Sat.Mar 09, 2019 - Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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Searches for Purple Squirrels Should Die

NPA Worldwide

Recruitment and search have become increasingly more difficult for independent recruiters. Independents are the NPAworldwide constituency; that is my motivation for examining this subject. Let’s take a look…. Employers have taken back the massive quantities of simple-to-fill positions that they shared with recruiters in the early 2000s. These have gone in-house or they have gone to online and AI-based services that can bang out the 15 new sales reps needed in every city across North America or w

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12 crucial ‘Communication Commandments’ for real leaders

Greg Savage

It is obvious, but much of what defines a good leader is their communication style. What you say. How you say it. When you say it. And also, importantly, what you do not say. I have made all these mistakes myself, and sum up my learning for you in what I egotistically like to call, […].

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5 Expert Ways to Share Your Team’s Culture With Candidates

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you work in Talent Acquisition, you’re likely familiar with the term EVP (short for Employer Value Proposition). But have you heard about the TVP yet? TVP stands for “Team Value Proposition,” and it helps candidates understand the unique value they would get from joining a specific team, business unit or location at your organization. Your TVP should answer: Who’s on the team?

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What Are the Best Channels for Sourcing Candidates?

JazzHR

With unemployment at its lowest point in years, employers are being forced to get increasingly creative when it comes to finding and recruiting candidates. Fortunately, the digital age has provided no shortage of channels for sourcing candidates, which include a whole host of competing job sites, as well as an ever-expanding list of social media platforms.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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How to Get More Women to Apply to Your Job Postings

Proactive Talent

In the interest of Women’s History Month, we’re tackling an issue that is very near and dear to our hearts: female job applicants. This is an incredibly relevant topic as more and more companies are (finally) starting to understand the need for a move toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Critical initiatives like this always start with small shifts.

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Refresh Your Careers Blog: 7 Examples to Inspire You

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Careers blogs are an important channel for communicating your Employer Brand and confirming candidate interest. Employee blogs provide important info at a key stage in the candidate journey to help candidates understand if your organization is the right fit for them. While careers blogs are definitely effective, there are some challenges that come along with creating and maintaining a compelling blog that people actually want to read.

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Addressing Disability in the Workplace

Social Talent

This post originally appeared on the Direct Employers Association blog. . Despite a desire to build a diverse workforce and a willingness to help, accommodation requests can often be an uncomfortable work situation to address. What are the grounds for a valid request? If it is determined that one is not needed, how does one have that conversation? The potential pitfalls are innumerable.

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How to Get More Women to Apply to Your Job Postings

Proactive Talent

In the interest of Women’s History Month, we’re tackling an issue that is very near and dear to our hearts: female job applicants. This is an incredibly relevant topic as more and more companies are (finally) starting to understand the need for a move toward diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Critical initiatives like this always start with small shifts.

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4 Recruiting Trends That Will Make You Feel Lucky

Spark Hire

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, let’s talk about luck. In the recruiting industry, skill is absolutely essential but you have to admit, it doesn’t hurt to be lucky. All in all, it is a lucky time to be a recruiter. Current trends and technology make it easier to find great talent quickly and effectively. We talked to four experts about what’s making them feel lucky when recruiting right now.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

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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Recruiting Feedback Case Study: The Recruiting Revenue Connection

Survale

In our latest recruiting feedback case study , Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) demonstrates that asking the right questions at the right time can dramatically affect overall recruiting effectiveness AND uncover powerful connections between recruiting and revenue generation. With highly regarded brands like Kona Island Brewing, Widmer Brothers, Redhook and more, Craft Brew Alliance is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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Employer Branding Tips (From A Marketing Department)

Social Talent

For marketers (like the one writing this blog), it can be hard to let go of the company branding and messaging, to open it up to collaboration, but as businesses change and transform, employer branding has expanded it’s role to the entire business. One of the most note-able collaborations is between the marketing team and in-house recruiters / hiring managers.

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The Best Jobs in the U.S.: 2019

Indeed

Which sounds more like your perfect job: managing a construction team, or analyzing high-volume data sets? Everyone will have a unique answer. However you define it, two factors are universally important: there need to be open positions, and they need to have appealing salaries. Job seekers can focus their efforts by knowing which industries and job titles offer the most opportunities and the highest pay.

