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10 Diversity Hiring Statistics That Will Make You Think

ClearCompany Recruiting

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue.

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How Non-Techies Can Find the Right Tech Talent (Infographic)

Social Talent

For anyone within the tech and IT industries, knowing the correct lingo and techno terminology is essential in getting by in your day-to-day job, so how are recruiters supposed to be able to find tech talent if they don’t know the lingo themselves? Any recruiters out there who don’t know their java software from their java coffee beans will need to check out the latest research Modis have done on how non-tech recruiters are able to find the right tech talent.

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Glassdoor’s 2015 Recruiting Metrics: Revealed

Glassdoor for Employers

It’s planning time! It’s time to figure out your 2016 recruiting goals, strategies and tactics. It’s also time to nail down the budget and resources you need to hit those goals. And of course, you aren’t done until you’ve convinced your boss that your budget requests are reasonable. Last year, we published our complete 2014 Recruiting Budget for recruiters around the world to see what Glassdoor’s hiring goals were and how we accomplished them.

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6 Millennial Recruiting Techniques You Need to Know About

Spark Hire

Millennials are taking over today’s workforce. According to the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce study by Elance-oDesk and Millennial Branding, Millennials will be the largest generation in the U.S. workforce as of this year. In fact, the study found that 28 percent of Millennial workers are already at management level. Unfortunately, while the study found that 82 percent of hiring professionals believe Millennials bring a unique set of skills to the workplace and are more technically adept th

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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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33 insanely awesome job ads

Beamery

'Writing job ads is tricky at the best of times. You know that you’re offering a great opportunity, but how do you tell potential applicants? It’s also becoming more and more important to stand out from the crowd and write better job ads - you need talented candidates to choose you over your competitors. Some companies are tackling the issue by running creative recruitment campaigns to capture the imagination of the very best candidates.

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Recruiters, Don’t Let 2016 Be The Year You Dropped The Ball

Jobvite

Every year it bemuses me to see just how many articles are published predicting the future of recruitment. They always appear around this time of year too. It’s as though the transition from one year to the next is going to somehow miraculously produce a seismic shift in the way that recruiters operate. Of course it’s not. What I find more compelling is to look at the pain points and undeniable trends we can see in the market right now – and then project forward what these mean recruiters

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5 Fun Ways Supervisors Can Recognize Employees

CareerBuilder

I’m a big fan of what the team at The Marcus Buckingham Company , or TMBC, is doing when it comes to employee engagement, particularly around front-line leaders of people. TMBC has found that the attitudes and behaviors of front-line supervisors have the biggest impact on employee engagement and retention. We should be focusing our training and development efforts on these leaders to help us improve employee engagement and drive retention — and to prevent recruiters and staffing profession

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How to Conduct Successful Performance Reviews

HRsoft

Performance reviews are often one of the most dreaded processes within the organization. Employees dread it because it is both a grueling and mind numbing process. Studies conducted have shown that less than 50% of employees believe that performance review helps in career progression because of the lack of transparency between management level and themselves.

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Temp Employment To Grow 13% Over Next Five Years

Staffing Talk

'" Temporary employment is expected to grow 3% from 2014 to 2015, and 13% from 2014 to 2019, according to new data just released. [.

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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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Preparing for Millennial Employee Churn [Infographic]

HireRight

Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y, or those born between 1982-2004 ) now comprise the largest generation in the workforce. In fact more than a third of all American workers today are Millennials. You’ve probably already hired Millennials and will be hiring more. But don’t expect them to stay long. Millennials are twice as likely as 30-somethings [.].

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Stop Hiring the Disengaged!

SmartRecruiters

'I’m always amazed when I see an obvious job mis-fit. If you’re like me, when you experience poor customer service from a person who is obviously ill-suited for the role you think, “Why the heck did they put this person in the job? Is she/he a relative of someone in senior management?”. Years back when we were contacted to assess the attributes of one Vice President of Human Resources, we were a little shocked at the results.

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Biggest Global Recruiting Trends of 2015 So Far (Infographic)

Social Talent

I think we can all agree that 2015 has absolutely flown by! One minute it was January, the next we ended up here in November! How did that happen so fast?! But while the year might not be over yet, 2015 has already proved to be an important year for the development of the recruitment industry and has marked the start of a number of key changes in how we source and how candidates look for jobs.

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Glassdoor Halloween Contest: See Which Companies Won

Glassdoor for Employers

A few weeks ago, we shared 6 Ways to Win Halloween in the Office , including throwing a party, encouraging costumes, and providing spooky treats. Many employers rose to our challenge of entering the first ever Glassdoor Halloween Photo Contest , too. Hundreds of companies used the Glassdoor app to post photos of their companies getting in the Halloween spirit.

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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 Candidate Red Flags You Need to Watch For

Spark Hire

It’s only natural for candidates to want to put their best foot forward during a job interview — even if that means stretching the truth or holding back potentially game-changing information. For hiring professionals, the mask that job interviewees tend to wear can make it tricky to really get to know the candidate and evaluate their ability to perform well in any given role.

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The 5 daily habits of the world’s most successful people

Beamery

'We all like to borrow from people we admire to get more productive. Highly successful Square founder Jack Dorsey strictly copied Steve Jobs, using much of Jobs’ onstage rhetoric when describing Square’s features and even insisting on being referred to as an ‘editor’ as soon as he heard that Jobs had adopted that title in some circles at Apple!

