Tue.Feb 18, 2020

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How to Use Social Media to Engage Current and Future Employees

Yoh

From being used as a marketing tool to assisting with customer support, businesses can use social media in many helpful ways. It is arguably one of the best tools for a company in this digital age! But if your organization is only using social media to connect and communicate with clients, you're just scratching the surface. Social media can also be used to communicate with current and future employees effectively.

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Sourcing Tools to Recruit More Women in Tech

WizardSourcer

The facts are staggering, more diverse teams create better teams and projects outcomes. There’s many challenges for recruiting women in the tech field. I would say it needs a company needs to invest from the top down. Leadership needs to drive the change whether updating mission statements, to holding hiring managers accountable for hiring bias, to creating a more inclusive company culture.

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4 Tips to Boost Hiring Success in the Next 10 Years

Hireology

With a new decade under way, this offers your team the opportunity to measure your hiring success over the past 10 years and outline actionable steps to improve your hiring in the years to come. . In the 2010s, the hiring landscape evolved significantly. At the beginning of the decade, the U.S. was at the height of a recession and by the end of 2019, the economy was stronger than ever, with unemployment at a 50-year low.

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The Best Source for Qualified Applicants

ApplicantPro

As recruiters, we all look back on the times we could just post a job ad in a newspaper and suddenly we have stacks of ideal, qualified applications to sift through. If only that was still the case! Today, we all know that hiring is stressful, time-consuming and costly. So don't we all want to make the right hires, the first time?! You want applicants that are qualified.

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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 Are The Best Ways To Address AI Bias In Recruiting?

Lever

In theory, AI enables a more efficient, targeted, and cost-effective hiring process by helping companies sift through volumes of candidates. In reality, AI can promote biased hiring due to a reliance on unconsciously prejudiced selection factors like demography and language patterns. Specifically, Read More. The post What Are The Best Ways To Address AI Bias In Recruiting?

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Academic Partnerships Accelerate Acquisition of New Capabilities

Allegis Global Solutions

When it comes to producing talent with many of today’s top technical skills, higher education alone cannot keep up with demand, nor does it have the agility to deliver talent that meets rapidly evolving skills needs quickly. What many two-, four- and six-year institutions lack in speed, however, they make up for in their ability to deliver solid foundations of knowledge, credibility, and the opportunity for students to learn and adapt swiftly to market-driven learning resources.

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Three stories to get you excited about hiring through hypergrowth

Social Talent

Hypergrowth. It’s exciting, right?! More investment means more opportunity – and you can get on with building the business you’ve always wanted to build. But if you’re reading this, you’ll probably know the honeymoon period – like all honeymoon periods – has its end. Hiring through hypergrowth is a huge job and puts intense pressure on those who are responsible for making it happen.

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Employer-Paid Certifications Give Employers a Learning Advantage

Allegis Global Solutions

Paid training and certifications are a practical option for employers that need to keep their workers up-to-date on the latest skills in their fields. Certifications are anchored by an assessment process by which a participant proves proficiency in a certain skill. The assessment and certification typically fall under the responsibility of a standard-setting organization, established by a credible and recognized process for determining content.

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Coach your Clients on the Background Check / Reference Check Experience

NPA Worldwide

Recruiters and employers spend hundreds of hours to develop a shortlist and extend an offer to the top talent selected to fill a critical role. The last steps before candidate hire are the background check and the reference check. In today’s world, candidates have choices and are likely getting multiple offers and counteroffers if they are truly top talent.

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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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Boosting Skills in EMEA and APAC: Challenges and Opportunities

Allegis Global Solutions

The supply of talent with in-demand skills varies greatly across regions and countries. Demographics, culture, education systems, regulatory policies, and prevailing markets all influence how companies cultivate talent in their locations. Below is a sampling of skills and workforce development challenges being addressed around the world.

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10 Incredible Career Page Examples in 2020

Ongig

Your career page is your front door for digital recruiting. It’s where you catch the attention of candidates and engage them. The 2 top-level factors you want to consider are: Career page design. Career page content. These 2 factors are something all 10 career page examples (below) do a great job with. Let’s dive in: Aetna. Headline: “Transform health” grabs the candidate’s attention and is superimposed on an authentic and professional feature image.

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Top 3 Technical Recruiting Trends of 2020

CodeSignal

Recently, we conducted a survey asking technical recruiting professionals what trends they anticipated for 2020. Read the full coverage on this topic here. We summarized the top three technical recruiting trends they suggested. 1. Departure From Having Rigid Requirements. Whether it’s requiring a college degree or a computer science degree, many organizations are moving away from having rigid requirements for their open opportunities.

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Maximize Redeployment Rates to Boost Your Staffing Agency’s ROI

Hire Vue

Being a quitter has never been easier. With salaries on the rise after a long awaited economic recovery, more and more workers are jumping ship to take advantage of better pay. And who could blame them? . Turnover rates have hit a 17-year high. Just under half of all workers are leaving in the first 12 months of the job, and over half of those are making their departures within a mere 90 days. .

