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Cut Down on Costly Mistakes with These 7 Recruiting Strategies

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Mistakes businesses make when recruiting can be costly and damaging. Consider the findings from one CareerBuilder survey : The average cost of one bad hire is $14,900. Many companies simply cannot afford these errors. Source: Palto / Shutterstock. Darren Bounds, CEO of Breezy HR , offers this example to help uncover the cost of a bad hire: When a great hire occurs, money is being saved in onboarding and retention costs.

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In this week’s list of must-read articles for talent professionals, you'll get a closer look at the difference between the five distinct generations that now make up today's workforce – and why some companies are hiring generational consultants in an attempt to make everyone happy. Also on our least, read Gretchen Carlsona and Roxanne Petraeus' perspectives on what companies should be doing to address sexual harassment at work, learn how diversity is tied directly to profitability, and get tips

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New Email Template Option & Enhancements for Messaging Candidates

Glassdoor for Employers

Made with busy employers in mind, Glassdoor released a new email template option and new enhancements to Candidate Messaging , the easiest way to directly communicate with candidates for jobs on Glassdoor. In addition to the 7 ready-to-use email templates—from tricky Rejection emails to Phone Screen Invites, Interview Invitation and an Offer Letter template—employers can now create Custom Email Templates to reflect their own unique brand voice and recruiting workflows!

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How to Staff a Franchise Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

SmartRecruiters

When it comes to chain and franchise restaurants, one of the most important ingredients for business success is a dependable team. Running a franchise restaurant is more than creating great food, it’s creating an enjoyable environment that consumers will rave about. This is achieved by cultivating a welcoming ambiance, a layout restaurant staff can easily navigate, and coordinating a well-organized team.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Keeping Staff In The Loop About Management Changes: 12 Strategic Approaches

Forbes Human Resources Council

What happens in the upper echelons of a company can sometimes be obscure to workers lower down the hierarchy. Here's how to improve communication practices so you can keep employees abreast of new developments at the managerial level.

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The Importance of Internal Mobility

Jobvite

Internal mobility is essentially a re-hiring of an existing employee. It involves an employee's change of role within an organization, which includes a change in job function.

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How to Recruit Against Silicon Valley Startups

WizardSourcer

Good talent is hard to find, but when it comes to tech positions, it is markedly more challenging. For quite some time, there has been a shortage of tech workers, and the number of job openings to available talent is being thrown even more out of balance now that businesses are motivated to invest in technology. According to Spice Works, 44% of businesses increased their technology budget for 2020.

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The Importance of Internal Mobility

Jobvite

Internal mobility is essentially a re-hiring of an existing employee. It involves an employee’s change of role within an organization, which includes a change in job function or switching from one unit or department in a company to another. Internal mobility ultimately gives an employee the freedom and flexibility needed to advance in a job and makes the employee happier and more productive.

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Goal Setting: Taking a SMART Approach in 2020

The Jacobson Group

As we near the end of February, it’s an ideal time to reflect on your department’s 2020 goals and expectations. Has your team made any progress toward achieving those goals? Are you on track to hit milestones? It is easy for employees to get distracted by smaller, but perhaps more pressing, tasks throughout the workweek. If your longer-term goals have been moved to the back burner, you’re not sure how to measure your team’s progress, or you’re not aligned with enterprise-wide initiatives, it’s t

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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How Organizations Can Combat Change Fatigue In The Next Decade

Forbes Human Resources Council

How can organizations lead through disruptive change when there is so much unknown?

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Video: 6 Recruiting Trends You Should Know In 2020

Entelo

To understand today’s competitive hiring landscape, Entelo’s 2020 Recruiting Trends Report examines the slight, but pivotal changes in the world of talent acquisition. We analyzed data from hundreds of recruiters to develop a set of recruiting benchmarks to help you assess your own company’s hiring performance. Here are 6 of the most important recruiting trends you should know in 2020 and how they should inform your recruiting strategy. 73% of recruiters report finding higher-quality candidates

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Levels Of Testing For IT Recruiters – Part 2

Recruiting Daily

In my previous post, I was talking about testing in general and understanding the difference between test position descriptions. Now, it’s time to learn a bit more about the levels of testing. I hope all of these topics I write about in these articles will help you to become better at your job, and […].

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Why Aren’t Dads Taking Parental Leave?

PowerToFly

It's not that dads are taking no parental leave; the NYT reported this week that 90% of fathers take some time off of work after the birth of their children. But they're not taking much of it: 76% of them are back to work within a week of their child's birth or adoption. The Times report highlighted that the majority of fathers take less than 10 days off before returning to work.

