September, 2016

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The five biggest mistakes recruitment leaders are making now

Greg Savage

It’s a tough time to be a recruitment leader. So many challenges, so much change. In my work across the globe, meeting and advising Owners and Managers of recruitment businesses, five key themes have emerged. Don’t make these mistakes as a recruitment leader, and if you work for a company that habitually falls into these […].

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[Part Two] Keeping the Interview On Track

JazzHR

… and we’re back with “Keeping the Interview On Track” part deux. In our first installment , you learned how to properly prepare for the interview, gather your team of interviewers and develop a list of insightful questions. Now we’ll get into the meat of the interview including reviewing common errors and how to wrap things up.

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A Strengths-Based Culture Drives Performance

ExactHire Recruiting

Why are sports analogies commonly found in business? Because nurturing talent in sports is all about finding out what someone is good at and then making them really great at it–strengths-based culture. Coaches rarely focus their effort on developing the weakest part of an athlete’s game or ability. They will always find their best attributes and strengths and apply those–hence the term positional player.

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Superior sourcing: How to nail job descriptions

Allegis Global Solutions

Why is nailing a job description so important for effective talent acquisition, and how can you make sure you get it right?

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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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10 Companies Who Offer Their Employees the Best Work Perks (Infographic)

Social Talent

You really can’t beat a good work perk, can you? Unlimited vacation days, free lunches, health insurance – the number of companies that are raising the bar when it comes to work perks is currently growing at a rapid pace. And it’s really no wonder why. Take companies that embrace flexible working hours, for example. Reports show that up to 63% of workers have been absent less because they are able to run personal errands without needing to waste vacation or sick days.

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It's Time To Take Employee Retention Seriously

Hoops

The prevailing attitude when discussing retention is to simply accept turnover as a fact of life. This fatalistic mindset does nothing to help improve the situation or solve the problem. In actuality, there are specific and actionable that can be done to improve employee retention rates. Think about it this way: would you ignore an issue that costs your business roughly 16 percent of an employee’s annual earnings?

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Learn How to Post Jobs Like the Pros

JazzHR

There’s a lot to be excited about when your business is growing, but there are also some unavoidable pains. Take for instance, the pain of supply and demand. The more your customers want, the more agile you must be in order to meet and exceed their expectations. To keep pace with growth, CEOs and team leaders are often faced with hiring under pressure.

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Recruiting Ninjas: 5 Ways to Build a Niche Network

ExactHire Recruiting

Sales and recruiting have a lot in common and I think just about any recruiter out there would agree with that. Given this similarity in function, you can imagine the path to success for both is likely similar. All good salespeople and recruiters know that networking is the key to any long term success. Successful networking involves repetitive and constant effort.

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Cutting Drug Deals with Recruitment Deals

The Whiteboard

Rumours have been swirling around Auckland’s recruitment community this week after a story emerged in the Herald at the weekend about a cocaine sting at a hairdressers in Newmarket. It appears as if the hairdresser, a fashion designer, and a patched gang member have been using the business as a conduit to supply cocaine. The bit that really got tongues wagging across our industry (which is so unlike us recruiters!

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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8 Spectacular Ways That People Have Quit Their Jobs

Social Talent

Have you ever worked in a job that you absolutely despised? One where you fantasised about the day that you could finally waltz up to your manager’s desk with your letter of resignation? Chances are, we’ve all been there at some point. Well, these 8 people also had that dream of finally being able to quit their jobs. The difference between us and them, however, is that they actually went and acted on it!

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3 Ways to Supplement Recruitment Marketing With Social Media

Recruitics

In a recent post, we discussed why you should supplement recruitment marketing with social. While you can read that post in its entirety in the link above, the gist is this: Social media presents a powerful tool for recruiters, but it doesn’t necessarily deserve the lion’s share of your recruitment marketing budget. So then, how should recruiters leverage this recruitment marketing tool?

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The ‘Must Haves’ for Candidate Experience to Succeed in 2017

ConveyIQ

Many applicants to our jobs are also consumers of our products and their connection to our brand may run deep. When they fall into the infamous “black hole” and never hear back, we’re likely losing customers. It’s not easy to resolve – recruiters are busy and don’t have time to close the loop with candidates. This will […]. The post The ‘Must Haves’ for Candidate Experience to Succeed in 2017 appeared first on Take the Interview.

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Make Hiring Automagical with Workflows

JazzHR

Does your talent team find it hard to stay on pace with hiring demands? Well, don’t get frustrated, we all face different hiring challenges such as a dynamic talent market, competitive candidate pool, and the truth that if you don’t hire your candidates fast enough, someone else will. With Jazz’s enhanced hiring workflows, your team can keep pace the demands of hiring using rich automation, hiring helpers and powerful templates.

