May, 2014

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3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Edge in Hiring

ClearCompany Recruiting

'About half of the companies polled in this year’s PayScale Compensation Best Practices Annual Report are having a difficult time filling skilled positions. Popular belief is that these hard-to-fill positions are strictly in the IT field –not so. CareerBuilder found that management, healthcare and maintenance and repair workers are also proving very hard to come by lately.

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How to Find Active & Passive Software Engineers on Stack Overflow

Boolean Black Belt

'Do you source and/or recruit software engineers? Would you like to know how to find software engineers on Stack Overflow who are actually interested in hearing about new career opportunities? For free? If you answered YES!, YES! and YES! – you’re in in luck, because I am going to show you how to find active and passive job seekers on Stack Overflow for free.

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Social Media and Job Hunting – 3 Tips for Success

ExactHire Recruiting

If you’re considering a career change, social media can be a wonderful tool to help you find opportunities and introductions not easily available in your day-to-day life. At the same time, these tools can cut the other way, if not used properly. For example, if you think the picture above is a great way to show potential employers your “fun” or “interesting” side, think again.

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Access The Mobile Recruiting Strategies Event Recordings For Free

Web Based Recruitment

'Mobile & Video Recruitment & EventsE Mobile Recruitment. Free Mobile Recruitment Guide. Video Recruitment. Training Courses. Mobile Recruitment Video Training Course. Recruitment Events. We Can Help you. Contact Us. About Us. Press & Media. Blog. Access The Mobile Recruiting Strategies Event Recordings For Free. May 19, 2014 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment One of our new events for 2014 was – Mobile Recruiting Strategies – a new online event that covered: Why mobile recr

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Recruiting Innovation and Kurt Cobain

Metashift

'A few weeks back I was asked to record a promo video for the forthcoming Rec Fest event. One of the questions I had to answer was what was the best festival I’d ever attended. The answer was an easy one it was Reading 91, I was 19, it was a fantastic line up of music and it was back in the days when you could bring your own cheap beer into festivals.

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How to Build Your Recruiting Machine: A Manual

ClearCompany Recruiting

'ClearCompany’s talent alignment platform is all about creating a transparent, goal-oriented organization on the individual and group levels. Let’s say the transparency is there, and your recruiting department might as well have a crystal ball, accurately predicting and anticipating talent needs. Now for the delivery….

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How to Hire Top Digital Executives Despite Talent Crunch

The Investigative Recruiter

'How to Hire Top Digital Executives. A growing number of media companies have come to the realization that it has never been more important to hire top digital executives. These days, a company’s ability to compete — and even to survive — depends on it. However, the increasing demand for top digital executives is making it harder to recruit them.

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Bad Resumes Are Like Celebrity Train Wrecks

ExactHire Recruiting

I admit that it is a guilty pleasure of mine to read celebrity gossip articles and websites. It’s humorous, mindless trash but I read it anyway, similar to a train wreck…you just can’t help but watch and see what happens next. In the past week alone, we learned that Beyonce’s sister has rage issues and Angelina Jolie had a makeup faux pas on the red carpet.

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Relaunching GlobalChange.gov

Forum One

'Last Tuesday, 240 of the country’s top climate scientists and experts released the third National Climate Assessment (NCA). The report details the current and best understanding of how climate change is already impacting Americans’ health and livelihoods in every region of the country. The takeaway from the report is that if you live in the United States, you’re either already dealing with climate change, or it is coming soon to your neighborhood.

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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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News Was All Abuzz in May!

iCIMS

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LinkedIn Crashes After Slow/No Growth Report

Staffing Talk

'LinkedIn is getting too easy to pick on. It’s like kicking a rabbit. The good news if you are long LinkedIn is that page views increased almost four percent year-to-year which unfortunately in cloud talk counts for almost nothing. The bad news that the site has fallen out of favor with its prime revenue-generating audience, recruiters, who’ve reverted to the basics of nurturing proprietary networks or otherwise figuring out ways to get names and numbers without paying.

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Jobvite Infographic: On-Brand Interviews

Jobvite

Few things today impact a candidate’s decision to accept a job offer more than the application process itself. It makes sense. We all make judgments in the first few minutes of interaction. If a candidate … Continued.

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Top Digital Talent Key to Surviving Digital Disruption

The Investigative Recruiter

'The Digital Talent Imperative. The New York Times has an urgent need for top digital talent. According to a leaked internal report, it is “winning at journalism”, but losing readers at an alarming rate. The New York Times has seen readership “fall significantly” on its website and through its smart phone apps. Traditional media giants like The New York Times are losing market share — along with some of their best talent — to emergent digital competitors t

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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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How Do I Get More Applicants?