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7 Best Hiring Practices for Small Business Owners in 2019

Glassdoor for Employers

As you grow your small business , you may need more people on your team to help you achieve your goals. The employees you hire set the foundation for your company’s success, noted Joanne Markow, founding partner of Boston-based career coaching organization GreenMason. “Your hires are your connection between you, your customers, your brand, your livelihood and your legacy,” Markow said.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

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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SEO For Recruiters

Talent Hero Media

In this video, we discuss the fundamental SEO concept you need to understand if you want to optimize your recruiting site and drive new leads. The post SEO For Recruiters appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Reactive to Super Strategic Recruiter in 3 Simple Steps

Social Talent

After over 1,600 responses from hiring professionals based in 92 countries, the results of our Global Recruiting Survey for 2019 are in, and the results reveal quite a lot that we expected about today’s hiring landscape, but also quite a bit that we hadn’t expected. The main theme that ran through the results was that there are two distinct types of professionals operating in the hiring world today.

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How to Train for Grit: Transform Potential with These Targeted Strategies

Indeed

Soft skills are often assumed to be inherent traits; either someone has them or they don’t, right? Wrong! A growing body of research shows that people can be trained to develop personal and behavioral attributes. . Grit — the powerful combination of passion and perseverance — is a strong predictor of future success, and it’s just one of the many soft skills that can be learned.

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Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent

Katrina Kibben

Talent personas are the creative genius behind great recruiting strategies that attract junior tech talent. The post Talent Personas: University and Junior Tech Talent appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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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Social Media Stalking Tips Every Recruiter Needs to Know

FireFish Software

As recruiters, social media stalking is practically in our job remit. This is just the world we live in nowadays! And whilst candidates have a responsibility to ensure their social media presence is presentable if they want to be taken seriously in the professional world, we also have a responsibility to offer them guidance. We know our clients will scope out any candidate online that we send their way, so it works in both our favours to do our due diligence on their social profiles and help the

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How To Coach any Type of Learner on Your Team

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn Series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How to Coach Any Type of Learner on Your Team.

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7 Clear Signs It’s Time to Hire Your First Employee [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Do you work crazy hours, day after day, week after week? To become familiar with the signs that it might be time to bring on your first employee, check out this infographic created by our friends at Fundera.

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Recruiting to Build a Dream Team

Undercover Recruiter

A dream business team will comprise a well-balanced group of people who complement each other, challenge each other and bring out the best in each other. They will work efficiently together and be equipped and supported to achieve business objectives and results. If you are recruiting for a new candidate to join an existing team, View Article. Recruiting to Build a Dream Team Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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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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The Art of Effective Feedback: 7 Strategies Every Manager Should Embrace

Recruiter

What separates the best managers from the rest? Our research shows that they coach more and manage less. In other words, they support, teach, and challenge their team members to achieve their goals. One of the key skills of being an effective coach is the ability to deliver helpful feedback. However, giving good feedback at work is a challenging skill to master.

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How to Do Recruitment Sales in a Candidate-Driven Market

FireFish Software

Selling your recruitment services in a candidate-driven market works quite differently to how you’d approach it when the market is job-driven. With more roles on the table than there are top candidates to fill them, agency recruiting is no longer about reactively filling positions as they come onto the job market, but about proactively seeking out quality talent and using them to guide your recruitment sales strategy.

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5 Email Tips for Effective Leadership

RecruitLoop

An effective leader has to be consistent in their communication with both employees and business partners. Use these 5 email tips to establish effective leadership and correctly depict all your ideas through email communication.

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8 Key Benefits of Employee Wellness Programs

TalentLyft

Employee wellness programs have multiple benefits , both for the employers and the employees. Discover the 8 key benefits of employee wellness programs backed by research! Read More.

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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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How to Source and Recruit on Stack OverFlow

WizardSourcer

Are you having trouble finding qualified talent to submit to your technical job reqs? These candidates are not as engaged in typical sites like LinkedIn and don’t apply to job openings on career sites as frequently. Because of their reclusiveness, it takes a bit of work to find them. To help yourself stand out as a recruiter and find talent that no one else has found, you have to be willing to think outside the box.

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Why You May Be Losing Staff Due to Lack of Training Opportunities

Undercover Recruiter

The word “value” is something which is unfortunately not often associated with recruitment. “Need”, yes, “Cost” definitely, but not “Value”. My team and I want to address this, and I guess if you’re wanting to grow or sustain your recruitment business, then you do too! Being that the UK Recruitment industry is worth over £30Billion (a pretty. View Article.

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There’s No “Me” In Recruiting

NPA Worldwide

Recently, we had a staff meeting centered around establishing our goals and values as a team — while each staff members has their own set role and responsibilities, the purpose of this meeting was to discuss how we all view the “bigger picture” of our purpose and view for the organization. It got me thinking about how it applies to a recruiting firm.