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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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Beating Bias: Transforming Unconscious Biases into Conscious Behaviors within Talent Acquisition

Allegis Global Solutions

Unconscious bias is one of the biggest barriers to workforce diversity, how can you overcome it?

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3 Examples of Great Organizational Culture You Can Learn From

Indeed

Warren Buffett said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Many organizations struggle to create a memorable and magnetic workplace culture, and it’s no wonder. Culture is tricky to define, and takes time and effort to build. Michael Watkins defines organizational culture as a moving target made up of the patterns of behavior; shared process of “sense-making”; and the stories, values and rituals that take hold within organizations.

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7 Ways To Make A New Employee’s First Day Memorable

RecruitLoop

There are always certain formalities and protocol involved in a new employee's first day. But here are a few ways to help you make their first day memorable for all the right reasons.

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How to Create an Employer Brand From Scratch

Symphony Talent

Originally published on the Glassdoor for Employers Blog. “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room,” said Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. In other. The post How to Create an Employer Brand From Scratch appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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7 Bad Manager Behaviours to Be Wary Of

Undercover Recruiter

Managing a team of recruiters is a tough gig, especially when you’re expected to make placements yourself. You’ve no doubt done really well to get you to the point of having your own team – but managing people is a completely different ball game. You can’t just worry about yourself and your own performance anymore; you’re now.

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Tackle more with our smarter mobile recruiting app

Workable

So you write a list. To really focus, you need a second list, the first item of which is ‘complete everything on previous list’. The smart people know that it’s easier to be productive with the right kind of help: productivity is a team sport. Our aim at Workable is to make sure that your recruiting process runs as smoothly as possible, so we go the extra mile to provide the help you actually need.

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Market mapping: The secrets to success

Allegis Global Solutions

To find top talent, you sometimes need to start by consulting a map.

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5 Creative Ways to Tell Your Employer Brand Story

Indeed

Podcasts. My team has been working on recruitment ads that would run during popular podcasts. What recruiter has ever said those words? Reaching top performers in today’s crowded labor market requires thinking outside our experiential box, even outside the traditional notions of where we recruit. I have to go beyond popular assumptions about how to reach the right potential hires and go directly to our employees themselves.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Perks Vanish as Funding Recedes for Startups

Entrepreneur

A large number of lucky millennials joined the workforce when fast-growing startups were awash with investor cash, confusing them about how much austerity is normal in business.

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Are You Addicted to Work? (Infographic)

Social Talent

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, recruiting ain’t easy. Juggling clients, candidates and hiring managers, sometimes it can seem like there just aren’t enough hours in the day! So ask yourself this – have you ever found yourself sitting in the office at 9pm trying to get every last thing ticked off your list of things to do?

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Rethinking Recruiting: Mobile Matters

TalentCircles

If you’re still thinking of your mobile website as just a smaller version of your desktop site, you need to think again. When it comes to recruitment, an optimized mobile site is equally, if not more important than your traditional site. The current workforce depends on their smart phones for nearly everything. And this includes applying for jobs. But if you want the best talent to apply, you need to make sure your mobile site is updated and easy to use.

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Perfecting your recruiting pitch

Workable

What image does the word ‘pitch’ conjure for you? Likely, a one shot opportunity—like the curveball that wins the baseball game, or a persuasive product presentation on Shark Tank. Employers should adopt a similar, one shot attitude when engaging with job applicants. Great candidates have a wealth of career opportunities to consider. Your competition is no doubt boosting their chances by putting their best pitch forward.

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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 Top Talent Searches for Jobs on Mobile

Recruiting.com

According to a recent study from IBM Smarter Workforce Institute, high-potential employees are nearly two times more likely than average employees to search for jobs on mobile devices. So if your career site and job postings are mobile-optimized, you’re one step closer to recruiting the best job seekers out there.

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The Government’s First-Ever Survey of Entrepreneurs: What You Need to Know

Indeed

Today, the US Census Bureau released data from the first-ever Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs — a new and unique dataset that offers insight into the state of entrepreneurship in America. Here are three immediate takeaways from the research: 1. Startup numbers are lower than in previous decades. The numbers that came out today tell us that “ nearly 1 in 10 businesses with employees are new ” but historically, this is not a high share.

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Outlook and Excel aren’t recruitment tools

Jobsoid

Considering Outlook and Excel as a recruitment tool is a common misconception. A very large number of organizations still lag behind in the adoption of technology. It is because of this particular problem that they consider Outlook and […]. The post Outlook and Excel aren’t recruitment tools appeared first on Jobsoid.

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