Mon.Jan 22, 2018

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Don’t Become a Failed Growth Statistic: Update Your Talent Acquisition for Success

Spark Hire

Two-thirds of the fastest growing companies fail. This statistic from the Kauffman Foundation’s report should startle you. With a high rate of failure, even your rapidly growing company could be at risk. Before you decide if it’s in jeopardy, it’s important to understand what factors are sending failure numbers through the roof. The most detrimental issue is the inability to reach a point of self-sustainment.

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How Will GDPR Affect Recruitment Marketing?

FireFish Software

This year, there will be some notable changes happening under GDPR that recruitment marketers need to be aware of – and even begin taking steps to adhere to – now. As always, the first crucial step towards compliance is to actually understand the changes (or at this stage, at least try to!).

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Just Keep Spinning – Contact the Elderly

Hireserve

The month of January is one that often evokes many different feelings for people. It can bring motivation to join a gym, optimism to try dry-Jan, or the drive to look for a new job. But for the older generation it can bring an overwhelming sense of loneliness. New data from Contact the Elderly suggests the loneliness epidemic is particularly acute in January, as the number of isolated older people who reach out for support increases dramatically after the festive period.

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What Makes Employees Happy at Work

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by Jobbio So much of our lives are taken up with work that at the very least we should be able to derive some pleasure or reward from it. A salary isn’t enough, our jobs should challenge us, motivate us and ultimately contribute to our overall happiness. But what makes people happy at work? View Article. What Makes Employees Happy at Work.

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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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How to Create Loyal Clients in the Staffing Industry

Avionte

This was originally posted on TCI Business Capital ’s blog. There Are Many Reasons to Seek Loyal Clients in the Staffing Industry. There’s efficiency. Having a client who comes back to you over and over again means you can spend less time seeking new contracts. There’s overhead. Certain numbers state that finding a new customer costs five times as much as keeping an old one.

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How to Invite a Candidate to Interview – A Guide to Email Templates

ConveyIQ

How to Invite a Candidate to Interview. Inviting candidates to interviews over email can be a tricky game. While you may want to send as many invitations out to qualified candidates as possible, that lends to sounding like an impersonal robot. Too much personalization, though, and we’re talking hours and hours spent on just inviting candidates to interview over email.

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Is this the craziest reason that a temp ever got fired?

Greg Savage

Every recruiter has a crazy recruiting story. I have hundreds. Bizarre recruiter behavior. Shocking client manners. Fee shocks. Massive self-inflicted stuff-ups. But somehow candidate stories are often the best. This one only happened a few weeks ago. And I was in the room at people2people Sydney when the client called with the news. It’s not […].

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How to Spot a Rockstar Recruiter

Recruiting Daily

Ask your investors and Board members. Ask other CEOs. But don’t pick from a Google listing. You are outsourcing a crucial function. How can you find a Rockstar candidate unless you find a Rockstar recruiter? You need a recruiter who knows what they’re doing. Your recruiter should have a methodology and a high standard of […].

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Special Game-Day Presentation: A Guide to Staying on Your Candidate Experience Game

HireRight

The Big Game is coming February 4! And just in time, HireRight offers five great tips to keep you on your game and help ensure the best candidate experience AND the finest background check process. Don’t get thrown for a loss - put HireRight on your Special Teams and score big! The post Special Game-Day Presentation: A Guide to Staying on Your Candidate Experience Game appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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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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Shift Manager job description

Workable

Post this Shift Manager job description template to job boards and careers pages to attract qualified candidates for your restaurant. Shift Manager responsibilities include: Delegating tasks to restaurant staff and supervising their performance. Maintaining a fully-stocked inventory and ordering food supplies, as needed. Managing dining reservations.

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3 Benefits of Using International Compensation Planning Software

HRsoft

For multinational corporations, having international compensation planning software is an absolute must. Compensation planning is complex enough to manage without factoring in differences from one country to the next. As the Society for Human Resource Management ( SHRM ) states, international compensation “has many moving parts and is difficult to standardize.

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The ultimate list of recruiting blogs you must follow

Recruiter Flow

As a busy recruiter, you are probably wondering is it even worth your time to read “recruiting blogs”? You are intent on executing the latest sourcing hack (talking of sourcing hacks, do you know the latest way to source developers from stack overflow), reach… The post The ultimate list of recruiting blogs you must follow appeared first on Recruiterflow Blog.

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These 3 things will help to shorten your hiring process

WebRecruit

Few things that your company will ever do are as important as getting the right staff on board. It’s therefore hardly surprising that recruitment can be a longwinded process at times. But that’s no good. Every delay can heighten the risk that top candidates simply decide to look elsewhere – so what things will help to speed up your firm’s hiring process in 2018?

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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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Monthly U.S. Unemployment & Wage Report - January 2018

Source2

What is U.S. Unemployment Rate for December 2017? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the U.S. national unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) for December 2017 was 4.1%. This represents no change for the last quarter, but is an overall decrease of 0.7 from the beginning of 2017.

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Sourcing Methodology Part 4 – Enhancement!!

Recruiting Blogs

This is part 4 of the Methodology, Enhancement. In part 3 we talked about Scraping, now that we have that done it’s time to Enhance the results. For the purposes of this methodology Enhancement means finding more info, such as; emails, phone, social sites, etc. Obviously, there are many methods to enhancement. For example a boolean string “persons name” (email | phone | Cell | contact) will find some of the data that qualifies as enhancement.

