2020

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The Power of Human Interaction in the Current Hiring Climate

Allegis Global Solutions

AI has become an increasingly pervasive part of the talent acquisition landscape. But even the most sophisticated algorithm in the most advanced instance of any talent management product couldn’t have predicted COVID-19.

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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

Greg Savage

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. (Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!) Profit margins have collapsed from 4.2% of […].

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Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions

Katrina Kibben

Women often talk themselves out of jobs they could thrive in because of the listed requirements in job postings and I hate it. The post Apply Anyway: The Truth On Requirements in Job Descriptions appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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9 Types of Unconscious Bias and the Shocking Ways They Affect Your Recruiting Efforts

Social Talent

We make countless decisions every day without even realising it. Even as you sit here reading this, you’re making decisions. Decisions about the content, the questions being asked of you. And the answers to these are influenced heavily by something researchers refer to as “unconscious bias.”. What is “unconscious bias”? Bias is an inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group.

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Moving Forward in HR and Recruiting Uncertainty

An era of uncertainty has arrived in recruiting. The unpredictability that exists in the labor market can make it difficult for employers to know how they should respond in this environment. Despite the turbulence, recruiting professionals should be encouraged by recent trends. Applications per job are up over the last year across companies of all sizes, and more than half of all recruiters expect their teams to grow in the next year, with nearly two-thirds expecting their recruiting budgets to

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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Greg Savage

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […].

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Simple Ways to Create a Better Candidate Experience: Ramblings of a Quarantined Recruiter

ClearCompany Recruiting

Candidate experience is a critical point to recruiting and hiring the top talent. These tips will help you re-evaluate how applicants interact with your company.

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AI in Recruitment - What it Really Is, And Isn’t (And Never Will Be!)

TalentLyft

So far we’ve heard a lot about AI penetrating many different aspects of the recruitment industry and the ways in which it’s been redefining it. However, for anyone who is not a data scientist, it is still oftentimes a mystery what AI technology really is and what it simply isn’t. While technology is inevitably reshaping the way we conduct business, it is the combined effort of recruiters and advanced software that results in hiring long-lasting and competent candidates.

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Embrace design thinking to advance diversity, equity and inclusion

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

Design thinking encourages a forward look, playing chess rather than checkers. And design thinking principles can assist us to holistically solve more complex and intertwined DEI challenges today.

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12 Companies Ramping Up Their Diversity & Inclusion Efforts - and How You Can Too

Glassdoor for Employers

While more diverse than in the past, it's no secret that corporate America suffers from a lack of diversity and inclusion. Nowadays, companies are being more intentional about ramping up their diversity and inclusion efforts to show solidarity and support to their underrepresented employees. Thankfully, many companies are now realizing that increasing diversity and inclusion within the company is not only good for society, it's also good for business.

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Free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor has created an open enrollment sample letter (with a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today!

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Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Campus Recruiting

Talview

During the coronavirus pandemic, university recruiting efforts will lead to an increase in Virtual Campus Recruiting. Here's what you need to know.

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Diversity Hiring: 6 Steps To Hiring More Diverse Candidates

Ideal

People analytics thought leader Josh Bersin has stated that workplace diversity and inclusion is a top priority for 2019. C ompanies have notably stepped up. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has pledged $300 million to increase the diversity hiring of women and underrepresented minorities. It’s time to step up and do more. It’s not good enough to say we value diversity.

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Recruiting Generation Z: 5 Key Factors to Consider

Indeed

New year, new hiring push — and your efforts probably include Generation Z. This generation of digital natives is the newest to enter the workforce, bringing 61 million potential new hires who are expected to comprise 36% of the workforce by 2020. But how do you bring them into your company? First and foremost, don’t get mired in the same myths over this generation as you might have with millennials.

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What I Learned Writing 1000 Jobs: New Job Post Training

Katrina Kibben

After writing over 1,000 job posts, I turned my expertise into a job post training that will teach you to write effective postings quickly. The post What I Learned Writing 1000 Jobs: New Job Post Training appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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Small HR, Big Impact: Boosting Employee Engagement and Excellence with Innovative HR Tech

Speaker: Aino Ilkka - People and Culture Lead at KAITO Insight

In the fast-paced landscape of small growth companies, harnessing the power of HR technology is the key to achieving remarkable results in employee engagement and HR management. Aino Ilkka, People and Culture Leader, will share practical tips and lessons learned through case stories and cover how to successfully source, implement, and scale HR tech for the best ROI.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Boolean Search Terms

Social Talent

Trying to narrow down candidates for a role can be a difficult task for any recruiter. Using Boolean search writing can help you save time and improve the quality and specificity of candidates from the potential pool. Boolean search is based on the work of prominent British mathematician George Boole. His legacy was Boolean logic, a theory of mathematics in which all variables are either “true” or “false”, or “on” or “off”.

