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10 Diversity Hiring Statistics That Will Make You Think

ClearCompany Recruiting

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue.

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Greg Savage London Recruiter Masterclass SOLD OUT! New date announced

Greg Savage

So, I never expected THAT four months out from the event, but there it is. London Recruiter Masterclass 20th October is SOLD OUT. But, fear not! An extra session is now set for the 19th October So, as the rock promoters say, “Hurry, there will be no more dates announced“ EXTRA London Recruiter Masterclass. 19th […].

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What Non-Recruiters Don't Know About Recruiting

Lever

Many people start a career recruiting accidentally, because they aren’t sure what else they want. As such, there’s a common misconception that recruiting is a stepping-stone job that almost anyone can be successful in.

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Sourcing & Recruiting Candidate Funnel & Output Calculators

Boolean Black Belt

Have you ever wondered: How many resumes, social profiles, names, etc., you have to identify to result in 1 hire? How efficient your sourcing/recruiting/hiring process is? How many candidates you need to submit to fill your position? How more effective messaging/engagement strategies and tactics can measurably improve your efficiency? How wonderful it would be if you could educate your hiring manager/team on exactly how much effort goes into producing 1 hire, and the effects of a poor assessment

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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A Decade On: The Number One Recruitment Lesson I Have Learned

The Whiteboard

I got something of a morbid, but poignant, reminder a few days ago that this week marks the culmination for me of a decade in the recruitment industry. The reminder came courtesy of the 7/7 London Bombings memorials earlier this week. It’s been a decade since the worst terrorist attack on mainland Britain and I remember with distinct clarity where I was when I first heard about it.

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8 Candidate Red Flags You Need to Watch For

Spark Hire

It’s only natural for candidates to want to put their best foot forward during a job interview — even if that means stretching the truth or holding back potentially game-changing information. For hiring professionals, the mask that job interviewees tend to wear can make it tricky to really get to know the candidate and evaluate their ability to perform well in any given role.

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Rockstar Recruiter Series: Cisco

Glassdoor for Employers

My name is Elaine McCarthy and I am a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist. On a day to day basis, I look after end to end recruitment at Cisco for Java, C++, Python, and QA professional (with other development roles thrown in) in the EMEAR market. I am extremely passionate about sourcing and finding the best technical talent in the market. I’m impressed when a candidate: Asks intelligent questions about our organization – this shows they are attracted to what we do at Cisco and have done their

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Robots on the Rise: Automation of the Journalism Industry

Leoforce

You’ve heard that Google uses automation technology to create cars that drive themselves, and we’ve told you that similar technology is used in the staffing industry to recruit job candidates without human input. But automation technology has entered yet another industry, and this one might surprise you: journalism. Do you keep up with financial news?

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How to: Add a LinkedIn Button to Your Gmail Signature

Social Talent

Make your email signature work just that little bit harder for you by adding a link to your LinkedIn profile in the form of a LinkedIn button. Here’s our step-by-step guide for how to do so: Step 1: Go into your Gmail account and open up your Gmail settings by clicking the cog icon in to top right hand corner of your Gmail dashboard, and selecting the Settings option: Step 2: Once inside your Gmail settings, scroll down to the Signature option: Step 3: Open a new tab in your internet brows

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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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How to Make Sure a Candidate is a Good Cultural Fit

Spark Hire

It’s no longer enough to ensure that the candidate you’re thinking of hiring has the right skills to get the job done. Cultural fit is becoming an increasingly important part of hiring, particularly when you want to lower turnover rates in your business. A person can be highly skilled at their job, but if they simply don’t blend in well at work, it’s likely that they won’t last long in their position.

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Improve Employee Engagement, Screen for Attitude

HarQen

A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a substitute for a bar league volleyball team. It’s worth mentioning that I am a terrible volleyball player. My friend told me she didn’t care, her team was well under 500 and in no way would make the playoffs. All they needed were people so her team didn’t have to forfeit. I arrived shortly before the game started and immediately noticed one girl who’s attitude did not match the team’s.

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The Future of Sourcing

Allegis Global Solutions

New platforms and tools are wonderful innovations and as the best talent increasingly retreats away from big social networks (such as LinkedIn) these are helping us to plot where that talent may be and giving us ways to find them in the hidden depths of the internet.

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7 FREE Twitter Products for Serious Social Recruiters

Social Talent

Twitter is now the second most popular social network among recruiters and sourcers the world over. A total of 55% of you are using it to post jobs, source candidates, share content and message candidates. New research also shows that Twitter is becoming increasingly popular with job seekers too. In fact, 58% of job seekers have used Twitter for job-seeking purposes in the last 6 months alone.

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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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Why Staffing Firms Should Incorporate Video Interviewing

Spark Hire

Video interviewing has become a powerful tool for staffing firms, as it saves these companies both time and resources, while allowing them to serve their clients more effectively. In the past, staffing firms had to bring candidates in for a conversation (or sometimes multiple conversations) and then try to effectively place that individual. Today, that’s all changed.

