March, 2017

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The very best career advice I could ever give you.

Greg Savage

I have a bitter pill for you to swallow. But trust me, it’s true. Nobody anywhere, (apart maybe from your Mum), cares about your career. Not really. If you work for a great company, they will create an environment in which you can thrive. Opportunities will arise, and the company may even actively facilitate those […].

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How To Help Leaders Effectively Manage Today’s Human Capital

ClearCompany Recruiting

What are today’s key human capital management challenges, and how will they be addressed in the future? To answer these questions, ClearCompany partnered with HR.com to conduct a survey of nearly 400 Human Resource professionals.

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Software Tools for Recruiters: The Complete List

Talent Hero Media

This guide includes over 70 recruiting tools and a filter to help you find the best recruitment software to help run your business. The post Software Tools for Recruiters: The Complete List appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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50+ Ideas for Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Lever

Nobody’s ever said that diversity and inclusion work is easy. But having grown a team that recently hit a 50:50 gender ratio (an uncommon feat, especially in Silicon Valley), I can let everyone in on a secret: It’s not rocket science, either.

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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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4 Ways to Assess Soft Skills in an Interview

JazzHR

A candidate’s resume can instantly tell you whether or not they have the technical experience, qualifications, and hard skills needed for a particular job. But even if a candidate looks like a good fit for your company on paper, they might not necessarily be one in person. That’s why once candidates make it to the interview stage, you need to be able to assess the personal qualities they possess to see if they’ll actually gel with your organization and be an effective contributor to your team.

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The barista with the best recruiter talent I have ever seen

Greg Savage

For about 5 years I worked out of a great office in Pitt Street, Sydney, when I was running Aquent and Firebrand Talent Search. I admit I am a coffee drinker. It’s my biggest vice (and I have substantial portfolio of those!). So at least two, maybe three times a day, I would need a […].

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Cost Per Hire: How to Calculate It the Right Way

ClearCompany Recruiting

Almost constantly, talent acquisition departments are pressured to reduce their cost per hire. Finding the right balance in your company’s cost per hire can be tricky. You’re trying to please everyone from your CFO to senior executives all while providing quality talent to the hiring managers who are desperate to fill an open position.

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The Three Pillars of New Client Acquisition in Recruiting – And Why Content Marketing Should Be The Fourth

Talent Hero Media

Why the recruiting and staffing industry should use content marketing, such as blogs, videos and social media posts, to acquire new clients. The post The Three Pillars of New Client Acquisition in Recruiting – And Why Content Marketing Should Be The Fourth appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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New Report Reveals Essential Recruiting Benchmarks for Startups and SMBs

Lever

Most startups and SMBs don’t have much insight into what the average recruiting funnel looks like. What’s a normal amount of candidates to pass on to a screen? Are other companies interviewing this many candidates before they find a hire? Are they experiencing the same bottlenecks?

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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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How To Build a Social Recruiting Strategy

Proactive Talent

A fly by the seat of your pants approach might work for some things, but social recruiting isn’t one of them. In fact, successful social recruiting requires the complete opposite. It thrives on structure, consistency, reliability and frequency. And the foundation for it is a strategy that answers the questions of how, when, where and in what way you’ll reach potential candidates through social.

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Millennials In The Workplace: 4 Things You Oughta Know

Social Talent

Millennials are being mentioned more and more in today’s working world. Employers should always hire individuals for their skill and not focus on one sole generation. However, there’s no denying that the presence of millennials has become even more noticeable within the workplace of today. Hiring managers and employers value them because of their talented skill-sets and their ability to process new technology.

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3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Candidate Experience

HarQen

Last week’s post discussed the current state of the candidate experience. What we found is that for many, the candidate experience leaves a lot to be desired. Currently in the market we are seeing organizations shift and retool their process to provide a better candidate experience. In continuing our candidate experience theme, this post will discuss three things you can do to ensure your process and your company are providing a good candidate experience.

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What is Talent Success™ and How to Drive it

ClearCompany Recruiting

An "A Player" is a top performer that has measurable impact on your business and whose traits and competencies are desirable in being applied to the hiring and talent management process. Simply said, an A Player has the DNA you want to replicate to create organizational success. In most cases, companies believe that hiring A Players comes few and far in between, and that this top talent will only be a small minority of their workforce.

