January, 2017

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The real secret to building a personal online brand

Greg Savage

The modern recruiter knows that ‘brand’ is key. And the smart modern recruiter knows how to amplify that brand via ‘personal digital marketing’ This blog will get far less readers than my normal fare because anything to do with ‘social’ and ‘digital’ turns many dinosaur recruiters off, quick-smart. But please, be wiser than that, because […].

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20 Little Known Ways to Get Hired Fast

ClearCompany Recruiting

Time to hire is at its highest, with the entire hiring process taking roughly 23 days. The length can leave many job seekers less than optimistic when looking for a new career. If you’re looking to make a move soon, you may wonder if there’s anything you can do to speed up a lengthy process. Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of 20 things you can do to get hired faster.

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Employee Benefits That Will Help You Win Top Performers

Lever

Top performers have a choice in where they work. While a great company culture and strong compensation strategy can go a long way in attracting them to work for your organization, employee benefits also play a crucial role in winning top talent for your team. In fact, 60 percent of candidates are likely to take a job with a lower salary but better employee benefits.

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Best Advice for Potential MBA Applicants By Successful MBA Applicants

JazzHR

If your company has a job opening that calls for applicants with MBA degrees , you need to make your company and the position appealing so that candidates come and stay. Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth will appeal to people with MBA degrees. But as a recruiter looking to fill vacancies with the right candidates, it doesn’t hurt to get a glimpse into what actually goes into developing the MBA earners who will one day apply for jobs at your company.

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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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How Important is Hiring for Company Culture Fit…Really? [VIDEO]

ExactHire Recruiting

In this ExactHire vlog, listen to ExactHire Co-Founder, Jeff Hallam, explain what we can learn from a high profile sports team employee termination, and offer tips on how to better assess a job candidate’s potential ability to fit in with your corporate culture. Video Transcript: Hi, today’s topic is to talk a little bit about culture, and when I talk about culture not so much in terms of what you can do to make your culture better…it’s not really my realm of expertise at all.

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Savage Masterclass. Big Early-Bird Savings closing this week!

Greg Savage

Dear ‘Savage Truth’ reader, Over 750 recruiters have already signed up. Why would you miss it? We will be in nine cities across Australia and NZ. S.P.R.I.N.T The Six Pillars of the Future-Fit Recruiter S.P.R.I.N.T gives you over 100 of the latest tips, tactics and tools for desk recruiters to immediately bill higher fees, all […].

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How to Lower Your Cost Per Hire in 2017

ClearCompany Recruiting

As a recruiter, finding the best talent for the job is only a portion of your concerns. You also have to find a candidate who fits the organizational culture and at a low cost.

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7 Conversations You Should Initiate with Every Hiring Manager

Lever

If you’re a recruiter, chances are you've brought your hiring managers some pretty terrible candidate fits at one point or another. Knowing how deeply they care about building the right team, your ultimate goal is to help them find the best people. Needless to say, it's beyond devastating when the two of you don't see eye to eye.

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The top 7 task templates that will improve your time to hire

JazzHR

Do you lose track of communications with candidates? Are follow-ups falling through the cracks? Having trouble with hiring managers? Automate and keep track of the day-to-day with tasks. We’ve picked our top 7 task templates to help you get up and running with tasks today. . Review resume and leave notes. The original, the classic, the old stand by.

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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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Top 4 Recruiting Metrics to Use in 2017

Proactive Talent

If recruiters spent their days analyzing and reporting on every metric out there they would have absolutely no time to recruit. Trends like social recruiting are only useful if recruiters know exactly what works and what doesn't. Big data and the use of metrics has become increasingly more important as companies are looking to save not only money, but time.

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How to Add a LinkedIn Button to Your Gmail Signature

Social Talent

Make your email signature work just that little bit harder for you by adding a link to your LinkedIn profile in the form of a LinkedIn button. Here’s our step-by-step guide for how to do so: Step 1. Login to your LinkedIn account and click the Profile button to go to your personal profile: Step 2. Once in your profile, take note of your personal profile URL, which in my case is https://ie.linkedin.com/in/siofrapratt.

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A New Year Heralds New Recruitment Firms

The Whiteboard

Welcome back recruiters of New Zealand, or whoever else, or wherever else you may be. For it it is not only recruiters who read this blog you know? (Hi Mum *ahem*). But I’ll stick to the recruitment topics, for the time being at least. It may be a bright and brand new year but you know what they say, “ if it ain’t broke don’t fix it… ” Well despite repeated attempts to break this blog from initial satire, through to shock, scandal, title-tattle, complete ir

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How to Turn Your Workplace into the Best Recruitment Tool Ever

ClearCompany Recruiting

Workplace environment has become a pretty big part of the whole employment package. Job seekers scour career sites and social media pages to get a glimpse at the offices and dress code of companies they’re interested in working for, and candidates make a note of scoping out the hallways for personality clues when called into an interview.

