Sat.May 21, 2016 - Fri.May 27, 2016

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Are you ‘Yesterday’s Hero’, on the slide to recruiting hell?

Greg Savage

Agency recruitment is not dying. In fact it’s thriving. But not for everyone! The winners will be the modern recruiters who evolve, re-tool, up-skill and re-invent. The rate of change in recruitment means the landscape is littered with ‘yesterday’s heroes’ Is that where you are headed? Check out my two minute video where I explain […].

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Implementing Values-Based Hiring

JazzHR

The journey for top talent is oftentimes long and arduous. But when you do find that perfect hire – the proverbial needle in the haystack that sets the pace for success – it’s all worth it. Implementing a values-based hiring process will help you find more of the A-players you’re looking for, and will take the guesswork out of interviewing.

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Innovation in Engagement: A 3-Step Motivations-Based Approach to Cold Outreach Content

Lever

This is a post by Lever's technical sourcer, James Briggs. May has been the month of “talent innovation” at Lever; with our first ever Talent Innovation Summit taking place, which brought together some of the recruiting industry’s best to talk about some of the most important and current topics in recruiting. Innovation in the world of recruiting can take many forms, and apply to a multitude of topic areas.

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Go Beyond Job Postings: 3 Effective Ways To Attract And Hire Top Talent

Proactive Talent

Research shows that job boards on average gather 43% of all applications companies receive for new job openings. But while job boards may have the highest number of applications, their conversion-to-hire rates fall drastically behind other sources of hire like employee referrals and company career sites. Employee referrals may only account for 7% of all job applications, but they contribute nearly half of all actual hires.

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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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Are Recruiting Technologies Broken?

HarQen

By Ane Ohm. Wait, what? Isn’t HarQen a recruiting technology? You might be thinking, “What are you trying to say about what you do every day?” Don’t get me wrong. We care deeply about providing leading-edge video interviewing and phone interviewing tools for our clients, who tell us daily about the great value we provide for their organizations. This is incredibly important to us, both personally and professionally.

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Improve your Quality of Hire with Candidate Reference Checks

Lever

Candidate reference checks are usually one of the last steps of the recruitment process, but too often overlooked or rushed. Forty three percent of human resources professionals said reducing time to hire was a top screening challenge. However, 62% of job seekers have embellished their skill set and 54% have embellished their job responsibilities. In an effort to get new hires started as quickly as possible, organizations risk making a bad hire – which can cost your organization 2.5 times the pe

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Candle In The Bin

The Whiteboard

This week saw the official announcement that Candle ICT , one of the longest-standing IT Recruitment brands in the New Zealand market, would be closing the doors on its unprofitable NZ operations due to their local strategies over the past couple of years failing to pay off: “A significant investment strategy was put in place during FY15 but failed to deliver the anticipated returns.

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Newton Community Service – Building More Than an ATS

Newton Software

Fort Collins Team Partners With Habitat for Humanity. Here at Newton, we love coming to work every day and we are passionate about what we do. However, we recognize that a great job is just one of many aspects that make up a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle. As such, our team has a multitude of passions and interests that we pursue outside of the office.

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Top 10 Job Ads That Make You Want to Apply

Social Talent

A couple of weeks back, we broke down our 5 favourite recruitment marketing campaigns. This week, we decided to focus on our favourite and most creative job adverts. Job adverts at the best of times can go unnoticed by potential candidates because they are bland and uninteresting. Some companies have realised this and decided to get really creative in order to get candidates to take action.

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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 Steps to Developing and Maintaining Your Employer Brand

Spark Hire

Having a strong employer brand is critical to not only recruiting top talent – but attracting and retaining talent which is even more important. You need to attract the best and keep them once you have them. You don’t want the best talent going to your competitor – as talent competition is just as important, if not more, than competition in the market.

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The Most Important Investment You Can Make is Free

Glassdoor for Employers

There couldn’t be a more important topic in our industry right now than growth: how important it is (or isn’t), how to.

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6 Types of Employees and How to Motivate Them [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

This awesome Infographic reveals how you can tap into each individual employee's motivational fire to ensure your workplace is the most productive it can be.

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5 Tactics to Attract and Engage Millennials

Social Talent

A new generation is driving the bottom line. Expected to make up almost 50% of the workforce by 2020, millennials (born from early 1980s to early 2000s) are starting to dominate the working landscape as more baby boomers begin to retire. In the U.S., the largest share of the workforce is now made up of millennials. This has a direct impact on recruitment activities as companies have to take into account who these millennials actually are, how to motivate them and how they can add value to their

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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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Hit Your Targets With Some Splits

FireFish Software

Split fees. Some recruiters love em’ whereas others…not so much. If you fall into the latter category, it’s time to shake up your thinking! Maybe you’ve had a negative experience in the past or have just never really been sold on the value, but with split fees increasing in a candidate driven market, it’s time to embrace the split. Read on for the why, the what, and the how when it comes to split fees.