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Anaplan Fuels Aggressive Growth With Automated Recruiting

Entelo

As one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the Bay Area, Anaplan is a leading platform provider connecting data, people, and plans across businesses. The company aims to empower its customers to plan, collaborate and act in real time with easy-to-use applications to solve complex planning challenges. Innovative technologies require innovative technologists to build them, and Anaplan meets this challenge for companies all over the world.

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Recruitment And Staffing Market Report Till 2024 | Latest Trends, Growth & Forecast Analysis

Recruiting Blogs

The Recruitment And Staffing Market Research Report provides Industry analysis and evaluation of the current & prospective Market Size, Share, Trend and Growth during the study period 2017-2024. The report on global recruitment and staffing market evaluates the growth trends of the industry through historical study and estimates future prospects based on comprehensive research.

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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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6 Massive Technology Trends To Keep an Eye on in 2018 (Infographic)

Social Talent

By now, the Christmas blues should be completely gone from your system with full service resumed. If your batteries aren’t fully recharged, I suggest you hurry as 2018 will be busier than ever! Technology is booming, and in this piece, we’re going to highlight what technology trends will govern the working space this year. In the past, we’ve talked about preparing ourselves for the future of work and getting to grips with what skills every employee will need to thrive in the

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The Ultimate Writing Guide for Grads: Resume Without Experience

Recruiting Blogs

Upon graduation, looking for work is the next step. For many, lack of work experience becomes a blockade as many companies will hire a person with work experience and a degree over a fresh graduate. When an employer seeks to fill a position, they require more than work experience from the candidate and here is where you need to impress. Personal attributes and accomplishments should be included in your resume as the employer wants to know you as well.

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How to monitor recruiting pipeline with Workable reports

Workable

In your mind, how do you visualize your recruiting process? A common way is to think of it as a pipeline that begins when candidates apply to your jobs or get sourced. It ends when you hire the best candidate. With this hiring pipeline view in mind, how can you keep track of hiring stages and all the candidates as they move from one stage to another?

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One of your key players just quit! What now?

WebRecruit

A valuable employee opting to leave your company is probably the last thing you need. Understandably, you may be disappointed or even aggrieved at their decision. Ultimately, though, life goes on, and you need to have a plan as to what happens next. Ask any number of recruitment companies , and they’ll tell you that your life in the aftermath of a key worker leaving will be made so much harder if you fail to steady the ship in their wake.

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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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How to track time to hire metrics with Workable

Workable

How efficient are your hiring teams? How quickly do they make decisions and how long does it take them to spot the right candidate? These are questions you can answer by tracking the time to hire metrics. Time to hire can be defined as the time elapsed between engaging candidates and hiring them. This metric refers to the number of days from when your eventual hire applies or gets sourced to when they accept your job offer.

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Hire18 Speaker Interview: Tigran Sloyan

SmartRecruiters

Looking to improve your coding, find a job, and have fun all at the same time? Well, a Bay Area CEO and founder has the tool for you: CodeFights. Founded in 2014 by Tigran Sloyan, CodeFights is the startup behind an addictive game which allows coders to test their skills and connect to employers quickly, easily and, perhaps most revolutionary of all, enjoyably.

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The Holistic Brand: Blurring the Line between Employer Brand and Consumer Brand

JWT Inside

We all know the importance of branding. It shapes perceptions about a company or organization by telling an individual story or making a promise. But when you think about an employer brand and a consumer brand, often those stories are different. They each represent a company in a unique way, targeting different audiences for separate reasons, right?

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Recruiting Startup Of The Year Nominee: Journey

SmartRecruiters

Who said assessment couldn’t be fun? New recruiting startup Journey certainly thinks it should be, having developed an efficient, engaging and reliable way to test the soft-skills of your candidates. Meet the companies vying for the title of Recruiting Startup Of The Year (RSOTY) at Hiring Success 18 , in San Francisco, March 12-14. Your vote determines which six are flying to California to pitch their ideas to 1000+ Talent Acquisition leaders and puts them in the running for the grand prize.

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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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Company policies checklist for new hires

Workable

Do’s and don’ts in the workplace. Appropriate behaviors. Their obligations and rights. Consider giving new hires an employee handbook , either in digital or physical format, where they can find details about all policies in one place. Send this handbook to employees before they start so that they can read policies at their own pace. To ensure new hires understand and follow all your policies, be available during their first days to answer questions they may have.

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Hire18 Speaker Interview: William Tincup

SmartRecruiters

There is no shortage of pros willing to wax lyrical on the latest developments in HR tech. According to RecruitingDaily President William Tincup, however, what’s more interesting is what they’re not telling us. As head of the number-one source of HR news on the net, William Tincup straddles the confluence of HR and tech, delivering daily updates to an eager audience looking to get a grip on the constantly shifting world of recruiting.

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How Layoffs Affect Glassdoor Reviews

Recruiting Blogs

It’s a feeling like no other. After months of meetings, projections, and gut-wrenching stress, the decision has been made: your company needs to lay people off. You sit in with the managers as one by one, employees are given the hard news, watching them try to keep a brave face as their world shatters. Layoffs suck. Whether the people you’re laying off are in the office next door or across the country, the results are the same: your company’s decision is taking away somebody else’s livelihood.