Wed.Sep 06, 2017

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Talent Innovation Summit Countdown: Learn New Strategies to Score Recruiting Resources

Lever

It's not always easy to decide you absolutely need an applicant tracking system. Maybe your team is too small; maybe your money would be better spent elsewhere; maybe “later would be better.” Eventually, though, you realize just how much it would revolutionize your day-to-day. You see, for example, that it would instantly spare you the agony of juggling your email, a messy spreadsheet, Slack, and Google calendar all at once.

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Flexibility is Key to Landing Your Next Top Hire

JazzHR

You might not know it, but flexibility at work is quickly becoming one of the most important factors affecting people’s decisions to accept a job offer. In fact, according to a recent survey from ManPowerGroup Solutions, 40 percent of job candidates cite schedule flexibility as one of their top three considerations when it comes to making career choices.

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The right way to do an intake meeting with your hiring manager

Talent Hero Media

Intake meetings are dreaded by recruiters and hiring managers alike. It’s generally a download of all the information that is already there in the job. The post The right way to do an intake meeting with your hiring manager appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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An interview with Tracy Lee: How I went from Entrepreneur to Tech Evangelist — the Yellow Duck Podcast

Devskiller

For all those interested in front-end frameworks and development, this podcast is going to be a real treat. Meet Tracy Lee. Google Developer Expert, JavaScript developer, and serial entrepreneur. In this episode Marcin Kraszewski talks to Serial Entrepreneur and Software Developer Tracy Lee. Tracy discusses front-end development with a focus on React and Angular, what she’s currently working on, her views on gender equality in the workplace, and her experiences as an entrepreneur.

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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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10 Fun-filled Activities to Help Boost Team Morale

RecruitLoop

Implement some of the following fun-filled suggestions into your staff gatherings to make teamwork and cooperation amongst coworkers an enjoyable prospect.

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Augmented Intelligence: Rise of the Recruiters

Allegis Global Solutions

Like most people, no matter where I go, I’m pretty much always connected. No matter where I’m at, no matter what I’m doing, me – and my devices – are always on. Technology has become such an omnipresent part of my life – our lives – that it’s pretty easy to take this ubiquity for granted. But when I think about tech, I realize that I’m really thinking with my computer.

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10 Things Employers Should Do In the Wake of Hurricane Harvey

Glassdoor for Employers

Everything you need to think about as a company when natural disaster strikes.

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Your Candidates Deserve Better #SmartStart

SmartRecruiters

Close your eyes and think about the last time you applied to a job. Was it hard? Were you frustrated? Did you consider dropping off at any point? If you answered ‘yes’, you are not alone. Over 74% of jobseekers get frustrated and drop off due to application length and/or complexity.* Truth is, being a jobseeker sucks! It’s hard to find the right job, it takes too long to apply to that job, and then you wait in what is known, across candidates, as the “resume black hole” B

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6 Recruitment Marketing Metrics You Need to Start Measuring

Beamery

Traditional metrics around cost and time to hire are helpful indicators of recruitment marketing effectiveness, but they don’t tell the whole story. Recruitment marketing metrics are actually pretty different. In fact, they’re actually pretty similar to the ones that marketers use to track and analyze their activity. Typically, it takes a long time to measure hiring success – for example, you need a big dataset to be able to understand cost and time to hire accurately.

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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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The Cost of Conflict in the Workplace and What to Do About It

Traitify

The American Institute of Stress states: “Numerous studies show that job stress is far and away the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades.” In fact, a recent study out of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that 43% of a sample of retail workers say that their job has a negative impact on their stress levels, eating habits (28%), sleeping patterns (27%), and weight (22%).

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3 Places Developers Want to See Your Employer Branding Content

Stack Overflow

Developers want to have an idea of what it’s like to work at your company before they spend their time interviewing, and creating great employer branding content is an easy way to make this happen. Here are three main places where developers go to see the employer branding content you’re creating. How many of these are you using right now to post your employer branding messaging?

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Diversity Hiring and Inclusion: From My Experience

Recruiting Daily

I cringe at the notion that diversity is an economic driver, or that in order to grow a successful company you must hire diverse candidates. Hiring a diverse candidate is a little bit like peeking through the glass at your local zoo and pointing out the that the lion would make your company recognized as […].

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Why We’ve Moved Beyond Culture Fit (and You Should, Too)

Entelo

There’s a common phrase in recruiting that now makes me shudder when I hear it. The phrase in question? Culture fit. “What’s so wrong with culture fit ?” you ask. Culture fit has become code for “do I get along with this person,” which, in turn, often really means "is he or she like me?" That’s a problem because we shouldn’t base hiring decisions on how much we like people or want to hang out with them.

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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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Keeping Remote Employees Engaged

FlashPoint

Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash. Recent trends show that some companies seem to think working 100 percent remote is no longer effective. In 2013, Yahoo eliminated the work-from-home perk that allowed employees to work outside the office. Earlier this year, IBM’s remote employees were recalled back to the physical office in the hopes of increasing performance.

