October, 2018

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What to Look for in a Modern Recruitment Platform

ClearCompany Recruiting

Recruiting software is highly utilized by talent acquisition teams. In fact, 75% of hiring professionals used either applicant tracking or recruiting software to improve their hiring process. Unfortunately, because implementing a new system or transitioning to another tool can be such an undertaking, organizational leaders either hesitate to choose a platform or deal with clunky programs.

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10 Instagram-Worthy Employee Experience Ideas

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Instagram is a great channel to use to provide candidates with an inside look into your organization and motivate them to join your team. One of the most effective types of content that my team at WeddingWire leverages on Instagram is employee generated content. What is employee generated content, you might be wondering? Employee generated content, also called EGC, refers to social media content that is created and shared by employees.

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10 Top Diversity & Inclusion Questions Answered

Lever

We recently co-hosted an amazing webinar panel on Building a Diversity and Inclusion Program from Scratch. On it, our speakers Katee Van Horn, Shavonne Hasfal-Mcintosh, and Raena Saddler shared incredible advice and insights on a topic that is a top business priority for so many of us. They covered a lot of ground, but simply didn’t have the time to answer all of the wonderful questions they received.

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Putting the 'Total' in Total Talent Management

Allegis Global Solutions

We all know the biggest disruptors of the last ten years were; globalization, demographic changes and speed of technological advancements but what’s next?

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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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Look At Me: A Perspective on Privilege

Katrina Kibben

My perspective on privilege is probably a little different from most. But this is one of those thoughts I couldn't get out of my head.

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8 Ways Recruiters Can Grow Their IT Technical Knowledge

Hiretual

The majority of recruiters start out being generalists in their career. I started my career with just a bachelors in marketing and communications. I had absolutely no understanding of computer science. I was able to take a few STEM courses and wrote my first wordpress site using basic HTML and PHP.

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How to Get an 8x Response Rate to Your Cold Emails to Passive Candidates

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Manan Shah – Cofounder at Recruiterflow. His opinions are his own. The average cold email response rate is about 5%-8%! To put that in perspective, you need to reach out to 20 people to get one response. The key part of this statistic here is “average” and being “average” is not […].

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Top 5 Recruiting Challenges to Solve in 2019

Lever

Recruiting is hard work. The competition for talent is high, making it difficult to win top-tier talent. On top of that, reactive hiring means you can’t focus on more strategic initiatives, like candidate experience and team collaboration. All of these things can wreak havoc on a hiring plan. As we begin thinking about 2019, let’s take the time to consider what we can do now to address these things before they continue to be problematic.

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A Total Talent Approach to Women in Tech

Allegis Global Solutions

Despite advancements in other areas of education and a record number of women attending college, fewer and fewer women graduate with degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Of course, large employers and global RPOs have been wringing their hands about this issue, which has come more to the forefront as diversity’s obvious impact on the bottom line becomes clearer the more it’s studied.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Why Most Recruiting Fails

Katrina Kibben

If the recruitment marketing plan doesn't feel right, don't do it. This post is about that lesson and the most important criteria for doing what works.

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How Stacy Zapar Manages Internal Expectations

Social Talent

When it comes down to managing internal expectations, Founder & Principal Recruiter at The Talent Ag friend, Stacy Zapar knows a thing or two! Every company wants to hire the brightest sparks out there, however, understanding what that candidate looks like is a key component. Managing internal expectation is never as straightforward as you think.

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REPORT: What Are the Hardest to Fill Healthcare Jobs?

Indeed

As a nation, Americans are facing serious health challenges. Heart disease remains the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the US, and a host of other conditions pose a great risk — including cancer, diabetes, respiratory diseases and stroke. In fact, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), life expectancy in the US has decreased for the second year in a row — the first time this has happened since the 1960s.

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Recruiting Is Sales and 7 Other Lessons from a Global TA Leader at UNLEASH Amsterdam

SmartRecruiters

Ahead of her session on the second day of UNLEASH Amsterdam, we bring you eight lessons from recruiting-rockstar, Tracey Allison. Talent Acquisition right now is unquestionably a candidate’s market, with 73 percent of employers in the US reporting skill shortages in their field. Today’s applicants want a candid look inside your company before they even apply.

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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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Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day

Symphony Talent

Recruiting is a people profession. Most recruiters have fantastic interpersonal skills, excel at building relationships, and communicate with ease. Yet a majority spend a large chunk of their. The post Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Keyword Search: How to Sound Like A Sourcer.

