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Hire Top Talent up to 8 Days Sooner with Candidate Text Messaging

Hireology

Think about how your team interacts with candidates throughout the hiring process. You might end up playing phone tag trying to schedule interviews while your candidates don’t have time to step away from their current roles to pick up the call. Or another option is communicating with candidates via email, but most people receive so many emails each day that messages can easily get overlooked.

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The First Step in Recruiting Top Talent: Get Over Yourself

Yoh

Top talent is in high demand everywhere, and companies all over the world are scrambling to develop better strategies centered on talent acquisition.

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4 Signs You're Ready for a Recruiting CRM

Lever

In a competitive hiring market, employers need to deepen relationships with talent in order to attract and hire the best. Recruiters require a solution to better manage their relationships, and so the Recruitment CRM emerged.

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How Texting is Helping Recruiters Screen 10 Times the Candidates Daily

Undercover Recruiter

With the U.S. unemployment rate at an all-time low, hovering under four percent, the talent market is getting more and more competitive. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 6.7 million job openings and just 6.4 million available workers to fill them. Connecting to candidates has become increasingly difficult and relying on traditional.

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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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Why Recruiting Agencies Need to Work With Freelance Writers

Recruiter

You're a small recruiting agency, and you're looking to attract more attention. You have a marketing budget, but you don't have a big enough one to hire your own marketing team yet. What's an up-and-coming agency to do? Hire a freelance copywriter. The right freelancer can do pretty much anything a marketing team can do, but on a case-by-case basis, allowing you to control costs much more effectively.

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4 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Recruiting Company

Recruiter

If you're in the process of hiring a recruiting agency to help you fill some difficult roles, you might not know where to start. Are all recruiting organizations the same? Does it really matter which one you hire? How can you tell which ones really have your best interests at heart? These aren't the easiest questions in the world to answer, but this article will give you a few pointers.

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Hiring Landscape: 80% of Jobseekers See Value in Video Job Ads

Recruiting Daily Advisor

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Finding top talent is a huge challenge for many employers across the country. However, if you begin to understand jobseekers and what they want, you may be better equipped to stand out among your peers. One way to do this is by keeping up with the latest hiring trends. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered!

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The Evolution of Employee Engagement

Recruiter

It's no secret that organizations with high levels of engagement consistently outperform the competition. According to a meta-analysis conducted by Gallup, "business or work units that score in the top quartile of their organization for employee engagement nearly double the odds of success" in comparison with those in the bottom quartile.

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Muse Employer Spotlight: Kraig Baker on Echo Global Logistics' Mission to Make a Difference

The Muse

Our Employer Spotlight Series features employer branding best practices in action. Check out these insights from a company that's totally crushing it. This month, we chatted with Kraig Baker, Talent Attraction Program Manager at Echo Global Logistics.

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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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5 Steps to Building an Onboarding Process That Wins Over New Hires

Recruiter

Hiring is a two-way street. To land a job, a candidate must woo their future employer; to keep the candidate, the employer has to woo its new hire.

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New Privacy Laws in California: Take Your Consumer Data Privacy Seriously Now, Before It’s Too Late

Recruiting Daily

“Google’s parent company Alphabet is making changes to its data privacy policy, even though could harm its lucrative advertising business and have a larger financial business impact” Data privacy should not be taken lightly. Although in early January at CES – the largest consumer tech show – virtually nothing was said about consumer data privacy […].

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A Tale of One City – What Employers Can Learn from NYC and Amazon’s Squandered Deal

Employment Metrix

By now, almost everyone has heard that Amazon has backed out of moving one of its two new headquarters to Long Island City, NY. The reason? NYC and Amazon just couldn’t agree on things, and negotiations came to a standstill. And, while there’s much debate over who was right and who was wrong, there are a few lessons employers can take away from the situation to ensure good talent doesn’t slip away, much like Amazon slipped away from NYC.

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How to Identify the Right Client for Your Small Business

Recruiter

In the early days of our corporate events business, my team and I jumped at every new lead that came through the door. We were hungry for revenue and resume-building opportunities. This was a great strategy in the short term, because we didn't have anything else competing for our time. As our company moved from startup mode into growth mode, however, our lead-chasing became a hard habit to break.

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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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…reading and believinng your own press clipppings

Tony Beshara

Dan hasn’t looked for a job in15 years. He’s been with the same firm for that period of time and has risen rather rapidly through the ranks. Along the way, his company gave him all kinds of kudos and recognition and continually told him how great a contribution he made, how wonderful he was and how they couldn’t do without him, blah, blah, blah.

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Think You Can’t Offer Work/Life Balance? May You Can!

J&H Staffing Services

If you’ve conducted a few interviews, you likely have heard candidates asking for work/life balance. It’s something I hear often as well, and I even hear candidates who cite the lack of this benefit as the reason they’re leaving a job. But before you start imagining a world where employees want to work 30 hours and get paid for 40 or where every member of your executive team watches movies on the couch while they “work from home,” let’s see what this really amounts to.

