responsible for leading our marketing, communications that will share insights about exaqueo and our thought leadership with our target audiences.

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Nurse Retention Tactics You Need to Know for 2019

Harger Howe Recruitment

Is your hospital or health care system struggling with nurse retention? If so, you aren’t alone. According to the most recent National Healthcare Retention and Registered Nurse (RN) Staffing report, the last recorded nurse turnover rate reached 16.8%, which was a two percent increase over the year prior. The survey concluded that the average cost for bedside RN turnover is $49,500 and can exceed as much as $61,000, resulting in the average hospital losing nearly $4.4 - $7 million dollars annuall

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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 Diversity and Inclusion News: January 23 - 29, 2019

ROIKOI

Battling racial discrimination in the workplace. 13 methods to boost tech team diversity.

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The Art of Welcoming a New Employee

Jobillico

You have finally found your one-in-a-million employee! After all your efforts throughout the recruiting and selection process, you want this new employee to succeed in their job and hopefully, stay in your team for years, right? It is here that your reception and integration process plays a crucial role.

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What’s the difference between GoodTime and Chatbots?

GoodTime

The world is becoming more and more automated. In the era of self-driving cars and same-day shipping, automated interview scheduling should be a no-brainer. With thousands of interviews to schedule, recruiters can really take advantage of scheduling technologies to help free up their precious time so they can connect with candidates and build meaningful relationships with them.

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Hump Day Hot Jobs: Administrative Positions

KNF&T Staffing Resources

Slide into your new career with these top Administrative positions! Direct Hire: Office Coordinator – Boston, MA. Receptionist/Administrative Assistant – Needham, MA. Administrative Associate – Waltham, MA. Executive Assistant – Boston, MA. Contract-to-Hire: Administrative Assistant – Boston, MA. Administrative Assistant (Healthcare) – Boston, MA.

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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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Publicité Jobillico au Québec – C’est le temps de bouger!

Jobillico

Jobillico lance en ce début février sa toute première campagne publicitaire provinciale. Pour y arriver, l’entreprise située dans le quartier Saint-Roch, à Québec, a fait appel aux services de LG2, l’une des plus importantes agences de communication au Québec. LG2 est d’ailleurs derrière plusieurs campagnes publicitaires reconnues, dont celle des Producteurs de lait du Québec, d’Arctic Garden et de Desjardins.

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How to Implement a Hierarchical Pay Raise Strategy

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In two previous posts, we’ve been discussing the need for , and the merits of , implementing a hierarchical pay raise structure as opposed to a more or less flat structure whereby all employees generally receive about the same pay increase. A more hierarchical pay raise structure focuses allocated money for pay increases on top performers while providing little to no raise for average to below-average performers.

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Upcoming Changes for Newly Landed Engineers

Jobillico

The Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ), an organization which regulates access to the profession, is preparing changes for 2018 to facilitate the professional integration of engineering graduates from abroad.

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5 No-Fail Ways to Master Millennial Hiring

Newton Software

Become a Millennial Magnet: How to Hire the Hottest Talent. The millennial generation has quickly become the largest generation in the US labor force. Millennials are regarded to be ambitious, tech-savvy, and socially responsible , so it’s easy to understand why hiring millennials is a top priority for recruiting and HR teams. In this guide, we’re detailing five clear ways recruiting teams can use to amplify their millennial recruiting and hiring.

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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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3 Tips for Attracting Talent During Record Low Unemployment

Recruiting Daily Advisor

This past year the United States unemployment rate sank to the lowest it’s been since 1969, holding at only 3.7%. This is also the eighth consecutive year that jobs have been added to the economy and wages have increased. Clearly, a rate of low unemployment is positive for the job market and U.S. economy as a whole, but it does present some unique challenges for employers within small- and medium-sized businesses. portishead1 / E+ / Getty Images.

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In Low Unemployment, How Do We Reach Passive Hospitality Candidates?

Gecko Recruiting

We’re just one month into 2019 and the U.S. unemployment rate is still a big disappointment to recruiters everywhere. That’s because we’re at a 49-year low of just 3.9 percent. That means it’s slim pickings for human resource teams hunting for candidates for the hospitality industry. But we do have some good news to share. ADP recently released a study showing that 42 percent of employees would consider talking about a new job, even when not actively looking for one.

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Gender diversity & the Scottish legal sector

Recruiting Blogs

At the end of last year, the Law Society of Scotland published research showing that for the first time 51 per cent of Scotland's 11,000 practising solicitors were female. While this is clearly good news, it should not mask the more deep-rooted structural and cultural challenges within the legal profession. Ironically, it is from within the pages of a recent review of the financial sector - an industry much criticised for its domination by an 'old boys network' - where Scottish law firms can dis