March, 2016

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Monday FunDay: Love Is Spelled…B-I-N-G-O

ExactHire Recruiting

While the ExactHire team has enjoyed a somewhat mild winter this year, February in Indianapolis is still a time to hunker down and indulge in some tried and true indoor activities. February’s Monday FunDay was no exception. ExactHire’s Fun Committee (Yes, that is the official name; and, yes, I am a member of it.) channelled childhood memories of Valentine’s Day parties for this month’s event.

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Easy Ways to Optimize Your Resume for an ATS

JazzHR

With online job posts receiving thousands of applicants, it’s no wonder that more than 90% of large companies use an applicant tracking system to assist with their hiring needs. A portion of the ATS software focuses on analyzing resumes to determine whether they meet basic qualifications for the job. The technology isn’t always as effective as it sounds, though, and talented applicants can often be overlooked or not accounted for at all.

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End Of An Era for Rice Consulting

The Whiteboard

Good morning recruiters of New Zealand. Great to see so many of you at the #RicePowWow last night, especially as it will be my last. I was tempted to make this announcement last night, but opted instead to confide in a few of you in person, before issuing this press release on my recruitment blog of 5 years, The Whiteboard. Every recruiter has a shelf life, it’s a tough gig to maintain, and I really do take my hat off to those “career recruiters” out there.

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10 Common Reasons You Can’t Find Your Jobs on Job Aggregators

Recruitics

You’ve just posted a job on one of the many popular job aggregators (search engines for job seekers) like Indeed or Jobs2Careers , for example. You’ve spent the time, and money, to write the job title and job description with best practices in mind. Now you want to find it on the aggregator, just as any job seeker would, by searching the keyword you optimized for … but it’s just not there.

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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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Hiring Costs Trending Up - Why That's Important

Hoops

The costs of hiring employees is an important metric for businesses to track. It’s a critical component when measuring the ROI of the hiring process, and if you're not constantly evaluating your hiring process, start now. Small Business Trends examined the costs in today’s economy, where there are more higher paying positions available. Why is this important?

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The leadership illusion

Workable

What would you say about a global industry worth $45bn annually that was delivering no apparent value? An industry which has grown by 39 percent in the United States in the last five years. One that attracts ever more investment even as its returns are seen to diminish. You might conclude that it was a failure, and an impressive one at that. This is the leadership industry, a complex that now encompasses colleges, gurus, corporate departments, startups, foundations, consultancies, publishers, th

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Leveraging Video Interviews for Talent Acquisition

iCIMS

Companies are always looking to decrease time-to-fill and increase quality hires. Learn how using video interviews can help achieve recruiting success!

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Why you need an agile talent ecosystem

Allegis Global Solutions

Innovative, collaborative approaches to work are key in the As-a-Service economy.

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Join John Vlastelica for a Live Webinar on Leveraging Hiring Managers

Recruiting Toolbox

Leveraging Hiring Managers as Your Secret Weapon. Did you know that your hiring manager can be your secret weapon for attracting and converting the best talent? Join us for this 1 hour webcast to learn 10 actionable strategies that you can take back to the office to leverage your hiring managers more effectively. John Vlastelica , founder of global training firm, Recruiting Toolbox , top 5% speaker at LinkedIn Talent Connect 2015, producer of Talent42 , and former Talent Acquisition Director at

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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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Hiring Costs Trending Up - Why That's Important

Hoops

The costs of hiring employees is an important metric for businesses to track. It’s a critical component when measuring the ROI of the hiring process, and if you're not constantly evaluating your hiring process, start now. Small Business Trends examined the costs in today’s economy, where there are more higher paying positions available. Why is this important?

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5 Tips for Writing Better Job Titles

Social Talent

A good job posting title can make all the difference when it comes to finding the right talent to fill a position. Without the right title, candidates simply won’t be able to find your job listing. Or worse, those who find your listing may not be able to decipher what your job title actually means. If you want to get the best results out of your job listing, you can follow these tips to help you create better job titles: 1.

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Recruiting KPIs: time to fill

Workable

There is no broad consensus in the world of recruiting about what we should be measuring. What we have in its place is a lot of noise. With more and more businesses take their hiring online, millions of jobs and candidates are finding each other through applicant tracking systems, so there’s an abundance of data to look at, including time to fill metrics.

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Recruiting Spring Grads: What They Want

Glassdoor for Employers

As graduation approaches and a rush of college students prepare to transition to adulthood, now is the time to make a solid game plan for attracting top quality hires. Recent grads are the future of every organization, so it makes sense to devote time to learn what their dream job encompasses. It’s imperative to understand the qualities recent college grads possess that make them great hires, along with knowing the perks that will attract them to your team.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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It's not too late to make some talent New Year's resolutions

Allegis Global Solutions

Your personal resolutions may already be long gone, but you can still improve your talent strategy in 2016.

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How to Use Employer Brand to Reach and Attract Talent With Tech Skills

TalentLyft

There is only one chance to make a first impression, which can decide on someone's failure or success. On company-level, this concept has even greater effect. This is why good employer branding is the key to a successful representation of your company, and an important way for reaching and attracting talent with technical skills or any other hard-to-fill roles.

