Sat.Jun 25, 2016 - Fri.Jul 01, 2016

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Recruiter KPIs. From Crap to Credible.

Greg Savage

Mostly, recruiters hate KPIs. Often, relentless focus on KPIs does more harm than good. Routinely, Managers drive old-school KPIs because they are bereft of any new ideas to increase productivity, and sad to say, the less success delivered by the old tactics, the more the manager pushes the KPI! It’s a destructive cycle of pain […].

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Embracing Candor: Improve Performance with Direct Feedback

JazzHR

“He said what?!”. Have you ever had the same conversation with someone multiple times over? You’ve talked to Jimmy three times in the past quarter but the message hasn’t gotten through. Despite your best efforts and professionalism, the problem continues to occur. Maybe its time for a tactical change not only for you, but your organization as well. Let’s talk about the embracing of candor by organizations across the world.

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5 Ways To Use Video For Talent Attraction

Proactive Talent

Is your company still relying on text-based recruitment marketing in a visual world? The thing is, candidates want to know what it's really like to work at your company, and a bullet list of skills and a blanket sell statement about the company in a job description just doesn't cut it anymore. There is just no better platform than video to create that emotional attraction to a company and job opportunity -- and I'll tell you why!

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6 Clever Ways to Use Your LinkedIn Headline to Boost Your Recruiting Efforts

Social Talent

a. According to LinkedIn , when it comes to writing our LinkedIn profile headline, too many of us take a “just-the-facts” approach, listing only our job title and our company in the 120 character slot – an approach they believe stops many of us from realising the true potential of the most prominent text on our LinkedIn profile after our name. .

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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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Takeaways from Jobg8 Job Board Summit of North America 2016

Recruitics

Last week, major players in the job board space gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Jobg8 Job Board Summit of North America. Between June 23-24, job board professionals, experts and thought leaders from across the country and throughout the world gathered to discuss this constantly evolving space. Here are a few quick takeaways to digest: Despite age old fears that job boards might destroy the staffing industry, recent data shows that staffing agencies are in fact earning higher revenues than ever

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Glassdoor Pets at Work Photo Contest: See the Winners

Glassdoor for Employers

Last week, employees across the country brought their furry friends to work in celebration of Bring Your Pet To Work Day. In.

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20 of the Funniest Office Pranks You Will Ever See

Social Talent

We’re not going to lie: sometimes you need pranking in the office to help you make it to that 5.30pm mark. You can only engage in small talk with your colleagues so many times throughout the week. So we decided to check out the archives of pranks over the years and pick our favourite 20. From perfect impersonations to food stealing debacles, we guarantee you will laugh out loud at these pranks.

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5 Expert Secrets To Increase Workplace Diversity

Spark Hire

Think about all of the job candidates you’ve interviewed recently. Did they have the same resumes or the same answers to your interview questions? Were they all dressed in the same nondescript ways? It might not be something you notice right away, but unless you focus on workplace diversity in your hiring process , it’ll leave you with candidates and employees who are all the same.

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Is Your Recruiting Process Aligned With Your Culture?

Hoops

What is ‘culture’ in the workplace? Is it a set of guidelines articulated in the mission statement? Is it the way company leaders treat employees, or the way employees treat each other? Does it exist inside the building only, or does culture also influence attitudes and behavior towards customers and prospective hires? The reality is that culture is all of these things.

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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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The 11 Most Important Sourcing Best Practices

Beamery

In today’s hyper-competitive talent market, sourcing is probably the most valuable recruiting skill for anyone concerned about hiring high quality candidates. Put simply, many of the best candidates don’t apply anymore. It’s on you and your team to get proactive, and go out and find them! With that in mind, we’ve put together the 11 most important sourcing best practices to help you identify and approach candidates on any medium you choose. 1.

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LinkedIn Skills is Back!

Social Talent

Back in October 2015, the eagle-eyed Irina Shamaeva noticed that (after killing the popular and extremely useful LinkedIn Skills product back in 2013), LinkedIn had introduced a new skills section to it’s lesser known Topics pages. While LinkedIn’s Topics pages had only previously been designed to provide curious users with information on universities, companies, and certain industries, in late 2015 the professional network started to use the platform to build out a new and improved

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July Bootcamp – How to Hire a Successful Recruiter

Newton Software

A Wrong Hire is Costly. Hiring the Wrong Recruiter is Catastrophic! Making a bad hire is costly. In fact, experts say that the real cost of a bad hire is 2 to 3 times the salary level for that position. So what happens when your bad hire happens to be the very person that will be making hires for you? Avoid hiring mistakes that will lead to losses in productivity, morale, job knowledge, reputation and internal customer satisfaction.

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The Best Way to Measure Your Recruiting Efforts: Source of Influence

Glassdoor for Employers

The candidate journey is no longer a linear experience that consists of a candidate deciding to look for a job, screening ads,

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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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4 Automation Techniques That Will Make You Rethink Recruitment

Entrepreneur

Automation does the grudge work so you have more time and attention for getting to know the people who will build your company.

