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Do’s and Don’ts for an Effective Coding Challenge

Lever

Recruiting software engineers is challenging. Those that are exceptional are in short supply, and don’t immediately stand out among the rest. Many organizations include a coding challenge in their interview process to identify the best candidates, but oftentimes come up with a false positive. To get the most out of your coding challenge, follow these do’s and don’ts.

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How to Hire and Retain Top Tech Talent

JazzHR

How focusing on clear goals, customer needs, and iteration toward innovation can help you attract top technology talent. As a product manager, I have had the chance to work with a cross-section of the entire Jazz team. While there is no substitute for meeting directly with customers to understand how we can solve their recruiting challenges, I have been able to learn a great deal about our customers by interacting with folks from our design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams.

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Jobseekers Swipe Right

The Whiteboard

There’s been a lot of interesting stuff shared by commentators from our recruitment community this week but something that really stood out for me was the article shared by Mark Sumner revealing SEEK’s large investment in the so-called “Tinder for Jobs” app Switch. Just like the prefix “Uber for…” denotes something with the potential to radically disrupt (but rarely actually does), so the prefix “Tinder for…” seems to denote something t

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5 Critical Steps to Effective Recruitment Marketing

Recruitics

Recruitics is an analytics and automation platform that makes it easy for companies to achieve amazing results from their recruitment marketing strategy. We work with the nation’s largest corporations, staffing companies, and job boards to drive more applicants to their online job postings, hire great talent, and meet their recruitment goals. To learn more about how to optimize your recruitment marketing campaigns, please contact a member of our team.

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The Secret to Navigating Employment Compliance in 2025

Speaker: Speakers

The employment compliance landscape is evolving fast, and staying on top of the latest regulatory changes can feel overwhelming. With so much conflicting information out there, how can you be sure you're covering all your bases? Join Kimberly Best-Robideaux, a top immigration attorney with 20+ years of experience, and Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright, for an expert-led webinar to help you move beyond the headlines and break down key insights about evolving regulations.

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The 10 Golden Rules for Using the Phone to Contact Candidates

Social Talent

When was the last time you picked up the phone and called a friend to ask when they’re free to meet for coffee? Chances are you probably sent them a text or WhatsApp message instead, right? Isn’t it ironic that the amount of time we spend actually talking on the phone is minuscule in comparison to the time we spend using all other phone features?!

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6 Ways to Hire the Talent You Need to Scale Quickly

Entrepreneur

Your product is not innovative; it's the people behind it who are. Here's how to build an innovative organization by scaling with the best employees.

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How to Create an Employer Brand From Scratch

Glassdoor for Employers

“Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room,” said Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

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Can Social Recruiting Work for Your Office Space? (Infographic)

Social Talent

A full 94% of professional recruiters use social media to attract talent, and 59% of employees say a company’s social media presence was part of the reason they chose their workplace. Clearly, there are plenty of good things about social recruiting. But there’s room for error as well. Get the facts about social recruiting, and see what happens when the world’s worst boss (Bill Lumbergh from Office Space) tries to make use of it.

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Recruitics Announces End-to-End Recruitment Marketing Analytics

Recruitics

Recruitics Analytics™ now enables employers to track the effectiveness of their advertising ROI to the cost-per-hire. NEW YORK, NEW YORK–Recruitics, a leading recruitment marketing analytics and automation platform, will be exhibiting and showcasing the latest iteration of Recruitics Analytics™, including the integration of end-to-end recruitment metrics, at Bullhorn Engage in Boston on June 8-10.

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Revolutionizing Hiring: Remote-Insourcing That Slashes Turnover & Training Costs!

What is Remote-Insourcing? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Not anymore. Remote-Insourcing isn’t outsourcing—it’s a revolutionary staffing model that lets our clients fill key entry-level positions with top-tier, loyal, long-term talent, integrated seamlessly into their businesses—just like local employees but without the turnover or W2 HR hassles. With under 3% unwanted attrition, you train once and keep the same team for years.

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5 Ways To Hire Like Google

Hoops

Unsurprisingly, many companies attempt to emulate Google’s business practices, and for good reason. As one of the most successful companies of the past decade, the tech giant is a leader in rethinking existing systems, resulting in disruptive change in a variety of areas beyond its core business. A prime example is the way Google hires. Google has very effective tools it uses to ascertain which hiring practices work, and which don't.

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Evaluate candidates with a pre-employment assessment process

Workable

In your hiring process, it’s important to accurately gauge the skill level of your candidates as it pertains to their ability to do their job. Assessing these skills can take a wide variety of forms. You may ask candidates for a writing sample, a project, or a presentation. For jobs with an easily quantifiable skill-set, you may ask your candidates to complete a skills assessment , or standardized test to objectively gauge their competency.

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7 Incredibly Intriguing Recruitment News Stories this Week – 6th June 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: Say “Goodbye” to SimplyHired. Simply Hired, the job search engine with over 30 million users across 24 countries in 12 different languages, is set to close for business on 26 June. The following email was sent to partners on Friday, May 27th: Although not much else is known about the site’s demise beyond the date it will cease trading, reports from TechCrunch and ERE say “pieces of the company/technology will be acquired”.

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3 ways to develop a winning diversity workforce strategy

Allegis Global Solutions

How can you unlock the benefits of a diverse workforce?

