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What to Include on a Standout Career Website

Lever

You’ve worked hard to build a strong employer brand, and it’s paying off — you’re getting more traffic to your career website. The best candidates are more discerning when it comes to where they want to work, and are researching your company before they apply or respond to your sourcing messages. The question is: are the finding the information they’re looking for?

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The 5 Worst Types of Candidate (And How to Deal with Them)

Social Talent

Recruitment can be one of the most fulfilling jobs imaginable. When you find a great candidate and connect them with their perfect role, you get a warm glow knowing that you just helped someone achieve their dreams. But then there are those candidates – the ones who inspire not so much a warm glow as a feeling of overwhelming dread. Of all the candidates haunting recruiters’ nightmares, five types reign supreme: 1.

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The Future of Recruitment: 7 Tips on How to Best Recruit Gen Z

RecruitLoop

Gen Z-ers are becoming adults and smart business leaders are acknowledging their contributions to their company’s greatest potential. Here are seven tips on how to best recruit Gen Z.

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7 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Staff Retention

Glassdoor for Employers

How do you keep your best employees? How do you reduce labor turnover and the cost of hiring new people? What can.

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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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What Not to Give Your Clients Over the Holidays

FireFish Software

Christmas and gifts go hand in hand. But not all gifts carry the same weight. When it comes to sending out presents to clients, there’s a lot that can go wrong. A gift should ideally show your customer that you are thankful for their custom, that they are valued, and that you have thought about them. Done right, gifts help you strengthen existing relationships and develop new ones.

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4 Elements of a Great Candidate Experience for Developers

Stack Overflow

If you think candidate experience best practices include picking each of them up in a limousine and having their favorite meal waiting for them, you probably aren’t alone. But while the competition to hire developers is undeniably fierce, treating them well throughout the interview process doesn’t have to be expensive. In many cases, all it takes is a little extra planning in advance.

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007 Job Hunter: How NOT to Blow Your Cover

Undercover Recruiter

Paranoid? Good, you’ll live longer, at least in the career sense. Never is this more true than when you’re in a difficult situation at work, and then you start a job-hunt. Being open about things will see your prospects of future pay rises and promotion plummet. Perceived disloyalty is both remembered and punished forever, no. View Article. 007 Job Hunter: How NOT to Blow Your Cover.

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How to Hire When Your Company Lacks the Cool Factor

Alongside

Your company isn't making any "Best Companies to Work for" lists, but you still need staff. Here's how you can get them. When you've got two days to file your taxes, you're probably not feeling all that warm and fuzzy about the IRS. I know I wouldn't be. And this is part of the problem. When you ask a teenager what they want to be when they grow up, they might say, "An accountant!

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8 Things You MUST Do Before You Go on Holidays #MondayMotivation

Undercover Recruiter

Who’s counting down the days until they go on holiday? Sometimes you can’t help but feel like all you ever do is work, work, work… Needless to say, holidays can feel like the light at the end of a tunnel! Whether you’re going to spend quality time at home with the people you love or go. View Article. 8 Things You MUST Do Before You Go on Holidays #MondayMotivation.

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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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9 Best Recruiting & Hiring Articles of 2016

MightyRecruiter

How to summarize an entire industry’s trends, sentiment and direction in only 9 articles? It may not seem possible, but sometimes the next great hire doesn’t seem possible either Here on the MightyRecruiter blog , we like to focus on job postings, recruitment marketing, reviewing candidates, social recruiting, and sourcing off-the-radar-candidates. So we stuck to our guns and scoured the web for other poignant, informative, and downright entertaining pieces relevant to those categories.

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What to Look for in Applicant Tracking Software

iCIMS

The must-have tools and characteristics to help you find the right hiring software before you buy.

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How to Convince Companies to Give You an Exclusive Search Assignment

Top Echelon Contracting

There’s nothing like the warm, fuzzy feeling that goes along with an exclusive search assignment. A freshly signed search contract with a recruitment exclusivity clause is like the glow of perfect spring weather, the roar of a fireplace during a.

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The Recruiting Strategy that Will Get You a Promotion In 2017

Jibe

It’s about time we had a talk. We don’t necessarily want to be the ones to ever-so-bluntly say that your recruiting team is misallocating money, time, and other valuable resources. But you’ve left us with few other choices. So here it goes. We recently read a new study from LinkedIn. They surveyed several thousand talent acquisition leaders across the globe, and something didn’t quite add up.

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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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Team-Building Activities Perfect for Small Businesses

CareerBuilder

Hiring outstanding individuals for your small business does not automatically translate into having a strong team. For your company to thrive, people need to get along and work together cohesively. This sync doesn’t always come naturally, so some nurturing may be required. Team-building activities can help. Now if the notion of trust falls and wilderness retreats makes you shutter, don’t despair.

