May, 2016

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Are you ‘Yesterday’s Hero’, on the slide to recruiting hell?

Greg Savage

Agency recruitment is not dying. In fact it’s thriving. But not for everyone! The winners will be the modern recruiters who evolve, re-tool, up-skill and re-invent. The rate of change in recruitment means the landscape is littered with ‘yesterday’s heroes’ Is that where you are headed? Check out my two minute video where I explain […].

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Thank You, But We’re Not Hiring (You)

ExactHire Recruiting

Thank you for your interest in our company. Though your resume was impressive, we have decided to consider other applicants further. I apologize for the disappointing news, best of luck in your job search. After reading an email like the one above, a flurry of emotions begin to take hold.Overwhelming disappointment, crippling self-doubt, and a fear of eternal unemployment begin to manifest when reading rejection after rejection.

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Implementing Values-Based Hiring

JazzHR

The journey for top talent is oftentimes long and arduous. But when you do find that perfect hire – the proverbial needle in the haystack that sets the pace for success – it’s all worth it. Implementing a values-based hiring process will help you find more of the A-players you’re looking for, and will take the guesswork out of interviewing.

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Top 10 Moments You Missed at Lever’s Talent Innovation Summit

Lever

Innovation was the name of the game at Lever’s inaugural Talent Innovation Summit Tuesday, when industry leaders, analysts, and practitioners with an incredible range of experiences came together to share fresh, sometimes groundbreaking ideas. We walked away from the day’s sessions and conversations nothing short of invigorated and inspired by our peers.

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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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A Checklist for Writing Effective Job Titles

Recruitics

Recruitics is an analytics and automation platform that makes it easy for companies to achieve amazing results from their recruitment marketing strategy. We work with the nation’s largest corporations, staffing companies, and job boards to drive more applicants to their online job postings, hire great talent, and meet their recruitment goals. To learn more about how to optimize your recruitment marketing campaigns, please contact a member of our team.

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Go Beyond Job Postings: 3 Effective Ways To Attract And Hire Top Talent

Proactive Talent

Research shows that job boards on average gather 43% of all applications companies receive for new job openings. But while job boards may have the highest number of applications, their conversion-to-hire rates fall drastically behind other sources of hire like employee referrals and company career sites. Employee referrals may only account for 7% of all job applications, but they contribute nearly half of all actual hires.

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Thank You, But We’re Not Hiring (You)

ExactHire Recruiting

Thank you for your interest in our company. Though your resume was impressive, we have decided to consider other applicants further. I apologize for the disappointing news, best of luck in your job search. After reading an email like the one above, a flurry of emotions begin to take hold. Overwhelming disappointment, crippling self-doubt, and a fear of eternal unemployment begin to manifest when reading rejection after rejection.

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Why SEO is a big part of your Employer Brand

JazzHR

Like consumers, today’s candidates really do their homework to make sure a company is the right fit before applying or accepting a job. But unlike consumers, a job seeker has much more on the line when deciding to take the plunge into employment with your business. And if your brand doesn’t match job seekers expectations, or their SEO results, they’ll have no problem moving on.

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How One Recruiter is Building a Diverse Team from the Ground Up

Lever

Tech giants aren’t the only companies concerned with diversity. In fact, smaller companies who don’t have the manpower to dedicate entire teams to diversity initiatives can often make progress the fastest. I sat down with Keith Pescosolido, director of recruiting (and sole recruiter) at Drift , to learn why he’s rallying his team to prioritize diversity from the very start.

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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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15 Thoughts Anyone Who’s Ever Attended a Staff Meeting Will Recognise

Social Talent

The staff meeting. A weekly occurrence that strikes fear into the hearts and minds of office workers the world over. If you’ve ever had the misfortune of attending one you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about! 1. Your initial thoughts when an invite to yet another staff meeting comes through. 2. You pray that this meeting might actually have something to do with your job function because let’s face it, it usually doesn’t… . 3.

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RCSA New Zealand Gasping for Relevancy

The Whiteboard

It’s been quite a while since The Whiteboard took a look at the RCSA and the role it plays in our New Zealand recruitment industry. Almost five years in fact. Somehow, we must have become distracted by other events and goings-on and overlooked the work being done by our “… leading industry and professional body for the recruitment and the human resources services sector in Australia and New Zealand.” But then this morning I learned that things aren’t going quite s

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Are Recruiting Technologies Broken?

HarQen

By Ane Ohm. Wait, what? Isn’t HarQen a recruiting technology? You might be thinking, “What are you trying to say about what you do every day?” Don’t get me wrong. We care deeply about providing leading-edge video interviewing and phone interviewing tools for our clients, who tell us daily about the great value we provide for their organizations. This is incredibly important to us, both personally and professionally.

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The Sophisticated Recruitment Marketer’s Glossary of Acronyms

Recruitics

Recruitics is an analytics and automation platform that makes it easy for companies to achieve amazing results from their recruitment marketing strategy. We work with the nation’s largest corporations, staffing companies, and job boards to drive more applicants to their online job postings, hire great talent, and meet their recruitment goals. To learn more about how to optimize your recruitment marketing campaigns, please contact a member of our team.

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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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Increasing Adoption Amongst Teams: Collaboration Best Practices

JazzHR

As a recruiter or hiring manager, you’re determined to find a top performer for your open position and have a laundry list of “must-haves” to check off when comparing potential employees. Your ideal candidate profile probably includes some of the following characteristics: Effective communicator. Relevant experience. Strong decision-making skills.

