Thu.Feb 01, 2018

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Resume Mistakes That Will Make You Shudder

Social Talent

The only thing that makes reading through the never-ending stack of resumes bearable is the odd misprint or typo that makes us crease up with laughter. These examples from JobMob have us wondering if people were ever taught to read their work before handing it in! My autocorrect nearly had a conniption typing all of these up! “2001 summer Voluntary work for taking care of the elderly and vegetable people”.

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Premier League Recruitment

The Whiteboard

The English Premier Leagues transfer window came to a close this week and with it, a swirl of deals were finalised, pen was put to paper and £419m worth of fee’s crossed hands. Once again, I was reminded of the synergy between Europe’s elite league and the recruitment industry at large. One of my first managers in recruitment would often relate recruitment processes to the art of football or the art of meeting an attractive girl at a bar.

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14 Must-Ask Interview Questions This February

Glassdoor for Employers

Well-baked interview questions are designed to serve up high-performing, culture-fitting and long-term job candidates — but with so many options out there,

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How to Create a GDPR-Friendly Company Culture in Recruitment

FireFish Software

So, the recruitment world has definitely woken up to the fact that GDPR is coming. But amongst all the discussion and debate, little has been said about the biggest obstacle that businesses will be presented with in the lead up to GDPR: that is, how to embed the culture of professionalism that the regulations require into your business.

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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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Job Posting: Ultimate Guide for Posting Jobs That Stand Out

TalentLyft

This Ultimate Guide for Posting Jobs That Stand Out will show you how to master your job postings and attract top talent. Follow this step by step guide and learn how to write a great job posting, where to publish it and how to promote it to reach more high-quality candidates. Read More.

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Are You CHASING or BEING CHASED by Employers?

Bull's Eye Recruiting

In 2007 I lost my job. I didn’t hit quota. I was put on a P.I.P. (Performance Improvement Plan) and I didn’t make the numbers I was supposed to make. I worked hard. I put in the hours. I just didn’t meet their expectations. Looking back on it, I wasn’t a very good salesperson for their product. I wasn’t passionate about the product and my sales pitch was well… not great.

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How to Turn Your Recruiting Failure into Success

Undercover Recruiter

There is a lot of great debate at the moment about the value of failure. Why it is important for businesses, managers and team leaders to promote the importance of failure in moving forward and why individuals need to embrace the concept of failure. What I see through each of these, however, is that there. View Article. How to Turn Your Recruiting Failure into Success.

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What Football Can Teach Us About Candidate Engagement

ConveyIQ

Football is a game of strength, power, strategy and brand pandemonium. As fans gather to support their teams, there is an energy and excitement that fills stadiums around the country. . While it’s not exactly the same, the entire experience can be easily equated to candidate engagement. Strategic recruiting teams are built to create strategies to reach the masses of candidates and keep them excited through the hiring process.

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3 Developer Hiring Mistakes You Probably Made Last Year (and How to Fix Them)

Stack Overflow

Some common mistakes recruiters make are as simple as having bad job descriptions, not being active on social media, or not allocating any resources into managing their employer brand. I personally know the struggle as I used to be a recruiter — so I can’t emphasise enough not to waste time attracting the wrong candidates.

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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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By the Numbers: February 2nd, 2018

BountyJobs

BountyJobs Bites. Skills Shortage Affecting More Than One Aspect of the Workplace. The Hays U.S. 2018 Salary Guide finds that more than half of the 3,000 employers and managers in the guide state they are hiring in 2018. However, 75% recognize that their industries have severe skills shortage – 92% state that shortage is negatively affecting productivity, employee satisfaction, and turnover.

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How to Choose Candidates Who Have The Ideal Traits You Want

The Hire Talent

Many business leaders take a gut instinct approach to selecting talent. This means they know in their gut what they want their candidates to look like but don’t take the time to fully develop a profile of the ideal person into a measurable description. Even if the ideal candidate is described in a job posting. Read More. The post How to Choose Candidates Who Have The Ideal Traits You Want appeared first on The HIRE Talent.

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Breezy + Criteria Corp = Better data-driven hiring decisions

Breezy HR

Today we’re excited to announce our integration with HireSelect® from Criteria Corp , a leading provider of pre-employment assessment service. Criteria Corp’s used by thousands of companies and organizations to provide aptitude tests , personality , and basic skills tests throughout the hiring process. Already have an account with Criteria Corp? Well then, activating with Breezy is just what you’d expect… a breeze ??.

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Guest Blog: 4 Secrets of Winning Over Passive Candidates

Ideal

In today’s tight talent market, some of the best candidates will already have a job. These passive candidates are often open to considering a new job, but they’re not actively seeking a new position. Research by LinkedIn on passive candidates finds: 79% of working professionals are passive candidates. they’re 120% more likely to want to create a positive impact on the workforce. they’re 33% more likely to want challenging work.

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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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Guidelines on Consent Under the GDPR

iCIMS

One of the key underpinnings of the GDPR is data subject rights, including requirements for obtaining consent from data subjects. In our industry, that includes consent from job candidates.

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The Critical First 100 Days of an Employment Branding Program

Recruiting Daily

I began my career in Employment Branding in way back 2002. Since then, a great many people have asked me about the early steps you need to take (in the first couple of months) in building a robust and cost effective Employment Branding Program from the ground up for a company that previously had no such program. […].

