Mon.Sep 19, 2016

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12 crucial recruiter tips. (In 10 words or less).

Greg Savage

A powerful two-minute read for all the desk recruiters out there. 12 tips. Each no longer than 10 words. Will lead you to fun and money. Click on the hyperlinks if you want more details on each concept. 1. Walk away from shitty margins or clients who disrespect you. (Here is how to do it) […].

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What NOT To Do Before An Interview

Hoops

If you Google the phrase things to do before your interview , you’ll get plenty of hits. However, not nearly the same amount of attention is paid to advising jobseekers what not to do before an interview. Think about it: the things you do (or don’t do) leading up to the interview set the stage for the interview itself. If you want to be in a good mental state and make a great impression, here are three things to avoid. . 1.

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How to Use Pinterest in Recruitment

FireFish Software

With over 100 million monthly active users , Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networks, with more growth in members and active users than any other platform from 2014 – 2015. It’s also reported that users are spending more time on Pinterest than on competing social channels, averaging 75 minutes per visitor , compared with Facebook’s 50 minutes per visit.

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The Recruitment Marketing Infographic You Need to See

Symphony Talent

45% of companies say improving the candidate experience is their biggest talent acquisition priority in 2016, according to a new report by Aberdeen Group. Why? Because candidates are. The post The Recruitment Marketing Infographic You Need to See appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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5 Reasons to Rethink Banning Social Media at Work

CareerBuilder

Think allowing employees to use social media at work is a recipe for disaster? Before turning your small business into a Facebook-free zone, consider these possible benefits the company might reap by allowing workers to stay connected: Increased productivity: People need short breaks during the workday to maintain energy and focus. One team member may enjoy grabbing a cup of coffee between tasks, while another may prefer checking Twitter.

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66% of Candidates Wait Less Than 2 Weeks Before Moving On

CareerBuilder

Think you can take your time filling that open position? Think again. According to CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior study , 66 percent of job seekers say they’ll wait less than two weeks to hear back from an employer before considering the opportunity a lost cause and moving on to another. What’s more, 45 percent of job seekers say their biggest frustration is when employers don’t respond to them.

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TED Talks, Job Seekers Listen

JWT Inside

As an active job seeker, you know that finding a career you love is easier said than done. So why not listen to those who’ve already done it? In the following TED Talks, you’ll get advice on how to overcome various obstacles and land a position that fits your talents, values and ambitions. Why you will fail to have a great career – Larry Smith. Larry Smith gives us an honest take on the excuses people make when they fail to achieve their goals.

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Client Got a Fee in Their Bonnet About Agency Prices?

Undercover Recruiter

Okay. Time to talk about something in agency recruitment which can cause all sorts of problems for newbie consultants, and even seasoned ones: the ‘percentage’ fee. Most recruitment companies work to a set percentage fee based on the basic yearly salary of the candidate; this tends to be somewhere around the 20% mark. Now, clients. View Article.

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RecruitingLive with Katrina Kibben

Recruiting Daily

Katrina's throwing herself in the hot seat and letting none other than Steve Levy interview her this week on RecruitingLive.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Legal Marijuana: The Surprising New Challenge for Employers

HireRight

Marijuana laws are changing across the country, and having a surprisingly profound impact on employers – not just in Colorado. In addition to the existing 24 states and District of Columbia that have legalized marijuana for medical use and the four states that allow recreational use, 13 states are currently considering legalization measures – eight of which will vote on this matter in November.

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Jobvite Found the Optimal Number of Candidates Per Engineering Job

Jobvite

By Adam Hyder , Chief Technology Officer, Weijen Hsu , Senior Software Engineer, and Chet Kumar, Big Data Architect. At Jobvite, we employ cutting edge analytics techniques to mine recruiting intelligence from our comprehensive database of over 50M job seekers. Combine that with over 10 years of behavioral recruiting data, it’s clear that we are sitting on a gold mine; it allows us to slice and dice the data to garner fresh insights about job seekers, companies, industries, and greater economic

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INSIDE Receives Honorable Mention from Ragan’s 2016 Health Care PR and Marketing Awards

JWT Inside

Our work continues to impress those who honor creativity and innovation in health care communications. That’s right, we received an honorable mention at Ragan’s 2016 Health Care PR and Marketing Awards! A big THANK YOU goes out to all those who made it possible, including the talented people at Dignity Health. Great job! Media – Internal Communications (Honorable Mention): “Hello humankindness” Dignity Health.

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What Recruiters Can Learn From Lifecycle Marketing

Entelo

Like any business so reliant on people, recruiting is difficult at scale. Shortcuts like mass emailing hundreds of candidates rarely works for the hardest to fill roles and can wind up hurting more than it helps. The challenge is that each and every role you recruit for requires a specific, unique set of skills, experience and personality traits. Finding candidates that tick each of those boxes takes strategy.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Interview: How SAP is Using Cartoons, Video Games and More to Change Recruiting Standards

Linkedin Talent Blog

I recently sat down with Matthew Jeffery , VP and Head of Global Sourcing and Employer Branding at SAP to learn more about how they are changing the recruiting statues quo. Specifiaclly, In our interview he shared how they are using things like cartoons and video games to engage their audience and creating new processes to improve candidate experience.

