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Guess what? Recruiters are the worst recruiters!

Greg Savage

Is it as we have always suspected? That recruiters are themselves, poor recruiters? Like the cobblers kid who had the worst shoes, do recruiters have the worst recruitment process? Especially when they recruit recruiters, for themselves? I asked that question in no uncertain terms a few years ago, when I bemoaned the fact that hardly […].

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion Part 9: When Things Go Wrong

Lever

We believe passionately that diverse and inclusive companies make for more innovative, engaged, and happy teams, and we speak with forward-thinking talent leaders all the time who feel the same. We’re writing this series on how to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace because people are ready for the next level of discourse around diversity and inclusion; one aimed at actual solutions.

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4 Things College Grads Want in an Employer

ClearCompany Recruiting

We’ve heard all the stereotypes. Millennials don’t stick around in their positions for more than three years, Millennials are slackers and they hold a sense of entitlement. Despite all these common negative stereotypes, there are many common positive competencies and characteristics college grads are known for. One main theme is that Millennials are confident in what they stand for and how they want to use their skills to improve purpose-driven organizations.

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5 Reasons Why Your Best Employees Are Quitting

JazzHR

No one likes losing good employees. It costs you time and money to recruit , hire, and train new workers. And while employees quit their jobs for many reasons, some of which will always be beyond your control, often times the reason they leave is workplace-related. If that’s the case, you can either try to do something about it retroactively or take the steps necessary to ensure they never want to leave in the first place.

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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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The Six Essential Elements That Every Recruiter Website Needs

Talent Hero Media

Every recruiter website needs these six elements to turn it into a lead generating machine that inspires confidence in your brand. The post The Six Essential Elements That Every Recruiter Website Needs appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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From Intern to Employee: The Right Moves to Make

ClearCompany Recruiting

Getting an internship is one of the best things a student can do to jump-start their professional career. While a paid internship is always preferable, even unpaid internships offer valuable on-site job experience that just can’t be obtained through college. In fact, 61.4% of students in a 2014 study had previous internship experience before they were offered a job.

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So You’ve Hired Millennials. Now How Are You Going to Keep Them?

JazzHR

Just about every organization has millennials on the payroll. And, while getting them in the door can be a significant hurdle to overcome, often the bigger challenge is getting them to stay. While the evidence suggests that millennials aren’t as fickle or restless as previously believed, when it comes to this demographic, you’d still be wise to rethink your retention strategies.

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4 Challenges All Modern Recruiters Face (and Their Modern Solutions)

Social Talent

With the rise of recruitment technology, companies have seen its benefits for their hiring process, especially in finding the right candidate to fill in a position. After all, they know that having the best employees will help them achieve their goals and objectives. Moreover, recruitment technology is also becoming highly available to a lot of companies because the recruitment industry has seen the demand for smoother, sleeker processes and systems.

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Want Tech Workers to Stick Around Longer? Think 30 Years -- Not Three.

Entrepreneur

Turnover can have a huge impact on your bottom line. But, there are meaningful steps you can take to ensure your people will want to stay with your organization for years to come.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

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

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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4 Ways to Incorporate Thanks Into the Candidate Experience

Proactive Talent

One of my clients is in hyper-growth mode. Super hyper-growth mode. 10 million competing priorities, fires everywhere, and hiring just as fast. And sometimes candidate experience suffers. For example, we had an open role for an Executive Assistant for the heads of the company. A position that would REALLY help put out the fires. We had the perfect candidate scheduled.

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The 5 Most Common Recruiting Ailments for SMBs and Startups

Lever

Last week, I talked about the importance of focusing on your company's recruiting priorities when choosing an applicant tracking system (and in the process, ‘fessed up to my own software purchasing blunder).

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LinkedIn Updates Unveil Some Slick New Features

Social Talent

LinkedIn have received a fair share of backlash in the past few months. The professional network frustrated many when they got rid of some key features earlier on in the year. However, LinkedIn now seem to have done a U-turn, giving in to the pressure and bringing back some new and improved features of their own. This news will no doubt bring smiles back to the faces of the many wonderful recruiters out there!

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The Facts and Myths About Millennials (and Why They’re Important for Your Recruiting Efforts)

JazzHR

Mention the word millennials in relation to the workplace and it often conjures lots of negativity. That’s because millennials tend to get a bad rap. Employers say that they’re lazy, self-absorbed, entitled, and that they don’t want to work. But if you do a little digging, or just look at the millennials you work with, you’ll probably discover that much of the criticism leveled against them simply isn’t true.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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5 Team Building Activities That Are Actually Fun

Glassdoor for Employers

When your team understands each other’s working styles, communicates with ease, and genuinely likes spending time together, it makes for a great working environment. But it’s rare that a team comes together and bonds on their own without upper management intervening. To prevent the usual eyerolls that forced bonding induces, get creative with your team building activity!

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Why You Can’t Waste Time During High Volume Recruiting

Spark Hire

It’s that time of year again: high volume recruiting is underway. You’ve been tasked with undertaking the sourcing and placement of a large volume of candidates. Finding top talent for your clients is always something you strive to do as timely as possible. However, any delays in the hiring process are exponentially more detrimental during high volume recruiting. .

