Greg Savage
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
'For as long as I remember (and in recruitment, that is a very, very long time) getting good candidates has always been about getting their attention. Way back in the day, all newspapers were bulging with job-classified sections. Seriously, I remember the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age job sections were way thicker than the […].
ClearCompany Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'In recruiting, icebergs pop up all the time, but some aren’t as obvious as others, and sometimes, there’s no one at the helm to sound the alarm. Icebergs in recruiting can look like gaps in talent, dried up talent pools, neglecting to consider industry trends as they relate to talent needs or letting the competition pull ahead when you’re not watching.
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The Whiteboard
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
'I’m looking for a little bit of feedback today from anyone who has paid for, stood at, and run an expo stand at a conference. Is it really worth the time, effort and money? I ask for two reasons: Last week I popped into the expo stand area of the HRINZ Conference at the Viaduct Event Centre. It was lunch time, looked good, was well organised and set up well.
ExactHire Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
Are you constantly sending out recruiting emails that receive a lackluster response? Here are five ways you can grab the attention of that uber-qualified employee and get them on the track to working for you! Specific Subject Lines Subject lines are the little previews that help the recipient decide to open the message or not. By sending emails with a personalized and clear subject line, you are more likely to gain your target’s attention.
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Social Talent
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'Like it or loath it, social media is and will continue to be the way forward for both job seekers and recruiters alike, in the years to come. In fact, 94% of recruiters are now using social media to recruit and 78% of them have made a hire through it. Employers who have used social media to recruit candidates, have even gone so far as to say that they have found a 49% improvement in candidate quality!
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Greg Savage
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
'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, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by on your income, or why you will get fired. And the […].
NPA Worldwide
SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
'Recently, I read a post on the New York Times’ You’re the Boss blog, entitled Why I Do All My Recruiting on LinkedIn. Employers will read this and some of them will think, “Wow! That’s a GREAT idea! I should totally stop using a third-party recruiter and do all of MY recruiting on LinkedIn, too!” Here are just a few reasons why that is a foolish approach: 1.
The Whiteboard
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
'As most recruiters in New Zealand with the slightest touch of a finger on the pulse know by now, the much vaunted ASB talent acquisition team is being deconstructed into its’ component parts and decentralised into the business. Not axed, or disbanded, or removed in its entirety as the good old recruitment rumour mill started reporting of late.
ExactHire Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
Over the past few months, the ExactHire team has shared information with you through our blogs on the “Ban the Box” movement and the legislative changes that have been implemented. Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Hawaii are states that have enacted legislation in both the public and private sectors relating to when a background check can be incorporated into the applicant review process.
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Social Talent
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
'How many times have you read the words “ Dynamic “, “ Team player ” or “ Highly motivated “, in relation to a candidate’s opinion of their own professional abilities, on their CV? 2,567,899 times? Close enough I’d say! Well, now it’s time to get to the bottom of what job seekers actually mean when making such bold statements about their professional prowess!
Glassdoor for Employers
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
'Recruiting doesn’t end once the person is hired. Companies will go to great lengths to hire top talent, yet many see attrition problems down the road. Nobody is going to stay in one position forever, but the actions of the company can mean the difference between keeping an employee for the long haul and driving him or her to the competition. “The mistakes do start at the recruiting process,” says John Ricco , partner in recruiting firm The Atlantic Group.
Good To Know
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
'There are few buzzwords in the recruitment industry being used with more frequency right now than “mobile” Try it – ask a talent leader at an organization: “What’s your strategy for 2015?” I’ll bet they say something along the lines of “mobile social candidate engagement – using big data!” And then, I’ll bet they run […].
NPA Worldwide
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
'I came a cross a great infographic from Staff.com highlighting a ton of information about how social media is being used by employers, recruiters, and job seekers. Here are some of my favorites: 45% of Fortune 500 firms include links to their social media accounts on their career pages. 73% of employers have successfully hired via social media. Virtually ALL employers are using LinkedIn; Facebook and Twitter are growing. 75% of all employers and recruiters look at job seekers’ social medi
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.
The Whiteboard
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
'There seems to be a bad-blooded stoush brewing between HRINZ and a break-away faction keen to set up a rival industry body. Those at the HR Game Changer Conference a couple of weeks ago (“ this isn’t just a conference, we’re starting a movement “…please don’t puke in your mouth) heard from their renegade leader that work was underway in setting up a new institute, snappily named the Chartered Human Resources Institute.
ExactHire Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
An issue that comes up quite frequently in my discussions with potential new ExactHire customers is whether it makes sense to purchase a stand-alone applicant tracking system (ATS) or utilize those capabilities within their existing payroll/human capital management (HCM) solution. Admittedly, I have a biased perspective on this. Despite that, below is a brief list of the pros and cons for each option, based on feedback from others over the past few years.
