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Do you really know how to reference check?

Social Talent

Do you really understand the purpose of a reference check? I mean really? The reason you are completing a reference check is to confirm the information you already have. That’s it. What a reference check is not: A chance to convince you you’re making the right decision. Let’s face it, if you need convincing at this stage, perhaps it’s an indication of some internal doubts you may have about that candidate.

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Total Talent: Getting From Promise to Reality

The Staffing Stream

Nowadays, the most pressing question staffing leaders have about deploying freelance knowledge workers isn’t “why”—it’s “how.” Organizations from P&G to Microsoft make bold proclamations about including independent workers in their broader talent strategies, while conference organizers devote panel after panel to the many benefits freelancers offer big companies: cutting-edge skills, agility, speed.

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4 Steps to Emotive Copywriting in Recruitment Marketing

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you log in to your favorite social media platform by the sheer amount of posts, events and ads that appear on your feed? If so, you’re not alone. Every day we’re all bombarded online with so many different forms of content that it can be difficult to cut through the digital noise and get your messaging noticed. This is where the art of emotive copywriting comes into play.

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3 Areas Talent Analytics Makes a Major Impact

ClearCompany Recruiting

Data analytics have revolutionized the way we do business — Marketing executives can track customer preferences to predict behavior. CFOs can get a real-time look at different business lines to track income, costs, expenses across the organization. HR executives, too, can leverage data analytics to understand talent trends, job fit, retention efforts, and recruiting strategies.

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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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HR Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2020

ViziRecruiter

Over the past few years, HR trends have shifted focus to creating a positive candidate experience, strengthening employer branding and embracing social recruitment. Each year, slight variations to these trends emerge, proof that not only are they effective, but becoming increasingly important to HR departments and the C-Suite alike. 2020 trends continue to focus on these essential elements for successful recruitment in a candidate-driven market, with a new, all-encompassing phrase that sums up t

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Recruitment Marketing – Social Media Stats that will drive your strategy in 2020

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest contribution is from Amanda Davies, a marketing consultant and business coach with Green Umbrella Marketing – a recognized brand known within the recruitment industry for providing social media management services, coaching, design and online marketing strategies. We are suddenly sprinting towards the end of 2019. As usual it seems, we’re commenting ‘where has this year gone.

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How to Establish an Effective Recruitment Budget Strategy

ViziRecruiter

Developing a recruitment budget is often presented as a challenging task for HR managers and recruiters. We frequently see a deficiency in wiggle-room when it comes to creating space in the allotted budget for new ideas, surprise expenses, and so on. There are set costs that take precedenceover additional expenses year after year. With this continuous process set in place, how should you be conducting cost-benefit analyses to ensure you’re optimizing efficiency in your recruitment budget?

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Candidate Experience – Measure what you want to Improve!

GoHire

Candidate Experience is a term being used quite a bit in talent acquisition and recruiting teams, but what exactly is a “candidate experience”? What is Candidate Experience? Candidate experience is the sum of interactions that an individual has with a company, or the company brand, where they might seek employment. These experiences might come from word of mouth referrals, search results from a job board, a couple of visits to the companies career site, good or bad mentions in social

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Hiring and Retaining a Dispersed Workforce

Glassdoor for Employers

Remote work is no longer a thing of the future — it’s very much how we work now. Eighty-four percent of Millennial workers (Source: “ The 2017 Deloitte Millennial Survey ,” 2017) report some degree of flexible working arrangements at their current employers, and advocates claim benefits can range from increased workforce diversity, productivity, and retention to reduced stress and costs.

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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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How To Use LinkedIn To Source Top Candidates

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

LinkedIn is the social network of a recruiter’s dreams, used by some 660 million professionals in 200 countries. Built specifically for the purpose of networking, it’s where people go to update their virtual resume, look for jobs, and develop beneficial professional relationships.

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2019 favorite story: Skilled Trades at BAE Systems, Inc.

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 3 minutes. A 2018 report by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute projected that over the next 10 years, there could be as many as 2.4 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. This talent shortage exists because more high school graduates are choosing four year colleges over a career in the trades, often at the urging of their parents who believe a four year degree is the ticket to long-term success.

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RallyFwd Recap: 5 Ways You Can Provide a Future-Forward Candidate Experience

Rally Recruitment Marketing

We were blown away by the calibre of candidate experience insights our world-class speakers covered at RallyFwd Virtual Conference, See the Future of Candidate Experience. Since we partnered with the Talent Board and the Candidate Experience Awards to put on this event, many of our speakers were multiple time CandE award winners. Their forward-thinking approaches to candidate experience really sets their organizations apart from hiring competitors – and, as we learned, helps to support the

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Get Ready, Gen Z Candidates Are Coming in 2020

JazzHR

The oldest millennials turn 39 in the new year. Millennials may have changed the workplace , but things continue to evolve as Generation Z eases into adulthood. Generation Z includes anyone born after 1997 , according to the Pew Research Center. In 2020, the oldest Gen Zers will be 23. Done with internships and college exams, they’re now seeking entry-level employment.

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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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3 Tips for Recruiting During the Holidays

Proactive Talent

As the holiday season approaches, it’s likely you’ve started planning the perfect dinner, shopping for that ugly Christmas sweater, and discussing New Year’s shenanigans. But how does a recruiter get a candidate through the entire hiring process with limited time left in the year? With a proactive and adaptive approach, you can still be successful without compromising anyone’s holiday vacations.

