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What I told the African headhunters!

Greg Savage

I just got back from a speaking tour in South Africa. We spoke to 800 recruiters over six events in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The response was phenomenal, and it was fascinating to note that the issues they face on the southern tip of Africa, are for the most part very similar to the challenges […].

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Text Your Applicants – How to do It, and Why it Works

ApplicantPro

We live in a world run by smart phones and text messages. We can rent a movie, order dinner, and confirm an airplane ticket right from our pockets. Smartphones, along with texting, have become a common necessity in today’s day and age. It is not out of the ordinary for you to receive text notifications from various service providers ranging from doctor appointment reminders, to alerting you that your car service is done.

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3 Benefits All Generations Value in The Workplace

ClearCompany Recruiting

There are as many posts about generational differences in the workplace as there are 17-year-olds at Starbucks discussing Game of Thrones battle strategies (dragons? no-dragons?). Friends, if you don’t know, that number is pretty big. So, today I thought I would flip the script and talk about what workers of all generations actually value. Specifically, what benefits make all generations want to follow their own Jon Snow (CEO) into a battle with the White Walkers.

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Making the Pitch: How To Craft The Perfect Company Overview

JazzHR

Good candidates always do their research before coming in for an interview. They ask friends and peers about your company, carefully study your website, and pore over reviews on third-party sites like Glassdoor. And while it’s great that they’re often well-informed, in today’s highly competitive job market, you still need to take the time to sell your organization to them.

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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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Free Greg Savage webinar for UK Recruiters

Greg Savage

Free Greg Savage Webinar Tomorrow, Tuesday 29th August. 12-noon UK time Brilliant opportunities exist for recruiters over the next few years. But only if changes are made, new skills acquired, and fresh tactics perfected. Join Greg Savage and Chris Savage for an action packed 40 minutes of punchy information on what recruiters must do now […].

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Talent Innovation Countdown: Your Chance to Stump Lou Adler

Lever

When you stick ‘Innovation’ in the name of your event, you put yourself on the hook to deliver truly original and thought-provoking content. Which is why I made sure Lou Adler would be available to challenge our audience at Lever’s Talent Innovation Summit. Because while Lou may have been at this game for decades now, he continually innovates on his model.

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Have Recruiter Salaries Stagnated?

The Whiteboard

Hello recruiters of New Zealand and welcome to Spring – yussss. Welcome, also, to the world’s 79th most popular recruitment blog. Oh yeah, you heard right. Did you watch the Leaders Debate last night? I’m not a particularly political person but I’m pretty sure that must have been the most pleasant, polite and civilised debate between two party leaders I’ve ever seen.

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60 Minute Interview: How to Structure Your Time

JazzHR

As a recruiter or a hiring manager, you need to have a plan for how you’re going to use your interview time. Structured interviews are more effective than unstructured ones. Plus, they allow you to properly measure candidates against each other in an objective way so that each person receives an equal opportunity. Taking a systematic approach to how much time you spend on each section of the interview also helps prevent you from getting side-tracked and forces you to prioritize the most im

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How to Define Your Job Ad Goals

ApplicantPro

Having well-defined job ad goals are crucial to your job ad success. After all, one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself relative to hiring is to lay out specific job ad goals, so you can build a killer job ad strategy. We’ve found this step to be the most crucial for our clients to adopt in order to attract the highest quantity of quality applicants for their open positions.

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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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(Potential Illegal) Interview Questions You Should Never Ask

Lever

Interview questions are meant to help you evaluate candidates and determine which of them is best for your open role. However, some questions may do more harm than good if they lead to discrimination or invasion of privacy. Even when asked innocently, they can lead to unconscious bias in the recruitment process, or they can make your candidates reconsider working at your company.

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Qualifications vs Cultural Fit- Which Is More Important?

Social Talent

With businesses recruiting at the fastest rate in 2 years , recruiters will need to invest more time into finding the right person to fill open positions. Some companies see the recruitment process as black and white, where successful candidates must tick all of the boxes. Others can look past the facts and focus on the individual, their personality and what they can bring to the role.

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[Free Whitepaper] Is AI really taking over Recruiting?

Proactive Talent

Artificial Intelligence may not be the monster machine movies make it out to be, but it is transforming the way recruiters think and work. Download our free whitepaper to see the role it’s playing and how it will change the future of the industry. Key Takeaways: See how AI is helping to optimize recruiting, reporting and onboarding. Discover the difference it makes for workflows, productivity management and engagement.

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Tips for Becoming a Talent Marketer

ApplicantPro

As our culture’s dependence on technology continues to expand, the need for HR professionals to evolve their skillset to include being a talent marketer is ever-present. Becoming a talent marketer is even more vital now that the economy has started to level and the number of job available to job seekers continues to increase. If you want to attract the highest quality applicants to you, you’re going to have to familiarize yourself with how the online hiring landscape works which includes sheddin

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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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15 Interview Questions to Ensure Candidate Quality

Glassdoor for Employers

On the surface, interviewing a candidate for an available job sounds easy. With the position description in hand describing specific skill sets.

