June, 2015

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Applicant Tracking System User Access Levels [VIDEO]

ExactHire Recruiting

In this Q&A video chat, Jessica Stephenson discusses the common differences between applicant tracking system user access levels. In particular, she reviews manager and assigned user ATS access in detail — including feature availability and ideal timing for involving new users in the selection process. Video Transcript: Hi, I’m Jessica Stephenson and welcome to another episode.

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The job decision that saved my life. A true story.

Greg Savage

In February 1942, Lieutenant Ron Savage, my father, of the British Royal Artillery, was captured by the Japanese Army as a result of the disastrous defeat and surrender of the British forces in Singapore. Thereafter began three years of the most horrendous privation, torture and brutality in Changi POW Camp, from which only a tiny […].

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Attracting the Perfect Candidate through Social Media

Leoforce

Is your company’s LinkedIn profile up to par? What about your Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ profiles? If not, your company could be losing ideal candidates to other businesses. Although the conventional job searching and hiring processes won’t disappear anytime soon, utilizing various social media platforms to their full potential provides an easy opportunity to add value to your company while increasing brand awareness.

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How Honest Can Recruiters Afford To Be?

The Whiteboard

The notion of “no publicity is bad publicity” was severely put to the test by Annette Sleep of O’Neil’s Personnel last weekend. Telling a candidate for one of her vacancies that she couldn’t represent her to their client because she had children in daycare, and would probably end up taking off too much time in sick leave, unless she developed a back-up plan for when the (potentially) sick child might need to be collected early, she made the front page of the weeken

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Suds and Staffing Episode 25: Advice from Dad on the World of Work

HarQen

In honor of Father’s Day weekend, last week Sam and Dave talked about advice their fathers have given them. Sam and Dave also discuss their differing philosophies about how a brat should be cooked. The Takeaways. You’re always working: Sam’s dad gave him this piece of advice before his first business trip. It’s a great reminder to be aware of what you’re saying and doing in a work setting. [ Timestamp – 8:50 ].

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Calculate the ROI of Employee Onboarding Software

ExactHire Recruiting

Calculate the ROI of Employee Onboarding Software By Jessica Stephenson Need to make a compelling case for onboarding software to senior management? Read on! Making sweeping changes to your employee onboarding process (or perhaps enacting a documented process in the first place) isn’t easy or free. In fact, developing and maintaining a sound and effective onboarding experience for your newly hired employees can be quite labor-intensive for both human resources staff and other process stakeholder

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Tomorrow! Greg Savage Webinar. ‘New tactics for a new era’

Greg Savage

Remember the ‘good old days’ of recruiting? The margins were good. It was so easy to make money! Those days will come again — but only if you make the required changes. The time to make these changes is right NOW. We can clearly see the recruitment industry shifting. • The traditional ways to access […].

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What are the latest technology trends in RPO?

Allegis Global Solutions

Video conferencing and project management resources are both proving to be key trends in RPO.

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Recruitment: Your Fantasy Career

The Whiteboard

Once again, The Whiteboard marker is in my hands this week. Promising Jon that I’d avoid any controversial topics, my beady eyes were drawn to the recent “is she/isn’t she black” race scandal currently dominating most media channels. For those living under a rock or running too many unreliable temps, the story runs as follows: Rachel Dolezal, a self-identified black woman and prominent civil rights activist, has stood down as President of the Spokane Chapter of the NCAAP following allegations (f

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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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Want to Improve Your Recruiting Process? Pay Attention to the Employment Rate

HarQen

The most recent batch of unemployment rates were released on June 8th. Do you know what they said? If you’re recruiting people, you should. While a strong indicator of the current state of the economy, unemployment rates should also dictate your hiring process. The best way to ensure your organization is equipped to benefit regardless of what the unemployment numbers say is to ensure your talent acquisition process is equipped to succeed.

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21 Shocking Facts About Gender in the Job Search (Infographic)

Social Talent

The issue of diversity hiring and the affect of unconscious bias on our recruiting practices , has become in increasingly hot topic in the recruitment industry over the past number of weeks. While it’s generally agreed that a lot has been done in recent years to create gender equality in the workplace, there is still a long way to go before true equality is actually achieved.

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How to Make a Business Case for Onboarding Process Improvement

ExactHire Recruiting

You know it’s time to do something better with your employee onboarding process. Your HR-intuition is on full alert after spotting the tell tale signs: high employee turnover; low workforce morale; lagging time to productivity statistics; and perhaps even lengthening time to fill trends for open positions. But is your boss convinced that the new hire onboarding pain is palpable enough yet?

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Would you encourage YOUR child into recruitment as a career?

Greg Savage

For the most part I have had a blessed career in recruitment. Sure there have been tough times and lots of challenges. But mostly I have had immense fun, made life-long friends, travelled the world, learned an incredible amount, and made a very good living. Yet, for the best part of 25 years, as long […].

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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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What can do SOW do for you?