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The Quickest Way To Scan A Resume

Social Talent

You are promoting a brand new open position down your channels and you are getting tonnes of applications – great start! Now you have to set aside a block of time to actually review these stacks of resumes. Reviewing resumes can be a massively time-consuming task and as a result become a bottleneck when trying to achieve a your time-to-hire goals.

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7 Ways to Stand Out to Passive Candidates

RecruitLoop

A passive candidate is someone who is not necessarily looking for a new job, but would be open to taking a new job if the right offer comes along.

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The false economy of unpaid internships

Workable

The word ‘intern’ has an ironic double meaning: to work as a trainee and to confine someone as a prisoner. Most articles about unpaid internships explore this irony from the intern’s perspective. They’re often just glorified coffee gofers who don’t earn or learn anything. Or they’re de-facto full-time workers who hope unpaid work will be their gateway to paid jobs.

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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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4 Smart Moves for Winning the Competition for Top Talent

Entrepreneur

A thoroughly professional interview process is essential to attracting and signing the people who can drive your company.

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Brexit. Now What for Recruiters?

FireFish Software

Britain voted to leave the EU in last week’s referendum. For many business leaders this came as a shock. What does it mean for the economy? How will it affect employment? How will it impact life in the UK? The simple answer to these questions is: we don’t know. Everything about Brexit is unpredictable, and it’s difficult to gauge what the lasting effects of the referendum will be.

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3 Things Developers Want to See More Often in Tech Job Listings

Stack Overflow

I’m willing to bet that a lot of the advice you’ve read about writing compelling tech job listings came at the exact moment(s) you thought, “Wow, I’m pretty great at this.” The timing of these discoveries can be frustrating, but it’s no secret that developers have strong opinions about the things they see in job postings. And if you want to make a great first impression, it’s important to understand what does (and doesn’t) resonate with developers when they read a job listings.

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The Impact of Brexit on Job Search, in 5 Charts

Indeed

Last week’s vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union has plunged the continent into a state of crisis. No country has left the bloc since Greenland quit the EU’s predecessor, the European Economic Community, in 1985—and while negotiations over the UK’s departure are supposed to take two years under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, nobody knows when this process will start.

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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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Low-Cost Ways to Engage Your Employees

CareerBuilder

Employee engagement can be difficult at any time of year, but summer poses particular challenges in most workplaces. Clockwatching may become the activity of choice at your small business as workers count down the minutes until they can putter around in their gardens or fire up the grill. How can you compete with sunshine? While going to work may never be as fun as basking on the beach, plenty of opportunities exist to make the dog days of summer more pleasant for your employees.

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Sourcing Hacks 101: How to find your next engineer on GitHub (and discover their hidden email address)

1-Page

No matter the industry you work in, if you’re recruiting for technical roles, you know competition is as tough as it gets. Like any specialist role, it also requires you to get creative and think outside the box by sourcing in places you may not normally look. Among the various challenges this recruiting process generally faces, the most common continues to be engagement.

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Jobvite Employee Spotlight: Weijen Hsu

Jobvite

At Jobvite, our company culture is fueled by the enthusiasm of our employees. We pride ourselves on having a workplace that’s fun and engaging, and a smart and motivated team that loves coming to work every day and making the magic happen. Today, our Employee Spotlight series showcases Weijen Hsu, our Senior Software Engineer and Big Data Wizard who works hard, plays hard, and magically delivers great work with a smile. 1.

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How Your Unconscious Mind Could Be Hiding Employees’ True Potential

Indeed

You strive to make rational hiring decisions, but make no mistake—your hidden brain is at work, and it could be obscuring high-potential individuals. NPR science correspondent Shankar Vedantam says we all share normal brain functions that can lead to biased thinking and impact our ability to recognize top talent. Vedantam stopped by Indeed Interactive to share research and insights from his award-winning book and podcast , The Hidden Brain.

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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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4 Best Practices From the Talent Acquisition Trenches

CareerBuilder

Whether you are new to recruitment or a veteran in the industry, it’s interesting to see how your peers are helping to move the industry forward with innovative insights and practical recruitment wisdom. That’s why we got a panel of experts — those deep in the talent acquisition trenches — together at CareerBuilder’s Empower 2016 Roadshow in Philadelphia to talk about best practices.

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Why Using Boolean Search to Source Tech Candidates is Worth Your Time

Stack Overflow

It’s easy to look at Boolean search strings and think, “That looks terrifying. I don’t have time to decode whatever that says.” Because it’s origins lie within algebra and computer science, you’re not alone in thinking that some of the concepts appear a bit confusing. When it comes to sourcing tech candidates, Boolean doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Tailoring Your Onboarding Strategy for Different Types of Learners

Undercover Recruiter

Let’s face it… in the war for talent, it’s a candidate’s market. While unemployment figures remain high, employers looking for candidates with unique and hard-to-find skill sets will always know the ideal candidate’s value to their company, and the monetary losses they face if the job goes unfilled. The impetus then falls on the employer. View Article.