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How One Recruiter is Building a Diverse Team from the Ground Up

Lever

Tech giants aren’t the only companies concerned with diversity. In fact, smaller companies who don’t have the manpower to dedicate entire teams to diversity initiatives can often make progress the fastest. I sat down with Keith Pescosolido, director of recruiting (and sole recruiter) at Drift , to learn why he’s rallying his team to prioritize diversity from the very start.

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Why SEO is a big part of your Employer Brand

JazzHR

Like consumers, today’s candidates really do their homework to make sure a company is the right fit before applying or accepting a job. But unlike consumers, a job seeker has much more on the line when deciding to take the plunge into employment with your business. And if your brand doesn’t match job seekers expectations, or their SEO results, they’ll have no problem moving on.

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5 Ways to Engage Talent on Instagram

Social Talent

With more emphasis being placed on building a sustainable company culture and hiring people who not only have the relevant skills but also fit into this culture, employers are starting to realise the importance of social media networks to achieve their recruitment goals. A recent survey by SHRM confirms this as they found that recruiting via social media is growing with 84% of organisations using it currently and 9% planning to use it (see the graph below depicting this growth trend).

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How Recruitment Will Get “Uberised”

The Whiteboard

You know how the English Oxford Dictionary always releases new words each year that have become such a common part of the language that they earn a place all of their own? I’m pretty sure that Uber will be there soon, or more specifically the verb “to Uberise” As a word it already existed of course, just in the German language instead.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Improve Your Job Descriptions for Higher Quality Applicants

Recruitics

Recently, we’ve been talking a lot about how talent acquisition professionals in all industries can benefit from adopting marketing best practices. In fact, in part one of the series we covered how to apply marketing best practices to recruitment , which was followed by the do’s and don’ts of writing effective job titles. In this post, we’re going to move away from best practices and job titles, and discuss the meat and potatoes of every job posting: the job description.

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Source of Hire 2016 (Infographic)

Social Talent

SilkRoad’s Top Sources of Hire Report is back for 2016 with an analysis of millions of applications, and hundreds of thousands of interviews and hires. This year’s survey sees the Texas-based Indeed continue to reign supreme over external candidate sourcing for talent acquisition, providing more than 6 times as many interviews as the next largest external source—and nearly two and half times as many hires as all the other top-branded job sites combined.

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I Recruit Therefore I Phone

The Whiteboard

I enjoyed this recent article from NZ recruiter Karl Harenburg reminding us of the importance of picking up the phone. It sounds so obvious yet we appear to have reached an era of such information overload that I think it really is the only way to cut through all the noise nowadays. We had a team gathering yesterday with our Business Managers from Christchurch and Wellington joining us in Auckland and part of the meeting centered around what we found to be the most effective sales tools.

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A Checklist for Recruiting Exceptional People

NPA Worldwide

Lou Adler , CEO and bestselling author, has come up with a method and checklist for finding exceptional talent. The 10 steps are based on Performance-Based Hiring techniques and marketing that he finds the most effective. Prepare a preliminary performance-based job description. You need to find ways to attract the best, not weed out the weak. Determine the employee value proposition (EVP).

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5 Traits You Should Be Looking For In New Hires

Hoops

When deciding what traits to look for in your recruiting pool, there are lots of opinions and little consensus. Some experts claim that optimal traits are role-dependent: the personality traits that make a great customer service rep aren't the same ones possessed by an outstanding salesperson. Others say the only thing that matters is ‘fit’, the holy grail that is almost impossible to quantify.

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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 to: Write Your LinkedIn Summary Like a LinkedIn Influencer

Social Talent

We trawl through and judge candidates on their LinkedIn summaries all day, every day trying to determine if they have what it takes to do the job we or our client needs them to do. But have you ever stopped to consider what a candidate might think of your LinkedIn summary if the shoe were on the other foot? Many recruiters seem to forget that LinkedIn works both ways.

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What Are the Top Companies to Work for in 2016?

Indeed

What are the top companies to work for in America? It’s an important question, and here at Indeed we have data that can help answer it. In fact, we host over 10 million employee reviews, making Indeed the largest online resource of its kind in the world. We wanted to know which companies have the highest number of satisfied employees, so we crunched the data on the Fortune 500 to identify the 50 with the best reviews—the top 50 companies to work for in America.

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The 6 Best Alternatives to LinkedIn for Recruiting

Beamery

LinkedIn makes everything pretty easy – you might even ask why you need to bother looking for alternatives for recruiting. It’s essentially developed into a huge, professional A-Z, supposedly stuffed full of great candidates that are waiting for you to contact them. The problem is that it sending messages to candidates on LinkedIn is hit and miss.

