July, 2017

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Great recruiters live on the ‘edge’.

Greg Savage

Today’s recruiter is never ‘done‘ You are never ‘trained’, ‘expert’, or ‘finished with learning’. It’s constant renewal, up-skilling and starting again. That is your challenge from today on. I like the concept of ‘living on the edge’ because it suggests being alert, being dexterous, being nimble. I encourage you to adopt as your mantra, from […].

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Onboarding New Leaders: 5 Tips to Help Executives Make a Smooth Transition

ClearCompany Recruiting

Onboarding is an important piece of the hiring process, and one that more and more leaders are working to improve in their organizations. Onboarding starts before the first day and carries on to the job offer, new hire documentation, training and goal setting for performance management. Though it is such an integral part of any new hire’s development, the conversation usually focuses on those employees who are entry or associate level.

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: 3 Quick Tricks for Cold Recruiting Emails

Lever

Cold recruiting emails just aren’t your thing, right? You do all you can to make them stand out, and candidates just won’t respond. It’s time to accept that other recruiting tactics - referrals, inbound applicants, and meeting candidates at events - are more rewarding methods for you than sourcing. Right?

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So, Are Remote Workers Happier Than Other Employees? 

JazzHR

Working remotely is fast becoming the new norm. In 2015, 37 percent of US workers said they had telecommuted, representing a huge increase from the 9 percent who said the same in 1995. Advances in technology have meant that it’s easier than ever before to make the world your office, rather than the office your world. But is technology the only thing that’s driving the increase in remote workers, or could it be that they’re actually happier than everyone else?

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Understanding Group Medicare for an Aging Workforce: Key Considerations for HR Leaders

Speaker: Shawnequa Albert

As our workforce evolves, so must the way we support it. With more employees choosing to work beyond age 65, HR leaders are increasingly being called upon to guide aging employees through one of the most complex transitions in their professional lives - from employer sponsored plans to Group Medicare. Without clear guidance, confusion around eligibility, coverage options, and cost implications can lead to uncertainty and missed opportunities for optimized benefits.

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SEO For Recruiters Webinar (3/3) – How to Use Advanced SEO to Dominate Google

Talent Hero Media

The final and most important part of a three-part webinar series on SEO for recruiters, covering how to improve interaction factors and the holy grail of SEO - getting sites to link to you. The post SEO For Recruiters Webinar (3/3) – How to Use Advanced SEO to Dominate Google appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Crap KPI’s. Dumb managers. Unhappy recruiters: Or the smart way.

Greg Savage

Recruiters love to be busy. Or to be more accurate, they love to feel busy. Same goes for many recruiting managers. If everyone is busy, busy, busy, they are happy. Happy, but dumb. Because yes, activity is key in recruitment. But smart activity is what we want. So many recruiters are currently getting better and […].

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Stop Sabotaging Your New Hire! Try These Bold Onboarding Ideas

ClearCompany Recruiting

While the employee onboarding process should instill confidence in new hires, it goes beyond warm fuzzies. You and your team are preparing the new employee for the reality of the job. Give them the wrong idea about your company or their position, and you will see a quickly exiting or disengaged hire. Aside from the critical steps of the employee onboarding process , your team should be using your company culture and values to inspire a unique experience.

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How to Leverage Design Thinking in Talent Acquisition: Introduction

Lever

We’ve made it our mission to make hiring a better experience for every stakeholder in the process. Recruiters, we want you to spend more time learning about your candidate’s favorite hackathon than getting mired in scheduling hell. Hiring managers, we want you to breeze right through feedback submission because it’s that seamless. Candidates, we never want you to get asked the same question over and over by a team of interviewers again.

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How Productive Are Remote Workers Really?

JazzHR

There are a lot of negative stereotypes that go around about remote workers. Employers and colleagues can view them as lazy and unreliable. After all, they’re probably at the beach when they’re supposed to be stapled to their desk at home. And, they no doubt start their day late and finish up early, and definitely don’t do as much of the heavy lifting as everyone in the office.