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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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What Is Employee Offboarding?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Employee onboarding is a fairly well-known concept: the set of activities that get an employee up to speed and ready to perform effectively when he or she joins an organization. Onboarding has many components that most of us are well versed in, but what about employee offboarding? Does your organization have a formal employee offboarding program? If yes, what do you include?

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How to create more belonging in the workspace

PowerToFly

We asked Ariana Moon, Recruiting Manager at Greenhouse, how she thinks we can create a better sense of belonging and truly inclusive workspaces. Hear her tips for how you can use the "in-between spaces" to create a more engaged workplace yourself, no matter where you are. Interested in joining their team? Check out Greenhouse's page on PowerToFly.

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Goal Setting as a Time Management Technique

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Regardless of intellect, education, or industry experience, every employee faces one very real and very concrete limitation: the number of hours in the day. Sure, we could theoretically add additional time at the start and end of an already jam-packed day, but that will only go so far, and sooner or later, it will lead to burnout. The key to maximum effectiveness isn’t necessarily to add more time to our days but rather to increase our effectiveness within the time we already have.

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5 Reasons Intelligent Automation is Crucial to Your Candidate Sourcing

PandoLogic

Are you taking advantage of all the automation you can in order to source candidates for open positions? Many time-consuming tasks for HR teams (like posting jobs on multiple job sites) can now be automated, freeing you from having to. The post 5 Reasons Intelligent Automation is Crucial to Your Candidate Sourcing appeared first on PandoLogic.

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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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Economic Reality Check: Is Your Independent Contractor an Employee in Disguise?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The traditional lines between contractors and employees are fading fast as outsourcing continues to gain popularity. The “gig” economy leads people to pursue freelance careers, working several jobs or maintaining a “side hustle.” Technological advancements allow more flexibility in where, when, and how jobs are completed, further blurring traditional distinctions between contractors and employees.

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Ask a Hiring Expert: How to Build a Hiring Process

CareerPlug

Editor’s Note: We have produced a brand new video to accompany this content. Just because you’re not an HR hiring pro doesn’t mean you can’t. Read More.

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Attracting More Women to a Career in Welding

Undercover Recruiter

Training as a welder can open up opportunities to work in a diverse range of sectors from construction and manufacturing to aerospace and petrochemical industries. But despite there being a demand for welding skills, women are still underrepresented in the profession. Skills gap There is currently a shortage of welders in Britain and the Migratory […].

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Why Healthcare Staffing Agencies Are Here to Stay

The Staffing Stream

America’s medical spending is on an inevitable rise. This statement is not very much of a surprise, partially due to the overall health deterioration of the country’s population. According to The Atlantic , the manufacturing industry had 7 million more workers than the healthcare industry at the beginning of the millennium. Today, healthcare surpassed two of the most prominent industries — manual production and retail.

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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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By the Numbers: February 21, 2020

BountyJobs

BountyJobs Bites. Top Professionals Most Likely to Move On. The Numbers: Recruiters, software engineers, and marketers are more likely to consider other job opportunities than other professionals. Recruiters are 115% higher than the national average to be open to unsolicited recruiting messages. Software engineers and marketers were second and third at 105% and 82% about the national average, respectively.

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New Merger Is Shaking Up the HR Tech Space

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Attention HR professionals using Kronos or Ultimate Software: You’re about to get more bang for your buck! The two companies recently announced they would be merging into one massive human capitol management (HCM) software solutions company. Upon closing, the combined company will have revenues of approximately $3 billion, more than 12,000 employees worldwide, and an enterprise value of $22 billion, with further plans for growth, including the addition of 3,000 employees over the next 3 years.

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10 Social Media Strategies Recruitment Firms Can Use For Faster Growth In 2020

TrackerRMS

Social Media — two little words for a vast network of people, companies, brands, and more that started as a way for people to keep in touch with old friends has evolved until it affects every facet of modern life. And recruitment is no exception. 73% of Millennials report finding their most recent job on social media. And 86% of people in their first 10 years of employment say they use social media to find work.

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Juggling Empathy as an HR Professional

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The workplace has seen a move towards the blending of employee’s personal and professional lives. At least, that’s what one HR professional has witnessed. Meet Sanja Licina, Future of Organizations at Globant , a company that specializes in digital and cognitive transformation. When she isn’t crunching numbers and running statistical models, and even when she is, she’s trying to better understand human behavior.

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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.