Sat.Oct 20, 2018 - Fri.Oct 26, 2018

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How To Convince Your C-Suite That Employer Branding Really Matters

Proactive Talent

Are you having trouble convincing your C-Suite they should be prioritizing your company’s employer brand? Do you feel like a fish swimming upstream on this? If decision-makers at your company are cynical of whether employer branding is really worth the time, we’re going to arm you with some startling facts that will make them realize investing in it now will actually save you money, while increasing the quality of talent your organization can attract.

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8 Ways Recruiters Can Grow Their IT Technical Knowledge

Hiretual

The majority of recruiters start out being generalists in their career. I started my career with just a bachelors in marketing and communications. I had absolutely no understanding of computer science. I was able to take a few STEM courses and wrote my first wordpress site using basic HTML and PHP.

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How to Create a Recruitment Marketing Role at Your Organization

Rally Recruitment Marketing

My name’s Tricia, and I’ll be sharing insight into my journey as a new full-time Recruitment Marketer. Fun fact: This is my company’s very first Recruitment Marketing function! Therefore, I anticipate having many lessons to share along the way. In this first post, I’ll share how to create a Recruitment Marketing role or function within your organization, based on the experience I went through.

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Modern Applicant Tracking System Requirements

Lever

The first Applicant Tracking System (ATS) was designed to do little more than store data from applications. Prior to the Internet, candidates sent in physical resumes and the recruiter’s job was to choose the best from the stack. Early recruiting platforms simply digitized the process. But now, more than 20 years later, the hiring environment and the way job seekers communicate with companies has vastly changed—and so the modern ATS has adapted.

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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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13 Hiring Horror Stories from Real Hiring Managers

JazzHR

In honor of Halloween, we reached out to hiring managers in our network to see if anyone had ever experienced a hiring nightmare. They did not disappoint! Read our top picks for craziest hiring nightmares below. “Years back, after hiring a new staffing specialist, and conducting training with her over her first 30 days, it was becoming evident that she wasn’t able to do the basic functions of the position, and she had poor judgment when interacting with our clients.

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Landing Pages 101 for Recruitment Marketing

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Landing pages are a marketing tool that many savvy Recruitment Marketing teams are starting to use to attract more candidates and persuade them to apply to their organization. This blog post is for you if you’re looking to learn landing pages 101 for Recruitment Marketing. We’ll share: What are landing pages. Why they work for Recruitment Marketing.

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Should I Give Up (Or Should I just Keep Chasing Adverts)?

The Whiteboard

This is how recruitment tends to work: When you get your first recruitment job, you are told of “active clients”, “databases”, and “training and development” You are told of huge earning potential, perhaps even shown a pay slip of a top biller. You are told of the “red-hot desk” that you will inherit once you prove your worth.

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Webinar: Create Your Go-To Recruiting Toolbox

JazzHR

Even if a candidate doesn’t get hired for a role, you still want them to walk away wishing they could work for your company. And for those that do accept an offer, your job does not end there – you still need to get them in the door. Gathering data and other feedback, paired with the right tools, can help you fill your roles quickly and efficiently whilst maintaining a solid candidate experience.

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15 job interview horror stories that you won’t believe

Workable

When hearing the word “Halloween”, many of us think of decorative spider webs, vampire and ghost costumes, grinning pumpkins and of course, horror stories. Even if you’re not a fan of trick-or-treat season, you may still love a good horror story – not always fictional, but certainly one from the craziness of everyday life that can be relevant all year long.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Landing Pages for Recruitment Marketing 101

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you work in Talent Acquisition or Recruitment Marketing, there’s a good chance you’ve been hearing a lot of hype about landing pages over the past year. Landing pages are a marketing tool that many savvy Recruitment Marketing teams are starting to use to attract more candidates and convince them to apply to their organization. This blog post is for you if you’re looking to find out: What landing pages are.

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A New Concept In Assessments: Attraction

Katrina Kibben

You can use assessment in nontraditional ways to enable people across your company to recruit where they shine: when they speak.

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Recruiting Is Sales and 7 Other Lessons from a Global TA Leader at UNLEASH Amsterdam

SmartRecruiters

Ahead of her session on the second day of UNLEASH Amsterdam, we bring you eight lessons from recruiting-rockstar, Tracey Allison. Talent Acquisition right now is unquestionably a candidate’s market, with 73 percent of employers in the US reporting skill shortages in their field. Today’s applicants want a candid look inside your company before they even apply.

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REPORT: What Are the Hardest to Fill Healthcare Jobs?