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Everything You Need To Know To Build a World Class Employer Branding (Infographic)

Social Talent

Employer branding is so hugely important for prospective candidates. Nearly every company acknowledges this, of course it’s vital that your company is portrayed in the right way online. Perception is everything and with a clever employer branding strategy, you can really capture the imagination of engaged candidates and the attention of passive candidates.

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[Free Whitepaper] Is AI really taking over Recruiting?

Proactive Talent

Artificial Intelligence may not be the monster machine movies make it out to be, but it is transforming the way recruiters think and work. Download our free whitepaper to see the role it’s playing and how it will change the future of the industry. Key Takeaways: See how AI is helping to optimize recruiting, reporting and onboarding. Discover the difference it makes for workflows, productivity management and engagement.

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How to Get HR Software Buy-in

ApplicantPro

HR software can transform the way HR professionals do their job by increasing output and lowering overhead. Unfortunately, trying to build a case for HR software can feel like a daunting task for most individuals in HR due to the risk averse nature of the employees hired for these positions. Being the type of employee who weighs risk and eases into big decisions certainly helps lay a solid foundation for maintaining compliance; however, compliance isn’t everything.

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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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The Recruiting Reel Episode 18: Signs Your Recruiting Process Needs A Makeover

Spark Hire

@AlysseMetzler tells you how to know your #recruitingprocess needs a makeover Click To Tweet. In the 18th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Alysse Metzler, Owner of Career Innovations and author of “The Recruiting Snitch”, provides some clues on to determine your recruiting process needs a makeover and what you can do about it. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan: My name is Josh Tolan and I’m the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizati

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Vote For Your Favourite and be in With a Chance to Win!

Social Talent

Just two weeks ago, we told you about our big aspirations and our vision for the future of SocialTalent. Thanks to your help, that future is starting to take shape. We asked you to vote for a big part of our future with our brand new logo , which you did in your thousands, and we couldn’t be happier with the results! Now, we’d like your opinion again – this time, on how you’d like our Ninjas to wear our new logo!

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Candidate Experience Webinar: Cast a Wider Net

Survale

Candidate experience feedback platform, Survale, and Talent Board, originator’s of the Candidate Experience Awards Program (CandE Awards) recently presented an important candidate experience webinar called “ Cast a Wider Net: Measure Candidate Experience at Every Stage.”. Hosted by Talent Board President Kevin Grossman and Survale Co-Founder and CEO Jason Moreau, the webinar was important because it stretched the horizons that most companies consider when they approach improving candidate exper

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Social Media Recruiting 101

ApplicantPro

If you play a role in the hiring process at your organization and you don’t have a solid social media recruiting strategy, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful resources available to access qualified candidates. Forbes states the because of Social Media “We’re All Marketers Now“. We are all adapting to the modern world by tapping into a powerful resource and HR should be doing the same – enter social media recruiting.

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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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These 15 Inspiring Quotes for Recruiters are Just What You Need

FireFish Software

We all know recruitment is a profession with ups and downs, peaks and troughs. So, whether today is a good day or a bad day, we’ve got the perfect list for you. These 15 inspiring quotes for recruiters are just what you need today.

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5 Things Game of Thrones Teaches Us About Employee Engagement

Glassdoor for Employers

HBO’s blockbuster series Game of Thrones has taken the world by storm. An epic on the scale of Tolkien’s Lord of the.

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15 Reasons Why You Should Allow Dogs in the Office [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Dogs are man's best friend. So why should they stay at home? This infographic reveals why having a pet in the office can actually be good for the whole team.

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Are Your Hiring Efforts Attracting the Wrong Applicants?

ApplicantPro

How you’ve designed your hiring process can mean the difference between wrong applicants, or those qualified for your open positions. So many of our clients come to us expressing their frustration because only the wrong applicants apply for their jobs. Many times, they blame the market or the wrong applicants themselves because they don’t understand the profound role they plan in attracting these wrong applicants to them.

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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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What's Stopping Us From Growing Remote Recruitment Teams?

FireFish Software

Traditional hours for recruiters are still contracted on a 9-5 Monday to Friday basis but as recruitment agency owners we all acknowledge that our top recruiters probably do most of their best work outside of these hours. So, with the rise in demand for a more flexible or even completely remote working structure growing every year, what's stopping us as recruitment leaders from embracing it?

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5 Ways to Hire a Candidate that Matches your Company Culture

Undercover Recruiter

Company culture is the DNA of your workforce, and is made up of the goals, vision and values of every employee. Depending on the culture fit of your next hire, they can either reinforce your company’s mission, or they can dilute it. As well, because younger job seekers are now placing more importance on company. View Article. 5 Ways to Hire a Candidate that Matches your Company Culture.

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Your Employer Brand: Is Employee Referrals a “Litmus Test”?

SmartRecruiters

How do you measure the power of your employer brand? Is it possible to assess its value in quantifiable terms? As it turns out, you can evaluate your employer brand by taking a close look at how your employee referral program is performing. Obviously if your program is weak because you’re not focusing enough effort on creating one with appropriate incentives and transparency in communication, you’ve got work to do there first.