Tue.May 17, 2016

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The Recruiters Guide to: Front End Developers

Social Talent

If you regularly recruit for tech talent, you’ll know all too well that it’s no easy feat. Between trying to get your head around all of the terminologies and jargon added to the fact that tech is easily the most candidate driven market out there – you guys and gals sure do have your hands full! In a new series on the blog to coincide with the release of our new Black Belt in Tech Recruiting programme, we’re breaking down all of the various job functions within the fiel

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Starting Your Day Off Right

HarQen

You know the feeling, you get to the office with every intention of being proactive and forward thinking with your day. Then, before you know you’re putting out fires and being reactive. The day is over and you’re left wondering where it went. When I first took this job, I did not have very much relevant experience outside of coming from an RPO.

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7 Interview Mistakes Every Employer Makes

Social Talent

As globalisation continues to spread and companies continue to expand and compete on a larger scale, there is an ever increasing need to fill positions rapidly in order to achieve organisational objectives. This makes it essential for employers to hire the right candidates, as not doing so can have a detrimental impact. In fact, according to Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 Talent Acquisition Study , 95% of organisations of all sizes admit to making bad hires every year.

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7 Signs Of Bad Resumes That You Need To Look Out For

Spark Hire

When you’re reviewing hundreds of resumes a week, you need to be able to spot the bad ones quickly. Not knowing which red flags signal possible bad hires can lead to a lot of wasted time and money. But, depending on the position and the candidate, some resume mistakes are forgivable. So how do you know when to give a job seeker another chance or just move on?

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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 the Candidate Intake is Crucial to Boost Job Offer Acceptance Rates

Newton Software

The Killer Candidate Qualification Process. The quote made famous by one of our favorite childhood cartoon heroes, GI Joe , holds true for making job offers – knowing really is half the battle. It seems simple but the most common mistake when closing a job offer is not having completed a proper “intake” during the first couple of conversations with the candidate.

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What Developers Think is Important at Work

Stack Overflow

If you picked a handful of employees at random and asked them what was important to them at work, you would likely get very different answers. John in Accounting may care about flexible work hours since he has three children. Carol in Marketing may care the most about getting a promotion since she made it her personal goal for the year. Alex in Engineering probably cares most about the ability to learn new technologies.

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9 Killer Tips for Video Interviews (+4 Bonus Ones)

Undercover Recruiter

Looking for a job? It’s high time to confess that the hiring process is far from what it looked like ten or even five years ago. To keep your eye on the ball and get that dream job, you should be ready for a video interview. Six out of ten hiring managers used video technologies. View Article. 9 Killer Tips for Video Interviews (+4 Bonus Ones).

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Are You Missing This Key Leadership Skill?

Yoh

Great business leaders are quick-witted, decisive, and analytical. They are decision-makers and influencers; their calculations sometimes impact hundreds of employees’ destinies. They are confident, straight-forward and empower their organizations and subordinates in more ways than one. However, some of them are horrible when it comes to written communication.

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Rejection in sales: it’s not me… it’s you!

RecruitmentJuice

Rejection in sales isn’t new. The search for the miracle “get past the gatekeepers, talk to decision makers rather than chat to their answer phone, and not be fobbed off in the first minute of the conversation” wonder drug is still being hunted by millions of recruiters and their managers. With technology rapidly growing, it’s easier for clients/candidates to hide from sales calls.

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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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Job Recruiters Aren't Taking Advantage of Social Media in Their Search for Rockstar Hires

Entrepreneur

But the majority of job seekers sure are, according to a new study.

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The Class of 2016 Report

iCIMS

The Class of 2016 Enters the Workforce [Hopefully]! How do their Expectations Line Up With Employer Realities?

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Getting ahead in the race to business intelligence

Allegis Global Solutions

Everyone is talking about the transition to business intelligence, but how can you get ahead?

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How to Retain High Performers in a Hyper-Competitive Market

CareerBuilder

In an era where baby boomers are retiring at a rate of 10,000 a day and the economy is rapidly reaching full employment, recruiting has never been more important. Not only is it critical to find the necessary talent to meet your organizational strategy, but retaining high performers may mean the difference between success and failure. It’s a Job Seeker’s Market.

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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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The Class of 2016 Report

iCIMS

The Class of 2016 Enters the Workforce [Hopefully]! How do their Expectations Line Up With Employer Realities?

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How To Efficiently Manage And Qualify Employee Referrals

ROIKOI

How long do you spend managing and qualifying employee referrals? The process can definitely be time-consuming and can feel rather daunting, especially when you have a huge volume of great names coming your way while trying to juggle everything else on your plate. Managing and qualifying employee connections doesn’t have to be a painful process. Read the following tips to see how you can free up more time for yourself and bring in more high-quality leads.

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How to Retain High Performers in a Hyper-Competitive Market

CareerBuilder

In an era where baby boomers are retiring at a rate of 10,000 a day and the economy is rapidly reaching full employment, recruiting has never been more important. Not only is it critical to find the necessary talent to meet your organizational strategy, but retaining high performers may mean the difference between success and failure. It’s a Job Seeker’s Market.

