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So, Are Remote Workers Happier Than Other Employees? 

JazzHR

Working remotely is fast becoming the new norm. In 2015, 37 percent of US workers said they had telecommuted, representing a huge increase from the 9 percent who said the same in 1995. Advances in technology have meant that it’s easier than ever before to make the world your office, rather than the office your world. But is technology the only thing that’s driving the increase in remote workers, or could it be that they’re actually happier than everyone else?

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: Your Most Creative Email Subject Line

Lever

After unwinding beneath the sun this Fourth of July, we’re excited to share that our minds are refreshed and the creative juices are flowing. Unsurprisingly, our Sourcing Squad is no different. This week, they’re inspiring us - and making us laugh - with the inventive ways they attract candidates’ attention.

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A Week of Winners and Losers

The Whiteboard

Quick one from me this week as I’m off on me ‘olidays after today (as I’m sure many other recruiters with kids are also planning on doing too!) For the rest of you, enjoy the free flowing traffic for a couple of weeks and try not to get too frustrated at most of your recruitment deals grinding to a halt while your client’s decision-maker is away… Talking of parents and parenting, this week’s loser has to be Dr Mark Robson, who is setting up a new vet clinic a

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Get Results with Online Employee Training in 3 Steps

Glassdoor for Employers

Whether your goal is for successful onboarding, keeping your employees up to date with relevant skills, ensuring the glass tapping interns are engaged, or improving morale and retention - you need a training program to fulfill your workforce's needs.

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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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7 of the Best Online Tools for Sourcing in Recruitment

FireFish Software

For recruiters, there are plenty of great online sourcing tools to use. We’ve compiled a list of our favourites to help you streamline and get the most from your sourcing efforts. We’ve started by listing some excellent options for sourcing candidates before listing some tools you can use to communicate with candidates, too. Happy hunting!

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Why Don’t Recruitment Agencies Collaborate More?

NPA Worldwide

I was reading a post on LinkedIn this morning titled, “Why Don’t Recruitment Agencies Collaborate More?” and it got me thinking about some of those reasons. As a split placement network, our members have been successfully sharing candidates and jobs for more than sixty years. But, there are definitely recruiters who shy away from the cooperative model.

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How Improving Your Employee Referral Program Will Make You More Successful

SmartRecruiters

Sure, you might have an employee referral program. But is it something you make a recruiting priority? Or has it been sitting on a shelf, getting kind of dull because you haven’t dusted it off for months or maybe even years? It’s well accepted that employees can be your best source to add to your talent pipeline. After all, employees know what your mission and values are, so are in a great position to refer others who share those values.

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PPC (Pay Per Click) Manager interview questions

Workable

These sample PPC (Pay Per Click) Manager interview questions will help you identify qualified candidates for roles within your Marketing department. The post PPC (Pay Per Click) Manager interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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Navigating Candidate Experience, Part 2: Interviews And Onboarding

ConveyIQ

In the second part of this series, we explore how employers can improve candidate experience after talent applies for an open job position. The post Navigating Candidate Experience, Part 2: Interviews And Onboarding appeared first on.

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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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5 ways AI is changing the hiring sector

Allegis Global Solutions

Artificial intelligence (AI) is seeing increased adoption around the world in most industries, which means all workers across the globe should be aware of how their roles may change in the future, especially those working in jobs that could be easily automated.

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Recruiter introduction to candidates email

Workable

Recruiter introduction emails to candidates are useful when you want to contact potential candidates about an open role for the first time. This email may be called a cold recruitment email. These emails also help you begin building relationships with candidates for future job openings. They’re useful for: Agency recruiters who want to build a network with candidates.

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Not just one job for one person, but millions of jobs for millions of people

SmartRecruiters

“You are who you hire. . So who will you be in 5 years? Or in 20?”. Last night marked the Berlin (and debut) edition of our SmartX gathering, a global series of events dedicated to all things HR Tech. SmartRecruiters CEO, Jerome Ternynck, VP DACH, Michael Lazik, Director Product, Hessam Lavi and I were delighted to welcome over a hundred guests. Against the towering backdrop of Jonas Burg ert’s enormous artwork at Blain Southern Gallery, we were set for an evening of delicious drinks and food a

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Why Companies Should Consider Candidates From Coding Academies

Stack Overflow

Programming bootcamps have quickly become a hot topic in the tech community. According to Course Report , the coding bootcamp market has grown an astonishing 88% in the US and Canada since 2013. As former bootcamp attendees, we were interested in looking at the 2017 Annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey data to see if there were any interesting findings.

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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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12 Recruitment Memes That Speak The Absolute TRUTH!

