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20 Buzzwords That Recruiters Use (And What Non-Recruiters Think They Mean)

Social Talent

If you’re a recruiter, you’ll know all of the industry lingo inside out and upside down. Buzzwords and phrases like ‘ATS’, ‘search strings’ and ‘onboarding’ roll off the tongue because they’re used so often in your day to day job that they’ve simply become part of your vocabulary. Mention phrases like these when you’re in the company of non-recruiting folk however, and chances are that you’ll be met with confused looks and h

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Is Recruitment More EQ Than IQ?

The Whiteboard

When I was back in the UK recently a random story popped up on the news that grabbed my attention. Having been beaten at Scrabble by my Mum the night before, and grimacing as I kept a lid on my trembling ego, I was naturally alerted by the announcement of the newly crowned World Scrabble Champion 2016. But it wasn’t just the revelation there was such a thing that caught my attention.

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Your 6 Step Checklist to Crafting the Perfect Job Description

RecruitLoop

Every candidate expects to see a job description if they are going to consider a career move. What sort of impression are you creating if you can’t even provide a potential new employee with a detailed description of the job you expect them to do for you?

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Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Allyn Bailey & Pam McKnight, Intel

Symphony Talent

In light of the recent Olympic games, the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference, SmashFly Transform™, and our love of recruitment marketing pioneers everywhere, our Recruitment Marketing Champion Series will. The post Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Allyn Bailey & Pam McKnight, Intel appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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5 Social Recruiting Lessons You Need to Know

marenated

Social media has and will continue to have a huge impact on companies and how they are perceived by the public. In fact, according to Glassdoor, roughly 1 in 5 candidates have applied for a job they learned about through social media, and 13% of social media users say information they’ve posted on social media helped them get a job. This is especially true for recruiting agencies.

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Potential Dangers of Applying Direct (and Bypassing Recruiters)

Undercover Recruiter

A lot of thought goes into searching for a new job. And if it doesn’t, it should. Apart from deciphering what career direction you want to take, updating your resume and crafting bespoke cover letters, you need to shape your approach to getting noticed by the decision makers who matter. Ideally your game plan will be far more. View Article. Potential Dangers of Applying Direct (and Bypassing Recruiters).

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10 Reasons More Recruitment Start-Ups Are Needed

NPA Worldwide

Some would argue that the recruitment industry has enough participants and we really do not need any new recruitment start-ups. While that would be great for those already entrenched, that is just not how the free market operates. If the existing recruitment agencies were delivering with perfection, no new agencies would be able to break into the industry.

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Every Day is a School Day with Tom Glanfield

FireFish Software

Tom Glanfield, CEO of Lawrence Harvey, joins Wendy on this month's episode of the Predictive Recruitment Podcast. Tom has a great, inspirational story about founding his company, Lawrence Harvey, from his girlfriend's spare room with a £9K student loan, and taking it to its current multi million pound valuation.

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Blogging as a Recruitment Tool

Undercover Recruiter

In 2016, you’d be hard-pressed to find any successful business without a blogging presence. Whether businesses are truly committed to blogging or not is one thing, but most at least play along because they’ve repeatedly been told that it’s a best practice. But, despite the fact that most businesses have blogs, very few realize just. View Article. Blogging as a Recruitment Tool.

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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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What Not To Wear: 5 Reasons Recruiting Advice Sucks

Recruiting Daily

This list is for all the writers, mansplainers, recruiters, and nosy busy-bodies who try togive recruiting advice after making 2 placements.

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How to Regroup When Your Top Tech Candidates Decline Your Job Offer

Stack Overflow

Even when you think you’ve done everything right to recruit and identify your next developer, there will be times when your top target will decline to accept another offer. I’d be lying if I said this never happened to me when I was a recruiter, so I understand how unnerving it is to miss out on an outstanding developer. The frustration you feel when you hear the words “no thanks” from your top tech candidates can make it hard to bounce back and start recruiting and hiring programmers again.

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3 Tips on Approaching Passive Job Candidates in 2016

iCIMS

Understand when passive candidates are ready to be approached with these three helpful tips.

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4 Major Challenges Marketing & Recruiting Share (and How to Overcome Them)

Jibe

People often claim that recruiting is digital marketing to some degree. The reason being, now that a vast majority of the candidate job search and application process takes place online, recruiters use many digital marketing tactics and strategies to meet them there. That said, because both groups are essentially trying to get complete strangers to become prospects , there are lots of similarities.

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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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Your Mobile Recruiting Just Got A Mobile Rebooting

Breezy HR

Introducing Breezy for iPhone, iPad and Android … Version 2.0! Here’s the goal of Breezy 2.0: Recruiters and hiring teams can go about their business while they go about their business. You’ve got plenty of balls in the air: Conversations with high-quality job candidates that really can’t wait; final feedback from the highest of the stakeholders that change your game plan mid-play.

