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7 Things You Absolutely NEED To Do Before You Start a LinkedIn Search

Social Talent

Abraham Lincoln, once said “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” Well, Abe sure did know what he was talking about because when it comes to sourcing, the very same principle applies! As tempting as it is to do a broad LinkedIn search to get the lay of the land for a position that you’re recruiting for, it’s far more beneficial to spend a bit of time ‘sharpening your metaphorical axe’, so that when it’s

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The Power of Positive Thinking!

FireFish Software

We all have our bad days, days when we feel like the world is falling down around our feet, and we’re losing control. If you feel bad days are becoming more and more common, then maybe it’s time to change the way you think.

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10 Sales Hacks the Pros Use to Maximize Every Prospect

Entrepreneur

Save time and iincrease your bottom line with these easy to use methods for imporving your sales numbers.

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The 5 Basics to Being a Better Leader

Undercover Recruiter

Some of us are natural-born leaders; the rest of us have to figure it out along the way. If your goal is to become a better leader in your office or your field, but you’re finding it a struggle, then maybe it’s because you’re focusing on the wrong things. It’s important to understand the process of actively developing leadership qualities. View Article.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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6% Growth in Temp Jobs Expected Through 2018

CareerBuilder

With plenty of resources available to research full-time job growth, it’s easy to forget about a job category that is key to filling in talent gaps and helping a company remain flexible in today’s marketplace – temporary and contract workers. According to new research from Emsi and CareerBuilder , labor market data shows that employers plan to add 173,478 temp and contract jobs from 2016 to 2018 – an overall increase of about 6 percent.

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How to Win Candidates Over (Before They Even Apply)

CareerBuilder

The recruitment process has become increasingly impersonal for both candidates and recruiters – and neither side is satisfied with the experience. It’s become clear that it’s time to get back to basics. The good news? As an employer or recruiter, you have a unique opportunity to change the experience candidates have with your company and your application process.

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Recruitment and selection: Personality is more important than skills?

TalentLyft

Assessing candidates' personalities during recruitment and selection processes is much harder than assessing their skills. Yet, personality is crucial for a good fit. Hiring is an exceptionally complex and very stressful process, which can result in engaging the best people or end up in a disaster. Often times, we focus more on people skills than the human factor.

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12 Ways to Bring Summer Into The Office #MondayMotivation

Undercover Recruiter

Summer is almost here; the days are getting warmer and longer, and flip flops are making their yearly comeback. If you’re stuck in the office with no sign of the beach (apart from your computer desktop image), then you’ll need to find some other ways of bringing summer into the office. Here are 12 simple ways to do just that: View Article. 12 Ways to Bring Summer Into The Office #MondayMotivation.

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Oh so you took a counter offer

Staffing Talk

" Counter offers are bad for those who take them. So say the 3rd party recruiters over on Recruiters Who Actually Make Placements (group invite required):KC: Commonsense tells us that unless you are in the irreplaceable 4-5% of job types, for the 95% of the rest of us, rejoining the fold after accepting an offer… [.

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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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Let Your Employees be Your Brand Ambassadors

BroadBean Technology

A company’s brand is one of its most valuable assets. A brand builds trust, gives confidence, helps develop relationships and is what defines a company’s identity in the marketplace. Driving a brand forward when it’s not universally recognised is hard work. Marketing a brand can become expensive and requires the skills of a range of creative professionals and specialists.

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What Are Background Checks Like in Other Countries? 5 Examples

HireRight

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to perform a background check outside the United States? Not surprisingly, background screening is a very different concept and process in other countries. As an employer, you might be interested in learning what this undertaking is like in five of the countries in which HireRight commonly conducts checks. The post What Are Background Checks Like in Other Countries?

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Ask These 4 Interview Questions to Screen for Emotional Intelligence

Linkedin Talent Blog

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is defined as having a balance of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. And, according to writers, academics, and researchers , it is one of the most highly desirable and rare to find traits in business. This question is, how do you find people that have high EQ? To find out, we surveyed recruiters for their best interview questions for sourcing emotionally intelligent hires.

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How to succeed when your employer doesn't care about your feelings

Staffing Talk

" A Breitbart writer rips on spoiled millennials h/t gotnews.comLisa Paquale nailed this post on five ways to succeed when your employer hasn't fallen for every 'how to treat a millennial' fad out there. I had a good laugh from it because just last week I interviewed a younger person who made it through… [.

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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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Introducing the First Collaborative Mobile Hiring Team App in the Industry

Jobvite

For many recruiters, the most difficult part of the job isn’t the long hours, the steep hiring quotas, or the countless interviews: it’s engaging with the hiring managers — and the entire hiring team — in the recruiting process. Things inevitably come up, hiring managers get busy, and it’s tough to coordinate schedules, get them to make the time for interviews, and gather interview feedback.

