October, 2013

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Should I Use Cognitive or Skills-Based Assessments for New Hires?

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s no surprise that in an age where there are often many candidates applying for any given job, many hiring managers are using pre-employment assessments to review applicants. Using assessments can help a company find new employees who are the best fit for its company culture and for the position. There are several kinds to choose from; picking the right one for your needs depends a lot on the organization and the type of job being filled.

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Could Your Recruiting Process Be Turning Off Top Candidates?

HireRabbit

When companies and managers seek to formulate and design their recruitment and talent acquisition strategies, the overbearing work load seems to leave them feeling stressed. Although, what companies have to realize is that the stresses they experience in hiring and recruitment are nothing compared to the stresses that accompany the potential job seekers.

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Temp Employee of the Year Does the Unthinkable

Staffing Talk

'As staffing professionals, it’s easy to get frustrated at the people who let us down. After all, from that first point of contact to the day they start their first work assignment, we have a lot of time, and sometimes emotion, invested in them. And when they finally set foot on our client’s property, it’s our reputation that’s on the line, our judgment that’s questioned if it all goes wrong.

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"Getting Going with Mobile!" Our Workshop from the Communications Network

Forum One

'Recently I attended the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans, and had the opportunity to cover the event as a guest blogger with Philanthropy411. Coverage on how-to get started with mobile from the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference. read more.

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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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8 Tips to Increase Physician Recruiting Success

Hospital Recruiting

1. Get More Candidates. It sounds simple, right? In-house physician recruiters should always be looking for new ways to source candidates. At the beginning stages of a recruitment effort, you’ll likely need a good quantity of candidates in order to find the right fit and quality that you need. If what you’re currently doing isn’t meeting your needs, then it’s time to try something new, and the good news here is that there is an abundance of sources that can provide the candidate you need.

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3 Tips to Engage Your Applicants During the Hiring Process

ExactHire Recruiting

Any decent recruiter knows that it is critical to have an active pool from which to source candidates for jobs, but that doesn’t just mean a large number of any past job applicants. A truly good applicant pool includes applicants that are interested in future positions with your organization and have the qualifications required. Here is an overview of three tips to engage your applicants throughout the recruiting and selection process.

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Star Employees Leaving? Here Are 6 Tips To Retain Top Talent

HireRabbit

When your company is privileged enough to acquire great and outstanding talent, next comes the daunting task of retaining that talent. More and more business practices today involve pirating the top employees of competitors. If you wish to be immune from this, you will need to develop a systematic and sustainable game plan to keep your workers delighted and fulfilled.

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How Small Staffing Companies Get Big Accounts

Staffing Talk

'When Tom Klenotic, owner of Safe Staffing , a full-service recruitment and staffing agency located in Northeast Ohio, wanted to go after bigger accounts, he got on the clock. As in TempWorks Online Time Clock solution. “Having the ability to add clocks quickly, along with the ease of getting employee information into the clocks, gives me the confidence to go after any size account now,” he said.

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ComNetwork Gumbo

Forum One

'Recently I attended the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans, and had the opportunity to cover the event as a guest blogger with Philanthropy411. New Orleans, communications trends and overall great conversations from the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference. read more.

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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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In-house Physician Recruiting Tips from an Ex-contingency Recruiter

Hospital Recruiting

Tip #1 Always Share Financial Information About Your Jobs. Although both in-house physician recruiters and contingency based physician recruiters share the primary objective of placing physicians into jobs, some of the methods they use to achieve these goals are very different. Both types of physician recruiters must source candidates, prescreen and interview them, schedule interviews with others, and do a lot of follow up with all of the involved parties.

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Portugal 2013 road-trip gallery

SmartSearch

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

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Is Paperless Hiring More Efficient?

ExactHire Recruiting

Would paperless human resource processes be more efficient for my small- to medium-sized organization? My cut and dry answer is yes. Since we are all grown-ups, however, we know that there are rarely instances when answers are cut and dry. So, let’s explore, briefly, why my answer is yes. What do I do with all of these paper resumes? Do you remember that seminar where the instructor says, “Try to make all of your paper ‘one-touch!

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Recruiting is Marketing: The Recruiting Funnel Defined

Jobvite

Sales and marketing professionals have been successfully using the step-by-step funnel method for years to find, engage and close prospects. This same methodology and tactics apply to recruiters as they source, vet and ultimately hire, candidates. This useful infographic shows recruiters how to leverage the recruiting funnel to drive results for their company.

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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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E-Verify Goes Dark As Employers Scramble

Staffing Talk

'Why the government shutdown requires that E-Verify’s servers go down is not clear, but the reality that standard background checking procedures at many employers are no longer working is taking its toll across the United States today. …the best time to get hired as undocumented is now. “We can’t process our background checks,” tweeted Sarah aka Sarah ?

