June, 2016

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Recruiter KPIs. From Crap to Credible.

Greg Savage

Mostly, recruiters hate KPIs. Often, relentless focus on KPIs does more harm than good. Routinely, Managers drive old-school KPIs because they are bereft of any new ideas to increase productivity, and sad to say, the less success delivered by the old tactics, the more the manager pushes the KPI! It’s a destructive cycle of pain […].

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How to Recruit Like One of The Best Places To Work

Brazen Recruiting

It’s no secret that during Q1, many companies are focusing on attracting top talent. The 2016 LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends survey of more than 3,800 recruiters found that 62% of respondents expect an increase in their hiring volume in 2016. 62% of companies expect to hire more in 2016 than they did in 2015. Click To Tweet. Unfortunately, recruiting is a highly competitive game right now.

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Embracing Candor: Improve Performance with Direct Feedback

JazzHR

“He said what?!”. Have you ever had the same conversation with someone multiple times over? You’ve talked to Jimmy three times in the past quarter but the message hasn’t gotten through. Despite your best efforts and professionalism, the problem continues to occur. Maybe its time for a tactical change not only for you, but your organization as well. Let’s talk about the embracing of candor by organizations across the world.

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4 Guidelines for Optimal Job Application Conversion Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

We live in an age of distraction and it’s wreaking havoc on your talent applicant sourcing process. Despite your efforts to write engaging job descriptions, post them far and wide and publicize your amazing corporate culture, your click-to-apply ratio is dismal. So what gives? While the aforementioned items are undoubtedly important factors in the talent acquisition game, another critical component is the length of your job application.

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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 End-to-End Recruitment Analytics Matter

Recruitics

Recruitment today is marketing and, as such, must be measured to determine ROI and to identify inefficiencies that can be optimized to improve that ROI. So, if we’re to think of recruitment as marketing, then of course we must consider the marketing funnel, adapted for recruitment. As we can see, talent acquisition professionals need to track metrics from the top of the funnel (traffic to jobs) to the bottom (hires).

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5 Ways to Decrease Turnover

ApplicantPro

In the corporate world, a high rate of employee turnover can be a significant problem. Research suggests that for some companies it can cost up to one-fifth of an employee’s salary to find, hire and train a suitable replacement. If turnover rates are too high, this can be a cost for the company that can’t be recouped. Luckily, by improving the environment at work, practicing smart hiring strategies, and ensuring that your company stays well organized, it’s possible to keep tur

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5 Ways To Use Video For Talent Attraction

Proactive Talent

Is your company still relying on text-based recruitment marketing in a visual world? The thing is, candidates want to know what it's really like to work at your company, and a bullet list of skills and a blanket sell statement about the company in a job description just doesn't cut it anymore. There is just no better platform than video to create that emotional attraction to a company and job opportunity -- and I'll tell you why!

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Jazz Announces New Channel Partner Program

JazzHR

Introducing the Jazz Partner Program: Revolutionizing the SMB HR technology space. At Jazz, we’re committed to changing the way small businesses find – and hire – the right talent. It’s not just about providing the best recruiting tools or applicant tracking software, it’s about truly partnering with the small businesses we help. That’s why I’m so excited to announce that we’ve officially launched the Jazz Channel Partner Program – the first-of-its-kind program in the SMB HR technology space.

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4 Guidelines for Optimal Job Application Conversion Rates

ExactHire Recruiting

We live in an age of distraction and it’s wreaking havoc on your talent applicant sourcing process. Despite your efforts to write engaging job descriptions, post them far and wide and publicize your amazing corporate culture, your click-to-apply ratio is dismal. So what gives? While the aforementioned items are undoubtedly important factors in the talent acquisition game, another critical component is the length of your job application.

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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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This is How You’re Wasting Time in the Recruiting Process

Brazen Recruiting

You post a job opening with bated breath and wait for the applications to start rolling in. You’re hopeful that you’ll find the perfect candidate soon. But days, weeks, and months go by — the position is still open. You’ve chalked it up to a lack of talent, but there’s more going on. Your recruiting process is wasting time, and it’s costing you money.

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Talent Shortages Breeding More Creative Offers

The Whiteboard

Being a Brit, I’ve naturally found myself dipping into my Guardian newspaper app with increasing regularity this week. With my old country turning its back on Europe after a majority voted for “Brexit” and then the national football team haughtily following suit by slouching off from the Euros tournament, dispatched by the mighty hammer of teeny weeny Iceland, there’s been a lot to read about.

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Reddit’s 16 Funniest Job Interview Nightmares

Social Talent

We’ve compiled a selection of the most cringe-worthy job interview stories from Reddit’s poor unfortunate users for your Friday reading pleasure Get ready to grimace! 1. NEVER mix business with pleasure… Tuesday mornings interviewer was Saturday nights one night stand… I’ve never given up on getting a job so quickly. – be_my_plaything. 2.

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This Is Why Skill Set Isn’t Everything In The Hiring Game

Spark Hire

There are only a few organizations that truly need to hire based on skill alone. The New York Yankees, for example. Major movie studios, definitely. Modeling agencies would be another one. It’s tough to win a World Series, an Oscar or land a major ad campaign with someone who doesn’t have the necessary set of skills to get there. But for nearly every other type of business, a candidate’s skills are important, but they’re not the be all, end all.

