Wed.Jan 02, 2019

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4 Talent Acquisition Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Yello

Say goodbye to the 9-5. Remote workers and flexible schedules are nothing new, but business magnate Richard Branson of Virgin sees the typical 40-hour workweek finally diminishing : “Could people eventually take three and even four day weekends? Certainly. Will job-sharing increase? I think so. People will need to be paid the same or even more for working less time, so they can afford more leisure time.

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This Phone Screen Checklist is the Swiss Army Knife of Recruiting

Linkedin Talent Blog

Over the years I’ve discovered that by obtaining the information shown in this phone screen checklist, a recruiter can confidently recommend a candidate to be interviewed onsite. More importantly, by getting a hiring manager to conduct a similar phone screen, the manager would only need to personally interview 3-4 people to make one great hire. The impact of this strategy is huge.

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How are big brands moving forward to support teens?

Recruiting Blogs

Teenagers are a generation that have grew up with the internet on social media, streaming platforms and review platforms such as Youtube. With this being said, a duty of care is expected of big brands that will see them make more informed decisions around their marketing materials, to remain as inclusive as possible, and present themselves as the go-to brand for a diverse range of people using online and offline methods. .

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How to Interview Candidates Remotely

Undercover Recruiter

In many cases, getting every candidate on your recruitment shortlist in for a face-to-face interview just isn’t feasible. Telephone or video interviews can often be a quicker and less complex process, usually giving more flexibility for both the employer and the candidate. Particularly in roles with a large applicant pool, a telephone, or conference call.

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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 to Create a Personal Brand as a Talent Sourcer

WizardSourcer

In 2018, I set out to really master my personal brand as a Talent Sourcer. This past year has been the most success I’ve had finding and hiring candidates. I sourced 36 cold/passive candidates for our niche positions across North America. It was a tremendous undertaking for me personally, as I only focus on niche positions that are open more than 60-90 days.

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Streamline the Hiring Process to Avoid Death by Interview

Recruiter

Also known as "interview fatigue," death by interview happens when the interview process grows so long that the best candidates start bailing and the rest of them become demoralized. High-quality candidates have options. They don't have to put up with lengthy, drawn-out hiring processes — so they don't.

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Tips and Tricks for Recruiting with Instagram

Smartdreamers

On a fundamental level, what are the differences between traditional marketing and recruitment marketing? In both cases, businesses are seeking to familiarize a carefully selected target audience with their brand. In the digital era, both processes depend on campaigns and strategies that center around driving up engagement and clicks in order to entice people into a sale or recruitment funnel, and to convert those already in the funnel into buyers or applicants.

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Joy in the Workplace: the Key to Retaining Employees

Recruiter

Recently, a colleague of mine asked me what I thought was the most important quality in a workplace. My answer was simple: joy. Every employee wants to be happy at work and proud of what they do. A joyful workplace environment can help them achieve these things — while also fostering growth, encouraging healthy communication, and promoting a positive culture.

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Large vs Small Business: 5 Differences When Hiring Employees

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Many resources exist online that address the topic of choosing between working for major corporations versus small businesses. However, not as many resources focus on what small organizations versus large companies should focus on when hiring employees.

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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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It's Never Too Early to Recruit Your Future STEM Employees

Recruiter

It takes no more than a cursory glance at most tech startup teams to see that the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions are heavily male-dominated. Year after year, statistics show a staggering gender imbalance in STEM, with women making up a mere 29 percent of the science and engineering workforce. Experts agree the keys to getting more women into these career tracks are early exposure and awareness, but those.

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What Organizations Must Know About Due Process In The Age Of #MeToo

Forbes Human Resources Council

The individual charged with investigating an employee’s complaint of sexual harassment at the workplace must make their best efforts to neutrally investigate the complaint and to reach a reasonable and defensible conclusion.

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Exit Strategy: How Companies Can Fight Back Against Increasing Attrition

Recruiter

Whether you know it or not, more than half of your workforce is actively looking for another job or at least keeping an eye out for new opportunities. Many organizations are responding by shifting recruitment and retention efforts into overdrive — often with little or no real strategy. Today, even the most well-informed employers are at a loss to explain why so many employees are ready to.

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How to Use Neuroscience to Hire the Best Job Candidates

Recruiting Daily Advisor

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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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Meet the Women Tech Leaders Behind SeatGeek

PowerToFly

If you are interested in attending this event, please email us at hi@powertofly.com to be considered for an invitation. SeatGeek understands that live events have a special power to bring people together through a shared experience. So it only makes sense that PowerToFly would partner with SeatGeek to present a one-night-only live evening of networking with SeatGeek's impressive women tech leaders and amazing male allies.

