Thu.Aug 03, 2017

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3 Strategies to Differentiate Your Team and Win Over Technical Talent

Lever

Either you’ve experienced the hard truth, or you’ve heard it. Hiring technical talent can feel like you’re grasping at straws that just keep slipping away. The numbers confirm it. Today, 82 percent of employers who hire engineers struggle to fill open roles. Software developers can get as many as 20 calls a day from recruiters trying to convince them to leave for another company.

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A Lesson from Unilever on Enhancing Your Employer Brand through Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

Here at Unilever, cultivating a strong employer brand is of the highest importance. Why? Because maintaining our position as an industry leader requires us to attract the very best in talent from around the world.

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How to Approach a Company with a Candidate

FireFish Software

At Firefish Software, we get plenty of recruiters approaching us looking to spec candidates into our business. So, we thought we’d share some insights into how to do it well, alongside some common pitfalls to avoid. Read on and discover the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to approaching a company with a candidate….

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The Brutal Truth About Why Nobody Wants to Work for Your Company

Glassdoor for Employers

One of the biggest complaints I'm hearing from executive teams across the country right now is,"We can't find the right talent.".

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Are You Playing the Right Roles to Drive Change?

Symphony Talent

Five years ago, recruitment marketing was an abstract concept that most confused with recruitment advertising and even fewer experimented with as a marketing-focused strategy. It had many definitions. The post Are You Playing the Right Roles to Drive Change? appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Quirky Interview Questions

NPA Worldwide

So we have all heard these quirky interview questions. Most of us have tried one or two of these recruitment tricks at the end of a candidate interview. What is important is how skilled you are in asking the question and how effective you are at learning something from the answer that is provided. One I like…”On a scale of 1 to 10, how weird are you?

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How to Use Response Rates to Improve Your Tech Recruiting Strategy

Stack Overflow

With 98% of developers already being employed, software engineer positions are perhaps the most difficult to recruit for. The developer community is largely made up of passive job candidates--that is, candidates who aren’t on job boards but would be open to an amazing opportunity if it crossed their paths. Actively sourcing and messaging those passive candidates is a major key to developer hiring.

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10 Outrageous Blunders Made By Candidates on Their CV

Social Talent

As a recruiter or hiring manager, it can be painstakingly hard to look at some of the junk that ends up on your desk. When it come’s down to resume’s, you’ve seen it all from the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes you’re genuinely left rubbing your eyes in disbelief and asking yourself “What did I just read?” That being said, here are 10 of the most ridiculous blunders ever to appear on a candidates resume……EVER!

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Driving Diversity in Workplace Made Easy with an ATS

Jobsoid

Research has confirmed that companies with employees of different ethnicity, age, gender, race, culture, clan, and economic status generate higher revenues and are twice as likely to be successful as they have a greater variety to offer in terms of services and solutions. There are many benefits of workplace diversity […]. The post Driving Diversity in Workplace Made Easy with an ATS appeared first on Jobsoid.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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4 Rules For Optimizing High Volume Recruitment

Ideal

Amazon is making headlines this week for their high volume recruitment of 50,000 employees. . High volume recruitment generally refers to filling a larger-than-average number of positions in a relatively short time frame – although most companies don’t come close to requiring as many people as Amazon! While the average job posting receives 59 applicants according to Jobvite, a high volume recruitment role typically receives 250 or more applicants.

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Reaching Outside The Industry: The Need to Bring Fresh Talent Into Retail Automotive

Hireology

During Elevate 2017 , the first-ever retail automotive summit focused solely on human capital management, Hireology and Cox Automotive will exclusively present findings to a new research report, the 2017 Dealership Staffing Study. The findings include research from more than 1,000 dealerships, – getting insights from dealer principals, general managers, sales and technical professionals, as well as members of the workforce outside of retail automotive.

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5 reasons your candidate journey is terrible

BroadBean Technology

There’s a huge disparity between how employers perceive their candidate experience and how candidates actually rate them. Where there is no disagreement is on the point that a joined up, end to end candidate experience is important but this doesn’t always translate into the amount of effort or resources which go into monitoring this and fixing any problems.

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Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own

The Investigative Recruiter

Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own. A short list of the top executive search firms is readily available in the minds of most CEOs, Chief People Officers, Heads of Talent Acquisition. But what's a company to do if that short list comes up short? The Good Search - Executive Search for Technology, Data Science, and AI. Krista Bradford.

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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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Fixing the Candidate Experience: It Will Take More Humans, Less Automation

Recruiting Daily

Everybody knows that automation has dramatically changed how people get hired. In fact, automation is the very reason why job boards exist. It’s also why they can be so challenging because automation means, all too often, that the very best candidates get lost in the pile of every Tom, Dick, and Harry who has the […].

