December, 2015

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How To Make A Holiday Video In One Week

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For many, December is the month to buy and give gifts–and maybe even receive some too. That, of course, is not the reason for the season, but it has become a tradition that spans cultures and faith backgrounds. Another tradition is the holiday card. These come in a variety of styles… Holiday Card Styles Previous Next The Majestic The Peaceful The Family The Pets The Funny Bringing It All Together New Approaches And now, increasingly, holiday “

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10 Savage tactics to double profits in 2016

Greg Savage

This is no time for ‘business as usual’ if you want to grow profits, fast. That’s why the new 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 Dashboard’ to drive […].

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Tip Sheet: Hiring for Startups

Lever

Growing a team from scratch can feel like a black hole. To shed some light on the process, we spoke with successful founders and talent leaders for their advice on everything from how to grow, to interviewing tactics and mistakes to avoid.

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THIS IS WHY THE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

Hoops

If you’re responsible for filling open positions, your top priority is finding the best fit for the job, period. The actual experience candidates have working their way through your pipeline may not seem as important as just getting them through it, but believe it or not, it matters. There are plenty of articles that talk about how terrible it is for job hunters who feel ignored and ways to improve the relationship between recruiters and job hunters, but why bother?

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Who Are You Losing in Your Pre-Screening Process?

HarQen

The Princess Bride came out when I was two years old, and last week, the week before I turned 30 my colleagues forced me to watch it. Fezzik, the under-appreciated giant, played by Andre the Giant was by far my favorite character. He was integral to the success of the team, but wouldn’t really stand [.]. The post Who Are You Losing in Your Pre-Screening Process?

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Farewell to a Tumultuous Year in Recruitment

The Whiteboard

There’s something of the “last day at school” vibe in the air today. Even though there are still, officially, four days of work next week, there’s a fair number of recruiters I’ve spoken to who are hanging up their sourcing gloves for the season today. As is usually the case at this time of year, there’s a mixture of muted satisfaction at another year in recruitment done, coupled with an ever-encroaching feeling of heavy-lidded exhaustion creeping into the u

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Introducing TAtech, and the Transition of the ‘Recruitment Industry’

Recruitics

Members of the recruitment industry may have noticed a recent change from IAEWS. The International Association of Employment Web Sites has gone under a major rebranding, repositioning itself as TAtech: The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions. We recently sat down with the CEO of IAEWS/TAtech Peter Weddle, to discuss the rebrand, what facilitated it, it’s importance and how the organization will operate moving forward.

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“Culture Fit” isn’t a bad word: 3 tips to hire for it

Lever

The importance of startup culture is the talk of the Valley. You can have the most impressive founders or “disruptive” idea, but it won’t amount to much without deliberately investing in an engaging culture that attracts top talent and makes them want to stay. Whether you’re a founder, an engineer, a salesperson, or any other employee in a startup, being a steward of the culture is absolutely part of your job.

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THIS IS WHY THE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

Hoops

If you’re responsible for filling open positions, your top priority is finding the best fit for the job, period. The actual experience candidates have working their way through your pipeline may not seem as important as just getting them through it, but believe it or not, it matters. There are plenty of articles that talk about how terrible it is for job hunters who feel ignored and ways to improve the relationship between recruiters and job hunters, but why bother?

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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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Suds, Staffing and Life: Jason Voorhees And Recruiting

HarQen

Sam read an interesting article that Jennifer Wood wrote for Esquire about the movie franchise Friday the 13th. What really stuck out to him was that before becoming a wildly successful movie franchise Friday the 13th, started out only as a movie poster. The Takeaway Before writing a script or filming anything, Sean Cunningham thought, “what would [.].

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Recruiting Hack: Get Into the Minds of Your Candidates

Newton Software

There are secret tactics that can directly influence candidates and the way they view employers. We’re going to reveal them in this week’s recruiting hack. Read on to learn more about specific techniques you can apply throughout the recruiting process, tapping into the decision making regions of candidates’ minds to secure the best applicants. APPEAL TO CANDIDATES’ INNER-NARCISSIST.

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Christchurch Recruiters Proving Agencies Can Actually Collaborate

The Whiteboard

Today is the Rice Consulting Christmas party and we have an early start out in Woodhill Forest. Seeing as our South Island Business Manager Mary Batchelar is up visiting Auckland for the occasion I thought she should take over the Whiteboard marker pen this week and share a post of her own with more of a Christchurch flavour. So, with no further ado, I give you “The Batch”… ^JR.

