Tue.Apr 30, 2019

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6 Ways to Turn Today’s Silver Medal Candidates into Tomorrow’s Gold Medalist Hires

ExactHire Recruiting

How often have you progressed through the hiring process and ultimately realized that your final two candidates were almost evenly matched–one just slightly nudged out the other for the gold medal employment offer? While it’s great to be in that kind of position as the employer, it can be tough to turn down a talented second choice candidate. However, these “silver medal candidates” pose a significant opportunity for your company and great care should be taken to continuously engage them.

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3 Reasons You Should Hire For Potential, Not Experience

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Traditionally, employers have made hiring decisions based almost exclusively on competence; breaking down a role into a laundry list of “required skills” and seeking candidates whose experience matches up with their wish list of ideal traits.

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How To Choose An ATS That You’ll Actually Love

Harver

ATS is the backbone of your recruitment efforts. How to choose an ATS that will fulfil the needs of your company? Check out this guide!

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Your Greatest Asset: What Does That Even Mean?

Katrina Kibben

By day, we’re told that “people are our greatest asset.” At night, we nod, we smile, we cry at home. What does it "greatest asset" mean anyway? The post Your Greatest Asset: What Does That Even Mean? appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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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The Difference Between Recruiting Millennials and Gen Z

Indeed

Generations are a funny thing and a concept that we have yet to define in concrete terms. No, seriously. By most accounts, it means something nebulous like “ all of the people born and living at about the same time, taken collectively.” Doesn’t exactly give you a lot to work with, and yet, when millennials rolled into the workforce, the whole corporate world reacted with surprise (to say the least): “Who are these people, and what are we supposed to do with them?”.

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Use Your Phone More – It’s a Great Recruitment Tool!

NPA Worldwide

We had some terrific speakers at our recent Global Conference in Long Beach, California. Scott Wintrip , Mark Tortorici , and Jenifer Lambert all delivered top-notch tips and advice and were well-received by our members. I walked away with several “a-ha” moments from each speaker, but something Jenifer said really spoke to me. Jenifer is the chief revenue officer for TERRA Staffing Group, a large organization in the US Pacific Northwest.

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5 Reasons Your Prospects Go Dark (And How to Win Them Back)

FireFish Software

Have you ever had a situation where you’re making really positive progress with a prospect, you’ve had some great conversations and already sent out your terms, only for them to suddenly stop taking your calls and start ignoring your emails? Prospects go dark all the time in recruitment, and it can be really frustrating when it happens to you – particularly when you’ve invested a lot of time and effort in the relationship.

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Underperforming New Hires? It’s Probably Your Fault

Undercover Recruiter

Businesses spend a lot of money hiring, onboarding, and training new employees. It’s a substantial investment of time and finances for the company. Each time an organization hires a new employee, it costs them thousands of dollars. With such a large investment, what happens when the new hires are underperforming or not meeting business expectations?

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Job Hunters are the New Consumers: Coping with the New Talent Landscape

Smartdreamers

What’s that line, “change is inevitable,” right? Well that change has come to the recruiting world in a big way, and as recruiters it’s up to you to work with these changes and keep your company's talent pipeline open and flowing.

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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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10 trends in AI recruitment technology for 2019

Recruiting Daily

Recruiters need for hiring speed, and for sourcing and engaging with passive candidates are bound to dominant AI recruitment technology trends in 2019. While some of the following ten are recent upgrades rather than brand new concepts, each is an essential tool for sourcing, engaging or assessing prospective job candidates. 1. Programmatic Job Advertising […].

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6 Questions to Ask for a Better Stay Interview

Recruiter

Losing employees is enormously expensive. According to the Center for American Progress, even replacing a worker who makes less than $30,000 a year can cost a business 16 percent of the worker's salary. For executives or senior partners, that number can skyrocket to 213 percent of the departing employee's salary. In addition to the purely financial price tag of.

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12 Tips To Consider While Writing Employee Handbook Guidelines

Forbes Human Resources Council

For many businesses, getting the employee guidelines just right can be a process of trial and error. The experts of the Forbes Human Resources Council share their best tips for how to strike a balance between informative and engaging.

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7 Tips to Create Internal Company Newsletters

RecruitLoop

If you are concerned that your company newsletters are falling “flat,” then here are some tips and strategies that can turn those dull pieces into something more exciting and keep employees informed and feeling good about their employers. 7 Tips to Create Internal Company Newsletters.

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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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12 Thoughts To Keep In Mind When Deciding If College Is Right For You

Forbes Human Resources Council

For years, many have thought getting a degree was a necessary part of a successful transition into the workplace — but not anymore. Members of the Forbes Human Resources Council offer their insight into this issue and discuss what opportunities a job seeker might expect without a degree.

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Announcing a Decade of Job Seeker Nation: Defining a New Breed of Jobseeker

Jobvite

In 2019, one thing seems certain: it’s a candidates’ job market. With the U.S. economy prospering, headlined by a record stretch of low unemployment, all signs point to a tip-top labor market for American job seekers. In fact, from massive tech IPOs to more job openings than workers to fill them , the job prospects only look to perk up in the coming year.

