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50+ Ideas for Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Lever

Nobody’s ever said that diversity and inclusion work is easy. But having grown a team that recently hit a 50:50 gender ratio (an uncommon feat, especially in Silicon Valley), I can let everyone in on a secret: It’s not rocket science, either.

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What is Talent Success™ and How to Drive it

ClearCompany Recruiting

An "A Player" is a top performer that has measurable impact on your business and whose traits and competencies are desirable in being applied to the hiring and talent management process. Simply said, an A Player has the DNA you want to replicate to create organizational success. In most cases, companies believe that hiring A Players comes few and far in between, and that this top talent will only be a small minority of their workforce.

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How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads

Talent Hero Media

A well-rounded content marketing strategy in the recruiting and staffing industry typically will involve the publication of a whitepaper – an authoritative report providing information … Continue reading How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads. The post How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Candidate Experience

HarQen

Last week’s post discussed the current state of the candidate experience. What we found is that for many, the candidate experience leaves a lot to be desired. Currently in the market we are seeing organizations shift and retool their process to provide a better candidate experience. In continuing our candidate experience theme, this post will discuss three things you can do to ensure your process and your company are providing a good candidate experience.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

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

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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Employee Referrals Reign Supreme – Until This Key Stage of the Recruiting Process

Lever

When it comes to source of hire, there’s no doubt that employee referrals remain king. Our 2016 benchmark research showed that one in 16 referrals are hired – compared to one in 152 candidates who apply through your website or job boards.

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The Why & How of using Instagram as a Recruiting Tool

JazzHR

While companies have been using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to recruit for some time, more recently Instagram has been gaining traction as an effective hiring tool. If your company is already using Instagram for marketing, pivoting so that it also becomes a powerful recruiting tool is an easy next step. And, even if your company hasn’t embraced Instagram yet, it’s never too late to start.

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Contractor Recruitment Firms Ambushed By IRD

The Whiteboard

I’m afraid this isn’t going to be the most entertaining or titillating of Whiteboard blog posts but it’s about something of great importance to our New Zealand recruitment industry, so I feel if pretty much behooves me to talk about it today. In particular if you are a Contractor specialist recruiter, or owner of a recruitment company that provides Contractors, then you need to be aware of this.

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Talent Acquisition Leaders: Why You Need to Talk with IT—Right Now.

Lever

During my first month at Lever (the most amazing recruiting and sourcing software suite I've ever seen), I spoke with at least half dozen Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders who lamented that their recruiting software was purchased with zero—ZERO—input from anyone in TA.

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10 Items on The Perfect Interview Checklist for Employers

Social Talent

Employers: Are you actually interviewing effectively? It’s easy to become complacent when it comes to interviewing. You’ve had your time of being a candidate, and now you get to sit on the other side of the desk. It’s no longer terrifying or nerve-wracking – it’s just part of your job. Even though almost everyone has had to interview at some point in their life, when the shoe’s on the other foot, many seem to forget what it was like to be the applicant.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Want Big Talent?: Here Are 5 Employee-Recruiting Tips for Small Companies

Entrepreneur

The improved economy means that small companies have a lot more leverage these days in the A-lister recruitment sweepstakes.

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7 Tips for Getting Recruiting Budget Approval ASAP

ClearCompany Recruiting

The days of posting job requirements to a simple job board and hoping for the right candidate to apply are over. Bersin’s Factbook, compiled from surveys of more than 400 talent acquisition pros at midsize and large US organizations, suggests 52 days as the average time-to-hire for most medium to large companies. Almost two months to fill a position?

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Lever expands offer functionality with AdobeSign launch

Lever

Lever supports fully robust offer functionality and enables customers to manage the entire offer generation process without leaving Lever.

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What SoulCycle Can Teach You About Employee Engagement

Glassdoor for Employers

Consider this post permission to make your next SoulCycle class a working session…. The instructors at SoulCycle rock the engagement game daily.

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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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9 Strategies to Recruiting Better Salespeople

Entrepreneur

It's not impossible to find great salespeople if you know where -- and how -- to look.

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6 Essential Metrics For Recruitment Consultants

RecruitLoop

Although recruitment consultants are typically focused on meeting their KPIs, here are 6 key metrics that they should also keep a close eye on.

