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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How to Recruit Like One of The Best Places To Work

Brazen Recruiting

It’s no secret that during Q1, many companies are focusing on attracting top talent. The 2016 LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends survey of more than 3,800 recruiters found that 62% of respondents expect an increase in their hiring volume in 2016. 62% of companies expect to hire more in 2016 than they did in 2015. Click To Tweet. Unfortunately, recruiting is a highly competitive game right now.

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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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4 Guidelines for Optimal Job Application Conversion Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

We live in an age of distraction and it’s wreaking havoc on your talent applicant sourcing process. Despite your efforts to write engaging job descriptions, post them far and wide and publicize your amazing corporate culture, your click-to-apply ratio is dismal. So what gives? While the aforementioned items are undoubtedly important factors in the talent acquisition game, another critical component is the length of your job application.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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5 Ways to Decrease Turnover

ApplicantPro

In the corporate world, a high rate of employee turnover can be a significant problem. Research suggests that for some companies it can cost up to one-fifth of an employee’s salary to find, hire and train a suitable replacement. If turnover rates are too high, this can be a cost for the company that can’t be recouped. Luckily, by improving the environment at work, practicing smart hiring strategies, and ensuring that your company stays well organized, it’s possible to keep tur

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Jazz Announces New Channel Partner Program

JazzHR

Introducing the Jazz Partner Program: Revolutionizing the SMB HR technology space. At Jazz, we’re committed to changing the way small businesses find – and hire – the right talent. It’s not just about providing the best recruiting tools or applicant tracking software, it’s about truly partnering with the small businesses we help. That’s why I’m so excited to announce that we’ve officially launched the Jazz Channel Partner Program – the first-of-its-kind program in the SMB HR technology space.

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4 Guidelines for Optimal Job Application Conversion Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

We live in an age of distraction and it’s wreaking havoc on your talent applicant sourcing process. Despite your efforts to write engaging job descriptions, post them far and wide and publicize your amazing corporate culture, your click-to-apply ratio is dismal. So what gives? While the aforementioned items are undoubtedly important factors in the talent acquisition game, another critical component is the length of your job application.

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Talent Shortages Breeding More Creative Offers

The Whiteboard

Being a Brit, I’ve naturally found myself dipping into my Guardian newspaper app with increasing regularity this week. With my old country turning its back on Europe after a majority voted for “Brexit” and then the national football team haughtily following suit by slouching off from the Euros tournament, dispatched by the mighty hammer of teeny weeny Iceland, there’s been a lot to read about.

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This is How You’re Wasting Time in the Recruiting Process

Brazen Recruiting

You post a job opening with bated breath and wait for the applications to start rolling in. You’re hopeful that you’ll find the perfect candidate soon. But days, weeks, and months go by — the position is still open. You’ve chalked it up to a lack of talent, but there’s more going on. Your recruiting process is wasting time, and it’s costing you money.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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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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The Eagle Has Landed: Employee Onboarding

ExactHire Recruiting

Competition for talented employees in today’s job market is fierce. The balance of power has swung in favor of the talented job seeker. And since these job seekers have multiple job opportunities to consider, they’re not just looking for a job that pays the bills; they’re looking for a work experience that enhances their lives. According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) August 2015 LINE Report , recruiting difficulty reached a 4-year high last July, which also made it

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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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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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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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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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The 9 Pillars of Employee Engagement

Glassdoor for Employers

At the heart of it, engagement is about people—understanding, motivating, and connecting with them. That makes engagement a complex topic. The deeper.

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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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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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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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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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Money, Ideas, and People

SmartRecruiters

Today we announced a $30m Series C financing round led by Insight Partners. This round follows two years of spectacular growth (700 new customers in 24 months) and validates SmartRecruiters as the leading candidate to disrupt the $3 billion ATS market, particularly in the enterprise segment. For me, it is another important milestone towards the realization of a simple vision.

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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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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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Why It’s Totally Illegal to Ask These 8 Interview Questions in Australia

Social Talent

Your job as a recruiter during an interview is to collect as much information as possible about a candidate and check whether they’re a good fit for your company culture. Still, some questions are simply off limits. You don’t want to offend the candidate or put your company in a bad light. Here are 8 questions you might be tempted to ask, but which you should consider entirely forbidden from the recruiting process if you’re a recruiter in Australia: 1.

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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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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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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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8 Pressing Recruitment News Stories We Need to Discuss this Week – 27th June 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: Brexit and the Recruitment Industry: Where do we go from here? So, Britain has voted to leave the EU. The decision has since sparked nationwide and worldwide debate on the impact this will have on a variety of issues including employment, the economy and life in the UK. And t he debate is also being raged as to how the decision will affect the recruitment industry.

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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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Should You Hire People with Noticeable Weaknesses?

Glassdoor for Employers

As content manager at Day Translations, I have to admit, I’m a stickler for grammar. Or more accurately, I have an ingrained.

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