Allegis Global Solutions

An SOW solution could help your organisation make the most of its contingent employees

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Everything Is Awesome (When You’re Branding Yourself)

The Whiteboard

Recruiting some slightly more left-field HR positions recently has thrown up a whole new breed of candidates for us. Obviously in this age of personal branding and employer branding blanding (*hat tip Bill Boorman) the opportunity is now presented to the more vainglorious of jobseekers to beef up their sense of self-worth with increasingly fatuous job titles.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process

HarQen

In 2011, Airbnb went from 50 employees to 500. Their interview process was complex, unreliable and had an offer accept rate of 50 to 60%. In an effort to improve their recruiting deficiencies, not only did Airbnb map their current process by drawing pictures , but they focused their improvement efforts on timeliness, clarity and courtesy. We’ve talked about the importance of mapping out your process , but after you’ve mapped it out, where should you focus your improvement efforts?

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Social Talent - Untitled Article

Social Talent

It takes more than a well-worded job description to persuade some of the most sought after candidates to apply for your role. In order to attract the top talent to reply and apply to your job openings, you’re going to have to convince them that your organisation is the best place to work and that this role is perfect for them. Not an easy feat by any stretch of the imagination, but a feat that is made easier to achieve by regular content sharing.

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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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Checklist to Improve the Small Business Employee Onboarding Process

ExactHire Recruiting

Your business is agile, nimble…you’re capable of taking swift, decisive action in a short period of time. For example, it’s Thursday afternoon and your team has just finished interviewing the last of the final candidates for a newly-created job in your firm. You needed to fill the position yesterday. But, if all goes as planned, the offer will be extended yet today, the candidate (who seemed really excited) will accept on Friday, and…in the spirit of chaotic, yet productive startups,

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What happens when you stop relying on resumes

Aline Lerner

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’ve come to rely quite heavily on data. I’ve counted typos on resumes, I’ve sifted through a corpus of engineering offers, and I’ve skimmed thousands of recruiting messages to tag them by personalization level. This post, however, is going to be a bit of a departure.

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How to use Social Media to attract talent

Allegis Global Solutions

Here are some tips for making the most out of social media to attract new talent.

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Top 50 HR Twitterati – 2015

Workable

We’ve tuned out the HR noise to bring you the worthwhile voices on Twitter: the real thinkers, the content creators, the powerhouse recruiters, small business leaders, and entrepreneurs. We’ve also had a stab at measuring their reach. To determine the size and level of engagement in each influencer’s audience, we used their Twitter follower count and two recognized social influence measuring tools, Klout and Kred.

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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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SudsAndStaffing Episode 24: Building a Candidate Pipeline

HarQen

Dave and Sam discuss candidate pipelines and uncover some things to be mindful of. The Takeaways. The wrong way to build a pipeline : Recruiters need to build a pipeline, but accepting an over-abundance of candidates for a job with the sole goal of building a pipeline shouldn’t be the way you go about it. [ Timestamp – 8:20 ]. People are not commodities: While you may need to build a candidate pipeline, doing so with the expectation that candidates are awaiting your call to go to wo

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How to: Drastically Improve Your Job Ads SEO Using Google Trends

Social Talent

When writing and posting job ads, one of your top priorities should be to increase the “find-ability” of that job ad amongst the other million and one job ads already out there. Because in order for your job ad to be successful, it needs to be easily found by the right people. One of the simplest ways to ensure your job ad is more easily found by the right candidate, is to ensure it contains the most relevant keywords.

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Time-Saving Strategies for Employee Onboarding

ExactHire Recruiting

“I need more hours in the day to get everything done,” is something I used to constantly think. For Human Resources professionals, this thought often comes to mind during the onboarding phase of a new hire. There is so much to do, and so little time to do it. The only way to get more hours in a day is to shed current “time-consumer” activities or to sleep less–and let’s be clear, my sleep hours are protected like Fort Knox.

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3 Reasons Job Seekers Should NOT Expect a Return Call

NPA Worldwide

What if you were a BMW car collector and reseller? You made your living by finding out about all the great BMWs available, buying and reselling these to others that collect BMWs. What if every day you got calls from people asking you to spend your day talking about Mercedes? Got so that every day you could spend 6 to 8 hours talking to collectors, owners and resellers of Mercedes.

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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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An introduction to RPO

Allegis Global Solutions

RPO could give organizations more resources and better staff.

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How to Get Industry Leaders to Join Your Team

Spark Hire

When you’re looking to grow your team, you want to be sure that the people you’re hiring will add value to your business. Ideally, you’d like to identify industry leaders, and then target these individuals as you recruit. But sometimes it feels like this is easier said than done. If you’re searching for those one or two key players who can make a major impact on your organization, keep these tips in mind: Social media makes this task much easier.

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Rockstar Recruiter Series: Kareo

Glassdoor for Employers

I’m impressed when a candidate: Follows up with me on LinkedIn with a personal message after they have applied. At the very least I take a moment to review their candidacy to see if I have anything that may be a fit for their skills. Less than 1% of applicants do this and it really makes them stand out to me. I am also very impressed with a candidate who does their Kareo homework and has good questions about our product and understands the value it brings the healthcare community.

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