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What ‘The Dark Ages of Recruitment’ can teach us post-COVID

Greg Savage

Every second article I see is about how recruitment will change post-COVID. Mostly it’s BS as the majority of recruiters will go back and do exactly as they have always done. I explained that here. Of course, the opportunity to make changes has never been better, and the smart ones in our industry are working […].

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The ‘new normal’: the future of hiring, onboarding and working

Workable

Remote work , asynchronous communication , increase of collaboration tools use; these are just a few of the current trends the hiring world and businesses are seeing. We at Workable wanted to get to the core of these developments and address them with people who are on the front lines and willing to share their first-hand experiences. That’s why on June 25, 2020, we hosted a webinar titled: “Working, hiring and onboarding in the new normal”.

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How to Prevent Remote Teams from Working in Silos

ClearCompany Recruiting

Did you know that two-thirds of remote workers do not feel engaged with their colleagues? Find out how to prevent your employees from working in silos.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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5 Predictions of What Recruitment Will Look Like After Covid-19

FireFish Software

Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the recruitment industry, so we can’t expect things to go back to the way they were once this is all over. We’ve already seen some pretty major changes to how our industry operates, and while some of these will be short term until the economy recovers, there are some ways that Covid-19 has changed our industry forever.

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SMB Job Creation Continues to Accelerate: Here's What it Means for Your Recruiting Strategy | JazzHR

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released The Employment Situation for September. The unemployment rate continued to decline, dropping to 7.

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Top 50 Hiring and Recruitment Statistics for 2020

TalentLyft

Looking for valuable recruiting statistics? This HUGE list of the most important hiring statistics contains everything you need to know to benchmark your recruiting and ensure successful hiring in 2020. Read More.

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How to Work From Home Effectively  | Engage Blog

Achievers - Recruiting

Remote work is the new norm. In our latest blog post, we walk you through the value of remote work and how to work from home effectively.

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How VideoJobs® Prevent Candidates From Ghosting You

Ghosting happens when there is no emotional connection between job candidates and their potential employers. A lack of branding or understanding of a company culture can also contribute. Video tells the employer’s story and creates an emotional connection. Learn more in this white paper.

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Diversity And Inclusion: A Complete Guide For HR Professionals

Ideal

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace (D&I) is a term you’ve probably heard several times by now. The concept has continued to gain traction in the corporate world as its benefits have become increasingly clear. Josh Bersin, leading industry analyst and researcher, calls diversity and inclusion one of the hottest topics of these few years. He has said that it is “not an HR program, but a business strategy.

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5 Diversity and Inclusion Resolutions for 2020

Indeed

What are your resolutions for 2020? For over 400 HR leaders in a Gartner survey , change management is crucial. Organizations need to prepare for a future that’s coming fast — and that means sourcing talent more effectively and taking better care of workers. To truly address these challenges, you need to address diversity and inclusion. . Why? Millennials will compose 75% of the workforce in five years and are already moving into critical leadership and succession roles.

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How to screen Groovy developer skills

Devskiller

The Apache Groovy programming language is one of the oldest alternative programming languages running on JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The Java-syntax compatible Groovy script celebrates its 17th birthday in 2020. People might think that development or the buzz surroundings more recent JVM languages like Kotlin have made Groovy redundant. . Well, that couldn’t be further from the truth!

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Futurecasting: 7 World of Work Trends We’ll See in 2021

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Futurecasting is sometimes akin to looking into the sky and trying to connect the stars. As we look ahead to the future this time, though, we know the direction we’re […]. The post Futurecasting: 7 World of Work Trends We’ll See in 2021 appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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15 Stunning Recruitment Stats from 2020.

Greg Savage

We all know it has been a cataclysmic year in recruitment. But do you realise how massively Agency recruitment has been impacted? And what about the recovery? Is it happening? Which countries are doing best? Here are 15 of the most jaw-dropping recruitment statistics from 2020. Taken from the recently released JobAdder report You can […].

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Chin up, recruiters and jobseekers: Expert tips for surviving crisis

Workable

Hiring data from the technical assessment platform, Coderbyte , illustrates the dramatic drop in the number of technical interviews since February. But whatever the slope, a bounce in hiring is sure to return as jobs shift to different industries. During a hiring freeze, technical recruiters can proactively position themselves and their teams by adopting more efficient remote sourcing techniques , interview processes , and by embracing ways to build work-from-home cultures while social distancin

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15 Jobs You Can Do From Home—or Anywhere You Choose

The Muse

These jobs give you the flexibility you need to work from home, whether you’re a parent or caregiver, have a disability or chronic illness, or just want to make your own schedule.

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