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Resume Dos and Don’ts: Making Recruiters Take Notice

AkkenCloud

Finding the right candidates has always been and will continue to be a top challenge for recruiters and their clients. And, with the job market as strong as it is now, often times active and passive candidates for employment are relying on the available new media channels and not spending as much time as they should on dusting off an old resume or perhaps creating a new one.

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7 Benchmark Metrics to Help You Master Your Recruiting Funnel

Jobvite

Deconstructing the Recruiting Funnel. Data is always a hot topic. Every year we learn a new data-related buzzword, from “big data” – to “data analytics” – and these days “predictive analytics” is the supposed key to the future. So it’s expected that any relevant, credible recruiting technology would provide data, big data or analytics – but, now what?

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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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How Data Can Drive the Next Generation of Employment

CareerBuilder

The great economic crisis of our day, a crisis of theory as well as practice, is a crisis of information.”. –George Gilder, “Knowledge and Power” Every year, millions of kids graduate high school and pursue college, or a job — or both. And that’s when the sinking feeling hits. What career do I want? What education do I need? Will pursuing my dreams leave me with tons of debt?

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Benefits of Human Capital Software

HRsoft

Human capital management is an approach to employee staffing that perceives employees of an organization as assets whose value can be quantified and whose future value can be nurtured and enhanced through continuous engagement and investment. A company with good human capital capabilities supports the personal growth of employees within the organization through a series of engagement processes held responsible by managers and supervisors. .

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What is Talent Management and How is it Different from HR?

Capterra

We all know that couple. They’re the ones who have been on-again off-again since high school. They go to all the same parties, share the same social circles, and live in the same neighborhoods. They’re so finely enmeshed with each other it’s hard to think of one without also bringing to mind the other. Even when they try to break up, their history and everything else they have in common inevitably brings them back together again.

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The Top 15 HR Technologies And Recruiting Tools of 2015: The Final Countdown.

Recruiting Daily

With the price of admission prohibitively expensive for many startups and SMBs, companies that do shell out the Benjamins on activating the annual HR Technology Conference boondoggle ostensibly do so more or less for the opportunity to be seen. The strongest motivator keeping exhibitors coming back to #HRTechConf each and every year, seems decidedly driven more from FOMO than by ROI.

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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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10 Signs Your Applicant Tracking System is Stuck in the 90’s

SmartRecruiters

'Applicant tracking systems (ATS) were originally designed in the late 1990’s to automate the application for job seekers and to track applicants for employers. And after leading corporate talent acquisition throughout my career, I know far too well the ATS hasn’t evolved enough over the past 15 years to meet the requirements for a competitive approach to recruiting.

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The Secret to Fantastic Candidate Engagement Great Recruiters Don’t Tell You

Social Talent

How many unread emails do you currently have in your inbox? I have 12. My colleague Reza has 11, George has the slightly larger number of 473, while Laura has a staggering 26,532… It’s not that we all actively decided not open and to ignore these unread emails, the truth is we were probably all busy when they arrived on our inboxes. By the time we had a chance to look at them, 10 new emails had arrived in our inboxes, pushing those other emails further down and out of sight.

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How VMware Recruits and Retains Military Veterans

Glassdoor for Employers

While serving as a military police sergeant for the U.S. Army, Aaron Dumbrow was accustomed to higher-level officers paying attention to his reports from the field. When he entered the IT field after medical retirement from the Army, Dumbrow wasn’t sure his voice would continue to be heard in the same way. But soon after joining cloud solutions provider VMware as a senior systems engineer , Dumbrow was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from the company’s CEO, following up on his recent st

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7 Ways to Create a Top-of-the-Line Candidate Experience

Spark Hire

Your job as a hiring professional isn’t just to find the best fit for your company and the job at hand. After all, who’s to say the job candidate you want also wants you? Chances are, your first-choice candidate isn’t just interviewing with your company, but with a handful of others — which is why it’s equally important to sell your company and the position to candidates.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Employer branding: important or illusion? The expert review

Beamery

'Branding building has been part and parcel of the marketing process for years. Nowadays though, the way we market our companies to candidates is becoming increasingly important. Long gone are the days of top talent beating a path to our door, nowadays the onus is on earning the best candidates’ attention. Job applications are starting to receive the same scrutiny as any other purchasing decision.

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Inbound Marketing: How to Attract, Engage, and Convert

AkkenCloud

This past week, I had the opportunity to speak with many executives who lead staffing and recruiting companies at the American Staffing Association Staffing Law Conference in Maryland. When we discussed their top challenges, they indicated talent acquisition and keeping up with today's technology and marketing trends rank right at the top of their list.

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Jobvite Infographic: Employees with Benefits

Jobvite

Think perks are the key to hiring your best talent? And if so, are you offering what appeals to your candidates? Whether it’s the overly expected (ping pong), the underwhelming (casual dress), or the wildly extravagant (egg freezing), today’s workforce has some clear preferences when it comes to those added company incentives. Our new “Employees with Benefits” infographic below shows you the real data behind perks—so you can see for yourself if they’re worth it.

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