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Sixty Savage Seconds – Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled “Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed“ Let me know what you think!

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Just the Facts: Company Leaders Have a Huge Impact on Candidates

JazzHR

Business leaders have an enormous impact on every aspect of the companies they work for. They set the tone and chart the course. They embody an organization’s values, drive its vision, and establish company culture. And while great leaders build great businesses, the effects of a bad leader include plummeting profits and stock prices, lower staff engagement and retention, and even an inability to attract top talent.

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4 Social Media Trends You Can't Ignore

Yoh

There’s nothing more humbling than learning the latest trends and technologies for all things that snap, post and pop while in a room with a bunch of twenty-something-year-olds. Which is exactly what happened to me when I recently attended Mashable’s Social Media Day.

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Employee Retention: Beyond the Honeymoon Phase

RecruitLoop

While your actions during the honeymoon phase certainly impact retention rates, it’s what you do after this period ends that ultimately determines whether or not an employee will stick around.

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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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How Agency Recruiters Can Make the Most from Google Hire

FireFish Software

The world of recruitment is about to experience one of its biggest changes in recent years; Google Hire. Web-giant Google has been working on a new jobs platform for months, and there is a definite buzz about what the tool will be able to do. Currently, Google Hire has been used by tech companies like Poynt and CoreOS, but it’s still being kept under wraps from the public.

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How to Communicate Effectively With Your Engineering Managers

Stack Overflow

Establishing partnerships with your engineering managers can give you an edge when you’re recruiting developers. They can draw on their past experiences to identify what the passive tech candidates you’re trying to attract are looking for in new jobs. But without setting clear expectations around communication throughout the developer hiring process, you run the risk of losing their trust.

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The 5 Most Responsive Employers & CEOs on Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

Today, the Wall Street Journal published a story taking a look at employers and CEOs who respond to employee reviews online, including Glassdoor in their story as a leading site that offers employee reviews and ratings.

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Prepping For The Big Interview, Recruiter Edition

Jobvite

When you have a candidate you really want to hire, you’ll likely go to pretty great lengths to make sure him or her comes on board. Maybe she’s the most in-demand engineer on the market, or maybe he’s the perfect culture fit for your brand. Maybe you’ve just got to fill the role and this person checks all the boxes. Regardless, while prepping for interviews gets talked up on the job seeker side, recruiters too have a lot at stake when it comes to a face-to-face sit-down.

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Internship Interview Questions: The Key to A Successful Internship Screening Process

MightyRecruiter

Spring internship hiring season has come and gone, and now it’s time to sit back and reflect on what worked for your company and what didn’t. The internship screening process plays an integral role in the hiring journey. Learning to ask the right internship interview questions can save recruiters and hiring managers time, and help them to identify top talent to stream into a candidate pool.

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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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What is a Chrome Extension Really? RecruitingLive with Lusha

Recruiting Daily

If elusive candidates are purple squirrels, then recruiters are raccoons. If this sounds crazy, allow me to give you a little raccoon lesson. Raccoons are attracted to shiny things, so much so that you can point out a raccoon den because of its large amount of shiny objects inside. You know — important raccoony things like dimes, screws, bits […].

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Internship Interview Questions: The Key to A Successful Internship Screening Process

MightyRecruiter

Spring internship hiring season has come and gone, and now it’s time to sit back and reflect on what worked for your company and what didn’t. The internship screening process plays an integral role in the hiring journey. Learning to ask the right internship interview questions can save recruiters and hiring managers time, and help them to identify top talent to stream into a candidate pool.

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Are You Playing Games with Your Candidates?

Phenom People

Many organizations play games with their candidates, and not in a good way. They have a horrible application process that takes forever, and their candidate experience just plain sucks. However, those aren’t the kinds of games I’m talking about here. In fact, I’m talking about why you should play more games with your candidates, Read More.

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Prepping For The Big Interview, Recruiter Edition

Jobvite

When you have a candidate you really want to hire, you’ll likely go to pretty great lengths to make sure him or her comes on board. Maybe she’s the most in-demand engineer on the market, or maybe he’s the perfect culture fit for your brand. Maybe you’ve just got to fill the role and this person checks all the boxes. Regardless, while prepping for interviews gets talked up on the job seeker side, recruiters too have a lot at stake when it comes to a face-to-face sit-down.

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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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Does your technology work well with your people strategy?

WebRecruit

Your ‘people strategy’ is defined as the approach that your company takes to its employees, and in today’s world, you will find it difficult to unlock the full potential of your people strategy without the right technology. Remember that whatever technology you use in your business, it should always serve the needs of your people strategy, rather than be just another bureaucratic layer.

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Prepping For The Big Interview, Recruiter Edition

Jobvite

When you have a candidate you really want to hire, you’ll likely go to pretty great lengths to make sure him or her comes on board. Maybe she’s the most in-demand engineer on the market, … Continued.

