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‘Exclusive’ candidates will double your billings

Greg Savage

Not long ago I wrote how ‘unique candidates’ are the future of successful recruiting. Indeed, recruiters talk a great deal about securing exclusive job orders (although few recruiters actually know how!) while we should really put equal focus on negotiating exclusivity with highly specialised, in-demand candidates. The rewards for doing so are juicy-sweet.

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10 Best Practices to Create a High Performing Sourcing Team (Infographic)

Social Talent

Sourcing candidates is one of an essential part of recruitment. You can’t rely on your ideal candidate seeing your job ad, many of the people you really want to interview are already working in another job aka passive candidates. This infographic on Sourcing Candidates originally appeared on the Beamery Blog – as you know we’re big fans of the Beamery crew and the recruiting gold they produce!

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How to Give Great Candidate Feedback

FireFish Software

I love recruitment, but in every hiring process there’s always one sticky point: feeding back to unsuccessful candidates. To help you do so without burning bridges, here are 4 tips for telling a candidate they’ve been unsuccessful….

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The Roundup: LinkedIn’s Head of Talent Solutions on Recruiting For Longevity

Social Talent

This week on The Roundup, we listen to some top advice from Jon Addison, Head of Talent Solutions UK on how to recruit for longevity. Make sure you join us for The Roundup every Monday, so you can catch up on the latest news in the recruitment industry. Recruiting For The Long-Term. Recruiting is a difficult skill to get right. What’s even more difficult, is to determine if your candidate will stay on for the long-term.

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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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Comment on How to Respond to Negative Glassdoor Reviews by My Homepage

Glassdoor for Employers

Yesterday, we hosted a webinar all about responding to negative Glassdoor reviews. Today, we’re answering all of your questions!|Yesterday, we hosted a webinar all about responding to negative Glassdoor reviews. Today, we’re answering all of your questions!

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10 Stats On Candidate Messaging Every Recruiter Should Know [Infographic]

Ideal

The war for talent has pushed the focus onto the candidate experience. A big part of candidate experience is candidate messaging. The “ candidate as consumer ” mindset combined with the rise of AI and automation has led to a lot recruiting tech investment for candidate messaging. Here are 10 stats about candidate messaging that recruiters need to know summarized in an infographic below.

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AI + Recruiting: Alexa, Find Me a Job

Symphony Talent

Hey Alexa: can you schedule my next appointment, order my favorite pizza and then find me a new job? Wait, what?? With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The post AI + Recruiting: Alexa, Find Me a Job appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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12 Questions You Should Consider Asking a Candidate During an Interview

RecruitLoop

In this post we highlight 12 questions that you should ask in an interview to obtain the necessary details that will allow you to choose the best candidate.

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How to Achieve Your Ideal Work Environment

Traitify

70% of workers in America are disengaged in the office - are you one of them? It’s hard to feel productive, involved in the company, and motivated when you aren’t regularly engaging with the culture of your office. Identifying your ideal work environment is a great start to changing that feeling. A work environment isn’t simply defined by the office size or space but also by the interactions with other employees, involvement of management, and communication expectations.

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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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The Drag of Hiring a Middle-of-the-Road Employee

The Hire Talent

Just when you thought ‘lazy’ and ‘unprofessional’ were among the list of the worst employee characteristics, it turns out that ‘mediocre’ is really the worst characteristic you can encounter AND one of the most challenging hiring mistakes you can make. Why? Because the mediocre employee is disengaged. In fact, a study by Gallup revealed that.

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Will Recruiters Bite When Your Email Address is Seriously Uncool?

Recruiting Daily

When I was 11, I collected rubber ducks, my favorite color was purple, and Blink-182 was trendy. So behold, my first email address — purpleduck182@yahoo.com. Tragically, this email address did not stand the test of time. You too have probably come to the realization that your email address from the early 2000s is no longer […].

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Is active sourcing outdated?

Bullhorn

Active sourcing is a hot topic for recruitment. Within this recruitment strategy, an organisation tries to actively get in contact with potential applicants and establish a long term relationship with talented candidates. This approach constitutes the opposite of the traditional, reactive ‘post & pray’ and … Read more. Het bericht Is active sourcing outdated?

