Sat.May 18, 2019 - Fri.May 24, 2019

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Competition for Talent is Fierce – But the Hiring Rush is One-Sided

Recruiting Daily

The answer to “How hard is finding a job?” depends on who you ask Everything about 2019 has pointed back to a booming economy, from the fact that there are more job openings than workers to fill them to the recent round of IPO announcements in Silicon Valley. Last year, Jobvite found that recruiting […].

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14 recruitment fails: Don’t end up on this list of bad job ads

Workable

Examples of bad job ads are a popular feature of Workable VP of Customer Advocacy Matt Buckland’s Twitter feed. Some of them might make you chuckle, others might frustrate you with their blatant crudeness. We’ve compiled the best (worst) of these recruiting fails here. And the underlying message? Learn from the worst job ads so you can make the best.

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Being Small Might Be Your HR Superpower

ApplicantPro

Today I want to talk a little bit about David and Goliath. In case you're not familiar with the story, I'll give you a quick recap. There is a lot more background to the story but basically, it all comes down to one battle. That battle was between Goliath who was the biggest strongest giant in the land, and David who was the youngest in his family. This fight was horribly uneven.

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Wait! What? In-house recruiter turnover is worse than Agency?

Greg Savage

Recently I published some confronting data from Staffing Industry Metrics where Recruitment Agency staff turnover in 2018 was estimated at 47%, an horrific number, and one that prompted this blog from me. However, we now have fresh data from recruitment technology firm JobAdder, who had their data analysts run reports from approximately 10,000 recruiters in […].

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Content Through Collaboration: How to Create Employee-Driven Brand Stories

Rally Recruitment Marketing

As of April 2019, the U.S. national unemployment rate was 3.6% , which means the talent shortage is far from over. Along with many other employers, we here at RaceTrac have been looking for new ways to combat this shortage. When we started to expand into our new mid-Tennessee market, we realized that not only is it imperative to grow our consumer brand, but we also needed to amp up our employer brand and look at our content strategy through a different lens.

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Why Hiring Professionals Need to be Agile

Social Talent

The definition of agility in a business context is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways. When I think about recruitment agility I keep a mental image of one of those high paces action movies. Die Hard, Jason Bourne, you name it, The hero is stuck in a situation he didn’t predict, and in order to stop the bad guys, he needs to move fast, adjust, and think what is his competitive advantage is.

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How to Use Social Media as a Powerful Recruiting Tool

JazzHR

Social media has proven to be an effective tool for marketers and advertisers to reach consumers. The lessons learned through these campaigns can translate directly to the recruitment process. The challenge is determining which social channels produce the most engagement and which tactics resonate best with relevant job seekers. Here are some ways to use social media to its fullest potential as you source candidates: Use live video to host Q&A sessions.

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EBrandCon Wrapup: Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding Takeaways

Rally Recruitment Marketing

As the newest member of the Rally team, the past few months have been a whirlwind – in the best way! I’ve spent my time learning all there is to know about Recruitment Marketing, getting a grasp on creating compelling content for the company blog and connecting with the great people in our community. So I was delighted when I had the chance to kill three birds with one stone by attending GSMI’s Employer Branding Strategies Conference – more affectionately known as EBrandCon – i

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Two Startup Founders on Why It’s Never Too Early to Implement a Smart Recruiting System

Lever

One of the things I love about my job is interviewing Lever customers from all over the world on what they like about recruiting — especially with our recruiting platform. And I had the pleasure of catching up with two companies this. Read More. The post Two Startup Founders on Why It’s Never Too Early to Implement a Smart Recruiting System appeared first on Lever.

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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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How To Educate Hiring Managers

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn Series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! The role of a recruiter is changing. To reflect this and the new challenges that hiring professionals are facing SocialTalent has dedicated part of its curriculum to helping you demystify re

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New Report Finds Strong Commitment to Technology Investment for People Strategies

Allegis Global Solutions

We often hear from clients who are trying to keep up with innovations that can help their organizations better attract and retain talent. The sheer complexity of today’s marketplace is daunting. So, if you’re confused by all the noise around talent technology, we’re helping to break down this evolving and exciting space.

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Indeed and Goodwill: Helping Both Sides of Hiring

Indeed

The mission of global nonprofit Goodwill Industries International is to help people find jobs, change their lives and improve their communities. This so closely aligns with Indeed’s mission — helping people find jobs — that the two organizations have just announced a strategic collaboration. Indeed has committed to helping 1 million job seekers around the world find employment by 2024, with Goodwill organizations in the U.S. and Canada partnering in the initiative.

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Recruiting Secret: Hiring Workers Returning from Sabbatical

Glassdoor for Employers

It is becoming more and more common for successful executives and entrepreneurs to take time off from their careers for a year or two, and sometimes more. These career sabbaticals are just that, a break from their normal ‘go-go-go’ leading the troops. Reasons for doing this are multifold, including tending to family members, such as an aging parent or raising their children.

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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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Revealed | The Top Cyber Roles In 2019

Social Talent

KPMG and PwC are now the UK’s top cyber recruiters, according to new data released by Indeed. Both companies are hiring a large proportion of cyber security specialists, with cyber roles accounting for 5.95% new KPMG recruits and 5.08% new hires at PwC. The two other members of the accountancy sector’s ‘Big Four’, EY and Deloitte, complete the cyber hirers’ top four, with cyber roles making up 1.99% and 1.47% respectively of their current job vacancies.

