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What I Learned Writing 60 Job Posts in 60 Days

Katrina Kibben

These are the lessons I learned by speaking with over 100 practitioners about their job posts. The post What I Learned Writing 60 Job Posts in 60 Days appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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AI and Ghosting May Continue to Be Problems in 2019

Recruiting Daily Advisor

2018 brought about a number of hiring issues that seem to have carried over into the new year. One main issue that still remains is the low unemployment rate, making it more difficult for employers to find and retain top talent. While employers continue to find new ways to attract talent, there are two other issues to keep in mind when recruiting talent in the new year.

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3 Recruiting Tactics That Need to Make a Comeback

Spark Hire

There’s no more exciting time than when your company is growing. Your team creates positions to reach more customers and pursue new business endeavors. Right now, there’s also an unfortunate downside to expanding your organization: a lack of talent. In fact, 77 percent of companies planned to increase their workforce by at least 25 percent, per our 2018 Growth Hiring Trends report.

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3 Reasons Recruiters Are Struggling to Perform (and How You Can Help)

Social Talent

As a manager, it can be disheartening when somebody on your team is underperforming. Especially if you thought this particular person was going to be a rockstar. Before diving into the details it’s important to realise that it’s a common occurrence that 80% of your company’s crucial work is achieved by 20% of your staff. This 80:20 rule is called the Pareto Principle and can be applied to many areas of your business.

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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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Which Employees Should You Invest in? 3 Strategies on How to Make That Choice.

Entrepreneur

With unemployment low, you need to enrich and empower your company's existing leaders so they'll stick around. Here's how.

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3 Major Marketing Trends that Will Transfer to Recruitment in 2019

FireFish Software

Keeping on top of new marketing trends is extremely beneficial to recruiters, but not everything that comes out of marketing is going to be relevant to our industry, and it can be hard to predict which trends will stick and what will fade away. We’ve dug out the proven marketing golden nuggets recruiters can’t afford to ignore in 2019!

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Think Like a Marketer to Increase Awareness of Your Open Roles

Indeed

In today’s tight labor market, recruiters need innovative tactics to increase awareness of their open roles and reach the right candidates. So why not take a page from the marketing playbook? You’ve likely heard about the “talent pipeline.” In marketing, there is something similar: a customer journey “funnel.” But whereas a pipeline has the same width in all its phases (and can get blocked or overwhelmed!

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How to Prepare for a One Way Video Interview

Vervoe

The one-way video interview is on the rise : companies like Apple, Twitter, Google, and many more use a one-way video interview at some point in their hiring process. Some estimates have seen a nearly 30% increase in the use of pre-recorded interviews in the last year. While one-way interviews are a great time-saving tool for recruiters, they can be an awkward experience for the candidate.

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The Scariest Parts of the Hiring Process According to Candidates

SmartRecruiters

More than half of all candidates have major fears about the job hunt, learn the specific pain points and how recruiters can help. In a study, a recent study of 1,000 working professionals, CV library found that 55 percent are scared of key elements of the job hunt. While seeking new employment may always entail some level of pressure and anxiety, hiring teams can boost the candidate experience and better evaluate applicants by identifying the particular pain points, common to the process, and do

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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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Marketing Leftover Candidates

NPA Worldwide

If you’re a recruiter, you’re likely familiar with the term “leftover candidates.” These are the candidates that didn’t receive an offer from your client – there could be two, three, or more from each project. What do you do with them? If you’re like many recruiters, they sit in your database stagnating until the next time you have a similar search.

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3 Ways Technology Can Help Recruiters Assess Candidate Soft Skills

Recruiter

According to a Deloitte report, talent acquisition (TA) teams that use AI, predictive data analytics, and other advanced technology tools are more successful than those that don't. Despite this fact, the adoption of new technologies tends to proceed at a slower pace in recruiting relative to other aspects of a business. While technology can make outreach more efficient, decrease time to hire, and improve quality of hire, many.

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Retro Pay 101: Payroll Lessons From the Government Shutdown

Namely - Talent

The absolute worst feeling that a payroll professional can have is finding out someone didn’t get paid. While that stings for us, it’s even worse for the ones who wake up to an empty bank account on payday. Last week, roughly 800,000 federal employees experienced that due to a partial government shutdown. Eventually, most of these employees will be paid for their time.

