January, 2016

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The London cabbie who put me to career shame

Greg Savage

This is a true story. Every word. It was my last night in London after two weeks of hard work (OK, and a bit of RWC). A few beers, and into a cab. It was there, in that taxi, that I met one of the most extraordinary people I have ever encountered. The cabbie and […].

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How to Get People to Respond to Recruiting Emails & Messages

Boolean Black Belt

When it comes to sourcing and recruiting, it’s gotten easier to find people but it’s gotten more difficult to get people to respond to emails, InMails, social messages and voicemails. The poor quality and lack of sophistication of most recruiter messaging, along with rampant spamming, certainly hasn’t helped. Unfortunately and yet somewhat thankfully, the bar of what people expect to receive from recruiters has been set fairly low, so the opportunity for improvement is massive.

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Facebook Recruitment: How to Source Candidates on the Largest Social Network

Lever

When it comes to sourcing candidates , most people think of LinkedIn. As the go-to sourcing resource, however, LinkedIn is saturated with recruiters and competition for the same talent is high. What if we told you there was an underutilized network you could source from that had nearly 15 times as many active users as LinkedIn?

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How to: Use Recruitment Marketing like a Fortune 500 Company

Social Talent

You are going to be hearing a lot about recruitment marketing in 2016. A LOT. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Candidates are like consumers. In fact, they are technically a recruiter’s consumers. We’re hoping they buy what we have to sell: jobs. But just like regular consumers, candidates have choices. As consumers themselves, they’re used to being able to research anything and everything they want about a product before they buy it, and they expect to be able to do the same with your

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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. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides 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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5 Steps to Better Job Description Click-Through Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

In most organizations, marketers don’t own the task of writing job descriptions for new opportunities available within their organization. This responsibility generally belongs to people in human resources or recruiting. And even if those folks have marketers review a draft before it posts (at least for marketing positions, that is), many times the urgency of the request prevents anyone from worrying about fine-tuning the job listing’s content.

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The 15 biggest recruiting highlights of 2015

Greg Savage

In many ways 2015 was a good year for recruitment. The pendulum started to swing back the way of agency recruiters. Profits are largely up across the globe, and the howl of misguided fanatics promising to ‘destroy’ third party recruiters has dropped to a low rumbling, as it becomes clear that recruiters are not going […].

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Human Clouds on the Horizon

The Whiteboard

Hello recruiters of New Zealand and beyond, it’s just lovely to see you again. We’re still in that fuzzy period where our brains reluctantly haul themselves away from holiday mode and try to fit themselves back into the world of work. For many, it’s even harder than squeezing our lightly tanned and sea soaked feet back into the purgatory of leather work shoes.

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Recruiting Developers on GitHub: A Step-by-Step Guide

Lever

Recruiting developers is difficult in today’s competitive job market. The best candidates on popular sourcing sites are inundated with recruiting messages, and often stop responding to them as a result. Smart recruiters are going off the beaten path, to sites like GitHub, to identify tech talent that can’t be found elsewhere.

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5 Things Recruiters Need to STOP Doing in 2016

Social Talent

1. Talking about “Employer” Branding. When the concept of employer branding was first introduced, many companies couldn’t wait to start rolling out video after video, telling us how amazing they are and why it’s so wonderful to work for them. Take this “lovely” video, with cool graphics and a non-descript American voice narrating it, for example.

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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 Steps to Better Job Description Click-Through Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

In most organizations, marketers don’t own the task of writing job descriptions for new opportunities available within their organization. This responsibility generally belongs to people in human resources or recruiting. And even if those folks have marketers review a draft before it posts (at least for marketing positions, that is), many times the urgency of the request prevents anyone from worrying about fine-tuning the job listing’s content.

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45 behavioral questions to use during non-technical interview with developers

Devskiller

You only have up to 1 hour to get to know your candidate during the interview. Not much. You probably want to hire programmers who are flexible, adapt quickly in fast-changing environment and, above all, perform well under tight deadlines. Therefore, assessing soft skills, next to verifying programming skills, prove to be crucial as they can to a great extent influence delivering results.

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9 Things Out of Touch Leaders Do

Glassdoor for Employers

It’s not uncommon for employees to get the urge to job shop when they find themselves or their careers oppressed by out-of-touch leadership. For most, self-diagnosing for antiquated leadership behavior may seem daunting. As such, the following list provides insight into nine things leaders do that show their leadership style may need an overhaul. 1.

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Newton Rings in the New Year With Mobile Career Pages and Mobile Apply Features

Newton Software

Newton Mobile Career Pages and Mobile Applications. READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE. Newton now empowers employers with mobile apply capabilities. This new technology is designed to meet every job seeker where they are at regardless of the device they use to connect to the internet. Specifically, the new offerings provide employers with Mobile Career Pages and Mobile Job Applications.

