Sat.Oct 11, 2014 - Fri.Oct 17, 2014

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LinkedIn Recruiter Search Result Discrepancies Explored

Boolean Black Belt

'LinkedIn search results can be different across free and premium accounts, including Recruiter. Irina posted an interesting piece on discrepancies in search results between LinkedIn Recruiter and a free LinkedIn account which prompted me to do a little digging as I don’t think I’ve ever come across materially different results in actual use.

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3 Lessons Every Job Seeker Can Learn from the World’s Oldest CV

Social Talent

'You are looking at a picture of the world’s first targeted CV. It’s 532 year’s old and, like a whole bunch of other very important stuff including the helicopter, the parachute, and scuba gear, it was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci. Uh huh, he was the very first person to put pen to paper and scribble down his skills and experience in order to convince an employer to hire him.

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Recruitment Salaries Stagnate

The Whiteboard

'Once again, the whiteboard marker is in my grubby mitts today. This week, Tyrel Oates, a disgruntled Wells Fargo employee from Portland, Oregon, hit the headlines with an email to his CEO requesting a $10,000 pay rise. An audacious move from someone working in the collections department for one of America’s biggest employers, made all the more so by the fact that he also cc-ed his colleagues.

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What to Tell Your Slow-Hiring Clients

NPA Worldwide

'If it seems like you have plenty of jobs to work on, but aren’t making lots of placements, you’re not alone. We’re hearing it anecdotally from our members and now the Dice-DHF Vacancy Duration Measure has validated it as well. It’s taking longer to fill jobs. Average time-to-fill is now 25 days, according to the Dice report , the highest it’s been in 13 years.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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What Do College Grads Think of Your Interview Process?

Glassdoor for Employers

'I’m now three weeks into the fall quarter, and I continue to hear about my peers’ summer internship experiences. Hearing both the positive and the negative, I’ve become fascinated by the interview processes different organizations have. What I learned isn’t surprising: interview processes throw up “green lights” or “red flags” for a company. Do you know what recent grads really think of your interview process?

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5 of the Hardest Manufacturing Jobs to Fill in the Industry’s 300,000 Open Jobs

CareerBuilder

'EMSI , a CareerBuilder company, recently released data about the state of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. — and found five manufacturing jobs that employers are struggling with filling the most. Although manufacturing production is growing at its fastest pace in over a decade , 302,000 manufacturing jobs remain unfilled today — and that number could rise to 875,000 by 2020 for many of these types of jobs.

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Recruiting Will P**s You Off

Recruiting Daily

'If you’re a recruiter, you will have some good days, some bad days, and some days where you are just plain pissed off. If you say you haven’t felt pissed off, I’m going to call you a bold faced liar. You see, as recruiters, we’re dealing with people. We are dealing with our candidates and our clients, we’re dealing with our new hires and our hiring managers, but that’s not all.

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Manpower’s 5 Tips For Connecting to Your Next Hire

SmartRecruiters

'Not being able to locate and hire the right talent is a problem bemoaned by many an employer of late. But are employers doing everything they can to optimize that process? A report released yesterday by ManpowerGroup based on a survey of upwards of 200 job seekers recommends that companies do more to get to know the pool of job seekers from which they’re looking to hire and take steps to better target the individuals they’re seeking.

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What Your Dream Hires Want From the Candidate Experience (Infographic)

Social Talent

'A recent Talent Board survey of 95,000 candidates found that nearly half of all positions in 2014 each had 200+ job applications. An increase of 40% since 2011. Couple that with the fact that demand for recruiters is rising and that it’s now taking far longer to fill job openings , and you will see why it has become more important than ever to attract the right candidate for the right job.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Understanding Stress Tolerance In The Plum Dashboard

Plum.io

Earlier in the year we decided our product needed an update. Our dashboard, which helped companies screen interview candidates, was great for what it was, but didn’t give our customers enough information. . So, we sat down, talked to our customers and worked out what kind of data they really needed. At the same time we re-branded and gave our website and product a redesign.

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Freezing Women’s Eggs: One of the Most Unusual Corporate Perks?

CareerBuilder

'Unlimited vacation time , nap rooms , mid-workday surfing sessions , puppy fight clubs (it’s not what it sounds like), pre-cations — you may have heard about some of these over-the-top employee perks that companies are offering to attract and retain top talent. But leave it to Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Apple to push the envelope even further by offering to pay up to $20,000 for female employees to freeze their eggs.

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Employment Bliss Can Happen for Both You and Employees–If You Hire for Retention.

SmartRecruiters

'This column originally appeared on Inc.com. Photo Credit flickr. One of my biggest hiring rules of thumb is to make sure the job candidate knows that I’m a candidate as much as he or she is a candidate. I only hire the best people, and since they are the best, they have a lot of options too. By being humble and treating the candidate as an equal, you can actually create better long-term employment relationships.

