Mon.Jul 18, 2016

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5 Creative Ways You Can Use Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality For Employer Branding

Proactive Talent

You may have heard that virtual reality and augmented reality are the next “big thing” in technology, and how they will revolutionize the way we live, learn, work and play. And they may completely change how we attract, engage and recruit talent in the future as well. Wondering if virtual reality and augmented reality are just a fad? Let’s take a look at a few stats and you’ll see why VR and AR are here to stay: The AR mobile game “Pokémon Go,” which layers virtual Pokémon characters on top of a

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Video and Job Advertising: The Perfect Marriage

Social Talent

Over the last few years, online video has quickly become a key way for people to satisfy their information and entertainment needs. According to Cisco , video will account for 82% of all consumer internet traffic by 2020 – an incredible statistic! And Google have responded, by quickly favouring pages that contain video and showing them in the search engine results.

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Do Millennial Men and Women Want the Same Things in a Job?

Indeed

A recent survey from Indeed found that the graduating class of 2016 has an upbeat outlook on the job market. In fact, 86% of new grads are “optimistic” they will find full-time employment within a year, while more than 90% are “hopeful” they will land a job in their preferred field. This sense of optimism is split almost evenly between the most recent crop of millennial men and women to enter the workforce — and that’s not all they have in common.

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7 Networking Hacks for Industry Conferences

Yoh

Not all conferences are created equal. And yes, some are more fun than others. Either way, if it's your name on the conference badge, be prepared to pack your bag and these 7 networking hacks to maximize your conference experience.

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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 Summer is the Best Time to Change Recruitment Software Providers

FireFish Software

After the mid-way point of 2016, it’s good to take some time out for reflection. An excellent place to start is by reviewing the effectiveness of your recruitment software. So let’s sit back, take stock, and consider just how easy it would be to migrate to a new, leaner, and more efficient software provider.

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Ready for Promotion? Ten Steps to Stepping Up

Undercover Recruiter

It’s Monday morning. Are you relishing the week or are you seeing it as Day 1 of a new hostage situation? Are you managed by a moron, captive in a role you’ve out-grown and fearful that the smell in your nostrils is that of your career, stagnating? If so, it’s time to move up or move. View Article. Ready for Promotion? Ten Steps to Stepping Up.

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What You Can Measure on Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

With a Glassdoor Free Employer Account, you gain access to a fountain of analytics, intelligence and trends in your Employer Center. Curious.

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Later Alligator: How To Leave A Job On Good Terms

Undercover Recruiter

If you’ve just accepted a job offer from a new company, high five! It’s always a fantastic feeling knowing that you’ll be moving on and starting a new adventure. However now you’ve got over the interview process, the job offer and the excitement, it’s time to deal with the elephant in the room: your current. View Article.

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Why Small Businesses Should Consider Unlimited Vacation Time

CareerBuilder

Unlimited vacation time sounds like a worker’s dream and an employer’s nightmare. What company in its right mind would implement a policy where staff members can take off however much time they want? Nothing would get done, and the business would go belly up, right? Tell that to Netflix, LinkedIn, Virgin Group, Grubhub, Grant Thornton, and others that offer unlimited time off as part of their benefits packages.

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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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3 Crucial Steps to Collecting Your Recruiting Fee

Top Echelon Contracting

There’s nothing a recruiter likes better than placing a candidate. Well, there might be one thing—collecting the recruiting fee for placing that candidate. Recruiters who have been in the profession for any length of time probably have at least one “horror. The post 3 Crucial Steps to Collecting Your Recruiting Fee appeared first on Top Echelon.

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LinkedIn Network Trimming

Boolean Strings

LinkedIn is automatically removing many connections between its members today, July 18th, 2016, following an email it sent to all “mega-connectors” (including me). A copy of the email LinkedIn has sent to mega-connectors about the Trimming Project can be found, for example, in these blog posts: Further LinkedIn Changes Agree Or Disagree ?

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Guest Blog – The Three Things Employees Want Most from Managers

HRsoft

Originally Published at: 34strong.com. By Darren Virassammy. COO – 34 Strong, Inc. In the world of managers, it is so difficult to qualify what it is specifically that employees want from managers? Is it praise? Is it recognition? Is it development? Is it clarity? What are the common denominators? Perhaps, it is more within reach than you think!

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WEBINAR: The Key Recruiting Metric You’re Not Tracking, Source of Influence

Symphony Talent

If you aren’t tracking the entire candidate journey, how can you improve it? Research by Invero shows that today’s candidate touches 18 source of information and checks 7-8. The post WEBINAR: The Key Recruiting Metric You’re Not Tracking, Source of Influence appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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Could a Job Candidate with a Criminal Record Turn out to Be Your Best Employee?

HireRight

What if you found that hiring a former felon could be a good thing for your company? Or that it could even turn out to a great thing, with such a person actually outperforming other employees with “clean” records? In light of a recent study from Harvard and Amherst universities indicating that doing so may actually be a wise decision for a number of reasons, it’s a notion worth deliberation.

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Your Smart Guide to Fast and Effective Hiring

BroadBean Technology

Time kills deals. If you’ve been in recruitment for more than a month then you’re already familiar with this expression. Indeed, time is the biggest killer in the recruitment life-cycle and is one of the hardest elements of the recruitment process for a recruiter to control. Effective hiring is about speed - we don’t mean your recruitment process should be a sprint, but it should be efficient, effective, and without unnecessary delays.

