September, 2017

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The candidate response that nearly made me cry

Greg Savage

Last week, I was sitting opposite a recruiter in the Consult Recruitment Newmarket office, in Auckland. She had just called a candidate in response to her application. The candidate burst into tears. “I have applied for hundreds of jobs, and you are the first one to respond!” It almost had me in tears! All recruiters, […].

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Talent Innovation Summit: Crush Your Next HR Implementation with John Vlastelica and Friends

Lever

A skilled moderator can make the vital difference between a mediocre panel discussion and a standout one. We've seen John Vlastelica, Managing Director at Recruiting Toolbox Inc , in action as a moderator before, and we can confirm he is one of the best in the business - quick-thinking, super-knowledgeable, and not afraid to call BS if he hears it. In just 8 days, John will lead a lively discussion on how to crush your next HR tech implementation with our panelists - Mike Podobnik of Medallia, M

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40+ Tips on Putting Your Best Foot Forward with Current ATS Technology

ClearCompany Recruiting

Technology rules the HR and recruitment world, and that means tailoring your resume to funnel through an ATS is critical to landing an interview. A whopping 72% of resumes are never seen by the human eye, which means it’s critical to optimize your resume and rank highly in the employer’s ATS.

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10 Funny Friday Feels That Everyone Can Relate To

Social Talent

TGIF people! Congratulations to all you work folk who’ve made it this far. Yes, I’m sure a few of you have left a few soldiers behind working on deadlines and whatnot. BUT…that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make the most of your Friday! When you work Monday-Friday, you literally live for the weekend. The weekend starts the minute you walk out of work with that big happy head on you.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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The Joy Of Herding Cats

The Whiteboard

Last week was full on with fully half of our whole Auckland office on annual leave at the same time. The task of babysitting all three desks consecutively fell to me given my remaining teammates were a colleague in only his second month and another in accounts. A fellow recruitment Director kindly pointed out to me that it was my own fault for initiating our “ silly unlimited annual leave policy ” back in February.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Job-order triage. The simple, sexy recruiting skill.

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled “Job-order triage. The simple, sexy recruiting skill“ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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12 Recruiting Life Hacks from Stacy Donovan Zapar

Lever

Miriam Webster defines a life hack as “a usually simple and clever tip or technique for accomplishing some familiar task more easily and efficiently.” During Lever’s Talent Innovation Summit last week, Stacy Donovan Zapar shared her favorite life hacks to recruit faster and more efficiently.

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What is Onboarding Software and How Does it Work?

ClearCompany Recruiting

The benefits of an organized new employee onboarding process isn’t a secret, mostly because statistic after statistic prove its value: Organizations with a standard onboarding process experience 54% greater new hire productivity overall. Onboarding programs have increased retention by 25%. Onboarding programs improve employee performance by up to 11%.

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5 Simple Ways To Engage With Your Employees

Social Talent

Yesterday we talked about how important it is to challenge your workforce and how it helps to keep your employees engaged in the long run. Today, we’re going to give you 5 examples of how to do just that! Some businesses struggle to engage with their employees. This usually results workers feeling undervalued and underwhelmed by their employers efforts to cater for their needs.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Assessing Recruiters for Grit

The Whiteboard

Hello Friday Whiteboard readers. Today’s blog has already been written, about a topic you might naturally expect me to be commenting upon, but due to some technical issues it has been a little bit delayed. I will post the blog once we have been given the all clear on the technical issues causing the delay, which will hopefully be later on today… In the meantime I should take this opportunity to thank Talegent for putting on a very interesting breakfast presentation this morning ab

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The right way to do an intake meeting with your hiring manager

Talent Hero Media

Intake meetings are dreaded by recruiters and hiring managers alike. It’s generally a download of all the information that is already there in the job. The post The right way to do an intake meeting with your hiring manager appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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How This Recruiting Company Is Putting the 'Human' Back Into Human Resources

Entrepreneur

Companies have a hard time recruiting and retaining the elusive millennial employee. The Muse CEO Kathryn Minshew has a solution: Tell them everything.

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Talent Innovation Summit Countdown: Inside GoDaddy's Diversity Transformation Story

Lever

A few years ago, GoDaddy was renowned worldwide as the go-to domain registrar, a nearly billion dollar company that you could always count on for bold advertisements. Today, there’s so much more to their story. GoDaddy is known by many as an exceptionally inclusive environment, one that celebrates and empowers women in particular.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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45+ Elements of Company Culture to Include in Your Strategy

ClearCompany Recruiting

Company culture is essential to the identity of your business and defines the environment in which employees work. It incorporates a variety of elements including work environment, values, company mission, ethics, expectations and goals.