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America’s Unemployed Youth Are Not Healthy. Here’s Why!

Hire-Intelligence

A Startling Statistic About the Health of Unemployed Youth in the U.S.“Thriving” well-being is defined by Gallup and Healthways as possessing consistently good health and enough energy to get things done during the day.

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TechHiring.com, New Job Platform for Computer Science and Information Technology

Recruiting Blogs

City man creates job search platform. TechHiring.com unites professionals and industries related to computer science, technology. LOCAL BUSINESS. DEC 18, 2016. WALT FRANK. Staff Writer. wfrank@altoonamirror.com. David Hite knew he wanted to be a recruiter. “I like to hunt down good talent. Getting people better jobs is very fulfilling,” said Hite, 46, of Hollidays­­burg.

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How recruiters and hiring managers can work together

Workable

Recruiters and hiring managers share a common goal: finding great candidates as quickly as possible. In a perfect world, their collaboration is smooth and effective. But often, the recruiter-hiring manager relationship is a tense one. Hiring managers might complain about a low-quality shortlist of candidates, while recruiters could struggle to meet high expectations set by hiring managers.

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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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Control Shift: A New Way to Connect with Candidates

JWT Inside

Now more than ever, consumers are ceding power to technology by exchanging data for utility. That’s the subject of “Control Shift,” a digital trends report recently published by the Innovation Group. In it you’ll find insights that can help you enhance the experience for job seekers and better connect with top talent. So read on, and discover a new era of recruitment.

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All Because Of You: Why Startups Are Screwing Over Recruiting and Staffing.

Recruiting Daily

I recently reading a dense David McCullough book (an oldie but a goodie), The Path Between The Seas, which won a Pulitzer back in the 70s and is a compelling read for anyone with a sadomasochistic interest in the intersection of American imperialism and global capitalism, intermixed with minute details on things like maritime engineering, […].

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14 Things to Consider for Your Total Rewards Communication Strategy 

HRsoft

Communicating Total Rewards (TR) to your employees is essential for helping them to understand all the ways in which they are valued. While your company’s strategy may differ from the next due to your unique corporate culture and processes, there are a few considerations that every business leader might want to note: Setting Goals. Clearly convey why the TR Communication is in place: to easily and directly show the full value of employment, enhance engagement, and give associates a convenient,

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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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The blog post that’s 2 years in the making about technology that’s 105 years in the making

Uncubed

This post and the videos that it references are 2 years, 4 “Odysseys,” and nearly 9000 students in the making. They offer a look at the humans behind the “robot” that’s helping humans. I started working with IBM Watson in 2014, through my role as Head of University Programs at Uncubed. Watson has always been my “moon landing.” It is one of those technological advancements that has my nose pressed to the screen in wonder – only the screen is my laptop rather than some fuzz

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How Building Out a Talent Analytics Function Saved LinkedIn Recruiting Considerable Time and Money

Linkedin Talent Blog

When I came on board in August 2014, LinkedIn had a problem: we were growing at 40% every year and we couldn’t fill roles fast enough. And while growing fast might be what you call one of those “good problems” to have, when you can’t meet demand, it becomes an extremely costly problem. As a result, the Talent Acquisition team was under intense pressure to source better and faster.

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2 in 5 Recruiters Have Missed Out on Qualified Candidates

CareerBuilder

In today’s competitive talent market, recruiters are under pressure to deliver the best candidates in the shortest amount of time. But such demands can – and do – lead to hasty decision-making, as new research from CareerBuilder indicates. In a recent CareerBuilder survey asking employers to name the biggest mistakes recruiters make when sourcing for an open position, 41 percent cited “skimming through resumes too quickly and missing qualified candidates.”.

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Chicken or the Egg

Recruiting Blogs

The old age question that has been argued each way since time began, or at least since we started pondering the questions of our existence. Where did we come from? How did we get here? Which came first the “chicken” or the “egg?” It’s the same scenario when I am dialing for dollars, cold prospecting looking for the next new client with the blistering hot order.

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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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2 in 5 Recruiters Have Missed Out on Qualified Candidates

CareerBuilder

In today’s competitive talent market, recruiters are under pressure to deliver the most qualified candidates in the shortest amount of time. But such demands can – and do – lead to hasty decision-making, as new research from CareerBuilder indicates. In a recent CareerBuilder survey asking employers to name the biggest mistakes recruiters make when sourcing for an open position, 41 percent cited “skimming through resumes too quickly and missing qualified candidates.”.

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Negotiation will be the business skill of the year

The Getwork Blog

With 2017 just around the corner, everyone is watching with bated breath to see what the new year brings. The main influential factor: the new presidential administration. The result: lots of changes. Right now the economy is solid. The GDP growth in Q3 was bigger than expected and the Fed will likely raise rates in December, so 2017 will start out grand.