February, 2020

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Recruitment is not Tinder. And this is why.

Greg Savage

Technology and lack of skill are driving plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Transactional, keyword matching, resume spamming recruiting drones take heed. (Please). This is what will differentiate the winners from the losers in recruitment. In the end, a recruiter is as good as the number of […].

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Brand Romance - How to Attract the Best Talent

Allegis Global Solutions

Valentines clichés abound in February, but I can’t resist a nod to our romantic nature when we’re talking talent attraction. Just like wooing the person of your dreams, attracting the best talent takes a big dose of ingenuity, creativity and, yes, some courage. Or as Lady Gaga might say, no need for a Poker Face if you want to take your talent acquisition to the Edge of Glory!

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Amid Coronavirus Fears, How to Support New Remote Workers

exaqueo

Here at exaqueo, we have been a fully-remote team since 2011 and some of our team members have been remote for decades. Getting comfortable with working from home and shifting to this kind-of-policy isn’t a quick change. It requires thought and purpose, even if the decision has to be made quickly.

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Coronavirus Fears at Work: What Employers Need to Know

Recruiting Daily Advisor

News reports of deaths and illnesses from the rapidly spreading coronavirus get scarier every day. Millions of people are being quarantined. Foreign companies and governments are evacuating their people from hard-hit areas of China where the virus got its start. And even employees who don’t travel for work are getting anxious about traveling coworkers who may have been exposed.

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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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Tips for Giving Employee Feedback

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Giving appropriate feedback to employees can help them meet performance expectations and let them know they’re doing well. This can, in turn, help keep motivation and satisfaction levels up. Alternatively, feedback can also be used to steer employees in the right direction when they don’t meet all expectations. Feedback Tips. Here are a few tips for giving feedback to employees: Be timely.

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The Best Jobs of 2020

Indeed

When you imagine your ideal job, what do you see? Maybe you envision conquering challenging software problems at a trendy tech firm full of fun perks. Or perhaps you dream of watching your architectural sketches become sweeping structures of steel, concrete and glass. . The ideal job might differ from person to person, but most can agree on a few key characteristics: it should offer good pay, have potential for growth in its field and be in demand by employers.

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3 Concrete Ways Recruitment Marketers Can Improve the Job Application Process

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Did you know that if your job application process takes more than 15 minutes to complete, candidates are 365% more likely to drop off before clicking submit? ( Appcast ) . In some industries, this statistic may come as a surprise; but to my colleagues and I who are recruiting in the healthcare space, this definitely wasn’t a shocking number to hear.

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This is where the Billing Manager goes wrong!

Greg Savage

Why do so many great recruiters fail when asked to manage other recruiters? There are many reasons for that. The Billing Manager role is the hardest job in recruitment, although it can also be the most rewarding if you get it right. Let me count the ways it can go wrong. (3 minutes) • Wrong […].

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Star Interview Questions

Lever

The typical introductory job interview poses a variety of questions. Categorically, these inquiries are designed to assess the experience, interest, communication skills, creative thinking abilities, motivation, and cultural alignment of an interviewee to ensure a best-fit hire. Some common interview questions are. Read More. The post Star Interview Questions appeared first on Lever.

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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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The Future of Talent Acquisition

Allegis Global Solutions

Last December talent acquisition leaders gathered in London for the latest in our series of roundtables to discuss the future of talent acquisition and find out how they perceive their own talent acquisition function’s ability, where the pressure points lie, and how it could change for the better.

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The truth about great employer brands (that everyone seems to miss)

Social Talent

Employer brands. Every company has one. What’s it really like inside those four walls? Most companies have made at least some effort to shape the answer to that question. But knowing how to do it well is a little more tricky. Cash, conmen and coffee: the changing face of employer brands. The way I see it, employer brands have been on a bit of a journey.

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How to Balance Speed and Quality When Making Hiring Decisions

Glassdoor for Employers

Good things take time — especially in recruiting. The wait for quality hires is stressful for recruiters, who generally want to fill openings sooner rather than later. On average, it takes 24 days to fill a job. This lengthy process can drain a company’s resources, which is why some employers jump the gun by making quick hires instead of good ones.

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How to screen Groovy developer skills

Devskiller

The Apache Groovy programming language is one of the oldest alternative programming languages running on JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The Java-syntax compatible Groovy script celebrates its 17th birthday in 2020. People might think that development or the buzz surroundings more recent JVM languages like Kotlin have made Groovy redundant. . Well, that couldn’t be further from the truth!