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How LinkedIn Can Be A Lethal Weapon For Finding The Right Candidate

Social Talent

Before the world of social media, most recruiters would pop a post on a job listing site such as Indeed or Monster , and wait for the applications to come in. While they are free to use and a great way to get a job advert out to thousands, the downside is that you aren’t reaching out to your key market and it could take potential candidates quite some time before they come across your advert.

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There is No Funnel. Or Spoon.

Good To Know

Job discovery was never really transactional - which makes it challenging to layer a funnel on top of. Real workflows look like pretzel logic, if they're being honestly used. Our prospects come in and out of view, from different directions. They engage in the process randomly, and disengage the same way. Sometimes they skip steps. Move backwards, in and out.

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3 Rules for Managing a Job Interview Like a Shark

Spark Hire

You don’t need to be pitching business ideas to Mark Cuban to be in the Shark Tank. The wildly popular TV show takes you into the world of investing and entrepreneurship. As a recruiter, you play the role of a Shark during each and every job interview. You sit down with candidates to discuss their hopes and determine if they’re the right partner for your company.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Job Search Etiquette: An Employer Hasn’t Called Back

SimplyHired

The post Job Search Etiquette: An Employer Hasn’t Called Back appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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3 Off-the-Cuff Recruitment Strategies to Add to Your Arsenal

Lever

Seventy six percent of hiring decision makers say attracting quality candidates is their biggest challenge. Everyone knows that top-tier talent is in high demand, and that it’s important to stand out if you want candidates to consider interviewing—let alone accepting an offer. If you want your pick of the litter, try these off-the-cuff recruitment strategies to get the best candidates to come to you.

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Employee Handbook

Workable

From a code of conduct to benefits and perks to employment details, this employee handbook template has everything you need to start your own company policies. What is an employee handbook? An employee handbook is a document that communicates your company’s mission, policies and expectations. Employers give this to employees to clarify their rights and responsibilities while they’re employed with the company.

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Workers Who Feel Challenged Are More Engaged (Infographic)

Social Talent

Keeping Employees Engaged. Employees who are challenged regularly are more engaged in their work according to a recent study. Assigning your employees with tasks will motivate them in the long scheme of things, and will ultimately add to their development. Having a productive workplace is important for any business to succeed. If your employees aren’t motivated, it could lead to employees moving elsewhere in search for greater opportunities.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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The Business Impact of Recruiting Your Own Employees

Symphony Talent

When you think of Staples, you probably remember the former slogan, “That was easy,” along with those ubiquitous red “easy” buttons. (At some point in life, you know. The post The Business Impact of Recruiting Your Own Employees appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Fall Into Recruiting

Glassdoor for Employers

Human behavior often mirrors the seasons. During autumn, for example, foliage changes colors, and trees shed leaves. Similarly, many careerists determine the fall season an opportunity to renew themselves, shedding the old job for a new, more invigorating position.

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The Pros and Cons of the Independent Contractor: W2 or 1099?

SimplyHired

The post The Pros and Cons of the Independent Contractor: W2 or 1099? appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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How to Hire Talent Successfully in the Entertainment Industry

Lever

Most recruiters know what it’s like to get hit with a hiring fire drill. Whether you suddenly have to scale due to ambitious revenue goals or a demanding new project, those intense hiring pushes are frenzied - but ideally, they're ideally temporary. The entertainment industry is different. Here, the sudden need to hire creative talent for a new film arises often.

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The Greatest Overlooked Tool: A Recruiting Assessment Guide to Transforming Hiring

You know talent acquisition is essential to business success, but are you frustrated with hiring results? Learn how to spotlight ideal talent & match them to the right roles in your organization today by using the Greatest Overlooked Tool.

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The Latest Recruitment Technology Trends and How to Really Use Them

Yoh

Technology is the way of life practically for everyone in all industries, not only in the future but also in this present time. In the field of recruitment, the impact of technology is becoming more pronounced in terms of enhancing the hiring experience for both the candidates and the hiring teams.

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Sourcing Made Simple: 6 Chrome Extension for Recruiters

Social Talent

Need a new tool for your recruiting toolbox? Try Chrome extensions, which are handy downloads that can simplify a variety of tasks for hiring managers and recruiters. Chrome extensions are simple (and often free) downloads. Once downloaded, an icon appears in the top right corner of your browser window, making it unobtrusive and easy to turn on and off.

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How to build a new employee onboarding process

Workable

Building a strong onboarding process is the best way to welcome, and retain, new employees. Effective onboarding is all about planning ahead and thinking from your new employee’s point of view. It doesn’t begin and end on your new hire’s first day with you. It starts at the beginning of your hiring process and ends when your new employee is fully settled into their role.