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Introducing: The Glassdoor Agency Academy!

Glassdoor for Employers

'Attention all Recruitment Advertising Professionals! Help your clients build a better employer brand and recruit top talent on Glassdoor — join us for an Agency Academy event in a city near you! Are your clients’ recruiting strategies making the grade or could they use some extra credit? If so, we invite you to join us live at Glassdoor Agency Academy, a series of half-day workshops designed to train agency professionals on Glassdoor and provide actionable insights on how to optimize your clien

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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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Why Resumes Don’t Show Your Actual Skills

Plum.io

How many times have you worked on your resume? How many times has it been carefully edited and tweaked? . Five, ten, fifteen – or is it so many you’ve lost count? . That’s the case for most job seekers. Little edits that smooth over parts of a career history you can’t remember or want to make sound better, until its a carefully crafted reflection of some of your skills, but not all of them. .

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Recruitment Advertising Strategies to Improve Applicant Quality and ROI

iCIMS

In this co-presentation with Start Date Labs we talk about multi-channel recruitment marketing and the true ROI of recruiting with niche job board posting, mobile, social media, employee referral programs, and career microsites.

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Workplace, salary and benefits for startups

Workable

You’re not going to compete on salary with Google and Facebook but you need to get survival out of mind. Even your earliest hires – and that includes you, the founder – will need to pay bills. You Can’t Pay For Groceries With Equity. Some startups go to extremes, trying to make their runway last longer. Don’t build your runway on the backs of an exhausted and underpaid team.

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Selling Your Government Jobs to Tech Candidates [Slide Share]

Recruiting.com

'No one can do their jobs these days without technical support. It doesn’t matter if you’re a private business or a public agency, it’s simply impossible to function without the use of technology. The challenge is actually recruiting people who can support your technical initiatives.This is especially true for government organizations who compete with private-sector employers.

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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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Why Data Based Hiring is the Only Path to a Quality Hire

Plum.io

Only a few more interviews to go. You’ve been in the same room for hours already, drinking coffee, shaking hands, asking questions, conferring with colleagues, glancing over long since forgotten resumes. . You can’t wait to get this over with. . A few candidates have caught your eye so far. They might even get called back for a second interview. Your boss sends you an email, asking how its going.

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Aberdeen Report: Reverse Recruiting Regression

iCIMS

A harsh reality of the current HCM environment is that too many organizations have regressed in their talent acquisition efforts. Here are a few steps to get back on track.

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With the Distribution of Income Growth Out Of Whack Can Employee Satisfaction Be Sustained?

Hire-Intelligence

'Assistant Professor of Economics at Bard College and Levy Institute Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva recently published the following chart, which has gotten a lot of notice by the press.

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Jobvite Unveils Smart Scheduler Feature

Jobvite

Imagine that you are scheduling an onsite interview with a candidate who needs to meet with seven interviewers. You sift through each individual’s limited availability. Trying to coordinate only one interviewer with one candidate can be difficult enough, but you also have to parse through a plethora of meeting rooms to find one that fits the 10 hour time block you are limited to.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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What are Competencies

Plum.io

Two candidates walk into an interview. This isn’t the start of a joke, but it could be … this has a punch line. . Both have the same level of technical and management skills. The job requires mid-level project management experience (5 – 7 years), which means looking after a $5 million R&D budget, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, clients, reporting to senior regional executives once a month, and managing a team of 15 direct reports. .

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Aberdeen Report: Reverse Recruiting Regression

iCIMS

A harsh reality of the current HCM environment is that too many organizations have regressed in their talent acquisition efforts. Here are a few steps to get back on track.

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How Email Alerts Hinder Your Productivity

Staffing Talk

'" Those email alerts passing across your screen that you think are helping you are actually costing you - and your company - time and productivity. [.

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Jobvite Unveils Smart Scheduler Feature

Jobvite

Imagine that you are scheduling an onsite interview with a candidate who needs to meet with seven interviewers. You sift through each individual’s limited availability. Trying to coordinate only one interviewer with one candidate can … Continued.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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How Well Do You Know Yourself?

Plum.io

It sounds like fortune cookie wisdom. Like something Yoda would say: Know yourself, yes, that is the way of the Force. . Thing is, the whole self improvement industry which has become massive during the last few decades, is founded on age old wisdom, which actually works. There’s no secret to it either. No trick. You don’t need to go to an Ashram in India to meditate for a few months.

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Navigating the Tricky Liability Issues of a Pre-Employment Background Screening

iCIMS

As an employer, you know that paying for a pre-employment background screening can end up saving you money in the long run.

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How French Socialists Stay Wealthy with Fake Jobs

Staffing Talk

'" [image: socialist French President who claims in public to "not like" wealthy people refers to poor people in private as "toothless" ("sans dents")]The French left has no shortage of ways to milk the system. They are quite clever, and in fact I''ve not heard of a fake-job scam in the USA similar… [.