Wed.Jul 15, 2020

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8 Key Interview Questions to Ask in the Age of COVID

Glassdoor for Employers

Living and working in the midst of a pandemic has affected everyone, which is why it's so important to adapt your interview questions accordingly. Here are 8 questions to consider adding to your interviews for the foreseeable future. 1. What would you do if there were a tech issue that couldn't be resolved remotely right away and you couldn't move forward with one specific project?

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How to Improve Your Talent Acquisition Strategy During the Pandemic

Sparks Group Recruiting Blog

While the two terms are often used interchangeably, talent acquisition is actually very different from recruiting. Recruiting is the activity that fills an open position with the candidate that is available at that moment: whereas talent acquisition is the long-term strategy that drives recruitment processes and tactics, aligning staffing and hiring with short-term and long-term organizational needs.

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How To Lean On Culture To Navigate A Crisis

Forbes Human Resources Council

Create the path from crisis to calm, using culture as your road map.

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Recruiters are being fired at the rate of 1 in 3!

Greg Savage

This is not good news. We knew it was happening, but the numbers are horrific. Latest research from Staffing Industry Metrics tells us exactly how many recruiters were fired in March, April and May this year. And its ugly, ugly, ugly. But read on because I am seeing the silver linings, and so should you. […].

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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The Future of Talent Acquisition in Uncertain Times 2020 | JazzHR Blog

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

JazzHR partnered with HR.com to produce a new report: The Future of Talent Acquisition in Uncertain Times 2020. Learn more!

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How to Use Digital Marketing to Attract Top Talent

Yoh

Marketing, sales and people management go hand in hand when a company is looking for new talent. The marketing and sales concepts and metrics can help a lot in the two main pillars of hiring: to attract people and to select people. Companies with a strong employer brand see 50% more qualified applicants and take 1-2x faster to hire, according to LinkedIn.

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The unvarnished, unbundled guide to hiring tools

Aline Lerner

I get a lot of questions about which hiring tools do what and how they’re different from each other, so I decided to draw an ugly, yet handy, picture (see below). By the way, the reason this post has “unbundled” in the title is that many hiring tools, in part because we’re all on the VC funding treadmill, aspire to be more than they are and to ultimately be the one ring that rules them all, all the way from sourcing to interviewing to reference checks to onboarding to god knows what.

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8 Office Essentials For Your Staffing Business

AkkenCloud

If you’ve just set up a staffing business, then it’s important to know what you’ll need within your office to ensure that it can operate efficiently and effectively. You want it to be an environment in which your employees can thrive – not one that lacks the right supplies/features. To help guide you, here is a list of eight office essentials every staffing business should invest in at the start of the process: Suitable Technology .

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Talent Brand Summit recap and insights #TBSummit

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 5 minutes. We were excited to attend & honored to sponsor the 2020 Talent Brand Summit , held virtually July 7-9. Using a 1980’s video game theme, the 2020 summit focused on knowledge sharing and “leveling up” your talent branding game. There were interesting speakers, informative breakout sessions and yes, some “totally awesome” throwback photos.

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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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6 Strategies To Improve Remote Hiring

McQuiag

Hiring from a distance poses a unique challenge for talent professionals. We gain so much information from meeting candidates in-person it can be hard to consider hiring through a screen. If interviewing in-person isn't possible, however, what can you do to improve your chances of finding a great new employee remotely? Some might think an interview is an interview, regardless of its format, but in reality, virtual hiring requires a change in your perspective and a shift in your strategies.

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5 tips to create video content from remote employees

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 5 minutes. Yes, you can create video content from remote employees that is high-quality, visually compelling and tells great employee stories. Employee stories provide the best culture content and give the clearest insight into what it’s really like to work at your company. However, when you and your employee storytellers are working remotely, uncovering and capturing important stories requires additional consideration.

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The Use Case Podcast – Storytelling about SmartRecruiters with Jerome Ternynck

Recruiting Daily

Storytelling about SmartRecruiters with Jerome Ternynck Welcome to the Use Case Podcast, a show dedicated to the storytelling that happens… or should happen, when practitioners purchase technology. Each episode is designed to inspire new ways and ideas to make your business better. That’s what we do. Let’s spark. During this episode, Jerome and I talk […].

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For Effective Mental Health Benefits, Add A Healthy Dose Of Empathy

Forbes Human Resources Council

Change doesn't come easily for everyone, and when it comes with no warning, there can be a variety of affects.

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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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Employer's Post-COVID Guide: Staff Returning To Work After Furlough

TalentLyft

Welcome to the employer’s post-COVID guide! Learn important guidelines that will help you organize after COVID-19 return to work like a pro. You need to ensure working environments are as safe as possible, as well as take care of your employees’ concerns about returning to work.

