September, 2016

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The five biggest mistakes recruitment leaders are making now

Greg Savage

It’s a tough time to be a recruitment leader. So many challenges, so much change. In my work across the globe, meeting and advising Owners and Managers of recruitment businesses, five key themes have emerged. Don’t make these mistakes as a recruitment leader, and if you work for a company that habitually falls into these […].

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35 Tools Every Sourcer And Recruiter Needs To Know

Proactive Talent

If you’re a recruiter or sourcer, do you often find yourself starting your day early or staying up late to coordinate interview scheduling, pull together spreadsheets and reports, or search for tools that can improve your sourcing skills? If you’re a talent acquisition leader or recruiting manager, are you looking to speed up your candidate sourcing and recruiting process while improving your quality of hire?

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Learn How to Post Jobs Like the Pros

JazzHR

There’s a lot to be excited about when your business is growing, but there are also some unavoidable pains. Take for instance, the pain of supply and demand. The more your customers want, the more agile you must be in order to meet and exceed their expectations. To keep pace with growth, CEOs and team leaders are often faced with hiring under pressure.

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3 Ways to Supplement Recruitment Marketing With Social Media

Recruitics

In a recent post, we discussed why you should supplement recruitment marketing with social. While you can read that post in its entirety in the link above, the gist is this: Social media presents a powerful tool for recruiters, but it doesn’t necessarily deserve the lion’s share of your recruitment marketing budget. So then, how should recruiters leverage this recruitment marketing tool?

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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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Cutting Drug Deals with Recruitment Deals

The Whiteboard

Rumours have been swirling around Auckland’s recruitment community this week after a story emerged in the Herald at the weekend about a cocaine sting at a hairdressers in Newmarket. It appears as if the hairdresser, a fashion designer, and a patched gang member have been using the business as a conduit to supply cocaine. The bit that really got tongues wagging across our industry (which is so unlike us recruiters!

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12 crucial recruiter tips. (In 10 words or less).

Greg Savage

A powerful two-minute read for all the desk recruiters out there. 12 tips. Each no longer than 10 words. Will lead you to fun and money. Click on the hyperlinks if you want more details on each concept. 1. Walk away from shitty margins or clients who disrespect you. (Here is how to do it) […].

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Expert Secrets To Assessing Candidates’ True Interest Level

Spark Hire

When hiring, you not only want to find the most skilled and hardworking candidates around, you also want to find ones who are truly interested in the open position and the company. Having the right skills is important, but if a candidate doesn’t align with the company’s values and culture, it won’t be long before you’re looking for a replacement employee.

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Superior sourcing: How to nail job descriptions

Allegis Global Solutions

Why is nailing a job description so important for effective talent acquisition, and how can you make sure you get it right?

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Heineken’s New Recruitment Advertising: The (Oh, So Very) Bitter in the Sweet

Good To Know

Heineken's new recruitment marketing campaign is full of win. And then it's full of fail.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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5 Metrics That Tell You Nothing About a Recruiter’s Performance (And The Ones That Actually Matter)

Beamery

KPIs are a recruiting necessity, but recruiting managers often get it totally wrong when they’re figuring out how to measure recruiter performance. For some, it’s all about the bottom line – they only care about the number of placements made by each recruiter. Then there are recruitment managers that get granular on vanity metrics like numbers of searches or number of LinkedIn connections.

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The Most Common Interview Questions Asked by the Top 10 Best Places to Interview (and Why You Should Ask Them Too!)

Social Talent

Glassdoor recently announced the Top 10 “Best Places to Interview” as part of their Candidates’ Choice Awards. These awards recognise employers with the best interview experience, according to those who know best – the job candidates – who were asked to provide anonymous feedback based on their interview experiences. And the Top 10 got us thinking; what interview questions do these companies ask their candidates?

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50,000 Twitter Followers! Only took 7 years, 2 weeks, and 5 days

Greg Savage

Modern recruiters build a strong online personal brand. It’s not cliche, it’s not marketing babble, it’s not the blathering of some pony-tailed, ear-ringed digital acolyte. It’s a deal-breaker for recruiting success. It will become the recruiters biggest asset. And this claim is based on the Twitter experience of a recruiter.

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Your 6 Step Checklist to Crafting the Perfect Job Description

RecruitLoop

Every candidate expects to see a job description if they are going to consider a career move. What sort of impression are you creating if you can’t even provide a potential new employee with a detailed description of the job you expect them to do for you?

