Thu.Jul 30, 2020

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Why more remote workers mean you need a new onboarding process

Social Talent

Remote working has come skidding into our lives as not only a popular, but in many cases essential way of working. Remote workers aren’t new – after all, many people have been working from home for years – but working remotely has become nearly universal across multiple industries, validating it much faster than anyone expected. Here are some interesting statistics we found which show that remote working is here to stay, and that the unique challenges it presents means you will need to readdres

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5 Ways Employers Can Compete Against Unemployment Benefits

Allegis Global Solutions

Many organizations have discovered that a recent spike in unemployment does not translate to cheaper or more available labor. Particularly in light industrial skill sets, those organizations face obstacles that may actually make talent less accessible than in the past.

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Recruitment Reputation.

The Whiteboard

Reputation is everything in our industry, it’s the vehicle we use from getting to deal to deal. It can be improved upon or dented until the wheels fall off. To quote, George Washington, Wayne Gretzky, or Marilyn Monroe, depending on the credibility of website you visit “it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad to lose it all.

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The State of Hiring in the Construction Industry in 2020

AkkenCloud

Many industries have been impacted by the pandemic that COVID-19 has caused. The construction industry no exception. Many construction and engineering projects ceased work, and many projects have been paused, pushed back, and even canceled. But how does that affect hiring for the industry and securing work on projects that might be few and far between?

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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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9 Tips for Measuring and Assessing Soft Skills in Your Contact Center Hiring Process

Harver

How can you measure and assess soft skills of potential contact center agents? Build a solid soft skills assessment process and hire better!

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Share stories of employee work-life balance (and vacation!)

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 5 minutes. All team members at Stories Inc. look forward to Summer Fridays — when the office closes on Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. But, in this summer of covid, we value this extra day off more than ever. The team has been working extremely hard from their distributed locations, while innovating to create new services and deliver compelling content to our partners.

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How Businesses Can Adapt Benefits to Support Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Namely - Talent

With more than 4.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., health will remain a top concern for American workers as we approach the end of summer. On top of that, the pandemic has presented a unique challenge for a majority of businesses. Many businesses have shuttered completely, and for those that haven’t, significant financial losses have put a strain on their companies and employees.

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A New “Lazy” Diversity Hack

Boolean Strings

Master Sourcer Aaron Lintz and I agree that being LAZY is an excellent sourcer’s quality. We are both openly lazy and constantly in search of ways to make our professional lives easier. It is not always possible as tools and data vary. Here is a lazy diversity sourcing hack for you. Sometimes, a NOT search is the answer to your questions and is the universal searching approach.

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A Bright Forecast for Hiring in the New Normal

The Staffing Stream

Since the world was turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been hopeful for a return to normalcy. But what does recruitment look like in the “new normal?” Looking ahead, we need to consider how long we’ll have to follow adjusted hiring practices, how prepared we are for a second wave of stay-at-home orders and how our hiring priorities have shifted amid a global crisis.

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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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Avionté RAW: Real Analytics Weekly – Week 29

Avionte

Week 29 continued the remarkable and consistent trend of weekly growth! The highlight was a whopping 4.0% increase in hours for the week – the second-highest increase in 2020 for any standard week! Assignments, payroll, billing, and other metrics also increased. I felt this week was significant, as the amount of COVID cases has grown dramatically, more states are increasing restrictions and the government is trying to figure out how to deal with unemployment.

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Careers in Beer: What It’s Like Building a Tech Startup Inside Anheuser-Busch

The Muse

Why working for an established company like Anheuser-Busch might supercharge your tech career.

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Your Homework

Boolean Strings

Motivating recruiters to source outside of LinkedIn is topic managers often bring up when signing up their teams for training. Yesterday, I spoke with a potential client, a thriving agency manager whose recruiters “won’t step outside of LinkedIn.” “How do I motivate them?” The conversation has prompted me to write my thoughts down.

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[PODCAST] Effective Email Relationships & Campaigns

Recruiting Daily

Effective email relationships and campaigns As you tap Internet communities, newsgroups, blogs, chat groups, forums, mailing lists, etc., it’s important to consider how you initiate and build communication with the candidates you find into enough of an e-relationship to get applicants or referrals out of it, and keep them warm enough to go back to for […].

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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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Tips on how to ace your upcoming IT Interview

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

IT candidates continue to have the upper hand in a job market characterized by skills gaps and talent shortages. In an industry survey , 67% of IT managers said they want to grow their security, cloud computing, and business intelligence teams in 2020, but 89% said they faced difficulty recruiting that talent. The demand for niche technical skills is no longer limited to IT.

