Sat.Oct 21, 2017 - Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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No, actually, recruitment does NOT build character

Greg Savage

I was chatting to a recruitment company owner the other day, and we were debating about how tough Agency recruitment is as an industry. He went on to say how the rigours of learning the recruitment business was excellent for ‘building character’. And of course he was half right. There is no doubt that Agency […].

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3 Ways Netflix's Recruiting Researchers Make Sourcing Strategic

Lever

As two members of Netflix’s talent team took the stage at our Talent Innovation Summit , they immediately explained that while their roles entail sourcing, they aren’t “sourcers”. Instead, Tennyson Jones and Michael Orozco introduced themselves as Recruiting Researchers. Intrigued, we were eager to unpack the reason behind this differentiation. Why did Netflix build a team of “recruiting researchers”, and how does that role differ from that of “sourcers”?

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Powerful Ways Technology Helps With Diversity Recruiting

ClearCompany Recruiting

Diversity hiring is beneficial to both your colleagues and your company. If you want to increase engagement, productivity ( inclusive teams outperform their peers by 80% ), and even profits ( 6% greater revenue ), diversity is the answer.

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Call Yourself A Recruiter?

The Whiteboard

So. Call yourself a recruiter? I don’t mean that in a sneering or belligerent way, no suggestion that I’m looking down my nose at your recruitment expertise (or lack thereof). No. I’m just rephrasing a question that caught my attention on LinkedIn earlier this week, a question posed by a “Senior Recruiter” in California who was clearly undergoing a period of existential angst over her moniker within her chosen profession.

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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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Looking To Engage With Future Talent? Here’s How!

Social Talent

Every company wants to hire the best candidate available to them. Talented employees are the driving force behind a company’s success. However, many companies find themselves rushing important hires when ultimately, the wrong hire could seriously damage their company. Depending on the role, company, and candidate, the time to hire will vary. But to ensure the hiring process runs smoothly, it’s important that you are organised and that you have your hiring process locked down.

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50+ Insights into Good Employer Qualities

ClearCompany Recruiting

An increase in revenue, better performance, a larger talent pool and more engaged employees are just a few of the benefits of being a great employer. According to SHRM , 88% of U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job. This is the highest level of employee satisfaction we’ve seen in over a decade, and there are well-defined reasons behind this.

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Why Online Reputation Management for Recruiters is Important

Proactive Talent

Recruiters are some of the most externally facing people at the company. With that, their online reputation can make or break their ability to do their job well and can come with some major personal risks as well. Online reputation management for recruiters is a topic often overlooked and undervalued. With the rise of social media use in business, personal use such as sharing photos, special moments, statuses, and something not instantly recognizable, but our routines, opens the door to a host o

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17 Tips to Help Recruiters Stay Sane

Social Talent

In the height of hiring season, it can sometimes seem like there will never be a moment of downtime again. How can you review and streamline your hiring process when you can’t even keep up with it!? The key is to plan in advance—way in advance. If you’ve been in your role for more than a year, you know when your slow hiring periods come around. For most industries, it’s likely just before and after the holidays.

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How an Employee Performance Evaluation Can Help You Measure Quality of Hire

Lever

The three most discussed recruitment metrics tend to be time to hire , cost per hire, and quality of hire—with the last being the most difficult to measure. Quality can be measured in many different ways, and can be quite subjective. However, it is arguably the most important thing to measure. It doesn’t really matter if you fill a role quickly and cost-effectively, if you don’t have a good hire to show for it.

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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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5 Lessons from Hamilton on Winning the War for Talent

Glassdoor for Employers

George Washington was clearly an expert recruiter, and the first truly informed candidate may have been Alexander Hamilton. The talent takeaways from the Broadway sensation are many.

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Great Opening Lines From Cover Letters

SimplyHired

The post Great Opening Lines From Cover Letters appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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RoundUp: What Have California and Facebook Done to Make Recruiment News?

Social Talent

Facebook releases work histories. Facebook has been testing its own resume service to help create a smooth process between people browsing and applying for jobs via mobile. Work histories allows Facebook members to add more detail to their work and education sections on your About section of your profile. However, these do not appear publically on your profile.

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Candidate Experience Case Study: Feedback Turns Candidates Around for Kimball Midwest

Survale

Kimball Midwest is a Survale client, as well as a quarter billion-dollar force in the industrial maintenance sector with a great story tell in a brand new candidate experience case study. When the Company was considering ways to increase their sales hiring capabilities, the Sales Recruiting Department identified candidate experience as an untapped opportunity to improve hiring results.

