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7 Secrets of Companies Who Are Unexpectedly Winning the Talent Fight

Proactive Talent

There are plenty of “obvious” candidates for companies who are doing amazing things to attract, hire and retain great talent within their business. They show up on the pages of HBR, Fast Company and Forbes, either filling our news feeds or staring at us from magazine covers on airport newsstands. But what about “the rest of us”? If you aren’t a part of those obvious companies, are you relegated to always being a “runner up” in the race for quality talent?

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How to Stress Test Your 2019 Hiring Plan

Lever

You’ve got your company’s hiring plans for 2019. Now you have to plan out your talent acquisition staff headcount to meet those goals. It can feel like looking into a crystal ball with only your best guess coming back to you. You could be at least a little bit worried about meeting your targets—after all, it’s your performance goals on the line, not just your company’s.

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Candidates are Calling the Shots

The Whiteboard

The tide has been turning for some time, and now more than ever it feels like a candidate’s market out there. In recent weeks I’ve seen bidding wars kick off over decidedly average candidates, egos growing disproportionately alongside; contractors who might have been scrambling for gigs six months ago now screening calls, too bombarded with need, and Average Joe reaching out for a tentative chat and finding numerous options that tick the boxes for ‘dream role’.

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10 Instagram-Worthy Employee Experience Ideas

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Instagram is a great channel to use to provide candidates with an inside look into your organization and motivate them to join your team. One of the most effective types of content that my team at WeddingWire leverages on Instagram is employee generated content. What is employee generated content, you might be wondering? Employee generated content, also called EGC, refers to social media content that is created and shared by employees.

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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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Sixty Savage Seconds – I only hire recruiters from this generation

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘I only hire recruiters from this generation’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Behavioral Based Interview Questions

Lever

When it comes to interviewing, there are several different strategies and interview question types that can gauge candidate readiness and fit (examples of cultural fit interview questions ).

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Why Most Recruiting Fails

Katrina Kibben

If the recruitment marketing plan doesn't feel right, don't do it. This post is about that lesson and the most important criteria for doing what works.

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The Inmail Subject Lines That WORK

Social Talent

The art of the email subject line has been one of the biggest challenges of marketing teams the world over since, well, email. We know that good recruiters also display the traits of good marketers, so what can they learn about subject lines to increase their response rate from candidates? The good news for recruiters is that the average response rate to a LinkedIn email is 3 times higher than that of a traditional email.

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6 ‘Positive’ Phrases that Lose You Business in Recruitment

FireFish Software

In my ten years of working as an agency recruiter I made a LOT of calls, and over time I learned (the hard way) that there are some phrases that will almost always lose you business, no matter how convincingly you say them. Now that I’m in an internal role, I hear agency recruiters use these same phrases on an almost daily basis – and it instantly puts me off working with them!

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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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Building a Best Place to Work Starts with Inclusion

Lever

We’re beyond excited that we have been recognized as a Best Place to Work for All by Fortune. Coming off our #1 spot for the best place to work in the Bay area earlier this year, we’ve been talking about what being a great place to work means to us. Building a great company and culture isn’t trivial work, it’s something we take incredibly seriously.

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Saving Money on Recruitment Tools

NPA Worldwide

I’m doing some planning for 2019 and received sticker shock when I saw a quote for services I’m going to need next year. It’s forcing me to completely rethink the way I purchase and use this particular service, as the cost is about 50% more for next year. (And last year the price went up about that same percentage from the previous year.

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Get Real! Are Your Recruitment Expectations Totally Unrealistic?

Social Talent

Unrealistic Expectations. The war for talent & skills has intensified over the past few years and it doesn’t look like it’s about to slow down anytime soon. Attracting and retaining top talent is a priority for most companies. However, many companies in today’s age struggle with their identity and try to portray themselves as something they’re not.

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Why You Should Make Room for Uncomfortable Conversations in the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

Are you passionate about starting a conversation in your workplace about diversity and inclusion (D&I), but you’re not quite sure where to.

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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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How Employee Referrals Impact Retention

iCIMS

EmployeeReferrals.com has mined data from our long-term client companies to calculate the median employment duration for referral hires and non-referral hires. Our study encompasses over 50 companies and 91,000 employees.

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Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! Read More.

