September, 2016

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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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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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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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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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Understanding Group Medicare for an Aging Workforce: Key Considerations for HR Leaders

Speaker: Shawnequa Albert

As our workforce evolves, so must the way we support it. With more employees choosing to work beyond age 65, HR leaders are increasingly being called upon to guide aging employees through one of the most complex transitions in their professional lives - from employer sponsored plans to Group Medicare. Without clear guidance, confusion around eligibility, coverage options, and cost implications can lead to uncertainty and missed opportunities for optimized benefits.

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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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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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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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Why Recruitment Marketers Must Understand Mobile Job Search Behavior

Recruitics

If you’re reading this article, chances are, you have a smartphone within arm’s reach. I’d even go as far as guessing that a significant number of you are reading this on your mobile device right now. And, with 64 percent of US adults owning a smartphone in 2015, according to Pew, chances are at least one of my two predictions above, is correct.

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[Part One] Keeping the Interview on Track

JazzHR

A bad interview can feel like a bad dance. Everyone shuffles around unsure of what to do or say, quietly wishing the song would end. Don’t laugh, you may have caused this very uncomfortable situation. Bad interviewing can cost you more than just a little embarrassment, too. CareerBuilder reports that nearly one in four businesses quantify the price of a bad hire at over $50,000 per position.

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How to Hire for Potential: Unskilled Doesn’t Mean No Skills

When you have a high-volume role and every resume looks the same, traditional hiring methods make it almost impossible to identify which candidates have the right skills for success. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to quickly differentiate top candidates by focusing on soft skills, cognitive abilities, and culture fit, not just experience. What We’ll Cover: Why traditional hiring falls short: Experience alone doesn’t predict success What skills-based hiring is: Evaluating soft skills, cognitiv

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Market mapping: The secrets to success

Allegis Global Solutions

To find top talent, you sometimes need to start by consulting a map.

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7 Signs Your Company Culture is Corrosive

ExactHire Recruiting

Should your organization be successful and productive when you consider your products, market outlook and available resources? If your company is not making the headway you’d expect, you could have a silent saboteur–corrosive culture. To see whether your company culture is thriving or diving, here are seven signs that may suggest danger ahead. 1 – Difficulty filling jobs relative to your competitors Your local competitors are hiring talented employees, so why aren’t you?

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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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20 Buzzwords That Recruiters Use (And What Non-Recruiters Think They Mean)

Social Talent

If you’re a recruiter, you’ll know all of the industry lingo inside out and upside down. Buzzwords and phrases like ‘ATS’, ‘search strings’ and ‘onboarding’ roll off the tongue because they’re used so often in your day to day job that they’ve simply become part of your vocabulary. Mention phrases like these when you’re in the company of non-recruiting folk however, and chances are that you’ll be met with confused looks and h

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The Secret to Navigating Employment Compliance in 2025

Speaker: Speakers

The employment compliance landscape is evolving fast, and staying on top of the latest regulatory changes can feel overwhelming. With so much conflicting information out there, how can you be sure you're covering all your bases? Join Kimberly Best-Robideaux, a top immigration attorney with 20+ years of experience, and Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright, for an expert-led webinar to help you move beyond the headlines and break down key insights about evolving regulations.

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Is Recruitment More EQ Than IQ?

The Whiteboard

When I was back in the UK recently a random story popped up on the news that grabbed my attention. Having been beaten at Scrabble by my Mum the night before, and grimacing as I kept a lid on my trembling ego, I was naturally alerted by the announcement of the newly crowned World Scrabble Champion 2016. But it wasn’t just the revelation there was such a thing that caught my attention.

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[Part Two] Keeping the Interview On Track

JazzHR

… and we’re back with “Keeping the Interview On Track” part deux. In our first installment , you learned how to properly prepare for the interview, gather your team of interviewers and develop a list of insightful questions. Now we’ll get into the meat of the interview including reviewing common errors and how to wrap things up.