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How To Calculate Your Cost-Per-Hire

Glassdoor for Employers

Cost-per-hire is arguably the most important metric for talent analytics. When you know your cost-per-hire, you can better determine where to invest.

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Should Engineers Really be Judged by Their Resume Writing Skills?

HackerRank

Martin Harriman wanted to make his way back to the software industry after a decades-long break building hardware, so he did what most people do when they’re trying to change industries. He carefully tailored his resume and cover letter to downplay his hardware experience and—in turn—emphasize his skills, knowledge and expertise in software. A quick […].

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6 Automation Tools to Make Recruiters’ Lives Easier

Social Talent

The ‘Recruiter versus Robot’ debate is alive and well. Advancements in technology have produced a plethora of marketing automation tools and state-of-the-art ATS and CRM systems for recruiters, so dare we ask the question – is it possible that the human element of placing a candidate in a new job is something that eventually won’t be necessary?

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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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The Top 10 States Most (and Least) Affected by the New Federal Overtime Rules

Indeed

Last week, the federal government unveiled new overtime rules for full-time salaried employees. As of December 1, anyone in that category making up to $47,476 a year will be eligible for overtime pay, and the Department of Labor projects that 4.2 million people will receive a boost to their incomes as a result. This new threshold more than doubles the old one, which was set at $23,660 back in 2004.

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Tips for Closing Top Candidates – The Pre-Close

Newton Software

Know Your ABCs – Always Be Closing Top Candidates. Closing a top candidate doesn’t just take a killer offer, it takes weeks of work on your end. You must follow the proper interview stages to ensure that you are establishing a good relationship with the candidate and building up their buy-in. Once you have completed the first step of the interview process, the “candidate intake,” and you understand the key factors influencing the decision process of your candidate, it’s time to begin

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How to screen SQL developer skills to find the best – guide for IT recruitment

Devskiller

You want to hire SQL developer and start your IT recruitment campaign. You receive many resumes and cover letters – now it’s time to begin screening process. Looking through applications and talking over the phone with candidates you start wondering whether a certain SQL programmer is good enough to become a part of your IT team and are they worth inviting for an on-site technical interview.

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20 Epic Fails At Every Office Party

Social Talent

Ahh the classic office party. A time and place where the drinks are flowing and stressed workers are letting their hair down. What can possibly go wrong? Well… loads. Inappropriate antics and your colleagues embarrassing themselves may seem funny at the time but there is a certain dreaded thing called Monday that is sneaking around the corner!

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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5 Reasons You Need A Recruitment And Selection Policy

RecruitLoop

A solid recruitment and selection policy will result in the appointment of the best candidate, based on merit and best-fit with your organisational goals.

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Are You Using Facebook for Recruiting?

NPA Worldwide

I’m amazed by the number of people I know who still say, “LinkedIn is for business and Facebook is personal.” This includes quite a few people in the recruiting sphere, who seem reluctant at best to toe-dip into using Facebook for recruiting. Considering the engagement level of Facebook’s enormous user base, it seems to me like there should be a whole lot more recruiting activity taking place there.

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How to Get Back on Track After a Period of Hypergrowth

Glassdoor for Employers

So your company has been in growth mode. It feels exhilarating as your sales numbers soar. Perhaps you’ve doubled the number of.

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7 Twitter Lists Clever Recruiters Use to Boost Their Recruiting Efforts

Social Talent

Image Credit: SocialBro.com. “If you haven’t unlocked the power of Twitter lists, you are missing out on a powerful resource to help achieve your recruitment goals,” says Blogging4Jobs author, Audra Knight. And we strongly agree! Twitter is a powerful recruiting tool and Twitter Lists are one of the most untapped resources the site offers its users. ‘But what is a Twitter list and how can it possibly be as useful and effective for managing and optimising your Twitter experience?

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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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6 Tips for Managing Passive Employees

RecruitLoop

Passive employees needn’t be the black sheep of your business. They can be nurtured into the top performers, with the right guiding hands.

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3 Tips for Using Workplace Matchmaking Tools

Entrepreneur

To find an employee who's a perfect fit, go beyond their resume before you make a commitment.

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The Good Search CEO Diversity Speaker Harvard IT Summit

The Investigative Recruiter

For Immediate Release The Good Search CEO Krista Bradford is featured diversity speaker at Harvard University’s Sixth Annual IT Summit Westport, CT: Krista Bradford, the Founder and CEO of The Good Search, LLC, is a featured diversity speaker at the Sixth Annual IT Summit at Harvard University. Ms. Bradford is appearing on on a discussion […].