Sat.Nov 23, 2019 - Fri.Nov 29, 2019

article thumbnail

Gold Medal–Winning Paralympian Shares 5 Tips for Creating a More Inclusive Workplace

Linkedin Talent Blog

Liz Johnson has a pretty good idea of just how much people with disabilities can do. Liz ( pictured above ) has cerebral palsy, which has left her right side much weaker than her left. She’s won gold medals in swimming at the Paralympics and the world and European championships and set world records in the 100-meter breaststroke. To top it off, she has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Swansea University in Wales-gained whilst training for the Paralympics and World Championships.

article thumbnail

Recruitment 2025, Step One: Figure Out What Skills You Will Need

Recruiting Daily

One, two, three Based on the title, you may be thinking to yourself, “Recruitment 2025? But it’s barely 2020!” I hear you, but the fact is, the recruitment 2020 conversation started upwards of five years ago, so it’s time we start talking about what’s possible and how to prepare for it. Cue Sam Cooke, singing, […].

How To 73
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Recruiters. Competing on speed and price alone is suicide

Greg Savage

How do we thrive in a competitive recruiting world? What is the way to differentiate in 2020 and beyond? Here is the tip. It is what technology cannot do that our clients will continue to pay for. Don’t get me wrong. Technology is reshaping our business and having leading-edge technology is crucial, in as much […].

390
390
article thumbnail

90% Recruiting Email Response Rates Aren’t Folklore

Katrina Kibben

A 90% response rate on recruiting emails isn't folklore. It's real life when you use this tactic. The post 90% Recruiting Email Response Rates Aren’t Folklore appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

107
107
article thumbnail

Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

article thumbnail

The A to Z of Remote Hiring

TalentLyft

Remote work is the future - if you let it be that. The number of people working remotely is on the rise. If you’re thinking about hiring remote employees, this guide is for you! Read More.

Hiring 126

More Trending

article thumbnail

Making Age Diversity A Priority For Your Company

ConveyIQ

The last decade has seen a big increase in diversity and inclusion initiatives related to hiring, yet age discrimination remains a challenge. In fact, 61% of American workers over the age of 45 report seeing or facing age discrimination at work and 38% believe the practice is “very common.” And with 35% of the workforce expected to be over 50 by 2022, adequately addressing age discrimination is becoming increasingly important.

article thumbnail

Should You Hire For The Right Soft Skills Instead of Qualifications?

Recruiters Lineup

In today’s changing work landscape, where many people choose to go freelance for flexibility, and whole companies opt to work with remote teams in order to become more global, it’s easy to look past the importance of soft skills when hiring. When your employees are in and out of the office all hours of the day, thrive on solo-work and sometimes only get to meet each other over Skype — you may be willing to overlook their poor interpersonal skills, as long as they are the most qualified peo

Hiring 52
article thumbnail

The Top 10 Frameworks and What Tech Recruiters Need to Know About Them

Stack Overflow

As programming matures and application development becomes more complex, developers need more than just an understanding of programming languages. They need to know the frameworks that make creating applications in these languages easier. A framework is a set of tools, classes, and functions that serves as the platform on which to build a full application.

article thumbnail

5 of the Best Company Career Site Job Searches

Ongig

Career site job search is vital. Did you know that some candidates leave your company career site if there is no job search at all? And if you have a career site job search already, it better be good. Tech-savvy candidates want the job search experience to be as quick and relevant as the searches the make just about every day on Google.com, Amazon.com, Netflix.com, etc.

article thumbnail

How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

article thumbnail

Candidates’ Priorities in the Modern Workplace

Undercover Recruiter

As recruiters, we need to understand what makes our candidates tick. To gain a deeper insight into candidates’ priorities, Tiger Recruitment recently commissioned a survey of 1,000 UK employees, with interesting results. The survey revealed that the following values were most relevant to job seekers across the country, indiscriminate of sector or industry.

article thumbnail

5 Employee Stories that Capture the Thanksgiving Spirit

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 3 minutes. It’s turkey time! Besides all the mashed potatoes, stuffing, and pecan pie you’ll be consuming on Thursday (or is that just me?) this week provides the opportunity to reflect and keep things in perspective. Who and what have added value to my life in the past year? Recruitment marketers — Thanksgiving isn’t limited to the dining room table.

article thumbnail

Why You Want To Be The Cybertruck of Jobs

ApplicantPro

Last Thursday, Tesla announced it's brand new Cybertruck set to release in 2020. If you know me, you know I'm a huge Tesla fan. Obviously, 2020 is a ways away. but that didn't stop me and 200,000 others from pre-ordering it. This really got me thinking. Tesla did something right here because whether you love it or hate it chances are, you're talking about it.

Hiring 234
article thumbnail

A Decade of Recruiting Recruiters – Rice Consulting Turns 10

The Whiteboard

My fellow Director Sean Walters has chosen probably the best possible week weather-wise to go camping this week and so, rather than immersing you into a triple-dose of the young la’ Scotty’s blogs, I’ve decided to prise the lids off my old Whiteboard pens and see if there’s any juice left in them. As it happens, the timing is quite providential, as this is the last of our weekly blogs before Rice Consulting turns 10 years old next week.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

5 HR Trends for 2020

JazzHR

Guest blog by Wendy Dessler. When we think of trends, we may think of clothing and hairstyles, but trends can happen anywhere at any time. In fact, trends are also incredibly prevalent in business. New technologies or ideologies come around and can really shake up the business world. These trends often aim to make things easier or more affordable for companies, or help them to offer better products and services to customers.

