Wed.Jan 06, 2021

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10 Creative Interview Questions to Ask to Weed Out Bad Candidates

Hireology

Interviews are an excellent way to get to know your candidates, but it’s not always a piece of cake to distinguish between candidates that will do well at your company and those that will exceed your expectations. Sometimes it’s even challenging to identify the candidates that just won’t be a good fit. Every company has made a hire that for one reason or another just didn’t work out.

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Key Steps to Boost Agility in Your Talent Acquisition Strategy

Allegis Global Solutions

There is no doubt that talent acquisition is going through a period of rapid change. Today’s TA teams are under pressure to be experts in everything from marketing to recruitment whilst juggling fluctuating hiring volumes. They need the agility to scale their operations quickly and the flexibility to adapt the way they engage candidates.

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[PODCAST] Vettery – Remote Hiring Trends with Josh Brenner

Recruiting Daily

Vettery – Remote Hiring Trends with Josh Brenner Today we’re talking with Josh from Vettery about remote hiring trends. Josh is an expert in the field, leading an online hiring marketplace. This is a topic at the top of everyone’s list; tune in for a fun conversation about the current state of hiring. Introductions […].

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The Small Steps That Make A Big Impact on Candidate Experience

Smartdreamers

Every little helps. This was the guiding principle for Tesco’s famous advertising campaign that turned the British retailer into a market leader. But the idea of how small things add up to make a big difference rings true – and not just when it comes to customer journeys. If you look at candidate experience as a sequence of interactions with your company, even small gestures can go a long way – especially in the context of a global pandemic.

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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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How To Improve Communication Among Conflict-Avoidant Teams

Forbes Human Resources Council

Teams don't start with the ability to engage in healthy conflict — it takes intentional time and effort.

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How to Gather Feedback on the Employee OE Experience

Namely - Talent

Getting employee feedback on company processes like Open Enrollment is an important way to show that you’re listening to your employees and taking their feelings into account.

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The Best Talent Acquisition Content of 2020

Jobvite

No one will disagree that 2020 was a hard year. The global pandemic led to the greatest recession since the Great Depression, and workers had to adjust overnight to a remote world. Additionally, protests over rising inequality and racial injustice shifted what workers value and look for from their employers. At Jobvite, we worked to be on top of the changing landscape and provide everyone in the Talent Acquisition function, from Recruiter to VP with the right tools and insights to succeed.

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Review of Seamless.AI Search Engine Tool

WizardSourcer

Seamless.ai is a contacting finding, lead generation, & search engine tool. It encompasses many features for prospecting in sales and it can also be used in recruiting. The tools has a search engine and CRM tool as well as a chrome extension to help research and find leads online. Seamless.AI clams to be the world’s first and only real-time search engine for B2B contact information. “Find verified emails & direct dials, book more appointments, and win more sales!

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The Best Talent Acquisition Content of 2020

Jobvite

No one will disagree that 2020 was a hard year. The global pandemic led to the greatest recession since the Great Depression, and workers had to adjust overnight to a remote world. Additionally, protests over rising inequality and racial injustice shifted what workers value and look for from their employers. At Jobvite, we worked to be on top of the changing landscape and provide everyone in the Talent Acquisition function, from Recruiter to VP with the right tools and insights to succeed.

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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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Managing Challenging Employees

The Staffing Stream

The word “toxic” has been heavily used in recent years to describe both workplaces and employees. It’s used so often, in fact, that I wonder if a number of employees have been written off as toxic when in fact they were just a challenging individual to manage. It’s a fine line, but a line nonetheless. In the staffing industry, managing sales professionals is a good part of a senior manager’s day.

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2021 Is Our Year Of Hope

FlashPoint

2020 was an interesting, unprecedented, strange, stressful, ambiguous, and uncertain year. It was also a year of great innovation, where I was reminded that together we can achieve greatness. Resilience was the number one skill I leaned on in 2020. Resilience, defined as our capacity to recover quickly from difficulty — toughness. For me and the thousands of leaders we worked with in 2020, resilience was THE skill we needed to rely on and deepen above all other skills.

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Leading Into 2021: Four Core Principles

Forbes Human Resources Council

The way we approach 2021 will set the foundation of our transformed future. .

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How Putting Culture First Helped One Small Business Grow During the Pandemic

Linkedin Talent Blog

Prior to joining EQRx as VP of talent branding and recruitment, I had my own talent brand consulting company, working with notable brands on strategies to attract the right talent. I was up for a new challenge in biotech, but had not anticipated the impact of a global pandemic on my new endeavor. Our company, EQRx, a Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company, had approximately 20 employees when the world started shutting down due to the pandemic.

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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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Succeeding in your job search Copy

Blue Octopus

The post Succeeding in your job search Copy appeared first on Blue Octopus.

