Sat.Apr 18, 2015 - Fri.Apr 24, 2015

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What you can learn from the ‘Dark Ages’ of recruitment

Greg Savage

'I had a guy debating some recruiting matter with me on social media last week. To make his point, he finished with what he clearly felt was a telling coup de grace. “Well, I have been recruiting since before LinkedIn came along, you know!” In his recruiting world, LinkedIn was the ultimate game-changer. He considered […].

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10 CV Mistakes to Avoid (Infographic)

Social Talent

'Putting together a CV/resumé can be extremely tricky. What information should you include? What sort of language should you use? How long should you make it? These are all common questions pondered by millions of job seekers on a daily basis and this infographic from Armstrong Appointments , has all the answers to them: Source: Armstrong Appointments.

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5 Reasons Employers Should Focus on Candidate Experience

Glassdoor for Employers

'Building your employer brand is tricky, and at the center of it all lies the candidate experience. A positive candidate experience is critical in building a strong employer brand. Just as you focus on your products and how you message them, focusing on your employer brand will help you look at candidates as customers – all the same rules apply. Your engagement with candidates defines their impression of both your company and employer brand – and those first impressions are lasting.

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How to Establish a Solid Gamification Strategy for Your Staffing Company

Spark Hire

'The rise in popularity of gamification in the workplace has grown steadily in the past couple of years. Gamification made Deloitte’s 2013 list of Top 10 Technology Trends and the Gartner Group forecasted that 70 percent of Global 2000 Companies would use a “gamified” application or system by 2014. Furthermore, businesses spent $100 million on gamification in 2010 and that figure is estimated to reach $2.8 billion by 2016.

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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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Why your company needs to tell the right story

Beamery

'Your company’s external narrative has never been more important. Today’s top candidates want you to ‘sell’ them on your opportunities. This is understandable. Applying for a job is a purchasing decision that has a dramatic effect on your life. Candidates are happy to put in the time to thoroughly research a company – if they don’t like what they see they’re not going to hit that ‘apply’ button.

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Glassdoor Introduces Pledges & Certifications for Emp.

Glassdoor for Employers

Today, the White House is “upskilling” America with a summit focused on finding ways to help workers develop new skills that can help them move into higher paying, more senior roles. Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman is in attendance along with Vice President Biden, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

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4 Ways a Company Blog Can Add Value to Your Recruiting Agency

Spark Hire

'As a recruiting agency owner, it is important to realize the value a company blog can add to your business. Not only can a blog provide a way for you to reach out to your clients and candidates, but it can also support the fact that your business is knowledgeable when it comes to industry news and subject matter. There are 4 key ways how your company blog can bring value: 1.

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Why I’m Not a Diversity Officer

CareerBuilder

I am a black woman. In recruiting. Over the years, I’ve had opportunities to work on diversity teams. I have been invited to interview for roles in Diversity & Inclusion. I have been called upon to weigh in on issues of diversity. I have been the guest of honor at meetings that start and end with the assertion that more diverse candidates should be added to every slate.

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Poldark: The New Recruiters’ Role Model

Social Talent

Crack out the tissues ladies (and gentlemen) because series one of Poldark , the BBC period drama phenomenon , is coming to end this Sunday night. Yes, no more sultry smoky glances, no more luscious black locks, no more galloping along clifftops and most unfortunately of all, no more shirtless scything *sigh*… At least not until next year anyway!

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 4.20.15 to 4.24.15

Symphony Talent

It’s that time again: Our weekly feature on the best articles in recruitment marketing and other talent acquisition trends (and this week, an extra something a little off-topic). But first, our top content piece and tweet. Content of the Week After all the anticipation this month, Mobilegeddon finally arrived on Tuesday. Download our Mobile Recruiting Strategy.

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Top Tips for Hospital Recruiting

Spark Hire

'In order to maintain your hospital’s reputation for top-notch care, it’s important to keep the focus on the staff members you hire. They’re the ones dealing directly with patients and their families. As a result, these individuals have a major impact on a person’s hospital stay. Consider these tips when analyzing your hospital recruiting strategies : Always be thorough.

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4 Advanced Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Company Page

SmartRecruiters

'When was the last time you evaluated your company LinkedIn page? Does it represent your brand well, attract prospective clients, and showcase your business as an authority in its field? Many small businesses take the necessary steps to create a company LinkedIn page , but aren’t quite sure if their page is doing all it should. We’re here to provide some advanced tips to make sure your page is the best it can be. 1.

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15 MORE Messages from the Girl Who Quit via Whiteboard

Social Talent

'Last Friday, we decided to post the photo story of a girl who quit her job via 33 VERY telling whiteboard messages in our usual Friday Funny slot. It matched out usual criteria for a Friday post – a primarily image based recruitment/employment/job seeker related story with a humorous element to it. But last Friday’s post was post with a difference.

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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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Starting Your Mobile Recruiting Strategy: The Checklist

Symphony Talent

'If you haven’t heard yet (it’s everywhere!), Mobilegeddon is coming. Tomorrow. So what are you going to do about it? On April 21, Google will roll out an algorithm update that will change the way mobile-friendliness is determined for search rankings. Simply, Google will give higher rankings to sites that pass its Mobile-Friendliness Test. Why Does.

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How to Improve In-Office Communication

Spark Hire

'Though you see your staff daily, you may often feel as if you’re working on separate coasts. Everyone is busy and managing their own work, which makes it easy for miscommunications to happen if you’re not careful. In order to keep your team in sync, try using these strategies to ensure great in-office communication: Send out an office newsletter. You think that everyone knows about the new hire or the change in office hours, but it’s hard to be sure sometimes.

