October, 2013

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Can I-9 and W-4 Federal Documents be Completed Electronically?

ExactHire Recruiting

Can I-9 and W-4 Federal Documents be Completed Electronically? So, the short answer is…yes. Federal I-9 forms (documents that must be completed for all new hires to verify their eligibility to legally work in the US) and federal W-4 forms (documents that allow employees to determine how much federal income tax is withheld from their payroll checks) completed electronically are considered as valid and binding as if they were completed manually.

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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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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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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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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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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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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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Is An IT Failure Dooming The Affordable Care Act?

Staffing Talk

'Two weeks after the heavily-publicized rollout, pretty much everyone can agree the Web site, HealthCare.gov , is not working as intended. But why is less clear. Missed deadlines, lack of proper project management, delayed regulations, not enough budget and other resources are just a few of the reasons cited for the problem-plagued rollout described by some as “ a complete fiasco.” Over the weekend the New York Times published this stor y featuring interviews with contractors, gover

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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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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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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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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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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 Do I Calculate ROI For Applicant Tracking System?

ExactHire Recruiting

There are several ways to calculate the return on investment (ROI) for an applicant tracking system (ATS). But to start, you need to first determine the cost of your hiring activities without an ATS. Equation #1: Time Cost Let’s say we have an HR Employee who handles hiring (I’ll call her Joy). Consider the number of hours that Joy works on hiring activities in a week (H) and multiply that number by her amount of pay per hour (P).

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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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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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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Using America’s “Mood Map” to Recruit

Staffing Talk

'As Americans, we’re often hyper-aware of – even proud of – our regional differences. (Don’t we endlessly defend the superiority of “ soda” over “pop ?” Don’t we relish a heated argument about the merits of Carolina-style barbeque vs. the Texan variety? Or vice versa?). These linguistic and taste-based differences are obvious, but what about what lies within the residents themselves – the hard-to-pin-down details that make up our personalities?

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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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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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Contractor: Staffing Agencies Will Spell Downfall of Google

Staffing Talk

'An embittered Google contractor recently took to the blogosphere to sound off on what it’s really like to work at the revered tech company. Raphaela Weissman was contracted through a staffing agency at one of Google’s peripheral offices near Seattle. In the post, she quickly rattles off a list of amenities we’ve expect from the company, from “Google-colored couches” to “foosball, ping-pong, pool, and video games.

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Dress Better, Stand Up Straighter, and Listen More Than You Talk

Staffing Talk

'When job seekers choose a staffing agency, they’re probably not going to take the time to thoroughly research your placement rates. Instead, they’re going to base their decision on how friendly and approachable your website appears, and how easy it is to upload their resume and schedule an appointment. You could have connections to every business in town, and if your website isn’t attractive and functional – and, even more importantly, if your agency doesn’t appear

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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