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Optimize Your Power to Source Exisiting Qualified Applicants

ApplicantPro

I wanted to follow up from last week's post talking about the most overlooked source for NEW qualified applicants. While most companies believe that job boards are the best source of applicants, they're not actually looking at the best source of hires. Once you pull out all of the job seekers that come from job boards, you're left with this unique group of candidates who apply through your company career site -- I like to refer to them as your "fans".

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Top 10 Personal Interview Questions to Ask Your Candidates

Jobsoid

Recruiting is often considered to be a daunting task. You need to think about all the aspects related to your company before hiring a candidate. With the current times of pandemic, it has become very difficult to hire qualified candidates. Hiring teams are finding it tedious to conduct preliminary job interviews and have thus, switched […] The post Top 10 Personal Interview Questions to Ask Your Candidates appeared first on Jobsoid.

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Becoming Boundless: Three Steps To Thinking And Acting Beyond Boundaries

Forbes Human Resources Council

When we suspend disbelief, when we dare greatly, we can do amazing things.

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The sun will shine on recruitment again!

Greg Savage

Recessions end This one will too. It will be a long, hard road, but we will recover. As a species. Economically. And the recruitment industry will bounce back too. I have been through five recessions. While I have no unique insights about how this COVID – created one may play out, I can tell you […].

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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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How to Recruit in a Job-Short Market

FireFish Software

For the first time in a long time, we’re seeing a shift from a candidate-short market to a job-short market. This means we’ll have less jobs to recruit for in the coming months and a lot more candidates on the market – and if you’ve been recruiting for less than ten years, this will be a totally new environment for you.

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3 RECRUITMENT LESSONS FROM “HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL”

Recruitics

When are these colonies companies gonna rise up?

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My Sourcing Summit Experience ?

Boolean Strings

Sourcing Summits make me happy. I carry the energy for weeks after each one. We, speakers, have gained lasting friendships in Amsterdam that go beyond sharing hacks. For women speakers, it is not uncommon to share a clothing brand or line of cosmetics. We know about each other’s families and help to pick gifts for the home. We dine and chat late into the night then continue at breakfast.

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14 Effective Ways To Stand Out From Other Applicants

Forbes Human Resources Council

Companies are looking for well-rounded employees that can add value to their business's social benefit and their bottom line. Here's how an applicant can develop an approach that sets them up as unique and outstanding.

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I Tried a Four-Day Workweek. Here’s What Changed

Hundred5

Illustration: Annelise Capossela. There are many things my freelance life makes possible, from collaboration with great clients to midday workout classes. The common factor is flexibility. I have the freedom to take on more projects if I find interesting work I’m excited to do. I also have the freedom to cut back if I want to visit a new place and spend my time slowly traveling through it.

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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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Smaller Demand, Higher Stakes: Welcome to the Post-Pandemic Recruiting Landscape

Recruiter

Since the beginning of the pandemic, roughly 41 million US workers have applied for unemployment. The unemployment rate now rivals that of the Great Depression. The swift economic decline we're currently experiencing follows the longest economic expansion in US history. Capital investments were through the roof, and hiring exploded across sectors.

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5 Tips For Hiring Now

SmartSearch

The coronavirus pandemic has flipped the world on its head, impacting nearly every industry across the U.S; especially when it comes to jobs. For hiring professionals, this means your workload may have been cut in half over night – but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can be doing to prepare for the recovery. So, whether you’re actively recruiting right now or not, have a read of our blog, where we explain exactly what you should be doing to improve your hiring efforts during these chal

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The Most Fulfilling Software Engineer Job Might Just Be in Education (and This Company Is Hiring!)

The Muse

For this engineer-turned-teacher, a job at resource-sharing platform Teachers Pay Teachers combines his two passions.

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Leaders as Thoughtful Facilitators: Here’s Why and How to Get Started

Achievers - Recruiting

As we evolve into our new virtual world and become reliant on communications technology to host our meetings of all shapes and sizes, I’ve been wondering how we will position our many fantastic leaders. As I’ve watched them perform, I’ve realized that we need facilitators now more than ever before—not speakers, experts, trainers, nor managers. In other words, right now, businesses and teams need thoughtful facilitation.

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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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Frontend vs Backend

Recruiting Daily

On the Web: Frontend vs Backend It’s time for another technical discussion. This is a rather pleasant subject called the frontend. In small steps, I’ll try to explain what you might know from estimation. For starters, basic concepts. What is it about? Creating web applications, in simple words – websites. After typing in a […].

