July, 2020

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My post-COVID recruiting dream

Greg Savage

As an industry, and as individuals, we have never had a better chance to change what we don’t like. To slaughter sacred cows. Smash our outdated, self- inhibiting paradigms. To configure our futures. Who is going to stop us? Who is even looking? The most significant waste of all will be to come back to […].

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Recruiters are being fired at the rate of 1 in 3!

Greg Savage

This is not good news. We knew it was happening, but the numbers are horrific. Latest research from Staffing Industry Metrics tells us exactly how many recruiters were fired in March, April and May this year. And its ugly, ugly, ugly. But read on because I am seeing the silver linings, and so should you. […].

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How to adapt to an active candidate market

Social Talent

Let’s not delve too much into how and why we got here. From a war for talent, a shortage of skills and near full employment, we now are faced with some of the largest unemployment figures since the Great Depression and a plethora of candidates actively looking for a new role. Yikes! A huge amount of recruitment teams and hiring processes were not built for this kind of market and will need to adapt.

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7 Tips for Running a Successful Team Brainstorm—Even When Everyone's Remote

The Muse

Just because you can’t get your colleagues in the same room doesn’t mean you can’t have a great brainstorming session. Here’s how to do it remotely.

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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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Why more remote workers mean you need a new onboarding process

Social Talent

Remote working has come skidding into our lives as not only a popular, but in many cases essential way of working. Remote workers aren’t new – after all, many people have been working from home for years – but working remotely has become nearly universal across multiple industries, validating it much faster than anyone expected. Here are some interesting statistics we found which show that remote working is here to stay, and that the unique challenges it presents means you will need to readdres

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Recruiting in tech: 3 ways to stay relevant

Social Talent

Tech is a fast paced industry, full of new trends and emerging technologies. Needs and roles change regularly. As a recruiter, what can you do to keep abreast of this notoriously evolving industry? Today we’ll explore three ways you can keep up to date in the world of recruiting in tech. Accept change. Change isn’t something anyone generally likes.

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13 Activities to Engage Remote Employees Today

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Although the movement towards increased remote work was already a trend before COVID-19, the pandemic has sped things up significantly. In addition, since it has slowed hiring for many organizations, a lot of us in Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Marketing have had to shift more of our time from external recruitment to internal employee engagement activities.

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Great recruiter. Great bloke. Great shame.

Greg Savage

Duncan Cunningham died nine years ago this month An excellent recruiter, a great bloke and a loyal friend. As we bemoan our fate during COVID I can’t help but remember this kind, generous man who left his family before he reached the age of 40, and no doubt would have tackled this time with the […].

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TribePod: An Interview with Jeff Wald

Proactive Talent

In this premiere episode of TribePod, Courtney Lane , Principal Consultant of Proactive Talent interviews Jeff Wald , the author of "The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations." She is assisted by Jim Stroud , VP of Marketing at Proactive Talent.

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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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New Tools [from Leoforce] That Embody the Future of Recruiting Technology

Leoforce

Arya - Recruiting AI Technology. New Tools [from Leoforce] That Embody the Future of Recruiting Technology. Many Americans are struggling through job searches right now because of COVID-19. The unemployment rate is hovering around 15% with officials warning that it could creep closer to 20% in the coming months. While sectors such as healthcare and IT are experiencing hiring surges, small business hiring challenges are rampant in other industries.

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8 Key Interview Questions to Ask in the Age of COVID

Glassdoor for Employers

Living and working in the midst of a pandemic has affected everyone, which is why it's so important to adapt your interview questions accordingly. Here are 8 questions to consider adding to your interviews for the foreseeable future. 1. What would you do if there were a tech issue that couldn't be resolved remotely right away and you couldn't move forward with one specific project?

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Working together effectively: Four tips to get it right with Hiring Managers

Social Talent

Did you know that 56% of recruiters claim the biggest bottleneck is hiring managers moving candidates through the hiring stages and a further 43% say it is hiring managers reviewing resumes? That’s a lot of disgruntled relationships with hiring mangers ! We’re going to guess while you might not have known the exact number, the general consensus doesn’t surprise you.

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How First Solar Energized their Recruitment Marketing Content

Rally Recruitment Marketing

A lot has changed in the past few months. In what seems like the blink of an eye, we were suddenly facing a global crisis the likes of which we had never experienced before — and our talent acquisition team knew that we had to adjust the Recruitment Marketing content we were creating as a result. . Before the global pandemic, we created Recruitment Marketing content around our company’s core principles and themes ?

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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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This client spent $2 Billion with 11 recruitment agencies. (No BS)

Greg Savage

It turns out the good old Aussie Federal Government has been supporting the local recruitment industry all along. To the tune of $2Billion in contractor fees in the past 6 years. No typo. That’s Two Billion Dollars! Yes, the much loved, often lucrative (but always ludicrous ) game of using agencies to hire temps and […].

