April, 2018

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How to create a pleasant job interview environment

JazzHR

The job interview: A major step that both candidates and hiring managers often approach the wrong way. The candidate may prepare in-depth answers ahead of time. But maybe, they fail to have an organic, personable conversation with the hiring team. Meanwhile, the hiring manager may ask surface-level questions that don’t accurately assess the candidate’s suitability for the position.

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TL;DR Grad Salaries, Blind Hiring & The War For Skills

Social Talent

Get the most important recruitment news delivered to you every Monday with our TL;DR updates. Time is valuable, so make sure you use that time wisely to catch up on the latest industry news. Highest Graduate Salaries. Graduate Programmes have blossomed in recent times, with many applicants finding them an excellent stepping stone when leaving college.

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This piece of advice changed a recruitment business forever

Greg Savage

I quite often get emails and messages from people who have appreciated or acted on my advice. I won’t lie to you, it’s gratifying when the experience you pass on, helps others. Keeps me going to be honest. But sometimes the impact of a little guidance is pivotal in a business, and so I decided […].

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The Ugly Truth About Your Unstructured Interview Process

Lever

The interview process is your opportunity to find the right candidates for your open role, and to sell those candidates on working at your company. However, an unstructured interview process in which candidates may each experience different steps, questions, or assessments, can do quite the opposite. The ugly truth is that an unstructured interview process can have long-term, negative consequences for your organization.

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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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What’s Missing in Your Talent Lifecycle?

ClearCompany Recruiting

Every organization defines and maps out their talent lifecycle differently. Stages will vary, processes will be different and connections between each phase will be unique to the company’s priorities. That being said, there is (or should be) one standard in every organization’s talent lifecycle – the center. Here at ClearCompany, we have always had a strong focus on uniting the traditionally disjointed stages of the talent lifecycle.

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Unconventional Secrets to Hiring a Great Team as a Startup

Entrepreneur

Embrace these counterintuitive tips and build the foundational team that will equip your team for future success.

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8 Weird & Wacky Places For a Candidate Job Interview

Social Talent

Interviews can be nerve-wracking. Let’s face it, if a candidate could skip the whole interview process and get the job straight off the bat, we’d have happy candidates all-round! However, this is real life and interviews are a must! Today, we take a look at some weird and wacky interview locations where candidates have had interviews. Happy Friday!

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I went to Dublin to talk ‘leadership’. And the craic was good!

Greg Savage

I just got back from Ireland. A huge week of recording 20 hours of recruitment training for the Social Talent Training Platform (Launches 10th May, look out for that. Speak to Richard Bromhead) But also two big presentations to the local recruiters on ‘Leadership’, and what that really means. The first was organised by my […].

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5 Ways Your Team May be Giving Candidates a Bad Interview Experience

Lever

Your talent acquisition team works hard to build strong talent pipelines for each of your organization’s roles. The last thing you want to see is that your pipeline is leaking your best candidates. But if your candidates have a bad interview experience, that’s exactly what will happen. Eighty three percent of talent said a negative interview experience could change their mind about a role or company they once liked.

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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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5 Reasons to Consider Implementing Flextime

ClearCompany Recruiting

Thanks to technology, it’s now easier than ever to connect with your friends, family and coworkers with nothing more than a mobile device and an internet connection. With less need for the amenities of a traditional office, comes less need for the traditional 9-5 work schedule. One survey of marketing and advertising executives found that 76% of companies offered some form of flexible work arrangement.

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How to Compete with Google and Facebook for Talent

Proactive Talent

Every firm wants to hire the best candidates possible for their firm, yet many firms fall short of this, by making a few mistakes during the hiring process. Hiring culturally fit employees who are willing to say or do anything while at work to agree to the founder’s values is just one of these many mistakes. Hiring employees from elite socio-economic backgrounds as compared to raw and pure talent from diversified backgrounds is another one of the common yet fatal hiring errors done by most firms

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Maximize your employee engagement ROI with these 5 steps

ExactHire Recruiting

Organizations are built around people, so creating a high-engagement work culture is essential for sustainable business success. In the last few years, more companies have started to benchmark employee engagement, hoping that this data will provide insights on how to be a better place to work. But, often employee engagement surveys lose steam after the initial data collection because no one knows how to act on the data , and so the results are left to collect dust until the next annual survey.

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How Managers Can Support Employee Mental Health

Glassdoor for Employers

Understanding how a business can best support its employees’ mental health has evolved drastically in the past decades. Mental health is a.

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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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Taking a recruitment start-up to $60 M and a public listing.