Indeed

As a nation, Americans are facing serious health challenges. Heart disease remains the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the US, and a host of other conditions pose a great risk — including cancer, diabetes, respiratory diseases and stroke. In fact, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), life expectancy in the US has decreased for the second year in a row — the first time this has happened since the 1960s.

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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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The Most Useful Skills in Recruitment Aren’t What You’d Expect

Social Talent

Recruiters are at the coal face of the push and pull of the jobs market. They have a unique perspective as they act as the connector between the supply (skilled workforce) and the demand (hiring companies). Through collecting truly exceptional candidates and helping companies find the most promising people to build the future of their success- recruiters come face to face with exciting prospects on both sides.

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Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day

Symphony Talent

Recruiting is a people profession. Most recruiters have fantastic interpersonal skills, excel at building relationships, and communicate with ease. Yet a majority spend a large chunk of their. The post Recruiters, This Is How You Get Hours Back In Your Day appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Benefits Your Employees Actually Want: Why PayScale Has the Happiest Employees in Seattle

SmartRecruiters

Sometimes it’s hard to discern which benefits are trendy and which will actually improve employee quality of life. We talk with PayScale to learn the difference. This year Seattle Business Magazine named PayScale the top place to work in Seattle. No easy feat in the Emerald city with competition from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, and the siren call of San Francisco and Silicon Valley constantly ringing up the coast.

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The Evolution of the Recruitment Consultant [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This post is by Paul Slezak, Cofounder and CEO of RecruitLoop – the World’s largest marketplace of expert Recruiters and Sourcers available on-demand. Recruiters- they don’t just recruit employees, they also sow the seeds of company’s reputation. The reputation that is built on the brand image they create and the employees they recruit to contribute.

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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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Revolut’s unorthodox recruitment methods

Social Talent

Creative recruitment practices keep the industry interesting. This week, digital banking alternative Revolut reportedly engaged in some unorthodox practices when looking for new hires. According to a twitter thread , the company asked potential candidates to sign up at least 200 new customers before being asked to interview for a role. The applicants were given a promo code which they were then asked to share with 200 people, who are then asked to deposit 10 EUR into the account.

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Why Candidates Aren't Taking Your Calls (and What to Do About It)

FireFish Software

Recruitment would be a much easier job if candidates would just pick up the phone every now and again. And sure, some candidates just aren’t interested in hearing what you have to say, but not answering phone calls is also part of a wider behavioural shift we’re seeing amongst the candidate market, and it’s something we need to adapt to.

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Ask a Recruiter: Why and how do you use WhatsApp for recruiting candidates?

Workable

WhatsApp is predominantly known as a messaging app, but it could be the next big thing in recruitment. We’re living in such a competitive market at the moment, so if you can’t secure someone within two or three weeks, you’re in danger of losing them to competitors. We need to think out of the box and shorten the hiring process as much as possible – and I’ve found WhatsApp very useful for this.

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5 Tips to a Better Work-Life Balance

Undercover Recruiter

With what feels like an ongoing struggle with achieving the ideal work-life balance, recent research shows that two-thirds of British employees are not happy with their work-life balance. Sure, it’s not easy to achieve, but the work-life balance isn’t a myth. As the workplace becomes increasingly competitive and the financial stresses of living in the city.

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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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Become The Most Popular Recruiter on LinkedIn

Social Talent

Welcome to SocialTalent’s Live & Learn series! Each week we gift you with a little bit of info that will help smoothen your recruitment process and expand your knowledge of your industry. With this Live & Learn series we promise we kept it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How to Build and Nurture a Following on LinkedIn.

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Recruitment Horror Stories That Send Us Screaming

FireFish Software

From ghoulish clients to candidates ghosting us, we’ve all got our fair share of recruitment horror tales to tell! With Halloween upon us, we thought we'd collect some of the best, most shocking horror stories from our recruiter network. Warning: This post is not for the faint-hearted!

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Looking to Hire the Best Team? Treat Your Job Applicants Like Customers

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. The unemployment rate is at a record-low, meaning most top-performing employees are already gainfully employed. And today’s job seekers have countless job opportunities at the tips of their fingers — through job boards, social media and other channels — making the job market even more competitive for employers.

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Why the Construction Industry Needs More Women in Leadership

Undercover Recruiter

Like tech and cybersecurity, construction is one of the most notoriously male-dominated professions — of all the 10 million people employed in the industry, only 9% of construction workers are female. This figure is primarily women in administrative and office positions in construction, as the number of women actively working on construction sites is even.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.