November, 2020

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How to reject job applicants with grace

Social Talent

“ People feel with their hearts… and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”. – Emily Brontë in “Wuthering Heights” Rejection stings no matter the context. It signifies a failure or inadequacy and usually presents after having exposed yourself in some regard. From proclamations of love or submissions of creativity, rejection prowls around these actions.

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What ‘The Dark Ages of Recruitment’ can teach us post-COVID

Greg Savage

Every second article I see is about how recruitment will change post-COVID. Mostly it’s BS as the majority of recruiters will go back and do exactly as they have always done. I explained that here. Of course, the opportunity to make changes has never been better, and the smart ones in our industry are working […].

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3 Ways to Use TikTok to Boost Your Employer Brand

Rally Recruitment Marketing

TikTok has taken off like wildfire, and many companies have taken notice and have started creating Recruitment Marketing content for the platform. Gen Z and millennials make up 62% of TikTok’s audience , so it is a great channel for reaching and building brand awareness with students, new grads and early career audiences. That being said, since the platform is new and different from other channels in our typical Recruitment Marketing roster, some employers are still considering how to jump in.

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How Workplaces Are Pivoting to Achieve World Class Cultures for Hiring for 2021

Lever

References to agility and reimagining employee experience proliferate the digital space amid conversations around this upcoming year’s workplace strategies. As well, this McKinsey survey lays the groundwork of technology-fueled speed and efficiency as a key enabler of a high-performance culture; 800 executives. Read More. The post How Workplaces Are Pivoting to Achieve World Class Cultures for Hiring for 2021 appeared first on Lever.

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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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AI in Recruitment - What it Really Is, And Isn’t (And Never Will Be!)

TalentLyft

So far we’ve heard a lot about AI penetrating many different aspects of the recruitment industry and the ways in which it’s been redefining it. However, for anyone who is not a data scientist, it is still oftentimes a mystery what AI technology really is and what it simply isn’t. While technology is inevitably reshaping the way we conduct business, it is the combined effort of recruiters and advanced software that results in hiring long-lasting and competent candidates.

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Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions

Katrina Kibben

Women often talk themselves out of jobs they could thrive in because of the listed requirements in job postings and I hate it. The post Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Greg Savage

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […].

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3 Steps to Choosing the Best Hiring and Talent Technology

Allegis Global Solutions

Hiring has changed beyond all recognition since the pandemic struck earlier this year. In response, hiring organisations have been forced to adopt new digital strategies to engage, hire and onboard talent, which will inevitably have a long-term impact on the industry. Today’s talent leaders are challenged on how to effectively harness talent technology within a new operating model; one that supports the end-to-end talent process and drives strong performance.

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15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline

Lever

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are top of mind for many executives and talent professionals. We’re making progress, but there is still much work to be done. Women and people of color are underrepresented in leadership positions, certain job categories, and entire industries. Read More. The post 15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline appeared first on Lever.

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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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The importance of e-learning in a culture of remote work

Social Talent

Referring to COVID’s effect on how people are operating has almost reached the lofty status of a cliché. But it’s impossible not to acknowledge the gargantuan shifts. Its nefarious tendrils have fundamentally changed how we work. We’ve all had to adapt to some degree. But now is not the time to press pause on learning and development. With swathes of employees working remotely, e-learning has triumphantly risen to fill this gap.

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Hiring Manager Interview Performance is the Key to Recruiting Experience

Survale

Your recruiting experience is only as good as your hiring managers. No matter what you do to make sure candidates are well informed with regular communication. No matter how much recruiters treat candidates with respect, just one bad interview experience can wipe it all out. Are you measuring interview performance? Are you using candidate feedback to understand what’s working and what’s not with your recruiting experience?

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Ageism Is On the Rise and Getting Employers into Trouble - Here's How to Avoid It

Glassdoor for Employers

Recently, the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation tripped up and stated out loud the ageist beliefs that many executives keep to themselves. Mark Read, CEO of the $17 billion corporation WPP, was asked about the balance of TV and digital skills in his organization. His response : "We have a very broad range of skills, and if you look at our people - the average age of someone who works at WPP is less than 30 - they don't hark back to the 1980s, luckily.".

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A Savage ‘Christmas Special’. Australia, NZ & the U.K.

Greg Savage

The Savage Truth Book is closing in on 10,000 copies sold. I have no idea if that’s any good, but it’s about 9,500 more than my pre-publishing estimate. More importantly, it really seems to have helped a lot of people judging by the hundreds of notes I have received, and the many shout-outs on LinkedIn […].

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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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Having Recruiting Tools Does Not Make You a Recruiter

NPA Worldwide

Thanksgiving is this week in the United States. Due to travel restrictions related to Covid-19, a lot of people aren’t traveling to relatives’ houses for dinner, instead opting to stay home and do it themselves. So this past weekend, I took inventory – I have a roasting pan, a turkey baster, a thermometer, twine, a carving board, a knife… I’m all set, right?

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Ditch Annual Reviews. Rewrite Your Job Description.

