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3 Reasons Why You Needed HR Tech Yesterday

JazzHR

Recruiting. Engagement. Performance. Culture. Intelligence. IMHO. Hype. 3 Reasons Why You Needed HR Tech Yesterday. Written by: Amanda Groves on 08.16.2016. The work of HR teams is no longer limited to traditional recruiting tasks – but has grown to include promoting, marketing, and advertising jobs to targeted groups of candidates. To do this effectively, companies need to arm their HR departments with software and technology to keep pace with talent trends and get an edge on the competit

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Are You Delivering on Your Employment Brand?

ExactHire Recruiting

What is an employment brand? In short, it’s how employees and potential employees view you as an employer. As a business you go through the painstaking process of identifying your ideal customers and what they value, than work tirelessly to deliver. Your employment brand is no different. It is what defines you in the labor market–internal and external.

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Gridlocked Auckland is Holding Up Recruitment

The Whiteboard

I have long bemoaned, in true whinging Pom style, Auckland’s lack of infrastructure to handle the rapidly growing population of NZ’s largest city. Traffic in Auckland has gone beyond a joke. Whilst the forests of orange cones festooning our clogged arterial routes suggest a significant game of catch-up is being played, the release of the much vaunted Unitary Plan this week means that another 400,000+ abodes can now be built by increasing the density.

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What NBC’s Olympic Coverage Can Teach You About Recruiting

Hoops

The Rio Olympics took place in front of 78,000 live spectators and was watched by well over 33.4 million viewers on NBC. As usual, the games have been a showcase for the most talented athletes from scores of countries competing in a plethora of events, some of which we only get to see televised every four years (equestrian dressage anyone?). NBC paid over $1 billion dollars for broadcasting rights, and whether they would be able to get maximum return on this investment has been a discussion poi

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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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Emotions Are Killing Your Diversity Recruiting Efforts

ApplicantPro

Diversity recruiting is a tricky game. And according to this ERE article , diversity recruiting has a ninety-five percent failure rate. Diversity recruiting also hasn’t improved since 1985 says this FastCompany article citing some data presented by the EEOC. If you’re an HR professional tasked with the impossible chore of increasing your diversity recruiting efforts, where do you start in the quest to up the diversity at your company while still juggling your equally as demanding hiring respo

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10 Ways Usain Bolt Is Exactly Like A Sourcing Ninja

Social Talent

What an athlete! Usain Bolt has taken gold yet again in the Olympic 100m, making him the first person to win the Olympic 100m three consecutive times. As we drooled over his innate ability to effortlessly leave runners in his wake every time he hits the track, we found that his skills and characteristics very much resemble a Sourcing Ninja. If you don’t know what a Sourcing Ninja is, it is a recruiter who, using our platform , has mastered the art of internet recruitment to find, attract a

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5 Crucial Elements to Creating a Memorable Job Description

Leoforce

“Humans make relationships harder than they need to be. At our very core, we crave only three things: To feel safe. To feel like we belong. To feel like we matter. That’s it”, says Marissa Levin , Founder and CEO of Successful Culture. My guess is that high-quality candidates aren’t flocking to your ads, yet you keep creating the very same kind of post.

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How To Make The Job Interview More Relaxing

Spark Hire

A job interview can be nerve-wracking for people on both sides of the equation. Job seekers worry they won’t get the job. Even if they have the perfect resume, they can’t manage to stop fidgeting or rambling on during the interview. And that anxiety prevents you from getting an accurate idea about what the candidate is really like. Sitting through interview after interview can frustrate you and make you wonder whether or not you’ll ever find the right candidate.

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Are You Delivering on Your Employment Brand?

ExactHire Recruiting

What is an employment brand? In short, it’s how employees and potential employees view you as an employer. As a business you go through the painstaking process of identifying your ideal customers and what they value, than work tirelessly to deliver. Your employment brand is no different. It is what defines you in the labor market–internal and external.

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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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5 Ways to Juggle Your Busy Day as a Recruiter

Social Talent

Recruitment is a juggling act, especially within an agency. Sometimes, you can feel like the candidates, clients and processes you’re juggling are all in place, floating above you and within easy reach. But other times, those juggling balls come tumbling down and you have to scramble to grab them all before they roll away to the feet of your competitors.

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3 Things Jay Cutler Can Teach You About Talent Acquisition

HarQen

The start of the NFL season is right around the corner. It’s about this time that Bears fans, network analysts and former players weigh-in on Jay Cutler. Like him or hate him, his career outlines some key points about talent acquisition. Consistency Matters. Constant change will negatively affect even the extremely talented. The best quarterbacks in the NFL have all been in the same offensive system for multiple years.

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Healthcare HR: Understanding a Recruitment Bellwether

Recruitics

There’s no doubt that hiring today is more difficult than ever before. As we discussed in a recent post , more than two-thirds of today’s hiring companies cannot find the candidates they’re looking for, according to data from SHRM. As context, that number is up nearly 20 percent year-over-year. But what has caused hiring to become more difficult? We might be able to answer that question by looking at one of the bellwethers of the recruitment space: the healthcare industry.

