Tue.Sep 06, 2016

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6 Places Where Recruiters Can Source Top Tech Talent

Social Talent

Tech talent. The holy grail of the recruiting world. The collective scurry of purple squirrels. We’re all too aware of just how valuable tech candidates are. We also talk a lot about how important it is for recruiters to know how to communicate with tech talent, to ‘speak their language’ But, as important as this is, it won’t be of any use to you if you can’t find the talent in the first place!

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We’re Expanding Our Team Dedicated to Studying Global Labor Market Trends: Here’s Why

Indeed

Two and a half years ago, we launched the Indeed Hiring Lab — a global research institute committed to advancing the knowledge of employers and job seekers. Since then, our growing team has shared unique insights on the global labor market to help people get jobs and help employers understand the trends affecting their industries. Today, Indeed is thrilled to announce that Jed Kolko is joining as Indeed’s full-time chief economist, heading up the Hiring Lab.

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5 Hospitality Skills That a Candidate Can’t Fake

Social Talent

Long hours. Late nights. Difficult customers. No-one can honestly claim that working in hospitality is easy. Nor can anyone say that recruiting candidates for positions in the hospitality industry is a piece of cake either (excuse the pun!). No matter what hospitality positions you’re sourcing for, be it food service, catering, hotel or event management, you really need to have your wits about you as a recruiter.

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Pay Close Attention to Candidate Experience for Long-Lasting Benefits

Entrepreneur

Re-engaging quality applicants is easy if they had a positive experience the first time around.

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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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No One Taught Me How to Source the Most Honest Vendor

Yoh

From products to people, every business needs a wide array of third-party vendors to keep the lights on. But how do you pick the best one? When approaching temporary staffing specifically, two very important words comes to mind, vendor neutrality.

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September Expert Sessions – offer letters & more!

Newton Software

Offer letters, tips, and templates. Newton partners with DocuSign to bring the leading digital signature technology for offer letters to your applicant tracking system. Wednesday, September 7: Offer Letters. Join us as we show off our latest feature – Offer Letters. The quickest way to create, send, and receive signed offer letters from your candidates.

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Text Recruitment? Some Items To Consider

FeeTrader

Mobile recruiting is a remarkable opportunity for recruiters and employers to engage and stay connected. It affects the application process, enhances interaction, communication, and source talent. Your strategy should embrace a multi-device approach so that the process is optimized for candidates and users. Phones and text messaging go together and develop a plan that is critical to targeting untapped candidates; differentiating you from others.

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Developer Interview: Nolan Seaton, Senior Developer at Digital Telepathy

Stack Overflow

Developers don’t always start their careers with a traditional Computer Science degree. Nolan Seaton, a Senior Developer at Digital Telepathy , spent time learning both 3D modeling and graphic design before settling into his current role. Read our interview with Seaton to learn how he got into coding, what he loves about his job at an agency, and what he sees happening to technology in the future.

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Why Everyone is Talking About Talent Mobility & How to Benefit from It

Yoh

Have you ever tirelessly searched for talent, but came up empty-handed? The answer might be right under your nose?

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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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Examining Relationship Based Physician Recruitment

Hospital Recruiting

dotshock/123RF.com. Physician recruitment involves several considerations, such as an evaluation of physician need across practice areas, sourcing and recruiting viable candidates, promoting the healthcare facility and community to top candidates, and ensuring a work style and culture fit. Further complicating the effort is the physician shortage, due to retirement or recidivism due to low reimbursement or costly malpractice premiums.

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4 Fatal Recruitment Flaws Costing You Candidates

Undercover Recruiter

This post is sponsored by TeamHire for JIRA, the collaborative recruitment tool making it easier to source and secure new employees. If you’re struggling to secure fresh talent to your business, it’s time to find out what’s wrong. You’re the common denominator every time a candidate drops out, not them. If you don’t take time to fix a faulty.

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4 advantages of SIGMA: AGS' new mid-market MSP solution

Allegis Global Solutions

How SIGMA brings the advantages of full-scale MSP to the mid-market.

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9 Critical Components of Recruitment Marketing

Undercover Recruiter

Fast-forward through all the scary campfire stories that foretell the demise of talent acquisition. Yes, there are challenges to be sure, but let’s spend our time exploring solutions instead of re-hashing the same statistics that we already know. Here’s the big picture concept: The solutions to many of talent acquisition’s problems can be solved through.

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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 15 Essential Best Practices of an Always Closing Recruiter (and What You Need to Be Doing to Get There)

1-Page

Right now, there are approximately 70,000 software engineering openings in the San Francisco Bay Area. Qualified engineers to fill those spots? Around 60,000 or so. With that kind of proving ground, the recruiting techniques honed in that market can give you an edge anywhere. As part of our FutureTalent webinar series exploring the future of recruiting and talent acquisition, we asked three recruiters from different backgrounds how they get the job done in the tough Silicon Valley market.