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How Does Human Resources Use Social Media? [Infographic]

Unbridled Talent

Recently, BLR’s HR Daily Advisor published the results of their HR Trends survey – sponsored by SuccessFactors. Although the size was relatively small (300 HR Practitioners), the survey results offer some interesting and specific insights about how HR professionals are utilizing social media in the workplace. Top areas identified for social media integration included: Recruiting Employee Communications Training Onboarding Teambuilding Check out some of the specific responses related

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Global Talent Trends: New Research Opportunity

Bersin

One of the biggest challenges we hear from our clients is "how do I effectively globalize" my HR and talent programs? As we described at IMPACT last year, the world has become both highly connected and very uneven. Fast growing economies like China, Eastern Europe, and Brazil have drastically different labor markets and skill sets […].

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Transitions In UX Design

SmartSearch

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

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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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Chantel Hatch – Client Services Associate

ExactHire Recruiting

Chantel Hatch began working with the ExactHire Client Services team in 2011 as a Client Services Associate. She’s available to help ExactHire clients by offering thorough training on applicant tracking system features and ongoing product/tech support. She helps our clients take full advantage of all HireCentric ATS product features; thus, enabling them to use their software applications more efficiently.

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Recruiting is Marketing: The Recruiting Funnel Defined

Jobvite

Sales and marketing professionals have been successfully using the step-by-step funnel method for years to find, engage and close prospects. This same methodology and tactics apply to recruiters as they source, vet and ultimately hire, … Continued.

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Will LinkedIn Do to Staffing What Apple Did to Blackberry?

Staffing Talk

'It’s hard to imagine how fast and furious the fall of Blackberry has been. Who would have guessed that some failed valley tech-CEO with a music player would upend its entire business model in a span of less than six years? Certainly I didn’t, and neither did any of Blackberry’s storied management — including its founders. LinkedIn’s market cap is more than what Manpower and Kelly are on track to make over the next 100 years.

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How Does Human Resources Use Social Media? [Infographic]

Unbridled Talent

Recently, BLR’s HR Daily Advisor published the results of their HR Trends survey – sponsored by SuccessFactors. Although the size was relatively small (300 HR Practitioners), the survey results offer some interesting and specific insights about how HR professionals are utilizing social media in the workplace. Top areas identified for social media integration included: Recruiting.

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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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HR Tech Delivers on Promise of “Awesome” and SMAC Talk

Bersin

The annual HR Tech show, a favorite of many in the world of technologies surrounding the human capital management space, wrapped up its second Las Vegas appearance this past week. The event provides a revue for software creators, the analyst community and the end users to see all the newest innovation and share end user […].

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Eric Stauffer – Chief Technology Officer

ExactHire Recruiting

Eric Stauffer began working with ExactHire as Chief Technology Officer in 2014 and brings a wealth of development and strategic technology management experience to the team. The post Eric Stauffer – Chief Technology Officer appeared first on ExactHire.

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Visionary Staffing Firm Shares a Secret

Staffing Talk

'We all know about the growth of mobile. But do you think of mobile as being a catalyst for the growth of your staffing company? Bill Peppler, managing partner of Florida-based Kavaliro Staffing Services has thought about it, and what he’s found has helped propel Kavaliro to the Inc. 500 list of fast growing companies in America. 70% of the traffic coming to employment sites these days is via mobile. “ If you want to reach your candidates anytime, anywhere, and have them be able to get bac

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Millennials to Baby Boomers: Seriously, Retire Already!

Staffing Talk

'Retire Already!" src="[link] width="580" height="405" title="Millennials to Baby Boomers: Seriously, Retire Already!" />. With half of Baby Boomers delaying retirement longer than previously thought, and a stunning 82 percent saying it is at least “somewhat likely” they’ll return to work after retirement, Millennials are starting to squirm.

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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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Staffing News of the Day, October 31, 2013

Staffing Talk

'U.S. jobless claims drop 10,000 , but still remain above end-of-summer levels [Market Watch]. Infosys agrees to pay the U.S. a record $34 million to settle claims they abused a visa program intended for business travelers [Business Week]. Starting salaries for legal jobs are expected to rise 2.7 percent in 2014, according to Robert Half’s annual salary guide [PR Newswire].

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If You Think the Obamacare Screwup Is Bad…

Staffing Talk

'Hey at least on Healthcare.gov we had the pretty brunette (who has now gone missing) to look at while we were pulling out our hair. The fact is we’re downright lucky. Let’s have a heart for our British friends – they are pulling the plug on their version of Obamacare IT after sinking $17 billion and 10 years into it. And for those blaming the temp agency behind our fiasco, it’s never fun being named captain of the Titanic after it’s hit the iceberg.

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Is This Truly The Worst Cover Letter Ever?

Staffing Talk

'Cover letters. Big subject, right? We all know the tips about how to write great ones that get you noticed. We’ve all read plenty of them ourselves; the good, the bad and the ugly. We’ve long heard about the death of the cover letter – and the resume. I wrote this Staffing Talk story about the best Wall Street cover letter. And now come the folks at The Muse , “ cringing after being forwarded the World’s Worst Cover Letter ” (as they have officially dubbed it).