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Recruiting Q&As from Bamboo HR’s Employee Experience Week

Workable

During the online conference, Bamboo hosted a Day of Coaching which gave attendees an opportunity to ask questions of their own on various topics and challenges specifically in recruiting. Workable’s Global Head of People Melissa Escobar-Franco and Content Strategy Manager Keith MacKenzie were on hand to address some of the more interesting inquiries.

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How to screen machine learning skills

Devskiller

Do you need to hire someone with machine learning skills? Not sure what it really is? Machine learning is the process of enabling computers to perform tasks that have until only recently, been carried out exclusively by humans. Before the days of functional machine learning, software and computer systems only knew the information that a programmer would tell it.

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10 Perfect Jobs for History Majors (That Aren’t Historian or Professor)

The Muse

You don’t have to become a historian or a history professor. Here are 10 other jobs a history major sets you up for, from journalist to financial analyst.

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[VIDEO] To Link or Not To Link in Email? That is the Question

Recruiting Daily

To Link or Not To Link in Email? That is the Question There are mixed thoughts out there about whether or not you should include links in your email outreach. Some say only share one. Others say you should never share a link. In this video I share my insights and tips on using a […].

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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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Digital Transformation: How to Identify and Rely on Your Partners, Advocates, and Champions

Forum One

Change is hard. Even seemingly minor changes can give us a sense of dread — something could go wrong—or worse, could fail completely. So, it makes sense that something as all-encompassing as digital transformation feels herculean. And, whether you are taking a piecemeal approach or attempting a radical change in the way your organization operates, the greatest challenge you are likely to come across isn’t selecting what technologies or tools to implement, rather, it’s getting everyone on board w

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Should We Hire for Personality? Introverts, Extroverts, and Affinity Bias

Talvista

Personality is what makes us who we are. It shapes how we view the world around us, how we interact with others, as well as how others perceive us. In fact, “our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race” (Quiet, Cain 2). We know that preferences or biases lead to discrimination based on an individual’s gender, race, ability, age, orientation, or creed.

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Recruiting Platforms Add Capabilities to Reach Diverse Candidates

Recruiting Daily

Greenhouse and Circa partnered to expand delivery of job postings to underrepresented communities, while Appcast released an index to help employers measure their efforts to reach diverse candidates. Appcast launched the Audience Index Report for users of the Appcast’s Xcelerate network. The feature, available without extra charge, provides insights into candidate demographics including race, ethnicity […].

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What's The ROI On Freelancers?

Forbes Human Resources Council

When a company cannot afford to hire a full-time employee, it can significantly expand its offerings and quality by hiring freelancers.

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Life at HireRight: Recognizing Our 2020 #CustomerFirst Award Winner

HireRight

Here at HireRight, our teams work hard to build the future of screening services while striving to put the customer first. Internally, we rally around a culture committed to collaboration, service-first mindset, sense of ownership, and other corporate values to help employers get it right – every time, everywhere. But what is it like to work here? And who are the employees behind our background [.].

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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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Promoting a Strong CSR Program for Attracting Top Talent

The Staffing Stream

Today’s workforce, particularly the millennial cohort, is increasingly looking to work for companies that boast a strong, community-focused corporate social responsibility program that is aligned with their own values. Among US respondents aged 25 to 34 surveyed by New Paradigm Strategy Group & Fortune , 80% say they want to work for “engaged companies.

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Top 4 Ways to Increase Your Employee Retention Rate

Professional Alternatives

Employee retention simply refers to how many employees actually stay under your employment. If you employ a hundred people and five of them leave, this means that your turnover rate is 5% which is 5/100 while your retention rate is 95% which is 95/100. This just means in other words that even though some employees stay for a really long time, the turnover is still real and expected.

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Are You Missing the Hard Data on Soft Skills?

Talentoday

More companies are looking at Big Data to boost their bottom line. In the world of work, they are turning to people analytics to provide predictive insights that save time and money, while bringing out the best in their employees. This information can help organizations envision and realize the full potential of their people. Learn what people analytics truly means and how to use it to enhance your organization’s growth.

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Mobile-First Still Matters

Forum One

“Mobile-first” became a major topic for websites when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, popularized the idea in 2010 at the Mobile World Congress. Mobile-first can mean different things to different people: for developers, it may mean writing code for smaller viewports first with the goal of creating cleaner code; while for designers, it may mean starting with mobile designs with the goal of prioritizing its user experience.

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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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Emploi au Canada en 2021 : ça se redresse et ça continuera

Jobillico

Le déconfinement commence à porter ses fruits sur l’emploi au Canada en ce début d’année 2021. Après des mois difficiles durant lesquels les commerces non-essentiels ont été obligés de fermer, voilà que les provinces ont levé certaines restrictions. Cette décision de réouverture des commerces et d’un retour à une activité économique “normale” donne un élan aux secteurs les plus touchés par le chômage durant la pandémie.

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Reading A Candidate: Will They Fit Your Team?

Media Staffing Network

Hiring can be a complex process. You need to hire someone you want to stick around, who can be productive, and who will fit in with the team. Often, we get caught up in reading the prospect on incorrect attributes and being swayed to hire the wrong person. To hire for the long-term, there are various steps to complete and things to look for in the interviews.