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The Great Disruption: Leveraging AI To Better Your Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Joana Ardelean, MSHRM, PHR, SHRM-CP, CC

The benefits landscape is shifting rapidly, and AI is at the center of this transformation. From optimizing health and wellness programs to predicting future benefits needs, AI is empowering HR and total rewards leaders to make smarter, more proactive decisions. The challenge? Understanding where AI fits in your strategy and how to leverage it effectively while keeping employee well-being at the forefront.

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5 Ways To Hire Like Google

Hoops

Unsurprisingly, many companies attempt to emulate Google’s business practices, and for good reason. As one of the most successful companies of the past decade, the tech giant is a leader in rethinking existing systems, resulting in disruptive change in a variety of areas beyond its core business. A prime example is the way Google hires. Google has very effective tools it uses to ascertain which hiring practices work, and which don't.

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This Is How You Add Personality To Your Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Whether you realize it or not, your company has a personality all its own. Your employees, values, and company culture all contribute to what makes your organization special. But does your hiring process let that uniqueness shine through? A 2015 LinkedIn survey found that 83 percent of job seekers would change their mind about a company after having a bad interview experience.

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A Glossary for Tech Recruiters: Part 2

Social Talent

A couple of weeks ago, we shared ‘A Glossary for Tech Recruiters: Part 1 ‘ Well, our friends over at Relocate Me have gone and done it again, creating another glossary that’s full to the brim with tech terms and their meanings. They went through over 300 resumes from Software Engineers with a fine-tooth comb to compile this whopper list.

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Choosing an Applicant Tracking System to Promote OFCCP/EEO Compliance

Newton Software

Play it Safe – Choose an ATS with Best-In-Class Compliance Functionality. As you go through the process of choosing an applicant tracking system, one factor that you must consider is compliance. Although compliance features may not have the same appeal as social recruiting , mobile functionalities or interview scheduling , they are of equal, if not greater, importance.

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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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How to Measure Your Employment Brand

Glassdoor for Employers

Employer branding has become top of mind for many organizations looking to attract and build trust with quality candidates, increase retention rates.

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Want To End The Wage Gap? You Need To Do These 5 Things

Spark Hire

The cat’s out of the bag: it’s 2016 and there’s still a wage gap between the genders. A recent survey from Glassdoor found that before adjusting for factors like age and occupation, women on average only make 75.9 cents for every dollar a man makes. When you account for employees’ industries, education level, etc., men still make 5.4 percent more than their female equals.

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The Road to Becoming an All-Star Tech Recruiter (FREE Download)

Social Talent

Do you feel a mild sense of anxiety when you have to talk to tech professionals on the phone? When a Hiring Manager uses terms like ‘DevOps’, ‘AngularJS’ and ‘Node’ do you nod and smile, but inside you’re really just scratching your head? We know that tech candidates are some of the most sought-after professionals in the world, but the reality is that recruiters aren’t historically drawn from a technical background.

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Recruiting Secrets LinkedIn Probably Doesn’t Want You to Know

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ninh Tran from Hiretual. His opinions are his own. Recruiting and job seeking have become significantly more challenging as offers are given out only to candidates who meet all requirements without fail. Sahat Yalkabov, a software engineer at Yahoo, was rejected multiple times and Read More.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Recruitment and big data – match made in heaven?

RecruitmentJuice

Recruitment was never an industry to shy away from new technological advancements and tools that would help people do a better job. In fact, you might say that as far as the business world goes, recruiters and other people from the industry have traditionally been among the first to adopt new technologies and aids that made them more efficient and successful.

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This Is How You Make Working With Recruiters Easier

Entrepreneur

What to do when a recruiter may see a job candidate as a perfect fit but the hiring manager views them as a bad choice?

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5 Reasons to Use SMS to Reach Candidates

FireFish Software

From social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and even Snapchat, to telephone calls, and of course email, it seems like there’s a never ending list of ways to reach candidates.

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New features for mobile recruiting!

Workable

To recap, we created Workable mobile for a couple of very important reasons: Time is of the essence. Being out of the office for a day, or even just a few hours, can be enough to lose a great candidate. By accessing Workable on your smartphone you have all the information you need to get moving with a good candidate from wherever you are. Get back in touch on time and ensure the candidate experience is everything that it should be.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Newton Enhances ATS Security with DKIM and DMARC Email Delivery Capability

Newton Software

Don’t Be Phish Food – Newton Enhances ATS Security to Protect Against Phishing. Take a moment to think about the magnitude of email in your day-to-day work. There may not be a single thing as important or more heavily utilized in the business world. From corresponding with co-workers, to coordinating with business partners, to reaching out to and negotiating with vendors, suppliers and customers, there is an endless flow of business logistics and confidential information trickling through

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Leave a Lasting Impression On Candidates

CareerBuilder

The old mentality of creating a long and alienating application process to weed out unqualified candidates is just that – old. It’s stopping candidates who could be a great fit for your company from giving you the time of day, and it’s showing in your time-to-hire: On average, companies say it takes anywhere from 26-34 days to fill an open position, according to CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior Study.

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Let's Get Realistic With Your Numbers

FireFish Software

Recruiters are often an optimistic bunch. They predict future sales with absolute certainty, but these deals don’t always pan out. This can lead to some uncomfortable conversations with managers in order to achieve what was forecasted. Now, at the half way point of the year, it’s important to take stock. You need to look at your numbers and honestly evaluate how likely you are to achieve your predictions.

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