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Why Summer Is the Ideal Time to Recruit Passive Candidates

Recruiting Daily

If you’re a recruiter, hiring manager, or head of talent, you’ve undoubtedly heard the conventional wisdom that recruiting in the summer is hard with a capital “H.” Countless articles have lamented this supposed seasonal slowdown, such as Recruiting.com’s 4 Ways to Ease Your Summer Hiring Woes, which encourages industry professionals not to “let the summer […].

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Prepping For The Big Interview, Recruiter Edition

Jobvite

When you have a candidate you really want to hire, you’ll likely go to pretty great lengths to make sure him or her comes on board. Maybe she’s the most in-demand engineer on the market, or maybe he’s the perfect culture fit for your brand. Maybe you’ve just got to fill the role and this person checks all the boxes. Regardless, while prepping for interviews gets talked up on the job seeker side, recruiters too have a lot at stake when it comes to a face-to-face sit-down.

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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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7 Questions to Never Ask a Job Candidate

Recruiting Blogs

Questions form the basis of a job interview. There are some questions job candidates should never be asked during interview. Asking such questions may create an awkward situation for the candidate and may even put doubts in their mind about the organization. Several state and federal antidiscrimination laws in the US protect job candidates from stereotypes and ensure they are hired on skill.

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Recruiters as Business Partners with Hot Topic, Rubicon, Factual and The Wonderful Company

Entelo

On a beautiful June evening in LA, over 30 recruiting and talent acquisition leaders came together for a night of networking and candid conversations about the challenges hiring the local talent market. I moderated a discussion led by Brian Breth, Director of Talent Acquisition at the Rubicon Project, Nancy Martinez, a recruiter at Factual, and Shelley Radford, Talent Acquisition Manager at The Wonderful Company, who each contributed their smarts, experience and sense of humor to a conversation

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The 3 Steps For Writing A Killer Modern Job Advert

Recruiting Blogs

The 3 Steps To Writing A Killer Modern ob Advert. . Hiring is an incredibly exciting time. Attracting talent to, and growing your team, is huge for your organisation. So why simply write a cut-and-paste job advert that insinuates that there’s a real shortage of creativity? Here’s how to attract the best candidates, through a killer job advert. 1. #EndTheBuzzwords. .

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Recruitment Marketing D-Day is September 1st!

Harger Howe Recruitment

Chances are if you’re a typical 40-hour per week professional you are in one of two states right now. The first option is that you are on vacation soaking up sun and if you are reading this (why are you reading this?) you are on your iPhone. The second is that you are slogging through the slow recruitment marketing months while your colleagues are soaking up your sun (darn them).

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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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Building the Right Workforce for the Summer Rush

Recruiting Blogs

Summer, a/k/a “prime time” for your restaurant, retail store, or hospitality venue, is upon us. While it’s critical to have enough employees to meet the rush, it’s quite another to have the right employees: those who provide exceptional customer service that can make or break your business. How important is it? According to a Walker study , customer experience is becoming the biggest brand differentiator for consumers – more than either price or product.

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Employee Retention Starts on Day One

Hiring Thing

Most employers start evaluating their employees around the one-year mark when they’re getting ready to give their annual reviews. While this is often when managers start considering the next steps for their team, most employees start thinking about their future much earlier, often right from the time they begin a. Continue reading.

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Underemployment

Recruiting Blogs

The unemployment rate has been trending down since 2010. That’s a good thing even considering the fact that we were in really bad shape then and the numbers are regularly massaged. If you include the underemployed (those working at lesser jobs than they really need but still not qualifying for unemployment) the numbers aren’t nearly as good. You really have to include the underemployed to get a feel for how good or bad the situation is.

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3 characteristics that make someone a true ‘team player’

WebRecruit

When you think of any of the obvious corporate success stories from down the years – from Microsoft to Apple – one of the things that should become clear to you straight away is the importance of the right team. However, there’s a big difference between a great team, and simply a bunch of smart people. The aforementioned success stories were built on teams that had that seemingly indefinable, but definitely detectable ‘spark’ or ‘magic’.

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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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How Procrastinating Can Find You Awesome Clients

Recruiting Blogs

What do you do when you sit down at your desk? Ease into things by checking out your favourite news site? Perhaps a bit of LinkedIn? Twitter, Facebook…. While it might seem like a bad habit – procrastinating can work wonders for your prospecting! Yes, even those cheeky scrolls through Facebook when you know you really should be doing something else. .

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 16: How To Avoid A Slow Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Samantha Lambert from @BFMweb w/tips on how to speed up your #hiring Click To Tweet. In the 16th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Samantha Lambert, Director of Human Resources at Blue Fountain Media, provides actionable tips for what to do when you have a slow hiring process. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan: Hey everyone, my name is Josh Tolan and I’m the founder and CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the world.

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Talent42 2017!!!!

Recruiting Blogs

Well, Talent42 2017 has come and gone, and it was spectacular. 2 days of speakers covering the entire spectrum of the Staffing Lifecycle. This is just a general overview with a full breakdown to follow. So subjects ranged from interviewing, contacting candidates, the future, Best Practices, Tools galore, Using Data, Leadership track, Talent Advisor track, AI and manager to recruit, Pipelining and more.