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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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Declining profits for your boss. No bonus for you. Here is why.

Greg Savage

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […].

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The Remote Worker Ransom Letter

Katrina Kibben

This remote worker ransom letter was inspired by an 8-mile drive that took over an hour just a few weeks ago. This is what your team really wants if you demand they come into the office next week. The post The Remote Worker Ransom Letter appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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New Report: 4 Fundamentals for a Total Talent Advantage

Allegis Global Solutions

Why Does Access to the Total Talent Supply Matter? With unemployment at historic lows, the demand for workers with critical skills far outstrips the supply. And yet, successful organizations continue to secure talent with the speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness to get work done and lead their markets. What are they doing right? For a growing portion of companies, the answer begins with meeting the workforce where it is today.

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Three unexpected challenges of Growth Hiring (and how to overcome them)

Social Talent

Entering a period of growth is challenging for your business. The most cursory of Google searches will provide you with pages worth of content about managing cash flow , staying competitive and the struggle to find the right talent. And rightly so. These are significant challenges of Growth Hiring. . However, we’re interested in the challenges you might not have predicted coming your way.

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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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Eat the Frog and Other Time Management Tips

NPA Worldwide

In the world of time management tips, you’re likely familiar with the “ Eat the Frog ” concept. American humorist Mark Twain is often credited with the origin of this saying, paraphrased as if you eat a live frog every morning, nothing worse will happen the rest of the day. In other words, if you get your most unpleasant task out of the way first, the rest of your day will be easier and smoother.

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3 Hiring Practices That May Soon Replace Job Interviews

Glassdoor for Employers

Selection processes that consist of merely an unstructured interview are a poor predictor of success, yet an interview is still the candidate assessment tool of choice for many hiring managers. Understandably, these decision-makers want to meet applicants before extending job offers and feel this is the best way to get to know a potential employee. But what are hiring managers missing by only subjecting applicants to interviews?

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12 Questions to Ask When Hiring Remote Team Members

SmartRecruiters

In today’s global economy, more and more employers are turning to remote or distributed workforces as part of their hiring strategy. This requires a certain level of trust in remote employees to be organized and productive self-starters. To screen for these soft skills, recruiters should tailor their questions accordingly. There are many advantages to using a remote workforce —such as the ability to draw from a larger talent pool and cut back on overhead, to name a few.

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Continuous Listening: How to Strengthen Employee Communication

TalentCulture - Recruiting

This is the first in a two-piece guest series on Continuous Listening. Human Resources departments own many responsibilities that directly contribute to the overall success of a company. According to Sari Levine Wilde, managing vice president of Gartner, “The businesses that are successful today and in the future, will be those that win when it comes to talent…This means helping employees build critical skills and developing employees into leaders.

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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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What Should Candidates STOP Doing?

Undercover Recruiter

There’s probably a whole list of definite no-nos for candidates but this week our panel of experts share their advice on what they think should never be done in the hiring process. You might be telling your candidates some of this already, but if you’re not, feel free to add them on. Kerri-Ann Hargreaves STOP […]. What Should Candidates STOP Doing?

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How important is recruiter learning and development really?

RecruitmentJuice

As you’d expect, we think learning and development is among the most important things a team of recruiters need to thrive. But faced with poor performance, disinterested people and courses that feel like a time-consuming burden, it’d be a understandable if you didn’t agree. So is learning and development as important as it seems? What’s […]. The post How important is recruiter learning and development really?

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6 Ways to Turn Rejected Candidates into Employer Brand Ambassadors

TalentLyft

Rejecting candidates in a thoughtful manner is not just a decent thing to do - it can also boost your employer brand. You turn down 99% of your candidates. Don’t miss the opportunity to turn them into eager employer brand ambassadors! Read More.

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Working Together to Boost Inclusive Hiring: JPMorgan Chase, Goodwill and Indeed

Indeed

Diversity in the workplace is a hot topic, and with good reason: Diverse hiring benefits both companies and communities. However, a truly inclusive hiring approach requires dedication, hard work and creative thinking to reach a broad pool of candidates. . Strategic partnerships with other organizations are one great way to make hiring more diverse. In 2019, Indeed announced a collaboration with Goodwill Industries International to help one million job seekers find employment by the year 2024.

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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.