Tue.Jul 18, 2017

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5 Onboarding Best Practices to Apply to Your Evolving Workforce

ClearCompany Recruiting

First impressions are important, and many new hires are using those first few days on a job to decide just how interested they are in remaining employed within the organization. In fact, some employees consider the candidate experience and time between the offer letter and first day as an important indicator to how all of their employment might go. That’s why a quality onboarding program is so pivotal.

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Using Microsites to Enhance Your Employer Brand

Proactive Talent

When developing your employer brand strategy, you’ll hear many terms thrown around such as social media optimization, content curation, and brand engagement. One term you may be less familiar with though is microsites. Microsites are essentially what they sound like, small websites that can exist within or separate from a broader site URL, in this case being a company career site, used to communicate specific messages.

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Customer Spotlight: 5 Tools Making Life Easier for Pet Care Business Owners

Hireology

This is a guest post from Hireology client Cara Armour, founder of Boston-based Active Paws. Cara has more than a decade of pet sitting experience, winning Pet Sitter of the Year in 2009. Below, Cara highlights several tools that help her pet sitting business run smoothly. Read more insights from Cara’s 13+ of professional pet services experience here.

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Using Microsites to Enhance Your Employer Brand

Proactive Talent

When developing your employer brand strategy, you’ll hear many terms thrown around such as social media optimization, content curation, and brand engagement. One term you may be less familiar with though is microsites. Microsites are essentially what they sound like, small websites that can exist within or separate from a broader site URL, in this case being a company career site, used to communicate specific messages.

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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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Simplify the Recruitment Process With Google Hire

Entrepreneur

Hire, a new recruiting app for small and mid-sized businesses, integrates with G Suite apps like Gmail and Google Calendar.

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How to recruit job seekers looking for meaningful work

Alongside

Job seekers want to work for organizations that care about the same things they do. If you're a pro at recruiting, you know that finding the right fit for a position is more than skills and years of experience. To increase the likelihood of a great match, you need to see alignment with company values and culture. This is especially important for recruiting and retaining younger employees.

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What’s the Best Chrome Extension to Find Contact Info?

Recruiting Daily

Chrome Extensions can add a boost to your productivity, but if you are not using the right one for what you need, they can be a major time waster. As you may know, Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. In fact, almost half of all users are using Chrome over Safari or Internet […].

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Management Training: Develop Skills for New and Experienced Leaders

FlashPoint

Developing leaders can decrease turnover and prepare them for changing business needs. Young employees and emerging leaders are looking for similar things from their job: support from senior management and their direct manager, training, coaching, mentoring, and challenging job assignments. But are these employees getting what they need? A study from the MIT Sloan Management Review (September 2015) found that the average high-achiever, about 30 years old, left his or her company after only 27 mo

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Some 76 Percent of U.S. Workers Say They Don’t Fear Workplace Automation

Recruiting Daily

It’s an ongoing mantra that supposedly has a lot of people spooked — automation is growing rapidly and is eventually going to eliminate a lot of jobs. Well, a new survey says that those fears may be considerably overstated. Research released today by Randstad US found that “only 14 percent of U.S. employees worry that […].

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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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8 Innovative Ways Companies Are Using Virtual Reality to Recruit

Linkedin Talent Blog

It’s not Tron, it’s reality—virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) that is. Once confined to cheesy science-fiction movies, VR and AR have gotten super popular lately, from the success of video games like Pokemon Go to advances in filmmaking and even therapy. But one area that AR and VR is really making waves in is recruiting, with lots of companies adopting these technologies to improve their candidate experience, create fun skill-based tests, and show candidates that they’re on the cu

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Why IT is Vital to Chicago Hospitals and Healthcare

Recruiting Blogs

There’s a reason healthcare facilities in Chicago and across the country are frantically seeking tech talent. Hospitals are heavily reliant on properly working technology, and each week news reports surface that both inspire and terrify healthcare CIOs and doctors. IT has proven it has the power to drive innovation in the healthcare industry, but at the same time this increasing reliance on technology poses a danger that requires the skills of top tech talent to balance appropriately.

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The Stats You Should Know If You are Recruiting Contractors in the UK

Linkedin Talent Blog

There are 7 million members in the UK on LinkedIn that identify themselves as contractors - that’s 15% of the total UK workforce today. The industry, made up of freelancers, contractors and the self-employed, has grown steadily over the last decade and, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 set to create exponential change to labour market dynamics, this is certainly an employment trend that we can expect to see grow!