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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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The Top Articles and Reports for Talent Predictions in 2017

Lever

Every new year, the talent industry's leading minds and organizations release a flurry of articles and reports on the trends they’re observing, and their predictions for the coming year. So you don’t have to go digging through Google to find them, we’ve assembled what we think are some of the best in one spot.

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Work Smarter: 3 Things You Can Do To Recruit More Efficiently

HarQen

Paul Graham’s essay “ Life is Short ” is one of the best things I’ve read all year. The way Mr. Graham speaks about his time really got me thinking about what I do when I’m at work and at home. Thinking about how you spend your time either at work or outside of it is an important exercise. Here are the three biggest areas recruiters have told me they spend the most time each day as well as some helpful tips.

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5 Steps to Writing Good Employer Brand Content

Proactive Talent

Employer brand content goes above a traditional op-ed piece on the latest in entertainment, politics, or gossip. The content published on employer sites represents not only your company but your employee's experience, workplace culture, and gives you the ability to humanize your brand through great storytelling. Below are some tips for writing good employer brand content that will center around just that.

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7 Trends That Will Define Recruitment in 2017 (Infographic)

Social Talent

LinkedIn has released their annual Global Recruiting Trends 2017 report. Based on a survey of 4,000 corporate talent acquisition leaders across 35 countries, the report was created to help us understand how recruiting leaders perceive the importance of their teams, the top metrics and priorities they track, how they spend their budgets, and where they’d like to invest in the coming year.

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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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9 Tips for Poaching Top Talent

Entrepreneur

To key to luring executive talent is knowing where to start searching and how to keep them engaged after the hire.

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Inbound Recruitment: What You Need to Know

ClearCompany Recruiting

Social recruiting. Candidate experience. Employer branding. There’s no doubt recruiting has seen a ton of changes and new ideas over the last decade. We know how important it is to build relationships with talent , especially passive candidates who have skills and rapport. Unfortunately, the wrong approach can be just as detrimental to engaging applicants as the more traditional elements like salary and job offer process.

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The Case for Diversity Recruiting

Lever

Your employees are your competitive advantage. It’s their collective ideas and actions that make your business succeed. The most successful companies encourage collaborative efforts among team members with differing perspectives. Diversity recruiting helps you find talent from different backgrounds, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, ages, and genders to get a variety of life experiences and perspectives.

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Darren Woodson’s Super Bowl 2017 Predictions & Top 3 Components of a Championship C…

Glassdoor for Employers

As an ESPN analyst and commentator, it’s Darren Woodson’s job to weigh in on all things football. But, as one of the.

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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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6 Unconventional Sites for Sourcing Talent

Proactive Talent

Recruiting never sleeps. There will always be candidates to hire, job requisitions to be filled, and the demand for top talent will never cease. However, candidates are becoming even more segmented across the web, they’re not spending most of their time on active channels like job boards or Linkedin, and the most in demand are constantly bombarded with recruiting messages so standing out is key.

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8 Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You This Week

Social Talent

Every Monday on our LinkedIn company page , we share some of our favourite inspirational quotes. Today, we thought it’d be nice to share a few of the best ones with you: 1. “Do what you love and you’ll never have a problem with Mondays.” 2. “Set some goals, then demolish them” 3. “Nothing good comes from your comfort zone” 4. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for” 5. “If you are persistent you will get it.

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The Free Resource for Recruiting Top Talent

Entrepreneur

This inbound recruiting technique helps build a remarkable candidate experience by ensuring strong alignment between the candidate's values and your company values.

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Before You Write Job Descriptions, Answer these Seven Questions

ClearCompany Recruiting

The best recruiters treat job seekers like their customers. Job descriptions are often the only advertising space you get for your position. Write a requisition that is too long, full of irrelevant information, or uninteresting and your potential candidates will move on. This is especially true of the best talent; they know they can be choosy.

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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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Why It's Time to Banish the Term 'ATS'

Lever

We live in a world of mislabeled things. How often do you actually put a suit in a suitcase? “Computer” originally meant ‘calculating machine’ - but think about how much more you do on a computer than simply calculate. And in 2017, there aren’t many DJs left spinning actual discs.

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The Link Between Employer Branding + Employee Referrals

Symphony Talent

We live in a time when we have more information and more choices than we can ever imagine or need. As consumers, we have virtually unlimited choices when. The post The Link Between Employer Branding + Employee Referrals appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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HRExaminer Executive Conversations with Will Staney [VIDEO]

Proactive Talent

Click here to listen to Will Staney's interview with HRExaminer. This past Friday our CEO & Founder, Will Staney, had the pleasure of interviewing with HRExaminer's Executive Conversations Series with John Sumser. The interview talks about why Will started Proactive Talent Strategies, how he got into recruiting, and how he's built employer brands for some of the most successful, industry leading companies out there.

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