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Personalize Your Applicant Screening Process for Better Results

ClearCompany Recruiting

The hiring process can be nerve-wracking for candidates. They can wait weeks to hear back about jobs, if at all. Good employers make the hiring process as easy on candidates as possible , and this means more than creating automatic forms. It means developing a more personal experience from start to finish. Make yourself a better employer, find better candidates, hire better employees by keeping these few things in mind.

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Oregon Ban The Box Legislation

ExactHire Recruiting

As we approach the final quarter of 2015, it is never too early to start preparing for new legislation that will affect hiring practices in 2016. Effective January 1, 2016, Oregon will become the newest state to implement “Ban the Box” legislation for both public and private sector employment. Other states that have already enacted this practice in both public and private sector employment are Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Hawaii and New Jersey.

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20 Epically Passive Aggressive Office Notes

Social Talent

Go on, admit it. You always wished you had the “cojones” to leave one of these bad boys for a fellow colleague… 1. It’s so pur-dee… 2. The Grammar Police. 3. It’s got a touch of the Marleys… Seen at the office. #bobmarley #webejammin #officefail #officesign. A photo posted by Liza Chalaidopoulos-Isaacs (@lizapoulos) on Oct 31, 2014 at 2:45pm PDT. . 4.

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10 Things You’ll Learn at Glassdoor’s Employe.

Glassdoor for Employers

We’re gearing up for next week’s 2nd annual Glassdoor Employer Branding Summit and are so excited to spend the day learning from employer branding experts from companies including Zillow, Glassdoor, Salesforce, Dell and more! Employer branding is more important than ever, due to the increase in popularity of review sites like Glassdoor. If you make your living promoting your company’s brand and reputation to recruit great talent for your organization, attending our Summit is a must.

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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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6 Tips You Need to Know to Hire Awesome Virtual Employees

Spark Hire

Hiring a virtual employee is just like hiring anyone else — except you may never meet them in person. That being the case, you need to be sure they have the skills to do the job and that they will understand your company and get their work done without being in a traditional office. How do you assess all these skills virtually? Here are some of the best tips to hire the virtual employees you need: 1.

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6 Things Top Performing Recruiters Do That You Don’t: Part 1

Social Talent

Over the last number of months, we’ve been a little busy here at Social Talent HQ. We’re in the process of building a new analytics tool that will allow recruiters and their managers to track their performance and productivity day-by-day. We’re crazy excited about it and cannot wait for you guys to see the finished product. In building that tool, we’ve been granted access by a number of customers to a lot of data concerning how recruiters use the web on a day-to-day basis. 3000

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Recruiting for Startups 101

Leoforce

“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”– Lawrence Bossidy , retired chairman and CEO of Honeywell. Recruiting the right team of people is essential to the prosperity of any company, but it’s arguably the most important key to success for startups.

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How to Look for Emotional Intelligence in a Video Interview

Spark Hire

When looking for the best candidate for an open position, do you focus on hard skills, or soft skills and cultural fit ? Which one is more important? Although skills and experience are still important in recruiting, hiring professionals are giving cultural fit an increasing amount of weight when selecting candidates. This is no surprise, considering that culture is a major concern in the workforce.

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The True Cost of a Bad Hire

Glassdoor for Employers

When you hire the wrong fit—what’s the damage? In its latest research report, commissioned by Glassdoor , Brandon Hall Group outlines the cost of a bad hire and the implications on organizational performance. The report also details the steps organizations can take to improve the prospects for a good fit between the candidate and organization. Why is it so important to hire the right people?

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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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Top 10 Twitter Tips for Newbies (Infographic)

Social Talent

There is a social media platform that every recruiter should be using – but they don’t, and we have no idea why. It’s mainstream, it’s super easy to use and is as mobile friendly as a social network gets. I am, of course, talking about Twitter. We’ve been huge fans of Twitter for years in Social Talent and we’ve been advocating it’s use as a recruiting tool for the last 5 years.

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Are Robots Coming for Our Jobs?

Leoforce

At Leoforce, we love TED Talks. We love learning about new concepts and ideas from some of the best and brightest people out there. On this wonderful Tuesday morning, we want to share an “oldie but goodie” TED talk from Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Throughout history, if you wanted something translated, you needed a human to do it.

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How does Leadership Play a Role in Recruitment?

NPA Worldwide

Today’s blogger is Amy Teske, NPAworldwide Membership Engagement Manager. Amy joined the NPAworldwide staff in June 2015. We’re happy she’s here, and happy for the extra blogging horsepower as well! “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams.

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4 Ways to get a Greater ROI from your Recruiter

Spark Hire

As a hiring manager, it’s important to spend your budget wisely. When investing in recruitment services, there are 4 things that you can do in order to ensure you are seeing the most ROI from your recruiter. Provide a Thorough Job Description. This one seems like a no-brainer, but it is often overlooked or sloppily done. Before you provide your recruiter with the job description, be sure that you have reviewed the description.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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6 Things Top Performing Recruiters Do That You Don’t: Part 2

Social Talent

At the beginning of yesterday’s blog , we explained that over the last number of months, Social Talent have been busy building a new analytics tool that will allow recruiters and their managers to track their performance and productivity day-by-day. And that in the process of building that tool, we were granted access by a number of customers to a lot of data concerning how their recruiters use the web on a day-to-day basis. 3000 recruiters to be exact.

