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News | Glassdoor acquired in $1.2 billion deal

Social Talent

Glassdoor – leading job and recruiting company- announced today that it is to be acquired by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. for $1.2 billion. Glassdoor is known for providing greater workplace transparency. Japanese-based HR companyRecruit Holdings plans to operate Glassdoor as a distinct and separate part of its growing HR Technology business segment.

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6 Signs You’ve Found the Best Person for the Job

Undercover Recruiter

Whether you’re recruiting internally or filling a role for your client, the ability to spot talent is an essential skill all recruiters should possess. In a market that is facing a skill shortage, you need to be honing in on the right applicant for the job, and the clues to finding that perfect candidate start. View Article. 6 Signs You’ve Found the Best Person for the Job Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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How to Use People to Activate Your Employer Brand

Undercover Recruiter

What’s the best source of talent attraction at your company? Chances are it’s your own employees. This week, we’re speaking to a pharma giant has a strong human focus in its employer brand activation. John Graham Jr. is the Global Talent Acquisition Social & Digital Strategy Lead at Merck. In this episode, he shares his journey with the company, View Article.

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Hiring & Managing Remote Teams in 10 Steps!

ClearCompany Recruiting

Whether this is your first remote employee or your 50th, hiring and managing a team that spans beyond one office can be a challenge. This checklist is perfect for leaders who are looking to hire a remote employee/team or who have remote employees, but want to boost their program. As with any employee, hiring the right remote worker is crucial to productivity and performance.

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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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Reference Check Form: Free Template

Lever

When 62 percent of job seekers have embellished their skill set, reference checks can be a valuable tool to help your team make informed hiring decisions. Hiring managers ultimately make the decision, so it’s in their best interest to conduct the reference check—but they may not know how.

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The Unbeatable Formula for Super Clickable Job Ads

Social Talent

Your job ad is the window into your company. Job seekers often look at hundreds of job ads at once so are you doing everything you can to make sure your ad stands out from the crowd? According to The Candidate Experience Awards , 48% of applicants have NO previous relationship with your company. That’s a lot of people you have the chance to impress with a whopper first impression.

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Talent Experience Is the Key to Engaging and Retaining Millennials

Hoops

The strategies that worked to attract, recruit, engage, and retain Generation Xers are ineffective with Millennials. Major studies have revealed that this generation, which now represents the largest share of the US labor market, is highly divergent from preceding generations in its attitudes about employment.

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Effective Interview Training Should Include These 4 Things

Lever

Interviewing isn’t intuitive to everyone. In fact, it’s probably not intuitive to most. Your organization’s interviewers have other full-time jobs, and they could benefit from your expertise in this area. By providing interview training , your interviewers will be better equipped to identify the best candidates for your open roles—and sell those candidates on the prospect of working at your organization.

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What do candidates want out of the interview process?

JazzHR

The best way to attract top talent is to ensure that your interview process is smooth, efficient and engaging. A negative interview experience can mean the difference between welcoming top talent on board and having your No. 1 choice turn down an offer. Results from LinkedIn’s Inside the Mind of Today’s Candidate, which surveyed more than 14,000 professionals, revealed that a bad interview would cause 65 percent of respondents to re-think whether or not they even wanted the job at th

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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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Social Talent - Untitled Article

Social Talent

Though we’re well integrated with the recruiting world here at SocialTalent, not all of us came from recruiting. In fact, some of us bloggers come from mere writing backgrounds – imagine! From time to time we might encounter a word or phrase so specific to the wonderful world of recruiting that we just have to laugh… War For Skills. This seems a little… dramatic.

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Are We There Yet?

The Whiteboard

When pitching a new role to a candidate, what is the most important factor to them? Is it money? The cost of living, and Auckland house prices especially, would suggest that this would be the logical answer. And certainly, when you’re recruiting recruiters, many of these bon viveurs have particularly costly “recreational tastes” However, studies, which bloggers more academic than I are prone to quote, would suggest that cold, hard cash is surprisingly far down the list when it

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Talent Experience Is the Key to Engaging and Retaining Millennials

Hoops

The strategies that worked to attract, recruit, engage, and retain Generation Xers are ineffective with Millennials. Major studies have revealed that this generation, which now represents the largest share of the US labor market, is highly divergent from preceding generations in its attitudes about employment. Employers are now benefitting from the insights of recent major studies into the Millennial mindset.

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How to Create an Awesome Recruitment Brand Video on a Budget

FireFish Software

It’s no secret that video is the go-to medium these days if you want to get more engagement with your recruitment marketing. But you can’t just share out any old video content and expect to sit back and wait for the great results to flood in – you need to create something that actually works for your brand.

