December, 2016

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Take the holiday. But keep the pipeline pumping for 2017!

Greg Savage

Most of us will have some kind of break in the next month or so. Christmas, New Year, summer holidays, Chinese New Year. You, your clients and your candidates are going to have some well-deserved downtime. But what about the cost? We won’t bill while we are on the beach, or in the pub. And […].

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How to Get the Most Out of Self-Appraisals

ClearCompany Recruiting

When it comes down to writing a great self-appraisal, a lot of questions come to mind. What are they used for? How are you supposed to promote yourself without coming off as a show-off? Is this really the best use of my time? For the last question, it honestly depends. For some companies, self-appraisals are nothing more than a formality; But used correctly, they can have a big impact on your career.

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HackerRank and Lever Partner to Streamline Tech Recruiting

Lever

It’s no secret that engineering roles are some of the most challenging to fill. According to our recruiting benchmarks report , only 1 in every 134 engineering applicants is hired. But once your pipeline is flush with engineering candidates, how can you best evaluate a candidate’s technical skill set? Is reviewing a resume or conducting a phone screen really the optimal way to assess an engineer’s technical aptitude?

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24 Most Ridiculous Recruitment-Related Stock Images

Social Talent

The world of stock photography is littered with strange, indescribable and often unusable images. But surely a subject as straight forward as ‘Recruitment’ couldn’t garner anything too off the wall? Well, judging by a recent search for the word ‘recruitment’ on 3 large stock image sites, it would appear not! Stay tuned for some of the most bizarre images you will ever have the pleasure/misfortune of witnessing: Remember that scene from the extended edition of Titani

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. We can help you meet that challenge head-on. Through proprietary data and analytics, Gallagher Drive® offers the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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How Extreme Recruiting Is Winning Over Millennial Tech Talent

Entrepreneur

Businesses pursuing the best and brightest will have to ditch the old-school hiring playbook. Today's tech stars are all about experiential learning -- and they expect companies to keep up.

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Infographic: 10 Tips for Using Indeed to Master Your Job Search

Indeed

You know the impact your job has on all areas of your life. Happiness and fulfillment at work can reduce your stress and motivate you to succeed at home, too. Finding a job that aligns with your personal and professional goals has the potential to be life-changing. If you’ve decided to make your next career move, it probably didn’t take you long to realize the work of job search is practically a full-time job in itself.

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What's the #WOLAN Onboarding Method & Is It Right for You?

ClearCompany Recruiting

There has been a lot of discussion around the importance of employee onboarding, and honestly, we’ve been a big part of the noise too. If you’ve paid even a second of attention to all the hum, you probably know why those first few weeks of introductions are so absolutely important. If not, well, here’s a little synopsis, organized onboarding programs have been shown to improve.

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4 Recruiting Technologies That Every Early Adopter Should Have on Their Holiday Wish List

Lever

What’s on your recruiting technology wish list this year? Tis the season of giving, and not only is it the perfect time to ask for that new sweater you’ve been yearning for, but it’s the perfect time to ask your boss for a new toy as well. 2017 planning is afoot, including decisions around budget and new investments, so don’t miss the opportunity to make the case for a tool that can give you a competitive advantage in your job.

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The Millennial Bug: How To Successfully Recruit The “Me, Me, Me” Generation

Social Talent

Recruiters have millennials on their minds. It’s hardly surprising. Millennials (those born after 1980) are the most educated generation in history – almost half of UK millennials have at least one degree. They understand and welcome the technological innovations and globalisation reshaping the workplace. And they cannot be ignored, being on course to represent 75% of the global population within a decade.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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5 Things NOT to Do When an Employee Resigns

RecruitLoop

Reacting correctly to an employee who gives notice will smooth out his or her experience. If the employee has a good experience with you on the way out, your other employees will know about it. Here are five things you must never do when an employee gives notice.

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How to Spot Warning Signs In Candidate Questions

Spark Hire

Sometimes, when interviewing candidates, we can get so caught up in how the candidate’s respond to our questions that we forget the importance of the questions that the candidate is asking. Typically, towards the end of the interview, the candidate has a chance to ask questions. It’s important for you to realize as a hiring manager that these questions can tell you a lot about the candidate’s priorities and work ethic.

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Teamwork counts: How To Set Up a Hiring Team For Success

SmartRecruiters

Thinking about making some great hires in 2017? Me too. Of course, as Head of Talent here at SmartRecruiters, I do have an edge – access to next-generation tools to streamline my recruiting and hiring processes. But technology alone won’t help if I’m not following some fundamental best practices for collaborative hiring. In my last post, “ Making The Right Hire: Our Best Practices Should Be Yours ,” I discussed a few of the best practices we published in our new whitepaper, “ Making the Be

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Get Job Offers Out Before 2017

ClearCompany Recruiting

Planning for the year ahead is all-consuming this time of year. While we’re busy wrapping presents, shopping for food items we’d never touch otherwise and sending out greeting cards at home; in our professional lives we’re tasked with figuring out what the year ahead is going to look like and planning for it. Nowhere is this harder to do than in hiring for the new year!