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The 4 Skills That Will Help You Stand Out as a Recruiter

Linkedin Talent Blog

Unemployment is at a 16-year low and job openings are at a record high, according to recent statistics from Bloomberg. While this is great news for recruiters, it also means that competition for top talent is through the roof. That super salesperson or stellar software engineer you’ve got your eyes on is probably being courted by more recruiters than you can shake a stick at.

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Can science help you write a better job description?

Talvista

Are you sick of getting the same kind of applicant? Writing a great job description is extremely important if you want to attract a broad range of quality candidates. As anyone who’s tried to write one can attest, it’s also really hard work. Can science make it easier? We already know from a first-of-its-kind study from researchers at Duke and the University of Waterloo, that very subtle language choices can have a big impact on who applies for a job.

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5 Reasons Pre-Employment Assessments Are The Bomb!

The Hire Talent

You already know that pre-employment assessments will save you money and wasted time and heartache from hiring the wrong person, and all kinds of other things, but did you also know that they’re good for… Custom Benchmarking Yes! We all have top performers in our organizations (hopefully) and we also might have some not-so-top performers.

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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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Check Out GE Appliances’ New Career Site, Powered by Phenom People

Phenom People

GE Appliances, is a leading consumer goods company known for designing and building the world’s best appliances. Also known for a large focus on American made products, GE Appliances has several modernized inventions such as self-cleaning ranges, ice and water dispensers, speedcook ovens and refrigerators that make coffee. To help in improving their candidate.

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How to Use Employment Branding in Your Recruiting Process

Top Echelon Contracting

You may be a top-notch recruiter, but you’re not a magician. To source and attract talent, you need to highlight your clients’ companies. Prospective candidates want to work for a business with a good reputation for treating its employees well.

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Find Great Talent with the Basics

Recruiting Blogs

Recruiting has become an increasingly important topic in top organizations. The competition for talent has grown more precise and far more intense over the last few years as companies recognize their advancement and growth depends entirely on recruiting the people necessary to implement their plans. How to find talented people, on the other hand, is a subject that is widely misunderstood, even among ostensibly experienced and capable executives.

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WhatsApp Preparing New App For Business Accounts

Social Talent

WhatsApp Now Building For Businesses. WhatsApp has taken its next step after fine-tuning their messaging service. What’s in store you ask? The messaging app is now planning to launch a separate app for directed at businesses. From here on, the new app will allow businesses and customers to communicate with one another. No doubt, this will strengthen relations for customers and businesses alike.

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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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No Relo

Recruiting Blogs

The number of Americans relocating peaked in……….ready for this………1985. Last year only 10% of people in the US moved. The problem with this is that people are not getting to where the jobs are. It’s not just that companies don’t want to pay for relo. That is certainly true and is a factor, but candidates don’t want to move. The average time spent in a given job has been getting shorter and candidates know this.

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Talentegy TxMatters September

Talentegy

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The Ultimate Guide to Recruiting With Social Media

Recruiting Blogs

by Travis Brown. It's easy to see social media as an overwhelming driver of irrelevant traffic. At least, it's easy to feel that way in many business sectors since it's often true. For recruiting, it can be even more difficult to grasp exactly how a social recruiting strategy might help. Don't worry! These social statistics will help wrap our heads around what platforms your candidates are on and how they're using them.

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WhatsApp Preparing New App For Business Accounts

Social Talent

WhatsApp Now Building For Businesses. WhatsApp has taken its next step after fine-tuning their messaging service. What’s in store you ask? The messaging app is now planning to launch a separate app for directed at businesses. From here on, the new app will allow businesses and customers to communicate with one another. No doubt, this will strengthen relations for customers and businesses alike.

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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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5 Ways to Reach Millennial Candidates Who Want to Contribute Their Best

Recruiting Blogs

by Emily Ceskavich . When interviewing a millennial, it’s tough to gauge exactly who you have in front of you. Are you sitting at the table with someone who feels entitled to rewards, but will lose the willingness to work for them at the first sign of a road bump? Or have you uncovered a diamond in the rough whose beliefs translate into a strong work ethic and professional drive toward ambitious goals?

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Technology Should Enhance the Candidate Experience

SmartSearch

A great ATS should enrich the candidate experience — here’s how. Has your company’s online Career Center become the much-dreaded “black hole” that seems to suck candidates away into oblivion? That’s clearly the last thing you want for anybody, especially for someone interested in learning about opportunities at your company. If you’re utilizing an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), you could well be using a sub-par one or, not taking advantage of the many valuable, candidate-friendly options and o

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The All-in-One Guide to Your Best Interview Process Yet

Breezy HR

From screening resumes to sending an offer letter, here’s eveything you need to structure and streamline your interview process Remember back when you weren’t responsible for hiring candidates? You heard terms like structured interview or offer letter and thought, “Meh. Sounds simple enough,” right? Now that you’re on the front line — maybe as a hiring manager, maybe as a new recruiter, or maybe on a small startup team where everyone plays a key role in hiring –things look a little less peachy.