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Defining Company Culture: It's About Business Performance, Not Free Meals And Game Rooms

Forbes Human Resources Council

Culture is the backbone of every organization and when it is well articulated and executed, employee engagement soars.

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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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Case Study: How Genpact Got More Out of Its Recruitment Marketing

Smartdreamers

Genpact has always prided itself on innovation. When the company spun off from General Electric in 2005, they were determined to spread the gospel of lean management across the globe, providing data-driven professional services help to a diverse array of businesses spread across the globe. Since then, they’ve only gotten more cutting-edge, incorporating AI and advanced analytics into their offerings as they've helped businesses to completely reimagine their established processes.

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Is ‘Job Ghosting’ On the Rise?

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Candidate and employee “ghosting” is a big thing right now. Based on the modern lingo of disappearing on someone you are seeing or met online, the unprofessional practice of ghosting current or prospective employers is a growing trend in which applicants, job candidates, and existing employees drop them like a bad date.

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How To Manage Mental Health Issues In The Workplace

Valuehire

Welcome to the first Hire Value Inc. blog post of 2019! On behalf of our entire team, we’d like to wish you a very happy new year in hopes that this one is your best yet. Of course, we’d also like to communicate that our team is dedicated to doing its part in helping your business succeed in 2019. Our recruitment expertise has helped many a Canadian business to thrive with the addition of vibrant and talented new team members who were a great fit for their companies.

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2018: A Guidebook Forward

Employment Technologies

HIRING AND TALENT ASSESSMENT. “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.” —Anonymous. Sample a group of business leaders about the key to building a successful venture, and they will tell you it’s about surrounding yourself with the right people. From that point, however, there are a plethora of trails to explore, starting with recruiting, pre-employment testing, interviewing (in person and virtual), hiring, onboarding, and development — each offering an ex

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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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Leader Needs and Preferences Are Changing. Leadership Development Must Keep Up.

FlashPoint

Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash. Millennial Leaders view leadership development differently than other generations. Each year FlashPoint explores upcoming leadership development trends and research to understand how we can better develop leaders. This year’s research showed important themes around developing leadership programs that lead to optimal results and a steady and ready pipeline of leaders.

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The Top 3 Challenges for Government-Sector Recruiting

Yello

1. An Aging Workforce. As a 2017 Politico analysis of the federal workforce points out, America’s government is getting old. Between retirement-age employees remaining on the job beyond their projected retirement dates and the myriad challenges of attracting younger workers to public service careers, the average government employee is becoming a lot more gray than the rest of the population.

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How to Invest Safely

Workland

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Gaining Executive Buy-in for Your Employer Brand

exaqueo

Organizations recognize the reputation of their employment experience matters more than ever. You may already be managing a strong employer brand, or, in the beginning stages of developing one. Either way, there is one thing you must have to be successful: buy-in.

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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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Matching Algorithm

Workland

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4 Things to Know When Hiring Freelancers and Contractors

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Freelancers now make up 35% of the U.S. workforce, and their numbers are anticipated to rise over the next few years. And more and more companies are beginning to rely on their expertise and labor. If you’re going to hire freelancers or contractors this year, here are four things you’ll want to know. 1. The Right Interview Questions to Ask. When interviewing freelancers, ask them about their schedule and current workload to see if they can meet your required project deadlines.

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Matching Algorithm

Workland

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Leader Needs and Preferences Are Changing. Leadership Development Must Keep Up.

FlashPoint

Photo by Dan Gold on Unsplash. Millennial Leaders view leadership development differently than other generations. Each year FlashPoint explores upcoming leadership development trends and research to understand how we can better develop leaders. This year’s research showed important themes around developing leadership programs that lead to optimal results and a steady and ready pipeline of leaders.

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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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How to Invest Safely

Workland

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LinkedIn Talent Insights Gives Staffing Firms the Edge They’re Looking For

Linkedin Talent Blog

Tight labor markets and competition for candidates. Soaring attrition. Increasing time to fill. Underdeveloped client accounts. Sounds like a recipe for recruitment indigestion. It’s a hard time to hire, for sure. Which is both the challenge and the opportunity for staffing agencies. Firms that can regularly and effectively deliver talent to clients in the current market will thrive.

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Matching Algorithm

Workland

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