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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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3 Examples of Great Organizational Culture You Can Learn From

Indeed

Warren Buffett said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Many organizations struggle to create a memorable and magnetic workplace culture, and it’s no wonder. Culture is tricky to define, and takes time and effort to build. Michael Watkins defines organizational culture as a moving target made up of the patterns of behavior; shared process of “sense-making”; and the stories, values and rituals that take hold within organizations.

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Why We’re Launching SmashFly Events

Symphony Talent

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the newest solution in SmashFly’s Total Recruitment Marketing Platform: SmashFly Events. When it comes to recruitment marketing, recruiting events matter. The post Why We’re Launching SmashFly Events appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Siri, can you find me a good candidate?

NPA Worldwide

Recruiting is being transformed by technology. It wasn’t that long ago that finding a candidate for a client’s job order involved placing advertisements in newspapers and industry magazines. Technology has changed the face of the industry forever – you have to be mobile, social, and on top of these advances. Social networking, apps, and analytics has made recruiting a more efficient process, but we might be seeing technology take even more of a role in finding the perfect candi

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How to Attract the Perfect Employee (Infographic)

Social Talent

What do you think a candidate looks for when applying for an open position? Is it good compensation and benefits? Training and development opportunities? Is the role being offered challenging enough? If your position meets all of these criteria, you’re off to a great start! But to attract truly top talent in a competitive and candidate-driven job market, this may not be enough.

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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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3 Key Takeaways from the 2016 NADA Dealership Workforce Study

Hireology

The results are in: According to the 2016 NADA Dealership Workforce Study, the retail automotive industry had a monumental 2015. Dealers from coast-to-coast saw overarching trends of long term growth: vehicle sales, transaction prices, and rooftop employment numbers leading to more profitable businesses. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends.

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Why A Poor Candidate Experience Can Destroy Your Business

RecruitLoop

Far too many candidates are starting to feel disrespected and even resentful during the recruitment process. Whether you’re a hiring manager, or internal recruiter, it’s up to you to ensure you treat your future potential employees with the respect they deserve.

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5 Creative Ways to Tell Your Employer Brand Story

Indeed

Podcasts. My team has been working on recruitment ads that would run during popular podcasts. What recruiter has ever said those words? Reaching top performers in today’s crowded labor market requires thinking outside our experiential box, even outside the traditional notions of where we recruit. I have to go beyond popular assumptions about how to reach the right potential hires and go directly to our employees themselves.

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Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Allyn Bailey & Pam McKnight, Intel

Symphony Talent

In light of the recent Olympic games, the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference, SmashFly Transform™, and our love of recruitment marketing pioneers everywhere, our Recruitment Marketing Champion Series will. The post Recruitment Marketing Champion Series: Allyn Bailey & Pam McKnight, Intel appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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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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Hiring Managers Drive Recruiting Success

Newton Software

Collaboration Between Recruiters and Hiring Managers Is Essential For Successful Hiring. Recruiters Can No Longer Work in Silos. In recent years, businesses have come to the realization that strategic talent management is the lifeblood of their success. As competition for top talent has increased, we are seeing a change in how companies approach hiring.

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3 Reasons Why You NEED to Give Candidates Feedback (and How to Give It Properly!)

Social Talent

Take a minute to think back to that first time you plucked up the courage to ask someone out on a date, or perhaps your first few applications to part-time jobs. It was nerve-wracking, maddening, and very easy to blame yourself for not being good enough, especially if you heard nothing back. You might have been young during those pivotal moments, but rejection doesn’t disappear, or hurt any less as an adult.

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The ‘Must Haves’ for Candidate Experience to Succeed in 2017

ConveyIQ

Many applicants to our jobs are also consumers of our products and their connection to our brand may run deep. When they fall into the infamous “black hole” and never hear back, we’re likely losing customers. It’s not easy to resolve – recruiters are busy and don’t have time to close the loop with candidates. This will […]. The post The ‘Must Haves’ for Candidate Experience to Succeed in 2017 appeared first on Take the Interview.

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The Non-Recruiters Guide To Hiring Terms

RecruitLoop

Purple squirrels? Job Hoppers? Stay Interviews? Buy-Backs? Recruitment terminology can sometimes be confusing - especially for a non-recruiter. Check out our list of some typical recruitment terms and their meanings.

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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.