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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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Soft Skills: Why Are They Important in the Workplace?

Professional Alternatives

Soft skills in the workplace are arguably just as critical as experience and skill. Some people might even say they are even more important – after all, you can teach technical skills. Soft skills, like communication, adaptability, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills – these are seen as more challenging to develop, according to our staffing agency experts.

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3 Big Ideas to Start Improving Your Candidate Experience #CandEx

exaqueo

Every organization should have a true understanding of the candidate experience journey from the candidate's perspective, and a strategic plan to bring the best experience to life.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Game-Changer for the Staffing Industry

The Staffing Stream

As unemployment remains low and talent remains in short supply, it continues to be critical to attract and retain talent. One sustainable way to ensure your organization attracts and retains top talent and clients is through corporate social responsibility programs. There are a number of considerations and implications to implementing corporate social responsibility that will affect its long-term effectiveness.

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Automated Business Designs Acclaims their 3rd National Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® Award

Automated Business Designs

Staffing and recruiting software provider wins distinguished national company culture award for 3rd consecutive year. CHICAGO, Illinois– Automated Business Designs (ABD), developers of Ultra-Staff staffing software, was named one of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2019. This prestigious honor is the third time that ABD has been recognized by the National […].

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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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Are you frustrated when looking for a job?

Media Staffing Network

For those of you that are 50+, are you frustrated when looking for a job? Do hiring managers ignore you or stop returning your calls when they see your work history? Or are you a manager that feels anyone over 50 can’t sell or be on-air anymore? In media, we have a huge number of age 50+ employees. When the US set 65 as retirement age, people were not living as long, didn’t have the health resources that are now available to enable people to live longer and be as productive later in life as in t

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How to Create an Effective Marketing Candidate Selection Strategy

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

When you consider the many steps in the recruitment and selection process, weeding out the bad candidates from your pool of applicants seems like the easy part. Once you’ve overcome the initial hurdle of attracting qualified candidates, oftentimes it’s choosing among the top three or four applicants that proves to be the biggest challenge.

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Top 3 Technical Recruiting Trends of 2020

CodeSignal

Recently, we conducted a survey asking technical recruiting professionals what trends they anticipated for 2020. Read the full coverage on this topic here. We summarized the top three technical recruiting trends they suggested. 1. Departure From Having Rigid Requirements. Whether it’s requiring a college degree or a computer science degree, many organizations are moving away from having rigid requirements for their open opportunities.

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11 Contact Center Hiring Challenges And How To Tackle Them

Harver

Contact centers often face high attrition rates, a lack of recruitment data, and other challenges. Overcome these and hire better with our tips!

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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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An Ikigai Approach To Managing Your People

Forbes Human Resources Council

By aiming for your “workplace blue zone” and adapting an ikigai-based approach, you can help your team to feel recognized, encouraged and connected.

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What Happens When White Women Become The Face Of Diversity

Talvista

February 18, 2020. Article originally posted on Forbes February 18, 2020 by Melissa Majors. Neuroscience tells us that our brains unconsciously prefer familiarity. The hiring process is, unfortunately, subject to the influence of these thoughts. Including a gender requirement, is the start of significant progress. However, women of color may be under considered due to intersectionality; the cumulation of difference as compared to those who hold the power (dominants).

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Digitizing The Procurement Office: Be Bold And Think Big

Forbes Human Resources Council

Procurement will be one of the most impactful functions for digital native businesses of the future.

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When Men Schmooze, Women Lose — How Male Bonding Tilts the Playing Field and Hurts Business

Linkedin Talent Blog

New research suggests that bigger paychecks and smaller restroom lines are not the only advantages that men have over women. Men get promoted more quickly than woman, and a recently released paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research entitled “ The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap ” pointed to male bonding as one of the causes for this disparity.

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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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EasyHire.me Interview Transcription is Now Live!

EasyHire

The EasyHire.me team is thrilled to announce the launch of interview transcription! With interview transcription, employers will now see subtitles when playing back on-demand interviews. This feature is available as an option for Standard and Enterprise plans. Key benefits of transcribed interviews include: Increased Accessibility for Hiring Teams. Reduced Language Barriers in Global Hiring.

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Top 5 Features of a Performance Appraisal System

Recruiting Blogs

Are you still following the old methods of performance appraisal system? In this digital-savvy age, you should opt for a technology-based modern performance appraisal system to sustain in the industry. The pen and paper approach and forced ranking are not in trend anymore, and it will not help you retain the talents or attract the millennial workforce. .

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S&P Global is committed to D&I

PowerToFly

S&P Global shared with us why they are betting on Diversity and Inclusion. They answered with knowledge about concise benefits that are direct consequences of increasing diversity and inclusion at the workplace. Whitney Rouse, Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Deirdre Cavanagh, Director of Talent Acquisition, expressed their views on the subject.