August, 2020

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5 easy ways to maximise your learning today

Social Talent

New skills are great – it’s just the diligence, time and patience to learn them that often holds us back. Right? Wrong. What if we told you that it’s actually less about what you learn, and more about how you learn. Here are five tips to help you maximise your learning today. 1. Make it bitesize. Do you find sitting down to do hours and hours of reading difficult and tiring?

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Drop your fees and triple your billings. Seriously

Greg Savage

I wrote recently about my Post-COVID nirvana. How the recruitment industry can be re-invented, with massive benefits for clients, candidates and recruiters. My ‘dream’ includes killing off the scourge of contingent, multi listed-order recruitment, which drives much that is bad in our industry. Speed over price, short cuts, resume racing, fee-discounts, poor service to candidate […].

Industry 545
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The Surprising Way to Increase Careers Site Traffic

Rally Recruitment Marketing

In Recruitment Marketing, getting qualified candidates to apply to your roles is the name of the game. But how do you get more, and if not more, better, candidates to apply? As the Content Strategist for the Life at Capital One Blog on our careers site, the strategy I’ve focused on is driving more of the right traffic to our careers site, and there’s one tactic in particular that’s generated surprising results: a search engine-optimized careers blog.

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The Cancel Culture Movement Will Destroy the Workplace- unless we stop it now

Proactive Talent

Dave Chappelle is one of the last few great comedians in my opinion because he is anti-PC and willing to offend everyone in order to spark conversation on meaningful topics. At least, some of the time. Case in point, here is a quote from his Netflix special – “Sticks and Stones.” (NSFW) I have censored some of the language, but I think you still get the gist of what he’s saying.

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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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Lever’s Summer Release: Fast Resume Review, Block Repeat Applicants and Multiple Diversity Surveys

Lever

With this release, Lever is announcing a host of upgrades to help recruiting organizations be even more productive and effective during this time. We know that many companies have been asked to do more with less, which is why we are committed. Read More. The post Lever’s Summer Release: Fast Resume Review, Block Repeat Applicants and Multiple Diversity Surveys appeared first on Lever.

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How to Apply Consumer Marketing Tactics to Your Recruitment Strategy

Recruitics

What we now call “recruitment marketing” is generally taking consumer marketing strategies and applying them to recruitment and talent acquisition initiatives. Consumer marketing efforts have been fine-tuned for customer satisfaction. So, by tweaking and applying these methods to your recruitment strategies, you can improve the candidate experience and receive more applications from qualified talent.

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Recruitment is not Tinder. COVID screwed that.

Greg Savage

Let’s be honest about our industry for a moment. Prior to the pandemic, technology and lack of skill drove plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Post-COVID, you have a choice. Go back to being what you always were. A keyword-matching, resume-flicking, in-box spamming, transactional recruiting hack. (Ouch!

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5 Ways to Build an Effective Employee Advocacy Program

Rally Recruitment Marketing

No one can tell a more honest story about your organization and its values than your employees. That’s why employee advocacy is such an important part of Recruitment Marketing today. After all, nobody knows you better than your employees – and it makes them one of the most powerful recruitment attractors (or detractors!) in the market today. Let’s say you’ve put a ton of effort into shaping your organization’s EVP or building your employer brand.

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Ebook: Twitter Search Strings for Recruiters Looking for Work

Proactive Talent

As a recruiter open to new opportunities, do you know how to search Twitter for your next recruiter job? If you don't know how to search Twitter well enough to find the recruiting job you are looking for or even aren't aware of what Twitter can do for you in your job search, look no further! Our ebook Twitter Search Strings for Recruiters Looking for Work will explain all that and more.

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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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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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Architecting a Better Talent Acquisition Pipeline with PBK

ClearCompany Recruiting

The architects and engineers at PBK Architects know better than anyone that a thriving community requires the support of buildings and infrastructure. With a fast-growing workforce and an outdated hiring and onboarding process, PBK decided it was time to implement a talent management system that could keep up with its growing demand for highly-skilled top talent.

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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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Go away PSA. Farewell PSL

Greg Savage

You gotta love it when a plan comes together! This is a true tale. And it has a warning for the recovery after COVID. Precision Sourcing is an excellent medium-sized IT recruitment business in Sydney. I have been an Advisor on the Board for almost five years. When I joined, there was a big problem. […].

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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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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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Tribe TV: Can Employees Sue You Over COVID-19?

