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6 Interview Fails Your Candidates Are Making (And How to Prevent Them)

FireFish Software

After all your hard work you've sourced a great candidate and your client has invited them to interview. You can feel it…you’re so close to getting them over the line and into the role. But, even if you know they are perfect for the job, sadly this won't protect them from these interview fails - and this could cost you your placement.

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Beware the recruitment ‘Valley of Death’!

Greg Savage

The candidate shortage is well documented. The follow-on effects of changing candidate behaviour, ghosting and counteroffers are almost universal, and I have addressed them several times. You are facing it too, every day. Recruiters must change their inputs if they want to change the outputs. That means doubling down on questioning, relationship-building, avoiding assumptions and […].

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4 Questions to Ask Before You Hire a Recruiter

AkkenCloud

Hiring the right candidate is a serious and often expensive endeavor. And, when you’re running your own recruitment agency or staffing firm in this tight labor market with an ever-changing economic landscape, it can be difficult to hire a recruiter who has all of the qualities needed for success. The current recruiting trends have changed dramatically over time as well – there was once minimal variance among different firms; now, each one emphasizes certain attributes depending upon what they ne

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The Benefits of Switching to a Modern Hiring Platform | ClearCompany

ClearCompany Recruiting

Is your hiring process working against you, preventing you from finding, onboarding, and retaining top candidates? If your recruiters and HR team are not yet using a modern hiring platform, now is the time to update your tools to stay in front of today’s top talent. Hiring software can help recruitment and onboarding processes run more smoothly and simplify daily tasks.

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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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Innovative Ways to Improve High Volume Hiring

Lever

Currently, competition for talent is fierce. It’s a job seeker’s market, where top talent has an abundance of opportunities open to them. If your organization is scaling up and looking to improve its high volume hiring, finding the right people to join. Read More. The post Innovative Ways to Improve High Volume Hiring appeared first on Lever.

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How to Recruit Loyal Employees

Proactive Talent

If you recruited someone out of a negative work environment, it is quite possible they will remain loyal to your company out of a sense of gratitude. Of course, there are no guarantees, but I think it's entirely possible. That being said, how would one go about finding people suffering in less than ideal company cultures? Well, in a word – Glassdoor.com.

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How ClearCompany Chose a DEI Consultant | ClearCompany

ClearCompany Recruiting

Making a true commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at your organization is not a fast or easy process. Just like recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and managing employees, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to DEI. At ClearCompany, employees formed a DEI task force that chose to bring in a DEI consultant to evaluate and guide our efforts. We spoke with our Vice President of People, Angie Wideman-Powell (a recent winner of the HR Rising Star Award) and Learning Manager Isabel Swartz abo

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3 Tips for Using End-to-End Cost Analytics For Staffing Companies

Recruitics

The global pandemic has forever left its mark on us. COVID-19 changed our personal and professional lives, and the impact of the pandemic will continue to be felt for quite a while. One critical concern among employers is recruiting, topping the list with workforce planning and workplace health and safety coming in second and third, according to a recent survey of 563 U.S. employers.

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Use Applicant Power Sources, Not Just Job Boards!

ApplicantPro

Have you dialed in your job boards but still struggle to get enough applicant flow? Have you spent time trying to amplify it, but don't see an impact? Are the applicants who are applying either unqualified or worse.ghosting you? It's time to add a different type of sourcing power into your recruiting mix. Here's the challenge. I was talking to one of my longtime clients the other day who's struggling to find enough applicants.

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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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A holistic formula for retaining staff

Social Talent

According to a recent report , 1 in 4 workers are thinking about leaving their job after the pandemic. With time to reflect on what matters most in their career, top talent are looking for more opportunity and growth. And this trend is only set to continue as retention is becoming the hot topic issue for so many organizations at the moment. So, how can we hold on to our best people?

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Employee Retention Begins with Good Recruiting

Proactive Talent

It has been my experience that the recruiters who hire the talent do not conduct the exit interviews. Why not? I think such is a missed opportunity for recruiters to perfect their sales pitch and become more aware of the challenges inherent in the role. Moreover, I would take this a step further and connect with corporate alum who are currently working elsewhere.

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How To Think About Your EVP

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

Precision isn't the answer. Alignment over time is.

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Do Your Amazing Work Opportunities Remain Hidden?

ApplicantPro

Have you created a great place to work? Has your management created a culture that your people love? Is your turnover low because people are thriving in your environment? If so. You probably wonder, "why is it so hard to convince new people to apply for our jobs?" And. "why do those that apply sometimes ghost us before they even get to the interview phase?".

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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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SocialTalent new content release

Social Talent

If the pandemic taught us anything in terms of the workplace, it’s that having the right leader in place can be a huge factor in the success of your business. It seems obvious to say, but when it came to making tough decisions, showing empathy and providing stability, COVID really shone a light on what it takes for executives and CXOs to truly flourish.

