Wed.Apr 18, 2018

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Thinking on AI: What do truck drivers and recruiters have in common?

Recruiting Daily

Per a recent Gallup survey, 7 in 10 Americans believe AI tech will eliminate more jobs than it creates. The numbers are all over the map based on different research, but many land within the 47-54% range of all current jobs being automated out. What does that mean for a recruiter? Is this the beginning […].

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Moms at Work - An Untapped Talent Pool

ApplicantPro

As I travel around the country, I hear the same thing from most business owners, managers, and HR professionals. There just aren't enough qualified people to fill their open jobs. They know that they could improve their applicant flow by increasing pay rates above their competitors, but that would most likely only be a short term fix. Over time their competitors would raise their pay rates to match, and the shortage would return.

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4 Creative Ways Recruiters Are Leveraging Facebook

Glassdoor for Employers

Recruiters use a myriad of methods to renew and replenish their talent pipeline. And, as the way people interact has evolved, so.

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How to Compete with Google and Facebook for Talent

Proactive Talent

Every firm wants to hire the best candidates possible for their firm, yet many firms fall short of this, by making a few mistakes during the hiring process. Hiring culturally fit employees who are willing to say or do anything while at work to agree to the founder’s values is just one of these many mistakes. Hiring employees from elite socio-economic backgrounds as compared to raw and pure talent from diversified backgrounds is another one of the common yet fatal hiring errors done by most firms

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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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Agile TA: The Next Generation Operating Model for Talent Acquisition

Symphony Talent

Constant innovation is a fundamental requirement for companies to stay relevant, yet few have the foresight to prioritize this effort. One often overlooked function within a company is. The post Agile TA: The Next Generation Operating Model for Talent Acquisition appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Watch the Finalist Pitches for Recruiting Startup of the Year Take the Main Stage at Hiring Success 18

SmartRecruiters

From 50 initial competitors, five of the most innovative recruiting startups in the world were chosen to pitch it out on the main stage of Hiring Success. Watch now! The first annual Recruiting Startup of the Year competition from Smartrecruiters saw fledgling recruiting companies from Germany to Washington State battle it out on social media to see who could leverage their networks for the most votes, to be one of five finalists to make their pitch to the 1,000+ TA leaders and executives at Hir

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5 Personal Goal Setting Tips For Business Owners

RecruitLoop

Editors Note: This guest post by Nick Hedges originally appeared on LinkedIn. His opinions are his own. Now is as good a time as any to set some intentions on how you are going to feel fulfilled at work as a business owner. Instead of making resolutions that we all know in our personal sphere we never keep […].

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3 Steps U.S. Companies Need To Take To Comply With GDPR

Crelate

May 25 th will be a critical day across the globe as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR officially goes into effect. As we touched on in our previous article , the GDPR is European Union legislation that will enforce more stringent regulations on how business collect, process, and store the data of European citizens. But any business—in any country—that handles the data of European Union citizens will need to comply.

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Recruitment Marketing: What are you Measuring ?

Beamery

We keep saying that the old recruiting metrics don’t work for the new recruiting world. Specifically, traditional metrics are not enough to measure recruitment marketing performance, and help companies use their resources in the most efficient way to build an employer brand and attract the best candidates. We use the old metrics to measure new practices.

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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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How I Lead a Diverse Team at Octagon

Glassdoor for Employers

Diversity & Inclusion continues to be an often discussed topic and priority in many areas of life. We see it play out.

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“To be” OR (NOT “to be”) on LinkedIn

Boolean Strings

If we search on LinkedIn without the keywords , all it shows is the “close” network, which is our 1st and 2nd connections. Want to search without keywords but include all results? Then the trick is to use keywords but make the search non-restrictive. Here is an example string that finds everyone: “to be” OR (NOT “to be”).

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Building Personalized Career Experiences for the Modern Workforce

TalentGuard

Building Personalized Career Experiences for the Modern Workforce. From Insurance to Financial Services to Information Technology, turnover is a critical problem facing organizations. Unhappy employees leave their companies to find new opportunities where they can develop their career, learn new skills and take part in exciting and challenging work.

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Overcoming Today’s Candidate-Driven Market

The Jacobson Group

No longer just an ominous warning for the future, the long-predicted war for talent is here. The insurance industry—in particular—has been hard hit by the emerging talent crunch and insurers are now faced with more openings than potential professionals. The result is a candidate’s market.

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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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Moonlighting Weekly?—?April 18, 2018

Moonlighting

Blockchain to Fuel Growth of Trillion-Dollar Freelance Market. Leading source of cryptocurrency information, . Token Sale Update. Since launching Moonlighting four years ago, more than 625,000 freelancers across the United States have joined our mission to freelance on their own terms. While our mission remains unchanged, the potential benefits of blockchain technology have allowed our vision to expand beyond U.S. borders.