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When Does Work Become Unproductive and Unhealthy?

Hire-Intelligence

How much work is too much work? Do workers reach a point when an excessive amount of work so fatigues them mentally and physically that their productivity takes a hit and their health declines? The Draugiem Group conducted a study which tracked employees’ work habits.

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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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How To Efficiently Manage And Qualify Employee Referrals

ROIKOI

How long do you spend managing and qualifying employee referrals? The process can definitely be time-consuming and can feel rather daunting, especially when you have a huge volume of great names coming your way while trying to juggle everything else on your plate. Managing and qualifying employee connections doesn’t have to be a painful process. Read the following tips to see how you can free up more time for yourself and bring in more high-quality leads.

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TargetRecruit’s CEO Selected for CRN’s Women of the Channel a 5th Year in a Row

TargetRecruit

Reena Gupta , of TargetRecruit and Avankia, is recognized as one of CRN’s 2016 Women of the Channel , which spotlights influential women leaders with extraordinary expertise and vision in tech. San Francisco, CA | 05.16.16 – TargetRecruit, a complete end-to-end cloud platform of talent management applications to streamline hiring and leverage analytics for optimal business operations, announced today that CRN® , a brand of The Channel Company , has named Reena Gupta, Founder and CEO of Tar

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With the death of the job application, what’s next for recruiting?

WebRecruit

Admittedly, the title of this piece may not be entirely accurate on two counts. Firstly, the traditional job application may not be ‘dead’ per se, but its death knolls are certainly sounding. Secondly, the expression “What’s next?” would seem to imply that we are about to talk about practices that employers have not yet adopted.

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The Struggles of Managing & Qualifying Referrals

ROIKOI

How long do you currently spend managing and qualifying employee referrals? We know it can be time-consuming and feel daunting at times, especially when you’ve got a lot on your plate and have a great company where everybody wants their friends to come work. You know the feeling: trying to accomplish your day-to-day priorities while simultaneously collecting and organizing referral information, keeping employees up-to-date, and dealing with less-than-perfect referrals is a recipe for exhaustion.

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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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Top 5 Reasons Recruiters Don’t Close the Deal

Top Echelon Contracting

In a previous post for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I asked (and answered) the question, “What is the ‘Total Account Executive’ in Recruiting?” In this blog post, I’m going to address account executives again, specifically why they fail to. The post Top 5 Reasons Recruiters Don’t Close the Deal appeared first on Top Echelon.

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This Hot Startup's Team Hiring Experiment Could Be the Next Big Thing in Recruiting

Linkedin Talent Blog

Danny Ocean, George Clooney's character from "Ocean's Eleven," was a master thief when he had his ten friends backing him up. But would he have the same success if you took him away from Brad Pitt and the boys, drop him into the gang from "Fast and Furious," and told him to rob a casino? Probably not. (Although we'd totally pay to see that movie!).

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Why Growing Companies Need Recruitment Marketing

Harger Howe Recruitment

Growing pains and unexpected stretch goals are common among growth-driven companies. Unfortunately, something that is also common is a lack of proactive personnel sourcing. Typically during the growth stage, companies find themselves scrambling to execute their master plan and that’s when clients find themselves underserved, existing employees find themselves wanting to jump ship and candidates become much harder to locate.

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How to Pronounce “Edinburgh” and Why There is No Salesforce in Recruiting

Entelo

This week on Hiring on All Cylinders, Entelo’s Loni Spratt reports back on her European travels, where she met with recruiters and talent teams in London, Amsterdam, Glasgow and Edinburgh. She learned firsthand the challenges facing European talent acquisition teams and how they differ from their North American counterparts, namely in recruiting non-technical candidates.

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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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Five Reasons Your Passive Candidates Are Ignoring You

Recruiting Blogs

With a longer shelf-life and less chance of being pipped by a competing offer, passive candidates are often the apple of a recruiter’s eye. As a product of your sourcing - depending on the quality of your sourcing - they’re also the best fit for the role in question. How then do recruiters avoid joining the chorus of offers when engaging with the passive talent that isn’t looking for a new role?

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Entelo Head of Customer Success on the Greenhouse Open and Why There is No Salesforce in Recruiting

Entelo

This week on Hiring on All Cylinders, Entelo’s Loni Spratt reports back on her European travels, where she met with recruiters and talent teams in London, Amsterdam, Glasgow and Edinburgh. She learned firsthand the challenges facing European talent acquisition teams and how they differ from their North American counterparts, namely in recruiting non-technical candidates.

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Simple Things You Can Do To Advance Your Career And Your Pay

Recruiting Blogs

Career advancement is one of the most important things on the minds of the average employee. It represents a reward for working hard, and providing consistent results to a company. Let's take a look at some of the simple things that you can do to advance both your pay and your career. . Be Friendlier. The simplest way to conduct your job with an increased efficiency is to adopt a friendlier attitude.