Katrina Kibben

Coronavirus changed everything. This year, instead of the typical annual review, write a more accurate job description. Here's why. The post Ditch Annual Reviews. Rewrite Your Job Description. appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Burning at both ends: The growth of employee burnout

Social Talent

As the pandemic has ravaged the working landscape, it has given rise to a multitude of worrying issues – burnout being one of the most austere. It is, of course, understandable on one hand. The tectonic shifts in how we carry out daily life have been immense. With the strains of uncertainty, change and fear proliferating into every atom of our being, it’s no wonder that employee mental wellbeing is teetering more precariously than ever. .

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How to interview a senior developer (with interview questions)

Devskiller

By its very nature, making, testing, and maintaining all software is a complex venture. As a result, every member of the development team has an important contribution to make. This is particularly true for a senior developer. They have to be able to write great code, and must also take on a wide range of other roles, many of which can have a crucial effect on your company’s record of success. .

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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5 Trends Reshaping How We Work After COVID-19

Glassdoor for Employers

What's going to happen to how we work next year? Here's a topline summary of the five most compelling workplace trends Andrew Chamberlain, Ph.D., Chief Economist and Director of Research at Glassdoor, sees emerging in 2021 based on his new research report. These trends are what we believe will take hold as the pandemic continues to unfold - and assuming no other major unforeseeable event takes place in the coming year.

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Agency Recruiters and Talent Acquisition. New era – better outcomes

Greg Savage

I have done over 100 webinars since COVID struck. This one drew almost 1,000 attendees. The feedback was probably the best too. The topic was the drawcard. How can Agency Recruiter and Internal Talent Acquisition work better together? As I so classily say in the webinar, it is currently so often a ‘ vicious cycle […].

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The October Jobs Report: Why You Need A Focused Approach to Hiring Talent 

Hireology

October’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report showed once again that we are slowly but surely on the rebound from the first wave of COVID-19. With a national unemployment rate of 6.9%, we continue to inch closer to pre-pandemic levels of employment, and have made it back to the level of unemployment that we saw two to three years after the 2008 recession. 638,000 jobs were added in October, many of which were in the restaurant and retail industries in preparation for the holiday season.

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Pronouns: Creating Safe Spaces

Katrina Kibben

How allies can create safer spaces for their fellow humans to share their pronouns. The post Pronouns: Creating Safe Spaces appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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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How COVID-19 could change performance reviews (for good)

Social Talent

An unprecedented year calls for unprecedented changes – especially in how we work. As the calendar is beginning to tick into its final month, EOY performance reviews are rearing their heads. But how can we accurately assess what employees have “achieved” in such uncertain times? It’s an issue that has clearly been on the mind. Even as far back as March, Facebook announced that it would be giving all 45,000 employees the same ‘exceeds expectations’ performance review.

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6 Ways You Can Use Your Recruitment Website to Win Clients

FireFish Software

Your recruitment website is essentially your agency’s shop window – is it doing its job of pulling in new business? While most agency websites do a great job of attracting and registering candidates, few sites cater to clients. And in this job-short market, you need to be constantly thinking of new ways to pull in business with your marketing strategy.

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Why It's Important To Maintain An Insatiable Curiosity

Glassdoor for Employers

As a part of my series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Samantha Zupan, Glassdoor's senior vice president of corporate communications. Samantha is responsible for the company's corporate communications strategy, overseeing a team that includes public relations, executive and internal communications, economic research, government affairs as well as community relations.

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Why so many recruitment managers got fired in Covid.

Greg Savage

Plenty of Agency recruitment managers were fired as soon as the pandemic hit. That was shocking at an individual level, but no surprise, because in every downturn companies unload expensive middle managers in droves. I have seen it countless times. Even in good times, many, many recruitment companies decimate their profit level because of this […].

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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Tips for Recruiters to Maintain Momentum Going Into The Holidays

AkkenCloud

The year 2020 has been an unprecedented year that has affected every company differently. Some have been quiet and had to lay off staff, causing a reduction in motivation for those left to pick up the slack, and others have seen such an increase in business that staff members have been rushed off their feet. Couple this with the fact that the year is coming to an end, and momentum in the workplace can be hard to maintain.

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[#WorkTrends] Unmute Yourself! How Remote Workers Can Self-Advocate

TalentCulture - Recruiting

As an isolated team member, how do you sustain an effective communication chain, stay productive, and get what you need out of your employer? How do you unmute yourself? For […]. The post [#WorkTrends] Unmute Yourself! How Remote Workers Can Self-Advocate appeared first on TalentCulture.

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SocialTalent Live: Diversity, equity and inclusion – What we learned

Social Talent

Change is something which has defined 2020, both for better and worse. In this moment of flux, there’s an opportunity to have conversations about some of the most important aspects facing society. So in the spirit of this nebulous atmosphere grew SocialTalent Live – a series of digital events designed to bring these discussions to life. It seemed more than appropriate that our first one should centre on diversity , equity and inclusion.

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