Sat.May 13, 2017 - Fri.May 19, 2017

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Guess what? Recruiters are the worst recruiters!

Greg Savage

Is it as we have always suspected? That recruiters are themselves, poor recruiters? Like the cobblers kid who had the worst shoes, do recruiters have the worst recruitment process? Especially when they recruit recruiters, for themselves? I asked that question in no uncertain terms a few years ago, when I bemoaned the fact that hardly […].

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion Part 9: When Things Go Wrong

Lever

We believe passionately that diverse and inclusive companies make for more innovative, engaged, and happy teams, and we speak with forward-thinking talent leaders all the time who feel the same. We’re writing this series on how to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace because people are ready for the next level of discourse around diversity and inclusion; one aimed at actual solutions.

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4 Things College Grads Want in an Employer

ClearCompany Recruiting

We’ve heard all the stereotypes. Millennials don’t stick around in their positions for more than three years, Millennials are slackers and they hold a sense of entitlement. Despite all these common negative stereotypes, there are many common positive competencies and characteristics college grads are known for. One main theme is that Millennials are confident in what they stand for and how they want to use their skills to improve purpose-driven organizations.

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5 Reasons Why Your Best Employees Are Quitting

JazzHR

No one likes losing good employees. It costs you time and money to recruit , hire, and train new workers. And while employees quit their jobs for many reasons, some of which will always be beyond your control, often times the reason they leave is workplace-related. If that’s the case, you can either try to do something about it retroactively or take the steps necessary to ensure they never want to leave in the first place.

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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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The Six Essential Elements That Every Recruiter Website Needs

Talent Hero Media

Every recruiter website needs these six elements to turn it into a lead generating machine that inspires confidence in your brand. The post The Six Essential Elements That Every Recruiter Website Needs appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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From Intern to Employee: The Right Moves to Make

ClearCompany Recruiting

Getting an internship is one of the best things a student can do to jump-start their professional career. While a paid internship is always preferable, even unpaid internships offer valuable on-site job experience that just can’t be obtained through college. In fact, 61.4% of students in a 2014 study had previous internship experience before they were offered a job.

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So You’ve Hired Millennials. Now How Are You Going to Keep Them?

JazzHR

Just about every organization has millennials on the payroll. And, while getting them in the door can be a significant hurdle to overcome, often the bigger challenge is getting them to stay. While the evidence suggests that millennials aren’t as fickle or restless as previously believed, when it comes to this demographic, you’d still be wise to rethink your retention strategies.

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Revisiting the Premier League Lessons for Recruiters

The Whiteboard

All good things must come to an end and as sure as night follows day there will always be the last weekend of the English Premier League year after year. Even as an Arsenal fan, contemplating one of the most frustrating, disappointing and vitriolic seasons I can remember, I’ll still be sad to see the back of this season’s edition of football’s biggest and most expensive soap opera.

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4 Challenges All Modern Recruiters Face (and Their Modern Solutions)

Social Talent

With the rise of recruitment technology, companies have seen its benefits for their hiring process, especially in finding the right candidate to fill in a position. After all, they know that having the best employees will help them achieve their goals and objectives. Moreover, recruitment technology is also becoming highly available to a lot of companies because the recruitment industry has seen the demand for smoother, sleeker processes and systems.

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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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Want Tech Workers to Stick Around Longer? Think 30 Years -- Not Three.

Entrepreneur

Turnover can have a huge impact on your bottom line. But, there are meaningful steps you can take to ensure your people will want to stay with your organization for years to come.

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4 Ways to Incorporate Thanks Into the Candidate Experience

Proactive Talent

One of my clients is in hyper-growth mode. Super hyper-growth mode. 10 million competing priorities, fires everywhere, and hiring just as fast. And sometimes candidate experience suffers. For example, we had an open role for an Executive Assistant for the heads of the company. A position that would REALLY help put out the fires. We had the perfect candidate scheduled.

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Indiana Is First to Bar Local ‘Ban the Box’ Ordinances

ExactHire Recruiting

On April 27, 2017, Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 312 (now PL 210-2017) into Indiana law, which will become effective July 1, 2017. This legislation aims to assist employers who hire within Indiana to have more consistency in the hiring process. Currently, employers must adapt to city, county, municipal and township ordinances that vary in timing as to when or if conviction related questions can be asked to applicants in the hiring process.

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LinkedIn Updates Unveil Some Slick New Features

Social Talent

LinkedIn have received a fair share of backlash in the past few months. The professional network frustrated many when they got rid of some key features earlier on in the year. However, LinkedIn now seem to have done a U-turn, giving in to the pressure and bringing back some new and improved features of their own. This news will no doubt bring smiles back to the faces of the many wonderful recruiters out there!

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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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The 5 Most Common Recruiting Ailments for SMBs and Startups

Lever

Last week, I talked about the importance of focusing on your company's recruiting priorities when choosing an applicant tracking system (and in the process, ‘fessed up to my own software purchasing blunder).