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In The Era of Covid-19, Are We Losing Our Company Culture?

Harger Howe Recruitment

2020 was a tough year. Companies of every shape and size were forced to make some very challenging decisions and just about any sense of normalcy seems a distant memory. Even now, workers are uncertain about their futures and the work-from-home environment is not a fix-all solution. In fact, in many situations, it can cause significant stress and anxiety.

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Recruitment Optimization: Making Things Easier

RChilli

Have you ever noticed that when a role opens in your company, how long does it typically take to fill? On an average, it should take only one week. But without technology, the process consumes months to fill a given position and costs heavily.

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Conquer the Skills Gap: How to Quickly Upgrade Your Reskilling Strategy

TalentCulture - Recruiting

The pandemic has only accelerated our ever-growing skills gap. However, there’s a silver lining to the chaos we’ve experienced this year. People have proved to be remarkably resilient. People are […]. The post Conquer the Skills Gap: How to Quickly Upgrade Your Reskilling Strategy appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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A Look Back on ClearCompany in 2020

ClearCompany Recruiting

2020 was a hectic year. Organizations were forced to adapt quickly to the global pandemic, and many businesses transitioned into fully-remote workplaces. While these changes presented their fair share of challenges, ClearCompany remained committed to our goals of delivering best-in-class solutions to support our client’s hiring, retention, and engagement needs.

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10 Recruitment Terms You Must Know

RChilli

The recruitment industry has seen a complete transformation in the last few years. If you work in or are related to the recruitment field, you should be aware of the recruitment terms.

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Leadership: Embracing Paradoxes

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The word “paradox” probably conjures up notions of logical puzzles and brain-straining impossibilities—the types of concepts most would want to keep far away from a business and its leaders. But paradoxes do exist, and some suggest that learning to understand and embrace them may be beneficial for developing leadership skills and creativity. Source: LightField Studios / shutterstock.

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5 Tips To Find The Perfect Replacement In Days

Yoh

We are currently in a hiring generation where time and speed are critical elements of business success. Many HR stakeholders argue that the top talent pool is shrinking , even though the global population is growing.

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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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Welcome, 2021. Let’s Talk …

Recruiting Daily Advisor

While watching college football over the holidays, I was treated to a humorous Match.com commercial titled “A Match Made in Hell.” The short plot went like this: Satan (a highly costumed actor portraying the lord of the damned) had gone on the site and filtered out “joy, happiness, toilet paper, and reason and met his match.” His match was a woman named “2020,” and love was in full bloom.

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3 Common Misbeliefs About Video Interviews

Undercover Recruiter

As someone who is new to the HR industry, I’ve been spending the past month familiarising myself with commonly-used recruitment processes and technologies among HR professionals and hiring managers. A particular process that sparked my interest was video interviewing as a means to screen candidates and determine their suitability for an available role.

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Using Zoom Improperly Can Leave Trade Secret Protections at Risk

Recruiting Daily Advisor

With many employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers have depended on Zoom or other web-based video conferencing tools to conduct meetings online. Users can choose to record sessions, collaborate on projects, and share or annotate on one another’s screens. Unfortunately, the process also can open the possibility of trade secret theft if employers fail to use the platform’s privacy and security features, as a recent Delaware case demonstrated.

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How to measure for future potential when hiring

career.place

Future potential. How often have you been asked to search for it and prize it in future employees? How often has it made it into mantras and best practices of talent organizations? How often is it seen as some key ingredient to the future dominance of a team, department, or organization? And yet, how often has it crossed the boundary from a lofty construct defined only by a feeling (i.e.

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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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3 software solutions for remote workforce management that will make you more agile: Transformify, SAP Fieldglass and Zoho

Transformify - Recruiting

In today’s world, companies need to adapt fast to the ever changing environment. To become more agile in the market, a flexible employee structure is a huge advantage. Remote work has been gaining popularity over the years and the coronavirus pandemic gave it a good boost. Hiring trends show that outsourcing is here to stay and remote work has become rather mainstream.

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 4, 2020

Hundred5

What a year! So many changes in both the product and our company as a whole. We’ve rebranded, added whole new views and functionalities to Toggl Plan, had some awesome new team members join us, changed the way we structure our work and much more. Read on to learn about the last months of 2020 in Toggl Plan, everything we’ve done and learned. The Product.

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10 Best Practices in Recruitment CRM

Manatal

A recruitment customer relationship management or CRM is now an integral part of ensuring business success. More than ever, customer satisfaction is becoming highly regarded. When you keep your customers happy, it establishes brand loyalty and retention by as much as 27%. Since both positively affect a company’s profitability, utilizing the tool has become a widely-used management strategy.