October, 2018

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7 Secrets of Companies Who Are Unexpectedly Winning the Talent Fight

Proactive Talent

There are plenty of “obvious” candidates for companies who are doing amazing things to attract, hire and retain great talent within their business. They show up on the pages of HBR, Fast Company and Forbes, either filling our news feeds or staring at us from magazine covers on airport newsstands. But what about “the rest of us”? If you aren’t a part of those obvious companies, are you relegated to always being a “runner up” in the race for quality talent?

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How to Stress Test Your 2019 Hiring Plan

Lever

You’ve got your company’s hiring plans for 2019. Now you have to plan out your talent acquisition staff headcount to meet those goals. It can feel like looking into a crystal ball with only your best guess coming back to you. You could be at least a little bit worried about meeting your targets—after all, it’s your performance goals on the line, not just your company’s.

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What to Look for in a Modern Recruitment Platform

ClearCompany Recruiting

Recruiting software is highly utilized by talent acquisition teams. In fact, 75% of hiring professionals used either applicant tracking or recruiting software to improve their hiring process. Unfortunately, because implementing a new system or transitioning to another tool can be such an undertaking, organizational leaders either hesitate to choose a platform or deal with clunky programs.

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10 Instagram-Worthy Employee Experience Ideas

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Instagram is a great channel to use to provide candidates with an inside look into your organization and motivate them to join your team. One of the most effective types of content that my team at WeddingWire leverages on Instagram is employee generated content. What is employee generated content, you might be wondering? Employee generated content, also called EGC, refers to social media content that is created and shared by employees.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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A recession is coming. And you will not survive.

Greg Savage

This is a horror story. Unlike most horror stories, this one is true in every single detail. I was 29 years old. With a team of intrepid colleagues, we founded Recruitment Solutions, and we were going to take on the world. We were ambitious. We opened with ten people on day one. We had two […].

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Get a Jumpstart on Hiring New College Grads

JazzHR

Graduation may be half a year away, but it’s never too early to reach out to the next wave of college graduates. This past May, when the class of 2018 was marching to the tune of Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance,” an Entrepreneur article noted that a full 20 percent of the class of 2019 already had jobs lined up. Obviously, the most proactive employers are doing a pretty good job of recruiting fresh talent before it’s even finished fully ripening.

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10 Top Diversity & Inclusion Questions Answered

Lever

We recently co-hosted an amazing webinar panel on Building a Diversity and Inclusion Program from Scratch. On it, our speakers Katee Van Horn, Shavonne Hasfal-Mcintosh, and Raena Saddler shared incredible advice and insights on a topic that is a top business priority for so many of us. They covered a lot of ground, but simply didn’t have the time to answer all of the wonderful questions they received.

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How To Convince Your C-Suite That Employer Branding Really Matters

Proactive Talent

Are you having trouble convincing your C-Suite they should be prioritizing your company’s employer brand? Do you feel like a fish swimming upstream on this? If decision-makers at your company are cynical of whether employer branding is really worth the time, we’re going to arm you with some startling facts that will make them realize investing in it now will actually save you money, while increasing the quality of talent your organization can attract.

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How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Event Plan (Example Included!)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Recruitment Marketing should play a role in helping to ensure that your Talent Acquisition team’s recruiting events are a success. In this post, I’ll share the approach we take at Qualtrics to boost the brand and pipeline building possibilities associated with the recruiting events our TA team attends. First off, who should “own” events? And where does Recruitment Marketing fit in?

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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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Sixty Savage Seconds – I only hire recruiters from this generation

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘I only hire recruiters from this generation’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Look At Me: A Perspective on Privilege

Katrina Kibben

My perspective on privilege is probably a little different from most. But this is one of those thoughts I couldn't get out of my head.

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3 Ways Millennials Have Changed Candidate Engagement Strategy

JazzHR

When the oldest millennials entered the workforce at the turn of the century, they found an environment dominated by baby boomers and Gen Xer’s. In the succeeding two decades, millennials have made a significant impact on American work culture. Today, candidate engagement strategies need to address millennial job hunting habits, or companies risk missing out on talented professionals.

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Top 5 Recruiting Challenges to Solve in 2019

Lever

Recruiting is hard work. The competition for talent is high, making it difficult to win top-tier talent. On top of that, reactive hiring means you can’t focus on more strategic initiatives, like candidate experience and team collaboration. All of these things can wreak havoc on a hiring plan. As we begin thinking about 2019, let’s take the time to consider what we can do now to address these things before they continue to be problematic.

