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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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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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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5 Ways Outsourcing Benefits Administration Saves Your Company Money

Social Talent

Small businesses are often reluctant to outsource functions that they believe can be taken care of in-house. Case in point? Human resources, or more specifically benefits administration. Why pay someone else to do something that you can handle just as easily in house, and save the money? The thing is, handling these tasks in-house isn’t always efficient, nor does it save your business money.

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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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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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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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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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What is the aPHR?

ClearCompany Recruiting

The necessity of HR certifications has been highly debated for many years. While it is not required to have certifications in order to obtain a position in HR, there are many positives that come from having those letters behind your name. If you have decided to become certified, it’s now time to do your research.

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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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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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5 Secrets on How To Establish A Flawless Hiring Process

Social Talent

Establishing a hiring process that works for your business is critical when it comes to hiring the best talent. Hiring managers should have a keen eye for what talent looks like, and should be looking for potential leaders. Nailing down a flawless hiring process will improve many aspects of a business, and creating a unique hiring culture can be key to this.

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3 Touch Points to Better Engage a Multigenerational Workforce

Entrepreneur

Smart HCM technology can help organizations create compelling work environments that make employees feel valued and treated fairly - regardless of their generation, employment status, or position.

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The Shifting Sands of Candidate Communication

The Whiteboard

Your usual blogger is AWOL once again this week, so it’s up to me to battle through 500 non- libellous words. The world is awash with recruitment technology currently; An endless list of start-ups attempting to use automation and AI to replace or enhance the fat-tie-knotted recruitment barbarians of old. A new one brought to my attention this week, fighting out of Indianapolis, is Canvas.

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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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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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Recruiting for Tech Diverse Talent in a Noisy World

Allegis Global Solutions

Diversity recruiting, already a focus of considerable dollars and attention, gets even harder when you’re recruiting in one of the most competitive verticals, namely tech.

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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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Should Candidates Include a Profile Picture on Resumes?

Social Talent

Recruiting for a job is an undeniably stressful process. There is usually a surplus of applicants, many remarkably similar CVs and skill sets, and of course massive time constraints. And this is all without one of the most contentious issue in current job application debates – that of whether or not inclusion of a photo is the new norm. And, perhaps more importantly, whether it should be.

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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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Why Recruiting for Personality Matters

Glassdoor for Employers

According to a survey of professionals in a range of industries, 78 percent of respondents identified personality as the single-most desirable quality in a worker.

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10 steps to hire more women in tech

Devskiller

As Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO says , “A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.” That’s especially significant in tech companies who aim to drive innovation.That said, women remain underrepresented in tech positions both in startups, SMEs and corporations globally. In this post, we present the 10 steps you need to take to hire more women in tech.

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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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7 of the Best Online Tools for Sourcing in Recruitment

FireFish Software

For recruiters, there are plenty of great online sourcing tools to use. We’ve compiled a list of our favourites to help you streamline and get the most from your sourcing efforts. We’ve started by listing some excellent options for sourcing candidates before listing some tools you can use to communicate with candidates, too. Happy hunting!

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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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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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5 Ways Technology Can Help You With Diversity Recruiting

Social Talent

A new Deloitte survey confirms diversity pays off. They found diverse and inclusive workplaces generate 30% higher revenue per employee and are twice as likely to meet or exceed financial targets. According to their research, 68% of companies are focusing their diversity efforts on recruiting and exploring technology to reduce bias in recruiting. To help you move the needle, here are 5 ways to recruit diverse candidates using technology. 1.

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How Shopify Scales Their Team to Hire for Culture Add

Glassdoor for Employers

There’s a somewhat cynical, commonly held view that a startup is bound to ruin its culture once it gets to a certain size. Shopify’s not a 50-person company anymore, but our growth remains fast and steady.

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