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4 Avenues Recruiters Should Investigate When Scouting

Recruiting Blogs

Filling a new position, even for a reputable company, often isn’t as easy as you’d imagine. If you’re a job recruiter, then you’ve experienced this problem first hand. Sometimes, it seems you have to scour the Earth just to find a few decent candidates. With the right strategy, however, you can discover the types of talent you’re looking for. The key is simply to look in the right places.

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Honoring the 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-Winners: Best Customer Training Program; Best Use of Performance Support; Best Learning Team; Best Team Development Program

Brandon Hall

Best Customer Training Program. Hunter Douglas Installer Certification Upgrades Skills, Creates Ripple Effect on Satisfaction: The PowerView Pro Installer Certification training program was developed by Hunter Douglas Learning and Development as a solution to address needs identified within the company’s customer base of Installers and Dealers. Specifically focusing on knowledge and skill concerning the PowerView operating system, the Installer PowerView Pro Certification training program was su

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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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Starting a New Non-Profit? How to Put Your Plan Into Action

Recruiting Blogs

If you’re looking to have a positive impact on the world around you, starting your own nonprofit is a great way to act on your ideals. Helping others is a lot easier when you have organizational clout behind you. Getting your organization off the ground is all about developing a sound plan and putting it into action. Here’s how you can get your nonprofit up and running in no time.

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Create An Inclusive Employee Experience For Women | ClearCompany

ClearCompany Recruiting

Your employee experience matters. Providing an excellent experience for your workforce will help you to retain your A Players, will create a culture of engagement and productivity, and will help you to reduce your turnover rate. In many organizations, female employees still face significant barriers to growth and lack the resources and support they need to become the leaders they want to be.

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The Business Closures That Shook the UK

Recruiting Blogs

Despite Brexit uncertainty, in 2019, the UK remained in the top spot for Forbes’ annual Best Countries for Business list. The country maintained relatively high ranks in terms of innovation, workforce, and minimal tax burdens. However, while many businesses find success in the UK, there are some which fail to stay afloat. Small businesses are the most likely to close, with 20 per cent of SMEs shutting within the first year and a staggering 60 per cent by the third year.

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Hire More Failures to Have an Innovative Team

Employment Metrix

Innovation and failure are often bedfellows. Many of the great intentions and inventors of our times left behind a trail of failures in the path to their victory. One of the reasons for this is that you can only fail if you try, and any person who tells you they have never failed is either lying or has never taken a big risk. The people who made their mark in any given industry are always those who aren’t afraid to fail which opens up the possibilities of greater success.

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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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[PODCAST] [Click Bait] Here’s why Video Interviewing is Dead with Matt Baxter of Wedge

Recruiting Daily

[Click Bait] Here’s why Video Interviewing is Dead with Matt Baxter of Wedge Goodbye phone screening. Hello Wedge. A few years ago I spoke with a then just budding entrepreneur, Matt Baxter. He had an idea, a dream, and a flip phone where he loved to take video. Well, that’s not quite how the story goes, […].

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Patching Political and Ideological Divisions in Your Organization

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The political and ideological divisions in our society have grown during these turbulent times. These include well-established political opinions, growing conspiracy theories, and economic chaos, and the fear, uncertainty, and suffering created by the pandemic have aligned to drive new or larger wedges between family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.

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High Volume Hiring Still Has a Talent Scarcity Problem in 2021

Ideal

Talent acquisition teams at larger organizations have always dealt with the time-consuming demand of high volume hiring. Since March 2020, when the world moved into lockdown, unemployment levels have sky-rocketed to record high numbers. As vaccine distribution accelerates and the economy slowly rebounds, HR’s task returns – to rebuild a workforce at a rapid pace.

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Creating and Maintaining.NET Libraries: Lessons Learned

Zartis

NET Libraries: Introduction. Did you ever create a.NET library or nuget package used by your organization? Did it meet your expectations? Was it as easy to use as you imagined at the beginning? What happened when requirements of organization were changed (f.e. Moving from XML to JSON)? How many dependencies does your standard library have, and how often do you update 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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Paving the Way for Intrapreneurship

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The great minds of business founders are often the driving force that propels those businesses to success. Examples like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos come immediately to mind. Of course, for companies that are already established, it’s obviously not possible to find a “founder,” but they can hope to find a founder-caliber employee in their hiring process.

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What is Organizational Agility and Its Key Components?

Brandon Hall

Current State. Brandon Hall Group defines organizational agility as the ability of an organization to adapt, change quickly and succeed in a rapidly changing, disruptive environment. Organizational agility is an organization’s readiness to respond to sudden and often profound change. In this era of digital transformation, the biggest competitive advantage an organization has is to anticipate its customers’ needs and respond quickly.

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SMBs Hiring Back Furloughed Workers at the Highest Rates, Report Finds

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Let the great re-hiring commence! As businesses and organizations across the United States continue to open back up and bring workers back on, a new report has discovered that small businesses (SMB) employing 1-10 workers are hiring back furloughed employees at the highest rate of all SMBs. Source: Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock. A new report released by Ease—an HR and benefits software solution for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers—has uncovered how SMBs across the countr

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