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Beating Bias: Transforming Unconscious Biases into Conscious Behaviors within Talent Acquisition

Allegis Global Solutions

Unconscious bias is one of the biggest barriers to workforce diversity, how can you overcome it?

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A Strengths-Based Culture Drives Performance

ExactHire Recruiting

Why are sports analogies commonly found in business? Because nurturing talent in sports is all about finding out what someone is good at and then making them really great at it–strengths-based culture. Coaches rarely focus their effort on developing the weakest part of an athlete’s game or ability. They will always find their best attributes and strengths and apply those–hence the term positional player.

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Revolutionizing Hiring: Remote-Insourcing That Slashes Turnover & Training Costs!

What is Remote-Insourcing? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Not anymore. Remote-Insourcing isn’t outsourcing—it’s a revolutionary staffing model that lets our clients fill key entry-level positions with top-tier, loyal, long-term talent, integrated seamlessly into their businesses—just like local employees but without the turnover or W2 HR hassles. With under 3% unwanted attrition, you train once and keep the same team for years.

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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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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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Why Brits Make Good Recruiters

The Whiteboard

Happy Friday everyone. Well actually it’s Thursday here as I’m bringing you the second in the UK series of The Whiteboard. But I’ll just pretend to keep up appearances if you don’t mind. After more than a week immersed back in the UK culture, plus several conversations with recruiters in London and around the UK, I’m starting to get more of an inkling about why it is that the APAC region is so chocka block full of “Pommie” recruiters (and why my path was

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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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The Great Disruption: Leveraging AI To Better Your Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Joana Ardelean, MSHRM, PHR, SHRM-CP, CC

The benefits landscape is shifting rapidly, and AI is at the center of this transformation. From optimizing health and wellness programs to predicting future benefits needs, AI is empowering HR and total rewards leaders to make smarter, more proactive decisions. The challenge? Understanding where AI fits in your strategy and how to leverage it effectively while keeping employee well-being at the forefront.

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5 Tips Every Talent Leader Needs To Know About Recruiting Metrics

Proactive Talent

As a recruiting executive, you know how important it is to be able to demonstrate the value your team brings to your business. But with everything on your plate, it’s easy to put your recruiting metrics on the back burner. Or, perhaps you’re just not a math person, and so you’ve been putting it off for as long as you can. That won’t work for your leadership team though.

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Recruiting Ninjas: 5 Ways to Build a Niche Network

ExactHire Recruiting

Sales and recruiting have a lot in common and I think just about any recruiter out there would agree with that. Given this similarity in function, you can imagine the path to success for both is likely similar. All good salespeople and recruiters know that networking is the key to any long term success. Successful networking involves repetitive and constant effort.

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The Top 3 Fears Of Hourly Workers And How To Overcome Them

Hoops

Looking for a new job, especially when you're out of work, can be a daunting process. Job seekers fret about how to find the right position, they wonder whether they’re qualified for open positions, and they stress over how long the job hunt will last. All of these anxieties can accumulate and cause job seekers to “psych” themselves out, thus hampering the search.

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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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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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Fake Referees Make Cynics of Recruiters

The Whiteboard

Back in 1889 Oscar Wilde philosophically mused that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” The notion that events in the real world are inspired by creative works, rather than the other way around, manifested itself rather topically within my own business this past week. Well that is if you can refer to the recent Hamish and Andy radio show stunt as “art” I mentioned it in last week’s blog and you’ve probably heard it already, but for the unin

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Make Hiring Automagical with Workflows

JazzHR

Does your talent team find it hard to stay on pace with hiring demands? Well, don’t get frustrated, we all face different hiring challenges such as a dynamic talent market, competitive candidate pool, and the truth that if you don’t hire your candidates fast enough, someone else will. With Jazz’s enhanced hiring workflows, your team can keep pace the demands of hiring using rich automation, hiring helpers and powerful templates.

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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.