Sat.Jul 15, 2017 - Fri.Jul 21, 2017

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Smarter KPI’s for Temp & Contract Recruiters

Greg Savage

So, last blog we deconstructed crappy perm recruiter KPIs and rebuilt them with a good old ‘backwards plan’. I called for a show of support from Savage Truth readers interested in a temp/contract backwards plan, and it came in the form of over 60 requests for the plan in the comments section of last week’s blog. […].

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Stop Sabotaging Your New Hire! Try These Bold Onboarding Ideas

ClearCompany Recruiting

While the employee onboarding process should instill confidence in new hires, it goes beyond warm fuzzies. You and your team are preparing the new employee for the reality of the job. Give them the wrong idea about your company or their position, and you will see a quickly exiting or disengaged hire. Aside from the critical steps of the employee onboarding process , your team should be using your company culture and values to inspire a unique experience.

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Ask the Sourcing Squad: Your Favorite Sourcing Tools

Lever

89% of business leaders believe sourcing is important, yet only 37% of business leaders are actually effective at doing so. Sourcing is clearly a critical recruiting tactic, but it’s almost universally difficult to leverage as a strength.

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Australian 457 Visa Reform an Opportunity for NZ Recruiters

The Whiteboard

I remember moving to Australia back in 2005, looking forward to starting afresh after five full-on years of London living, to meeting, mixing and mingling in a new culture. Scratching around for a meaningful job I accidentally ended up securing a role in recruitment. I wasn’t entirely sure why Hays seemed so convinced I’d make a good recruiter, but after my first couple of days at work I realised: I was pretty much a blueprint for what used to work for them back then.

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Balancing Cost and Care: 3 Key Considerations for Cost Optimization in 2024

Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.

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5 Real Reasons Outsourcing Your Recruitment Process Fails

Social Talent

First things first, at SocialTalent we’re all about investing in talent. We love making good people great. We’ve helped businesses all over the world train the recruitment teams that make the world’s most successful companies succeed. Tesla? Yep, we help them! Oracle, sure thing! Intel, you can bet there are some talented sourcing Ninjas in there!

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Support Recruiting, HR, and Finance with Flexible Job Postings and Requisitions in Lever

Lever

It takes a great amount of work across many teams and stakeholders to make a hire, and it’s critical for your applicant tracking system to support the unique needs of each and every one of them – from Recruiting to HR and even Finance.

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Using Microsites to Enhance Your Employer Brand

Proactive Talent

When developing your employer brand strategy, you’ll hear many terms thrown around such as social media optimization, content curation, and brand engagement. One term you may be less familiar with though is microsites. Microsites are essentially what they sound like, small websites that can exist within or separate from a broader site URL, in this case being a company career site, used to communicate specific messages.

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Is Values-Based Leadership Right for Your Company?

JazzHR

To be truly successful, some organizations believe that they must adopt core values that support their mission and vision, shape their culture, and embody their identity. Typically, those values — whether they are to be environmentally friendly, socially responsible, philanthropic, or anything else — will help articulate what the companies are all about, what they do, how they do it, and why.

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5 Onboarding Best Practices to Apply to Your Evolving Workforce

ClearCompany Recruiting

First impressions are important, and many new hires are using those first few days on a job to decide just how interested they are in remaining employed within the organization. In fact, some employees consider the candidate experience and time between the offer letter and first day as an important indicator to how all of their employment might go. That’s why a quality onboarding program is so pivotal.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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Recruitment Roundup: Videogames and Pay as You Go Population

Social Talent

Press Start To Continue Employment. We’re used to hearing all the usual reasons for unemployment like lack of education and companies deciding to outsourc e more. But now there’s a news threat to consider- video games. According to research, more and more young men are prolonging unemployment due to video games. Source: BloombergView.

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Using Microsites to Enhance Your Employer Brand

Proactive Talent

When developing your employer brand strategy, you’ll hear many terms thrown around such as social media optimization, content curation, and brand engagement. One term you may be less familiar with though is microsites. Microsites are essentially what they sound like, small websites that can exist within or separate from a broader site URL, in this case being a company career site, used to communicate specific messages.

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10 steps to hire more women in tech

Devskiller

As Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO says , “A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.” That’s especially significant in tech companies who aim to drive innovation.That said, women remain underrepresented in tech positions both in startups, SMEs and corporations globally. In this post, we present the 10 steps you need to take to hire more women in tech.

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How Shopify Scales Their Team to Hire for Culture Add

Glassdoor for Employers

There’s a somewhat cynical, commonly held view that a startup is bound to ruin its culture once it gets to a certain size. Shopify’s not a 50-person company anymore, but our growth remains fast and steady.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Talent Watch: Amazon Continue Impressive Surge In Hiring with ‘Geek Squad’

Social Talent

Industry leaders, Amazon, have placed their faith in the importance of hiring top talent. Attracting the best talent is number one priority for any company, and Amazon have done just that it seems. The e-commerce giant is once again pushing technological boundaries in their search for smarter ways of working. As a result, the ‘Geek Squad’ was born.