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Freelancing and Studying? Check out These Ideas to Get (and Stay) Organized in 2018

Transformify - Recruiting

Does this sound like you? You work as a freelancer and study at the same time. So, you go to class and listen carefully, writing notes on everything that the professor says. When it is time to do homework, you feel like you are reading another language. Still, you shove your head in the book and repeat the information over and over. You turn off the music and lock your roommate out.

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Eliminating These 3 Common Tools Will Disrupt (and Improve) Your Hiring Process

Linkedin Talent Blog

Hiring better people starts by disrupting the hiring process as we know it, and disrupting the hiring process starts by eliminating certain tools. It’s no secret that I consider psychological pseudo-tests like Predictive Index and DISC for assessing candidates as counterproductive, the use of behavioral interviewing as misguided and that the marketing of skills- and experience-laden job descriptions as ineffective for attracting the best and most diverse talent.

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How to Determine How Much to Charge Clients

Top Echelon Contracting

Setting rates for your recruiting services can be difficult and confusing. You must set your prices high enough to make a profit but low enough to maintain a steady flow of clients. So, how much do you charge in recruitment.

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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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Share Your Story at Talent Connect 2018

Linkedin Talent Blog

Talent Connect is where the world’s top talent leaders, key innovators, and influencers in the talent industry come together to problem-solve, build community and share best practices around the key challenges and trends shaping the future of work. So, if you and your team have done amazing things, we have just the stage – or rather stages – for you to share your story.

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Trouble Retaining Tech Talent? 5 Benefits will Keep Your Top People

Recruiting Blogs

How do you go about retaining tech talent when the turnover rate is aggressively high? That’s the question companies nationwide are asking. We’re at the point where some highly skilled IT professionals are being approached multiple times a week by tech recruiters , and many of those offers are too tantalizing to dismiss without consideration. Companies that manage to retain their top performers provide the proper incentive for them to stay.

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Skills Gap: How It Impacts Your Team & How to Solve for It

ClearCompany Recruiting

CareerBuilder recently released some unsettling news about the skills gap, and it’s not something that only affects one sector or industry. Before you think that this doesn’t necessarily affect your company, it should be noted that their findings suggest this is a challenge felt by everyone. Check out these highlights: 60% of US employers’ job openings stay vacant for 12 weeks or longer.

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Who Does That?

Recruiting Blogs

Incredibly, we’ve seen a couple of situations lately where a new hire walked off of the job after or even during the first day. One of the hiring managers asked, “who does that?” The answer, of course, is someone that you don’t want to employ. Walking off the job without having a conversation with your supervisor says a lot. Character matters and it’s impossible to hide from.

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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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How to Help Your Employees Report Harassment

Undercover Recruiter

Despite a newfound openness to speaking out in the media, women in the workplace continue to keep quiet about the sexual harassment they experience or witness. The below infographic from talent management platform HiBob, based on a widespread 2016 survey, shows that 79% of UK women who experienced unwanted sexual advances did not report it to their employers.

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How to Make your First Day of Work Count

Recruiting Blogs

The excitement of anything for the first time is totally unexplainable. As someone who has been looking for an excellent job for a while and is finally getting to go to work, you must be extremely excited for your day. There’s a high chance you’re getting anxious about messing up. Don’t worry because our tips will help you make an impression on the first day that will leave your workplace in awe!

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How to Perform a Background Check

Newton Software

Conducting a Background Check. When it comes to hiring a prospective candidate, knowledge is power. While a resume may help employers identify desired skill sets and qualifications, it’s not until a background check is conducted that employers truly know who they’re dealing with. Even with skill and personality assessments, there are certain patterns of behavior that only a background check can reveal, granted the employer knows how to analyze and dissect the vast multitudes of data included in

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The Avature Conference as Experienced by a First-Time Attendee

Avature

In the last five years or so, I’ve attended in the neighborhood of 35 to 40 conferences. These include events of all sizes, formats, and subjects in at least six countries that I can remember. I’ve attended everything from small 10-person conferences to large conferences like SHRM, WebSummit, SXSW, and the 160,000 attendee behemoth Dreamforce. I’ve been to conferences that had only coffee and grocery store cookies as refreshments, and I’ve been events where the food was on par with Michelin Star

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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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The Golden Rule of Recruiting: Transparency Is Key At G&S Business Communications

ConveyIQ

G&S Business Communications is a public relations firm with a strong mindset toward strategy and action. The team currently leverages Convey for Interviewing to effectively and efficiently interview candidates to save time. Kaitlyn Curtis is a Senior HR Specialist at G&S Business Communications. She wasn’t necessarily hired to tackle recruitment, but given recent growth, her position has evolved to primarily include recruiting.

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