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HarQen - Untitled Article

HarQen

A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a substitute for a bar league volleyball team. It’s worth mentioning that I am a terrible volleyball player. My friend told me she didn’t care, her team was well under 500 and in no way would make the playoffs. All they needed were people so her team didn’t have to forfeit. I arrived shortly before the game started and immediately noticed one girl who’s attitude did not match the team’s.

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28,700 Bosses Share Views On Millennials

SmartRecruiters

What should you know before loading up your workforce with today’s young adults — commonly known as millennials ? The folks at Wayne, Pa.-based SkillSurvey , who conduct automated reference checks for thousands of corporate clients, have come up with some fascinating insights, based on what these job candidates’ bosses, mentors and teachers are saying.

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62% of Employers Say Bad Attitudes Hurt Chance of Promotion

CareerBuilder

You have an employee who gets to work in the wee hours of the morning, works hard throughout the day, and is often still lingering at your desk after their co-workers have packed up and gone home. They’re likeable, and they bring a lot to the table. Yet, despite all this, if you’re like many of the participants in our latest survey of 2,175 hiring and human resource managers, you can’t bring yourself to promote them.

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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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4 Ways to Speed Up the Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Throughout my recruiting career, I have been involved with job openings that can be filled anywhere from a few days to a few months. The vast majority of these deals took 3-6 weeks to close, depending on the position requirements and available candidate pool. Regardless of the type of position being recruited for, a sense of urgency and speed is of utmost importance if you want to be successful in the staffing industry.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 7.6 to 7.10

Symphony Talent

It’s that time again! We’re rounding up the best of the week in recruitment marketing. But first, here are our picks for content and tweet of the week. Content of the Week Email isn’t going anywhere, so recruiters, it’s time to master it. Here are some tips to follow for list management, content, design and. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 7.6 to 7.10 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Lessons from a Viral Job Application

SmartRecruiters

I moved to Silicon Valley last year with the aim of finding a job at a high impact and high growth company. Knowing how talented the market is here, I was ready to face some challenges – I soon discovered that the challenges far exceeded my expectations. After a year of utilizing traditional tactics with dozens of companies and getting nowhere, I realized it was time to shift gears, so I used my skills as a marketer to create a campaign that would get the attention of recruiters and hiring

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Gender-Neutral Leave Policies Need to Happen Now

CareerBuilder

Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group , made news recently with the announcement that new dads and moms will receive 12 months of fully paid leave. Unfortunately, only 0.2 percent of employees will gain access to this benefit. Male and female employees must also reside in London or Geneva and have four years of tenure with Virgin Management in order to benefit.

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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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4 Ways to Create a More Personal Candidate Screening Process

Spark Hire

One of the most important parts of a recruiter’s job is to foster strong relationships with candidates. Without a good candidate-recruiter relationship, a deal can quickly fall apart. There are four key ways we can create a more personal candidate screening and interviewing process in order to build those strong relationships with talent: 1. Be honest.

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WEBINAR: Think Like a Marketer: How 3 Leading Organizations Get More Qualified Candidates

Symphony Talent

What do CH2M, CDW and The Cheesecake Factory have in common? They’re global leaders transforming the front end of their talent acquisition processes through recruitment marketing strategies. They’re also seeing big results: huge gains in qualified candidates, more applicants and stronger analytics (but we’ll save the details for the webinar). Join us for a webinar.

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The Big Data Skills Crisis And Recruiting Talent

SmartRecruiters

As the amount of digital information generated by businesses and organizations continues to grow exponentially, a challenge –or as some have put it, a crisis–has developed. There just aren’t enough people with the required skills to analyze and interpret this information–transforming it from raw numerical (or other) data into actionable insights – the ultimate aim of any Big Data-driven initiative.

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Five Ways to Use Your Expertise to Give Back

CareerBuilder

By Michelle Kruse of ResumeEdge. I recently had the opportunity to meet with a group of young professionals. Still fresh with the glow of college graduation upon their faces, I smiled as they recalled the rigors of college life — sleeping until noon, dining on gourmet ramen and partaking in those always-fun late-night cram sessions. While some of our own college memories are still crystal clear, the reality is that they become increasingly foggy as we settle into our careers.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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How to Implement a Sustainable Hiring Process

Spark Hire

As a business owner, a streamlined hiring process that delivers you strong talent is essential to the future health of your business. If you’ve got a lot of turnover or find that it takes you months and months to fill an open role, ultimately your company suffers. To prevent this from doing damage to your business long-term, it’s necessary to develop a sustainable hiring process that works more effectively.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 6.27 to 7.4

Symphony Talent

First off, I hope everyone had a tremendous 4th of July holiday and enjoyed their time in the sun on the three day weekend. Second, we wanted to provide our weekly list of 5 articles that can help organizations improve their recruitment marketing efforts. Enjoy! Content of the Week RecruitingDaily’s Matt Charney helped us. Continue Reading → The post Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 6.27 to 7.4 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Easy Appointment Booking Recruiter Tool

NPA Worldwide

A problem I was having for quite some time was ease of scheduling call times with recruiters of independent firms to qualify them for membership in NPAworldwide. On average, it took about 2 to 3 emails to nail down a call, and then there was about a 50% chance that they would cancel, forget, or just get carried off by a herd of non-purple squirrels never to be seen again.

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