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The Essential Recruiting Metrics – From Startup to Enterprise

RecruitLoop

Recruiting metrics are absolutely essential, as long as you are tracking the most relevant activities for you and your team … and your priorities can certainly shift depending on the circumstances.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Top 10 Worst Bosses from TV and Movies

Social Talent

We can all relate to the idea of a boss that makes our blood boil! Whether it’s past or current (we hope it’s the former!), terrible bosses can hassle you, annoy you, be overbearing or all of the above to the point where it is just impossible to work for them. Because this topic is so popular with the masses, TV and the silver screen have jumped on the bandwagon and have brought us some of the most funny and most irritating bosses we have ever come across.

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Why Hiring New Employees with Military Experience is a Great Opportunity for Your Business

iCIMS

It may not seem obvious at first, but military experience in an applicant can be extremely rewarding to your business organization.

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Out With Old Recruitment KPIs, In With the New

FireFish Software

Throughout the years I’ve spent working in recruitment, I’ve always been a fan of recruitment KPIs. They provide guidelines, and a way for recruiters to focus their activities in order to fulfil business plans and goals.

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May Expert Sessions – Candidate Features Deep Dive

Newton Software

Making Recruiting Easier. You won’t want to miss this month’s Expert Session line-up including new feature overviews, a smart way to merge duplicate applicants, tips to polish up your job descriptions, and a tool to make scheduling interviews a breeze! Take a look at the full schedule below and click on the links to register. COMING IN MAY.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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5 Ways to Engage Talent on Twitter

Social Talent

The second and final part of our Social Recruiting series is on Twitter recruitment. Twitter has recently just celebrated its 10th anniversary and to say it has evolved in that time would be an understatement! Because of its massive professional audience, it has always been a powerful tool that employers can use to network very easily and connect qualified candidates with open positions without breaking the bank.

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What’s Worse: No Work Culture or a Negative One?

Undercover Recruiter

I recently read an article on FastCompany.com entitled, “Why a Negative Work Culture Is Better Than No Culture at All.” Much of the article centered around Victor Ho, the CEO of FiveStars – a customer loyalty network for small businesses. Ho, who worked on Wall Street before cofounding the company with another former Wall Streeter, talked about. View Article.

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How to Make a Better Recruiting Video

Symphony Talent

As video becomes an even bigger part of inbound marketing strategies to attract consumers, it’s finding an important role in recruitment marketing strategies to engage top talent. Findings from the 2015 Candidate Experience survey show that candidates purposefully look on career sites for employee testimonials (34.9%) and answers to why people work there (30.8%).

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4 Recruiting Podcasts to Listen To

Stack Overflow

How did we entertain ourselves during our commutes before podcasts were a thing? (Oh yeah, there was this thing called “the radio.”) If you look hard enough, there is a podcast for each and every niche topic, and recruiting is no exception. Here are just a few of the best recruiting podcasts we’ve found. Feel free to share your favorites with us in the comments.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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The ‘Uberization’ of Recruitment: What You Need to Know

Social Talent

The ‘online gig economy’ is such a buzzword these days – but what exactly does it mean? In a nutshell, the online gig economy is basically about workers for various platforms who utilise new technologies and markets for alternative work arrangements. So we’re talking about the likes of Uber and Lyft drivers, AirBnB hosts, Hassle.com cleaners, and so on.

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Why Hiring New Employees with Military Experience is a Great Opportunity for Your Business

iCIMS

It may not seem obvious at first, but military experience in an applicant can be extremely rewarding to your business organization.

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Undercover Sourcing Trends Exposed

Newton Software

Don’t let the secret out. Finding new ways to source candidates will always be at the top of the priority list for a recruiter. But shhhh…. don’t give your secrets away! In case you’ve missed one of the latest trends, the Wall Street Journal blew the cover off one of Silicon Valley’s recruiting secrets. The University of Waterloo has been a hotbed of top engineering talent.

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The Daily Routine of Professional High Fliers

FireFish Software

Everyone wants to be successful. Human beings are just wired that way; we seek out success and gravitate towards successful people. Whether that’s in our professional lives, or in our extra-curricular activities like sport, people enjoy the positive feeling that achieving something brings.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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What Recruiters Can Learn from Leicester City

Social Talent

This week Leicester City shocked the sporting world when the ‘little team that could’ romped home to win the Premier League title and a legacy that will last long after the season has passed. What can we, as recruiters, learn from Claudio Ranieri’s Foxes successes on the pitch? Incentivise your team’s performance in a meaningful way.

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Secrets to a Successful Tech Culture: A Chat With CareerBuilder’s CIO

CareerBuilder

While it’s true that members of CareerBuilder IT team often walk around the office in jeans, t-shirts and flip flops – and enjoy things many other tech companies do, like half-day Fridays in the summer and wellness reimbursement — there’s something about the culture at CareerBuilder that’s different enough to make employees not only join, but stay — often for many, many years.

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10 Job Search Tips for College Grads

Yoh

It’s finally here – graduation day! There are probably plenty of people telling you what to do next, but is anyone preparing your next real journey: finding a job.

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