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Boolean Search: A Simple Guide for Recruiters

TalentLyft

Every recruiter should know how to perform the Boolean search. Learning a few simple tricks will enable you to source better candidates faster. So what are you waiting for? Start reading our guide and get ready to master the art of Boolean search ! Read More.

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The Benefits of Providing Free Food at Work

Indeed

Did you know that today is National Quiche Lorraine Day? Or that May is National Hamburger Month? These holidays might seem frivolous, but they reflect something big about society: We’re obsessed with food. Most social gatherings revolve around it — think barbecues, family dinners and Sunday brunches. Even when we’re not eating, we’re often consuming it in another form; food is the most-photographed subject on Instagram , and food-related TV has been popular for decades.

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What Is A Recruiting Voice?

Katrina Kibben

If you've ever worked at a big company, you've seen brand guidelines. They create consistency and make the experience for buyers excellent. That should exist for recruiting. The post What Is A Recruiting Voice? appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor has created an open enrollment sample letter (with a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today!

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News | The Highest Paid Firms Of 2019

Social Talent

This week, Glassdoor revealed their list of the highest paid firms according to research undertaken by the job and recruitment site. The results rank the top 25 jobs in various industries, with base Salaries ranging from £58,000 to £82,000, and total compensation reaching a whopping £90,000 per year. Financial services company Credit Suisse took the number one spot on the list, one of three financial services companies in the top ten.

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How to Get More Referrals in Recruitment

FireFish Software

Referrals are a great way to build strong networks of trust between you, your clients, prospects and candidates as they create a situation where the ‘good guys’ are all vouching for one another. There’s really nothing better than having someone you’ve worked with personally recommend you for your great services, but the million dollar question is… what can you do to get more referrals?

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Lessons Learned From A Leadership Conference

SmartSearch

The Milestones in Leadership Summit was held on May 17 in sunny Huntington Beach, and we were graciously invited by our partner and sponsor, of this event, PTS Advance. Just a short drive away from our main office, the gorgeous Hyatt Regency hotel played host to over 500 leaders in all aspects of business. This event, which started in 2002, has grown into an amazing collaboration aimed at providing leadership knowledge and expertise to hundreds of industry leaders.

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How to Cope With Idiots in Recruitment (and Life in General)

Undercover Recruiter

In our job, you come across all sorts of people and I don’t know about you but I, over the last 20 years in recruitment, have made genuine friendships with candidates and clients over time given our shared values and interests, who enrich my life in so many ways. However, there will always be the. View Article. How to Cope With Idiots in Recruitment (and Life in General) Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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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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Hiring Developers: Lessons From 112,000+ Coding Tests

TalentLyft

Hiring developers ? Devskiller presents their insights based on 112,000 coding tests that were taken on their platform in 2018. These lessons will help you keep your hiring process cutting edge and source the most reliable, proficient developers from anywhere in the world! Read More.

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Which Game of Thrones Recruiter Are You? [Quiz]

FireFish Software

Whether you're happy or disappointed with how the GoT finale panned out, take our one-minute Game of Thrones recruitment quiz to find out which Game of Thrones character you're most like as a recruiter! Will you make it to the Billings Throne?

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Extra Extra! It’s a Job Seeker’s Market! 5 Reasons it’s the Right Time to Change Jobs

Crelate

People are changing jobs at a historic pace and for good reason – it’s a candidate-driven labor market ! What does this mean? With unemployment so low , businesses are having a difficult time filling open positions. This puts more power in your hands to find a new position and negotiate your compensation. For those of you that are currently with a company and are either thinking about leaving or haven’t even really thought about changing jobs at all, these are 5 reasons to seriously think about

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The Key to Achieving Better Organizational Productivity Starts with a Next-Generation Onboarding Experience

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Onboarding is arguably the most important thing a human resources department manages. It marks the first touchpoint an employee has with their new company, and consequently shapes their work habits, relationships and long-term experience. It’s similar to the way that the first interaction a consumer has with a company informs their opinion of a brand.

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Modernizing Your Benefits: 5 Trends Employers Need to Know and Act On

Discover 5 key trends derived from Gallagher's 2023 Benefits Strategy & Benchmarking Survey data that give employers an evolved perspective on organizational wellbeing. These insights come from over 4,000 US organizations that are navigating benefits and HR decisions so their people and businesses can thrive. Watch the free recording now!

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7 Performance Questions to Ask Your Employees Each Week

Recruiter

We keep hearing about the demise of the annual appraisal and the accompanying rise of regular performance discussions, but we rarely hear any guidance on what to discuss during these more frequent check-ins. Regular catch-ups are certainly essential in today's agile business world and they have been linked to great performance, but.

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Indeed Interactive Day Two Highlights: Amy Poehler and Indeed CEO Chris Hyams Talk Mastering Authenticity, and More

Indeed

Part one of our report from Indeed Interactive 2019 can be found here. Indeed Interactive resumed on Wednesday morning following Tuesday night’s Interactive party at ACL Live Theater with the Party Crashers and DJ Mel. It was another day full of insightful keynotes, breakout sessions and new learnings, with Amy Poehler and Indeed CEO Chris Hyams in conversation at the end.

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Six Ways To Craft A Social Media Policy That Fosters Employee Participation

Forbes Human Resources Council

Want to get your employees excited about contributing to company social media? The experts of Forbes Human Resources Council share their insight on crafting a social media policy that gets employees excited without feeling pressured about using their personal pages.