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The Key to Reducing Employee Turnover is to Begin During Recruitment

Lever

Employee turnover can be devastating to your organization. It can cost you anywhere from 30% to 400% of your employee’s annual salary, including recruitment and training costs, reduced productivity, and lost opportunities. As the talent shortage worsens, this cost will only increase as it takes longer to identify and hire qualified talent. Smart organizations are looking at ways to reduce turnover throughout their entire employment lifecycle — beginning with the recruitment process.

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5 Ways to Avoid Losing New Hires to Counter-Offers

Social Talent

So you’ve found the perfect candidate. You offer them the job and they accept! Everything is going swimmingly, recruiter life is good. But then in a couple of days…maybe a week or two, you get a phone call or email from that perfect candidate saying that they’ve decided to stay with their current company because they’ve been given an offer that they can’t refuse.

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How Recruitment Will Get “Uberised”

The Whiteboard

You know how the English Oxford Dictionary always releases new words each year that have become such a common part of the language that they earn a place all of their own? I’m pretty sure that Uber will be there soon, or more specifically the verb “to Uberise” As a word it already existed of course, just in the German language instead.

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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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7 Signs Of Bad Resumes That You Need To Look Out For

Spark Hire

When you’re reviewing hundreds of resumes a week, you need to be able to spot the bad ones quickly. Not knowing which red flags signal possible bad hires can lead to a lot of wasted time and money. But, depending on the position and the candidate, some resume mistakes are forgivable. So how do you know when to give a job seeker another chance or just move on?

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Improve Your Job Descriptions for Higher Quality Applicants

Recruitics

Recently, we’ve been talking a lot about how talent acquisition professionals in all industries can benefit from adopting marketing best practices. In fact, in part one of the series we covered how to apply marketing best practices to recruitment , which was followed by the do’s and don’ts of writing effective job titles. In this post, we’re going to move away from best practices and job titles, and discuss the meat and potatoes of every job posting: the job description.

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Look in the Mirror: Here’s How to Audit Your Employer Brand

Firmplay

Early in 2016, FirmPlay launched a free service that provides you with a score and detailed breakdown of your employer brand. Ingeniously, we named it Employer Brand Score Report (who’s the marketing wizard at FirmPlay?!). The response has been amazing. Since launch, we’ve seen a steady stream of companies sign up to get their free Score […].

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Innovation in Engagement: A 3-Step Motivations-Based Approach to Cold Outreach Content

Lever

This is a post by Lever's technical sourcer, James Briggs. May has been the month of “talent innovation” at Lever; with our first ever Talent Innovation Summit taking place, which brought together some of the recruiting industry’s best to talk about some of the most important and current topics in recruiting. Innovation in the world of recruiting can take many forms, and apply to a multitude of topic 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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Interview Questions That Top CEOs LOVE to Ask (Infographic)

Social Talent

‘On a scale of 1 to 10, how weird are you?’ Believe it or not, this is one of the interview questions asked by Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos. Or how about ‘What would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse’? That one’s a favourite of Ashley Morris, CEO of Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop. Today’s infographic from fivesquid shows that there really is a method to the madness.

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Glassdoor’s #WhereIWork Photo Contest Winners!

Glassdoor for Employers

Here at Glassdoor , we’re always excited to get an inside look at companies, and what better way than through the #WhereIWork Photo Contest? While we may have expected desks and cubicles, lounges and cafeterias, the results showed a breadth of photos that reminded us that where we work can truly be anywhere. Without further ado, check out the winners of Glassdoor’s #WhereIWork Photo Contest!

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Newton Community Service – Building More Than an ATS

Newton Software

Fort Collins Team Partners With Habitat for Humanity. Here at Newton, we love coming to work every day and we are passionate about what we do. However, we recognize that a great job is just one of many aspects that make up a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle. As such, our team has a multitude of passions and interests that we pursue outside of the office.

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Setting Recruitment Marketing Goals for Success

Recruitics

Setting measurable and attainable goals is a cornerstone of effective recruitment marketing, and might be the single most important aspect of any talent acquisition function. In a previous post, we discussed key recruitment marketing metrics and performance indicators that every recruitment marketer must track to affect positive change for their recruitment ROI. ( Read more on that here. ).

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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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4 Steps to Developing and Maintaining Your Employer Brand

Spark Hire

Having a strong employer brand is critical to not only recruiting top talent – but attracting and retaining talent which is even more important. You need to attract the best and keep them once you have them. You don’t want the best talent going to your competitor – as talent competition is just as important, if not more, than competition in the market.

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3 Must-Have Recruiting Metrics to Help You Optimize Your Recruiting Funnel

Lever

Recruiting has a lot of moving parts. From the time you open a job requisition to the time you onboard a new hire, there may be many improvements you can make to your recruitment process. Recruiting metrics help you discover your hiring strengths and weaknesses so you can can optimize your funnel.

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Top 10 Job Ads That Make You Want to Apply

Social Talent

A couple of weeks back, we broke down our 5 favourite recruitment marketing campaigns. This week, we decided to focus on our favourite and most creative job adverts. Job adverts at the best of times can go unnoticed by potential candidates because they are bland and uninteresting. Some companies have realised this and decided to get really creative in order to get candidates to take action.