August, 2019

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Humanizing the Candidate Experience: SRSC 2019 in Review

Stories Incorporated

Reading Time: 9 minutes. Last week over 150 recruitment marketing and talent acquisition professionals took Philadelphia by storm with the goal of honing and expanding their social recruiting strategies. When emcee and Diversity & Inclusion guru Torin Ellis took the stage, he didn’t talk long. He had just one message to give attendees to prepare them for the speakers that were to come: Be human.

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Age Diversity and the Workplace: Busting Myths Around Older Workers

Lever

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Interview Prep Advice For Candidates Who Don't Want It

Recruiting in Yoga Pants

I've been in the people business for 20 years. That's a REALLY LONG TIME to do one thing. I've done it a lot of different places, but they all have something in common - interviews are hard. I don't care how long you've been working in your chosen profession. I don't care what your degrees are in. I don't care if you are the world's foremost expert in basket weaving - someone, who has the authority to recommend you for a job, is coming to judge your basket.

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How Machine Learning is Actually Impacting the Hiring Process

Leoforce

How is Machine Learning Actually Impacting Hiring? From a job board provider perspective: There are many factors that are influencing the world of recruitment right now. From ongoing skills shortages and tackling unconscious bias, to new technologies and record employment; hiring professionals are under pressure to source the right candidates, in the right way.

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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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Analytics in Hiring: 4 Ways AI Helps You Find Non-Obvious Talent

Eightfold

Sometimes, the best person for the job isn’t the obvious one. Hiring managers don’t always have the time to analyze hundreds or thousands of candidates to find the needle in the haystack, though. With the abundance of resumes that come in from a single job posting, it traditionally has been more time-efficient for hiring managers to focus solely on candidates whose resumes match skill-for-skill with the job description.

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Recruitment Marketing Platforms 101: What you need to know

Rally Recruitment Marketing

The best job listing in the world isn’t worth a thing if you can’t get it in front of the right candidates. That’s why Recruitment Marketing has become so crucial in recruiting, yet many practitioners aren’t confident about which talent attraction strategies really work. In Rally’s 2019 Recruitment Marketing Job & Salary Survey results , we asked practitioners to tell us how well they can measure their Recruitment Marketing effectiveness.

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Words to Describe Your Company Culture. Go!

ClearCompany Recruiting

Could you accurately and succinctly describe your company culture right now? If you asked a sampling of employees, would you get consistent answers? Often, organizational culture is vaguely defined and poorly communicated. Or maybe your organization has a great culture, you just don't know how to identify and articulate what that means. Culture is important, and properly defining it can help you optimize, organize, and manage your culture goals moving forward.

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How to Build an Unforgettably Audacious Company Culture

Lever

What is company culture, and why does it really matter? While position requirements, salary and compensation packages, and career advancements are front of mind for candidates interviewing at your company, culture also matters. Culture is like a vapor that permeates nearly every. Read More. The post How to Build an Unforgettably Audacious Company Culture appeared first on Lever.

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4 Ways to Handle Candidate Negotiations like a Pro

JazzHR

Guest blog by Olivia Harp, Content Editor at Negotiations.com. What motivates a candidate to leave his/her current job and join your team? Is your company perhaps a better cultural fit, or are you offering more growth opportunities? Just as you screen candidates, today’s savvy job seeker conducts thorough research with set criteria to qualify their target companies.

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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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6 Interview Questions to Ask When Short on Time

Glassdoor for Employers

Delving into a candidate’s motivators as well as asking frank, focused questions are two of the many strategies that Nanette Foster applies to her recruiting success. As the president and electrical manufacturing recruiter for Foster Conner Recruiting, Foster vets candidates for original equipment manufacturers of power transformers, distribution transformers, magnetic transformers, motors and drives, and more.

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How Recruiters Can Identify Successful Salespeople

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn Series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! What Makes a Successful Salesperson? It’s reported that the average sales turnover rate is 34%.

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How Can Vacation Help Companies Get More Done?

Allegis Global Solutions

Talent scarcity. We hear about it all the time. Can putting more value on non-work actually help companies mitigate the challenges of a talent shortage? Many signs point to “yes,” and employers are taking notice. Consider the talent issues. According to one Allegis Group global trends report , 80 percent of employers have experienced challenges with acquiring critical talent due to changing global labor markets.

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Areas to Improve Your Talent Management

ClearCompany Recruiting

This article was originally written Sept 12, 2017. It has been updated to reflect the more recent conversation around talent management. Talent Management is a critical component to the performance of your organization. Finding and retaining talent is one thing, but what are you doing to ensure that talent is growing, adapting, and improving over time?

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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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The Ghosting Guide: An Inside Look at Why Job Seekers Disappear

Indeed

A truly scary trend has emerged in the last year: employers are getting ghosted by job seekers. From ditching job interviews to not showing up on the first day, candidates are disappearing without a trace — and ghosting during the hiring process is now one of the biggest problems in recruiting. Ghosting originated in the online dating world, where new technology has made it so easy to ask someone out on a date that it has led to an epidemic of no-shows.