Social Talent
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
'Like hundreds of thousands of other people across the globe, I watched in awe as self-confessed “ Harry Potter girl ” Emma Watson made a powerful speech about the issue of feminism in today’s society at a UN conference early this week. And I was both shocked by the statements she made about the state of feminism today and inspired by the passion with which she tackled the issue.
Glassdoor for Employers
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'The following blog post was written by Dale Jakins, Human Resource Business Partner at 1-800 CONTACTS. 1-800 CONTACTS has always been a top rated employer on Glassdoor in reviews by our current and former associates. Responders usually had nothing but a glowing report with minimal negative call outs. 1-800 CONTACTS strategy was simply let the comments stand for themselves and just “let our light shine”.
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Allegis Global Solutions
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is vital for successful talent management and acquisition. In essence, your organization''s EVP is everything that makes it an attractive place to work, in which staff feel they receive rewards for doing their best. At the end of the day, it is a business''s people that decide its success and a strong and effective EVP is essential if you are going to get the most out of them.
NPA Worldwide
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
'Our guest blogger is Judy Tilmont, owner of JST Search Group in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) and a member of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors. JST Search Group places professionals in a wide range of manufacturing, engineering, operations, and finance roles. About 10 years ago I was asked by an associate to write an article for his company newsletter on my experience with global recruitment.
The Whiteboard
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
'I spend a lot of time interviewing recruiters and ask a pretty wide range of questions depending on the situation. But a pretty consistent one is probably the most obvious: So what (on earth) got you into recruitment in the first place? The most common answer, as probably happened to most of you reading, is that you fell into it by mistake. Often by turning up to interview for a different job and being identified as someone with the right mad glint in the eye and talkative tendencies for the i
ExactHire Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Your marketing team has worked hard to ensure that marketing campaigns communicate exactly what your company promises to be–your company brand. So hard in fact, that people are listening and business is growing! Now your company needs to be on top of their game as they seek to attract and hire the right people–your employer brand. When hiring–especially when hiring aggressively–the perception of your employer brand can start to go one of two ways: your employer brand is k
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Social Talent
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
'In the news this week: Employee Referrals Couldn’t Be Simppler. There’s a brand new employee referrals application on the market and it couldn’t be Simppler to use, in fact, Simppler is the name of the app! The apps co-founder, Eventbrite’s Vipul Sharma, says the app was born because there “ were significant challenges in promoting employee referral as part of employees’ day-to-day activity due to the lack of engaging tools ” at Eventbrite and he wanted
Glassdoor for Employers
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
'“ Employee engagement ” is a hot buzzword these days. It refers to employees who are more than just “satisfied” with their jobs—they are energized, excited and passionate about their jobs and the company they work for. Engaged employees go above and beyond the bare minimum, driven by truly caring about their work. Sounds great, doesn’t it? So how can you improve employee engagement at your small business?
SmartRecruiters
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
'Not pre-med. Not business. Not computer science. The most popular college major choice for high school seniors surveyed by CareerBuilder —the majority of whom already have a career in mind—is engineering. We can debate how many of these students will stick with engineering when they get their first homework assignments in college. But let’s assume most of them don’t move to less rigorous majors.
NPA Worldwide
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
'Today’s guest blogger is Justin Mosgrober, Marketing Coordinator at InterviewStream – the pioneer in online video interviewing. Since 2003, InterviewStream (an NPAworldwide Alliance Partner) has helped companies generate great candidate experiences and remarkable returns through Web-based video screening, interviewing and preparation. InterviewStream provides a scalable approach that fits with customers’ unique business needs to achieve breakthrough results.
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Good To Know
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
'I was reading a really interesting article in Forbes by Lou Adler, who I happen to think is very smart, about a time he helped a client recognize what he was looking to get done, as opposed to looking for a unicorn who could do everything. This is something we encounter a great deal in […].
ExactHire Recruiting
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Ban the Box. Whether you agree or disagree with the concept, one thing we all can agree on is that this movement requires our attention in our organization’s hiring practices. Depending on the states in which an organization hires individuals, “Ban the Box” takes a heightened level of importance since states and cities throughout the United States are enacting various forms of this legislation.
Social Talent
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'As a recruiter, your goal when it comes to posting job ads on the likes of Indeed and Monster, should be to get as many qualified candidates as possible, to respond to your ad and apply for the job. The problem is, less than 10% of all the people who end up reading a job ad, actually engage with it. More problematic still, is the fact that those 10% are the people who managed to find the job ad in the first place and who have read it from start to finish.
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