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Giving Feels Good: Free LinkedIn Profile Rewrite

Katrina Kibben

Free LinkedIn profile rewrite for anyone who can benefit from making a great first impression with their online presence. The post Giving Feels Good: Free LinkedIn Profile Rewrite appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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The ‘new normal’: the future of hiring, onboarding and working

Workable

Remote work , asynchronous communication , increase of collaboration tools use; these are just a few of the current trends the hiring world and businesses are seeing. We at Workable wanted to get to the core of these developments and address them with people who are on the front lines and willing to share their first-hand experiences. That’s why on June 25, 2020, we hosted a webinar titled: “Working, hiring and onboarding in the new normal”.

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6 Ways to Tie Employer Branding to the Hiring Experience

Glassdoor for Employers

Whether during a robust or down-trending economy, the hiring experience is important in order to appeal to the best-of-the-best talent. In this post, we explore methods to tie employer branding into the hiring experience; e.g., sourcing, recruiting, interviewing and onboarding top talent. Doing so will help ensure your company is marketplace competitive.

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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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5 Predictions of What Recruitment Will Look Like After Covid-19

FireFish Software

Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the recruitment industry, so we can’t expect things to go back to the way they were once this is all over. We’ve already seen some pretty major changes to how our industry operates, and while some of these will be short term until the economy recovers, there are some ways that Covid-19 has changed our industry forever.

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Leadership in Times of Crisis: Conclusion - MitchelLake

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinShare on PinterestShare on XingShare on Reddit Leadership in Times of CrisisLeadership in Times of Crisis Part 4: Key Words of…Leadership in Times of Crisis Part 3: Handling the…

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This ‘post-recession’ advice is 11 years old. It’s never been more relevant!

Greg Savage

I wrote this blog in 2009, just as we were emerging from what we then considered to be a bad recession. LOL (Yes, that’s right, I have been writing blogs for your reading pleasure, every week, for over 10 years. Thanks for asking.) It could not be more relevant for us now, even if I […].

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3 Requirements To Reconsider When Writing Inclusive Job Postings

Katrina Kibben

Three standard "requirements" that need to be reconsidered, if not canceled, to create inclusive job postings for your company. The post 3 Requirements To Reconsider When Writing Inclusive Job Postings appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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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Chin up, recruiters and jobseekers: Expert tips for surviving crisis

Workable

Hiring data from the technical assessment platform, Coderbyte , illustrates the dramatic drop in the number of technical interviews since February. But whatever the slope, a bounce in hiring is sure to return as jobs shift to different industries. During a hiring freeze, technical recruiters can proactively position themselves and their teams by adopting more efficient remote sourcing techniques , interview processes , and by embracing ways to build work-from-home cultures while social distancin

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Employee Surveys, Pandemic Safety and Corporate Filter Bubbles

Survale

Employee Surveys, Pandemic Safety and Corporate Filter Bubbles. You don’t need employee surveys to tell you that people aren’t logical. Just look around at the Summer 2020 Coronavirus surge. Despite clear safety precautions for mitigating the spread of the virus and reducing the resulting deaths, here we are with out of control virus spread in many parts of the country and a large enough portion of the U.S. eschewing safety protocols for a variety of reasons.

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How Do You Run an Agency on Part-Time Recruiters?

FireFish Software

As of 1 st July, you can bring furloughed recruiters back into your agency on a part-time basis while still using the Government furlough scheme to supplement their salary. You can choose what hours and shift patterns your recruiters follow, giving you plenty of options to work with. But how do you introduce part-time workers into an industry where most people work more than full-time hours as it stands?

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The Future of Talent Acquisition in Uncertain Times 2020 | JazzHR Blog

Recruiting Brief Submitted Articles

JazzHR partnered with HR.com to produce a new report: The Future of Talent Acquisition in Uncertain Times 2020. Learn more!

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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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Your Post-COVID Mantra. ‘Cash is Queen’.

Greg Savage

One thing every owner and manager of every recruitment company has learned (or re-learned recently) is this; ‘Cash is Queen’. I know of several recruitment companies that have gone into liquidation, have read of dozens more, and there are no doubt hundreds, maybe thousands across the world who suffered a similar fate. More will follow […].

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15 Jobs You Can Do From Home—or Anywhere You Choose

The Muse

These jobs give you the flexibility you need to work from home, whether you’re a parent or caregiver, have a disability or chronic illness, or just want to make your own schedule.

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What is inclusive leadership?

Workable

Why is inclusive leadership important? We live in a diverse business world. There’s not just variability in our workforce, there is also diversity in the customers we want to attract, in the messages we share or consume via various platforms, and the markets we plan to expand to. Inclusive leadership helps balance all these elements – inclusive leaders adapt quickly to diverse scenarios and alternate perspectives with an open, non-judgmental mind to bring on the best results possible.

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