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Merging People Records

Top Echelon Contracting

Expand the Sidebar and click on Settings. Click to Expand the Tools & Data Management section and select Merge People. Search to locate the Duplicate and Keeper records by name. When you're happy with your selections, click the Merge button. Please note that merging records is a permanent action and cannot be undone.

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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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Disconnect

Recruiting Blogs

Currently we are experiencing low unemployment and stalled wage growth. There is a disconnect here and something’s gotta give at some point. This really highlights the sloppiness of the long recovery we are in. At some point we will get a good economy again. It’s not horrible now, but without wage growth it’s not the real deal. More good work and more patience.

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Only Three Things Matter When Hiring

CareerPlug

A hiring opportunity is one of the most exciting times for your company. Right? Ok, it can be stressful and frustrating…and time consuming! Trust me, I know. I just filled two positions myself and the week that followed felt like one of my more productive weeks in recent memory. “What have I been doing for. The post Only Three Things Matter When Hiring appeared first on CareerPlug.

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Gettin' Social - LinkedIn Connec. er. Friends

Recruiting Blogs

By now, you've all seen it: People complain to me (about me?) every day. "Act professional!". Um, ok. Anything for you total stranger. "Nice emoji. What are you, 12?". Uh oh! Who called the LinkedIn Police?? Now I'm in trouble. "Why are you always yelling at us in CAPS? I DON'T KNOW. "What a rant. This is'nt Face Book. There it is. The killshot. BOOM.

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Meet the Latest Bots Automating the Recruiting Industry

Yoh

Everything is measured today - from physical to online activities, from choices to reactions. And it's no different when it comes to recruitment.

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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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Cover Letters: Why They’re Useful and How to Read Between the Lines

AkkenCloud

While there has been healthy debate as to whether or not cover letters are expected, they are still arguably a key piece of applying for a job since they allow applicants to introduce themselves and their accomplishments. They also give applicants the opportunity to highlight specific “wins” that are pertinent to the position, but which may not be visible on their resume.

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Building A Company’s Culture Doesn’t Cost You $10 Billion But A Bad One Might…

PeopleFoundry

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5 Ways to Make Graduate Recruitment Easier

WebRecruit

It’s that time of year again – hundreds of thousands of students are finishing their university courses and preparing to enter the UK job market. Equally, many employers across the country are looking to attract graduates with their latest vacancies. While some companies may have been recruiting for graduate roles for months already, others are just starting to advertise their vacancies in the hope of attracting their next graduate team member.

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Global Expansion – What to Expect & How to Prepare

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Tim Bell, Chief Revenue Officer at People 2.0 , a full-service Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company offering a best-in-class universal worker platform and complete Employer of Record platform for deployment of a global contingent workforce. People 2.0 is an NPAworldwide Alliance Partner. Deciding to expand business operations into another country is never done lightly, and the hard choices and requirements for careful planning continue once you enter your new

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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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Support Recruiting, HR, and Finance with Flexible Job Postings and Requisitions in Lever

Lever

It takes a great amount of work across many teams and stakeholders to make a hire, and it’s critical for your applicant tracking system to support the unique needs of each and every one of them – from Recruiting to HR and even Finance.

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Faltering Sales? Why Your Hiring Process Might be to Blame

Recruiting Blogs

A lot of companies are trying to move away from departmental silos, preferring cross-functional teams and open communication among divisions. It’s a good idea for the left hand to always know what the right hand is doing, and vice versa. But what if the left hand is unwittingly sabotaging the right hand? This can be seen time and time again when it comes to a company’s hiring practices.

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Hire Power: What Google’s New Applicant Tracking System Means for HR Technology.

Recruiting Daily

Google has announced the release of Google Hire, an applicant tracking system for G Suite customers - and its first step into the HR Technology market.

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5 Tips to Successfully Evaluate Total Rewards Software

HRsoft

As with any type of technology, total rewards software requires evaluation to determine whether it’s the best fit for your company. Some of the primary factors to weigh are the cost of the software, configurability, usability, and integration with other systems. In an HRsoft poll, usability and integration with other systems were tied as most important at 40% each among survey responses.

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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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Construction and Diversity: Are You Being Left Behind?

BirdDogHR - Recruitment

You are here Home » Blog » Latest Blog Article. Construction and Diversity: Are You Being Left Behind? July 18, 2017. A recent Washington Post article revealed the dire straits of the construction industry: Baby Boomers are retiring in droves, widening what is an already huge skills gap in a competitive industry. The article advocates for diversity as a way to broaden the workforce and ensure that everyone who can work, is.