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How to Hire for Potential: Looking Beyond the Resume for Top Talent

For high-volume hiring, every resume can start to look the same, making it impossible to identify which candidates have the right skills to succeed in your role. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to quickly differentiate top candidates by focusing on soft skills, cognitive abilities, and culture fit, not just experience. What We’ll Cover: Why traditional hiring falls short: Experience alone doesn’t predict success What skills-based hiring is: Soft skills, cognitive abilities, and cultural fit Id

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Are We Discriminating? Or Just Failing to Communicate?

The Whiteboard

From time to time the words I type into this WordPress page and send out through various digital channels manifest themselves into real life reactions. A recruiter moving back from overseas gets in touch. An invite to attend or speak at a conference arrives. A bellicose threat of legal action, perhaps. Last Friday afternoon I was busy beavering away at my desk (yes, really) when reception called up to let me know that someone had come in without an appointment and was asking to see me.

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Get Results with Online Employee Training in 3 Steps

Glassdoor for Employers

Whether your goal is for successful onboarding, keeping your employees up to date with relevant skills, ensuring the glass tapping interns are engaged, or improving morale and retention - you need a training program to fulfill your workforce's needs.

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Smarter KPI’s for Temp & Contract Recruiters

Greg Savage

So, last blog we deconstructed crappy perm recruiter KPIs and rebuilt them with a good old ‘backwards plan’. I called for a show of support from Savage Truth readers interested in a temp/contract backwards plan, and it came in the form of over 60 requests for the plan in the comments section of last week’s blog. […].

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5 Onboarding Best Practices to Apply to Your Evolving Workforce

ClearCompany Recruiting

First impressions are important, and many new hires are using those first few days on a job to decide just how interested they are in remaining employed within the organization. In fact, some employees consider the candidate experience and time between the offer letter and first day as an important indicator to how all of their employment might go. That’s why a quality onboarding program is so pivotal.

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The Secret to Navigating Employment Compliance in 2025

Speaker: Speakers

The employment compliance landscape is evolving fast, and staying on top of the latest regulatory changes can feel overwhelming. With so much conflicting information out there, how can you be sure you're covering all your bases? Join Kimberly Best-Robideaux, a top immigration attorney with 20+ years of experience, and Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright, for an expert-led webinar to help you move beyond the headlines and break down key insights about evolving regulations.

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: Your Most Creative Email Subject Line

Lever

After unwinding beneath the sun this Fourth of July, we’re excited to share that our minds are refreshed and the creative juices are flowing. Unsurprisingly, our Sourcing Squad is no different. This week, they’re inspiring us - and making us laugh - with the inventive ways they attract candidates’ attention.

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12 Recruitment Memes That Speak The Absolute TRUTH!

Social Talent

Who doesn’t like a good old fashioned meme to bring you back down to reality. There’s one thing that has to be said for recruiters – They love a bit of humour! Life as a recruiter can be stressful, and the job can be a rollercoaster at times. However, sometimes you just have to suck it up and get on with the job. In certain situations, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.

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Australian 457 Visa Reform an Opportunity for NZ Recruiters

The Whiteboard

I remember moving to Australia back in 2005, looking forward to starting afresh after five full-on years of London living, to meeting, mixing and mingling in a new culture. Scratching around for a meaningful job I accidentally ended up securing a role in recruitment. I wasn’t entirely sure why Hays seemed so convinced I’d make a good recruiter, but after my first couple of days at work I realised: I was pretty much a blueprint for what used to work for them back then.

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Why a Mobilized Career Site is Your Best Chance for Top Talent

Proactive Talent

Time is money, and mobile optimization is the great time saver for recruiters and candidates alike. Possessing a mobile career site has surpassed the status of being a first-class feature, and entered the realm of basic necessity. There are very few companies left where a non-digital application can even be processed from start to finish. With even fewer applicant pools left that are accepting of an application process that involves a full site, five attachments of cover letters, references, etc

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Revolutionizing Hiring: Remote-Insourcing That Slashes Turnover & Training Costs!

What is Remote-Insourcing? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Not anymore. Remote-Insourcing isn’t outsourcing—it’s a revolutionary staffing model that lets our clients fill key entry-level positions with top-tier, loyal, long-term talent, integrated seamlessly into their businesses—just like local employees but without the turnover or W2 HR hassles. With under 3% unwanted attrition, you train once and keep the same team for years.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed

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 “Two skills every modern recruiter has nailed“ Let me know what you think!