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The Secret to Avoiding LinkedIn FOMO

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise we kept it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How to mine LinkedIn’s data so you’re not missing out on key results.

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8 Advertising Strategies Every Business Owner Should Use To Hire New Employees

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michelle Deery Michelle is a content writer for Heroic Search. Her opinions are her own. Hiring new employees is one of the most challenging parts of running a business. Every new hire can have a huge impact of a business’s culture and performance, so the stakes are high. After […].

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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ATS vs CRM: What’s the Difference and Why You Need Both

SmartRecruiters

Don’t lose great talent to the competition because of bad recruiting software—here’s why your hiring team needs a TA solution that makes no compromises. Recruiting is changing on a fundamental level. Today, 36 percent of the US workforce currently freelances , and reports project this figure will grow to over 50 percent within the next decade. Conversations about the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning replacing human jobs are at the forefront of our social consciousness, and re

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Pro Tips for Interviewing Millennials

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by Mighty Recruiter When more than 66 million millennials took the workplace by storm a few years back, employers weren’t quite sure what to make of this new generation of workers. Born between 1980 and 1996, millennials are currently the largest generation in the American workforce. As they began coming of age, this mob. View Article. Pro Tips for Interviewing Millennials Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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5 Signs a Candidate Is Lying or Exaggerating

Glassdoor for Employers

For most recruiters, taking candidates at face value is second nature. With multiple, urgent roles to fill, tons of resumes to go.

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How to Build Trust in Your Recruitment Network

FireFish Software

Your BD strategy may be tight, but if you don’t have a positive reputation as a recruiter, your strategy won't get you anywhere. Your reputation precedes you in this industry, which is why building trust within your network is so essential to success. With this in mind, here are some tips on how to increase your trust and credibility within your candidate and client network, and generate more business as a result.

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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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Improving Indeed’s Search and Job Quality

Indeed

At Indeed, our mission drives everything we do: we help people get jobs. Providing job seekers with the best possible experience is what keeps them coming back to Indeed. It’s also what makes us the best place for employers to find the right fit every day. As we have shared in the past, we are constantly striving to improve the job seeker’s experience.

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How to Engage Employees in Health & Safety Training

Undercover Recruiter

Workplace injuries and illnesses cost UK businesses around £14.9 billion a year in employee absence and presenteeism. On top of the cost, it’s vital for business managers to maintain a happy and healthy workforce to ensure they’re able to attract and keep the best talent. Provisions should be made in every workplace to keep employees. View Article. How to Engage Employees in Health & Safety Training Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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CRM and 4 Other Features Your ATS Needs to Have in 2019

SmartRecruiters

Hiring is all about predicting the future—is your applicant tracking system doing the same? Here’s a look at five features that aren’t just trends, but must haves for the new year. Better Buys previously identified the top trends for the ATS solutions market as social media integration, greater emphasis on interviewing and assessment tools (i.e. video interviewing), and predictive analytics.

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Hiring at a Time of Record-Low Unemployment: How to Get Top Talent Excited to Join Your Team

Hireology

The U.S. unemployment rate recently fell to 3.7% , the lowest rate in almost 50 years. While this is great news for job seekers, it makes the hiring market highly competitive for employers. Most top performers are already employed, while current job seekers have countless options to find new career opportunities – including job boards, social media, referrals from their networks, and more.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Find Phone Numbers by Googling for ?, ?, or ?

Boolean Strings

Did you know that Google can search for symbols – including these: , ?, and ? ? We can use this capability to look for publicly posted phone numbers. Use an area code to find phone numbers in a target location. Here is an example: site:nl.linkedin.com /in paas software sales director ( OR ? OR ?) 31. Nether LinkedIn nor Facebook can search by these symbols; Twitter can, though.

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The Secret to Millennial Retention

Undercover Recruiter

Now more than ever, organizations are working to understand what changes they can make to attract and retain employees, particularly millennials, who now make up the largest portion of the U.S. labor force. Especially since millennials are the generation most likely to job-hop, with 60 percent reporting to be open to new job opportunities and. View Article.

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15 Reasons Why Millennials Have a Problem Setting Professional Goals

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Richard Schwartz – editor for Templates Assistant. His opinions are his own. Millennials seem challenging to manage as long-term employees. The generation that felt the consequences of the Great Recession firsthand is stuck between setting personal goals and coupling professional life with its expectations and lifestyle.