Mon.Dec 17, 2018

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3 Ways Your Business Can Support a Mobile-Friendly Experience for Job Applicants

Hireology

The job search process has rapidly evolved in recent years to meet the demands of today’s tech-savvy job applicants. Gone are the days of paper applications and, in some cases, applications via desktop computers are also declining. This is because mobile is becoming central to job searching – especially among millennials. In fact, recent data found that over 90 percent of job applicants use their mobile devices at some point in the process when searching for their dream jobs.

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My key recruiting tip for 2019

Greg Savage

Chill over Christmas, for sure, you deserve it. And I wish you a safe and fun holiday period. But hit 2019 with a plan. This one!

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Infographic: Holiday Hiring Trends You Need to Know

JazzHR

The holiday season is in full swing, but if you’re still short-staffed and have extra positions to fill to make it through the New Year, get strategic with the holiday hiring trends that every employer needs to know. Download our infographic to learn: Why the time of year matters for hiring for seasonal roles. Why seasonal roles are shifting from dramatically by type.

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10 Ways to Hire Great Candidates During the Holidays

Glassdoor for Employers

Focusing on holiday cheer this time of year is natural. Virtually everyone is immersed in party planning, gift buying, vacationing and more, so your next great candidate may not be considering a job interview an imperative at the moment. So how can you package an opportunity amid holiday festivities that will entice your top candidates to carve out time for your company?

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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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Unconscious Bullying in Leadership

Undercover Recruiter

It is a unique experience to be in when you identify the concept of unconscious bullying in leadership. For many business professionals, this behaviour is put down to differences in opinion or personality clashes. The reality, however, is a far greater concern, and something that needs to be addressed across all stages of the talent. View Article. Unconscious Bullying in Leadership Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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4 Principles for Learning What Your Employees Really Think About Work

Recruiter

While soliciting employee feedback can build trust and drive performance, gathering feedback and not acting on it does more harm than good. Employee engagement is a topic that has been explored in great depth in HR and management literature, but truly understanding your people and responding effectively to what you learn is easier said than done. Here are four less-than-obvious principles to help leaders gauge and grow employee engagement: 1.

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13 Essential Etiquette Tips For Today's Hiring Managers

Forbes Human Resources Council

There are some crucial pieces of etiquette that every hiring manager should keep in mind when recruiting new talent.

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5 Essential Steps for Building an Effective Talent Pipeline

Recruiter

To grow and succeed, businesses need to define, attract, and develop the right mix of critical talent. Unfortunately, many businesses wait for employees to quit before searching for replacements. This reactive process puts them a few steps behind their competitors when it comes to finding the best talent for their roles.

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Graduate recruiting case study: how Orica delights candidates

Vervoe

A new candidate experience. Orica, the world’s largest provider of commercial explosives, has raised the bar in graduate recruiting. In addition to streamlining its graduate recruiting process, Orica was also able to delight candidates and stand out from its competitors by delivering a unique and memorable experience: “It is the most dynamic online interview I’ve ever seen.

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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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The 10 Secrets of Retaining Great Manufacturing Employees

Recruiter

With the economy booming and unemployment at record lows, talent management has become more critical for business success. While many organizations offer huge sales commissions, signing bonuses, and nontraditional perks like flextime and ping-pong tables in Google-esque offices, these same incentives don't necessarily work in a manufacturing setting.

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10 Gifts Leaders Can Give All Year

FlashPoint

Photo by Plush Design Studio on Unsplash. The Best Gifts Are Not Necessarily Monetary. It’s ugly sweater season, and you may be thinking of what you can give your coworkers, direct reports, or even your boss this year. Some think that gifts are the best way to convey appreciation or that you value that person’s hard work, but we thought about it a little differently this year.

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Massachusetts to See Minimum Wage, ‘Blue Law’ Changes in January

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Changes in Massachusetts’ minimum wage and the “blue law” affecting premium pay for certain employees working on Sundays will go into effect on January 1, 2019. The minimum wage will go from $11 to $12 an hour, a result of a law passed last summer. The minimum will go up 75 cents an hour every year until it hits $15 an hour on January 1, 2023. The law increasing the minimum wage also provides for paid family and medical leave beginning in 2021.

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December Product Update

VideoMyJob

If you're a serial user of the 'start over' button, have we got a Christmas gift for you! You can now build your video in segments, scroll your teleprompter script between takes and we've added easy trim and transitions between segments.

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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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California court voids nonsolicit agreement with recruiters and defeats trade secret claims

Recruiting Daily

California Court of Appeal held that enforcing such an agreement signed by a recruiter-employee would constitute the enforcement of an illegal covenant not to compete under California law. Employers that engage recruiter-employees should be on alert that California Courts will not enforce standard nonsolicitation of employee agreements as such nonsolicitation agreements act to prevent former […].

