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Is that smell even human? What recruiters are thinking during interviews…

Social Talent

“Oh God, how do you pronounce their name? It looked so easy on paper but maybe the ‘M’ was silent, like ‘Mboscodictiasaur’?” “Hmmm, they didn’t take me up on my offer of a glass of water- that’s not a reason to be suspicious… Or is it?” “I don’t think the term “chef” really applies when you work the till at McDonald’s” “Is that a twitch?

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Two Cents on Recruiter Incentives

The Whiteboard

I feel that I may be at risk of losing a readership akin to that of Nuts magazine by straying too far from anything football related however, I was inspired by a meeting this week with one of our newer Australian clients looking to set up in the CBD. I asked them to describe what the cultural values of the business were, they obliged with a barrage of adjectives and an acknowledgment of similarities to others in the market.

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The Evolution of Recruitment Marketing: Have We Come Far Enough?

Symphony Talent

When you spend 5 months working on something – pouring over it, analyzing it, re-reading it – it almost becomes a part of you. Thinking about it before. The post The Evolution of Recruitment Marketing: Have We Come Far Enough? appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Does Virtual Reality Have a Place in Recruitment?

Undercover Recruiter

What is the most “difficult” part of recruiting? The part when the selected candidates have to come for an in-person interview with the manager of the company. This is rather tricky because the company has to come up with a schedule that suits both the manager and candidates alike. Sometimes it means for a recruiter. View Article. Does Virtual Reality Have a Place in Recruitment?

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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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3 High-Growth Marketing Roles to Elevate Your Business in 2018

Naviga Recruiting

In the past, marketing was viewed as something that happens only after a product or service was created. At the time, this meant using either billboards or print media to advertise your product. Today, marketing is less about advertising and more about engaging with your customer online, creating meaningful relationships, and building your brand’s presence. […].

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How Social Media Can Help Your Small Business Reach Customers and Job Applicants

Hireology

The average consumer spends 30% of their total online time and more than 2 hours a day on social media. Given these consumer habits, if your small business doesn’t have a social media presence, you’re likely missing out on potential business and quality job applicants. How can your small business stand out from the competition to attract new business and job applicants?

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How Do You Make a Voicemail Compelling?

NPA Worldwide

Any sales professional or recruiter will tell you that a cold call voicemail is part of their business that they are constantly shifting like Goldilocks to make one that is, “just right.” Some argue that white lies and vague statements are the route to go, and others will state that honesty and transparency wastes the least amount of time in the end.

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Is Your Organization Actually a Tech Company?

Stack Overflow

How would you describe a “technology company?” If you’re like most people, you’d probably think of the typical traits of a tech startup. They’re small, but growing rapidly. They have offices that would make people envious, complete with amenities like catered lunches and refrigerators full of beer. But above anything else, technology companies sell software, right?

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Why Motivated Employees > Everything Else

The Hire Talent

You’ve heard us talk about how candidates with high degrees of motivation make for the best employees. Motivated employees are dynamic, creative, ingenious, and have that added bit of “can do” attitude that separates them from the others who kind of just do as they’re told. Identifying motivation in your candidates isn’t always easily done.

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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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Why Happiness Is the Key to Employee Performance

Glassdoor for Employers

As a Baltimore native, I was born with a love for Cal Ripken Jr., of our hometown team, the Orioles. Undeniably one.

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By the Numbers: February 23, 2018

BountyJobs

SourceCon February 26-28, 2018. We’ll be heading to viva Las Vegas next week for SourceCon ! When we’re not rubbing elbows and swapping interesting stats and stories with other pros in talent acquisition, we’ll be hanging with…the purple squirrel. Ah yes, the elusive purple squirrel in hiring – that perfect candidate with all the skills you need, the charming personality you want, and much more!

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LinkedIn Recruiter: More Confusion

Boolean Strings

Remember, LinkedIn Recruiter finds more results when we enter a company name vs. point to a company object? We discussed this in LinkedIn Recruiter: Not WYSIWYG. Well, it turns out that, when searching for job titles, it is the opposite: selecting a value ( Software Engineer , in the screenshot) brings many more results than entering the same words in quotation marks – or even writing Software AND Developer.

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Why the “F” Word Should Be Your New Best Friend

Recruiting Daily

The “F” word is a very powerful word but let me just make sure we are talking about the same F word (Insert cheeky smile here). The “F” word I am talking about is FOCUS. Focus is easier said than done. With so many distractions in our modern life, it is no wonder we are […].

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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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Case Study: Launching a Culture-Focused Campus Recruiting Program

Yello

02/22/2018 // By Tracy Kelly // Case Study. A global, fast-growing technology company with a workforce of more than 1,500 faced a challenge: they needed to recruit future leaders to keep up with the organization’s continued growth. To do this, the company’s talent acquisition team sought to launch a student outreach and campus recruiting strategy.

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Sourcing Certifications Update

Boolean Strings

Our Sourcing Certification Program is now in its sixth year. We have had hundreds of professionals enroll in our Subscription and take the Exam. I wanted to update everyone on our offerings. The Training Library has twenty recorded classes, to study at your own pace. The classes cover a variety of sourcing topics in-depth. (We hear from many that the webinars are informative.

