Wed.Jun 07, 2017

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Work from Home: 4 Ways to Make it Work at Your Company

Lever

Thirty two percent of workers named flexible schedules or remote work opportunities as their most desired perk. Between the rise of software-as-a-service, and video communication tools, this is an easy employee perk to offer—for the right type of role and organization. Some roles, such as warehouse receivers, need to be done at the company site. However, an estimated 50 percent of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least partial remote work.

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Tech Recruiting: 10 Of The Best Questions You Need To Ask A Hiring Manager

Social Talent

If you’re a recruiter, you’ll know just how challenging it can be to extract concrete information from a hiring manager. Nailing down the exact requirements for the role, knowing the salary range that you can offer, and separating the must-haves from the ‘would like to’ haves – this is information that you undoubtedly need if you have any chance of finding the right candidate for the job.

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Beyond Millennials: The Benefits of Hiring Gen Z

JazzHR

You can hardly look at the news these days without seeing something about millennials. And while they continue to play a massive role in today’s workforce, it may be Generation Z — the folks born in the late 1990s and early 2000s — who we really need to keep an eye on. Although they’re just beginning to enter the workforce, they promise to be a formidable group of workers unlike any other.

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Know the difference: Front-end, back-end, full-stack developer

Devskiller

Don’t be put off by buzzwords and tech jargon. Learn what a “front-end” , a “back-end” , and a “full-stack” developer does and give yourself the confidence to approach them with firm knowledge and a better understanding of their roles. Some of these differences are substantial and some are subtle, but all are necessary to have a clear view of the needs in the IT industry.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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[Podcast] Ruth Forster on Growing your Recruitment Agency Sustainably

FireFish Software

Ruth Forster, from Wagstaff Recruitment, joins us on the latest Firefish Podcast to talk about building and scaling a recruitment agency sustainably. With over 17 years of experience in recruitment plus seven running Wagstaff Recruitment, Ruth has plenty of insights, tips, and advice to share.

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What’s the Worst Interview Question to Ask?

Undercover Recruiter

You’ve probably experienced plenty of job interviews in your time, and whilst you may have prepped yourself as much as possible, there is always that one question you hated being asked. In fact, you hated it that much that now that the shoe is on the other foot you probably avoid asking that question yourself. View Article. What’s the Worst Interview Question to Ask?

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Self Service Recruiting: What the Modern Candidate Wants

Beamery

“People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy.” – Jeffrey Gitomer, International Sales Trainer. Think about the last time you bought a product on Amazon. Most purchases start like this: We don’t take products for granted anymore. We do our own research and we listen to what other people say (even reviewers we will never meet and may have nothing in common with).

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How to Find and Hire a.NET Developer

Stack Overflow

Considering the nuances of.NET, identifying the qualities you should be looking for in candidates can be particularly challenging. Developed by Microsoft in the late 1990s,NET (pronounced “dot net”) is a framework that runs on Microsoft Windows that allows programmers to build applications with code across several languages. A wide variety of platforms (including Stack Overflow) were built on the back of.NET, so it’s not surprising that developers with a mastery of the framework are in high dema

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Assessing for Culture Fit During the Interview

Traitify

Interviews are often small glimpses of the interviewees’ personalities. Emotions are high, anxiety may be creeping in, or they could be playing it too cool to seem as though they have it all together. Knowing all of that, how can you crack the code and make sure you are hiring the very best candidate from the start? Finding candidates who are a good fit for your culture is as important as filling open positions within your company.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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9 Considerations For Creating Job Advertisements

The Hire Talent

We’ve addressed the importance of considering the fitment of a candidate by looking at their potential from several perspectives. Here are a few others components that play a role in the selection of your candidate, and thus, in how you will create a job ad to attract new candidates. Skills, Education, and Experience Skills Skills, Read More. The post 9 Considerations For Creating Job Advertisements appeared first on The HIRE Talent.

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Why Your Small Business Needs an EVP and 5 Steps to Build It

CareerBuilder

If someone were to ask you right now, “What is your EVP?” Would you be able to answer them right away? Or would you have to stop and think about it? Or would you have no idea what they were talking about? An EVP is short for “employee value proposition.” It’s the set of offerings a company promises its employees in return for contributing their time and talent.

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5 Helpful Tips to Prepare For a Conference: #SHRM17 Edition

Undercover Recruiter

This post is sponsored by Perengo – A Programmatic Recruitment Platform. Be sure to connect with their Director of Sales at the SHRM 2017 Annual Conference (June 18-20). Learn how programmatic job ads can produce results for your organization. Industry conferences are often equal parts exciting and overwhelming. The audible buzz of a massive expo hall, combined with.

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12 Ways Effective Leaders Share Leadership and Power

FlashPoint

Ed Dunens // cc by: 2.0. HEALTHY TEAMS START WITH THE LEADER. Leadership makes all the difference in how well a team performs. Have you ever worked for or been on a team where the leader takes a dictatorial approach? Where the leader seeks power to the detriment of team members? Where the leader puts himself or herself first above the needs of the 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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Don’t Just Email Candidates – Add Texting into Your Recruiting Mix

Phenom People

I’ll be one of the first to admit that I have spent countless hours crafting highly-personalized emails to target candidates in the past. Of course, this method works really well, and I would never suggest that you stop emailing candidates as part of your recruiting outreach. However, I do think there’s value in adding. Read More.