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8 Talent Trends to Watch in 2019

Recruiting Daily Advisor

When we look back at 2018, what’s the most common trend that comes to mind? A tight labor market due to low unemployment. Sadly, it looks like 2019 is shaping up to be similar , however, recruiters and hiring managers can stay ahead of the curve by being prepared and knowing what’s being predicted for the year to come. This is where the staffing agency, Randstad US comes into play.

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The Importance Of Connectivity In The New Social Enterprise

Forbes Human Resources Council

Connecting workers to one another and to the organization’s broader purpose is key to operating in the social enterprise.

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Wow Your Candidates with an Organized, Thoughtful Interview Day Experience…or Else

Yello

Interview Day Scheduling , Yello’s newest product, becomes available in just a few short weeks. Beginning February 2019, you’ll be able to transform the chaotic, time-consuming, delicate scramble of scheduling complex interview activities into a predictable, easy-to-manage, flexible workflow. Or you could do things the old-fashioned way. It’s not like you haven’t done it before.

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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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The Best 5 Books to Give a Recruiter for the Holidays—According to Talent Leaders

Linkedin Talent Blog

Whether you’re looking for a gift for a co-worker or just want to treat yourself this holiday season, these books will make the perfect stocking stuffer for any talent professional. We asked some of the industry’s most recognizable leaders which books have helped them build successful careers in recruiting and HR. Their answers cover a range of topics from building workplace culture to finding creativity.

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Who’s on Talent Acquisition Santa’s “Nice” List?

Yello

1. The Inbound Recruitment Marketing Good Boy. This good boy is staying on top of his inbound recruitment marketing game by making great content to share with candidates in the company’s talent pipeline. Photo Credit: Instagram. 2. The Good Interview Questions Good Boy. This little fella has taken the time to craft really great interview questions that don’t get canned responses.

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The Best Health Benefits Will Keep the Best Employees in Your Ranks

Recruiting Daily Advisor

With a tightening labor force and the unemployment rate at a mere 3.7% , employers are chasing the talent—not the other way around. Not only that, but it’s getting more difficult to keep the most capable workers around. Since 2015, there have been more job openings than new hires , which means unhappy employees have more opportunities to find a new position. courtneyk / E+ / Getty Images.

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5 powerful moments of truth for every recruiter

JobAdder

When was the last time you considered the recruitment process you undertake each day? I mean, really thought about it. Recruitment, in many aspects, can be automated, but what that ideally should be doing, is leaving you free to focus on the parts that can’t. Like those moments of truth, as Greg Savage suggested in his latest blog post , of influence, “where outcomes can be shaped” and where “the magic happens!”.

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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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Productivity slump? How to get the most out of the last week of 2018

Zartis

The holiday season is closing in, and productivity is about to fall off a cliff for most companies. However, lots of people want to squeeze a few more achievements out of 2018, and if you’re one of them, read on. MANAGE YOUR TIME LIKE A VIKING. This is probably the last week of the year where you can reasonably expect to get things done. You need to be ruthless in how you manage your time.

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Linking Compensation & Performance Management

HRsoft

The overarching goal of the compensation strategy is to make sure an organization has the right amount of money necessary to motivate the types of performance needed to achieve the business strategy. To that end, compensation should tie into the overall performance management strategy. Your practices must therefore be understood by employees and based on hard, objective data.

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Weekly Diversity and Inclusion News: December 5 - 11, 2018

ROIKOI

Focus on inclusion, not just diversity. The best places to work in 2019.

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An accurate and effective job description is one of the main building blocks in any successful recruitment process. If you simply dust down an old role profile, update a few points and alter the job …

Recruiting Blogs

An accurate and effective job description is one of the main building blocks in any successful recruitment process. If you simply dust down an old role profile, update a few points and alter the job title you will be missing a huge opportunity. More importantly, you could be opening yourself up to a long, expensive and ultimately fruitless recruitment process.

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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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10 Effective Steps to Improve Company Culture

Staffingsoft

One of the main reasons employees leave a company is because they don’t like the culture. People spend most of their waking hours at work so failing to consider the environment in which your staff works is a good way to lose staff. Be the HR department that drives positive change and instills a great culture in the workplace. These ten steps will help you on your way.

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Jobs that are in High Demand in 2019

Recruiting Blogs

It is the 21st century, and with the change in living standard, there are lots of challenges which are pushing us towards the highest level of competition. It has been challenging to achieve a desired job in the relevant organization. People are getting a hold of higher education for better grip on their career. But still, there are very fewer jobs present in the market. .

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Flipping Ageism: Ways to Future and Age Proof your Job Search

Harger Howe Recruitment

We are well into an era of business that thrives on digital technology, confident leadership, and advanced knowledge. Company leaders are readily seeking well-trained, fresh-minded candidates to drive success within their businesses. This process recipe calls attention to age, experience, and professional development – which is causing turmoil in the world of recruitment.