August, 2017

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‘Exclusive’ candidates will double your billings

Greg Savage

Not long ago I wrote how ‘unique candidates’ are the future of successful recruiting. Indeed, recruiters talk a great deal about securing exclusive job orders (although few recruiters actually know how!) while we should really put equal focus on negotiating exclusivity with highly specialised, in-demand candidates. The rewards for doing so are juicy-sweet.

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3 Revelations to Create a Culture of Learning

ClearCompany Recruiting

What if 74% of your organization’s workers felt they weren’t reaching their peak potential? A recent study of 4,300 employees found that 74% felt as though they were underachieving. While there are many factors at work to cause this sentiment, it’s the approach to learning and development that tells the story. For instance, only 12% of learners actually apply the skills they gained in training to their job.

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Is Text Messaging the Future of Recruiting?

JazzHR

Text messaging is becoming an incredibly useful tool for recruiting. What at first glance might seem as a very informal method of communication can actually pay dividends at all stages of the recruitment process. That’s because these days we’re all connected to our phones. In fact, the average person checks their phone more than 150 times a day , and 91 percent of people say that they always have their phone within arm’s reach.

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: What People Get Wrong About Sourcing

Lever

So far, our Ask the Sourcing Squad series has zeroed in on what’s important to get right in sourcing. Our band of sourcing experts has shared tips on crafting creative email subject lines , go-to tricks for cold recruiting emails , and which places you should try sourcing. Yet even if you follow every.single.one. of their tips, you can't guarantee sourcing success.

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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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Text Your Applicants – How to do It, and Why it Works

ApplicantPro

We live in a world run by smart phones and text messages. We can rent a movie, order dinner, and confirm an airplane ticket right from our pockets. Smartphones, along with texting, have become a common necessity in today’s day and age. It is not out of the ordinary for you to receive text notifications from various service providers ranging from doctor appointment reminders, to alerting you that your car service is done.

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What I told the African headhunters!

Greg Savage

I just got back from a speaking tour in South Africa. We spoke to 800 recruiters over six events in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The response was phenomenal, and it was fascinating to note that the issues they face on the southern tip of Africa, are for the most part very similar to the challenges […].

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Ongoing Training: 4 Astounding Benefits For Your Employees

ClearCompany Recruiting

No job remains the same forever. Even if jobs never evolved, your employees do. Research shows that employees want to learn, change and grow in their careers. Spend on corporate training has grown to over $70 billion in the United States. Indeed, 87% of millennials say professional development or career growth opportunities are very important to them in their search for a new job.

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And You Thought YOUR Recruiter Was Bad…

The Whiteboard

A battle between agency recruitment and internal recruitment is nothing new nowadays. Since the inception and growth of in-house recruitment teams it has turned into our industry’s very own hundred year war. The tension between the two factions follows a familiar pattern: Agency recruiters are targeted with making as many placements and billing as much money as possible.

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How to Leverage Design Thinking to Enhance Your Candidate Experience

Lever

Recently, we conducted research that proved that leveraging design thinking in talent acquisition truly works. It inspired us to dedicate an entire series to exploring this topic. In our previous posts, we put on our design thinking hats to reenvision the hiring manager as the customer. The idea was that in striving to make their hiring experience as fluid and efficient as possible, you automatically enhance your overall recruiting success.

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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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How to Define Your Job Ad Goals

ApplicantPro

Having well-defined job ad goals are crucial to your job ad success. After all, one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself relative to hiring is to lay out specific job ad goals, so you can build a killer job ad strategy. We’ve found this step to be the most crucial for our clients to adopt in order to attract the highest quantity of quality applicants for their open positions.

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Recruitment Blogs You Need To Read

Talent Hero Media

A list of the 14 top recruitment blogs you must read to stay on top of the news and opinions in the recruiting and staffing industry. The post Recruitment Blogs You Need To Read appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – The modern recruiter: sourcer vs seducer

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled “The Modern Recruiter: Sourcer vs Seducer“ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Vote For The Future: The Results!

Social Talent

Last week we asked you to be part of the future of SocialTalent and help us choose our new logo. To say we were overwhelmed with the response was an understatement. You all voted in hundreds and then thousands to help us decide which logo best represented us and our vision. We are always so touched by how engaged our SocialTalent Community is! So many of you contacted us to tell us how excited you were and some that said we were perfect as we are.

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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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Hello Handsome: The Role of Good Looks in Recruitment

The Whiteboard

We were fortunate last night to be able to host Ross Clennett here in Auckland for a short and snappy training event with some of our v.RPO on-demand recruiter community. Ross presented to our gathering about the increasing importance of soft skills in relation to workplace performance nowadays, and how to identify these skills in candidates. One of the points raised towards the end of the event particularly piqued my interest.