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Let’s Talk Social Media – INSIDE Out Loud Podcast, Episode 3

JWT Inside

These days,everyone’s using social media. Even companies are using it to connect with current and future employees. In this podcast episode, we’ll discuss strategies for both recruitment and internal communications, from defining culture to highlighting achievements and more. Check out the podcast here. The post Let’s Talk Social Media – INSIDE Out Loud Podcast, Episode 3 appeared first on JWT INSIDE.

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Introducing the First Collaborative Mobile Hiring Team App in the Industry

Jobvite

For many recruiters, the most difficult part of the job isn’t the long hours, the steep hiring quotas, or the countless interviews: it’s engaging with the hiring managers — and the entire hiring team — … Continued.

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How Facebook deceptively pumped Black Lives Matter as a “trending topic”

Staffing Talk

" In a surprise to no one, ex-Facebook workers attest to distorting its "trending topic" feed. From the Federalist:Not only did the company suppress news from conservative sources, but it also suppressed news about topics like Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was killed in 2013, Wisconsins John Doe probe into Scott… [.

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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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Success: What Achieves It? Hard Work or Talent?

Hire-Intelligence

I won’t cop out and say that you need a little bit of both. Certainly you require talent to achieve success, and few people succeed long term without hard work, but which contributes the most?

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Not feeling welcome is issue #1 for temps in Hong Kong

Staffing Talk

" Staffing Industry Analysts has a post up suggesting organizations would have better success with contractors if they made a better effort at making them feel welcome:When contractors are being treated differently from permanent staff, this often leads to low morale and higher attrition rate. With the increase in contract… [.

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7 Benefits of Hiring (and Placing) Millennials

Top Echelon Contracting

The struggle is real trying to figure out this new generation! Unless you’ve been living under a rock you have heard the negative stereotypes (and their lingo, which we will sprinkle throughout this article) about Generation Y, commonly referred to. The post 7 Benefits of Hiring (and Placing) Millennials appeared first on Top Echelon.

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"Soft jobs market" says WSJ?

Staffing Talk

" The WSJ has a headline post up today "Soft Jobs Market Clouds Outlook". This on the heels of Friday's weak jobs report.Any of you out there in the staffing industry seeing it that way?I sure don't. Employers have been pelting my south Minneapolis suburb with help wanted signs. And the rates posted… [.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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Mobile Job Seeking: Where are the applications?

Recruiting Blogs

70% of job seekers have never applied for a job using their mobile. 100% of job seekers save adverts on their mobile to look at later. 100% of job seekers use multiple devices when searching, researching and applying for jobs. Job seekers don’t trust their mobiles when applying for jobs, new research from Madgex has revealed. Two thirds of job seekers in the study have never applied for a job via their mobile, citing a lack of confidence in the device to do the job well.

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On sending beggars to a temp agency

Staffing Talk

" This doesn't work. I don't blame the guy for trying, but sending most beggars to a temp agency is like sending junior high school kids to play in an NFL game. Even if the skill were there, the stamina is not. Even the most mundane of industrial labor jobs requires you to stay alert for an entire… [.

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Create a list of candidates with email in a minute

Recruiting Blogs

eToggler is the fastest way to create list of candidates for recruiting, marketing and sales purpose. Just download eToggler extension from chrome store. Go to your linkedin account, do advance search as per your requirement. Open profile of your interest, there will be etoggler button just click on add to etoggler and click view results. eToggler extension will not only grab name,title, company name, location, linkedin url but also company email of contact.

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Hacks for Hiring Engineers

Glassdoor for Employers

According to Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America for 2016 report , “software engineer” ranks No. 9. 1 The jobs that make this list have the highest overall Glassdoor Job Score, determined by three key factors—number of job openings, salary, and career opportunities rating. Yes, it’s good to be tech. For an enterprise, keeping high-profile projects, bi-weekly sprints and quarterly releases on track is mission-critical to the business long-term.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Whats App Group Chat - How should Recruiter's approach different types of Candidates?

Recruiting Blogs

As fellow Talent Acquisitionist’s we’re ever ready to interact with Candidates we receive. At times while interacting with Candidates it becomes difficult to get the desired information we would like to know about them. This in turn hinders our task and we’re looking for new ways of interacting with them to extract the necessary information. In view of that we @SourcingAdda decided to assist Recruiters by directing them in the right way of interacting with Candidates and how they should behavi

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The Best Way To Onboard Your New Hires

Hoops

Here’s an important question to ask if you're involved in talent acquisition: do you have a system in place to connect recruiting to onboarding? Companies spend a significant amount of resources finding, screening, and hiring new employees, and then drop the ball when it comes to one of the most defining early experiences for new employees, onboarding.

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What You Publish Online Matters To Employers

Recruiting Blogs

Social trends are building each year, particularly around the most common platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. In its first quarter 2015 earnings announcement in April, Facebook revealed that it now has more than 1.44 billion monthly active users (up 13 percent year-over-year). Of those, 1.25 billion were mobile users, an increase of 24 percent year over year.