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Think like an immigrant!

Greg Savage

Modern Australia was built on immigrants. They came in clearly defined waves. The British. The Southern Europeans. The Asians. Many other countries are the same, and most pay homage to those immigrants now. I am an immigrant myself, arriving in Australia two weeks before my 21st Birthday. I am the son of an immigrant too. […].

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How To Answer The Most Common Interview Questions

JazzHR

So you’ve made it past the resume bots and screening stages to land an in-person interview. Congratulations! Now comes the time, perhaps your only shot, to impress the hiring manager and get an edge on your competition. To help you nail your interview, we’ve put together a short list of the most common interview questions and how to answer them so you’re prepared for the big day.

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MondayFunday: Leprechauns and Moms

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s been a busy spring for the ExactHire team, but we managed to fit in 2 MondayFunday events. March featured a cut-throat Nerf shootout (sounds violent, but I can assure you it was not), and April saw us channel our calm, creative, contemplative sides as we painted and decoupaged (?) picture frames for the mothers in our lives. Two extremes, I know, but both activities helped us accomplish our planned objectives: We had fun!

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5 Reasons to Attend Lever’s Talent Innovation Summit May 17

Lever

Too many conferences are full of fluff that leave you wondering whether taking the time off work was really worth it. That’s why we’re condensing our first ever Talent Innovation Summit in San Francisco this May 17 into one jam-packed day. We promise to bring you an impressive roster of expert speakers and panelists, actionable recruiting tips and insights, and a happy hour more fun than Las Vegas.*.

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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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Greg Savage UK and Ireland Masterclass Series. One month to go!

Greg Savage

In October last year I delivered five Recruitment Masterclasses, in London and Manchester. All sold out! I am back in the UK and Ireland soon. I really hope to see you at these events. Cheers, Greg Glasgow, Scotland June 1, 2016: Recruiter Masterclass for Consultants, Owners and Managers ** Dublin, Ireland. June 2, 2016: […].

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8 Things That UAE Recruiters Look for in a CV

Social Talent

It’s fair to say that being a recruiter in the UAE is a little different than being a recruiter anywhere else in the world. Boasting one of the most diverse populations in the world with only 13% of UAE nationals actually residing in the country, the job market is primarily made up of expats. This makes a recruiter’s job interesting, to say the least.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Writing Effective Job Titles

Recruitics

In a recent post , we touched on the five marketing best practices talent acquisition professionals should start leveraging on a regular basis. In adding to the theme of how recruiters can think more like marketers, this post aims to show how you can take a marketing approach to your job titles, as well. To start, consider this: The best marketers know that strong advertising headlines are critical to the success or failure of their campaigns because headlines are what get an audience to click t

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This Is The Secret To Recruiting To Gen Z

Spark Hire

So, you’ve finally got a handle on recruiting millennials. Congratulations! Now it’s time to start preparing for Generation Z in the workplace. Don’t think that the two generations are one and the same. A survey by Randstad found that while 46 percent of millennials would prefer to work in a corporate environment, only 16 percent of Gen Z would. Before you throw your hands up in the air at the thought of catering your recruiting to yet another generation, remember we still have a few years befor

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GE Makes Its Own Hot Sauce to Attract Millennial Engineers

Entrepreneur

General Electric has teamed up with Thrillist to combine science and food trends in its latest scheme to attract up-and-coming talent.

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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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5 Sales Skills That a Candidate Can’t Fake

Social Talent

Sales is the industry that probably gets the most flack for candidates talking a big game, so any recruiter that’s worth their weight in salt is used to having to weed out the time wasters from the sales superstars during the interview process. Generally, the best way of doing this is to have candidates ‘put their money when their mouths are’ and rhyme off all of the facts and figures about targets reached, profits gained, previous commission structures and various pain points.

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Job Boards: 3 Great Ways to Ensure you Retain Your Clients

Recruitics

Why have job boards been able to survive the dramatic evolution of online recruitment and job searches? The answer is really quite simple: They’ve found ways to continue to provide value for their clients. Therefore, any job board serious about continuing to compete in today’s online employment market needs to keep client retention top of mind. This means finding new and creative ways of proving your value, time and time again.

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5 Time Management Tips for Recruiters

NPA Worldwide

One of the biggest challenges a recruiter faces is trying to manage a schedule and predict the events of the day in an industry of constant change. What happens when you face an unexpected fall-off, a position goes on hold, or your client changes their requirements? You won’t get far in this business if you just give up – you have to adjust your strategy and plan your time to accommodate everything that’s on your plate.

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Indeed Remains the Leading Source of External Hire for 5 Consecutive Years

Indeed

There have never been more ways to attract and recruit talent, but the latest Top Sources of Hire Report from SilkRoad shows the top external sources perform far above the rest. For the fifth year in a row, a deep analysis of the data showed that Indeed greatly outperforms other job search engines and job boards as online sources of hire—58% of external online hires are sourced from Indeed (up from 54% in 2015).