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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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How To Make Recruiting Your Company's Top Strategic Priority in 2016 [With QUIZ]

Lever

Almost every company under the sun claims to care deeply about talent acquisition. Organizations in growth mode have to work extra-hard to keep up with their aggressive expansion targets. At larger companies, it can take a Herculean effort just to cover attrition and tread water. But the stats don’t lie: PwC's 17th Annual Global Survey shows that 93 percent of CEOs recognize the need to change their strategies for talent, but 61 percent haven't even taken the first step.

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19 Inspirational Quotes for Recruiters

Social Talent

January: a time for self-reflection, for bettering, for trying new things. Here’s X inspirational quotes to focus your goals for 2016. 1. “In recruiting, there are no good or bad experiences – just learning experiences!!” 2. “Recruiting should be viewed as business partner, someone who is critical to the success of the business.” 3. “You’re not just recruiting employees, but are sowing the seeds of your reputation.” 4. “The goal of your

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Liza Galliher | Business Development

ExactHire Recruiting

Liza joined ExactHire in August 2016 as our Business Development Specialist after several years of sales experience at a technology firm in Washington, DC. Liza serves as our main point of contact for our clients who are in need of our software solutions for their organizations. Previously, Liza worked at WeddingWire Inc. in a similar consultant role, and even more recently she worked as a Behavioral Clinician at Meridian Health Services utilizing her educational background in psychology.

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6 Employer Branding Techniques You Need to Know About

Spark Hire

You’re walking down an aisle at the grocery store when you realize none of the packages have labels. The shelves are lined with blank boxes, cans, and cartons. You know what you’re looking for, but can’t figure out what anything is. After all, you can’t tell a can of caviar from a can of cat food without some branding. Suddenly nothing seems appetizing and you start searching for an exit instead.

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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 Performance Reviews Reinforce Gender Bias

Glassdoor for Employers

The existence of a major gender disparity in the tech industry, particularly in the male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley, is common knowledge. The percentages of female employees working at major tech companies are pretty dismal: 32% at Facebook , 31% at Apple , 30% at Twitter and Google and 24% at Intel. The disparity between men and women is even greater when aggregating for women working in technical position s.

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7 Ways To Attract Star Hires Using Social Recruiting Best Practices

Jobvite

Has your business fully embraced social recruiting? Is it now a key element in your talent attraction strategy? Or are you worryingly one of those businesses being left behind by your competitors? Here are 7 ways recruiting teams are adapting to the social world to attract talent and win candidates over. Do stop to ask yourself “How many are we doing?”.

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Reflections on Lever's Series B Investment Round

Lever

Lever Co-Founders Sarah Nahm, Nate Smith and Randal Truong. It’s my pleasure to announce that Lever has closed a $20 million Series B investment round led by Scale Venture Partners. As reported in Forbes , we’re excited to put these funds towards growth and further innovation in ATS software. This announcement follows a year of tremendous progress. In 2015, we more than tripled our team size, shipped hundreds of code releases, and grew our customer base to over 700 amazing companies.

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The Recruiter’s Social Media Checklist (Infographic)

Social Talent

My best friend has dubbed 2016 the year of change. The year we get up off our arses and we start changing the things in our lives that make us unhappy or that are not helping us do the things we’d love to be doing. The year we try new things and take on new projects. The year of change! One of the things I’d like to change up and start doing better in 2016, and something A LOT of recruiters tell me they want to start doing better in 2016, is using social media. “Wow, that’

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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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Work Culture–Monday FunDay

ExactHire Recruiting

ExactHire wrapped up a successful 2015 with the final Monday FunDay of the year on December 21. In addition to the monthly competition and employee workiversary/birthday celebrations, we added a Sweet Treat Exchange for everyone to enjoy. Combining these activities made for an exciting, sugar-charged day that once again brought our company together to enjoy and relish in our unique work culture.

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16 Hiring Problems You Need to Solve This Year (and How)

Spark Hire

The hiring process is constantly evolving to fit the ever-changing needs of job seekers and the latest technologies and innovations — at least, it should be. Text-heavy job ads, outdated screening tactics, and run-of-the-mill interview questions aren’t going to help you land today’s highly sought-after talent. What aspects of your hiring process need an update?

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What OpenTable Is Getting Right

Glassdoor for Employers

When coaching job applicants, especially junior candidates, on how to find the job of their dreams, I advise that they not shy away from sharing their accomplishments. For some people, this can be hard to do. But being able to take pride in your triumphs while remaining humble and appreciative of where you can grow is key to a wonderful career and rich life.

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How Important Are Reference Checks?

NPA Worldwide

Adapting to new hiring practices is a necessity for any business or recruitment partner to thrive in this competitive landscape. And one of the things constantly changing is. the role and importance of pre-employment reference checks in today’s workplace. Reference checks allow a recruiter to get independent insight about a candidate’s previous on-the-job performance.

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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.