ExactHire Recruiting

We hear this “how do I get more applicants?” question, or something similar, often. The problem with answering this question is the variety of answers we could produce. This question is in reference to a symptom and not a problem. We first must identify what the problem is – WHY are you not getting applicants? This question can still produce a wide array of answers.

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Dear Think Tanks: No One is Reading Your PDF Report

Forum One

'"What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world''s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever read them?" Earlier this month, Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post''s WonkBlog posed this troubling question while highlighting findings from a recent. "What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world''s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, so

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News Was All Abuzz in May!

iCIMS

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Zappos’ Questionable Victory Lap on Job Postings

Staffing Talk

'Zappos laced out triumphantly last week, saying that it would no longer post jobs to job boards and suggesting that all job postings acted as ‘conversation killers’ The company said that instead it would do shoe sales recruitment solely via an internal social media network. They call the new process ‘relationship recruiting’ and say it will serve up employee-referred candidates.

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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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Hire from your user base

Aline Lerner

Recruiting great engineers is hard. You might guess that the hardest part is finding great people, but with the advent of LinkedIn, GitHub, and a number of search aggregators, it’s actually not too bad. The really hard part is finding great people who are likely to be interested in what you’re doing. To that end, wouldn’t it be great if you could reach out specifically to engineers who are already familiar with your product?

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The Secret to Making Executive Search So Much Easier

The Investigative Recruiter

'The Secret to Making Executive Search So Much Easier. Executive search isn’t rocket science. So why is executive recruiting so hard for so many companies? Executive search takes too long and fails too often. Even when an executive opening is filled, far too frequently the “transplant doesn’t take” A survey by the Corporate Executive Board found that one out of every five hires is a “bad hire”, one that in hindsight the hiring executive regrets making.

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So You’ve Graduated And Need A Job – Now What?

ExactHire Recruiting

The month of August seems to bring new life, and especially after our seemingly endless Permafrost due to the Polar Vortex, new life is beyond welcome. The month of May also brings a new round of college graduates ready to bring new life to the workforce after years of educational development and preparation. If you’ve graduated recently, this blog is for you!

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Better Online Advertising for Rural Physician Jobs

Hospital Recruiting

© Michael Shake / Fotolia. In the physician job board business, we notice that many employers deliberately create job advertisements to be very general and lacking in specific detail. For hospitals and groups in urban and suburban markets, this makes sense because a wide variety of individual physicians are likely considering practicing in their geographic areas.

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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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Tips for Compliant Candidate Screening

iCIMS

Screening candidates is an integral part of the hiring process that permeates pre-hire and post-hire recruitment tasks.

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Three Solid Reasons To Fire A Client

Staffing Talk

'At the end of the day, it’s really not all that difficult to fire an employee. Sure, there’s general unpleasantness and bad, even sympathetic feelings involved, but if the person really deserves it, the termination process can be, at the very least, satisfying, if not to some degree cathartic. It’s certainly not our favorite task, but staffing professionals will easily terminate both internal and external staff when necessary.

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If Your Career Site Could Talk…

Jobvite

What would yours say? Would it tell potential job seekers what it means to be a part of your organization? Would it convey your mission? Or how your employees feel about their work? Would it … Continued.

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The Secret to Making Executive Search So Much Easier

The Investigative Recruiter

'Executive search isn’t rocket science. So why is executive recruiting so hard for so many companies? A survey by the Corporate Executive Board found that one out of every five hires is a “bad hire”.

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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.

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Make People Want to Work for You (Infographic)

Hiring Thing

'Though the economy is still far from healthy and employers are still inundated with applications from desperate job seekers, more and more companies today are finding it difficult to attract top tier talent.

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Should Companies Bother Doing Exit Interviews? The DOs & DO NOTs!

ExactHire Recruiting

Have you ever conducted an exit interview that was laughable? Or, maybe you had to endure one as a departing employee that you felt was a complete waste of time…or that you fibbed your way through in an attempt not to burn any career bridges on your way out the door. Personally, I believe in the value of exit interviews when they are designed carefully, and more importantly, when they are just one part of a broader effort by a company to regularly gather feedback from employees throughout

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How to Nurture Passive Candidates with Email Marketing

iCIMS

Consider this email marketing best-practice information when building campaigns to nurture your passive candidate talent pools.

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