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Customer Spotlight: 5 Tools Making Life Easier for Pet Care Business Owners

Hireology

This is a guest post from Hireology client Cara Armour, founder of Boston-based Active Paws. Cara has more than a decade of pet sitting experience, winning Pet Sitter of the Year in 2009. Below, Cara highlights several tools that help her pet sitting business run smoothly. Read more insights from Cara’s 13+ of professional pet services experience here.

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Cover Letters: Why They’re Useful and How to Read Between the Lines

AkkenCloud

While there has been healthy debate as to whether or not cover letters are expected, they are still arguably a key piece of applying for a job since they allow applicants to introduce themselves and their accomplishments. They also give applicants the opportunity to highlight specific “wins” that are pertinent to the position, but which may not be visible on their resume.

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5 Recruitment Marketing Trends You Need to Embrace

FireFish Software

Staying ahead of trends is important for recruitment marketers for obvious reasons. If you don’t stay ahead of the competition, then you’ll quickly get left behind. So, to help you remain competitive now and into the future, we’ve put together a list of 5 recruitment marketing trends you need to embrace….

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Winter Has Come: What GoT Characters Are In Your Office?

Social Talent

Yes, yes people. The time is finally upon us – Game of Thrones is back on our screens and winter has landed on our doorsteps. OH THE EXCITEMENT!! So, to get us back on the bandwagon and into the Game of Thrones Spirit, we’ve decided to dedicate our Friday blog to the show we love so dear. We’re matching some of the characteristics from our favourite GoT characters, with of the a few individuals you’d find hanging around your office.

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How to post job listings on the ‘Google for Jobs’ search engine

Workable

Google for Jobs is one of Google’s first dives into the recruiting space. This job search tool boosts the exposure of your job listings to help you attract more relevant candidates to your roles. Here’s how to get your jobs to show up on Google for Jobs search engine: What is Google for Jobs? Aimed at making the job search easier for candidates, Google for Jobs is an enhanced search feature that aggregates listings from job boards and careers sites and displays them prominently in Google Search.

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Talent as a Differentiator: Using Purpose in Your Employer Brand

Symphony Talent

In today’s talent acquisition landscape, people have more choices than ever for their next career opportunity. It’s not enough to simply have open jobs because, let’s face it, everyone. The post Talent as a Differentiator: Using Purpose in Your Employer Brand appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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5 Steps to Making the Best Business Case for Your New ATS

SmartRecruiters

Face it — when you ask for money for a new technology you need, you’re competing with others in your company equally passionate about their need. Don’t take it personally. That’s just business. To get funding, you’ve got to make an excellent business case. After all, in addition to competing with other projects, you need to overcome objections common to all funding requests — the perception of the real cost of making a change, and bias that it may not be worth the investment.

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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Benefits of a weekly 1-1 with your staff

RecruitmentJuice

As part of on-going performance management, the individual 1-1 coaching session is a staple element – so why do so many managers in the recruitment industry not rate them? I get mixed responses when communicating how these critical discussions can affect an individual’s performance. For those that see them in a positive light, not surprisingly, they had good experiences from their own 1-1’s with their manager.

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Simplify the Recruitment Process With Google Hire

Entrepreneur

Hire, a new recruiting app for small and mid-sized businesses, integrates with G Suite apps like Gmail and Google Calendar.

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10 Warning Signs of Unhappy Employees [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Prevention of loss due to employee dissatisfaction and disengagement requires being vigilant of the symptoms early on. As with common illnesses, the early detection of these symptoms can make a lot of difference.

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5 Reasons Why Employing a ‘Culture Add’ Benefits Your Business

Glassdoor for Employers

When an employee leaves a job after just a short period, one of the questions inevitably raised is whether they were a good cultural match for the business. The person in question might have an impressive CV and performed well in the interview – but it could soon become apparent that they do not share the company outlook or perhaps struggle to get along with colleagues.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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20 Small Employee Benefits That Make a BIG Difference

Social Talent

When you’re applying for a job do your eyes wander from the job description towards the benefits package being offered? I hope that I’m not alone? I am a firm believer that a company which rewards its staff accordingly, is a happier place to work. I’m not saying that every employer can offer a car allowance, store discount or iPad as not every business can afford these luxury benefits for their staff.

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5 Things You Should Never Say to a Developer

Stack Overflow

Communicating with developer candidates at each stage of the interview process can be tricky. As a recruiter, you walk a fine line between giving candidates what they want and identifying developers that your engineering managers are excited to hire. While you should avoid treading too lightly, you can bring a conversation with a developer to a screeching halt with a few subtle, but irritating words.

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Global Expansion – What to Expect & How to Prepare

NPA Worldwide

Today’s guest blogger is Tim Bell, Chief Revenue Officer at People 2.0 , a full-service Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company offering a best-in-class universal worker platform and complete Employer of Record platform for deployment of a global contingent workforce. People 2.0 is an NPAworldwide Alliance Partner. Deciding to expand business operations into another country is never done lightly, and the hard choices and requirements for careful planning continue once you enter your new

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