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Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own

The Investigative Recruiter

Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own If you have a senior executive search you need to conduct, it is only natural to wonder what the top executive search firms are. There used to be a comprehensive directory of executive recruiters by Kennedy Information, yet it is no longer being published. The lists you […].

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Time for an Upgrade? Recruitment Advertising Reloaded.

Recruiting Daily

The candidate journey is constantly changing because it has to adapt quickly to rapidly changing trends. Recruitment advertising is no different. Since the days of “Help Wanted” ads and posts, recruitment advertising has evolved through online and print ads, employment agencies, and job fairs. Job ads are everywhere, and every company is looking for people […].

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Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own

The Investigative Recruiter

Top Executive Search Firms List: How to Build Your Own A short list of the top executive search firms is readily available in the minds of most CEOs, Chief People Officers, Heads of Talent Acquisition. But what’s a company to do if the search firms on that short list start to come up short? What is […].

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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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Gaps In the Resume, But Not In Talent—Reasons to Embrace Women Returning to the Workforce

Linkedin Talent Blog

They’re talented, ambitious, and eager to contribute. Yet, so many hiring managers and companies are refusing to take notice. I’m referring to the estimated 1.5 million women with degrees who have left the workforce and now wish to return. These women off-ramped from their careers for a variety of reasons (to start a family, to care for an elderly parent, for personal health reasons) but all face the same struggle: how to jump back in.

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Here’s One Talent Source You’re Missing Out On

Phenom People

It’s no surprise that we are currently in the war for talent. Most organizations have initiatives in place to improve employer branding and candidate experience. They are also looking to fine-tune what sourcing channels they are using to tap into the right talent for the organization. Of course, these initiatives cost money, time, and. Read More.

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Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 3 of 12

HireRight

Step one in “12 Steps to GDPR Compliance” blog series covered candidate consent and information notices. Consent is not only vital to HireRight’s service but also on the route to compliance. Now it’s time to continue the journey towards Step 3 on the road to GDPR compliance: Will subject access rights become the Vogue under the GDPR? The post Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 3 of 12 appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight.

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Remote Pullback

Recruiting Blogs

Working remotely has some major pluses for both companies and employees and for the last 20 years or so we’ve seen a lot more remote work. That’s changing. Many companies are now pulling back on remote work and remote workers. IBM, AETNA, HP, and Reddit to name a few. Companies are saying they want more control and collaboration. Even good things get overdone, so a pullback isn’t surprising.

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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 Schooling of Recruiters

The Whiteboard

When I first embarked on the rollercoaster, fingernail-shredding, rec-to-rec game back in 2007, the Auckland recruitment market had quite a different look, feel and flavour to the one we all operate in today. Ten years ago the market was dominated by larger recruitment brands, most recruiting across several verticals, many with a global presence beyond New Zealand, and far fewer one-man-band or niche specialist firms.

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Working for Apple? Hmm…

Recruiting Blogs

Apple continues to be commercially successful, but software engineers from the Silicon Valley are cautious about it because of the closed and extremely strict internal culture. In addition, the technological component of the latest products does not seem to be such a breakthrough. My friend James who is a software developer recently started looking for a new place.

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How to reject candidates without burning bridges

Workable

Rejecting candidates with grace is part of creating a positive candidate experience. When done right, it helps you build a healthy talent pipeline and improve your employer brand. That’s because candidates who leave your hiring pipeline on a high note are more likely to: Consider future job openings if you reach out. Become customers or recommend your products/services.

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Upgrade your Employment Process to Grow Your Company

Right Recruiting

Right Recruiting excels in finding professional and executive talent for small and mid-sized firms, nationally. As the market has tightened, we’ve developed new tools and processes that help us find people that others can’t. I know that sounds like braggadocio, but facts are facts. We’ve been ranked highly in both retained and contingency searches by independent journals and, in the last 3 months, we’ve identified candidates for three new clients as a second source – a firm brought into a

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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 build a social media recruitment strategy: An FAQ guide

Workable

Social media sourcing involves using social networks to identify, attract, engage and hire potential candidates. Recruiters use social media sourcing to build talent pipelines for future roles and engage passive candidates who haven’t applied for current openings. Here’s everything you need to know about how to use social recruiting to build a strategy that meets your hiring needs: Intro to social media recruitment: Analyzing the data.

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In the War for Talent, Recruiting Takes Center Stage

Recruiting Blogs

Recruiting talent has always been hard. You wouldn’t think that would be the case, the way politicians build campaigns around jobs, and the way news outlets celebrate companies opening new locations that will bring dozens of jobs to the area. Where are all these job-hungry people when you need a placement? Yes, finding, engaging, and placing talent has always been challenging.

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The Must-Have Process to Onboarding New Employees [Infographic]

ClearCompany Recruiting

Do you want to make your employees’ first day one to remember? U se our guide to ensure you don’t miss any steps so their first day is unforgettable!