Lever

JANUARY 28, 2016

Lever Co-Founders Sarah Nahm, Nate Smith and Randal Truong. It’s my pleasure to announce that Lever has closed a $20 million Series B investment round led by Scale Venture Partners. As reported in Forbes , we’re excited to put these funds towards growth and further innovation in ATS software. This announcement follows a year of tremendous progress. In 2015, we more than tripled our team size, shipped hundreds of code releases, and grew our customer base to over 700 amazing companies.

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Proactive Talent

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ve all heard it before: Personal branding is key to job search success. Hiring managers and recruiters are looking for information about candidates online, and when they can't, they are less likely going to select those candidates for a job opportunity. But did you know job candidates are searching you the same way you are searching them? Perspective applicants, as well as candidates currently in your hiring process, are researching your company and employees to help decide whether to apply f

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Social Talent

JANUARY 27, 2016

Back in late 2011, a little known mobile app that went by the name of Instagram, had a healthy but still relatively small legion of about 10 million users. F ast forward 6 years, and that little legion has ballooned into an army of over 300 million active monthly users ( 12 million more than Twitter and about 230 million more than fellow image sharing app, Pinterest!).

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Recruitics

JANUARY 25, 2016

Companies spend a lot of money trying to get job seekers to their open positions. Unfortunately, regardless of what you spend generating greater traffic, if your job descriptions are poorly written then you’re not going to see the conversions you’re hoping for. After all, at the end of the day successful job posts start with content, not budgets.

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Lever

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today in our blog series, How To Make Recruiting Your Company's Top Strategic Priority in 2016, we’re tackling how to engage one of the most, if not the most, important stakeholders in the recruitment process: the hiring manager.

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Social Talent

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to update your LinkedIn profile! Check out this incredible LinkedIn profile cheat sheet from LeisureJobs.com that brings you through EVERYTHING you need to do in order to build an “All-Star” LinkedIn profile: Source: LeisureJobs.com. The post The Ultimate LinkedIn Cheat Sheet (Infographic) appeared first on Social Talent.

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Recruitics

JANUARY 27, 2016

Staffing agencies have been on the rise since the official end of the Great Recession, near the end of 2009. In fact Staffing Industry Analysts, which annually surveys enterprises to gauge the size of their contingent workforces, found that 18 percent of large companies’ workforces were temporary in 2014, up from 12 percent in 2009. The rising demand for contract work comes as a direct result of the Great Recession.

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Lever

JANUARY 29, 2016

Too often, we mistake a high volume pipeline for a high quality one. It’s easy to post a job advertisement and wait for the applications to flow in, but identifying the exceptional candidates among the droves of average and mediocre applicants is onerous. Proactively sourcing candidates allows you find fewer, but more qualified, candidates to fill your talent pipeline, freeing up your time to provide each of them with an experience that makes your company stand out as a place they’d like to work

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HarQen

JANUARY 29, 2016

Do we have too many or too few people to fill our available jobs? There are many different perspectives on this. Some will graph demographics and others will talk about the skills gap. Both are important and relevant. At the same time, the general narrative is missing a critical point of view. Despite all of our advances [.]. The post Solving the Real Problem in Recruiting appeared first on Transforming Recruiting Into a Strategic Advantage with HarQen.

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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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Jobvite

JANUARY 27, 2016

Has your business fully embraced social recruiting? Is it now a key element in your talent attraction strategy? Or are you worryingly one of those businesses being left behind by your competitors? Here are 7 ways recruiting teams are adapting to the social world to attract talent and win candidates over. Do stop to ask yourself “How many are we doing?”.

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NPA Worldwide

JANUARY 27, 2016

Adapting to new hiring practices is a necessity for any business or recruitment partner to thrive in this competitive landscape. And one of the things constantly changing is. the role and importance of pre-employment reference checks in today’s workplace. Reference checks allow a recruiter to get independent insight about a candidate’s previous on-the-job performance.

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Glassdoor for Employers

JANUARY 27, 2016

Hiring the right person is a difficult task, but when your candidate pool consists largely of recent graduates who mostly have little to no experience, that job becomes vastly more challenging. It’s hard to find a winning hand when everyone is holding the same (not so experienced) cards, but in the end, we must always make a decision. First, take a step back.

