Thu.Jan 26, 2023

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Are Your Job Descriptions to Blame for Your Attrition?

Recruiting Daily

A comprehensive job description (JD) clarifies job duties and responsibilities for the candidates and helps organizations maintain consistency within the organization. It also extends legal protection in case of litigation and justifies compensation and hiring decisions. For instance, job descriptions can defend the classification of specific jobs as exempt or non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and are very useful in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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5 Best Employee Onboarding Software Tools | ClearCompany

ClearCompany Recruiting

If you have an onboarding program in place, does it leave new hires prepared to take on a new role — or are they left confused, with lots of questions about what to expect? Does it take place over at least 90 days or for a week or less like it does for more than half of employees? If your company is among the over one-third of companies that don’t have one, what’s stopping you?

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5 Stats to Know About the Labor Market for 2023

ExactHire Recruiting

There are some key thing you need to do to be an effective hiring manager in today’s job market. It’s best to keep up with the relevant statistics regarding employment and unemployment. In addition to those job growth, earnings, and hiring best practices are also important. Today, we’ll share some of the very latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, along with additional insights that will ensure you make the most informed hiring, interviewing, and onboarding decisions in 2023.

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5 Ways to Recruit Top Gen Z Talent

Recruiting Daily Advisor

If you’re a hiring manager, you know hiring can be difficult. It’s not just about finding someone who meets the qualifications and can do the job; it’s about finding someone who will fit into your culture and your team. Your hiring strategy must account for the personalities and expectations of different generations. And if you’re hiring Generation Z (born between 1995 and 2010), it’s even more important to get it right.

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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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Anxiety in the workplace: it’s affecting everyone in different ways

Workable

A common theme throughout the work world – and society in general – is the impact of the pandemic on mental health, and ultimately the rise of mental health as a talked-about topic in the workplace. Rapidly diminishing is the stigma around mental health, and growing is the inclusion of mental health in overall discussions around workplace health. As is the case for many other developments during the pandemic, the growth of mental health in the social zeitgeist is not itself a result of the incre

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Why 2023 Has To Be The Year Of Women In The Workplace

Forbes Human Resources Council

If U.S. business leadership continues to be complacent about the gender disparities in the workplace, we’ll continue to stagnate and potentially return to the workplaces of the past.

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Predictions for the HR Function in 2023

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The continuously changing and increasingly important human element in the modern workplace illustrates the tremendous importance of the HR function, as well as the challenges and opportunities that function faces. HR Front and Center in Today’s Workforce As recent shake-ups to the HR function (like the COVID-19 pandemic) have demonstrated all too well, it’s impossible to predict the nature of the American workplace even a couple of years into the future.

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3 Ways to Revamp Your HR Processes

Namely - Talent

With the new year and setting new objectives, you’re likely overwhelmed with all that you need to do. One goal to consider is revamping your HR processes. This can help streamline the way you do business and simplify how you manage your people.

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New Year’s Resolutions For Those In Learning And Development

Forbes Human Resources Council

These are my New Year’s resolutions for L&D, and by committing to these, I believe we’ll make a greater impact, increase our credibility and our influence and achieve more as L&D professionals.

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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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8 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Conducting Skills Assessments

Recruiting Daily

Employee skills assessments are great indicators for a candidates likelihood to succeed in role. However, they are hard to do the right way, and they can’t always tell you the whole story. From devaluing soft skills to not communicating clearly enough, recruiters, HR leaders and executives give their insights into the common mistakes made in employee skills assessments.

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12 Ways To Keep Remote Workers Engaged In The Business’s Culture

Forbes Human Resources Council

Although remote work has become a large part of the work culture, an organization's culture is not defined by remote work.

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Faces of HR: How One HR Pro Navigates the Muddy Waters of HR to Create Positive Possibilities

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Although Cassandra Margolin has worked in the HR industry for nearly a decade, she didn’t find her true passion for the field until five years ago. At the time, she was working for high growth, quickly scaling, start-up tech companies. According to Margolin, her growth was slow and steady until she segued into the tech sector as an HR Generalist – then she suddenly found herself like a sponge, absorbing everything when she understood HR’s impact on a company and its people.

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10 Essential Considerations For HR Leaders When Purchasing An Employee Survey Tool

Forbes Human Resources Council

Employees don’t want to fill out cumbersome surveys, so employers should ensure forms employ conditional logic.

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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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Top Tips on How to Retain Contingent Workers

The Staffing Stream

Almost half (46%) of UK employers currently recruiting have vacancies that are hard to fill. There are a range of reasons for this, including employees shifting career paths and the current economic downturn. In response, businesses should be considering the different types of workers that can be deployed into vacant roles as well as ensuring deployed workers are retained.