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Avionté RAW: Real Analytics Weekly – Week 27

Avionte

A long holiday weekend may be good for the soul, but may not yield the same positive results for staffing metrics. Due to the short holiday week, we’ll be covering both week 26 and week 27 in this edition of RAW. For those new to the Avionté RAW series, the numbers reflected are based on an aggregation of hosted Avionté data from hundreds of customers across the US and Canada.

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Top 5 Accounting Books of 2020

Professional Alternatives

It doesn’t matter if you are a budding bookkeeper, a business owner, or even a seasoned CPA, as a top accounting professional , you need the right accounting books to keep your skills sharp and best set you up for success. From tax planning down to making ideal decisions that are based on precise financial information, top-notch accounting knowledge is vital to your success.

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These Tech Jobs Are More in Demand Than Ever—Here’s How to Make the Switch

The Muse

How a software engineer, a data scientist, and a cybersecurity analyst pivoted their careers after completing Flatiron School boot camp.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Inclusive Hiring Practices

Recruiters.Network

Companies have responded to Black Lives Matter and racial justice in various ways the past several months. Many Executives are quickly re-thinking their approach to inclusion and diversity, and specifically related to talent acquisition - ensuring their organization has hiring processes and practices in place that are both anti-racist and inclusive.

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Why It’s Time to End the 'Ideal Target Candidate Profile'

Linkedin Talent Blog

When I was a young recruiter, during my intake meetings I learned to ask the Hiring Manager, “What’s your ideal target candidate profile?” I wanted them to describe their perfect candidate — beyond the laundry list of 37 must-have requirements on the job description, tell me about all of your preferences for target companies, target schools, and personality type.

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Getting it Right: Answers to your burning Covid-19 questions

The Staffing Stream

As the business world grapples with how to both adapt to the new normal of remote work, and simultaneously plan for how to get employees back to the office or work site once the worst of the pandemic subsides, human talent leaders understandably have a variety of questions about best practices for reopening the workplace. While the needs of different companies vary greatly depending on the nature of their business, these are the most common reopening questions we are hearing from human capital l

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How to Create a Lead Capture Form that Doubles Conversions

Lusha

A lot is expected from B2B marketers today. You have to worry about your marketing strategy, building your team, and now—lead capture forms. Yep, that small square box on the website seems simple enough, but it’s your best shot at starting a relationship and creating a new customer. Think: What kind of first impression does this form give about my business?

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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The Most Important Reason To Become A Remote-First Company

Forbes Human Resources Council

What you need to ask yourself is: “Will this align with our brand and mission?” If the answer is yes, it will drive the decision home. .

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Comment maintenir votre culture d’entreprise en télétravail?

Jobillico

Qu’elles soient publiques ou privées, les entreprises qui ont fonctionné en télétravail durant les premiers mois de la pandémie devront continuer à le faire le plus possible. Même si un retour partiel est prévu dans plusieurs entreprises, le télétravail est un coup dur pour l’esprit d’équipe, la socialisation au travail et la culture d’entreprise. Beaucoup d’entre elles investissent du temps et de l’argent à cultiver une culture ayant pour objectif de fédérer tous les employés. 5 à 7, sorties da

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Advice For The Class Of 2020: How To Land A Job In A Global Pandemic

Forbes Human Resources Council

Remember that while these are uncertain times, they are sure to pass, and the job you are seeking will soon be within reach.

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How Going Online Helped This Youth Organization Pivot During the Pandemic

The Muse

The London-based Holiday Club changed course quickly in the face of coronavirus—and reached more teenagers than ever before.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Why It’s Time to End the 'Ideal Target Candidate Profile'

Linkedin Talent Blog

When I was a young recruiter, during my intake meetings I learned to ask the Hiring Manager, “What’s your ideal target candidate profile?” I wanted them to describe their perfect candidate — beyond the laundry list of 37 must-have requirements on the job description, tell me about all of your preferences for target companies, target schools, and personality type.

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Diversity & Inclusion is Not an Employer Brand Strategy

Change State Blog

For many good reasons, diversity and inclusion (D&I) has become one of the hottest topics in human resources in recent months, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Much has been written on the subject, and most […] The post Diversity & Inclusion is Not an Employer Brand Strategy first appeared on Change State.

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Major Benefits of Continuous Feedback

Recruiting Blogs

Continuous feedback enhances employee experience in an organization, which is vital in this experience economy. As per a Harvard Business Review article, continuous feedback was born when a company named Colorcon, in 2002, switched from an annual feedback system to an instant feedback process. The modern performance management system that leverages technology emphasizes on the benefits of continuous feedback methods and encourages the users to use it frequently in their work.