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iCIMS

JANUARY 29, 2016

An in-depth look into what employers and job seekers have to say about marketing to candidates.

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Beamery

JANUARY 27, 2016

“ATS software manages applicants, but what happens when the best talent doesn’t apply. Recruiters have to be proactive, for many roles just filtering incoming applications isn’t getting it done. The best hiring teams are focused on supplementing applications by sourcing new leads, building referral systems and re-engaging past applicants.

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NPA Worldwide

JANUARY 26, 2016

Below are six trends for recruiters to watch for this year: Trend: Workplace Flexibility. Technology and expanding work hours are driving the need and employee expectations for greater options for when, how and where we all work. Employees are now working and available outside of traditional work hours and the average work day is expanding from 40 to 47 hours in North America.

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SimplyHired

JANUARY 27, 2016

The post 5 Traits That Define the Most Successful Recruiters appeared first on.

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Symphony Talent

JANUARY 27, 2016

Last week, Co-founder of Aptitude Research Partners Madeline Laurano and SmashFly’s Director of Recruitment Marketing Tracey Parsons hosted a value-packed, continuously tweetable webinar on 6 major trends in recruitment marketing to watch for―and jump into! Catch the full recording here. Plus, these are the questions attendees asked these two recruitment marketing dynamos.

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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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iCIMS

JANUARY 29, 2016

To keep up with today's consumer-minded job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are proactively attracting and engaging candidates and adopting recruitment marketing techniques and tools.

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ROIKOI

JANUARY 28, 2016

When working to acquire the best fits for open positions, recruiters focus on time and quality. Sourcing only the best talent typically takes several hours — and the fear of hiring the wrong candidate still lingers. In fact, $5 Billion is spent on recruiting software every year , yet 50% of hires are mistakes. So, how can talent directors effectively address these inefficiencies?

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CareerBuilder

JANUARY 25, 2016

While certain trends are decidedly “out” for 2016 , temporary and contract hiring is most definitely still “in.”. According to CareerBuilder’s 2016 job forecast , 47 percent of employers report they will add temporary or contract workers this year, up slightly from 46 percent last year. Of these employers, 58 percent plan to transition some temporary or contract workers into permanent roles in 2016.

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Symphony Talent

JANUARY 26, 2016

Become a Magnet for Talent with Inbound Recruitment Marketing from SmashFly Technologies Recruiters, time to focus on inbound marketing. Talent acquisition is more like marketing than you think. Learn about the evolution of the candidate’s journey, the recruiting funnel and specific, actionable inbound marketing and content marketing tips to strengthen your recruitment marketing strategy from.

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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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Workable

JANUARY 25, 2016

While the struggle for statutory maternity leave has been making visible progress in recent years, efforts to deliver laws on paternity leave are still in their infancy. There are paternity leave policies on the books in about 80 countries but many of them appear little more than symbolic. Countries like Italy or Greece offer a couple of days while many European nations offer no more than two weeks.

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Snark Attack

JANUARY 28, 2016

I don't think social recruiting works, but I have a blog with a lot of followers that's synched with this feed. So since I'm hiring, what the hell? Here goes nothing.

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iCIMS

JANUARY 29, 2016

To keep up with today's consumer-minded job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are proactively attracting and engaging candidates and adopting recruitment marketing techniques and tools.

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Symphony Talent

JANUARY 29, 2016

Lots of action this week, since Twitter was going a mile a minute with #SRSC tweets. But welcome to Friday everyone! Time for the best in recruitment marketing this week, plus some bonuses from the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference. Content of the Week This survey is going to produce some amazing findings. Be a part of Lighthouse. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles 1.25 to 1.29 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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Hireology

JANUARY 29, 2016

“This is how we do it!” While it’s not Friday night just yet, we hope you all feel alright. Besides quoting the great Montell Jordan’s classic hit on a Friday, it’s always good to see how others do what they do.

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CareerBuilder

JANUARY 29, 2016

A job posting can make or break a job seeker’s view of your company, so you’ve got to make sure you get it right the first time, every time. There are numerous features that go into the creation of a winning job posting. So before you hastily dash off that next one, take a few minutes to read these tips on how to make your job postings stand out from the competition.

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iCIMS

JANUARY 26, 2016

Company culture is becoming increasingly important to attract top talent to your organization. Learn the steps to develop a great company culture.

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