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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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The Most Popular Recruiting Tools Among Start-Ups (Infographic)

Social Talent

Thanks in part to their relatively small size, most startup companies have the freedom to use the latest online tools to help them do all manner of things from accounting to marketing. Which also means they have the privilege of trying and testing some of the latest recruiting tools the market has to offer. As a result, Stacklist have decided to ask hundreds of startup founders about the tools they use to help with their hiring efforts.

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Are You Stockpiling Candidates You'll Never Place?

FireFish Software

I think it’s fair to say that we recruiters are great at collecting CVs and building lists full of candidates. The problem is that much of this data never provides us a return on all the time spent administrating it, and it’s likely that it will never become a placement either.

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11 CV Factors You Shouldn’t Forget

Undercover Recruiter

If time spent writing your CV is really just time spent staring at a blank screen, you’re not alone, we’ve been there too. There are no two ways about it – condensing all of your skills and experience into one slick document can be challenging. We aren’t born knowing how to write a great CV, so it’s up to you to. View Article. 11 CV Factors You Shouldn’t Forget.

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6 Essential Sales Tips For Recruiters

RecruitLoop

Sure recruitment is about helping candidates get jobs; or finding the best talent for employers. But whether you like it or not recruitment is sales.

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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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10 Things that Grind the Gears of Passive Candidates

Social Talent

Many recruiters are still playing catch up when it comes to developing sourcing tactics for passive candidates. As was discussed in our blog post on 5 Things Not to Put in Your Job Ads , the job market is candidate-driven once again but most companies still follow antiquated hiring practices. Well given that the global workforce is made up of 70% of passive candidates, there’s a good chance that the candidate you find isn’t actively looking for a career change.

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Is Your Recruitment Database a Mess?

FireFish Software

I recently wrote a blog on stockpiling candidates. One of the problems that I talked about is that collecting unusable candidates in your database results in lots of unnecessary work for recruiters. Recruitment databases can quickly overflow with dud data. Here’s what to do if you’ve stockpiled useless information on candidates.

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5 Reasons Why Working Late is Bullsh*t

Undercover Recruiter

Recent studies show millions of people regularly work overtime for no extra pay; around a fifth of the UK’s workforce. While their unpaid hours can boost the economy by more than £30 billion, they don’t actually see any of it themselves! Whether it’s due to a busy schedule, serious workload or simply the expectations of your employer, working late.

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Boomerang Employees: Who They Are and Why They Are on the Rise

Yoh

From LeBron James’ rejoining the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014 to Steve Huffman, co-founder (and former CEO) of Reddit, returning back as CEO in July 2015, boomerang employees are literally making a comeback. Find out who they are and the surprising impact they are making on recruiting and workplace culture.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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Developing a Thriving and Engaging Online Talent Community

Social Talent

What Exactly is a ‘Talent Community’? Online talent communities is fast becoming a hot topic in the recruitment space today with endless articles and opinions from commentators specialising in the area. Despite this, very little is still known about online talent communities and how they can be effectively utilised by recruiters. But how do you define what a talent community is?

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What is the Difference Between Recruitment and Talent Acquisition?

Jobvite

Many people think that the terms recruitment and talent acquisition are synonymous, but companies who keep an eye on the big picture know there’s an important difference between the two. Recruitment and talent acquisition are … Continued.

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Your Guide to Understanding 2016 Salary Trends

CareerBuilder

It’s 2016 — whether you’re buying a new car or booking a flight, you can compare prices with a simple click. You should be able to make the same easy comparisons and glean the necessary data when it comes to salary decisions in recruiting and retaining top talent. Why is it important? More than 3 in 4 full-time employed workers (76 percent) are either actively looking or open to new job opportunities, according to CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior Study.

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How to conduct a structured interview

Workable

A structured interview is almost twice as effective as the common unstructured interview. It calls for a systematic approach, trying to measure candidates’ competencies in an objective way. It still doesn’t predict future job performance like work samples or cognitive tests do, but it will remain an integral part of hiring due to the benefit of face-to-face contact.

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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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Welcome to The New Broadbean London Office

BroadBean Technology

Due to our growing success and expanding UK team, we moved to our new offices in South Quay, Canary Wharf at the beginning of April. We were also joined by the UK Careerbuilder team who now sit one floor down from us at The South Quay building which, we're sure you will agree, is a fantastic location and space for us to join forces and get those collaboration juices flowing.

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10 Social Recruiting Ideas to Try on LinkedIn

Jobvite

Welcome to the first in a three part series on using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for Social Recruiting. According to Jobvite’s Job Seeker Nation Study , 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to search for candidates. Are you utilizing LinkedIn to its full recruiting potential? Here we’ll look at 10 ways you could use LinkedIn better to attract, source and approach your ideal target candidates. 1.

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Attract Top Talent with Target Personas and Real Content

Symphony Talent

Recruiters have to do more than ever to successfully attract and engage top talent. The good news is there are best practices that recruiters can borrow from their marketing colleagues to make a significant impact on building their candidate pipelines. Our new quick guide How to Attract Top Talent With Personas and Content shares strategies. Continue Reading → The post Attract Top Talent with Target Personas and Real Content appeared first on SmashFly Blog.