October, 2018

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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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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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Putting the 'Total' in Total Talent Management

Allegis Global Solutions

We all know the biggest disruptors of the last ten years were; globalization, demographic changes and speed of technological advancements but what’s next?

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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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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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8 Ways Recruiters Can Grow Their IT Technical Knowledge

Hiretual

The majority of recruiters start out being generalists in their career. I started my career with just a bachelors in marketing and communications. I had absolutely no understanding of computer science. I was able to take a few STEM courses and wrote my first wordpress site using basic HTML and PHP.

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15 job interview horror stories that you won’t believe

Workable

When hearing the word “Halloween”, many of us think of decorative spider webs, vampire and ghost costumes, grinning pumpkins and of course, horror stories. Even if you’re not a fan of trick-or-treat season, you may still love a good horror story – not always fictional, but certainly one from the craziness of everyday life that can be relevant all year long.

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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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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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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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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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How Stacy Zapar Manages Internal Expectations

Social Talent

When it comes down to managing internal expectations, Founder & Principal Recruiter at The Talent Ag friend, Stacy Zapar knows a thing or two! Every company wants to hire the brightest sparks out there, however, understanding what that candidate looks like is a key component. Managing internal expectation is never as straightforward as you think.

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Recruiting Is Sales and 7 Other Lessons from a Global TA Leader at UNLEASH Amsterdam

SmartRecruiters

Ahead of her session on the second day of UNLEASH Amsterdam, we bring you eight lessons from recruiting-rockstar, Tracey Allison. Talent Acquisition right now is unquestionably a candidate’s market, with 73 percent of employers in the US reporting skill shortages in their field. Today’s applicants want a candid look inside your company before they even apply.

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How to Get an 8x Response Rate to Your Cold Emails to Passive Candidates

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Manan Shah – Cofounder at Recruiterflow. His opinions are his own. The average cold email response rate is about 5%-8%! To put that in perspective, you need to reach out to 20 people to get one response. The key part of this statistic here is “average” and being “average” is not […].

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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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REPORT: What Are the Hardest to Fill Healthcare Jobs?

Indeed

As a nation, Americans are facing serious health challenges. Heart disease remains the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the US, and a host of other conditions pose a great risk — including cancer, diabetes, respiratory diseases and stroke. In fact, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), life expectancy in the US has decreased for the second year in a row — the first time this has happened since the 1960s.

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Keyword Search: How to Sound Like A Sourcer.

Allegis Global Solutions

Most sourcing professionals would disagree with the overarching thesis that they could effectively be replaced by pretty much any preteen, or anyone who's ever seen a couple episodes of Catfish , but that's because they don't want anyone to know that finding people online has never been particularly challenging.

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Using Teaching To Build A Talent Pipeline

Katrina Kibben

“I don’t know what Tweeter is, but I think you’ll be good at it.” Famous last words from my CMO at VisualCV. This was in 2009, just two years after Twitter launched. The audience was mostly marketers trying to see if this thing was worth their time and bloggers trying to get someone to listen. […].

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Interviewer Hacks: Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer [INFOGRAPHIC INCLUDED]

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! Read More.

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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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Write Emails People Want to Read, 5 Tips from Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee at Social Recruiting Days 2018

SmartRecruiters

Sure you know the basic etiquette, but at the end of the day are you writing something someone actually wants to read? “Attention is the business currency of our age.” Says Hung Lee, recruiting influencer and Co-Founder of Workshape.io. “So how do we get that attention and keep it?”. For Hung, the answer is email. As the creator of recruiting brainfood , the talent acquisition newsletter eagerly awaited by over 9,000 people weekly, he knows the power of a successful campaign, unfortunately so do

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Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day

Symphony Talent

Recruiting is a people profession. Most recruiters have fantastic interpersonal skills, excel at building relationships, and communicate with ease. Yet a majority spend a large chunk of their. The post Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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On Your Mark: 5 Tips for New Managers

Indeed

One of the most common conversations I have with top performers on my team centers around opportunities to become a manager. It’s great to be ambitious, of course, and I love to see people rise to the next level in their careers. But there’s an important reminder I like to give: The skills that are required to be a high-performing individual contributor are not always the same as those required to be an exceptional manager.

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Background Checks Do’s and Don’ts Every Talent Manager Should Know

RecruitmentJuice

Hiring mistakes can cost your company time and money in lost productivity. Having a qualified talent manager is key to avoiding snarls that could result in a lawsuit. 1. Don’t use personally identifying information. An individual’s racial or ethnic background cannot be used as part of the hiring process. It’s illegal to look into and […]. The post Background Checks Do’s and Don’ts Every Talent Manager Should Know appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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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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A New Concept In Assessments: Attraction

Katrina Kibben

You can use assessment in nontraditional ways to enable people across your company to recruit where they shine: when they speak.

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The Evolution of the Recruitment Consultant [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This post is by Paul Slezak, Cofounder and CEO of RecruitLoop – the World’s largest marketplace of expert Recruiters and Sourcers available on-demand. Recruiters- they don’t just recruit employees, they also sow the seeds of company’s reputation. The reputation that is built on the brand image they create and the employees they recruit to contribute.

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Benefits Your Employees Actually Want: Why PayScale Has the Happiest Employees in Seattle

SmartRecruiters

Sometimes it’s hard to discern which benefits are trendy and which will actually improve employee quality of life. We talk with PayScale to learn the difference. This year Seattle Business Magazine named PayScale the top place to work in Seattle. No easy feat in the Emerald city with competition from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, and the siren call of San Francisco and Silicon Valley constantly ringing up the coast.

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10 Qualities That Returning Caregivers Bring to the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

While employers and recruiters may initially hesitate to hire a return-to-work caregiver, they may want to reconsider. Candidates who have been out.

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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.