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Collaborative hiring: How to improve teamwork and communication

Alongside

Here’s how collaborative hiring can help you make better decisions and why an ATS is key to efficient communication across your hiring team.

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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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“If You’re Not Good-Looking, You Can’t Work Here”

Phenom People

Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of buzz in the news about employers and their allegedly controversial hiring practices. It’s no surprise that bias, harassment, and other issues arise in the workplace, but more and more companies are gaining publicity for hiring only good-looking people. Of course, the legality around companies. Read More.

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How Eventbrite Recruiting Increased Its Response Rates by 20% with Fun, Authentic Content Marketing

Linkedin Talent Blog

When you’re shopping for a major purchase—a new phone, let’s say—chances are you don’t just compare features and prices. Yes, those things might factor into your decision, but let’s face it: you already have a pretty good idea of what your options are and you probably have a loyalty to certain brands. That’s the power of great marketing. And it’s something that recruiters don’t always harness—but they should, as Eventbrite’s Erin Momont and Mike Bailen argued at LinkedIn Talent Connect 2016.

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The Future of CSA Scores

HireRight

What the National Academies of Sciences CSA Recommendations Will Mean. The ability of the CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) scoring system to accurately portray the crash risk of each individual motor carrier is still in question, which has become of paramount importance to the trucking industry as more and more people -- bankers, insurers, shippers, plaintiff’s attorneys, to name a few -- are looking to CSA as the final word on the safety of the fleet.

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How to source on the lesser known sites!! Gitlab

Recruiting Blogs

Gitlab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features, using an open source license, developed by GitLab Inc. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying. .

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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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Learning From the Core Success of Apps in Other Industries

TimeSaved

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Step by Step Guide to Design Beautiful Careers Page

Recruiting Blogs

Companies tend to focus heavily on creating fantastic experience across web and mobile for their customers and partners but not so much on prospective candidates. Why is that? A shoddily designed careers page can give the impression that you probably don’t care about candidates and employees much. To deliver a path-breaking candidate experience, it often starts with designing a beautiful careers page. .

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The Worst Job Interview Questions

ExactHire Recruiting

Anyone who has interviewed for a new job has likely encountered an awkward moment or two. Some awkwardness, like there being no one at the reception area to greet you, is short-lived and can be overcome fairly easy. But sometimes the awkwardness is baked into the job interview, like when the hiring manager asks a candidate to name his “spirit animal.” In this post, we’ll focus on bad job interview questions (or cheesy ones) that can repulse top talent.

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Top 4 Ways to Improve Employee Satisfaction

Recruiting Blogs

As the lifeblood of any good business, employee retention and satisfaction are top priorities. The job market is becoming increasingly transparent, and more and more organizations find themselves struggling to engage and retain top talent. According to a recent Gallup poll , 51% of all workers are looking to leave their current jobs. The number is even higher among Millennials.

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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 Human Resources Leaders Effectively Balance the Needs of the Company With the Needs of…

Glassdoor for Employers

A company is, and functions thanks to, its employees — at the heart of any HR leader’s job, this is what they know to be true. Their ability to have a foot in both their employees’ and employer’s world is ultimately what makes them great at their job.

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The Critical Personality Trait You Should be Hiring For

MightyRecruiter

“You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.” – Vince Lombardi. Coach Lombardi was right. Intelligence and conscientiousness are the two most accurate predictors of success in both our work and financial lives.

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Can Your Hiring Team Keep Up With Job Seekers?

Spark Hire

Over the last decade, your hiring team has faced many challenges with the changing recruiting landscape. From evolving technology to job hopping tendencies and even talent shortages, there’s no doubt your hiring team warriors have been put to the test. Over the last 20 years, Stephanie McDonald , CEO of Talent Consultant and job search coach at Hire Performance , has watched the recruiting field evolve firsthand.

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I Think I’ll Stay Awhile: Why Employees Stay at Their Jobs

Recruiting Blogs

Much ink has been spilled on the various reasons that employees leave a company – too much stress, not enough pay, no room for growth, et cetera – but what about the success stories? Those companies that retain employees most effectively have developed similar habits to keep their top talent satisfied. While some factors for employee turnover cannot be controlled, management and professionals in human resources can impact retention by making some strategic changes to how the business is run, and

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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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INFOGRAPHIC: Top 10 Recruiter Frustrations

BroadBean Technology

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