Mon.Aug 29, 2016

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The 5 Key Motivational Drivers For Top Talent

Social Talent

One of the main concerns that many recruiters have is attracting and retaining the best talent (also known as A-players). These high-calibre employees are star performers and typically represent the top 10% of the talent available. Because A-players are obsessed with professional development and strive to accomplish more, they are highly valued by companies.

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How Transparency Improves Your Developer Hiring Strategy

Stack Overflow

Transparency at every stage of the developer hiring process is often a touchy subject for recruiters. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies that share the same opinion about how transparent their recruiters should be when they engage with tech candidates. This debate will likely continue for the foreseeable future, but developers have made one thing very clear: employers who aren’t open and honest about their technical roles will find it difficult to attract top talent.

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Winning the Heart of Your Recruiter Starts with This

Yoh

Is your job search putting you in a rotten mood? Well, chances are the people around you have taken notice; including your recruiter.

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17 Qualities of the Perfect Early Startup Hire

RecruitLoop

Finding the perfect early startup hire is no easy task. Here are 17 qualities to look for in the perfect early startup hire.

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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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Can New Habits Make You Source Smarter?

FireFish Software

From calling clients and candidates, to working on business development, it’s difficult to find the time for new hiring trends. But, for recruiters looking to stay ahead of the competition, it’s important to focus on the future. The way candidates look for jobs has changed, and now, recruiters need to consider how to adapt their practice to suit modern candidates.

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Don’t Let People Hold You Back #MondayMotivation

Undercover Recruiter

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You know, staring down the barrel of what could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Part of us is telling us to go for it; to invest every morsel of energy into making it work. Run Forest, run! The other part is telling us not to be so ridiculous; err on. View Article. Don’t Let People Hold You Back #MondayMotivation.

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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The Quick & Easy Guide for Employment Branding Photography

Recruiting.com

Visual content is powerful—especially when it comes to recruiting talent. Sharing photos of your work environment online is an excellent way to reach more job seekers and leave a lasting impression on them.

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6 #MondayMotivation Tips to Get You Through the Week

CareerBuilder

Did you wake up this morning in a panicked sweat because you realized the weekend is officially over? Mondays ain’t easy, but with a little #MondayMotivation, it may just become your favorite workday of the week (after Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday of course). Here are 6 pieces of oh so sage #MondayMotivation advice to get you through to the weekend: As long as you start your day with a strong cup (or several cups) of coffee, you’ll be unstoppable.

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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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Skill Selection: The Key Ingredient to Cooking Up a Tasty CV

Undercover Recruiter

Everybody loves food, right? Right. Now that I have your attention, let’s take a look at what cooking culinary treats can teach us about creating careers. All workers rely on special tools to help them create masterpieces in their jobs. For chefs, it’s all about their knives. They almost become part of them throughout their careers, along with.

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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How to Manage Remote Workers at Your Small Business

CareerBuilder

Thanks to technology that enables us to work from anywhere at any time, many small business employers let team members telecommute. The option to work remotely routinely or even occasionally can be a great retention tool as it improves morale by providing employees a better work-life balance. Likewise, this attractive benefit may give your small business a competitive advantage when recruiting new talent.

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Where should I go for great technology talent? (Hint: It doesn’t have to be Silicon Valley)

Allegis Global Solutions

Silicon Valley isn't the only place for top tech talent, if you know where to look.

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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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3 in 4 Workers Live Paycheck to Paycheck

CareerBuilder

The unemployment rate may be at a low 4.9 percent, with millions of workers back to work since the height of the recession, but Americans’ financial struggles are far from behind them. According to new research from CareerBuilder , 75 percent of American workers live paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. While 38 percent of all workers only live paycheck to paycheck “sometimes,” 23 percent say they always live paycheck to paycheck, and 15 percent said they usually do.

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RecruitingLive with Arron Daniels

Recruiting Daily

LinkedIn is starting to turn off the scraping gates and if I were you, I’d be brushing up on my sourcing skills. Stories keep trickling through my news feed with headlines like “ LinkedIn sues anonymous data scrapers ” and “ LinkedIn sues 100 information scrapers after technical safeguard fail.” What I see? A lot of those chrome extensions and scraping tools you’ve been using to get LinkedIn data are about to disappear.