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4 Unconscious Biases Hindering Your Recruiting (and How to Prevent Them)

Linkedin Talent Blog

Think about it for a second: do you get more excited about a hiring a candidate who went to the same school as you? Or, what about one who seems familiar – they talk, dress, and have the same values as you. I mean, who’s better than you? Are you nodding? Well guess what – these are unconscious biases. And this particular example is affinity bias – or hiring in your own image.

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How to Champion and Win Over Candidates, with Hired’s Matt Hughes

Entelo

Hired Recruiting Manager Matt Hughes joins forces with Hiring On All Cylinders to talk about how he’s optimizing the org’s internal interviewing and hiring processes. Matt shares the successes and challenges of building partnerships between hiring managers and the talent team, the importance of writing digestible candidate emails, and how Hired’s mission to advocate talent is transforming the way people connect with orgs.

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eBook: How Hireology Can Save Your Dealership Time & Money

Hireology

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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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10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a New Recruiter

Top Echelon Contracting

A common error made by most firm owners and managers in their attempts to hire a new recruiter is to focus almost entirely on identifying individuals who have the talent to do the job. Although this is important, ask yourself this. The post 10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a New Recruiter appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Registered Nurse (Medical/Surgical) Needed

Recruiting Blogs

Registered Nurse. Summary. We are looking for candidates to fill Medical/Surgical department needs at a local VA Hospital in Portland, OR. . RN Duties and Responsibilities. . Provide care to patients from OR, ER, and ICU; experienced in low to high acuity levels in patients. Perform assessments; provide intravenous therapy, complex wound care, monitor various drainage device.

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Top Tips for Attending #INBOUND16

Harger Howe Recruitment

Well, it’s mid-September and the countdown to the #INBOUND16 conference has officially begun in the offices of Harger Howe. Last year was our first year attending this conference, but this year, we’d like to impart some of our best tips for new attendees. We’ve broken the tips down into categories for easy use and quick reading. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions and definitely feel free to share them with other new Inbounders!

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History of Compensation: European Leagues and American Soccer

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? . History of compensation. The most notable difference between European soccer leagues and United States professional sports associations (with the exception of Major League Baseball) is the existence of salary caps in America. These restrict the amount of money that a team can spend on players salaries and exists as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster, or both.

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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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“Power Your Happy” With Advice From POPSUGAR Founder Lisa Sugar

Glassdoor for Employers

What do Beyonce, blogging and work-life balance have in common? Lisa Sugar. The media mogul and founder-president of the number one lifestyle.

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Why Americans Don’t Take More Time Off: A Data-Driven Answer

Indeed

When was the last time you took a vacation? If you are like me, it’s been a while. Many American don’t know how to take a vacation. When you work at a global company you notice colleagues based in Paris or Berlin take at least two week vacation. Sometimes they take a month off. And when they say they’re on vacation, they are on vacation. They’re not checking emails.

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Employee monitoring: to track or not to track?

Workable

As anyone who has ever worked in the corporate world knows, it’s easy to clock up a 9-5 day and get absolutely nothing done. Before computers were the office norm, you could probably stare into cubicle abyss all day, pretending to read memos. Now that a lot of ‘knowledge economy’ work is screen-based, it’s easy to track. You might be able to flick between Facebook and Powerpoint when your manager does a drive by.

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#SorryNotSorry: Resume Mistakes Employers Hate

CareerBuilder

Making one’s resume stand out in a pile of 250 others can be challenging, but some job applicants stand out for unintended reasons. From innocent typos to downright lies, some resume mistakes have cost candidates the job. In a new CareerBuilder survey, hiring and HR managers shared some of the most outrageous resume mistakes of the year. One applicant claimed he/she worked at a federal prison — which sounds noble — until a background check found that he was actually incarcerated at the pri

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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 Netflix Model of Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

In a market where competition over top tech talent is fierce and top companies don’t think twice about poaching developers and engineers from other companies, it’s incredibly difficult for startups and small businesses to attract the type of employees who will make them successful. Netflix, the world’s leading television network with over 83 million members in over 190 countries, managed to do exactly that.

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4 Tips to Help Charities Reduce Their Hiring Costs

WebRecruit

Charities and not-for-profit organisations within the UK have lost more than £3.8 billion in government grants over the past 10 years. As such, HR departments within charities are under a great deal of pressure to reduce the cost of their recruitment, while still attracting high quality candidates. This means that teams are often stretched and don’t always have the time and budget to recruit as effectively as they’d like to; with over 160,000 different charitable organisations in the UK, natural

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Streaming to You Live From Talent Connect: Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Weiner, GE Digital, and More

Linkedin Talent Blog

Talent Connect - one of the most unforgettable and inspiring recruiting and HR conferences around - kicks off in just two weeks. And although the event just sold out, never fear - the livestream has you covered and will give you access to all the important highlights, from the comfort of your office (or sofa at home - popcorn uncluded). Starting Thursday, October 6, the livestream will broadcast keynotes with talent acquisition leaders from GE Digital, exclusive Q&As with executives like Jef