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How to Help Your Remote Employees Avoid Loneliness and Burnout

Recruiter

It's Monday morning and Jane, a marketing associate, begins her workday by pouring a cup of coffee and getting cozy in her home office. Jane is a remote worker. As long as she keeps her manager in the loop, she can work from anywhere at any time. Jane is not alone: Remote work has recently transformed from a progressive perk into a standard workplace practice.

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4 Company Culture Hacks To Boost Engagement in 2019

VIVAHR Recruiting and Hiring Tips

Company culture is viewed by Gen Xers and Baby Boomers as Ping Pong, free food, bean bag chairs and a bunch of lazy Millennials complaining about work. Well, hate to break it to you, but company culture is something much deeper to Millennials. The Phrase company culture has been quite the buzzword in 2019 and tends to be a very elusive phrase. I would submit that company culture is actually very easy to describe.

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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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Understanding Your Data Needs: Should Your Company Hire a Business Analyst or a Data Analyst?

Recruiter

In the digital age, companies are scrambling to make the most of the treasure trove of big data at their fingertips. However, it's not always clear what skills a company's employees need in order to make that happen, especially if the hiring managers and recruiters in charge of talent acquisition don't have data analytical skills themselves and can't clearly define the need.

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Broken LinkedIn Boolean Explained and Webinar

Boolean Strings

I have figured out how it works and will briefly explain below. We have announced a new delivery of the LinkedHacks webinar , live on May 1st, to fully update you. (Don’t miss it; seating is limited). Come to learn how to not only work with Premium and Basic accounts but take advantage of a new hidden feature! Of course, nobody would search like this in practice; the search should produce zero results if we had working Boolean search.

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Spreadsheets are Scary. Your Recruiting Software Shouldn’t Be.

ApplicantStack

Why do many recruiting teams have to use spreadsheets? Forward-thinking companies leverage the best business management tools for everyone else. I’m talking about best-in-class software products. The kind built for a specific purpose from the ground up. There are systems for CRM, project management, accounting, tech support—you name it. Yet the hiring team struggles with old technology and ad hoc systems.

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We're Providing Coaching, But How Can We Measure Success?

FlashPoint

Measuring coaching engagement success. Coaching. It's a hot topic and its use to accelerate leader development is on the rise. You've heard of its benefits and how it can transform leaders, teams, and organizations, but you want to make sure your leaders are seeing the benefits. How do you justify continued use and investment? It starts with knowing how to measure the impact of coaching.

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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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Recruiting Interns: How to Make the Most of Young Talent

Recruiters Lineup

According to a survey conducted in 2017, more than 62% of college graduates in the US reported doing an internship sometime during their studies. This was substantially higher than in previous years when in 2008 it was only 50% and in 1992 only 17% reported participating in any type of internship. The image of the intern we’ve learned to know from Hollywood films, being sent to bring coffee, spending hours on end next to the Xerox machine and waiting on their managers hand and foot, is long gone

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Announcing a Decade of Job Seeker Nation: Defining a New Breed of Jobseeker

Jobvite

In 2019, one thing seems certain: it’s a candidates’ job market. With the U.S. economy prospering, headlined by a record stretch of low unemployment, all signs point to a tip-top labor market for American job seekers. In fact, from massive tech IPOs to more job openings than workers to fill them , the job prospects only look to perk up in the coming year.

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Morning Musts: How To Make a Good Morning Routine

PowerToFly

We're back with May's monthly challenge : Morning Musts. This is all about how to make a good morning routine so the rest of your day is productive and fulfilling. Or at the very least, you set it up to be. For my fellow remote workers, morning routines are even more important. because as Spider Man's uncle always says, with great flexibility comes great responsibility.

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6 Ways to Turn Today’s Silver Medal Candidates into Tomorrow’s Gold Medalist Hires

ExactHire Recruiting

How often have you progressed through the hiring process and ultimately realized that your final two candidates were almost evenly matched–one just slightly nudged out the other for the gold medal employment offer? While it’s great to be in that kind of position as the employer, it can be tough to turn down a talented second choice candidate. However, these “silver medal candidates” pose a significant opportunity for your company and great care should be taken to continuously engage them.

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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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Software Engineers Need More Than Just a Tech Recruiter To Land Their Dream Job

Recruiting Blogs

Computer science (CS) majors and employed software engineers should always consider using a technical recruiter when they are ready to being their job search. Using a recruiter saves so much time and can make the interview process much easier. Without a recruiter, it's a lot like trying to sell or buy a house without an agent. It's possible.but it involves many extra steps that you most likely don't even have time to do.

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Driving Digital Transformation: The Danger and the Opportunity (Part 2)

GoodTime

Not Chinese characters for crisis. The Internet. No, the word “crisis” in Chinese, is not comprised of the characters “danger” and “opportunity”. Well, perhaps danger, but not opportunity. I know. Unfortunately, I have bad news about the tooth fairy as well…. The Core Problem of Digital Transformation. I suspect if you’ve made it this far, you already know the root of the problem.

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How To Write A Great Job Advert

Recruiting Blogs

When hiring, a job advert is your best opportunity to impress talented individuals and attract them to your roles. If you don’t have a strong job advert, the ideal candidates could be passing you by. . After all, w ith over half (51.7%) of job hunters claiming that they wouldn’t apply for a job that missed key aspects out of the job description, it’s important that you get it right. .

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