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CandidateZip Launches its API Integration Program

CandidateZip

,CandidateZip is a Global Leader of Simplified Resume/Job Data Extraction into ATS/CRM for Recruiters, Staffing Companies, and Startups. It helps them to extract candidate's data from resumes/jobs into their ATS/CRM quickly. This saves their time on data entry so that they can do what they love to, i.e., closing more jobs. ,With its perfect parsing tool, CandidateZip has recently announced its Resume/Job Parser API integration program for ATS/CRM, which is an amazing way to increase your revenue

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Administrative Assistant Interview Questions: Tips for Landing the Job

Professional Alternatives

When applying for support or administrative roles , there are typically some administrative assistant interview questions that will be asked so the employer can learn about your qualifications and how well you would fit with the brand and the particular department you are applying to. Since the position requires not just administrative but interpersonal skills, the managers will also ask interview questions about the specific attributes that you possess which qualify you to be an administrative

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CandidateZip Launches its API Integration Program

CandidateZip

CandidateZip is a Global Leader of Simplified Resume/Job Data Extraction into ATS/CRM for Recruiters, Staffing Companies, and Startups. It helps them to extract candidate's data from resumes/jobs into their ATS/CRM quickly. This saves their time on data entry so that they can do what they love to, i.e., closing more jobs. With its perfect parsing tool, CandidateZip has recently announced its Resume/Job Parser API integration program for ATS/CRM, which is an amazing way to increase your revenue.

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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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A Force For Change: How The Pandemic Is Creating Necessary Reforms To Learning Environments

Forbes Human Resources Council

Agile learning and training in the post-pandemic era require new approaches.

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Global Data Shows Surge in Remote Work

Linkedin Talent Blog

When COVID-19 hit earlier this year, the number of people working remotely skyrocketed. Millions of companies had to embrace work-from-home only to be pleasantly surprised by the results. Some have since announced more permanent remote plans, banking on cost-savings, wider talent pools, and greater diversity. On LinkedIn, remote job postings nearly tripled since March, as employers around the globe adapted to the new reality.

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Prep For Your Next Interview With These Tips From uShip Recruiter

PowerToFly

Angie Meier, Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition Manager for uShip, shared some top-notch resume tips with us, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the interview process at uShip! uShip is the world's first and largest shipping marketplace backed by a creative, diverse, and supported team. "Innovation is one of our core values, so we're always looking for people that are curious to help us continue to evolve".

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6 Ways to Tie Employer Branding to the Hiring Experience

Glassdoor for Employers

Whether during a robust or down-trending economy, the hiring experience is important in order to appeal to the best-of-the-best talent. In this post, we explore methods to tie employer branding into the hiring experience; e.g., sourcing, recruiting, interviewing and onboarding top talent. Doing so will help ensure your company is marketplace competitive.

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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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8 Tips for Writing a Compassionate Rejection Letter

Hundred5

Getting a rejection letter for a job you really wanted is never an easy experience. Also, writing a rejection letter can be stressful, even for the best of us. This is truer than ever nowadays when the pandemic forces candidates to be extremely competitive. How you as a company handle this rejection is a critical aspect of your candidates’ experience , and can make or break your employer brand.

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What is inclusive leadership?

Workable

Why is inclusive leadership important? We live in a diverse business world. There’s not just variability in our workforce, there is also diversity in the customers we want to attract, in the messages we share or consume via various platforms, and the markets we plan to expand to. Inclusive leadership helps balance all these elements – inclusive leaders adapt quickly to diverse scenarios and alternate perspectives with an open, non-judgmental mind to bring on the best results possible.

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5 Essential Survival Skills for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Bill Benson with WilliamCharles Search Group located in Grand Rapids, MI. WilliamCharles is an executive search and professional recruiting firm specialized in finding managerial and executive talent in finance, HR, operations, sales/marketing as well as president/CEO roles. They have a concentration of clients in Michigan but they also work across the US.

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Creative Ideas for Getting the Most out of Zoom

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Everybody is using Zoom and other remote meeting apps these days as employees, managers, customers, clients, and others are dispersed across multiple locations—some still in the workplace and some not. But, while these apps have definitely offered some benefit and opportunity to make connections during the pandemic, Zoom fatigue is certainly setting in.

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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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Resource Allocation: 5 Step Guide For Project Managers

Hundred5

According to PMI, barely 50% of projects deliver on time. Drilling down, 23% of those failures cite poor resource allocation as the primary factor. Resource allocation works the same way, whether for a project or for day-to-day operations. But, allocating the right resources at the right time could be the difference between success and failure. . In this article, we’ll give you the full rundown on resource allocation.

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NLRB Wants to Shield Employees’ Personal E-Mail Addresses, Phone Numbers

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Continuing its quest to roll back rules put in place during the Obama era, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is proposing ending a requirement that employers turn over available employee personal e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers to union organizers. The Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the July 29 Federal Register, citing a need to protect employee privacy.

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Top 3 Tedious Tasks of Recruiters and How to Ease Them

TargetRecruit

The Covid-19 pandemic has created upheavals across industries and the year 2020 has seen unprecedented levels of unemployment. This means that hiring is becoming increasingly competitive due to the sheer volume of applicants, making the job of recruiters even more challenging. If at this time, your recruiters are busy doing their tasks manually, then most probably the goals that you would have laid out for your staffing firm this year are not going to be met or it would be challenging to meet th

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