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The Best Informational Interview Questions to Ask

Lever

According to the 2019 Benchmarking Industry Report, the average candidate spends 2.8 onsite interview hours before a hire is made. This varies greatly based on role and job level, but in the most cases, 3-4 hours is not a lot of time. Read More. The post The Best Informational Interview Questions to Ask appeared first on Lever.

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The Blind Hiring Process: What It Is & How to Do It?

Glassdoor for Employers

Having a recruitment strategy that promotes diverse hiring is not only good for society, but the business case for diverse teams is stronger than ever. A survey by Mckinsey revealed that companies with gender diversity at the executive level were 21% more profitable compared to those without diversity. While the impact of diverse hiring is well known and respected, organizations still struggle to reach an adequate level of gender diversity in their teams, especially at the executive level and in

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Computer Skills to Put on a Resume

SimplyHired

Lorem ipsum began as scrambled, nonsensical Latin derived from Cicero’s 1st-century BC text De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. The post Computer Skills to Put on a Resume appeared first on Career Advice.

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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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Measuring the Business Benefits of Flexibility: A Win for All Sides

TalentCulture - Recruiting

As always, I’ve been following the trends that are really going to change the way we work. Among them: the need to continue evolving our concept of the workforce and the tools changing how, where, and when we work. Generation after generation is moving closer to a completely digitally-enabled form of working. We’re now welcoming the first wave of Generation Z into our organizations.

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5 Key Elements to Look for in a Payroll Platform

Hireology

Payroll and related costs can make up 50 percent – or more – of total business costs, so it’s critical to ensure you’re partnering with the right payroll platform to avoid costly errors and drive efficiency across your business. . Not only can the right payroll platform help your team stay organized, but from an employee engagement perspective, it can help make the transition from candidate to new hire seamless. .

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Millennials vs. Gen Z: What You Need to Know About Recruiting the Next Generation

Glassdoor for Employers

A new decade is here, and 2020 marks a turning point not only in the calendar but also in the candidate pool for many companies, both large and small. Generation Z is the segment of people born in 1995 or later and experts predict that within 2020, they will account for over one-third of the U.S. population. This post-millennial generation is already the most racially and ethnically diverse, according to the Pew Research Center , and they are more internet savvy than any generation before them —

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Hiring a sales team? Avoid these 4 candidates

Workable

Do you seem to fall flat day in and day out when you hire sales reps? Hiring a sales team is no easy feat. Your candidates looked good on paper – or even seemed great in person – but once they actually started working for you, they became a walking disappointment. So what’s going on here? Maybe you didn’t catch the red flags when they came up. There are many different red flags to look for when hiring a sales rep.

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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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Smart Businesses Look to The Future

SmartSearch

Companies that embrace digital technologies in their talent acquisition functions are two times more likely to improve quality of hire and retention, and three times more likely to improve the candidate experience. Source: Digital Transformation in Talent Acquisition study from Aptitude Research and Alexander Mann Solutions. I had the pleasure of speaking to one of our most forward-thinking clients, Stefan Baier from Stefanini.

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5 Key Elements to Look for in a Payroll Platform

Hireology

Payroll and related costs can make up 50 percent – or more – of total business costs, so it’s critical to ensure you’re partnering with the right payroll platform to avoid costly errors and drive efficiency across your business. . Not only can the right payroll platform help your team stay organized, but from an employee engagement perspective, it can help make the transition from candidate to new hire seamless. .

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Hiring Process

TalentCulture - Recruiting

As artificial intelligence evolves, we’re going to increasingly rely on it for boosting the hiring process. In Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, author Max Tegmark asserts that the “rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology.” So it is, as we already see in hiring. AI is already saving HR teams time and money while attracting the best candidates in these key ways: […].

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A Christmas fairy tale: the workplace edition

Workable

You hear a voice that you can’t quite recognize: “Oh no, not that song again!”. Curious, you open the door and everything looks so different. Normally, you’d pass quickly by the desk of your office manager, Kate, and mumble, “Good morning”. But instead of Kate, there’s someone crying. You can’t tell who he is, he’s hiding his face with his hands, while tears are running down his cheeks.

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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 Ways to Use Christmas to Boost Your Social Media Followers

FireFish Software

Christmas is the perfect time to work on building your social media followers. At this time of year, we all have a bit of Christmas downtime to play with, and everyone’s looking for something to engage them online – so take advantage of this! Here’s a few different ways you can use the festive period to tot up likes, shares and followers for your social media accounts.

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Feeling Alone and Undervalued, Almost Half of Managers Are Heading for the Exit

Recruiter

We all know it's a tight talent market out there, but retention conversations often revolve around employees. HR pros and organizational leaders are pouring a lot of time and energy into keeping top performers engaged and on board. That's an important initiative, but it often overlooks the company's managers — the very people responsible for keeping talented workers happy.

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3 Ways To Activate Your Employer Brand Internally

ConveyIQ

You probably already know the importance of a strong employer brand, but did you know that it’s just as important to find ways to activate it? That means creating clear strategies related to your mission, your values and the things that make your company unique. According to LinkedIn’s Employer Brand Statistics report , companies with a strong employer brand reduce their cost-per-hire by 50% and see a 28% reduction in employee turnover.