Greg Savage

This Podcast will be of interest to business builders, and those planning an exit. In Part 1 we cover: From Start Up to $60-Million. Surviving the 1990 Australian Recession. Leadership under fire. People Management and Coaching From Recovery to Public Listing Listing is Not the End, It’s the Beginning Optimising Growth From Acquisitions Friction and […].

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New Benchmarks Report: Discover the Keys to Sourcing Success

Lever

Candidates simply won’t answer your sourcing emails. On the rare occasions they do, you can’t even assess what you did differently to warrant a response. Ultimately, you just want to know: what are the formulae for actually hiring the candidates you source?

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How The Villages of Indiana Was Able to Find, Hire and Engage Faster

ClearCompany Recruiting

“We now have a system that helps all of our hiring managers across the state, getting paperwork off their desks. That’s the biggest win. Without a doubt, this has shortened the hiring process.”. As Indiana’s largest not-for-profit child and family services agency, The Villages of Indiana serves over 3,000 children and their families every day through services ranging from foster care, and adoption placement, to assisting new parents through the first few months with their newborns.

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How (and Who) to Hire For a Startup

Social Talent

For the right candidate, the startup life offers unique attractions. The smaller staff size and developing procedures tend to foster more casual, faster-paced workplaces. Startups offer plentiful opportunities for advancement and collaboration. A dream job for the right person! A startup may not be the right place for someone who craves stability, predictable procedures, and a sky-high salary.

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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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From Transactional to Human: A Hiring Process Awakening

Spark Hire

The future of your hiring process is here, kicking mindless transactional processes to the curb. In fact, in LinkedIn’s 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report, recruiters said by using a strategic combination of new interviewing tools, artificial intelligence, diversity, and data, the focus is being placed back where it belongs — on candidates. To help you break out of the mundane hiring process of search, schedule, screen, interview, rinse, and repeat, we asked the pros how they’re moving i

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6 Salary Questions All Managers Should Be Prepared to Answer

Glassdoor for Employers

You might think that once a candidate has signed their offer letter, the salary inquiries are over. But even after you’ve sorted.

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Sixty Savage Seconds – Being a recruiter rocks!

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 ‘Being a recruiter rocks!’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Simplify your Interview Schedule with these 7 Tips

Lever

Figuring out an interview schedule can be enough to drive anyone mad. Interviewers and candidates are both busy, and availability changes often. There are a lot of moving parts, and you need the stars to align just so, in order to find a mutually available time. And the sooner, the better: your hiring manager needed the position filled yesterday, and you don’t want to lose your candidates to a competitive offer.

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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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Performance Management Software Vendor Comparison Workbook

ClearCompany Recruiting

You’re at a point in your leadership when you’re ready to ask, “is our performance management system actually performing?” Your organization is unique and the way you build your processes and assess new systems should be just as unique. What’s important to your company’s performance might mean squat to another team. With upwards of 60 performance management systems on the market, it’s overwhelming to visualize which systems collaborate the most with your company-specific performance goals.

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RIP Talent Acquisition

Social Talent

Spending 20 years in the recruitment industry will teach you a thing or two… Johnny Campbell has explored all parts of the industry, moving from recruitment roles into the SaaS sphere has given him a 360-degree view of the world of recruitment and talent acquisition. The War for Talent. In 1998 a report from McKinsey & Company shaped the way the industry spoke about Talent Acquisition.

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Ask a Recruiter: What is recruitment marketing and why should it be part of your recruiting strategy?

Workable

Recruitment marketing is how your company tells its culture story through content and messaging to reach top talent. It can include blogs, video messages, social media, images—any public-facing content that builds your brand among candidates. In marketing, if you try to be all things to all people and you don’t know who your ideal customer is, you risk creating messaging that doesn’t resonate with anyone.

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5 Ways You’re Losing Good Candidates In The Recruitment Process

Glassdoor for Employers

A candidate’s opinion of your organization will be shaped almost entirely by the recruitment process. Consider their first touch point with your.

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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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New Savage Masterclass for South Africa!

Greg Savage

Savage Sell ?Sophisticated selling for the Modern Recruiter This series of half-day master classes will be held in July 2018, in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Last year ‘Savage Sprint’ sold out, so please – book now! And it’s sharply priced so Agencies can send entire teams. You must learn to Savage Sell! […].

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We're Spotlighting 4 Exceptional Teams for International Recruiters Day

Lever

Today is International Recruiters Day. So we’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to pay homage to our team builders, matchmakers, and best candidate advocates. Companies across the globe - whether in San Francisco or Sydney - rely on the hard work of recruiters to reach their most ambitious milestones. Think about it: it’d be pretty hard to hit those huge revenue goals without the manpower to make it happen, wouldn’t it?

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7 Must Have Skills for a Chef Career

SimplyHired

The post 7 Must Have Skills for a Chef Career appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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