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Which Universities Have the Strongest Developers in the World?

HackerRank

We analyzed 1,457,000 student interviews to identify the trends and influences driving university recruitment across the world. Which university’s students are the strongest in key developer skills and why? . How we evaluated student skills. To better understand how university students perform in key skill areas, we analyzed over 1M student attempts on HackerRank assessments.

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11 Must-Ask Behavioral Interview Questions

Glassdoor for Employers

Behavioral interviewing uses strategically-composed questions to share how a candidate’s past performance might support a hiring company’s future needs. Focusing in on both hard and soft skills, the questions drill down into several layers of a job seeker’s value proposition, unearthing interview gold. This type of questioning remains popular because it is the most pragmatic way to uncover real-life work experiences.

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Hiring The Best Salespeople? You Need These Books

Social Talent

Hiring in any industry that you are not familiar with presents added challenges to a recruiter’s life. Although your core processes remain the same, you now need to educate yourself on a new talent market and learn what makes the best candidates stand out from the rest. Making a bad hiring decision when it comes to salespeople is a costly mistake.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Mobile Recruitment: Smart Recruiting Through Smartphones

TalentLyft

Smart recruiters recruit through smartphones! Today, mobile recruitment is a must. Recruiters who haven’t optimized their job listings and hiring process for mobile recruiting risk missing out on top talent, now more than ever. Read More.

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10+ job sites in the USA

Workable

The United States is home to hundreds of job boards, both local and international, free and paid. But, out of the massive number of job sites in the USA, which ones are the best places to advertise to? In other words, where could you more confidently invest a chunk of your recruitment budget or resources to attract great candidates? To help you find the best job sites for your needs, we pulled together the top job sites in the USA into a handy list for you to make your job easier.

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Dress for Success: How Going Casual Can Help Attract Talent

Indeed

What we are expected to wear to work is ingrained in us at a very young age. We’re taught that firefighters wear brimmed helmets, doctors wear white coats and businesspeople wear suits. . But as the workplace has modernized, so have our outfits. Over time, what people wear to work has evolved from once-mandatory skirts and ties to the “business casual” era to today’s increasingly casual attire.

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Why Social Media Will Make or Break Your Recruitment Strategy

RecruitLoop

Everyone seems to be talking about social media, but not everyone implements social media in their recruitment practices. Read below to learn some techniques your business can employ to maximise social media in your recruitment strategy.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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13 Must-Ask Exit Interview Questions

Glassdoor for Employers

One of the best ways to get honest feedback is to ask employees who no longer rely on you for their livelihood. Employee exit interviews can reveal powerful insights that you wouldn’t have access to otherwise. You can conduct exit interviews face-to-face, build an exit interview form or exit interview template using a service like Survey Monkey, or encourage company reviews on Glassdoor.

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How Your Word Choices Affect Diverse Talent Pools

Social Talent

Are you comfortable applying for a role that calls for an ‘aggressive’ salesperson? How about a ‘supportive’ human resources manager? This week, LinkedIn released their impressive LinkedIn Language Matters Report – an investigation into the myriad ways in which words in the workplace impact men and women. Using certain words in your job description will discourage women from applying to your jobs. 44% of women (33% men) would be discouraged from applying if the wor

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Recruitment Marketing and Talent CRM: Tools for Ambitious HR Teams

TalentLyft

Recruitment Marketing Software and Talent CRM are new types of recruitment software designed to help HR teams attract top talent. Utilizing these new tools gives companies an advantage when recruiting top talent in today's ultra-competitive market. Read More.

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6 Ways Leaders Can Build a Culture of Innovation

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Innovation in an enterprise organization starts at the top. Here are six ways leaders can build a culture of innovation. The post 6 Ways Leaders Can Build a Culture of Innovation appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Open the Door to New Talent with These Unconventional Candidates

Indeed

Here’s a familiar story: Business is booming, and it’s time to add a new member to the team. You want to find someone who has the right experience, is a leader and wants to grow within your organization. But amid a tapped-out talent pool and stiff market competition, you’re struggling to find the right fit. There has to be a better way to approach this — right?

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Daddy, did you lose your job?

AkkenCloud

I got to work that day, and my boss immediately called me into his office. I didn’t like the look on his face, but I didn’t have anything to worry about, or so I thought. We got to his office, and the HR Director was sitting in there (who also had an unpleasant look on her face). I sat down, and he closed the door. My heart began to race, and I started to panic.

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Not Just Any Job Seeker: How to Attract the Career Conscious

Glassdoor for Employers

There’s a new kind of job seeker —a career-conscious job seeker who’s not just looking for the hottest new job but an inspiring career path. And that’s the kind of employee you want to hire. . “Companies look for career-conscious employees because, frankly, self-motivated people make the best team members,” explains Ellen Mullarkey, vice president of business development for Messina Group.

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