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Should I Use a Consultant When Evaluating My ATS

TargetRecruit

By Bobby Bartlett. As a follow-up to a previous article called How to Evaluate Enterprise Staffing & Recruiting Technology , I wanted to discuss something that I feel can be the remedy for this problem: third-party consulting firms. Hiring a consultant to help sort out and evaluate technology can be a very smart way to eliminate a lot of the risks I presented in the above article.

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How to Communicate With Candidates During Challenging Times

The Staffing Stream

It’s a very unusual time for staffing professionals. We’re all hopeful that the recovery is on its way and that hiring will pick back up in the coming months. However, US unemployment rates are at a record high and a lot of businesses are struggling. This means that there are more people actively looking for new jobs than ever before. Indeed, our data shows that job searches on our site rose by 7.8% in May.

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Navigating Being an “Only” at Work: How NGA’s Ichesia Veal Learned to Be Her Own Best Advocate

PowerToFly

If you'd told Ichesia Veal when she began her studies at Norfolk State University that one day she'd end up being the chief of the Commercial GEOINT Discovery Division at NGA, she wouldn't have believed you. First, she didn't know what NGA was. If you don't either, here's a primer: the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provides world-class geospatial intelligence to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders.

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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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The Important Details of Work from Home Policies

Professional Alternatives

Impressive advances in technology have ensured that companies who want their employees to work from home are provided with essential tools for collaboration. Over the last decade, recruitment has become increasingly competitive and, as a result, employers have had to improve the benefits of remote work to provide their employees with added flexibility.

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9 Hiring Tips: How To Extend The Perfect Job Offer

Transformify - Recruiting

Hiring the right candidate for your business is resource-intensive. You put out the call, pour-over resumes, hold a number of interviews, and narrow down the field. Once you’ve finally picked out the candidate who best suits the role, you really want them to accept the job offer - you don’t want all of your hard work to go to waste. You can always extend the offer to the second or third best candidate, but there’s a reason they’re not the first on your list.

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Six Lessons From An Unexpected Teacher

Forbes Human Resources Council

Here are some of the leadership lessons we have the opportunity to learn from the current challenging circumstances.

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How to Build a Strong Organizational Culture

Select Software Reviews

This post highlights types of organizational culture and how to turn yours into a business asset.

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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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Reflections On Inclusion In An Era Of Crisis

Forbes Human Resources Council

Exercising more empathy and compassion during these times is how we act inclusively.

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Staffing Fast for COVID - Case Study

career.place

Before COVID, Clippard hired between 10 – 20 hires a year in a process that was measured in weeks or months before adopting career.place. But now they had just a matter of a few weeks to hire over 50 people. #NoBias.

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X-raying Linkined with a twist!!

Recruiting Blogs

We all know what Linkedin is, no need to go over it. However one of the things I hear a lot of people say is how do I search in Linkedin for people in a specific location, working for a specific company and with a current specific title. Well I might have come up with a solution. . So I came up with a string that appears to work pretty well. What I did was study a Linkedin Profile and look for what I call static standard terms.

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Coming Back Online: Hiring Trends and Opportunities in the COVID-19 Landscape (Webinar with ZipRecruiter)

CareerPlug

CareerPlug partnered with ZipRecruiter to explore trends, challenges, opportunities in the COVID-19 landscape, as well as share hiring best practices for business owners to put. Read More.

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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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Should I Use a Consultant When Evaluating My ATS

Recruiting Blogs

By Bobby Bartlett. As a follow-up to a previous article called How to Evaluate Enterprise Staffing & Recruiting Technology , I wanted to discuss something that I feel can be the remedy for this problem: third-party consulting firms. Hiring a consultant to help sort out and evaluate technology can be a very smart way to eliminate a lot of the risks I presented in the above article.

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Welcome to the Diversity Reboot Summit! Need Help Troubleshooting?

PowerToFly

To access the summit, go to: [link] Here are some simple guides to help you navigate the summit smoothly: Already registered? Access the Summit like this: Not yet registered? Access the Summit like this: Once you're logged in, choose which talk you want to attend. You can watch via stream on the schedule page, or access Zoom to chat/ask questions.

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How to Launch Your Career in the Gaming Industry

Recruiting Blogs

If you're into gaming, you may want to take your commitment to the next step and get paid for doing what you love. It takes a lot of people to create, develop, and market a game, meaning there are plenty of career opportunities in this industry. The good news is that getting your foot in the door is easier than ever, especially if you've got the drive and determination to keep going when you face challenges.