August, 2020

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5 easy ways to maximise your learning today

Social Talent

New skills are great – it’s just the diligence, time and patience to learn them that often holds us back. Right? Wrong. What if we told you that it’s actually less about what you learn, and more about how you learn. Here are five tips to help you maximise your learning today. 1. Make it bitesize. Do you find sitting down to do hours and hours of reading difficult and tiring?

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Drop your fees and triple your billings. Seriously

Greg Savage

I wrote recently about my Post-COVID nirvana. How the recruitment industry can be re-invented, with massive benefits for clients, candidates and recruiters. My ‘dream’ includes killing off the scourge of contingent, multi listed-order recruitment, which drives much that is bad in our industry. Speed over price, short cuts, resume racing, fee-discounts, poor service to candidate […].

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5 Ways to Build an Effective Employee Advocacy Program

Rally Recruitment Marketing

No one can tell a more honest story about your organization and its values than your employees. That’s why employee advocacy is such an important part of Recruitment Marketing today. After all, nobody knows you better than your employees – and it makes them one of the most powerful recruitment attractors (or detractors!) in the market today. Let’s say you’ve put a ton of effort into shaping your organization’s EVP or building your employer brand.

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Ebook: Twitter Search Strings for Recruiters Looking for Work

Proactive Talent

As a recruiter open to new opportunities, do you know how to search Twitter for your next recruiter job? If you don't know how to search Twitter well enough to find the recruiting job you are looking for or even aren't aware of what Twitter can do for you in your job search, look no further! Our ebook Twitter Search Strings for Recruiters Looking for Work will explain all that and more.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Lever’s Summer Release: Fast Resume Review, Block Repeat Applicants and Multiple Diversity Surveys

Lever

With this release, Lever is announcing a host of upgrades to help recruiting organizations be even more productive and effective during this time. We know that many companies have been asked to do more with less, which is why we are committed. Read More. The post Lever’s Summer Release: Fast Resume Review, Block Repeat Applicants and Multiple Diversity Surveys appeared first on Lever.

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How to Apply Consumer Marketing Tactics to Your Recruitment Strategy

Recruitics

What we now call “recruitment marketing” is generally taking consumer marketing strategies and applying them to recruitment and talent acquisition initiatives. Consumer marketing efforts have been fine-tuned for customer satisfaction. So, by tweaking and applying these methods to your recruitment strategies, you can improve the candidate experience and receive more applications from qualified talent.

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Go away PSA. Farewell PSL

Greg Savage

You gotta love it when a plan comes together! This is a true tale. And it has a warning for the recovery after COVID. Precision Sourcing is an excellent medium-sized IT recruitment business in Sydney. I have been an Advisor on the Board for almost five years. When I joined, there was a big problem. […].

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9 Companies Around the World That Are Embracing Diversity in a BIG Way

Social Talent

Diverse organisations perform better. We’re always saying it, but there’s a very good reason why. In our E-Book on How to Increase Diversity Through Improved Hiring and Recruitment Processes , we uncovered some very interesting insights on the benefits of embracing diversity, including: Most studies surrounding diversity in the workplace have found that for every 1% increase in gender diversity, company revenue increases by 3%.

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Tribe TV: Can Employees Sue You Over COVID-19?

Proactive Talent

If someone returns to work and becomes sick and dies because of unsafe working conditions or due to contact with a COVID-19 infected co-worker or customer then, it’s a good chance that the surviving family members will sue their loved one’s employer. It's already happened at Walmart, Safeway and Tyson Foods. Who’s next? Are you ready for a coronavirus wrongful death or COVID-19 wrongful termination lawsuit?

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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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12 Companies Ramping Up Their Diversity & Inclusion Efforts - and How You Can Too

Glassdoor for Employers

While more diverse than in the past, it's no secret that corporate America suffers from a lack of diversity and inclusion. Nowadays, companies are being more intentional about ramping up their diversity and inclusion efforts to show solidarity and support to their underrepresented employees. Thankfully, many companies are now realizing that increasing diversity and inclusion within the company is not only good for society, it's also good for business.

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Architecting a Better Talent Acquisition Pipeline with PBK

ClearCompany Recruiting

The architects and engineers at PBK Architects know better than anyone that a thriving community requires the support of buildings and infrastructure. With a fast-growing workforce and an outdated hiring and onboarding process, PBK decided it was time to implement a talent management system that could keep up with its growing demand for highly-skilled top talent.

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What I Learned Writing 1000 Jobs: New Job Post Training

Katrina Kibben

After writing over 1,000 job posts, I turned my expertise into a job post training that will teach you to write effective postings quickly. The post What I Learned Writing 1000 Jobs: New Job Post Training appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Recruitment is not Tinder. COVID screwed that.

Greg Savage

Let’s be honest about our industry for a moment. Prior to the pandemic, technology and lack of skill drove plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Post-COVID, you have a choice. Go back to being what you always were. A keyword-matching, resume-flicking, in-box spamming, transactional recruiting hack. (Ouch!