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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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Careers Page Teardowns: Bigcommerce [Case Study]

Firmplay

With close to 100,000 customers, $9B in sales processed for said clients, and $100M+ in venture funding, Bigcommerce is the leading ecommerce platform for merchants. So does the ecommerce giant’s careers page stand up to the Careers Page Teardowns test? Here’s a sneak peek of what we cover: A powerful new type of content used effectively […].

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The Eagle Has Landed: Employee Onboarding

ExactHire Recruiting

Competition for talented employees in today’s job market is fierce. The balance of power has swung in favor of the talented job seeker. And since these job seekers have multiple job opportunities to consider, they’re not just looking for a job that pays the bills; they’re looking for a work experience that enhances their lives. According to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) August 2015 LINE Report , recruiting difficulty reached a 4-year high last July, which also made it

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How Values, Development and Well-Being Attract Millennials

Glassdoor for Employers

In today’s increasingly transparent job market, smart companies are re-aligning their talent acquisition strategy. Rather than focusing their efforts outwards, they’re focusing.

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Why You Should Care Less About Candidate Experience

The Whiteboard

Out of the soporific hum and chit chat of last night’s Auckland Recruitment Meet Up there sprung a surprisingly vigorous debate. The team at Beca, lead by the ever-suave Richard Long , got everyone up on their feet. The purpose: To position our bodies in different zones of the room denoting whether we thought our business provided terrible candidate experience, kinda ok candidate experience, or amazingly fab candidate experience.

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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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6 Clever Ways to Use Your LinkedIn Headline to Boost Your Recruiting Efforts

Social Talent

a. According to LinkedIn , when it comes to writing our LinkedIn profile headline, too many of us take a “just-the-facts” approach, listing only our job title and our company in the 120 character slot – an approach they believe stops many of us from realising the true potential of the most prominent text on our LinkedIn profile after our name. .

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Recruiting budget: HR planning tips and examples

Workable

Tracking a recruiting budget can be a pain. Businesses that are just starting to recruit systematically could benefit from a guide to help them create a recruiting budget plan. It’s easy to follow a recruitment budget plan for job board costs and external recruiter fees. Unfortunately, other recruiting costs will start adding up throughout the process.

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Introducing EBHacks: Bite-Size Tips & Tricks for Building Your Employer Brand

Firmplay

Employer branding is a long-term investment. Why? Because great employer branding is storytelling, and storytelling comes down to content. Content that’s engaging and transparent, created organically by your employees. And that takes time and effort. It’s a journey. To help you along on that journey, we like to tackle some of the meatier questions around employer branding […].

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6 Skills to Master in Your First Year Out of College

ExactHire Recruiting

1. How to Write a Resume via GIPHY Resumes are like the windows into your job seeking souls, or a window into what you did before this job. Either way, they’re important. Whether or not you think you are a resume “expert,” every position requires a little tweaking of the resume. So, it doesn’t matter how good or bad you think your resume is, there are hundreds of ways to create or improve one that looks totally professional.

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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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The 9 Pillars of Employee Engagement

Glassdoor for Employers

At the heart of it, engagement is about people—understanding, motivating, and connecting with them. That makes engagement a complex topic. The deeper.

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Jobseekers Swipe Right

The Whiteboard

There’s been a lot of interesting stuff shared by commentators from our recruitment community this week but something that really stood out for me was the article shared by Mark Sumner revealing SEEK’s large investment in the so-called “Tinder for Jobs” app Switch. Just like the prefix “Uber for…” denotes something with the potential to radically disrupt (but rarely actually does), so the prefix “Tinder for…” seems to denote something t

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How Recruiters Read Your CV (Infographic)

Social Talent

We all know that it’s essential to have an impressive CV when looking to land your next big career move, but how much do you know about the recruiters who will be reading your CV? Which areas of your CV do they study most? How do they like to see the information presented? How do you ensure that they actually read your CV?! By having an understanding of what recruiters look for in a CV and the challenges they face in their roles; you can create a CV that instantly connects with them.

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To Build Your Dream Team Study How 'Coach Pop' Recruits Talent

Entrepreneur

Year after year, Gregg Popovich, coach of the San Antonio Spurs, rejuvenates his championship team with late-round NBA draft picks others overlook.

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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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27 Recruiting Experts on Twitter You Need to Follow

Capterra

To paraphrase Ferris Bueller : recruiting news moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to check it out once in a while, you could miss it. As a recruiting professional, you know the industry is changing rapidly. From new recruiting trends like gamification and video hiring, to advanced features in applicant tracking software , and buzzwords like ‘ candidate experience ’ now, more than ever, you need a real-time source of recruiting industry information.

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Onboarding New Employees At Multiple Locations

ExactHire Recruiting

“You just need a little time to get your feet wet.” Onboarding new employees could be described as the process whereby a new employee gets her proverbial feet wet. It’s a process of discovering something for the first time, overcoming fear and anxiety, and gradually becoming familiar, comfortable with a new experience. It’s a slow, measured lowering into the water–starting with the feet.

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Trends Keeping Employers Ahead of the Curve

Glassdoor for Employers

Dictionary.com defines “trend” as: 1. the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of.

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