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Careers Page Teardowns: Dealertrack [Case Study]

Firmplay

In our latest “Careers Page Teardowns” post, we take a close look at the careers page of Dealertrack, the leading provider of technology to the auto retail industry. A few of the items we sink our teeth into: Where and how often should you mention perks/benefits on your careers page? What about those polished recruiting videos? Yay? Nay?

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The 2016 Global Recruiting Survey (FREE Download)

Social Talent

It’s back! The Global Recruiting Survey 2016 is here and it’s bigger and better than ever. Yes, for the second year running we’ve partnered with Alexander Mann Solutions to bring you an exclusive and comprehensive look at emerging trends within the recruitment industry and at how recruiters are using online tools and social media when attracting engaging with talent in 2016.

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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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Time to hire: key recruiting KPIs to track

Workable

Using recruiting metrics effectively is about finding the signal in the noise. Hiring managers, business owners and recruiters need data that delivers actionable insights. Following the release of Workable’s new Reporting Center we’re taking an in-depth look at the four key performance indicators (KPIs) worth tracking. This time we look in more detail at “time to hire.”.

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5 Shocking Mistakes Killing Your Email Open Rates (And How to Never Make Them Again)

1-Page

Have your email open rates taken a nosedive? Think you’ve crafted an irresistible subject line, but the stats aren’t backing it up? Before you start believing the hype that “email is dead” and giving up hope – all it takes is a quick study of the craft of writing emails to help you write compelling subject lines that just scream: “Click me!”. Email ain’t dead.

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Boosting Your Employer Branding with Social Media

Jobvite

Recruiters are no strangers to social media. In the realm of candidate sourcing, it’s now seen by many as indispensable. For candidate attraction, social media has become an essential channel. But what of employer branding? … Continued.

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3 Excellent Strategies to Improve Communication Within Your Agency

FireFish Software

Working in recruitment means the focus of communication naturally gravitates outwards towards the way we work with candidates and clients. Of course this is important; it’s a process that’s intrinsically linked with the profession, and it’s the route that allows us to make placements and ultimately bring in money.

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Ask an Expert: Stump Our I-9 Pros With Your Compliance Questions

Speaker: Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright

Ensuring I-9 compliance has never been more important…or more confusing. If you’ve struggled to find answers to your specific I-9 and compliance questions, join WorkBright, the experts in remote I-9 onboarding, for a free webinar where a panel of industry leaders will discuss: I-9 compliance tips and best practices Pros and cons of I-9 Alternative Procedure Exploring other options to facilitate I-9 remotely Open audience Q&A for all things I-9 compliance Bring your questions and hear from I-

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5 FREE Ways to Attract All-Star Employees

Glassdoor for Employers

Wouldn’t it be great if all the Harvard graduates, international superstars and MBA qualified candidates wanted to work for you? How much more productive would your company be if your staff was made up of all-star employees who not only knew how to work together as a team, but who also responded well to challenges, contributed bright ideas and moved your company forward?

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10 Interview Questions You Should NEVER Ask a Candidate

Social Talent

We’ve talked about bias in the workplace in our latest White Paper – How to: Increase Diversity Through Improved Recruitment and Hiring Processes. We’ve also discussed how most bias stereotypes don’t come from a place of bad intent, but more so develop in our brains through years of different influences that we often had no control over.

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Writing job descriptions for hiring millennials

Workable

Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce. More than 35m millennials and Generation-Y employees (those born after 1980) are starting their careers and looking for jobs with companies who can meet their aspirations. How can your company attract the best employees when hiring millennials? Start with your job titles and descriptions. As companies compete to hire the strongest and most qualified workers in the 18-35 age bracket, it’s crucial to make sure that your job descriptions

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3 Simple Ways To Rekindle Your Love of Interviewing

Spark Hire

While adding to your team is exciting, over time, the interview process can begin to feel like a chore. Between filtering through resumes and trying to factor in time to meet with candidates and deliberate with your team, it’s a high-stress process. However, infusing energy back into interviewing positively impacts both hiring managers and candidates alike.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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How Raleigh Is Engineering a Solution to the Skills Gap

Yoh

In Raleigh, North Carolina they are engineering a solution to a worldwide problem: understanding the recruitment, retention, and skills development needs of today’s leading energy and technology providers. Spearheaded by the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC) and RTI International, this local initiative is gaining global traction in a race to uncover an elite talent pool.

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Employer Branding: What a Known Identity Can Do for Recruitment

iCIMS

Branding isn’t just for marketers anymore. Employers need to be mindful of their candidate-facing brand just as much as they need to be aware of their customer-facing one — in fact, they are often on the same page!

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Why is it so Hard to Hire Sales Talent?

Glassdoor for Employers

Like all top talent, salespeople aren’t strangers to getting contacted on a regular basis by recruiters trying to entice them away from their current role and company. Individuals that work in sales are experts at these types of outreaches and have a more critical eye than most because of their own experience prospecting via cold calls and emails. They expect to be sold to throughout the interview and hiring process and want to know what’s in it for them.

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