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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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Tip Or Treat - Don't *Scare* Your Applicants Away with a Bad Hiring Process

ApplicantPro

Happy Halloween from ApplicantPro! While it’s the season for all things scary and spooky, we want to be sure you’re not scaring your job applicants away! We found four ways your company might be scaring your applicants away and four ways to fix them! Check what you might be doing, and how you can fix it below! Don't Scare Away Your Applicants! 1. Too Long of an Application.

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10 Expert Tips for Building out Your 2019 Recruitment Marketing Plan

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Planning out objectives for the year ahead can be a daunting task. As Recruitment Marketers, how do we establish the right goals and priorities for the upcoming year when some hiring needs and issues can come up seemingly out of the blue? And how do we figure out and then ask for a budget that will allow us to achieve these goals? Recently, we addressed these very questions in a webinar we had the pleasure of hosting with Talemetry and Glassdoor.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – The best business advice I could EVER give you

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘The best business advice I could EVER give you’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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A Total Talent Approach to Women in Tech

Allegis Global Solutions

Despite advancements in other areas of education and a record number of women attending college, fewer and fewer women graduate with degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Of course, large employers and global RPOs have been wringing their hands about this issue, which has come more to the forefront as diversity’s obvious impact on the bottom line becomes clearer the more it’s studied.

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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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Guest Blog: The Three Step Approach to Long Term Diversity

JazzHR

Major businesses have been feeling the pressure to diversify their workforces for more than twenty years. In response to this pressure, many have employed a number of different diversity programs with varying degrees of success. But what result characterizes success for a diversity program? According to experts, businesses should be trying to increase the number of women and minorities in management , as well as reduce biases throughout the company.

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How to Prepare for the Next Headcount Meeting with Your CFO

Lever

Being that 2019 is around the corner, there has never been a more important time to get in front of headcount planning and ensure your team is staffed for recruiting success. But doing so often requires sign-off from your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who may or may not be able to assess how likely your team will be to hit future growth plans for your company.

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6 Strategies for Leaders Who Want to Flood Their Workplace With Great Ideas

Entrepreneur

Your perspective isn't the most important one in the room.

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How to Create a Recruitment Marketing Role at Your Organization

Rally Recruitment Marketing

My name’s Tricia, and I’ll be sharing insight into my journey as a new full-time Recruitment Marketer. Fun fact: This is my company’s very first Recruitment Marketing function! Therefore, I anticipate having many lessons to share along the way. In this first post, I’ll share how to create a Recruitment Marketing role or function within your organization, based on the experience I went through.

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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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Sixty Savage Seconds – 5 blunders recruiters are making now

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘5 blunders recruiters are making now’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Why Most Recruiting Fails

Katrina Kibben

If the recruitment marketing plan doesn't feel right, don't do it. This post is about that lesson and the most important criteria for doing what works.

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13 Hiring Horror Stories from Real Hiring Managers

JazzHR

In honor of Halloween, we reached out to hiring managers in our network to see if anyone had ever experienced a hiring nightmare. They did not disappoint! Read our top picks for craziest hiring nightmares below. “Years back, after hiring a new staffing specialist, and conducting training with her over her first 30 days, it was becoming evident that she wasn’t able to do the basic functions of the position, and she had poor judgment when interacting with our clients.

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Modern Applicant Tracking System Requirements

Lever

The first Applicant Tracking System (ATS) was designed to do little more than store data from applications. Prior to the Internet, candidates sent in physical resumes and the recruiter’s job was to choose the best from the stack. Early recruiting platforms simply digitized the process. But now, more than 20 years later, the hiring environment and the way job seekers communicate with companies has vastly changed—and so the modern ATS has adapted.

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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.

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The Top-Rated Retail Companies to Work For in 2018

Indeed

Today the “retail apocalypse” is a recurring theme in the media. Read one too many accounts of high profile closures and bankruptcies and you might think that there is no future for brick and mortar retail. But look a little closer and you might see a different picture — that we are living through a period of transition and (to paraphrase Mark Twain) rumors of retail’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

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Landing Pages 101 for Recruitment Marketing

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Landing pages are a marketing tool that many savvy Recruitment Marketing teams are starting to use to attract more candidates and persuade them to apply to their organization. This blog post is for you if you’re looking to learn landing pages 101 for Recruitment Marketing. We’ll share: What are landing pages. Why they work for Recruitment Marketing.

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Recruitment More Difficult Now Than Ever Before Reveals Survey

Social Talent

A 2018 survey by Monster has revealed stark changes in the recruitment industry and the experience of recruiters in their day-to-day working lives. A high rate of employment and fewer highly skilled job-seekers have lead to greater difficulty in identifying candidates for roles. 62% of recruiters say that their job is more difficult today than one year ago, and 67% claim a higher rate of difficulty than five years ago.

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