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WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: Work Time at Work

The Hire Solution

How much time do you and your fellow employees spend working when you’re at work? According to a report from CrossOver, 89% say they waste more than 30 minutes at work each day adding up to 2-1/2 hours a week; in a business with 10 employees, even just a half hour per employee means 25 hours of non-productivity each week. 31% of employees waste an hour each day; 16% waste two hours a day; fully 10% waste three hours or more daily or 15 hours out of a 40-hour work week!

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A Look at Our Event with Slack in San Francisco

PowerToFly

As a completely remote company, PowerToFly relies on Slack everyday to make our work possible. More than any other platform, including email, our global team communicates via Slack. The PowerToFly team is global, stretching from India to Russia to Argentina to the United States. It's amazing to think that we can utilize one tool to not only chat but to send documents, brainstorm and even share wedding photos.

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HUMP DAY HOT JOBS: Office Services Positions

KNF&T Staffing Resources

Start your new year with a new career! Check out our top administrative/office services positions and apply today. Direct Hire. Project Administrative Assistant – Boston, MA . Administrative Assistant/Receptionist – Boston, MA. Administrative Manager – Boston, MA. Executive Receptionist – Boston, MA. Contract. Team Lead – East Boston, MA.

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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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Improve Your Quality of Hires with ZipRecruiter for the New Year!

Hiring Thing

We know that it can often be challenging finding the perfect candidate for the job. Many hiring managers and recruiters can be left sifting through.

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Top 7 Recruiting Trends for 2019

Newton Software

With 2018 come and gone and the busy New Year hiring season upon us, here are seven trends in recruiting that will up your hiring game in 2019. Be sure to check out the links to dive deeper into each of these recruiting strategies. Learn How to Conduct Technical Interviews. In this day and age many jobs are becoming more technical and are starting to require some level of technical expertise.

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Improve Your Quality of Hires with ZipRecruiter for the New Year!

Hiring Thing

We know that it can often be challenging finding the perfect candidate for the job. Many hiring managers and recruiters can be left sifting through.

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Proactive Recruitment Strategies for Healthcare

Hospital Recruiting

Ivelin Radkov/123RF.com. Human Resource professionals in every industry are responsive to the needs of their institution; when there’s a vacancy, they spring into action, working diligently to fill the opening with the best talent in the shortest amount of time. Recruitment has been a reactive function for as long as there has been HR. But what if recruitment could be proactive – ready with talent on deck to feed needs even before they happen?

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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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The 5 Ws of AI Recruiting: What You Need to Know

Eightfold

This year, there has been a big increase in chatter around AI recruiting. Companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to support their hiring needs. But with so many different options and opinions out there, it can be hard to understand what AI recruiting means—and would it could mean for your business and your day-to-day work. This post answers your basic questions about AI recruiting, so that you can make a knowledgeable decision about whether to consider a solution for hirin

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3 Ways to Make Your Résumé Stand Out When Applying for Jobs Abroad

Recruiting Daily Advisor

* Editor’s note: As recruiters, you may be contacted from time to time by jobseekers looking for employment. While Recruiting Daily Advisor generally features tips and tricks recruiters can use to help find talent, there are occasions where a recruiter’s insight is needed to help a jobseeker find a job. This guest post provides information to help you help jobseekers looking for careers abroad.

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7 Ways to Create an Unbeatable Employee Experience

Achievers - Recruiting

What do your employees say about their experience with your company? Have you asked them lately? When you have a job opening, do you have top candidates reaching out to you for consideration? A Bersin survey finds that “Nearly 80 percent of executives rated employee experience very important (42 percent) or important (38 percent), but only 22 percent reported that their companies were excellent at building a differentiated employee experience.” Furthermore, 59 percent of these respon

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3 Big Predictions for Recruitment in 2019

Breezy HR

Not sure which trends to believe? Here are the 3 fundamental HR shifts that will definitely impact your recruitment strategy in 2019. If you want to win in the candidate-driven job market, you need to adapt your recruitment and hiring strategies depending on what’s “hot”. But navigating trends and buzzwords can be a major time suck. And how do you know if any of these trends have staying power, or if they’re simply pushing someone else’s agenda?

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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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4 talent acquisition analytics mistakes to avoid

PandoLogic

Talent acquisition teams generate a lot of data, and it is often an underused resource. But once the HR department embraces their data and establishes metrics and a system of collection, there are several next steps that require you to.

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Becoming A CAS Organization: Neuroplasticity And Creating New Markets

Forbes Human Resources Council

Organizational leadership should recognize that it needs to see differently, and HR should facilitate learning to see differently.

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10 Books Recruiters Absolutely Must Read for a Successful 2019

Social Talent

At a time when lists are being made and resolutions are being sworn, we wanted to help you out with one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions of all time. We want to help you read more! Last year 18% of survey respondents said they wanted to make an effort to read more in 2018- and studies show it’s high on the list for 2019 too. You will find more infographics at Statista.

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