Wed.Jan 13, 2021

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5 Reasons Reference Calls Are One of the Best BD Tools in Recruitment

FireFish Software

One of the easiest and most effective ways of improving your BD results is to start making carefully-planned candidate reference calls. And if you’re thinking that reference calls don’t count as BD calls, you’re wrong – play it right and they could become one of your favourite sales tools for recruitment. Don’t believe me? Here’s why….

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The High Cost of Unfilled Jobs

Proactive Talent

Just before the Christmas and New Year holidays, I read that US Employers were cutting back on hiring. Here’s a quote from US News and World Report [December 4, 2020]. With the viral pandemic accelerating across the country, America’s employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April and the fifth straight monthly slowdown.

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Executive Onboarding During the Pandemic: Both Pitfall and Opportunity

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Talent managers, human resources practitioners, and executive coaches continue to perfect work-from-home and make it the new norm. As they do, they find a hidden pitfall in their work becoming […]. The post Executive Onboarding During the Pandemic: Both Pitfall and Opportunity appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Hiretual Wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award for Hiretual TalentFusion’s AI-powered ATS Integrations

Hiretual

Hiretual, the #1 talent data system, wins the 2021 Big Innovation Award for Hiretual TalentFusion and the product’s breakthrough innovation in intelligence-driven ATS data management. . MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Jan 14, 2021— Hiretual today announced it has been named a winner in the 2021 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. .

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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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Why You Should Show Off Your Awards on Your Resume (and the Right Way to Do It)

The Muse

Which awards to add to your resume, where to put them, and how to format them correctly.

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Employee Engagement Ideas To Beat The Winter Blues

McQuiag

It happens every year. The dreaded January slump, often characterized by a productivity decrease after the holidays, can sap your team of energy and drive down employee motivation. While you might be used to a bit of a slow down in normal years, be aware of the extra stress employees are working under with the pandemic still in full force. This holiday people might have had to miss their usual gatherings or had a smaller, more isolated break than they normally would have.

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developerDB the Database for Tech Recruiting

WizardSourcer

developerdb is a great extension to find and source tech talent online. Reach more passive candidates & sales prospects with a database of 30 million tech workers. This database consists of a wide range of tech people, many not found elsewhere, along with tech-specialized data that enables better targeting. I’ve had full access to this tool for awhile and I can say that I’m truly impressed by it’s features.

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Celarity Is a Best Place To Work in 2021, According To Our Employees on Glassdoor

Celarity

Celarity is excited to announce we are among the winners of the annual Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the Best Places to Work in 2021. Unlike other awards, there is no self-nomination or application process. Instead, it’s entirely based on the team feedback voluntarily and anonymously shared on Glassdoor. To determine the winners of the awards, Glassdoor evaluated all company reviews shared by employees over the past year.

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How to Improve Remote Employee Onboarding and Training

The Staffing Stream

Every process in the employee lifecycle now takes place virtually, including a few areas that might not seem like a priority. However, overlooking the details of any given process has consequences on a business’s ability to attract and retain top talent. This is true of new employee onboarding, where new hire success can hinge on high-quality delivery of virtual programs and tools.

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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 trick to achieving New Year resolutions and DEI initiatives

career.place

“This year will be different! I will get in better shape, be healthier, more organized, more productive, and I will achieve all my goals. … Pay no attention to the last 10, 20, 30 times I have made these resolutions because this year will be different.”. And so, it begins. And, after a few weeks… and so, it ends. Previous habits settle in, and the lofty goals get quickly replaced by the normal (or not so normal) demands of the day.

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Our 2020 Takeaways About Virtual Leadership Training and Development

FlashPoint

Some Themes From 2020 That Stood Out to Our Team. Change came quickly–and often–in 2020. We’ve all explored different ways of working and leading. But some things remain unchanged: Leadership development and learning are critical to the continued success of our workplaces, allowing us to adapt and respond to changes in the moment. We asked our team to reflect on things that stood out to them this past year.

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5 Messaging Mistakes Tech Recruiters Cannot Afford to Make (+ How to Prevent Them)

HIRED

Without strong communication skills, recruiters, especially those in tech, don’t stand a chance when it comes to capturing the attention of in-demand candidates. The tech industry remains highly competitive, making recruiters’ job of attracting top tech talent all the more complicated and communication all the more critical. When it comes to connecting with top tech talent, sometimes you only get one shot to shoot – and it better be a good one.

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10 Candidate Sourcing Strategies That Recruiters Can Use This Season

Recruit CRM

Planning along with effective strategies will help ease the recruitment process to an extent. When it comes to candidate sourcing for a specified post as mentioned by a client— it is one of the most challenging things to do especially in a worked-up environment. We are here to sort every problem related to recruitment by giving it a necessary definition.

