Mon.Aug 28, 2017

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What I told the African headhunters!

Greg Savage

I just got back from a speaking tour in South Africa. We spoke to 800 recruiters over six events in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The response was phenomenal, and it was fascinating to note that the issues they face on the southern tip of Africa, are for the most part very similar to the challenges […].

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60 Minute Interview: How to Structure Your Time

JazzHR

As a recruiter or a hiring manager, you need to have a plan for how you’re going to use your interview time. Structured interviews are more effective than unstructured ones. Plus, they allow you to properly measure candidates against each other in an objective way so that each person receives an equal opportunity. Taking a systematic approach to how much time you spend on each section of the interview also helps prevent you from getting side-tracked and forces you to prioritize the most im

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Free Greg Savage webinar for UK Recruiters

Greg Savage

Free Greg Savage Webinar Tomorrow, Tuesday 29th August. 12-noon UK time Brilliant opportunities exist for recruiters over the next few years. But only if changes are made, new skills acquired, and fresh tactics perfected. Join Greg Savage and Chris Savage for an action packed 40 minutes of punchy information on what recruiters must do now […].

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Qualifications vs Cultural Fit- Which Is More Important?

Social Talent

With businesses recruiting at the fastest rate in 2 years , recruiters will need to invest more time into finding the right person to fill open positions. Some companies see the recruitment process as black and white, where successful candidates must tick all of the boxes. Others can look past the facts and focus on the individual, their personality and what they can bring to the role.

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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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These 15 Inspiring Quotes for Recruiters are Just What You Need

FireFish Software

We all know recruitment is a profession with ups and downs, peaks and troughs. So, whether today is a good day or a bad day, we’ve got the perfect list for you. These 15 inspiring quotes for recruiters are just what you need today.

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6 Lessons From the Best Employer Branding Case Studies

The Muse

In today’s job market, it’s not enough to post jobs and hope great people apply. These six employer branding case studies will show how much more you can do.

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Recruiting in the Digitally Disconnected Workplace: RecruitingLive Robin Schooling

Recruiting Daily

What do you do when you are searching for candidates that don’t hang out online? There are millions of job seekers, employees, and managers who are still digitally disconnected; they don’t have email addresses, cannot navigate the internet, and eschew SMS. Really! And while they may own a smart phone it’s primarily used as a […].

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The Pros and Cons of Employee Evaluations

The Hire Talent

Employee performance reviews are important management tools. They can be used to address problems, praise good performances, and receive essential feedback. Although there are many benefits to reviews, there are also some drawbacks. Planning and preparing allows you to make the most of these communication opportunities and avoid potential pitfalls. Benefits of Employee Performance Reviews: Read More.

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Hiring Volunteers? It Can Be as Challenging as Hiring Employees

Recruiting Daily

Does your business or organization collaborate with volunteers to serve customers or handle other key functions? Particularly for most non-profit organizations, volunteers are essential. Many organizations make the mistake of thinking that, since volunteer positions are unpaid, there is no need to run criminal background checks or go through other vetting processes when bringing new […].

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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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8 Free Recruitment Apps that Can Help You Find Candidates Online

MightyRecruiter

Quality companies can never have enough qualified candidates, and employers who’ve truly mastered the art of attracting and hiring top talent know that technology can play a huge role in succeeding on these fronts. In 2017, the technology to find candidates online continues to evolve and is subject to the changes of how candidates use the internet today.

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The Potential of Podcasts for Recruitment

JWT Inside

Once a niche medium, podcasts are all the rage today and have emerged as the next frontier for content marketing. With millions of listeners tuning in, podcasts present a huge opportunity for organizations to tell their stories and boost recruitment efforts. According to JWT Intelligence , innovative brands are already using podcasting as a new avenue for content marketing.

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Comparing Extended Workforce Screening in the U.S., EMEA, and APAC

HireRight

It’s fascinating – and informative – to review the findings from the American editions of our 10th Annual Employment Screening Benchmark Report with those from our European/Middle East/Africa, and Asia/Pacific Regions. We’re literally – and figuratively – oceans apart in many areas, but according to the many thousands of hiring professionals we’ve surveyed around the world, also share many of the same perspectives and practices in conducting increasingly-critical background checks.

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Recruiting in the Digitally Disconnected Workplace

Recruiting Daily

RecruitingLive w/ Robin Schooling There are millions of job seekers, employees and managers who are still digitally disconnected; they don’t have email addresses, cannot navigate the internet, and eschew SMS. Really! And while they may own a smart phone it’s primarily used as a camera, a game console and (believe it or not!) a telephone. […].

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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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Webinar – What is Google For Jobs?