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July Jobs Report — People Want Good Jobs

Hireology

The Bureau of Labor Statistics July Employment Situation showed encouraging job growth, reporting an addition of 943,000 jobs and a tick down in unemployment to 5.4% from 5.9%. This increase is the most we’ve seen since August of 2020, and an increase from what economists expected from the month. Additionally, revisions to the May and June reports were adjusted to include 119,000 additional jobs that weren’t accounted for, bringing the total number of recovered jobs to 16,7 million, or 74% of th

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Must-have Apps for Successful Recruitment Teams

Yoh

The primary purpose of a recruitment team is to simplify the hiring process through effective recruitment and selection policies. To achieve that, each successful recruitment team will need to focus on four crucial areas of work: Identifying top-notch candidates for vacant positions; Establishing smooth interpersonal communication and collaboration; Organizing work and tracking its progress; Streamlining the interview processes.

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The Advantages of the “Wrong Password” on LinkedIn #OSINT

Boolean Strings

A more descriptive title of this post could be “Hack: Check Whether an Email Address or Phone Number Points is Registered on LinkedIn in 5 Seconds or Less” The “hack” does not reveal which member it is – it only returns a Yes/No answer. But it is a validation pointer for the contact phone number or email address you are looking to verify, or, in a different scenario, trying to guess the email or the missing phone digits.

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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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How to save time (without spending much money)

Hireserve

Let’s set the scene. You’re part of small (or perhaps solo!) recruitment team in a busy organisation. You don’t have an Applicant Tracking System in place, so are having to manually process every application that reaches you. Before we even reach that stage, you’re likely responsible for job approval and posting as well. And we wouldn’t be surprised if onboarding also falls into your remit.

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5 Mistakes Companies Make with HR Tech Adoption

TalentCulture - Recruiting

The HR industry underwent massive shifts over the last year. The pandemic reframed the role of HR to focus more holistically on employee experience, and emerging tech has become mission […]. The post 5 Mistakes Companies Make with HR Tech Adoption appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How to Best Adjust to The Hybrid Work Schedule

Employment Metrix

It feels like only yesterday I was making recommendations about how to make yourself comfortable and effective as we all shifted to work from home 100%. I bet you’ve changed and tweaked and reconsidered your work from home space a bunch since then, I know that I have. I used to make a rule about the dog not being in the office during office hours, and, well, he’s in my lap right now.

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Texas In Need of 6,500 Travel Nurses

BountyJobs

The headlines are everywhere, reporting a surge in COVID-19 cases nationwide. With that comes a high demand for healthcare workers. It’s not only the active cases of the pandemic causing the strain on healthcare talent. Exhaustion and burnout are playing a role too. Searches for nurse practitioners are up 24% year-over-year per a recent report.

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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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Empower Employees to Build Healthier Relationships Inside/Outside the Workplace

Recruiting Daily Advisor

With the exception of sleep, a job is the #1 time-consuming activity for the average person. Most people spend one-third of their lives at work, which equates to 90,000 hours over a lifetime. Now that’s a lot of time, especially if you’re not building and maintaining healthy habits. This means your employees are spending a ton of time in meetings, in their e-mail inboxes, and interacting with their coworkers more often than they are interacting with friends and family.

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Getting Hired: The Two Phases of Landing Any Job

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Getting hired for a job can be one of the most tiresome processes. Often, it feels especially daunting when you don’t actually have a job and require it desperately. Moreover, […]. The post Getting Hired: The Two Phases of Landing Any Job appeared first on TalentCulture.

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The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down

The Whiteboard

Not sure if anyone else is a fan of an obscure Simpsons reference but I’m hoping that a slither of the readership will get that. It’s when Homer is trying to describe the 1994 film Speed, for further clarity click here. Not unlike Homer Jay, that word seems to evade people in the current recruitment market too. To be fair it’s not so much on the candidate side as it is on the client-side.

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Managing Staffer Background Checks – Why Thorough Preemployment Screenings Are Critical for Staffing Agencies

Crelate

It’s a great feeling when a staffer on assignment receives rave reviews from your client. On the other hand, nothing can put a knot in your stomach faster than receiving a client complaint, particularly when it comes to light that your worker might not be all that they had claimed. It’s a problem that’s more common than you might think. According to a 2017 study , nearly three out of four managers admitted to making a bad hire over the course of their career.

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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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Supporting working mothers: it’s now time for a new narrative

Workable

Other insights from TopResume include 55% of those still working saying they’d leave their jobs voluntarily if given the option. And a new survey carried out by Workable in June 2021 points to the disparity in current working situation between the genders, with those identifying as female far more likely to be not working (26% vs. 15.3%) or working part-time (17.7% vs. 8.6%) than males in the United States.

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Attracting Healthcare Talent in the Post COVID Market

Hospital Recruiting

It is a job seeker’s market in the healthcare industry. This trend will continue indefinitely. For example, the demand for nurses is critical. There are over 4,000,000 nurses in the United States; 1,000,000 more nurses are needed within one year. Savvy job seekers use the tight market to their advantage. Simply offering excellent wages and great benefit packages are no longer sufficient in the competitive healthcare industry.

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Avionté CONNECT 2021 Virtual Staffing Industry Conference Recap

Avionte

Last week, we welcomed over 1,000 clients, partners, and staffing professionals to our annual user conference, CONNECT. Due to the ongoing challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Avionté held this year’s conference virtually for the second year in a row. The virtual format brings many unique benefits that you can’t get with an in-person event, such as: No travel – it requires less time and expense (it’s completely free!).