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Talent Innovation Summit Countdown: Discover New Talent Pools with Paired Sourcing

Lever

At this year’s Talent Innovation Summit , we’re focused on keeping our sessions interactive and providing as much value as possible to our attendees. One hidden Summit gem? The chance to sign up for a free, personalized sourcing sprint. Jer Langhans and James Temple from Paired Sourcing , whose company mission is to help companies handcraft a full, promising talent pipeline, will be setting up shop in our partner area.

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Glassdoor Announces 2017 Best Places to Interview; Dignity Health Comes Out on Top

Glassdoor for Employers

Glassdoor’s 2017 Candidates’ Choice Awards for the Best Places to Interview honors 100 U.S. and 50 U.K. large employers (among companies with more than 1,000 employees)*. Coming in first is Dignity Health, a California-based, nonprofit healthcare provider.

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Evidence-based marketing: 3 marketing ideas for recruiters that are proven to work

Talent Hero Media

Using Detailed.com case studies, we explore three marketing ideas for recruiters that have been proven to work with hard evidence. The post Evidence-based marketing: 3 marketing ideas for recruiters that are proven to work appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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The Savage UK Recruitment Director Masterclass

Greg Savage

This is no time for ‘business as usual’ if you want to grow profits, fast. That’s why the Greg and Chris Savage Owner and Manager ‘Savage Growth Accelerator’ Master Class is no ‘normal’ seminar. It gives you a unique ‘action plan’ for growth in disrupted times. And you will leave it with a prioritised ‘Growth […].

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Qualifications vs Cultural Fit- Which Is More Important?

Social Talent

With businesses recruiting at the fastest rate in 2 years , recruiters will need to invest more time into finding the right person to fill open positions. Some companies see the recruitment process as black and white, where successful candidates must tick all of the boxes. Others can look past the facts and focus on the individual, their personality and what they can bring to the role.

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Man & Machine Webinar: AI is Here to Empower Recruiters, Not Replace Them

Allegis Global Solutions

AI is an increasingly important aspect of the recruitment process. Our webinar discussed how AI offers the chance to improve, rather than replace, the human element of hiring and recruitment.

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4 Competency-based Interview Questions to Make a Solid Skills Assessment

Lever

Your employees are your competitive advantage, so it’s important to hire people who have the right skills to help your company succeed. Competency-based interview questions can help you suss out which candidates have the right skills, based on their past behaviors and performance. Below are four types of questions to ask, with sample questions for specific roles you may be hiring for.

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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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15 Interview Questions to Ensure Candidate Quality

Glassdoor for Employers

On the surface, interviewing a candidate for an available job sounds easy. With the position description in hand describing specific skill sets.

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The Depressing Truth About Your Marketing Strategy

Talent Hero Media

Why your current marketing strategy isn't working and what a recruiter can reasonably do in only 5 hours per week to turn things around. The post The Depressing Truth About Your Marketing Strategy appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Greg Savage: Free webinar for United States recruiters

Greg Savage

Specially designed for US subscribers of ‘The Savage Truth’ Next week, 31st August,2017 @ 9 am PST 30 minutes of punchy information on what recruiters must do now to thrive. Make sure you do not miss the ‘Golden Era’ of Recruitment Free Greg Savage Webinar Why some recruiters will thrive and others disappear. The Golden […].

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8 Steps on How To Write A Killer Job Ad (Infographic)

Social Talent

Writing the perfect job ad could be the difference between you getting a quality candidate or no candidate at all. Job ads vary depending on the industry you’re in. However, there are a few key areas that should be crystal clear to the candidate who’s applying. What keywords should you use? How do you immediately grab the candidates attention?

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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The Highest Paying Web Development Languages in 2017

Stack Overflow

Every year since 2011, Stack Overflow conducts a survey to better understand the motivations, job search preferences, and career goals of professional developers. This year, over 64,000 respondents chimed in, making it the world's most comprehensive developer survey. One thing we learned this year is that some of the fastest growing technologies are also the highest paying languages.

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The Ultimate Interview Checklist for Employers

Lever

Interviews can be stressful for everyone involved. Candidates and interviewers alike understand that they are being evaluated, want to make a good first impression, and want to ensure they make the right decision. On top of that, you know that a stellar candidate experience is crucial to recruiting top talent now, and in the future. If you want to ensure smooth sailing for you and your candidates, create a repeatable process and follow it as much as possible.

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How to Recruit Creatives and Craft a Great First Impression for Your Startup

Entrepreneur

Shoddy design can be fatal for startups dependant on making a strong first impression. Creative freelancers can be the lifesavers.

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