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3 reasons why it’s time for HR leaders to take a seat at the boardroom table

Eightfold

We all know the role of HR is in flux in response to the tremendous transformation nearly every industry has undergone over the past three years. While it may seem like the challenges are stacked against you, Eightfold AI’s new Chief People Officer, Darren Burton , believes that HR teams can drive massive talent transformation. A former CHRO for professional services at KPMG, Burton strongly believes in the power of data- and AI-enabled transformation, saying it can significantly impact employe

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How to get your SDRs on board with lead scoring with Salesforce

Lusha

Generating leads is one of the most difficult and frustrating challenges for any sales team. And once they generate the leads, SDRs face a new dilemma: how to prioritize them? In a perfect world, SDRs would instinctively know which leads were the most qualified, the most in need of the product, and the most ready to buy. But in reality, this isn’t the case.

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What Makes a Great Inventory Assistant?

Professional Alternatives

What Makes a Great Inventory Assistant? An excellent inventory assistant is a valuable asset to any organization, as they are responsible for managing and organizing the inventory of a company. There are several key qualities that make a great inventory assistant. These qualities include but are not limited to excellent communication skills, a firm grasp of computer programs, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

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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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Computer Science CV: Our Guide & Example

Purple CV

Want to write a new computer science CV, or improve your old one, but not sure where to start? In our latest guide, we’ll outline how to efficiently put together a computer science CV that does you justice and gives hiring managers what they’re looking for. We’ve also written a computer science CV example to show you where everything goes! Whether you want to work as an app developer or security specialist, for a social media firm or a government department, there are many possibilities for comp

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How to Write an SEO-Optimized Job Description for Career Pages

The Cleared Recruiting Chronicles

The better your SEO strategy, the increased chances you have that candidates will actually see your company page and job postings.

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too. In October, we told you about Karly Blackburn — the intrepid job seeker who, in an attempt to connect with recruiters at Nike, sent a vanilla-flavored sheet cake to the company offices in Beaverton, Oregon, with her resume printed on top. She shared about her experience on LinkedIn and her post went viral, with the majority of commenters giving her kudos for her creativity and initiative.

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The Types of Employee Recognition a Good Workplace Culture Requires

Select Software Reviews

To create a culture of recognition, you need key types of employee recognition and rewards in place.

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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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British Businesses Adopting a Zero-Waste Strategy

Recruiting Blogs

In the final quarter of 2022, COP26 brought together two hundred nations in the bustling heart of Glasgow. During the summit, plans were devised to reduce the effects of global warming. It was decided, for example, that 45% of global greenhouse emissions must be reduced by 2030, and that net zero will need to be accomplished by 2050. Following on from COP26, businesses around the nation have decided to adopt zero waste into their corporate goals.

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9 Steps to an Effective Talent Assessment Strategy

Hundred5

Let’s be honest, it’s not easy to find the right talent in the applicant pool. Sifting through bad-fit applications is a tiring process – but it doesn’t need to be with the right talent assessment strategy and a few skills tests. If you’re unfamiliar with talent assessments, it will probably sound like it’s just a bunch of tests, right?

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Why Working From Home Doesn’t Have to Mean A Full-Time in Your Bedroom

Recruiting Blogs

The rise of working from home has been less of gentle integration and more of an unprecedented boom. A study from the Office of National Statistics found in February 2022 that 84% of workers planned to carry out a mix of working in the office and at home in the future. This was even after working from home was a requirement due to world events. With so many people shifting to this hybrid approach to the job, having the same backdrop to your workspace can get a bit repetitive.

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Unifying Your Data Strategy in 2023

Forum One

There is no “I” in data. No one team or person can handle all the data in a given organization, so how do you get everyone to pull together and gain alignment? Unifying your data strategy is not an easy task. More and more, we’re seeing mission-driven organizations begin investing in a cohesive, centralized data strategy that can pull in what previously seemed like totally disparate parts of your organization to drive greater data transparency and impact.

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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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Best Business: How and Why to Implement Precautionary Measures

Recruiting Blogs

Precautionary measures are necessary to help maintain a healthy, growing business. Whether this is for the wellbeing of your employees or your company finances, knowing where potential pitfalls and problems are could help improve your business strategy. Efficiency and safety are essential for the productivity of your employees. This is important whether you are a new start-up or an established business.

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Building Back Better – How The French Restaurant Industry Needs To Recover From Pandemic

Recruiting Blogs

The restaurant industry is a cultural cornerstone of France and a major part of the country’s identity and, as a result, the coronavirus pandemic caused significant disruption to businesses – with one region reporting an 86% reduction in revenue in 2020. And while patrons are now able to dine out and live without travel and mask restrictions , the effects of the pandemic on restaurants around the country are still being felt.