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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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How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads

Talent Hero Media

A well-rounded content marketing strategy in the recruiting and staffing industry typically will involve the publication of a whitepaper – an authoritative report providing information … Continue reading How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads. The post How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Introduction

Lever

As an Asian-American female CEO in Silicon Valley, I’m afforded an intimate view into the ever simmering discussion around diversity and inclusion in tech. Even more so, because I’m building a company whose job it is to help other companies do their best hiring.

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5 Key Metrics to Track for Social Recruiting Success

Proactive Talent

If you’re recruiting in 2017, there’s no doubt that social media is part of your plan. There’s really no way around it, whether you are actively sourcing and recruiting through unique social networks, or simply using an auto-share option to post job openings to more common social sites. Either way, nearly every company is using social recruiting in one way or another, and it’s going to become an even bigger focus with each passing year.

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How To: Use Great Employer Branding To Attract Excellent Candidates

Social Talent

Recruiters say it again and again. Strong employer branding is one of the most effective ways of attracting excellent candidates. In fact, 83% of talent acquisition leaders say that employer branding significantly impacts their ability to hire great candidates according to the LinkedIn Employer Branding Playbook. So what can you do to make sure your comapny is getting noticied by your ideal candidate?

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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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Why Succession Planning Matters

JazzHR

Succession planning is a key strategy for any business, large or small. Simply put, it’s about ensuring that an organization’s employees are constantly being developed to fill key roles. Theoretically that means that a company shouldn’t have any trouble appointing an existing staff member to step up and take over a role in the event of retirement or attrition.

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3 More Things to Learn from Google About Recruiting Budget

ClearCompany Recruiting

Running a business is difficult, especially for startups. Depending on the type of business you run, it could take years to become profitable. Restaurants, for example, have to be open for an average of 4-5 years before they turn a profit. For them, budget is king.

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Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017

Talent Hero Media

Three killer online marketing ideas that will help your recruiting firm stand out in a crowded market in 2017. The post Three Killer Marketing Ideas for Your Recruitment Agency in 2017 appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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7 Must-Reads for Every Recruiter's Bookshelf

Lever

We may only be three months into 2017, but for many of us our New Year’s resolutions are long forgotten. I bet you’re in the thick of it already, fighting to keep up with candidate emails and interviews left to be scheduled.

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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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Top 5 Social Recruiting Tools

Proactive Talent

Last week we showed our readers how to build a successful recruiting strategy , but with any good strategy you need the perfect set of tools in order to hit deliverables and obtain results. Make sure to check out last week's article before you read this one in order to build your strategy first and look at tools second. Social recruiting could be - and sometimes is - a job in and of itself because of its constant evolution.

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3 Recruitment Pain Points and How To Fix Them

Social Talent

Our Social Talent Community is a hub of fascinating insights into real, on the ground, recruiting issues. We love hearing about what recruiters are thinking and feeling as they try to find the best people for the job. A while ago we asked what were the most common pain points for recruiters and the answers were so valuable we thought we’d take another look.

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5 Questions You Must Ask to Keep Your Best and Brightest Talent

Entrepreneur

Creativity emerges because of our human messiness -- not in spite of it.

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The Most Effective Model to Assess Quality of Hire

ClearCompany Recruiting

In 2015, 39% of companies said Quality of Hire (QoH) was their most valuable recruiting performance metric. It’s what makes spending so much time and effort in the recruitment process worth it in the end. It’s the reason that cutting corners and saving money isn’t a good idea when it comes to recruiting. Quality of Hire is one of the most important and, unfortunately, one of the most difficult hiring metrics to track.

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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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How Recruiters Can Use a Gated Whitepaper to Increase Leads

Talent Hero Media

A well-rounded content marketing strategy in the recruiting and staffing industry typically will involve the publication of a whitepaper – an authoritative report providing information on a relevant issue in an industry. A whitepaper can be an excellent marketing tool because its in-depth nature is a great tool for conveying the expertise your recruiting company has in a given space.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion Part 1: Fixing Your Culture

Lever

We believe passionately that diverse and inclusive companies make for more innovative, engaged, and happy teams, and we speak with forward-thinking talent leaders all the time who feel the same. We’re writing this series on how to cultivate diversity and inclusion in the workplace because people are ready for the next level of discourse around diversity and inclusion; one aimed at actual solutions.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Employee Engagement

JazzHR

Employee engagement is one of those phrases that’s thrown around a lot. Unfortunately, some businesses have lost focus on what it means and how to cultivate it in their workforce. They spend time and money conducting surveys, creating committees, holding meetings and even hiring consultants to try and engage their staff. But let’s be honest: How often do surveys or committees actually translate into greater employee engagement and satisfaction?

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