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This Simple Use of Data Helped LinkedIn’s Recruiters Achieve an 85% InMail Response Rate

Linkedin Talent Blog

Nearly 69% of recruiters say that using data has helped them elevate their career and role within the company. That’s because bringing data to a conversation, be it with a hiring manager or a company leader, transforms your opinion into an actionable insight and can help you have serious strategic impact. Just ask the LinkedIn recruiting team -- when they were facing the tough challenge of bringing in critical engineering talent quickly, they decided to “hack” this by using a data-driven approac

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8 Interesting Resources for Recruiters in 2018

Recruiting Blogs

As a recruiter, it can be difficult to find trustworthy and valuable resources to make your job easier. With the ever-changing industry and the need to entice job seekers, we sometimes have to get rather crafty with our approach. These eight resources will give your work the edge it needs through 2018, and beyond, by educating and inspiring your career. #1 Recruiting Brainfood.

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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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15 LinkedIn Features That Help You Get Ahead of This Year's Biggest Hiring Trends

Linkedin Talent Blog

Diversity, data, and artificial intelligence are three of the biggest hiring trends this year, according to our recently released 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report. What’s exciting is that these three movements in recruiting are making the profession more strategic and are letting you focus on what truly matters—building relationships. At LinkedIn, we wholeheartedly support this push and you can see that reflected throughout all the product updates we made in the past year.

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Sourcecon Spring 2018!!

Recruiting Blogs

As most of you know Sourcecon Spring 2018 is coming in Las Vegas on Feb 26 th to Feb 28th. The theme “The Name is SourceCon. SourceCon Royale”. I am involved in numerous events and such and hope to see everyone there. This years Sourcecon is going to be different then others in the past. New speakers, new tracks, and new events have been created with the idea to maximize your learning experience.

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Driving Talent Acquisition Maturity

Bersin

Organizations today recognize that to execute their business strategies successfully, they need to have the right talent in place. And in order to have the right talent in place, they need to build a mature, high-performing talent acquisition (TA) function. This process requires an awareness of what other organizations have done to establish their TA […].

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Readers Digest guide to Email finding and People Aggregating tools!! (Guest writer Jeremy Da Costa)

Recruiting Blogs

Guest Writer Jeremy Da Costa. There are 2 categories of tools out there. Email finding and People Aggregating. The difference is Email finding only finds emails and usually work. People aggregators find jail, as well as profile data and social sites. . Email finding tools are fairly numerous over 100. Some of the better ones include; Nymeria, Contactout, Lusha, Toofr, and Hunter.

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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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4 Ways Recruiters Can Get on the Same Page as Hiring Managers

Indeed

As a recruiter, you always want to find the best possible candidate for a position—and your hiring managers share the same goal. But although you are working towards identical ends, it doesn’t always feel that way, does it? Yes, your hiring managers want you to fill their open roles, but they also have their regular responsibilities to think about. As a result, they just aren’t focused on the task in the same way that you are.

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The perks of working with a distributed team

Recruiting Blogs

On the surface, distributed or remote teams might seem like the latest workplace culture trend akin to foosball tables and casual Fridays. In reality, more and more employers are finding the benefits of hiring remote workers go far beyond the basic flexibility of working from home. The rise of distributed teams is creating an outcome-based culture and business are reaping the benefits including improved employee retention, productivity, and cost savings just to name a few.

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5 Tips for Attracting the Millennial Candidate

JazzHR

Recruiting the right candidates for any position can be an arduous task for any talent manager or HR professional. From writing the job description to knowing where to post the job — and having the budget to do so — brings added research, which can cost you time you don’t necessarily have. And then the cherry on top — attracting the millennial candidate, a generation unlike any before them, who were practically tech savvy since birth.

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Beyond the Velvet Rope

Recruiting Blogs

In this day and age Diversity and Inclusion in the work force is key. It keeps us innovative, it allows us to thrive and grow. So many organizations have shown us what Diversity and Inclusion can really mean to the bottom line. Businessinsiders.com tells us the most diverse and culturally inclusive companies in the U.S. in 2017 ranged from companies like Clorox, to Cisco and Johnson & Johnson. .

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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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The Value of Creating A Partnership with A Recruitment Firm

Staffingsoft

There is so much value in building a strong recruiting relationship between your company and a recruiting agency. In a true partnership arrangement, an agency will become an extension of your internal recruiting function and help to make recruiting process and results more seamless and efficient.

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5 Signs You Are Working With the Right Organisation

Recruiting Blogs

If you are someone who hates to wake up every morning to go to work, you are not alone. A vast majority of employees do not feel motivated to go to work, and it's not because they don't want to. It happens because their organisation is not giving them enough reasons to love what they do. Unless it's a wrong career choice, you ought to feel motivated to go to work.

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Ban the Box? Why Employers Are Re-Thinking Criminal Histories of Candidates

Workpop

Each year brings an assortment of new hiring laws and local and state regulations for HR pros to navigate. 2018, in particular, is seeing the widespread emergence of laws designed to help even the playing field for job candidates who are typically at a disadvantage. In an effort to combat discrimination and pay inequality, for example, some states no longer allow employers to ask about salary history.