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Are Sign-On Bonuses the Answer to the Nursing Shortage?

JWT Inside

The nursing shortage never seems to go away. And with Baby Boomers reaching 65, the shortage is becoming even harder to address, as many nurses from this generation are leaving the workforce while the demand for their services is rising. Recent industry reform is also contributing to this increased demand, now that more people in our country have access to these services.

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Applicant Abandonment and The Paradox of Value.

Recruiting Daily

Have you ever heard of the paradox of value ? If not, let me catch you up on that lesson from Philosophy 101. The paradox of value describes the discrepancy of meaning when it comes to value. For example, why is water less expensive than diamonds? We need water to survive but diamonds? Not so much. At least if you ask any girl who didn’t grow up as the Princess of some country or in Belair.

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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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The Shift in U.S. Immigration and What It Could Mean for Your Background Check Program

HireRight

Immigration is one of the hottest topics in America today. But times have changed and so have trends in hiring new arrivals to our shores. Such a sea change may have a significant bearing on your company’s policies in hiring, particularly as it pertains to background checks on candidates who have lived, worked or gone to school overseas. Here’s a look at how recent shifts in U.S. immigration may affect your hiring practices, and some suggestions to ensure your background check policy is keeping

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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7 Hiring Rules That Richard Branson Lives By

Linkedin Talent Blog

Virgin Group’s legendary founder Sir Richard Branson runs an empire made up of 200 companies in everything from healthcare to hotels to space travel. And, he credits much of his success to one thing: hiring the right people and, as a result, building unstoppable teams. In fact, Branson believes that having the right team is the most important thing you can do for a business , calling his people the “ greatest asset and the lifeblood of the brand.”.

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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How a Leading Staffing Firm Has Set Itself Apart From Competitors

Linkedin Talent Blog

One of the biggest challenges that staffing firms face is how to attract quality hires when time and resources are spread thin. Russell Tobin , a 65-person staffing firm headquartered New York City, with seven offices nationally, has built its entire business around solving this problem. How did they do it? By creating lasting relationships with candidates that set the firm apart from its competitors.

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History of Compensation: Hourly Rates Go Mainstream

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. History of compensation. Once the value of "time" became a widely accepted increment of payment for legal and accounting firms, other industries started to notice. Service-based businesses began charging by the hour and outperformed those that charged on the basis of the service sold. By the end of the 1950's, the move to billable hours was hailed as the greatest business change since the Industrial Revolution.

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How to Keep Your Millennial Workforce from Burning Out

Harger Howe Recruitment

I recently read an article from Inc.com called Hey Millennials, Stop Killing the Vacation! Immediately upon seeing that headline I knew I had to click. A lot of the time I see articles about job-hopping millennials or replacing the baby boomer workforce with my generation, but it isn’t often that a piece comes out about them being workforce martyrs.

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What's Undermining Your Engagement of Contingent Labor?

Recruiting Blogs

According to the U.S. Government and Accountability Office, approximately 40% of America's workforce now qualifies as contingent workers. This change in the way people prefer to work is evidenced by the change in Talent Acquisition tactics across organizations. With a persistent War for Talent, many organizations across industries have increased their use of contingent labor in order to remain competitive.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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Best chrome extensions for IT sourcing and technical recruitment

Devskiller

We all know that sourcing and recruiting can be very time-consuming and at the same time you are expected to act as fast as possible. To make sourcing and recruiting faster and smoother you have to act smart and use tools to support you. Using dedicated browser extensions may be a good solution. Chrome extensions can help you in several ways from finding social media profiles, websites to contact information such as an email address and phone numbers.

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How to source on the lesser known sites!! Stackoverflow

Recruiting Blogs

Stackoverflow is a coding repository, were people keep their code, projects and more. Now Stackoverflow is well known in the staffing world. And a lot of recruiters try to source there, but many struggle. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying. .

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Bad Interview Techniques And How To Avoid Them

Recruiting Blogs

Some people naturally give better interviews than others, but the interview stage of recruitment is arguably one the most important. Candidates are usually well informed and, if they are any good, they will have done their research. They will have prepared answers for questions concerning their main weaknesses, and even what type of animal they would be.