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There’s much to learn when candidates include hobbies in a resume

Workable

When you see a candidate include hobbies in a resume, your first thought as a recruiter or hiring manager might be: “That’s cute, but a waste of space.” But don’t jump to conclusions just yet: if a candidate knows how to craft their resume, interests aren’t an afterthought nor should you consider them to be. A candidate’s ability to create a narrative around their interests can boost their candidacy and help you hire a top applicant.

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Why Boomerang Employees Are a Good Thing

Achievers - Recruiting

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Talent Engagement Through Diversity: How T-Mobile Celebrates Women’s History Month

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Whether you’re writing a book or selling a product, authenticity is key. Modern audiences are incredibly savvy at sniffing out inauthentic communications, especially on social media, so one of the most effective methods of talent engagement is to let your audience hear your employees’ unedited testimony. Some of the best-performing content on T-Mobile’s careers social channels has come from our employees authentically sharing their experience and giving us a view into who they really are.

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10 signs your ‘client’ does not take you seriously

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 ’10 signs your ‘client’ does not take you seriously’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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10 Things Your Candidates Are Seeking, Other Than Salary

Lever

In this healthy employment market, compelling candidates to cross the job offer finish line is becoming increasingly challenging. And, while money does matter, it’s the amenities beyond salary that often seal a candidate’s interest.

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3 Ways to Assess Soft Skills

JazzHR

If you can read a resume, you can figure out a candidate’s primary qualifications. Past positions, diplomas and certifications all speak to specific abilities, proficiencies and areas of expertise, which may be relevant to the job at hand. Yet intangibles, by definition, don’t show up in a magna cum laude honor or completed development course.

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Use Employer Branding to Build Outstanding Talent Pipelines

Social Talent

So you’ve identified the roles that your business will need you to fill in the future, and you’ve got buy-in from your hiring managers about what good looks like for each of those roles. Now it’s time to put into practice the strategies you’ll need to find these people, or better yet, have them find you. And once you’ve connected with them, keeping the relationship warm until it’s time to close.

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You’re Not A Recruitment Agency? Really? Really??

The Whiteboard

If it looks like a rat, smells like a rat, and sounds like a rat, then it probably is a rat. Or so they say. Just who they are is open to debate. In recent years there has been a groundswell of Technology Consulting firms who are offering services that, to someone as cynical as me, could be described as *hushed-tones* Recruitment. It would seem however, that these firms are smarter than most of us.

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Hiring Lessons From An Expert Who Knows Nothing

Katrina Kibben

I didn't follow any of my own advice when hiring. This is what happened next, and what I learned. The post Hiring Lessons From An Expert Who Knows Nothing appeared first on Katrina Kibben.

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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 Procore Scaled Their Company Culture Along With the Business

Glassdoor for Employers

Building a great company culture is hard — but maintaining that culture over the years, all the while undergoing hypergrowth, is even harder. Growing quickly often comes at the cost of losing what made your organization so great in the first place, leaving longtime employees pining for “the good old days.” But every once in a while, a company captures lightning in a bottle and gets it right.

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The Most Stressed Profession In The UK Is…

Social Talent

This week, Protectivity has analysed the stress levels of residents across the UK as well as the main causes of stress, the most stressed age ranges, and careers. Studies like this are a brilliant way to asses potential turnover and leave rates in businesses, as well as ensuring that workplaces are up to standard when it comes to employee care. So, let’s dive right in… The group analysed results from people living in the UK based on their location.The results suggest that people livi

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Recruit to Avoid Negative Glassdoor Reviews

Survale

According to Jobvite, 33% of organizations they surveyed have received negative reviews based on interactions that occur during the recruiting process. Further, the Jobvite study reveals that 75% of organizations they surveyed report that glassdoor can at least somewhat help them hire, as long as the reviews are positive. In other words, it pays when organizations recruit to avoid negative glassdoor reviews.

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The 3 Most Common Mistakes Of Mobile Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

Even if you live under a rock, in the middle of a dense forest, surrounded by a desert wasteland, you still know that recruiting is now a mobile game. The average person will spend over four hours on their devices each day. If you assume the recommended eight hours of sleep, this means that 25 percent of a peron’s waking day is spent on a mobile device.

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Transforming Recruiting: AI Skills Matching & Automation Are Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition

Experience the future of talent acquisition with ThisWay Global’s AI-powered solutions. In this transformative journey, delve into the innovative world of skills matching and automation, redefining traditional recruiting strategies. Witness how ThisWay’s technology analyzes candidate profiles, matches skills with job requirements, and streamline the hiring process, saving time and resources.

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Don’t Marry the First Person You Date

NPA Worldwide

Our guest blogger is Jason Elias of Elias Recruitment in Sydney, Australia. Elias Recruitment is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy, finding lawyers for law firms, not-for-profits and corporates, across Australia. Jason is the Secretary/Treasurer of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors and received our Chairman’s Award in 2014. Jason is also a Fellow of the peak recruitment industry body in Australasia the RCSA (Recruitment & Consulting Services Association).

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How To Specialise as a Recruiter

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 to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! How To Specialise as a Recruiter. Angie Verros is the undisputed champion of honing your skills and prior experience to make you a great specialist recruiter.