Social Talent

Who doesn’t like a good old fashioned meme to bring you back down to reality. There’s one thing that has to be said for recruiters – They love a bit of humour! Life as a recruiter can be stressful, and the job can be a rollercoaster at times. However, sometimes you just have to suck it up and get on with the job. In certain situations, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

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What Role Can Recruiters Play in Diversity and Inclusion?

RecruitLoop

The main focus of this recent RecruitLoop Q&A Forum the role that recruiters can play when it comes to Diversity and Inclusion.

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Adaptability interview questions

Workable

Use these sample adaptability interview questions during your hiring process to test how flexible candidates are in dynamic work environments and how well they adjust to change. Why test candidates’ adaptability skills in interviews. Companies often need to change to meet new demands. Good companies have employees who swiftly adapt to industry, market and technology changes.

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The Numbers Speak: The Onboarding Experience is King

Silkroad

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Alexandra Levit of Inspiration at Work ). . The Numbers Speak: The Onboarding Experience is King. At SilkRoad’s annual users conference, Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder of Aptitude Research Partners Madeline Laurano shared recent data with the Connections audience. Over the last eight months, Aptitude surveyed over 1,000 organizations to qualify the link between human capital practices and business results.

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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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How Memorial Sloan Kettering Excels at Recruiting

Glassdoor for Employers

In a competitive labor market, one of the biggest challenges that any company faces is recruiting talent to choose their organization over all others.

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Employee referrals from external network email

Workable

When sourcing candidates for open roles from your external network, consider asking for referrals from: Business partners. Customers. Alumni. Former employees. Professional communities. To ask for referrals from your current employees, check our employee referral program sample email template and refer a friend email template. In emails to your external network, include: The role you’re hiring for, along with key responsibilities and a link to the full job description.

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Quarter 2 Gains Continue

The Hire Talent

As we make our way through the second quarter of 2017, perhaps the most exciting news is that we find the US unemployment rate at 4.3%, which is the lowest it’s been in over 10 years. In fact, unemployment has consistently decreased half a percent since January of this year. Overall, payrolls increased by 138,000, Read More. The post Quarter 2 Gains Continue appeared first on The HIRE Talent.

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Conflict management interview questions

Workable

Use these sample conflict management interview questions to assess how candidates resolve issues at the workplace and if they’re able to address complaints tactfully. Why you should test candidates’ conflict management skills. Employees with conflict management skills work through arguments, complaints and differences of opinion constructively. These employees are able to: Resolve issues that arise among team members quickly.

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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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Geotargeting 101

Boolean Strings

How can we search for pages local to a particular country? For starters, there are country code top-level domains. To find pages that belong to a country-level domain, we can simply use X-Ray: site:za . But there are many other domains, that don’t point to a location. When figuring out the region for a page on a generic domain, such as.com or.org, Google uses the pages’ IP address ( revealing the location ).

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Assessor interview questions

Workable

Use these sample Assessor interview questions as part of your hiring process to screen and evaluate candidates. The post Assessor interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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5 of the Most Creative Job Ads We’ve Found

Phenom People

Whether we are talking about novels, articles or blogs, I’m a sucker for creative and unique content. The same goes for job postings and advertisements. Back in “the day,” job postings were known for being informative, and an exact replica of the job description. Of course, many companies are still regurgitating their boring job. Read More.

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Social List – Searching the Structured Web

Boolean Strings

Social List Demo. Join us for a webinar on Jul 11, 2017 at 9:00 AM PDT. Register now! [link]. You are invited to a demo of our new sourcing tool Social List. ( [link] ). Social List searches for structured information on the Internet. It combines the conveniences of Google X-Raying of Social Networks with a precise search for fields such as location, job title, and company.

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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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Why Facebook, Bozzuto Group, and AT&T Have Award Winning Candidate Experiences

Linkedin Talent Blog

Talent Board, the non-profit dedicated to promoting real, hardy research on companies nailing quality candidate experience, recently released their list of 50 companies demonstrating candidate experience excellence. Winners were determined based on a blind data analysis of their candidate survey scores. Candidate responses varied between “likey to apply again” to “likely to refer a friend.

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Social List: Searching the Structured Web

Boolean Strings

Social List Demo. Join us for a webinar on Jul 11, 2017 at 8:00 AM PDT (see the time in your time zone at the registration link). Register now! [link]. You are invited to a demo of our new sourcing tool Social List. ( [link] ). Social List searches for structured information on the Internet. It combines the conveniences of Google X-Raying of Social Networks with a precise search for fields such as location, job title, and company.

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Clinching Millennial Candidates with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Clinch Talent

Why CSR matters. “Is the business of business really just business? Is business all about profit? Or is business capable of being something more? You are the future business leaders so you will decide.”.