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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 new recruitment trends 2020: What they mean for you and your business

Social Talent

With the onset of pandemic, the recruitment process was transformed overnight and trend predictions have had to evolve along with this. Below, we have detailed four of the most essential developments in this sphere. 1. Employer Branding . With so much of our world migrating online in the last few months, potential candidates now have more time to research your company presence and reputation.

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Announcing our New World of Work survey report

Workable

With this 30-question survey, we at Workable wanted to look at how businesses pivoted over the past several months, and what they’re planning for the future – be that a “new normal”, a “new way of work”, or something else altogether. The result is Workable’s New World of Work survey report. We think you’d be very interested in this. Out of many insights, we’re highlighting three for you: Remote work is the big paradigm shift.

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3 Easy Ways to Be a More Transparent Manager Today - and What You Can Expect to Improve

Glassdoor for Employers

What to do: Challenge yourself to acknowledge an unspoken question. As a leader, it can be tempting to "overlook" the elephant in the room out of convenience, but doing so almost always leads to a loss of respect. Instead, give your team the credit they deserve: assume they can read between the lines, and make the extra effort to address the question that dwells there.

Diversity 180
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Ultimate Guide To a Successful Video Interview: 8 Rules to Consider

Yoh

As the pandemic continues to spread across the country, economies around the world continue to falter. Few industries remain untouched. Businesses have started to fall back on technology in order to stay afloat amidst these uncertain times. Working from home is now the new normal.

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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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Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes

Katrina Kibben

Your LinkedIn profile should be written for a human, not a machine. Here are the 4 ways you can do that and stop making common mistakes. The post Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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In recruitment, everybody sells baby! Everybody.

Greg Savage

It has ever been thus. In the ten-year recruiting boom (which ended in March this year BTW), companies got away with squadrons of non-billing managers and platoons of people with sexy job titles and no discernable actual responsibilities. Recruitment company productivity was declining before COVID, but now the last thing you want is ‘administration managers’ […].

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How to create a culture of internal career mobility

Social Talent

When it comes to external hires, there is always a trend towards the “shiny and new” cliché. And while there is no denying that incorporating new blood can be advantageous, there is a growing call for talent acquisition to redefine their approach. Why not put the magnifying glass on our own organisations to fill roles and enable a culture of internal career mobility?

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History of programming languages

Devskiller

Computer programming is the very basis of the digital age that we live in today. Every time you like a post on social media, send an email, or set an alarm on your phone, a programming language is working behind the scenes – pulling the strings. . But where did it all begin? And what spurred its growth into the leading industry that exists today?

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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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Behavioral Interviewing: The Achilles Heel of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Glassdoor for Employers

"Tell me about a time when you…". I'll stop there. We've all been on the other side of the table when a hiring manager or recruiter asked us a behavioral interview question. And if you're a college-educated, white collar worker, chances are you had something impressive to share, going as far back as college when you may have had a leadership position in student body government or a competitive internship.

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Maternity Leave during Coronavirus Lockdown: My Experience

Hireserve

We have all faced fears in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: for our health, our livelihoods, our way of life. For me, a new mum in the middle of maternity leave, it was isolation that frightened me the most. I was five months into my maternity leave when the UK went into lockdown. Long days with a baby in lockdown. Before the Coronavirus pandemic, maternity leave was just as I had hoped it would be.

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What to Expect from this Year’s All-Virtual Elevate Event

Hireology

Elevate 2020 — the only retail automotive event focused on building your best-in-class people operations — is right around the corner, slated to kickoff September 15th as an all-virtual event that’s free to attend. Click here to register! We’re thrilled to rethink the format this year to help you connect with other retail automotive leaders and learn how to combat the challenges you may face as the industry evolves.

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How my fear saved my recruitment company in a recession

Greg Savage

I had a significant experience during the massive downturn of the ‘90s. It taught me a crucial lesson about leadership in tough times. It was something I did. And I did not even know I was doing it! I was running Recruitment Solutions, a company I had founded with two others. We had a golden […].

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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The top learning content: What’s topped the August charts?

Social Talent

We’re passionate about making sure that all our learners stay abreast of the latest trends, tools and best practices, so are constantly adding to our library of learning content. We also keep a keen eye on what content is being consumed with the SocialTalent charts– after all, what better way to understand the needs of our users than observing which missions are the most popular?

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6 Recruitment Agencies That Do Twitter Right

FireFish Software

From attracting new candidates to pulling in new business, a good Twitter account can be a great way to generate leads for a recruitment agency.

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How Upskilling, Reskilling & Continuous Learning Can Help Retain Talent

SmartRecruiters

Education is a lifelong activity. Employers that recognize and embrace this truth by investing in the ongoing development of their employees stand to benefit in numerous ways. Retaining talent is a surprising struggle today. In fact, 82% of employees said a lack of progression would influence their decision to leave a company, and progression comes in many forms.