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The Facts and Myths About Millennials (and Why They’re Important for Your Recruiting Efforts)

JazzHR

Mention the word millennials in relation to the workplace and it often conjures lots of negativity. That’s because millennials tend to get a bad rap. Employers say that they’re lazy, self-absorbed, entitled, and that they don’t want to work. But if you do a little digging, or just look at the millennials you work with, you’ll probably discover that much of the criticism leveled against them simply isn’t true.

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5 Team Building Activities That Are Actually Fun

Glassdoor for Employers

When your team understands each other’s working styles, communicates with ease, and genuinely likes spending time together, it makes for a great working environment. But it’s rare that a team comes together and bonds on their own without upper management intervening. To prevent the usual eyerolls that forced bonding induces, get creative with your team building activity!

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Social Talent 2017 Sourcing Challenge

Social Talent

So you think you can source? You are cordially invited to prove your worth as the ultimate sourcing pro by taking part in the 2017 Social Talent Sourcing Challenge! First rule about sourcing challenge… Tell EVERYONE about sourcing challenge! The more people who enter the better the competition. Why not start a little competition in the office- who can get the furthest in our challenge and crown themselves worthy champion?

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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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Why You Can’t Waste Time During High Volume Recruiting

Spark Hire

It’s that time of year again: high volume recruiting is underway. You’ve been tasked with undertaking the sourcing and placement of a large volume of candidates. Finding top talent for your clients is always something you strive to do as timely as possible. However, any delays in the hiring process are exponentially more detrimental during high volume recruiting. .

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Why Your Diversity Hiring Goals Shouldn’t Be About Gender or Race.

Breezy HR

The topic of workplace diversity is getting heavy rotation for good reason; there is a tremendous amount of work to do. According to recent Bersin by Deloitte research : “71% of surveyed organizations aspire to have an inclusive culture, but only 12 percent have achieved this objective. The research suggests that organizations should consider a new way of thinking about diversity and inclusion to build a successfully inclusive culture.”.

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How Employees Use Vacation Time

Glassdoor for Employers

Vacation time is a treasured benefit by employees: it’s the number 2 ranked benefit contributing to employee satisfaction as ranked on Glassdoor,

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Fake It ‘Til You Make It- The Best Examples of Overcoming Imposter Sydrome

Social Talent

Even if you never had a word for it, we’ve all been exposed to the imposter syndrome (dun dun duuuuunnnnn). That feeling that you’re not supposed to be there. Somehow you managed to trick the recruiter, hoodwink the hiring manager and weasel your way into a position you don’t deserve. Sure you were elated when you got the job, but now?

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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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How to write an employee handbook

Workable

All companies need to communicate their mission, values and expectations to their employees. Employee handbooks are a good means to put these elements together. Here’s how to write a helpful and engaging employee handbook : What is the purpose of having an employee handbook? Your handbook’s content and level of detail depends on how you intend to use it.

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Simon Maple from Zeroturnaround takes centre stage for another episode of the Yellow Duck Podcast

Devskiller

The dev, the man – Simon Maple – speaker at some of the most popular tech conferences, joins us for an episode of our podcast, dedicated to developers around the world. Simon is a Director of Developer Relations at Zeroturnaround , covering JRebel and XRebel, JRebel for Android and XRebel Hub. He has presented at major conferences around the world, including, JavaOne, Devoxx Belgium, France and UK, JavaZone, JavaLand, JFokus, JAX London, JAX SF, JMaghreb, JDC, IBM Impact, IBM Innovat

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The Science Behind Multitasking and How It Slowly Erodes Productivity

Glassdoor for Employers

On the surface, multitasking seems like a winning proposition. After all, if you work on two projects at once, then you’ll finish twice as quickly, right? Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. When you try to focus on two different projects, you divide your attention, and your brain has to expend additional energy each time you switch from one task to the other.

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Recruitment Roundup: Skills & Sourcing Parties

Social Talent

To be the best recruiter, it’s important that you stay up-to-date with current trends. Knowing what changes are happening allows you to prepare accordingly. This week, we focus on how to make a full stacked recruitment team as well as what skill doubles your candidates hiring chances. “Full Stack” Recruiters & “Sourcing Parties” The rules of recruiting are changing daily, with globalisation playing a huge part in this change.

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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 build your first employee training program

Workable

Employee training and development programs, when thoughtfully implemented, are the cornerstone of a company’s success. Here’s a guide on how to build your first employee training program: Where to start with employee training programs. Identify your training needs. Before designing your learning and development program, assess your needs. You could start with a skills gap analysis.

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How to source software developers from LinkedIn

Devskiller

Based on 2016-2017 Talent Shortage Survey , IT professionals constitute the second biggest talent shortage group globally and one of the hardest groups of professionals to recruit. LinkedIn is the go-to place for sourcing software developers for majority of recruiters , so it’s a very crowded and competitive space. The higher the demand for top tech talent, the more efficient you need to be with your sourcing.

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3 Ways Staffing Agencies Can Use Marketing Strategies on Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

How successful staffing firms rely on their Glassdoor Job Slots, branded Glassdoor profile, and analytics intelligence to give them a competitive edge and set them up for success in attracting both candidates and clients.