Proactive Talent

If someone returns to work and becomes sick and dies because of unsafe working conditions or due to contact with a COVID-19 infected co-worker or customer then, it’s a good chance that the surviving family members will sue their loved one’s employer. It's already happened at Walmart, Safeway and Tyson Foods. Who’s next? Are you ready for a coronavirus wrongful death or COVID-19 wrongful termination lawsuit?

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9 Companies Around the World That Are Embracing Diversity in a BIG Way

Social Talent

Diverse organisations perform better. We’re always saying it, but there’s a very good reason why. In our E-Book on How to Increase Diversity Through Improved Hiring and Recruitment Processes , we uncovered some very interesting insights on the benefits of embracing diversity, including: Most studies surrounding diversity in the workplace have found that for every 1% increase in gender diversity, company revenue increases by 3%.

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How to ensure psychological safety in the workplace

Workable

With talks around diversity and inclusion gaining solid ground in the business world, psychological safety has become part of the lexicon for company and thought leaders who try to define what a healthy workplace is. But is psychological safety at work solely a parameter for boosting inclusivity and employee wellbeing , and updating your people operations strategy ?

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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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3 Easy Ways to Be a More Transparent Manager Today - and What You Can Expect to Improve

Glassdoor for Employers

What to do: Challenge yourself to acknowledge an unspoken question. As a leader, it can be tempting to "overlook" the elephant in the room out of convenience, but doing so almost always leads to a loss of respect. Instead, give your team the credit they deserve: assume they can read between the lines, and make the extra effort to address the question that dwells there.

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In recruitment, everybody sells baby! Everybody.

Greg Savage

It has ever been thus. In the ten-year recruiting boom (which ended in March this year BTW), companies got away with squadrons of non-billing managers and platoons of people with sexy job titles and no discernable actual responsibilities. Recruitment company productivity was declining before COVID, but now the last thing you want is ‘administration managers’ […].

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Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes

Katrina Kibben

Your LinkedIn profile should be written for a human, not a machine. Here are the 4 ways you can do that and stop making common mistakes. The post Your LinkedIn Profile Will Get Results if You Fix These 4 Mistakes appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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How to Use AI for High Volume Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

The job market is governed by one constant—change. Sometimes that change can be anticipated, like seasonal recruitment cycles. Other times, it’s the result of unforeseen circumstances, such as the recent global health crisis and the corresponding economic downturn. In many countries across the world, lockdown restrictions are slowly being relaxed and economies are beginning to reawaken.

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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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The new recruitment trends 2020: What they mean for you and your business

Social Talent

With the onset of pandemic, the recruitment process was transformed overnight and trend predictions have had to evolve along with this. Below, we have detailed four of the most essential developments in this sphere. 1. Employer Branding . With so much of our world migrating online in the last few months, potential candidates now have more time to research your company presence and reputation.

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Stretches for a flexible workplace

Workable

For muscles, there are stretching exercises; for employees, there are flexibility options. In this tutorial you will learn ways to create a flexible workplace to meet your needs and improve your company’s overall performance. Let’s begin! Warm up. Flextime stretches. Flexplace stretches. Insights from those who did it. Ready-to-roll policy templates.

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Behavioral Interviewing: The Achilles Heel of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Glassdoor for Employers

"Tell me about a time when you…". I'll stop there. We've all been on the other side of the table when a hiring manager or recruiter asked us a behavioral interview question. And if you're a college-educated, white collar worker, chances are you had something impressive to share, going as far back as college when you may have had a leadership position in student body government or a competitive internship.

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How my fear saved my recruitment company in a recession

Greg Savage

I had a significant experience during the massive downturn of the ‘90s. It taught me a crucial lesson about leadership in tough times. It was something I did. And I did not even know I was doing it! I was running Recruitment Solutions, a company I had founded with two others. We had a golden […].

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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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Ultimate Guide To a Successful Video Interview: 8 Rules to Consider

Yoh

As the pandemic continues to spread across the country, economies around the world continue to falter. Few industries remain untouched. Businesses have started to fall back on technology in order to stay afloat amidst these uncertain times. Working from home is now the new normal.

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History of programming languages

Devskiller

Computer programming is the very basis of the digital age that we live in today. Every time you like a post on social media, send an email, or set an alarm on your phone, a programming language is working behind the scenes – pulling the strings. . But where did it all begin? And what spurred its growth into the leading industry that exists today?

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9 Interview Questions EVERY Recruiter Should Ask Their Candidates

Social Talent

Interview Questions. Recruiters face enough challenges as it is without worrying if they asked the right questions in an interview. It is essential when determining who the best fit for a job is. Of course, ensuring that a. candidate has the required skill set is of primary concern, but it is also important to dig a little deeper and find out what kind of person they are.