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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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Recruitment Bots are Here and We’re Already Falling for Them

Social Talent

“It’s the first time I’ve had a proper conversation about what it’s really like, not what it could be” This comment followed one of our most interesting SocialTalent Meetups. Our most recent London event brought us back to our adopted local- The Square Pig in Holborn for an evening of chatbot chinwagging. Chris Wray spoke of his experience introducing a chatbot into his recruitment process at Anchor trust.

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Here’s Why You Should Think Like Google and Encourage Employee Side Projects

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Google has long encouraged its employees to devote 20 percent of their time to side projects , which is one reason why it remains one of the most innovative companies in the world. For companies that invest in side project initiatives, the outcomes can be incredible: Gmail, Google Maps, Twitter, Slack, and Groupon all started as side projects.

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4 Ways You Can Stomp Out Gender Biases in Interviews

Spark Hire

“Inherent biases exist.”. As much as everyone hates to admit we often allow biases to dictate our decisions, Mary Pharris , Director of Business Development and Partnerships at Fairygodboss — a marketplace for professional women looking for jobs, career advice, and the inside scoop on companies — is right. No matter how hard we try to extinguish them, they linger over hiring processes.

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Are Employers Ready To Embrace the White Collar Gig Economy?

SmartRecruiters

As more individuals pivot into freelance and self-employed work, companies are rethinking how to attract and retain independent professionals. Corner offices and pensions are no longer the end game for many working professionals, and—as usual—you can blame millennials. As of 2015, millennials are the dominant demographic of the American workforce, and the white collars of this up-and-coming generation have a new career priority in mind: independence.

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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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TL;DR | StepStone, LinkedIn, and Freedom of Speech

Social Talent

Too busy to keep up to date on the latest recruiting news and trends? Are you spending your morning smiling and nodding at the water cooler wondering where your colleagues find the time? SocialTalent ‘s Too Long; Didn’t Read (TL;DR) is here to get you up to speed with everything you might have missed this week, including StepStone, Smile and nod with purpose.

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Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates

TalentLyft

If you are an employer looking for the best interview questions to ask candidates in a job interview, you’ve come to the right place. This list of 55 interview questions divided into 11 categories contains every question you’ll ever need to choose the best job candidate. Read More.

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11 Reasons to Work With a Business Coach

RecruitLoop

Editors Note: This is a guest post by Ben Fewtrell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at MaxMyProfit. His opinions are his own. As a business owner, it can get lonely and frustrating at times. Very few entrepreneurs have someone they can lean on when times get tough. A business coach is a great way for you to get […].

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Text Recruiting: Real Life Examples of What Not to Do

SmartRecruiters

Text Messaging is the new frontier for recruiting, but it can all go so wrong. See the biggest gaffs and learn how to avoid the most common faux pas. Your phone lights up as a new message bubbles to the top of the screen, but you don’t recognize the number. Bloop This is a recruiter. Bloop I have a job I think you’d be great for. Bloop Here’s a link to check out.

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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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6 Traits of Great Job Descriptions

Glassdoor for Employers

Have you ever read (and reread) a job description several times, only to find yourself struggling to understand what exactly the organization.

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LinkedIn InMail Guide for Recruiters: 5 Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn InMail

TalentLyft

How can recruiters effectively reach out to potential candidates using LinkedIn InMail ? In this guide, you will learn helpful tips for crafting messages that make a great impression and get quick responses from your candidates. Read More.

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Recruiters – Stay Close to Your Candidates During Their Notice Period

RecruitmentJuice

My flight home from San Francisco the other day was delayed by over an hour. It felt like every 10 – 15 minutes the boarding time would be pushed out, resulting in a mass sigh or groan of frustration from the all the passengers waiting in the departure lounge. I wasn’t paying too much attention […]. The post Recruiters – Stay Close to Your Candidates During Their Notice Period appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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4 Ways to Recruit Like a Marketer

The Muse

Knowing how to recruit like a marketer can help you attract even more best-fit talent to your company. Here's some expert advice on how you can apply some tried and true marketing tactics to the recruitment process and attract even more top-notch candidates.

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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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5 Things Recruiters Can Expect on GDPR D-Day

FireFish Software

Despite how you might be feeling about GDPR right now, let’s put one thing to rest: On 25 th May, the world isn’t going to implode and you’re not going to wake up to an email from the ICO saying you’re being dealt a £20,000,000 fine on the spot. So relax! But what should you be prepared for on the day?

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How to Keep Clients Coming Back

NPA Worldwide

After my birthday this year, I sent out ‘Thank You’ notes, like my mom taught me to do growing up. It’s kind of a lost art – Social media, texting and email are the status quo now, and granted it’s much easier (and saves you the cost of a postage stamp)… But if the recipient gets just another email in their inbox (or worse, spam folder), they may miss it.

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2 Recruitment Blunders to Avoid When Recruiting Working Mothers

iCIMS

A two minute review of what recruiters should avoid when attracting, interviewing and hiring working mothers.