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Are You Making The 3 Biggest ATS Implementation Mistakes?

Capterra

Hooray! After weeks, maybe months of searching and research, seemingly endless demos and meetings, you finally have a shiny new applicant tracking software tool. It’s a thing of beauty, too. It fixes all the problems you had with the old one. Your candidate experience (which might have been kind of a mess before) is going to be so much better with this in place.

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2 powerful ways to improve your candidate experience

WebRecruit

It should go without saying that the delivery of a positive candidate experience is one of the most crucial parts of the recruitment process. Not only will you want to get the best out of potential hires during this process, but you will also want them to enjoy the experience and associate your brand with positive characteristics, whatever the outcome of their application.

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Tag, You’re It: The Social Dynamics of Referral Technology

Recruiting Daily

Think back, way way back to the times when you played tag on the playground. For the young ones among us, tag was the game we played before all the kids had cell phones and only walked to PokemonGo gyms. On the off chance that anyone reading this doesn’t remember playing tag or can’t remember how it works, the game is pretty simple. One person who is “it” chases everyone else to try and tag them.

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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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Sourcing Candidates: 14 Ways to Take Pressure off Recruiters

Jibe

Considering the high costs of bad hires, it’s a shame when the sourcing and recruiting processes get rushed. This is where proactive talent acquisition strategies come in handy. Many of the world’s top employers are pouring resources into attracting candidates at the early phases of their job search journey—before they apply. Increasingly, this involves leveraging the internet as a recruiting asset.

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Why Recruiting Looks Easy

Jeff Rothman

There are a lot of misconceptions about the recruiting profession. This article does a great job at helping those outside our profession understand why it ain’t as easy as it might look. Why Recruiting Looks Easy Miles Jennings | January 9, 2012 There is an absolutely wonderful children’s book called 20 Heartbeats about a painter who … Continue reading Why Recruiting Looks Easy.

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Why should you incorporate video into your hiring process?

WebRecruit

For the jobseekers of 2016, there has seemingly never been a greater number of different ways to find vacancies. Whether through word-of-mouth, job search engines, career pages, professional networks or social media, candidates can find positions online more conveniently and effectively than ever before. The benefits for recruiters are endless. Using such technologies has allowed recruiters to reduce their overheads and find candidates that are more closely matched to the job description, someti

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Resources, Strategies and Processes: Part Two of a Five-Part Recruiting Series

Applicant Manager

This is part two of our five-part series about effective recruiting in a candidate driven market. By: Edna Nakamoto and Jessica Barrett. Two weeks ago we started our five-part series on recruiting, where we began by examining how we determine recruiting needs and establish strategic processes. This week, we’re going to take a look at recruiting resources, specific strategies, and more on processes.

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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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9 Books Every Recruiter Needs to Read at Least Once

Linkedin Talent Blog

Sadly, summertime’s coming to an end. But, just because you’re no longer lying on a sunny beach doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take some you time and settle into a good read. For many, deep diving into a text can answer our grappling questions, allow us to explore new ways of doing things and leave us more insightful, a bit more introspective and a little wiser on living.

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Using Rejected Candidates as a Referral Pool

Entelo

If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in this role, please let me know. Hopefully, you’ve never committed this cardinal sin of candidate outreach. At best, it’s a sign-off that will go ignored. At worst it’s a short sighted, ham-fisted request for a person you’ve never spoken to do work on your behalf. Either way, you’re not doing yourself any favors.

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Years of Experience VS Skill

Recruiting Blogs

So there seems to be a lot of interesting thoughts on years of experience for skills. I see things like Senior with 6+ years of experience. Okay great but just because someone has 6 years of experience versus say someone with 3 does not mean the 6 years is better. It really comes down to skills and knowledge. For example I know a person who has about 3 years of experience in sourcing.

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3 Ways to Encourage Your Employees to Be Themselves At the Office

Glassdoor for Employers

The topic of authenticity in the workplace is nothing new. However, the reality is that each workplace is unique, and cultures run.

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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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11 Best Productivity Tools for Recruiters

Recruiting Blogs

Being an effective, professional recruiter is more challenging now than ever. You are responsible for bringing the right candidates on the board and you must optimize your performance in order to bring the best you can. To be a successful recruiter in today’s increasingly competitive market, you need to continually improve and sharpen your skills and attributes.

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All Of The Job Seeker Information You Forget To Share

Spark Hire

If you’re a professional who’s tasked with finding top talent to fill an open position, there are plenty of materials available to you on how to interview job seekers in a way that’s both thorough and efficient. You can sort through hundreds of pages about the kinds of questions you should ask, the candidate red flags you should take note of, and the cliché interview questions you should avoid at all costs.

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History of the First Day of School

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? Labor Day, considered the "unofficial end of summer," signals the return of the school year in the United States and Canada. When the public education system started in the 1800s, the school calendar varied depending on the needs of the community. In cities, schools were open practically year-round and students attended classes up to 240 days a year.