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4 benefits of niche recruitment services

RecruitmentJuice

Recruitment is a dynamic and changing sector that must adapt to keep up with the ever-changing working culture. Over recent years, with the boom in online recruitment and the power this has given the candidate, the industry has had to become smarter and prove its worth over automated job boards and social media platforms. With this, we’ve seen a rise in niche recruitment services.

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10 of The Best Candidate Excuses for Not Attending an Interview

Social Talent

Candidate excuses, where do we begin? Have you got that dreaded phone call where your candidates car won’t start, or that they’ve taken a miraculous tumble down the stairs and broken their elbow in two places? Now, although these things CAN happen, sometimes you’re left wondering whether or not there’s any truth to the excuse.

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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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5 Questions You Must Ask to Keep Your Best and Brightest Talent

Entrepreneur

Creativity emerges because of our human messiness -- not in spite of it.

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Hiring for a Small Business? 5 Practices You Need to Know

Spark Hire

Small business owners and hiring managers often have limited budgets. As a result, they must be resourceful in order to stay on track financially, while still growing their team. Fortunately, new technology and a strategic approach to the hiring process makes it easy to snag innovative, creative professionals when it’s time to expand. If you’re a small business owner or hiring manager looking to make sure a new addition to your staff is a strong one, here are a few tips worth trying: Implement a

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How To Calculate Cost Per Hire To Optimize Recruiting

Ideal

Fairly or not, recruiting departments face constant pressure to reduce cost per hire. Breaking down your cost per hire is an important strategic tool to assess the cost effectiveness and efficiency of your recruiting process, identify areas for improvement, and help guide your recruiting budget. . Here’s an overview of how to calculate your cost per hire to optimize your recruiting process. .

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How Has the New LinkedIn Design Affected Recruiters?

FireFish Software

LinkedIn changed the landscape for many industries, but it revolutionised the recruitment world more than most; providing a sourcing paradise for recruiters to approach candidates. Just a few months ago, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn and we've quickly started to see the changes included in the new user interface. So, what's changed - and will these changes ultimately be the downfall of the LinkedIn Recruiter we've seen rise in recent years?

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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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#WeControltheRobots: Top Tweets from SourceCon 2017

Symphony Talent

You can’t not start following a hashtag when it’s #WeControltheRobots. Then when you realize it’s also the theme of #SourceCon, you jump on both. SourceCon ALWAYS live up. The post #WeControltheRobots: Top Tweets from SourceCon 2017 appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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To Hygge or KonMari? How to Encourage Employees to Clean Up Their Desks

Glassdoor for Employers

Every organization requires many types of people to effectively carry out their mission, which means you’ll have some buttoned-up, organized types –.

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5 Ways to Improve Workplace Diversity

RecruitLoop

There are many different tactics to improve workplace diversity. The majority involve shifting the attitude of the executives as well as the employees.

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Critical-thinking interview questions

Workable

Use these sample critical-thinking interview questions to discover how candidates evaluate complex situations and if they can reach logical decisions. Why test candidates’ critical-thinking skills. Critical-thinking skills allow people to evaluate situations through reasoning to reach logical decisions. Companies benefit from employees who think critically (as opposed to mechanically performing tasks) because these individuals use an independent mindset to seek ways to improve processes.

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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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How to Use Feedly to Grow Your Online Reach

FireFish Software

Are you fed up of being behind the competition, and do you struggle to identify and stay ahead of relevant recruitment trends? Feedly is a tool that can help. Feedly is an RSS feed aggregator; in non-tech terms that means it's a free website that collects online content from a variety of different sources, enabling you to read blogs and catch up on news in one place.

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Can Technology Improve Candidate Experience?

SmartRecruiters

I recently hosted our first #WeAreHiring Meetup of the year on Candidate Experience. We had a great turnout of 60+ attendees, a diverse panel of speakers, and we even celebrated International Women’s Day! Candidate experience has traditionally been a black hole for both sides: The question for hiring teams remains “What can I do to improve candidate experience?”.

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3 Painless Ways To Reduce Your Time To Hire

Ideal

Often used to measure recruiting efficiency, time to hire is the number of days between first contact with a candidate to the day the candidate accepts the offer. Workable’s data finds the average time to hire in the US is 24 days (compared to 41 days for time to fill ), ranging from 17 days for healthcare roles to 32 days for product management roles. .

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