Trends 177
article thumbnail

5 Hard Questions to Gauge the Health of Your Workplace Culture

Indeed

Here’s the truth: Workplace cultures define themselves, no matter how hard you try to rewrite the story. What’s more, problematic cultures stand out more than positive ones. For many of us, the culture our company aspires to likely doesn’t quite match the reality. . It’s hard for organizations to fix broken cultures, and those internal fissures can take a toll.

Culture 140
article thumbnail

#WorkTrends: The Importance of Second Chances

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Our guest on #WorkTrends this week is Michelle Cirocco, the Chief Responsibility Officer of the sales and marketing technology firm Televerde. She is responsible for extending Televerde’s business model to disempowered populations. We discussed criminal reform and its impact on the workforce, eliminating bias in the hiring process, and how organizations can connect with, and potentially hire, individuals with criminal records.

Hiring 133
article thumbnail

Transitioning to the 4-Day Working Week: Could It Work in Recruitment?

FireFish Software

A few years ago, the London Business School published an article predicting that by 2020, 50% of the UK workforce would be remote. When I saw this, I wrote a blog on why I thought building remote teams would be a real challenge for the recruitment industry.

Industry 118
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

12 Ways to Prepare Your Workplace for a Disaster

JazzHR

Guest blog by Meredith Wood. We’re still in the thick of hurricane season. And with tornadoes, fires, and floods happening all the time, it’s important for your workplace to have a disaster preparedness plan that is clearly communicated with all employees. . Maybe your company has never experienced a disaster firsthand. But it’s likely you will at some point, as disasters become more common and inflict billions of dollars of damage on businesses and local economies across the country. .

article thumbnail

Complete web developer salary data

Devskiller

Wondering how much a web developer earns? We’ve created an in-depth guide to the web developer salary in the US based on data from PayScale, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, and Indeed.com. This roundup will help you to make a competitive salary off when hiring a web developer. Take a look! In this article, we’re going to cover the following topics: What is a web developer and what does a web developer do?

Data 115
article thumbnail

Why a Talent Acquisition Strategy Is Your Small Business’s Secret Weapon

Glassdoor for Employers

When it comes to hiring top talent, small businesses often feel at a disadvantage. Many small businesses think they lack the resources to put into recruiting tools and personnel. But it doesn’t need to be that way. . Ultimately, talent acquisition is an investment for your business. While it may seem daunting to invest in new strategies and tools to attract top talent, it will ultimately pay off for your business in a variety of forms. .

article thumbnail

Hiring Freelancers: Project-based Versus Time-based Engagement Model

Transformify - Recruiting

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Jim Barnish, Managing Partner, Morgan Hill Partners. Jim, lots of companies hire freelancers to complete short -term projects. Is this valid for Morgan Hill Partners, too? The strength of gig workers and freelancers is in bringing in the right person, at the right time to complete a specified project at hand that our team has need of

Hiring 118
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

3 Ways to Master Next Year’s Candidate-Driven Market

JazzHR

The unemployment lows we’ve seen throughout 2019 are expected to continue into the new year. In 2020, recruiters will have to work harder than ever. With fewer qualified applicants coming your way, you may find yourself scrambling to impress top talent, not the other way around. . To get ahead in 2020’s candidate-driven market, you’ll have to take a flexible approach — in more ways than one. . 1.

JazzHR 156
article thumbnail

Identifying Employee Training Needs

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Anyone reading this post already agrees with the notion that training and development for employees is extremely important. But the devil is really in the details, and no detail is more important than understanding exactly what your training requires. Do they need to be better at customer service? Which elements of customer service? Do they need to learn how to be more competitive in the industry?

Training 114
article thumbnail

Holiday Hiring Myth: How to Stay Motivated During the Holiday Season

Yoh

"How is it already Thanksgiving?!?", you say to yourself every year. Though we can all agree that the Holiday season creeps up on us seemingly faster and faster every year, what we can disagree with is how it is often perceived as slow sales and recruiting months for talent acquisition teams.

article thumbnail

How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Clients

FireFish Software

Giving constructive feedback to candidates is something we’re used to doing every, but when was the last time you gave honest feedback to a client?

article thumbnail

Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

article thumbnail

4 Tips on How to Create Perfect Postings For Remote Jobs

SmartRecruiters

When you’re looking to find the perfect person to fill a remote spot in your team, you have to start with the perfect remote job advertisement. Doing so will improve the quality of candidates at the top of your recruitment funnel. Perhaps it’s your first time hiring remotely, and you’re not sure what to include in the job posting. Maybe you’ve already got remote team members, but you’ve been having issues with the hiring process.

article thumbnail

Please Just Give Me a Turkey: Employee Gift and Tax Considerations

Recruiting Daily Advisor

It’s the time of year when employers are thinking of creative ways to thank employees and provide a bit of holiday cheer. The gift you choose, however, could have tax consequences for employees, which may not be a welcome prize from their perspective. For tax purposes, the key question is whether the gift will be considered a “ de minimis fringe benefit.” If so, the gift will not be included in employees’ income, meaning they won’t pay taxes for it.

Sports 107
article thumbnail

Recap: Beamery’s Talent Engagement Summit 2019

Hiretual

You know what they say about experience being the best teacher? In the recruiting and HR space, experience equips you like no other. . Hiretual had the privilege of sponsoring Beamery ’s Talent Engagement Summit 2019 , which took place on November 20. The summit brought together a dynamic group of talent acquisition professionals for a live event jam-packed with top-notch strategies.