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How Recruiting Software Automation Frees Recruiters to Place Candidates

Automated Business Designs

-->. Automated Business Designs. About. ABD Differentiators. Staffing Software Careers. Partners. Staffing Software Reviews. Products. Ultra-Staff Front Office. Ultra-Staff Back Office. Web Portals. Mobile. Cloud Hosting. Services. Blog. Contact. Request a Demo. How Recruiting Software Automation Frees Recruiters to Place Candidates. -->. How Recruiting Software Automation Frees Recruiters to Place Candidates.

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9 Steps to Selecting or Refining a Recruiting Niche

Top Echelon Contracting

Many of the owners and recruiting professionals that I coach have considered refining or changing their niche at some point in their careers. Whether your niche is doing well or not, it’s a good idea to keep your nose in. The post 9 Steps to Selecting or Refining a Recruiting Niche appeared first on Top Echelon.

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Well, well, well. How healthy is your workplace?

Recruiting Blogs

Mention the words ‘workplace health’ and most people immediately think of OH&S, or perhaps executive health checks and pre-winter flu shots. Yet true workplace health goes far beyond just the physical safety of you and your team members. In fact, the World Health Organisation defines ‘health’ as a ‘complete state of physical, social and mental wellbeing.’.

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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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Why pay is driving job satisfaction and what you should do about it?

Hiring Thing

Due to years of frozen salaries and small pay increase as a result of the economy, job satisfaction is now being directly linked to compensation. In a recent SHRM research report on job satisfaction, 96% of respondents indicated the compensation was “very important” or “important”, making it the top contributor. Continue reading.

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Seven Great Interview Questions to Assess Cultural Fit

Recruiting Blogs

As most human resource managers know, culture is everything when hiring. Even the most talented employees will fail to contribute if they are not a good cultural fit. Unfortunately, culture is a hard thing to put a finger on. Unlike other skills that can be measured in dollars, years, etc., culture is both easy to see, yet hard to explain and identify in a candidate.

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#BersinChat!

Bersin

#BersinChat I wanted to let you all know about #bersinchat, a new monthly live chat that takes place on Twitter. The first chat takes place next Tuesday at 4pm ET. We’ll be hosting a different chat topic every 3rd Tuesday of each month at the same time. If you can help promote this first […].

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The What, Who & How of Attracting Top Sales Talent

Glassdoor for Employers

OK, here’s a quick quiz: Which department in your organization has the greatest impact on your bottom line?

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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3 Reasons Why You NEED to Give Candidates Feedback (and How to Give It Properly!)

Social Talent

Take a minute to think back to that first time you plucked up the courage to ask someone out on a date, or perhaps your first few applications to part-time jobs. It was nerve-wracking, maddening, and very easy to blame yourself for not being good enough, especially if you heard nothing back. You might have been young during those pivotal moments, but rejection doesn’t disappear, or hurt any less as an adult.

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How To Build A Recruiting Business (or side biz) With Splits

FeeTrader

For a limited time, get unlimited split placements and resume database on FeeTrader for only $299 for a calendar year ! If already a member, login here or if not, register here. Most recruiters I know, the majority of whom work for agencies, have a long standing stigma against the idea of “splits”. The split seems to carry with it the idea of concession.

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How to Hire Professionals that Have a Higher Level of Knowledge than You

Recruiting Blogs

Sometimes, your business evolves faster than you would have ever expected it to and starts to leave you behind when it comes to the knowledge and time you need to manage it. New technologies appear out of the blue, across the world someone finds more efficient ways of doing the same thing you are and your customers seem to be getting bored of what you have to offer.

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How to Choose an ATS that’s Right for Your Company

Jobvite

By now, most human resource professionals know that applicant tracking systems (or ATSs) are a great way to manage the influx of resumes sent each day. With the average single job opening attracting 250 applicants, … Continued.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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Why Do Recruiters Spam Candidates?

Recruiting Blogs

Allison Kruse wrote a thoughtful article on the issue of excessive amounts of email being sent by recruiters. I do applaud her concern and think that she has a good point. . At the same time, I wonder how many placements she has made in the realm of technical search, where there are sometimes extremely few candidates that can perform a certain job, and a huge number of possible candidates to research. .

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How to Choose an ATS that’s Right for Your Company

Jobvite

By now, most human resource professionals know that applicant tracking systems (or ATSs) are a great way to manage the influx of resumes sent each day. With the average single job opening attracting 250 applicants , scanning through CVs to narrow down a pool of qualified candidates isn’t just impractical—it’s darn near impossible—especially for recruiters at the reins of big companies.

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Did You Know the First Professional Athlete to Earn a $1 Million Endorsement Deal Was.?

Recruiting Blogs

Compensation Data Facts - What's What in Compensation. DID YOU KNOW? . History of compensation. In 1964, bowling legend Don Carter did something that no one in baseball, football or golf ever did: He became the first athlete in American sports history to sign a $1 million marketing endorsement contract, with bowling ball manufacturer Ebonite. As early as 1959, Carter was grossing more than $100,000 a year through tournaments and endorsements for products such as Miller Lite, Palmolive Rapid Sha

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