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Seductive Sourcing

The Recruiting Inferno

Summer Sundays snugly. Sitting, silently, soporifically. Staring sibyllically. Strolling, searching, sifting. Submerged stories swell. Shadows… Sunbeams, symphonies, Spreading skyward. Sweetly, soliciting smiles. #SourceCon.

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How to Save Time with Pre-screening Questions!

ApplicantStack

Going through hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of resumes can be very time consuming. Being a human resource professional, there are many items on your to-do list and freeing up some time is always a plus. That is where Pre-screening Questions can come in handy. Here are a few ways to save time using pre-screening questions: Location-based questions: Once you have a clear understanding of the job requirements you can easily set up pre-screening questions to bypass those candidates that don’

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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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Takeaways of the recruiting offensive 2018

Talentwunder

5 zentrale Take-Aways von Andreas Dittes im Webinar “Social Media Recruiting auf 1.6 Mrd. Profilen – die Zukunft des Talent Sourcing mit Predictive Analytics” am 30.01.2018. 1. Der ‘War for Talent’ wird auch in Deutschland ankommen. In Deutschland ist das Wettrennen um die besten Köpfe in vollem Gange. Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit bis die derzeitige Fachkräftelücke, also die jährliche Differenz zwischen qualifizierten Kandidaten und neuen Stellenausschreibungen bei den Unternehmen, zu einem ak

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Meet Your 2018 Campus Recruiting Goals With These 10 Strategies

Yello

02/01/2018 // By tracy kelly // campus recruiting. Exceed your 2018 college recruitment hiring targets with Yello’s top campus recruiting articles. From creating an internship program that invests in next-generation talent, to building your employer brand on campus and streamlining candidate follow-up, equip your team with strategies to attract and recruit soon-to-be grads and cultivate a pipeline of future leaders. 7 Ways to Build Your Employer Brand on Campus : Branding is crucial to a su

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Four changes to maximize career site effectiveness

Nas Recruitment

Sometimes the simplest things are the least obvious. Take your career site, for example. How can you ensure that it is engaging candidates effectively and efficiently? Do it by making a few small tweaks that can make a big difference in your recruitment success. 1. Make your search button stand out. It may seem like a no-brainer, but you can go online and find instances where the search button requires its own search.

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Takeaways der Recruiting Offensive 2018

Talentwunder

5 zentrale Take-Aways von Andreas Dittes im Webinar “Social Media Recruiting auf 1.6 Mrd. Profilen – die Zukunft des Talent Sourcing mit Predictive Analytics” am 30.01.2018. 1.) Der ‘War for Talent’ wird auch in Deutschland ankommen. In Deutschland ist das Wettrennen um die besten Köpfe in vollem Gange. Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit bis die derzeitige Fachkräftelücke, also die jährliche Differenz zwischen qualifizierten Kandidaten und neuen Stellenausschreibungen bei den Unternehmen, zu e

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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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Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 8 of 12

HireRight

In our 12-part blog series exploring the impact of the GDPR legislation on employment screening programs in the EU, HireRight’s Associate General Counsel in EMEA, Caroline Smith, addresses the key issues and concepts you need to understand to get you and your company’s employment screening program GDPR-ready. The post Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 8 of 12 appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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Use These 4 “Work Types” to Better Define Your Job Openings

Linkedin Talent Blog

Skills-based job descriptions are the lazy person’s way to hire the wrong person. The right way to hire the right person is to define a job as a series of 5-6 performance objectives and screen candidates based on that. This doesn’t only make the job attractive to people who are open to changing roles, it also opens the talent pool to more diverse, high-potential and older people who are fully competent and highly motivated to do the work.

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Cybersecurity Consciousness for Human Capital Management

Recruiting Blogs

The more the access points are there for a device, the more is the vulnerability potential. It’s shocking how 71% of cyberattacks around the world are targeted on small and mid-sized companies because of the low allocation of the budgets for cyber protection. Human capital management is heavily dependent on software, tools, and platforms to access documents, give feedback, recruit candidates, and other such activities.

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Designing for GDPR, by a designer

SmartRecruiters

Now that you know what the GDPR will require of you legally, and, in principle, by design, we enlisted one of our own Smartian brainiacs to share what product designers are dealing with on the ground, and in practical terms. You’re welcome. There are many takes on how to bring your company into GDPR compliance by May, but while your amazing product and legal professionals are busy interpreting the letter of the law, the next step is to work within those definitions to manifest the requirements i

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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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William Almonte - How To Train New Recruits?

Recruiting Blogs

William Almonte - How To Train New Recruits? from William Almonte Mahwah | CEO on Vimeo. William Almonte Mahwah says,a properly organized and orderly conducted training program for the new employees is no less than recruiting or selecting the right human resource. For more information : www.williamalmonte.net/ [link] [link] [link].

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How to use candidate assessment options and integrations with Workable

Workable

Assessments are objective and job-related exercises that candidates should complete to move forward in the hiring process. Candidate assessments could take the form of : Simulation tests (e.g. selling a pen, answering a call, giving mock presentations.). Work assignments (e.g. coding exercises, writing samples.). Skills assessments (e.g. typing tests, MS Office tests.).

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5 Ways Your General Studies Can Help Your Nursing Career

Recruiting Blogs

For students looking for an exciting and unique career path, a general studies degree might be the way to go. This program allows you to explore a variety of career options due to a well-rounded education. If you're someone who loves the idea of learning throughout your professional life, a master degree in education could be for you. Here are five ways general studies can help your career regardless of your degree. 1.

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