Allegis Global Solutions

Most sourcing professionals would disagree with the overarching thesis that they could effectively be replaced by pretty much any preteen, or anyone who's ever seen a couple episodes of Catfish , but that's because they don't want anyone to know that finding people online has never been particularly challenging.

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Using Teaching To Build A Talent Pipeline

Katrina Kibben

“I don’t know what Tweeter is, but I think you’ll be good at it.” Famous last words from my CMO at VisualCV. This was in 2009, just two years after Twitter launched. The audience was mostly marketers trying to see if this thing was worth their time and bloggers trying to get someone to listen. […].

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10 Qualities That Returning Caregivers Bring to the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

While employers and recruiters may initially hesitate to hire a return-to-work caregiver, they may want to reconsider. Candidates who have been out.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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On Your Mark: 5 Tips for New Managers

Indeed

One of the most common conversations I have with top performers on my team centers around opportunities to become a manager. It’s great to be ambitious, of course, and I love to see people rise to the next level in their careers. But there’s an important reminder I like to give: The skills that are required to be a high-performing individual contributor are not always the same as those required to be an exceptional manager.

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Benefits Your Employees Actually Want: Why PayScale Has the Happiest Employees in Seattle

SmartRecruiters

Sometimes it’s hard to discern which benefits are trendy and which will actually improve employee quality of life. We talk with PayScale to learn the difference. This year Seattle Business Magazine named PayScale the top place to work in Seattle. No easy feat in the Emerald city with competition from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, and the siren call of San Francisco and Silicon Valley constantly ringing up the coast.

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5 Reasons Why Businesses Should Be More Engaged With New Hires

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Chloe Taylor with Wellable. Her opinions are her own. Workforce engagement is fundamental to the success of any organization, as it increases productivity, reduces turnover and improves the overall culture of a company. As such, engagement strategies have become the staple of a desirable workplace, putting companies under increasing competitive […].

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Recruitment Marketing Personas: Why You Need Them and How to Get Started

FireFish Software

Creating a marketing strategy that fully caters to your target audience can be a difficult task for recruitment agencies. And the reason for this is that you’re trying to reach both B2B (clients) and B2C (candidates) audiences at the same time – which isn’t easy! Building out personas is a great way to laser-focus your marketing strategy so you see a much better return on your efforts.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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A New Concept In Assessments: Attraction

Katrina Kibben

You can use assessment in nontraditional ways to enable people across your company to recruit where they shine: when they speak.

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7 Ways to Deliver a Stellar Employee Experience

Glassdoor for Employers

At the highest level, employee experience or EX illustrates everything that people encounter, observe or feel over the course of their time.

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Employer Branding: Five Experts Explain How to Stand Out From the Competition

Indeed

If you look at the array of solutions available to employers today, then it would seem that it’s never been easier for employee-experience storytellers to get your employer brand out there. With easy access to video, multiple social media channels, sophisticated third-party review sites , live events and employee advocacy, well — there are just so many ways to get your story in front of potential candidates.

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Write Emails People Want to Read, 5 Tips from Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee at Social Recruiting Days 2018

SmartRecruiters

Sure you know the basic etiquette, but at the end of the day are you writing something someone actually wants to read? “Attention is the business currency of our age.” Says Hung Lee, recruiting influencer and Co-Founder of Workshape.io. “So how do we get that attention and keep it?”. For Hung, the answer is email. As the creator of recruiting brainfood , the talent acquisition newsletter eagerly awaited by over 9,000 people weekly, he knows the power of a successful campaign, unfortunately so do

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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5 Ways Text Interviews Will Surprise You

Undercover Recruiter

Recruiters are at a disadvantage in today’s hyper-connected society. There are several barriers that run the risk of impeding talent acquisition, including a negative candidate experience, ineffective employment branding, drawn-out recruiting processes, and the inability to reach a busy, on-the-go workforce. Given the high pressure of acquiring top talent in today’s competitive job market, recruiters.

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Why Candidates Aren't Taking Your Calls (and What to Do About It)

FireFish Software

Recruitment would be a much easier job if candidates would just pick up the phone every now and again. And sure, some candidates just aren’t interested in hearing what you have to say, but not answering phone calls is also part of a wider behavioural shift we’re seeing amongst the candidate market, and it’s something we need to adapt to.

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Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! Read More.