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Beyond the Rejection Letter: 7 Tips to Soften Job Rejection Over the Phone

Lever

If you’re a recruiter, rejecting candidates is likely the most agonizing part of your role. After learning what your candidate cares most deeply about, you have to break the news that your team won’t be continuing their process. For candidates, that rejection is equally - arguably more - torturous. Perhaps they imagined sitting at that one desk near the window in your office or squealed to their roommate about finding their dream job; it’s heartbreaking to realize that dream won’t become a reali

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Hot Recruitment Desks (And Other Tall Tales)

The Whiteboard

This decade has seen an increase in the popularity of activity based working and hot-desking. Well, it’s been increasingly popular among company owners and shareholders at least, who see it as a way of reducing office costs while boosting innovation and collaboration. Not so popular with the desk jockeys themselves though, with some saying it’s led to a drop in productivity.

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How to Build an Employee Wellness Program from the Ground Up

JazzHR

Encouraging a healthier, more active workforce is a good thing. Not only will it make you a more attractive employer, it will also lead to a variety of benefits ranging from greater employee productivity to lower absenteeism. In fact, studies have shown that physically active employees are absent less frequently than their inactive counterparts. Plus, employees who get at least 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week miss on average 4.1 fewer days of work per year.

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Why Personal Branding Is the Recruiting Secret You're Missing

Entrepreneur

Don't let competitors scoop up the best talent. Instead, build and market a strong personal brand, broadcast it consistently on social media and back it up with business decisions.

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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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The End-to-End Recruitment Marketing Analytics Funnel

Recruitics

Editor’s Note: Recruitics is now accepting requests for early access to our FREE recruitment marketing analytics dashboard, Recruitics Analytics, which will launch in the summer 2017. To learn more about FREE Recruitics Analytics, and to get early access to our new dashboard, click here. Recruitics is a recruitment marketing analytics and automation platform that makes it easy for companies to achieve amazing results from their talent acquisition strategy.

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4 Tips That Will Transform Your Approach to Internal Mobility

Spark Hire

Talent acquisition is costly, especially when you make bad hires. Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, has spoken out on the negative impact bad hires make. He mentioned they cost his company “well over $100 million” over the course of its existence. How can you avoid making costly talent acquisition mistakes? Look internally. Futurestep’s November 2015 survey found that 87 percent of the 1,189 executives surveyed said that having a strong internal mobility program would help with attraction and retention ef

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Rambling on About Job Board Acquisitions, CareerBuilder, Monster, and the Dutch. Also Some Gifs.

Good To Know

It's important to know who you are. Monster, CareerBuilder, etc lost sight of that, and lost value as a result.

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7 Signs You're at the Top of Your Recruitment Game

FireFish Software

Today is officially International Recruiters' Day. To celebrate our profession and all the amazing recruiters out there, here are 7 signs you're at the top of your recruitment game!

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Q2 Hiring Outlook Indicates Modest Growth

NPA Worldwide

Manpower Group has released the results of its newest quarterly hiring outlook survey. For the second quarter, modest growth is expected on a global basis, as reported by survey respondents throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA. Year-over-year results are more robust in many locations than quarter-over-quarter comparisons. A few of the most salient points are highlighted below.

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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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Local or Global Control: Which is Best for Your Hiring Processes?

SmartRecruiters

I think most agree that for business processes, consistency creates enormous value. We all know how much easier it is to manage the complexities and intricacies of sourcing and hiring when everyone executes against the same workflow and process design. In fact, consistency may often be a primary value of your global brand. For example, you won’t get a gourmet meal at a fast food chain, but successful chains are those where the quality remains uniform and consistent worldwide.

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Modern tech to play a key role in the changing world of recruitment

Allegis Global Solutions

Technology has come a long way in recent years. From advances in medical science that mean some of the deadliest diseases are now becoming less so, through to the impact of new products in our daily lives, with the ever-growing popularity of the smartphone as just one example.

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How to find good employees: hire for skills, not ‘talent’

Workable

“How to find top talent” is one of the most popular recruiting Google searches. ‘Talent’ is a feel-good word for describing good job candidates. But, framing ‘talent’ as the main recruiting and retention issue for companies does us all a disservice. Trying to find people with ‘talent’ is subjective, bias-laden and imprecise. Successful hiring programs focus on finding employees with measurable skills instead.

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How to Create a Culture That Employees Love

Glassdoor for Employers

Thirty-three stories above the Texas prairie, more than 100 recruiting and HR professionals gathered on a sunny February morning to learn the.

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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 Majors Did Developers Study in College?