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The Resumé Abyss

Hoops

There’s a great line towards the end of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street ? “Bud” (Charlie Sheen, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future) is being led out of his brokerage, cuffed and crying, strung out on coke, greed, and stupidity – basically what he would call “Thursday” now. But, right before he is about to be escorted from the building, a colleague stops him – it’s the Mark Twain of the office, “Lou” (Hal Holbrook), ready with some cryptic wisdom for young Bud. “ Man looks in the abyss, there’

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Appreciating and Recruiting Truck Drivers

CareerBuilder

September 13-19 is Driver Appreciation Week, and as somebody who frequently shops online, I’m one of many people who owe thanks to truck drivers. But these drivers do more than deliver online purchases. Everything you see and use from the clothes on your back to the water bottle you just took a sip out of are the result of a driver’s hard work. Drivers provide access to everyday necessities, making them critical to the wellbeing of many people and businesses.

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What You Need to Know to Improve Your School’s Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Hiring to fill open teaching positions can be stressful, particularly if these openings occur in the middle of the school year. However, a carefully planned, thorough hiring process ensures that the best teachers are in place as quickly as possible in that school. If you’re looking to improve your school’s hiring process and recruit better, more passionate educators, here’s what you need to know: Get detailed about your job description.

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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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Webinar on the Candidate Journey: Glassdoor + William Tincup + SmashFly

Symphony Talent

If you open up a job req and run it up the nearest job board, will great candidates come running, punt or look elsewhere? Depends—on a lot. Forrester reports that it can take as many as 12 touch points or interactions before a candidate decides to apply. Is your brand at its best at each one of. Continue Reading → The post Webinar on the Candidate Journey: Glassdoor + William Tincup + SmashFly appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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How's Your Backside?

Hoops

Pardon ME????!? No, no, no - not that backside. I’m talking the “marketing life-cycle” backside. Think in terms of your job search; if you’re in the category of “long-term” unemployed, you have a branding issue – how do you continue to promote and differentiate a brand (you) that is way past the honeymoon stage? What is your strategy for keeping that brand profitable in the mature stage?

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Talent and College Degrees That Are Growing and Declining Post-Recession

CareerBuilder

You’re no stranger to recruiting for hard-to-find talent; combing through resumes for that perfect candidate who possesses a strong educational background and the related experience to qualify them for your vacant position. What’s the outlook for some of these in-demand industries? Are economic forecasts looking bright for future graduates? While the demand for educated labor continues to increase in the U.S., new research 1 from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl (EMSI) sugges

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Why You Should Use Video Interviewing for Educational Hiring

Spark Hire

As schools become more focused on incorporating technology into the classroom, it’s no surprise that many are beginning to rely on it when it comes to hiring too. These tools can save time and money while streamlining the hiring process, thus getting teachers into classrooms faster. Here’s how video interviewing technology can make hiring easier for educational institutions: It helps to standardize the process.

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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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The ATS Alone is Not Enough – Part 2 of 2

Symphony Talent

This was originally posted on Talent Culture in two parts: Talent Acquisition Has a Marketing Problem and The ATS Alone is Not Enough. My previous post last week discussed the state of the talent acquisition marketplace and the current machinations of the ATS product category. Justifiably, this asked: “Should we try and reinvent the ATS?” or. Continue Reading → The post The ATS Alone is Not Enough – Part 2 of 2 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Overwhelmed Recruiter

Hoops

Anyone filling seats for a living can tell you that there are days when you can’t remember your own name, much less the specific applicant they may speaking with at any given time. A typical impromptu phone call may sound like this: Recruiter : “ Hi Mrs. Candidate, I’m John Whitaker with HoopsHR and I’d like to speak with you about a Brand Manager position I’m actively sourcing.

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Nearly 3 in 4 Employers Look Internally Before Posting a Job

CareerBuilder

You know how in cheesy rom-coms the guy usually chases after the wrong girls — only to find that his true love was right in front of him the whole time and he didn’t even know it? That’s sometimes true in recruiting, too. Sometimes, when a position opens up, you go chasing after candidates before taking a moment to see whether the candidate of your dreams is actually right under your nose.

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The Rise of the Recruitment Marketplace

SmartRecruiters

5 Reasons to centralize recruitment services and vendors in one place. Talent acquisition professionals typically wrestle with an unwieldy variety of systems in their war for talent. Besides core recruitment systems (often an old-fashioned ATS), they deal with job boards, video interview tools, background check vendors and candidate assessments. Using this tech menagerie is inconvenient, as they aren’t easily integrated to the ATS, all of which translates into extra clicks and duplicate data ent

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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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Recruiting Checkup – Are Your Vitals Okay?

Recruiting.com

Recruiting is the lifeblood of any organization — it’s responsible for bringing in the individuals that collectively keep a business alive and thriving. A poor recruiting strategy could prove detrimental to even the most robust organizations. Since The American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration Conference is just around the corner, it’s just the right.

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3 Things.

Hoops

When a company is in an uproar, it's estimated that employees will lose as much as 2 additional hours per day in productivity. The anxiety associated with change or even the possibility of change puts people into a distracted state beyond the norm. . But would you be surprised to know that there are other activities your employees are doing every day that can directly impact productivity?

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3 Hacks to Ace Event Marketing

Symphony Talent

This post was originally a guest post on the Attend Inc. Blog. It’s nearly always enjoyable to attend a big industry event. That can’t always be said for planning and managing the execution and success of that event. Our Senior Demand Gen Manager Deirdre Pelrin was featured in a guest blog on Attend Inc., sharing. Continue Reading → The post 3 Hacks to Ace Event Marketing appeared first on SmashFly Blog.