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How to screen C and C++ developer programming skills to find the best – guide for IT recruitment

Devskiller

C and C++ developers don’t get the same buzz as developers in other languages. They aren’t as ubiquitous as JavaScript developers. They aren’t as well connected to hot topics like data science as Python developers. They don’t use a technology as up-and-coming as Kotlin developers do. But unlike the technologies making all the headlines, C and C++ continue to be the workhorses of many essential systems as well as areas like embedded technology and gaming.

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Top 5 Challenges of a Candidate-Driven Marketplace – Listen to the Podcast Now!

SmartRecruiters

Jerome Ternynck and Tracey Allison join Lorne Epstein on his eponymous podcast for a frank discussion on the challenges of today’s talent economy. “The war for talent is over and the candidates have won,” says Jerome Ternynck, CEO and founder of SmartRecruiters, as he sits down with Tracey Allison, Director of Global Talent at Avery Dennison, on the latest episode of the Lorne Epstein “How To Capture Talent In Today’s Candidate-driven Market”, recorded at Unleash Amsterdam 2018.

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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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Employee burnout for employers: Costs, Causes and Cures

Workable

Have you ever felt so exhausted and disheartened that you just don’t want to go to work? Many of us have these moments — passing strikes before we revert to our normal, productive selves. But not everyone bounces back. For example, think of Sam, a sales manager, who used to love his job. In fact, being a top performer himself, he succeeded in building a team of top performers from scratch.

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The Ultimate Checklist for a Complete Compliance Self-Evaluation

Social Talent

This post originally appeared on the Direct Employers Association blog. . One subject that has been on the minds of government contractors for most of the year is the announcement that over 1,000 corporate scheduling announcement letters (CSALs) were mailed. CSALs are an OFCCP courtesy notifying the government contractor that an official scheduling letter and the itemized listing will be delivered in the near future.

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Need To Get Hired? Avoid Asking These Questions During The Interview

AkkenCloud

We were are all told in school, “there’s no such thing as a stupid question.” While that may hold true in academia, there are certainly questions that, when asked in the context of a job interview, can hurt your chances or outright disqualify you from landing the position. Most job candidates prepare for interviews by crafting responses to potential questions.

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Define Your Candidate Persona in 4 Steps

SmartRecruiters

With a precise concept of the target demographic, recruiters can source with laser precision – here’s how! It’s no secret that in the past five years, recruiting has espoused marketing tactics to attract passive and highly sought-after talent in this time of skill shortages, especially in technical fields. Email campaigns, creative advertising, and meetups showcasing the company culture and values are all popular means by which Talent Acquisition (TA) practitioners try to attract top applicants.

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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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#WorkTrends: Is Retirement Outdated?

TalentCulture - Recruiting

Retirement comes from the French word meaning “to isolate yourself.” But as our guest Chris Farrell puts it: “Who wants to be isolated?” More and more, we are seeing older workers continue in the workforce or return to it. So what does this mean for our concept of retirement? Farrell joined us to break things down, and he shared with us some surprising statistics about the relationship between older and younger workers.

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Employee Retention Strategies to Boost Your Recruiting Efforts

Undercover Recruiter

Employee retention plays a big part in how recruiting, and sourcing strategies are created and executed. That’s a given. However, there’s a lot of conversation and noise in the industry about how everyone wants to find and hire top talent, while the retention aspect often gets assimilated or assumed as part of that process and. View Article. Employee Retention Strategies to Boost Your Recruiting Efforts Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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How to Do Candidate Management Right in 2019

FireFish Software

A good candidate management strategy is at the very core of everything we do: It’s what ensures we nurture great relationships, build rich talent pools and make judgements that lead to the best possible candidate matches we can make. But in the last few years, the secret to an effective candidate management strategy has changed as Millennials and Generation Z candidates slowly dominate the workforce.

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Stick to Your Knitting: Why Recruiters Should Recruit and Sourcers Should Source

RecruitLoop

Anaesthetists will never pick up the scalpel. Master Chefs will never work in the dining room. So why do we expect recruiters to source?

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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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12 Tips for Purchasing HR Tech Wisely, Part 2

TalentCulture - Recruiting

My previous post was devoted to the first six of my 12 HR tech-buying guidelines. In this post I share the remaining six … but not before I take a moment to marvel at the juggernaut the HR tech marketplace has become. First of all, it’s ginormous: Bersin by Deloitte has estimated the HR technology marketplace to be $400 billion. The worldwide investment in developing new HR tech exceeded $1 billion in the first half […].

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5 Ways to Encourage Career Progression as a Recruiter

Undercover Recruiter

Increasingly, one of the most popular questions we’re hearing from candidates is ‘are there career progression opportunities?’. We can see why – 91% of millennials say progression is one of their top priorities, so businesses who don’t have clear development paths are at risk of losing talent to their competitors. As employment experts, it is up. View Article. 5 Ways to Encourage Career Progression as a Recruiter Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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Is Your Recruitment Agency Ready For Growth? [Quiz]

FireFish Software

It's easy to think that just because the recruitment industry is thriving, your agency needs to grow in order to stay competitive. But this certainly isn't always the case, and pushing for growth when you're not ready can have serious long-term consequences for your business. Take this one-minute quiz to assess whether your agency is ready for its next growth phase - ask yourself these important questions now and it could save you a whole lot of time and money in the long run!