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RecruitingLive with Dean Da Costa

Recruiting Daily

We are with Dean Da Costa again talking about what he does best – using innovative techniques to find candidates and (mostly) free tools for recruiters and recruiting agencies. You know, the tools that find those candidates in minutes instead of hours. With more than 20 years of experience and over 2,000 extensions, tools and apps pinned to his browsers – […].

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Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 1 of 12

HireRight

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is less than a year away. Yet, there still seems to be some way to go for most companies affected to achieve compliance with the new regulations. Over the next year, HireRight will be releasing the “12 Steps to GDPR Compliance” blog series, aimed at addressing some key issues that are closely related to the HireRight services.

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What Recruiters Get Wrong When It Comes to Interviews

Linkedin Talent Blog

Let’s face it – the perception of recruiters by our customers (hiring managers, candidates, client customers) is often times not a great one. No matter how good you are, how many great placements you have made or how great a sourcer you may be, most of our customers think that they can do our job (or at the very least, have opinions on how they would do it better).

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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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How to Encourage Your Employees to Own Their Individual Value in a Teamwork Environment

Glassdoor for Employers

The key to empowering individual contributors while energizing your company as a whole? It’s all about enabling employees to own their personal value in a teamwork environment.

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Better Jobs With Companies That Care About Women – June 7, 2017

PowerToFly

It’s really easy to hide behind our computer screens and prefer to connect virtually rather than in the physical world. But we can’t expect for the world around us to change if we don’t get out and try to change it. We implore you to come and join us this summer at events we’ll be throwing across the U.S. And even if you can’t make it, or you’re still feeling bashful, we won’t hold a grudge – in fact, we’ll invite you to online event opportunities.

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Talentegy TxMatters June

Talentegy

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It Looked Like A Simple Street Sale… Look What Happened Next!

RecruitmentJuice

Sales is simple. Success is simple. Life can be simple. It is people who make it complicated. When I speak at conferences or work with individuals in coaching sessions, they often ask for the “advanced” stuff, explaining that they are good at what they do and that they already know the simple stuff. They are not interested in looking at the basics and checking that they are not missing any tricks.

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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 Many Stars Would You Give Your Hiring Process?

CareerPlug

Better yet…How many stars would your applicants give it? How about your hiring managers? Or your leaders? Your new hires? All of these ratings matter, so sweat the details. It’s the little things that you do as an organization that make you who you are and have helped you succeed with your customers. Too often, The post How Many Stars Would You Give Your Hiring Process?

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The State of the Internet for Recruiting and Hiring

Recruiting Daily

Part I: Hitting The Deck First of three parts If you’ve never been to Terranea along the coast just south of Los Angeles, it’s hard to describe one of the most picturesque, and privileged, places in the world. To get there, you have to go through the industrial cities of Torrance and San Pedro, past decaying […].

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Measure Candidate Experience at Each Stage

Survale

More and more companies are realizing that there are huge benefits to be gained by measuring candidate experience. The list is long, but among the chief benefits of gathering and acting on candidate feedback are: Increased business results. Candidates are customers who are less inclined to purchase from you after a bad experience. Better quality of hire.

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Survey: Talent Solution Providers Are Out of Synch With Client Business Goals

Recruiting Daily

You know this if you have had to do it, but finding the right talent solution — and talent solution provider — can be a huge challenge, one that can give a company a huge headache if it doesn’t go right. That’s why a new survey released today by Orion Talent, titled Making the Grade: […].

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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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How to send recruiting emails to candidates: An FAQ guide

Workable

Effective email communication with candidates helps you build a strong brand, both as an employer and as a recruiter. From reaching out to passive candidates, to rejecting candidates with grace, our guide on recruiting email manners will help improve your communication with candidates. Here are some frequently asked questions about how to email candidates: Who should email a passive candidate about an open position: a recruiter or a hiring manager?

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14 Experts on Taking Your Productivity Game from Slow to Pro

Recruiting Blogs

It’s easy to lose focus on being productive when we’re so busy being busy. When you reach a point when your 40-50 hour workweek is no longer sufficient to get your job done, it’s time to take a step back and evaluate—not what your workload is, but how you’re doing your job. I took a break from being busy to reach out to several experts in recruiting and talent acquisition (and some of the busiest people I know) to ask about their favorite productivity tool, hack, extension, or software and t

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Time to reboot the gamification of recruitment

Workable

It’s safe to assume that Casey Wardynski didn’t foresee the scale of what he was starting back in 1999. As chief economist of the U.S. Army, he was looking for ways to broaden the recruiting base for the armed forces when he turned to gaming technology. The colonel’s team came up with America’s Army, the first military-developed video game. Aimed at young teenagers, the object of the game was to collect “honor” points and those patient enough to work their way through compulsory medical training

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