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4 Key Global Recruiting Trends to Watch in 2016 (Infographic)

Social Talent

The fifth edition of the LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends report surveyed over 4,000 talent acquisition professionals from 40 countries, in order to get a handle on their top priorities, the potential challenges they’ll face and opportunities they see arising in 2016. T his year’s results showed a key theme emerging for recruitment next year: the power of relationships.

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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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6 Things You MUST Do in a Kickoff Meeting with Your Hiring Manager

Lever

The quality of a recruiter’s relationships with the hiring managers they work with makes a world of difference.

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How Employers Can Bridge the Communication Gap With Veterans

Entrepreneur

Military service imbues people with the values employers prize but getting vets to talk about themselves is often a challenge.

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Suds, Staffing and Life: How do you Handle Trends?

HarQen

In 2004 Metallica released the documentary Some Kind of Monster, which followed them as they recorded their St. Anger album. The documentary captures an argument the group had about guitar solos and whether they should follow the trends and not have them, or stick to what helped make them famous. Last week on Suds, Staffing and [.]. The post Suds, Staffing and Life: How do you Handle Trends?

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The Correlation Between Benefits and Employee Retention

iCIMS

Organizations need to recognize the correlation between benefits and employee retention and do everything they can to hold on to their top performers!

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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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Does Your ATS Software Integrate With Pre-Hire Assessments?

Newton Software

Predict how well applicants will fit the job BEFORE the interview. As great as it would be to hire and retain the perfect candidate 100% of the time, the reality is that not everyone is a fit for the position or the company. Studies have shown that résumés and job applications, which are the most used candidate screening tools, have very little predictability on whether or not a candidate will succeed in a given position.

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Santa Claus Resumé (Infographic)

Social Talent

Will Mr. Claus be making it onto your shortlist this Christmas? Source: Kickresume.com. Merry Christmas Recruiters and Happy New Year! We’ll see you next year. The post Santa Claus Resumé (Infographic) appeared first on Social Talent.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 11.30 to 12.4

Symphony Talent

We went on a little hiatus over Thanksgiving break (and figured you were all too busy eating football and napping to be checking email from us), but we are back in action with our weekly roundup of our favorite recruitment marketing articles. Content of the Week Our CMO Lori Sylvia and Growth Strategist Rebecca. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 11.30 to 12.4 appeared first on My CMS.

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OK, So You're Not Google. You Can Still Compete With It for Top Talent.

Entrepreneur

You might not be able to pay as much as the big guys, but there are ways to acquire and keep the best candidates out there for your startup.

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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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Ending the phony war for talent

Workable

Like most truly bad ideas the “war for talent” has heritage, devotees and currency. It’s nearly 20 years since management consultants, McKinsey, first declared this war and yet the wrong-headed conflict somehow rumbles on. When the first shot was fired, the war for talent was said to be about competition inside and between companies. The theory, posited in a study in 1997 and followed up in a book of the same name four years later, was that smart companies needed to aggressively hire, promote an

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The Pros and Cons of Requiring a Cover Letter

iCIMS

Should you require a cover letter from candidates? To help your decision, the following article discusses the pros and cons of requiring a cover letter.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Sourcing Untapped Talent on AngelList

Lever

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7 Festive Recruitment News Stories this Week – 21st December 2015

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: LinkedIn Uses Big Data to Revamp Job Listings. According to new blog post , LinkedIn currently taking the wraps off a brand new version of its Jobs section, where — alongside details about the job itself — job seekers can now see more data about your company, who works there, and how they compare to previous applicants.

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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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Why You Need Employee Generated Content: The Power of “Bold Transparency”

Symphony Talent

Employee Generated Content (EGC) can be the most trusted and valuable asset you have to build employer brand equity—if collected and used the right way. It’s also integral recruitment marketing content that can be used to nurture candidate leads, shared on social media and featured in job descriptions and on your career site. The key? Continue Reading → The post Why You Need Employee Generated Content: The Power of “Bold Transparency” appeared first on My CMS.

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5 Ways to Cut Down the Cost of Recruiting

Entrepreneur

Taking advantage of free career fairs and having employees search for candidates on their own social networks are just a couple of things you can do to save money.

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5 Ways to Increase the Speed of Your Hiring Approval Process in 2016

Spark Hire

Not only does a slow hiring process stretch the rest of your team thin, it can cause you to miss out on desirable candidates who receive offers from other companies while you’re still working on making a final decision. In order to continue to hire effectively, your business should focus on streamlining your hiring process in 2016. Here are some ways to make this happen: Train Your Recruiters and Hiring Managers More Effectively.

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