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Why Interviews Won’t Ensure A Good Fit

SmartRecruiters

Clients and other business people often ask me for interview questions that will reveal which candidates are most likely to succeed in a particular job. But there’s no standard set of questions, because it’s all about the fit. And only someone inside the organization can know what that needs to be. For instance, will this be a standardized job where the work norms are already well established, or one where the employee has the license and standing to shape the nature of the job and the work?

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Trust in Split Placement Recruitment Networks

NPA Worldwide

The business world can be an uneasy realm these days with the constant outpouring of internet information on shady practices, unethical individuals, and personal information at your fingertips. In a split placement recruitment network you are utilizing the network to place excess candidates, have help filling positions from clients, as well as connecting with trading partners for future business needs.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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Seriously, What’s in the Box?

Symphony Talent

There’s been a mysterious, large box floating around the SmashFly office for a few days now. No has claimed it. And it’s taking on a life of its own. We were able to capture some footage. Watch: We’re all perplexed. But we’ve been told we’ll know all about it on 5.5.2015. If you’re in on. Continue Reading → The post Seriously, What’s in the Box?

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4 Ways Recruiting Pros Can Provide Value to Clients

Spark Hire

As a recruiting agency, it is important to ensure that you are providing value to your clients. If you fail to provide the best value and care to your clients, rest assured that they will find another recruiting agency that will take better care of them. In order to provide the best value to your clients, you need to focus on 4 key items: 1. Excellent Customer Service.

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Why an ATS is Must for Quality Recruitment?

RChilli

Candidates rely on a fair, open, and transparent hiring process so that they are given an equal opportunity to get the job. We all know how tiring it is for a job applicant; we have all gone through this phase at least once in our lives. However, we have to keep in mind that recruiters are also under pressure to fill in demanding companies’ job openings with suitable, qualified talent.

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The Economic Outlook for Trucking in 2015 [Podcast]

HireRight

'Welcome to HireRight’s first Transportation podcast in conjunction with the American Trucking Associations. Bob Costello, Chief Economist at ATA discusses the U.S. Economy and the impact to the trucking industry. While there were some issues that led to suppressed freight volumes earlier this year, Bob predicts the economy to get back on track shortly.

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The 4 Dysfunctions of Recruiting & How You Can Successfully Overcome Them

Speaker: Trent Cotton, VP of Talent and Culture at Hatchworks

Are you tired of falling into the same recruiting rut, facing the same obstacles over and over with mediocre results? Recruiting in this market is definitely challenging, but your recruitment process doesn’t have to be. Join Trent Cotton in this exclusive webinar to learn how to overcome the four dysfunctions of recruiting with Sprint Recruiting. Sprint Recruiting opens up a new world for recruiters by applying the AGILE methodology to the recruitment process!

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Q&A with VP Engineering Tim Hennessy: On Creativity and Recruitment Marketing

Symphony Talent

I was able to squeeze a tiny bit of time from our VP of Engineering’s schedule to talk about SmashFly, development, and most importantly, rocking out. How has SmashFly progressed in the last five years? I’m in a unique situation where I knew, from a distance, what was going on at SmashFly from the very. Continue Reading → The post Q&A with VP Engineering Tim Hennessy: On Creativity and Recruitment Marketing appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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The Current State of Social Recruiting

Metashift

Social Recruiting has been around now for nearly ten years but many companies are still struggling to use social platforms for recruitment in a successful way. All of the key social media platforms have made significant changes to their functionality in the past 18 months and many employers are using approaches to social recruiting that are seriously out of date.

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What can SOW do for you?

Allegis Global Solutions

An SOW solution could help your organisation make the most of its contingent employees.

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The 4 Stages of Successful Driver Screening

HireRight

'Transportation companies that need to quickly identify qualified driver candidates may benefit from a phased or staged screening program. Unqualified candidates are eliminated early in the screening process, so companies can devote their time and resources on the best candidates. Listed below are the recommended stages. Stage One: Candidate Pre-Screening The following initial screens are [.].

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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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Greenhouse VP of Engineering Decodes Tech Talk in Programming 101

Entelo

'Hiring tech talent is tough enough. Striking gold means locking down skilled, available people for your engineering roles – a rare, treasured occurence for many hiring teams. To add to the mix, recruiters and engineers have notoriously mingled the same way oil and water does not. Miscommunication. Kitsch outreach. Less than ideal timing. It''s a recipe for recruiting disaster.

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Get Candidate Callbacks – Voicemail Tips

FeeTrader

'It happens to all of us nearly every day, in both our personal and professional lives. We need to ask someone a question or offer up our services. We dial the phone, and after a few rings, we hear Hi! This is. I’m so sorry I can’t take your call…. At this point, the calmest person among us can instantly turn into Yosemite Sam: Rasta-friggin-tarnation-consar-ned voicemail!

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Benchmarking Talent Acquisition: Increasing Spend, Cost Per Hire, and Time to Fill

Bersin

I’m excited to announce that the highly-anticipated Talent Acquisition Factbook 2015: Benchmarks and Trends in Spending, Staffing, and Key Recruiting Metrics was published today. [1]. This research report is particularly timely for contemporary Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders. With the job market continuing its recovery, TA leaders are applying a laser-focus on how they attract and engage the talent they seek.