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A Step-by-Step Onboarding Process Checklist

ClearCompany Recruiting

Bringing someone new into your organization is not a simple process. You need to get them up to optimal productivity as soon as possible, integrate them into the company culture, make sure they’re properly trained in company policy and more.

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How to Scale Your Social Media Recruiting Program

Lever

The one-on-one nature of social media is part of what makes it appealing to recruiters and candidates, but it can be time consuming. It’s easy to spend the better part of your morning engaging with potential candidates without actually moving a single one down your funnel. To maximize your social media recruiting program’s success, scale where you can, so you can spend the one-on-one time where it really counts.

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10 of The Most Creative Recruitment Ads That Are Just A little Bit Cheeky

Social Talent

1. How cheeky is the Burger King ad? Source: Global Recruiting Roundtable. 2. Laazi calls a spade a spade. Source: Pinterest. 3. Challenge Accepted. Source: Blogspot. 4. Reverse Psychology works every time. 5. Nothing like a bit of healthy competition amongst friends. 6. There’s always more underneath the surface. 7. All is not what it seems. 8.

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The Great Disruption: Leveraging AI To Better Your Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Joana Ardelean, MSHRM, PHR, SHRM-CP, CC

The benefits landscape is shifting rapidly, and AI is at the center of this transformation. From optimizing health and wellness programs to predicting future benefits needs, AI is empowering HR and total rewards leaders to make smarter, more proactive decisions. The challenge? Understanding where AI fits in your strategy and how to leverage it effectively while keeping employee well-being at the forefront.

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Just the Facts: Company Leaders Have a Huge Impact on Candidates

JazzHR

Business leaders have an enormous impact on every aspect of the companies they work for. They set the tone and chart the course. They embody an organization’s values, drive its vision, and establish company culture. And while great leaders build great businesses, the effects of a bad leader include plummeting profits and stock prices, lower staff engagement and retention, and even an inability to attract top talent.

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Standard Questions For A Job Application

ExactHire Recruiting

When approaching your employment application design , it can be helpful to divide questions into two categories: standard and job-specific. Standard questions are asked of all applicants, regardless of the job selected. Whereas, different sets of job-specific screening questions are presented to candidates based on the jobs to which they choose to apply.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – If you have to discount fees, remember this!

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 “If you have to discount fees, remember this!“ Let me know what you think!

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The Massive Effect THIS Has on Your New Employees

ClearCompany Recruiting

Close your eyes. Think of a time when you were busy and needed to hire a lot of people. Were you concerned with candidate experience? Of course you were. Were you wary of long interview times and ensuring you hired for technical and cultural fit? Absolutely! Did you have your onboarding process mapped out before you sent out the offer letter?

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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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6 Exit Interview Questions to Aid Recruiting

Lever

An exit interview helps organizations learn why employees are leaving, and how they can improve to become a better workplace—but it has many recruiting applications as well. The feedback your organization receives can be used to more effectively manage your employer brand, expand your talent pool, and close more of your top-choice candidates. If your recruiting team isn’t already reviewing exit interview questions and answers, you should be.

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Winter Has Come: What GoT Characters Are In Your Office?

Social Talent

Yes, yes people. The time is finally upon us – Game of Thrones is back on our screens and winter has landed on our doorsteps. OH THE EXCITEMENT!! So, to get us back on the bandwagon and into the Game of Thrones Spirit, we’ve decided to dedicate our Friday blog to the show we love so dear. We’re matching some of the characteristics from our favourite GoT characters, with of the a few individuals you’d find hanging around your office.

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Do Summer Perks Actually Work?

JazzHR

When it’s a Friday afternoon in the summer time, all most people want to do is get outside, enjoy the nice weather, and get a jumpstart on the weekend. And who can blame them? Summer is fleeting and a time that we’re programmed to associate with being off — whether from work or school — starting from our earliest days as children. The good news is that as an employer, there’s a way that you can use this longing to your advantage.

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