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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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5 Messaging Mistakes Tech Recruiters Cannot Afford to Make (+ How to Prevent Them)

HIRED

Without strong communication skills, recruiters, especially those in tech, don’t stand a chance when it comes to capturing the attention of in-demand candidates. The tech industry remains highly competitive, making recruiters’ job of attracting top tech talent all the more complicated and communication all the more critical. When it comes to connecting with top tech talent, sometimes you only get one shot to shoot – and it better be a good one.

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How to Automate Candidate Screening

XOR

Attracting a large pool of applicants for a particular job listing is a great start. As a recruiter, you have the opportunity to meet with many talented individuals to ensure the candidate you end up selecting is the best fit for the job. However, this also means having to repeat the screening process, over and over again.

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How To Kickstart Your Career In Tech

PowerToFly

Interested in pivoting to tech?Lisa Tagliaferri, Senior Manager, Developer Education at DigitalOcean , shared her top tips for breaking into the industry, from the best open source tools to key transferable skills.Have more questions about launching a tech career? Let us know in the comments!

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January 2021: Labor Market Pulse

The Jacobson Group

JACOBSON INSIGHTS.

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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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2021 Workplace Trends

Namely - Talent

Undoubtedly, today’s workplace looks a lot different than it did at the beginning of 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, 88 percent of organizations across the world either encouraged or required all employees to work from home. Suddenly, employees who had never worked remotely a day in their life started to work from home indefinitely.

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Fireside chat with William Tincup and Alistair Neal of Paiger

Recruiting Daily

Fireside chat with William Tincup and Alistair Neal of Paiger I met Alistair through a mutual friend, Kelly Robinson. Kelly was the mad scientist and genius behind Broadbean (amongst other cool companies and products in our space). Two things I remember about Alistair from our first meeting: (1) he’s at least 8 feet tall and he […].

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Dissecting CDC’s New, Shorter Quarantine Options

Recruiting Daily Advisor

In late 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance on quarantining: In certain circumstances, individuals potentially exposed to COVID-19 by being in “close contact” with a person who tested positive can take steps to reduce the length of the standard 14-day quarantine period. Source: GENETTICA / Shutterstock.

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Here’s How Building Employer Branding Helps Recruiters

Manatal

That’s a great quote by Jeffrey emphasizing how recruitment is a form of marketing. And as we all know, branding is a very big aspect of the concept. Branding , by definition, is the unique identity that companies establish to deviate themselves in the market. It’s how businesses want to be perceived in all aspects– design, products, services, story, and many more.

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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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Why Healthcare Shopping Deserves the Spotlight Now

Recruiting Daily Advisor

For many, January is a time for new beginnings, to create plans for new accomplishments, or to get back on track toward reaching existing goals. And one of the top five New Year’s resolutions—after losing weight, of course—is saving money. January is also the start of a new healthcare plan year for many employees, presenting a perfect opportunity to test out that budgetary resolution.

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12 Best Wrike Alternatives For Project Management In 2021

Hundred5

Delivering projects can be hard work. There are many things that can go wrong and lead to deadlines being missed or budgets being overrun. A great way to help keep project teams focused and on track is to use a project management software tool! Wrike is one of the most popular project management tools on the market, delivering an ‘all-in-one’ solution that works for many teams.

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Managing New Cases of PTSD in the Workplace

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on behavioral health in the United States. Early evidence of this includes huge increases in the number of calls to the federal Disaster Distress Hotline and local suicide hotlines; large upturns in the number of prescriptions filled for anxiety, depression, and insomnia; increased alcohol consumption; and a worldwide surge in domestic violence.

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12 Tips for Setting Better Goals

PowerToFly

Resolutions are one thing. Goals are another. How do you move from vaguely hopeful statements about what 2021 will mean for you personally and professionally to thoughtful plans that are likely to come to fruition? You set good goals. Specific goals. Goals that tie back to your values, goals that can be tracked, goals that make you excited to get out and start working towards them.

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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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Displaced Workers Present Opportunity for Recruiters

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The U.S. economy has changed significantly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread business and economic changes the pandemic has ushered in. While in-person industries like dining and hospitality have suffered, along with many blue-collar jobs that can’t easily be performed remotely, white-collar workers have been less hard hit, thanks to a surge in telecommunications technologies that have generated enormous revenues for the companies that provide them.

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Nearshoring, Offshoring & Onshoring: Outsourcing Examples and Definitions

Zartis

So, you are looking to scale up your engineering team and get more young blood flowing into your organization. However, for various budgetary, strategic, or logistical reasons, you are not too keen on the idea of hiring new in-house employees. What do you do? . One word: outsourcing. It sounds simple enough. But if that’s your first foray into the outsourcing industry, you may not yet know where to outsource software development — or even how to outsource software development to begin with. .

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Critical Skills Needed to Manage a Remote Team

Recruiting Daily Advisor

One major change in the workplace as a result of COVID-19 has been the rapid shift to remote work. This has created a bit of a “sink or swim” situation in which employers and employees alike had to figure out how to ensure the remote workforce remained productive and efficient while reducing virus transmission risks. Source: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock.