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Recruitment. The best it’s been for a decade!

Greg Savage

Three years ago, in response to a barrage of predictions that the recruitment industry was on the verge of destruction, I wrote a piece called ‘Agency recruitment is not dying. It’s growing.’ And it was. And it is now too. I have done a quick review of recent recruitment company results (mostly published in industry […].

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Are You One of LinkedIn’s Most Predictable Recruiters?

Social Talent

There’s no second chance to make a good first impression. Recruiters pour a lot of time and effort into investigating and prepping candidates. They pour over resumes and sift through the keywords to try and tease out the most eligible candidate. However, this is a two-way system. Candidates need a recruiter that has their best interest at heart.

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Human Resources Today: Interview with Joanne McDonagh 2017 MVP Awards Winner

Rezoomo

Joanne McDonagh, blogger at Rezoomo, won First Place in the Talent Acquisition Category of Human Resources Today’s 2017 MVP Awards. Our judges and audience at HRT had hundreds of nominated articles to read through, so her article, 2018 Trends in Candidate Experience – What You Need To Know, really was the best of the best! Now that it’s been a few months since the conclusion of the awards, Shelley Trout, editor at Human Resources Today, has some questions for her.

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Putting the 'Total' in Total Talent Management

Allegis Global Solutions

We all know the biggest disruptors of the last ten years were; globalization, demographic changes and speed of technological advancements but what’s next?

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Ace Your I-9 Compliance: How HR Can Navigate the End of I-9 Virtual Review

Speaker: David Secunda, Co-Founder and CEO of WorkBright

Did your company inspect I-9 documents virtually? Hot off the press from ICE, you have until August 30th, 2023 to document a physical inspection of those documents! If you’re not sure what exactly this means for your organization or are struggling to physically review I-9 documents with remote employees, join WorkBright for a 60 minute deep-dive and Q&A on the end of I-9 virtual review.

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Sourcing Is the New Recruiting

ERE SourceCon

I have some excellent news for you. Sourcing is the place to be in talent acquisition today! Recruiting as it has traditionally been known is going away. Increasingly companies are adopting recruitment process automation, and that means that there even as demand for talent increases the need for traditional full lifecycle recruiters will decrease. Adaptation of interview and assessment technology will allow companies to automate much of the work that full life cycle recruiters do today.

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Job Seeker Nation Report: 82% of Job Seekers Seeking New Opportunities

ERE

If there’s one thing that jumps out from Jobvite’s 2018 Job Seeker Nation Study , it’s this: they hit you immediately with the huge changes going on today in the world of recruitment and talent acquisition.

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How to Build a Toxic Culture in your Start-up

The King's Shilling

Are you a founder of a company? Recently promoted MD or CEO? Would you like to shake things up and do things in a new way? Wouldn’t you like to replicate what the truly great companies you’ve read about online do? Building a great culture means happier people, more productivity and better decor! What’s not to love! Here are some handy hints to help you take control and build the culture you crave!

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5 Tips for Filling Hard-to-Fill Positions

Glassdoor for Employers

As an employer or recruiter, you certainly want to fill positions with the best talent you can find. But this process can be challenging. Recruiting.

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Look At Me: A Perspective on Privilege

Katrina Kibben

My perspective on privilege is probably a little different from most. But this is one of those thoughts I couldn't get out of my head.

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Asking the Humans: Using People Data to Create a Great Employee Experience

Speaker: Karen Weeks, Chief People Officer at Ordergroove

As HR professionals, we always want to make sure the work we are doing, the programs we are rolling out, and the perks we offer have the most value and impact to the team. How can we determine what that means for our organizations? We need to ask our team! In this webinar, we will be focusing on where and how to use surveys and other feedback tools to collect data and, more importantly, what to do with it once we have it.

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Employing Individuals with Disabilities May Solve Your Talent Crisis

Entrepreneur

Employment rates won't change until companies begin to shift attitudes and awareness about people with disabilities.

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Some recruiters are history. Others will thrive. How about you?

Greg Savage

My 250-word blog on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on recruitment and recruiters generated a lot of banter. So I decided to look more closely at how the job of the recruiter will change. Will they exist at all? Let me say right now I am very confident about our industry. I am investing in […].

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2019 HR trends: predictions from the experts

Recruitee

You're sick of seeing the same old "trends" floating around year after year. And you don't think 2019 HR trends will be any different. How is it a "trend" if it hasn't changed from the year before? Well, these 2019 HR trend predictions are the result of reaching out to the experts. We asked them to come up with something unique. Something.

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The 20 Hottest Companies for Job Seekers in 2018

Indeed

With the unemployment rate hitting record lows, the battle for talent is on. Big or small, every company has to fight to win the attention of today’s savvy job seeker. Of course, everybody is different and has a unique set of priorities, so there is no single way to attract talent. That said, there are some things that many people find attractive — for instance, the opportunity to perform meaningful or innovative work, high wages, flexible conditions and the potential for career growth opportuni

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Bridging the Gap: Strategies to Boost and Evaluate Your DEI Initiatives

Speaker: Cassandra Binkley, SHRM-CP, PHR - DEI Leader and Sr. Manager of Community, Engagement & Philanthropy at Bob Evans Farms, Inc.

Those who have firsthand experience with your work environment may be the best people to help bridge the gap between your organization and future DEIB initiatives. Like never before, we're seeing companies turn to voluntary, employee-led groups to ensure these initiatives are met while supporting the goals of the organization and increasing employee retention.

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15 New Recruiting Trends You Should Implement in 2019 [UPDATED]

TalentLyft

This list of 2019 recruiting trends should be your guide for improving your recruiting strategy. 2019 will bring a new set of recruiting trends that will significantly impact your recruiting process. Are you ready to implement these new recruiting trends or will you be left behind? Read More.

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How Being an Agency Recruiter/Headhunter Makes You a Better Corporate Recruiter

ERE SourceCon

Yeah, yeah, I know, staffing agencies and headhunters can be a pain sometimes. Look, I’m not trying to offend anyone, I made many of those annoying phone calls for about three years before I joined the corporate world. I continue to maintain numerous agency relationships and develop new ones from time to time. A quality person who has acquired broad, trusted relationships in specific verticals such as IT, insurance (for me), marketing, etc., can be a valuable ally in the recruiting world.

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What’s the Trick to Managing Employees? It’s Simple — Just Let Them Manage You

Fistful of Talent

A few years ago, I was working as Editor of a fairly well-known talent management magazine and found myself engaged in one of my frequent discussions with the publisher over something. I don’t remember what the subject was, but at some point I said something that seemed to startle my publisher. His face contorted, turned red, and he barked something at me I had never, ever heard a boss say to me before — “Stop trying to manage me!

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The Future of Career Sites

ERE

The corporate career site has now been with us for 20 years. In that time technology has advanced at a blistering pace, mobile devices and social media have revolutionized the way we experience the Internet, and many employers have significantly changed the way they think about recruitment and employer branding. Despite this, career sites have changed very little in the same time period, design trends have moved on, and thankfully flash websites are a thing of the past.

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Investing in HR Software: How to Get Internal Buy-in

Buying HR software is a major decision. That’s why finding the right provider based on your needs and ensuring key decision makers are on board is vital. Download Paycor’s guide for tips to address common concerns across your buying committee.

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5 Tips and Tools to Keep Remote Teams on Track

CakeHR

With the rise of technology, there has been a number of changes in the conventional style of working. People have moved on from 9-to-5-office-going culture and embraced work-from-home-work-style. The trend has enabled companies to hire and work with the best talents around the world overcoming time and space constraints. One must bear in mind that working with a remote team requires a little more attention than managing an in-house team.

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6 Signs You?ve Found the Right Candidate

Glassdoor for Employers

Most recruiters are aware of the red flags they should watch out for in candidates: showing up late, trash talking a past.

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How to approach GDPR legitimate interest in recruiting

Workable

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides six lawful bases for processing personal data. Two of them – legitimate interest and consent – are very relevant to recruiting. But while consent is strictly defined and simple to grasp, legitimate interest is vague and idiosyncratic. And that’s what makes legitimate interest a challenge for employers.

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6 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged During the Holiday Season

Entrepreneur

In the workplace it can be hard to balance a festive atmosphere while simultaneously keeping employees focused and productive.

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What Is the Actual Cost of an Open Role in Your Company?

In today's tight labor market, hiring and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Every day a job remains unfilled means lost productivity and revenue. But vacancies can affect much more than your revenue. There are multiple direct and indirect costs, and it's crucial to adapt your recruiting strategies to prioritize the most costly open roles.

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The length of your life is not as important as exploring its full width.

Greg Savage

My life??? 1958 – 2043. That’s what my tombstone will say. If the Shiraz does not get me sooner, and I last that long. It could easily say 1958 – 2018. (Although I sincerely hope not!) But that’s the point. The dates themselves are not that important, as long as they are a reasonable span […].

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8 Ways Recruiters Can Grow Their IT Technical Knowledge

Hiretual

The majority of recruiters start out being generalists in their career. I started my career with just a bachelors in marketing and communications. I had absolutely no understanding of computer science. I was able to take a few STEM courses and wrote my first wordpress site using basic HTML and PHP.

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Top-Rated Workplaces: Culture

Indeed

Culture — everybody talks about it, but how do you get it? And what does it look like? Culture can be one of the most defining aspects of a company, and great culture happens when company values are supported by behaviors, systems and practices. What that means is it’s not enough to just say what company values are — employees must feel those values in their experience of what goes on in the company day to day.

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Employer Branding (EB) vs. Recruitment Marketing (RM): The difference

TalentLyft

There is a distinct difference between Employer Branding (EB) and Recruitment Marketing (RM). As an HR professional, it is essential that you understand the difference between these two terms so you can effectively utilize them together to attract top candidates. Read More.

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The Essential Guide to Leading a Strategic Talent Acquisition Function

Are you looking to be more strategic and help your team succeed? Uncover everything from how to build your "why" through gaining support for your TA initiatives in the eBook, A Seat at the Table: Guide to Leading a Strategic Talent Acquisition Function.

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The Power and Importance of Storytelling in Recruitment

ERE SourceCon

Since the beginning of time, we’ve told stories to share ideas, events, and knowledge. Storytelling is one of the oldest ways to get people together. Back in the days when there was no TV, internet or other perks specific to our modern society, people used to gather and tell stories of what they saw, heard or experienced. Every culture has used stories as a means to connect, to inform and entertain.

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8 Benefits of Allowing Employees to Work Remotely

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post Irma Hunkeler -Head of Operations with BlueGlass. Her opinions are her own. We are in the midst of a flexible workplace revolution. More employees than ever before are working remotely, and it’s predicted that by 2020, 30 percent of the workforce will either be freelance, outsourced or remote workers […].

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Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why

ERE

Few realize that increasing your hiring speed often has the second-largest impact on hiring results (after referral hires). Most track time to fill, but few recruiting leaders calculate the high correlation between your hiring speed for top talent and their resulting on-the-job performance after they become a new hire. To put the relationship simply, slow hiring decisions mean that most of your top applicants will lose interest or accept a faster “bird in hand” offer long before your firm gets a

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