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Social Talent 2017 Sourcing Challenge

Social Talent

So you think you can source? You are cordially invited to prove your worth as the ultimate sourcing pro by taking part in the 2017 Social Talent Sourcing Challenge! First rule about sourcing challenge… Tell EVERYONE about sourcing challenge! The more people who enter the better the competition. Why not start a little competition in the office- who can get the furthest in our challenge and crown themselves worthy champion?

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Simon Maple from Zeroturnaround takes centre stage for another episode of the Yellow Duck Podcast

Devskiller

The dev, the man – Simon Maple – speaker at some of the most popular tech conferences, joins us for an episode of our podcast, dedicated to developers around the world. Simon is a Director of Developer Relations at Zeroturnaround , covering JRebel and XRebel, JRebel for Android and XRebel Hub. He has presented at major conferences around the world, including, JavaOne, Devoxx Belgium, France and UK, JavaZone, JavaLand, JFokus, JAX London, JAX SF, JMaghreb, JDC, IBM Impact, IBM Innovat

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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The Science Behind Multitasking and How It Slowly Erodes Productivity

Glassdoor for Employers

On the surface, multitasking seems like a winning proposition. After all, if you work on two projects at once, then you’ll finish twice as quickly, right? Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. When you try to focus on two different projects, you divide your attention, and your brain has to expend additional energy each time you switch from one task to the other.

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Top Cities for Job Seekers

NPA Worldwide

What I am about to say may seem obvious. Location is a critical factor in a successful job search. For some job searches, location may be as significant as your experience and qualifications. An old saying goes “eggs are cheaper in the country.” Well, some jobs are just more plentiful based on location. In addition to the availability of open jobs, there are also other factors that make location important.

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Fake It ‘Til You Make It- The Best Examples of Overcoming Imposter Sydrome

Social Talent

Even if you never had a word for it, we’ve all been exposed to the imposter syndrome (dun dun duuuuunnnnn). That feeling that you’re not supposed to be there. Somehow you managed to trick the recruiter, hoodwink the hiring manager and weasel your way into a position you don’t deserve. Sure you were elated when you got the job, but now?

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How to source software developers from LinkedIn

Devskiller

Based on 2016-2017 Talent Shortage Survey , IT professionals constitute the second biggest talent shortage group globally and one of the hardest groups of professionals to recruit. LinkedIn is the go-to place for sourcing software developers for majority of recruiters , so it’s a very crowded and competitive space. The higher the demand for top tech talent, the more efficient you need to be with your sourcing.

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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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3 Ways Staffing Agencies Can Use Marketing Strategies on Glassdoor

Glassdoor for Employers

How successful staffing firms rely on their Glassdoor Job Slots, branded Glassdoor profile, and analytics intelligence to give them a competitive edge and set them up for success in attracting both candidates and clients.

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Equal pay: Facing up to the challenge of gender inequality

Allegis Global Solutions

Gender pay equality is an issue that businesses need to openly accept is a problem and they should be doing all they can to address pay disparity as swiftly as possible.

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Recruitment Roundup: Skills & Sourcing Parties

Social Talent

To be the best recruiter, it’s important that you stay up-to-date with current trends. Knowing what changes are happening allows you to prepare accordingly. This week, we focus on how to make a full stacked recruitment team as well as what skill doubles your candidates hiring chances. “Full Stack” Recruiters & “Sourcing Parties” The rules of recruiting are changing daily, with globalisation playing a huge part in this change.

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5 Recruiting Tips To Increase Diversity In the Workplace

Ideal

A new Deloitte survey finds companies’ interest in diversity in the workplace is focused on bias in recruiting and the use of new tools to reduce this bias. 68% of companies they surveyed measure and monitor diversity and inclusion in their recruiting. The appeal of diversity in the workplace is recognized by both sides of the recruiting equation. A Glassdoor survey found 67% of job seekers believe diversity is an important factor when considering companies and job offers, whereas 57% of recruit

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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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3 Things I’ve Learned From Working at SmartRecruiters

SmartRecruiters

A tech startup is a daunting place for a recent college-graduate to find his first job. I found myself in this position 1.5 years ago. Walking in I had no idea what to expect. Whenever we think of “start ups” we think of great snacks, happy hours, and rounds of darts with the coworkers. Those things certainly happened, and while they were fun those are certainly not the most valuable things I’ve found at SmartRecruiters.

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The Best Talent Acquisition Articles of the Week

Symphony Talent

Happy Friday, Recruitment Marketing fam! We’ve been enjoying a taste of summer here in Boston, and I’m looking forward to a weekend spent almost entirely outside. In the. The post The Best Talent Acquisition Articles of the Week appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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How to Get the Most Out of Job Posting on Facebook

FireFish Software

Traditionally, Facebook was associated with a candidate’s personal life, and LinkedIn was where recruiters sought out candidates. However, that is changing, and changing quickly. LinkedIn’s steep premium user prices and recent tweaks to their algorithm have frustrated recruiters, forcing them to look at other options. Thanks to its new jobs functionality, over 1 billion daily active users, and a much cheaper price tag, Facebook looks like a viable alternative for recruiters.