Stack Overflow

It’s no secret that some of the most influential people in tech today do not hold college degrees. Developers are always looking for opportunities to learn new skills, so it’s not entirely surprising that over 76% of respondents to the 2017 Developer Hiring Landscape said they had a bachelor’s degree or higher. But before you start making assumptions about what they all must have studied in college, let’s take a closer look at what developer education actually looks like for today’s programmers—

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The Ideal State for Great Employee Onboarding

CareerBuilder

I don’t have an exact number, but I think I’ve probably onboarded close to 10,000 employees in my HR and talent acquisition career. Now, I didn’t always own the entire onboarding process but I played a role in all of those hires! So, I like to think of myself as an onboarding expert. It’s a big responsibility, as onboarding is such a critical aspect of successful employee tenure.

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Dirty Deeds: Why Recruiters Should Care About Reputation Management.

Recruiting Daily

During a job search, having an interaction with a recruiter that’s actually somewhat positive, professional or productive can feel a little like walking into a bathroom at a gas station and finding that behind the trash, flies and vagrants loitering directly outside, the bathroom is actually immaculately clean, well stocked and smells vaguely like lavender. […].

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How to find good employees: hire for skills, not talent

Workable

Talent is a feel-good word for describing good job candidates. But, framing talent as the main recruiting and retention issue for companies does us all a disservice. Recruiting employees with ‘talent’ is subjective, bias-laden and imprecise. Successful hiring programs focus on how to find good employees with measurable skills instead. Hiring for talent is vague.

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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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Two Essential Components of a Positive Candidate Experience

Visibility Software Recruiting

What is the candidate experience, and why does it really matter? Recruiting.com defines the candidate experience as the series of interactions that a job seeker has with your company throughout the recruiting process. These interactions include any communication that a candidate receives from your brand messaging, software systems and/or employees.

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6 Reasons to Toss Your Old School Tactics and Switch to an ATS

Jobsoid

Wondering how some organizations consistently win top talent? Want to know how their hiring managers successfully make great hires even for hard-to-fill positions? This is because they dumped their outdated, inefficient and time consuming procedures at the right […]. The post 6 Reasons to Toss Your Old School Tactics and Switch to an ATS appeared first on Jobsoid.

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3 Tips to Boost Employee Engagement Now

FlashPoint

Focusing feedback on strengths provides a huge bump in engagement. As evidenced by Gallup (the research reflected in this table above), almost 7 in 10 employees (67%) who strongly agree that their manager focuses on their strengths, or positive characteristics, are engaged. In a Gallup report, the State of the American Workplace, released in February 2017, Gallup identified that 33.3% of U.S. employees are engaged at work.

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Top 5 Tips to Starting a Recruitment Business

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by The Recruit Venture Group which offers recruiters a truly risk-free, fully funded way to entice them to start their own recruitment business. 1. Start with clear idea. You are ready to use your experience and ‘do it your way’. Start up on your own, become a director of your own recruitment business – that’s. View Article. Top 5 Tips to Starting a Recruitment Business.

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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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How LinkedIn Drops Search Results

Boolean Strings

Searching on LinkedIn? As illustrated by some puzzling search examples in the posts LinkedIn-Based IQ Test and Advanced LinkedIn-Based IQ Test , LinkedIn search has been missing some results that apparently do exist in its database. Thanks to all for the comments and investigating. Special thanks to Rachel Evans and Adam Kovacs who performed an in-depth exploration of the unfortunate “phenomena” and provided some insights!

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Do Your Candidate’s Feelings Really Matter?

Phenom People

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about mapping the candidate journey. It is one of the first steps you need to complete in order to improve your candidate experience. However, this involves more than just going out and applying to one of your own jobs, or creating a flow diagram of the steps. Read More.

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5 TED Talks That Every Recruiter Should Watch

Linkedin Talent Blog

You might be thinking “TED talks are so 10 years ago.” Or, maybe you still consume them like popcorn. Regardless, if you are a recruiter (or anyone involved in hiring) there are some TED talks that you simply need to watch. From reading between the resume lines to selling candidates on a job, these five 18-minute talks are packed with information that can help you become more effective at finding and hiring great talent.

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The 5 Fundamentals of Intelligent Customer Data Management

People Data Labs

The 5 fundamentals of intelligent customer data management.

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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 Stay Classy at ERE Spring 2017

Entelo

It’s the first week of April, and you know what that means? ERE Recruiting 2017 in beautiful San Diego, California is right around the corner! So settle in, friends, because we've got all the tips and tricks you need to have a thoroughly amazing and worthwhile conference. Imagine, if you will, the perfect blend of the best talent acquisition minds in the industry, a pristine beachfront hotel, near perfect temps in the mid 70s, and you.

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Jiu Jitsu and Recruiting Pt. 2-The Winning Hold

Recruiting Blogs

'Sup guys. To recap from last week, this blog is all about what years of Jiu Jitsu taught me about recruiting, and how the martial art has refined and honed my career skills. The first three steps, explained in much more detail in the last blog cover: Having a Game Plan: know what you’re doing going into the match. Staying Connected and Creating Space: keep in contact at all times and make space for communication.

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The 5 Fundamentals of Intelligent Customer Data Management

People Data Labs

The 5 fundamentals of intelligent customer data management.

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