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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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AmazingHiring – a tech talent search engine [expert interview]

Devskiller

Sergey Dmitrichenko is CEO and co-Founder of AmazingHiring. Sergey started his career in tech recruitment in 2006 after graduating from a leading Russian technical university (Bauman Moscow State Technical University). In 2011 Sergey founded recruitment agency “GMS” – nowadays one of the best IT-recruitment agency in Russia & CIS. AmazingHiring is the Ultimate Search Engine for Technical Talent.

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New Grads: Should You Include Your GPA in Your Resume?

SimplyHired

The post New Grads: Should You Include Your GPA in Your Resume? appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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How is the UK Letting Female Engineers Down? (Infographic)

Social Talent

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the engineering industry in most countries attracts more men than women. RS Components have created an infographic that gives us insight into the number of female engineers in European countries and it’s not a good reflection on the UK. The Uk has the lowest number of women working in engineering; only 8.7% of the 640,300 strong engineering workforce are women.

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GDPR Ready - How Engaged is Your Recruitment Database?

FireFish Software

Your recruitment agency may take pride in its 10,000-strong candidate database, but when was the last time you checked how engaged it really is? We’ve created a simple 4-step guide to calculating how engaged your candidate database is, so you can get a clear and truthful picture of your data in preparation for GDPR.

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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The 4 Cornerstones of Employee Retention

Glassdoor for Employers

A company’s profitability is directly linked to the retention of key performers. Leadership relies upon consistent team member performance.

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How to Avoid Common Job Interview Mistakes

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by Workopolis: Job seekers are not the only ones trying to make an impression during a job interview. Hiring managers and recruiters are also on the spot, and without realizing it, you might be turning off talented candidates. Have you noticed people turning down job offers or second interviews? You might be making some very. View Article.

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Breaking News: Allegis Group Joins Forces With HiringSolved

Social Talent

*Breaking News*. On October 24th the recruiting world was treated to the very exciting news that Allegis Group had made a significant investment in HiringSolved. . The news broke via PR Newswire and you can read the full press release here. “As the global leader in talent solutions, Allegis Group invests in technologies that align with our core purpose of creating opportunity for people – our clients, our candidates and our employees.

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How to Use GDPR to Your Recruitment Agency’s Advantage

FireFish Software

GDPR has the power to send most agency owners into a state of panic, but have you considered how the changes could actually benefit your business? Whilst the new Data Protection legislation will undeniably throw up a few new obstacles for how recruitment businesses operate, it’s not all doom and gloom.

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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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Your Holiday Party Planning Checklist

Glassdoor for Employers

A printable, shareable and visual guide to making sure your company celebrations are merry and bright this season.

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Top 8 Strategies for Hiring Hard-To-Fill Tech Roles

HireRabbit

As a recruiter, you know that a challenge is up ahead when you’re tasked to look for data scientists, cloud engineers or any tech related role. Their skill set is so specialized. Competition is fierce. And every other recruiter or company is after them. In fact, finance and industrial companies are hiring more developers than software companies! A compilation of the best jobs of 2017 reveals that tech roles are the highest in demand in terms of postings, salary and growth opportunity.

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5 Tips for Staying Calm During a Job Interview

SimplyHired

The post 5 Tips for Staying Calm During a Job Interview appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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3 Ways a Poor Candidate Experience Can Scare Away Job Seekers

iCIMS

Here are some key ways that employers can approach revamping their candidate experiences and stop scaring away top talent.

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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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Hire These 5 Developers on the Spot

Glassdoor for Employers

Hiring hacks IT managers should use to recognize potential team members who will thrive, so retention and productivity stays high for the long haul.

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5 Recruiting Tips for Hiring Recent College Graduates

ConveyIQ

Are you looking to hire college graduates this campus recruiting season? It’s time to start laying your groundwork and planning your recruiting strategy. To help get you started, we’ve compiled our top five tips for hiring recent college graduates: Attend Career Fairs. Attending career fairs at colleges and universities is a great way to meet candidates for entry-level and internship roles.

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Siftery, One of the Most Trusted Review Sites, Interviews TalentLyft

TalentLyft

Siftery, one of the most trusted review sites, interviewed TalentLyft's CEO to find out why did we build a recruiting software. Find out why and how do companies use TalentLyft to improve their recruiting and hiring strategies. Read More.