JWT Inside

What you need to know. What you need to do. And will it deliver on the promise of job search? 46% of employers say they face talent shortages* and have issues filling open positions. At the same time, candidates are frustrated with the difficulty of finding jobs that match their interests on Google, career sites or job boards. With a disconnect like this, how are employers and candidates supposed to find their ideal match?

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How to source on the lesser known sites!! Code Guru

Recruiting Blogs

. Code Guru is where developers can come to share ideas, articles, questions, answers, tips, tricks, comments, downloads, and so much more related to development and programming. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying. .

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Naked Recruiting — Why Baring It All in Interviews Attracts the Best Candidates

Hiring Thing

Employers often see job interviews as a one-sided process: grilling interviewees and stripping them to the core before determining if they fit the company. The problem is that, to the candidate, the employer seems untouchable — too perfect and difficult to connect with. When the candidate can’t form a genuine. Continue reading.

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Finding The Right Technical Executive For Your Business

Recruiting Blogs

Hiring a technical executive is as much about building institutional knowledge as it is finding a leader who will smoothly integrate with the current executive team. We all know how hard it can be for smaller businesses to hire tech superstars. Giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple benefit from deep pockets and prestige, but competing against the tech behemoths isn’t the only stumbling block.

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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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7 Simple Ideas To Get You Moving At Work!

Rezoomo

Follow @rezoomo_com. Have you heard the term “Sitting is the New Smoking”? It sounds a bit far fetched, even alarmist but there are increasing concerns in the health and fitness community, backed up by science that it is! Are you an active couch potato? An active couch potato is someone who does a lot of exercise but also spends a lot of time sitting.

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How to schedule job interviews efficiently: a guide for recruiters and hiring managers

Workable

Scheduling interviews efficiently saves you time and promotes positive experiences for both candidates and hiring teams. Here are a few ways recruiters and hiring managers can schedule job interviews more efficiently: Coordinate with hiring teams early on. To reduce the time you spend on administrative tasks during your hiring process, coordinate well beforehand.

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 18: Signs Your Recruiting Process Needs A Makeover

Spark Hire

@AlysseMetzler tells you how to know your #recruitingprocess needs a makeover Click To Tweet. In the 18th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Alysse Metzler, Owner of Career Innovations and author of “The Recruiting Snitch”, provides some clues on to determine your recruiting process needs a makeover and what you can do about it. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan: My name is Josh Tolan and I’m the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizati

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Winning Recruiting Strategies For A Tight Job Market

Staffingsoft

For those of you in the “trenches” of daily recruiting, it is pretty obvious that the job market has become very tight for many positions; especially many technical roles.

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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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5 Steps to Recruiting an Outsider

Undercover Recruiter

“Let’s have a look outside our industry for a manager to fill this role,” is rarely greeted with enthusiasm. Staff in the department will sigh at the thought of training a complete outsider. HR will wince at working harder to define an alternative person-spec and new selection criteria. Recruitment agency partners won’t be keen as.

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Age Discrimination: When Attitude Is Everything

Recruiting Blogs

Last week I read Ina Jaffe's article and this powerful article, which was hard to believe, revealed to me how age discrimination is real. For example, there is a collective lawsuit against the company which hired 1,000 people of which only 19 were older than 40. Also, research shows that résumés which include older birth data get fewer responses. Since I am a 27-year-old guy and have never faced such a problem, this type of injustice scared me and made me sad at the same time.

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Skills of the Future: 10 Skills You’ll Need to Thrive in 2020

Phenom People

The digitization of manufacturing and the invention of the World Wide Web is the hallmark of the Digital Age, also known as the Third Industrial Revolution. Thanks to fast-paced technological developments, however, it looks like we are once again on the verge of the next revolution. Enter, the Fourth Industrial Revolution; a revolution considered. Read More.

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How Applicant Tracking System Can Keep You Out of Trouble

Recruiting Blogs

While technology and business go hand in hand and will continue to develop together in co-existence, it is only natural that business strategies also take a turn to greater and newer ways as a means to continue to improve. So when there is a software made available to ease the process and advance to greater heights, we make sure to put it to good use.

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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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Infographic: How to Reach Job Seekers

Glassdoor for Employers

One thing is indisputable: today’s job seekers want more information. And Glassdoor has the authentic insider perspective they want, which is why.

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What These 5 Leaders Would Ask If They Only Had Time For 1 Interview Question

Linkedin Talent Blog

Pretend you can only ask your candidates a single interview question—one measly question to base your entire hiring decision on. This might sound like an impossible task. However, years of experience have taught some leaders that there’s often one “magic bullet” question that helps them judge if a candidate will be a perfect fit. The five leaders below swear by one question that, for them, reveals everything that they really need to know about a candidate.

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Infographic: The New Rules of Recruiting!

Glassdoor for Employers

Here are the new rules of recruiting: People have choices when it comes to deciding where to work. They want a job.