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…reading and believinng your own press clipppings

Tony Beshara

Dan hasn’t looked for a job for 15 years. He’s been with the same firm for that period of time and has risen rather rapidly through the ranks. Along the way, his company gave him all kinds of kudos and recognition and continually told him how great a contribution he made, how wonderful he was and how they couldn’t do without him, blah, blah, blah.

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Hire An Insider or Bring in an Outsider: That is the Question!

The Hire Talent

When it comes to planning for the continuity of your business when you leave, it’s crucial that you not only have a succession plan in place to ensure that the transition is as seamless as possible, you also need to hire an ideal candidate to replace you. Indeed, hiring your successor, and laying out a. Read More. The post Hire An Insider or Bring in an Outsider: That is the Question!

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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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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look through some of the best articles published this past week for talent professionals and posted them below. The following articles cover topics ranging from what Amazon's cancellation of its HQ2 in New York means for other employers, to how to keep your most ambitious employees from leaving.

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SCP Hot Jobs!

SilverChair Partners

1. EA/PA to support the CEO of a thriving global company. $120-140K plus bonus and benefits. This is a great opportunity to be a true right-hand. 2. A thriving tech firm is looking for an EA to support a team of Senior Executives. $100-120k plus bonus and excellent benefits. Work alongside a dedicated team in a role with heavy exposure. 3.

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Tech Talks With Women Building The Future Of Wellness At WW (formerly Weight Watchers)

PowerToFly

If you are based in the New York area and you'd like to attend this event, please email hi@powertofly.com to be considered for an invitation. Weight Watchers has relaunched as WW which stands for "Wellness that Works". They are now a company dedicated to becoming the world's partner in wellness. PowerToFly has partnered with WW for a series of tech talks led by women who are on the forefront of the company's transformation.

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Did you know?

Hireability

HireAbility continues to enhance its support for multiple languages. A good example of it is Hebrew. Several of HireAbility clients currently successfully parse resumes written in Hebrew. HireAbility cooperates with the clients to refine parsing of small but important details from a vast number of resume formats. We do not just improve on parsing techniques and add to ontologies and dictionaries, but also learn as much as possible about countries where the language is spoken.

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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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Retention vs. Turnover - Understanding the Difference

Team Software

In the janitorial and security industries, it’s difficult to keep good people employed for any length of time. As strategic partners with end-to-end solutions specific to the janitorial and security industries, Kwantek and TEAM Software know how important issues like retention and turnover are to your business.

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Three benefits of an online application process for staffing companies

COATS Staffing Software

Staffing company software has done a tremendous job at helping staffing agencies run more efficiently in recent years. Many of the processes that needed to be done manually in the past have now been eliminated so your team can concentrate more on getting job leads, finding the proper candidates to fill those jobs, and generating profits. Having an online application as part of your staffing company software is where the magic all begins.

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#WorkTrends: How to Bring People Together at Work

TalentCulture - Recruiting

One day labor relations consultant Jason Greer received a call from a manager, asking if he’d lead a diversity training session at his company. When Greer asked why, the manager offered two reasons: “I love the way you communicate,” he said. “And you’re the only black guy that I really know.” This radical candor actually endeared the manager to Greer, and it set the tone for the approach Greer uses in his diversity training.

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4 Tips on How To Keep Recruiters On-Brand and from Going Rogue

exaqueo

Developing an employer brand isn’t easy. It takes buy-in, time, effort, and financial resources to build, and then activate, a sustainable employer brand strategy. A successful employer brand architecture is most often composed by several essential components: Employer value proposition (EVP): based on workforce research, it’s what employees value the most about working at your organization Employer brand position: how you differentiate and position your brand in the market, as compared to key t

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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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Adhere to Scout Motto: ‘Be Prepared’ (During Interviews)

Recruiting Daily Advisor

A recent CNBC article, written by Ruth Umoh, got us thinking. The article discussed the three interview questions that General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra asks of every job candidate: Source: Steve Bruckmann / Shutterstock. How would your peers describe you in three adjectives? How about your supervisor? How about those who have reported to you? Placing a high value on integrity, influence, and teamwork, Barra expects all three questions to elicit the same adjectives. “You don’t wan

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Meet Namely: Julie Li

Namely - Talent

Julie Li started her career in financial services but became frustrated when her predictive analyses didn’t take employee happiness and motivation into consideration. Julie understood the positive and negative impact employees and strong leaders can have on business success. Her realization pushed her to attend business school and ultimately pursue a career in HR.

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How to Recruit and Retain Millennial Solicitors

Recruiting Blogs

Much has been written about the millennial generation and its impact on the workplace in general. . But what, specifically, can you do as a law firm to engage with this demographic group? And what changes can you make to ensure you're recruiting and retaining the very best of Generation Y? What is a millennial? There is no firm agreement on who is and who isn't a millennial, but in loose terms it is someone born between the early part of the 1980s and the late 1990s/early 2000s.

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