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Revolutionary Staffing Solution – It’s Time to Change

TargetRecruit

Life is going to be tougher with the changing dynamics of day-to-day needs and hassle of everyday lifestyle. So is the scenario of professional liabilities and working conditions. With the changing needs and ecosystem of various industries, new tools and technologies have stepped in for simplifying the work process. Staffing industry is no more exception and it has witnessed a revolutionary phase manifesting adaption of newest technologies.

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9 Tips on Improving Your Company’s Culture

JWT Inside

Learning to identify and define your company’s culture is just the first step. Once you’ve achieved this, being able to communicate, embody and empower employees who live out the company culture becomes paramount. Our very own president, John Windolph gives us 9 tips for how to improve your company culture, which were recently published on the Recruiter Today Blog.

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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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The Key to Effective Succession Planning

TalentGuard

The Key to Effective Succession Planning. An effective succession planning process is essential to all organizations because they are always changing, and CEOs and executives can leave in a hurry. Replacing them can be a lengthy and frustrating process that often takes far longer than any board member might expect. Even companies with a formal succession planning process in place often find themselves unable to fill new roles effectively , moving new people into vacant roles only to find that th

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What Matters Most During Onboarding – Process, Practices, or Duration?

Brandon Hall

Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 Talent Acquisition Technology research shows that onboarding is a hot topic and that both the onboarding process and onboarding technology solutions are top priorities for 2016. However, as I dove deeper into what is happening around onboarding through our just-completed 2016 Onboarding research, I found a deep level of dissatisfaction with the current state of onboarding.

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Oil Recruiters - It’s Time to Restart Your Recruitment Marketing

Harger Howe Recruitment

If you were not aware, our Harger Howe - Houston office and our staff specialize in recruitment marketing and branding strategies for the energy sector. Because the oli and gas industry is so prevalent in the Houston area, we monitor stories and infromation about the oil and gas industry very closely. CNN Money recently came out with a great article about oil jobs called 100,000 Oil Jobs Could Be Coming Back that is forecasting a worker shortage.

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Pokemon GO, the return of in person sourcing.

Recruiting Blogs

So back in the dark ages of sourcing, before social media, before job boards, before wide use of the internet, one of the ways you would source would be to try to find out were the people from a company would congregate after work. You would go there and try to connect with them, figure out what they do and see how they fit what you need. This was called Live or in person sourcing.

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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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How to create click-worthy job descriptions

JazzHR

Creating a quality job advertisement is arguably one of the toughest things in HR and recruiting. Sometimes your hiring manager will hand you over a novella of a job description, and expect you to find candidates who will read through that. Other times, they may just ask you to write it when you aren’t an expert on their position, then get upset when it doesn’t come out perfectly.

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Contingent Search - Still A Very Flawed Industry

Recruiting Blogs

No big news here. I often write simply to crystallize thoughts, so much so in this case that I changed my mind 3 times during the writing. I've read serious articles from ERE to The Fordyce Letter aimed at this painful subject, as well as, lots of blog posts. I just refuse to believe, or even understand, why staffing firms and their customers still bang their heads against this rock, both complicit in the madness.

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1 in 6 Employers Plan to Hire More Recruiters in Next 6 Months

CareerBuilder

One in 6 employers in the U.S. (16 percent) across all industries say they plan to hire more recruiters in the next six months to help bring new talent in the door, according to CareerBuilder’s 2016 Midyear Job Forecast. Some of the in-demand roles employers said they will be recruiting for in the second half of the year are those tied to: Cloud technology – 12 percent.

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Choose Your Apprenticeship in Newcastle Carefully

Recruiting Blogs

Apprenticeships strike a balance between two different types of learning: classroom and hands-on. This unique method enables you to immediately put into practice the knowledge that you are acquiring, allowing you to progress and to thrive. Benefits of Apprenticeships. Apprenticeships give you the opportunity to learn and earn at the same time. You will be consistently building on and enhancing your skills and receiving a wage for the work you are putting 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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17 Things I Wish I Had Known on My First Day as a Recruiter

Linkedin Talent Blog

I love recruiting, despite the bad rap it gets. It's an extremely challenging yet rewarding role for any young professional. And, like any career, getting started can be challenging. There are definitely some things I wish someone had told me when I was going into my first recruiting job at an education reform startup. With that in mind, I made a list of the things I wish I had known and I believe any newbie recruiter should be told when they are starting their career. . 1.

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New Tools To Accommodate Millennials- Part 2

Recruiting Blogs

In Part 1, we talked about hiring talent with Snapchat & Virtual Reality, if you haven’t go check out here. In this article, we will enlighten you about one of the most popular social networking platform, Instagram. Instagram is filled with passive and creative talent. On 21st June 2016 Instagram announced that they have grown from 300M users to 500M+ users wherein 300M+ are daily active on the platform.

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HRsoft’s Talent Takeaway Webinar Series Now HRCI Approved

HRsoft

Since we began our Talent Takeaways webinar series, our goal has always been to provide our listeners with valuable information on HR strategy, best practices, technology, and more. To do so, we’ve showcased industry experts who have shared their knowledge, including actionable tips and proven tactics. Now, in addition to valuable HR solutions, our Talent Takeaways webinars will provide you with further benefits: HR Certification Institute (HRCI) credits.