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Before You Hire Your Next Employee, Read Glassdoor

Hoops

That candidate you hired today will likely write your company’s next review on Glassdoor. What do you want it to say? . If you peruse the annual lists of best companies to work for, the ones with outstanding reviews and a slew of virtual thumbs up on Glassdoor, they share some characteristics that are centered on optimizing the employee experience, from recruitment to onboarding to development.

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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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Tech Recruiting: What Everyone in an IT Department Actually Does

Social Talent

We have a question for you, and we’re going to need you to answer it honestly. When you think about the IT Department in your own organisation, can you honestly say that you know what every person in there actually does? Don’t be too ashamed if the answer is no. Sometimes opening up the door to the IT Department can seem like opening a door into another world.

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The Three Most Difficult Technology Jobs to Hire for Right Now

Yoh

Recruiting for technical talent hasn't been easy, and it doesn't show any signs of letting up. With the help of real-time data aggregated by Career Builder, one of the top used career sites, let's dive into the toughest tech jobs to fill, and what you can do to gain the upper hand.

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The Insiders Guide to Passive Candidates [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Here's a fantastic infographic highlighting how and why attracting passive candidates is often the best way to find to find your next employee, rather than waiting on the ideal candidate to come to you.

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Creating career paths that put people first

Workable

In the old world of work, climbing the corporate ladder was the most popular metaphor for getting ahead. In the new world of work, we recognize that there are multiple ways to advance. We get promoted but we also switch jobs, switch teams or stay in the same roles while developing our skills. Just a quick scroll through the viral #firstsevenjobs hashtag shows that straightforward career progression isn’t the norm for most people.

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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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Use These 2 Google Tools To Recruit Smarter

Social Talent

Today, recruitment is highly dynamic thanks to the evolution of technology, brand new performance drivers, solution providers, the list goes on! This means that the talent acquisition function should be compelled to embrace technology and incorporate it into their sourcing efforts, therefore adopting a more modern approach for attracting, engaging and converting talent.

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Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Shaunda Zilich, GE

Symphony Talent

In light of the upcoming Olympic games, the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference, SmashFly Transform™, and our love of recruitment marketing pioneers everywhere, our Recruitment Marketing Champion Series will. The post Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Shaunda Zilich, GE appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Why Recruiters Struggle with Digital Marketing

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Rick Mare, the founder and CEO of JXT , the number one provider of cloud-based digital marketing solutions for recruiters and corporate recruiters. Rick has coached thousands of recruiters, empowering them to take their businesses and careers to the next level. Connect with Rick on LinkedIn. Ever heard of Moore’s Law?

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Study: Which Companies Offer the Fastest Online Job Application Process?

Indeed

Chances are, at some point in your career, you’ve filled out a grueling online job application , cycling through endless drop-down menus, text fields and document-upload prompts, wondering when that final “submit” button would appear. You might have even given up out of frustration and moved on to a different opportunity. Lengthy and complicated online job applications are more a norm than a rarity, but many employers underestimate the impact these frustrating processes can have on their recruit

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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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8 USA Recruitment Agencies That You NEED to Follow on Twitter Now

Social Talent

A few weeks ago, we listed the 6 UAE Recruitment Agencies that you should follow on Twitter and because we got such a great response, we thought it would only be right to continue our tour of the globe and shine a spotlight on the USA recruitment agencies this time around! So get your phones and laptops at the ready. You’re about to go on quite the following spree!

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Four Hidden Career Site Disasters

Survale

If you’re like most companies, you spend a fair amount of time and money designing and deploying your career site. You define your employer brand, develop employee testimonials, work with design professionals and create a home for job seekers to discover what an awesome place you have to work. And then you forget about it. That’s a problem. Because from here on out, every dollar and minute you spend on recruiting ends up here on your career site.

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What does Massachusetts’ equal pay law mean for employers?

Workable

Will Massachusetts be the first state to close the gender pay gap? On August 1, the state passed the most robust equal pay law the United States has ever seen. Massachusetts’ expanded Equal Pay Act targets salary history, pay secrecy and a comprehensive definition of ‘comparable work’ as a way to break the cycle of pay disparity between men and women.

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Is the Cost of a Top College Worth it? It Depends

Indeed

A degree from a top university still holds allure for many, but with the average cost of college tuition jumping 179% over the past decade, it’s fair to question whether a bigger educational investment will pay off. A four-year degree from a top-tier private university can set you back more than $200,000 , while a degree from a public university costs on average less than half as much.

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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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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board (Infographic)

Social Talent

At Social Talent, we’re passionate about diversity (check out our Black Belt in Diversity & Inclusion programme ), and as a result, one of the things we like to keep our readers informed about is the issue of gender equality. Which is why today, we’re posting an infographic that reveals the underrepresentation of women at board level in the top 10 Fortune 500 companies: ecardshack.com.

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5 Ways Facebook Builds Its Employer Brand Through Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

With more than 1 billion users and 50 offices around the world, it is no surprise that Facebook attracts and hires top.

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Veteran Recruiting: Putting Real Life Heroes to Work

Yoh

There are currently 21.8 million U.S. veterans. Unknown to many, they account for a large portion of our current population. And with a number that high, you can imagine some of them (rather, many of them) are in need of jobs.

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