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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5 Engineering Leaders Who Are the Ultimate Recruiting Partners

Lever

While the focus of this blog is often squarely on members of the recruiting team, today, we turn our attention to another critical stakeholder in the hiring process: the head of Engineering. When we say critical, we mean it: VC David Skok and Lyft's VP of People Ron Storn have commented that a VP of Engineering at a high-growth organization should spend more time on hiring than on actual engineering work.

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The Sourcing Ninja’s JUMBO Guide to LinkedIn: Part One (FREE E-Book)

Social Talent

We’re back with our biggest, most ambitious E-Book yet – The Sourcing Ninja’s JUMBO Guide to LinkedIn – in fact it’s so big and ambitious we had to spilt it into two parts! Over the course of these two E-Books, you’ll find everything (and we mean EVERYTHING) you need to know about using LinkedIn as a recruiter – from developing your personal brand, to sourcing candidates efficiently and effectively.

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How to Convince a Candidate that a Job Offer is the Right One

FireFish Software

So, you’ve put forward a candidate, the client has made an offer and… your star candidate drags her heels. You’ve tried everything. She’s been out for lunch with the client, she’s visited the client’s office, and she’s perfect for the job and she wanted it too. But now something has changed and she’s reluctant to sign on the dotted line.

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Expert Secrets To Assessing Soft Skills In The Interview

Spark Hire

How many times has this happened to you? You find a candidate with all the experience and technical skills you need for an open position. It seems like they have everything it will take to succeed with your company. But then they actually start working and things are a disaster. They don’t get along with any of their co-workers, every email they send is indecipherable, and their attitude puts a damper on everything.

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Navigating Assessments: Choosing the Right Fit for Your Organization

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

Are you struggling to make sense of the pre-employment assessment space? In this live webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychologist, will guide you through a practical and objective framework to identify and implement the assessments that best address your organization’s unique hiring needs.

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How to screen Android developer skills to find the best – guide for IT recruitment

Devskiller

Android developer skills are in great demand, and this demand is expected to grow even further as Android is the dominant mobile operating system today, running on countless models of smartphones and tablets, as well as many other devices. As a result, a recruitment campaign for Android Developer is pretty hard. It has to be quick and accurate if you want to hire the best ones.

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10 Recruiting Dos and Don’ts for 2017

ClearCompany Recruiting

2016 is coming to a close and whether you feel it was good or not, one thing we can all agree on is recruiting has continued to advance. From. digital recruitment. marketing efforts to AI and more, it’s tough to keep up. This is also the best time to start preparing for any other changes that may come your way. What can you do in 2017 to help your recruitment endeavours?

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5 Ways to Drive Company Culture Through Recruiting

Lever

When people around you wax nostalgic about the heyday of 1980s movies, what flashes through your mind? Scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The Shining? How about Back to the Future or E.T.? None of the above? Regardless, we’re willing to make one assumption: you’re not thinking about all the recruiting takeaways each movie holds.

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4 Simplest Ways to Improve Diversity in Your Organisation

Social Talent

According to Clare Mulligan , a workplace diversity consultant, a multicultural work force is one that sees employees of an organisation include members of a variety of ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. But in this day and age, a multicultural workforce is no longer just a “nice to have”, it is a business necessity. Diverse companies now outperform non-diverse companies by a whopping 35% !

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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A Lesson in Disruptive Recruiting from Amazon Go

SmartRecruiters

In case you’ve been living under a rock these past few days or can’t come unglued from your post election Facebook feed, you may have missed that Amazon just announced the opening of a grocery store without a checkout line. Let me repeat that: the opening of a grocery store without a checkout line ! The simplicity and power of that statement is magical.

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What do Oil Price Increases Mean for Jobs in Oil-producing States?

Indeed

At the end of November, Opec announced a deal between oil producing nations to help curb global oil production. While this is welcome news that could help support an industry which has been struggling since oil prices collapsed in mid-2014, some skepticism remains about the viability of the agreement. Although where oil prices will be next week or next month is—as always—up for speculation, it appears that for now they hit bottom in early 2016.

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Mobile Recruiting is More Than Apply

Symphony Talent

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess if you’re reading this, the following is true: You want to generate the right applicants, not just more. The post Mobile Recruiting is More Than Apply appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Are You Driving Away Qualified Candidates with Unconscious Gender Discrimination in Your Job Descriptions?

Newton Software

Gender Discrimination in Job Descriptions Job descriptions can be sexist… give me a break, right? Our initial thoughts as well. We balked at (and were even somewhat offended by) the first couple of articles we came across that claimed women were deterred from applying to jobs because of “masculine” job descriptions. At Newton, gender diversity […].

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.