Sat.Nov 24, 2018 - Fri.Nov 30, 2018

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How to Hire for Soft Skills

Indeed

Whether you’re a busy recruiter or a hiring manager, bringing on the right people takes creativity, resourcefulness and (sometimes) a little luck. Candidates may have their hard skills locked, but what about things like team spirit, or conflict resolution? Work, at its core, is a social endeavor. Most of us have to interact with colleagues, clients or customers.

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We need to be honest about what we need from new hires

Recruiting Daily

I realize that job role is often unclear at most companies, and the hiring process is usually fairly broken, but I think it would make sense if we were a bit more honest about what exactly we expect from new hires. Let me root some of this in research A couple of important things to know at […].

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How to Achieve Holiday Recruiting Success

ClearCompany Recruiting

Every holiday season, companies increase their staff in order to accommodate the increase in traffic. The quality of the experience that companies provide to job seekers can affect the success or failure of the hiring process. The candidate experience can make or break your recruiting process and is the key to standing apart from your competition during this holiday season. 73% of candidates say the job search process causes them the most stress.

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Recruitment Ideas: Tips and Tricks For A Competitive Job Market

Talent Hero Media

Table of Contents General Recruitment Ideas Recruitment Ideas for Tech Recruitment Ideas for Low Skilled Workers In a booming economy, filling open jobs requires the. The post Recruitment Ideas: Tips and Tricks For A Competitive Job Market appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Using Email to Boost Your Event Attendance: RallyFwd Sneak Peek

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Getting recruiting events right isn’t easy. One challenge that many Talent Acquisition teams have upfront is ensuring that the right quantity and quality of candidates shows up to their events. At our second RallyFwd Virtual Conference (happening in just a few days’ time!), Derek Murphy-Johnson, Talent Acquisition Manager at KinderCare , will share how his organization leverages email marketing to improve the ROI on their recruiting events.

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How to Enhance Your Candidate Experience During Seasonal Hiring

ClearCompany Recruiting

With the year winding down and the holidays right around the corner, businesses are ramping up their hiring for the holiday season. As consumer spending and hiring expectations increase, employers are faced with the challenge of meeting the demands of staffing goals, while trying to actively recruit top candidates to fulfill the needs of the company.

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Employer Branding Strategy: 5 Lessons from The Muse

Lever

Your employer branding strategy is important. Seventy five percent of candidates research a company and their employer brand before applying for a job, and 69 percent would not accept a job at a company with a bad reputation. Perhaps that’s why 83 percent of employers agree that employer branding plays a significant role in their ability to hire talent.

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Why Programmatic Advertising is the Next Frontier in Recruitment Marketing: RallyFwd Sneak Peek

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Programmatic advertising is an incredibly powerful tool for Recruitment Marketers to leverage to get in front of their candidates. While our peers in marketing have been using programmatic ads for years to reach their audiences, most of us in Talent Acquisition are not using this technology – yet! In case you’re wondering what programmatic advertising is, here’s a quick definition for you: Programmatic advertising is a type of media purchase where computers use the data from your past and

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Women, It's Time to Take Control

Entrepreneur

You are a smart, talented leader. Unleash your power.

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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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Q&A: Meet Lead Consultant James Ellis!

Proactive Talent

We want to introduce you to James Ellis, our Lead Employer Branding Consultant and one of the newest members of the Proactive Talent tribe! James is based in Chicago and came onboard with us in September. We did a quick Q&A session with him so you can get to know him a little bit and understand what he brings to the table for Proactive Talent and our clients. 1.

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3 Ways to Forecast For Executives

Lever

No matter what stage of your career, forecasting for executives can be a daunting task. What data should you show them and how will you prove the value of all those smart recruiting tools you invested in this year?

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Social Recruiting in 2019: Are You Ready? RallyFwd Sneak Peek

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Social Recruiting has been around for awhile now – but are you using your social channels as effectively as you could be? As social media platforms continue to evolve and candidate expectations shift, we need to optimize our approach to remain topical and attractive to talent. At RallyFwd Virtual Conference on December 5, our expert speaker Eric Clemons, Senior Manager of Employment Brand Strategies at U.S.

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25 Lessons Business School Won't Ever Teach You

Entrepreneur

The school of hard knocks is where the unforgettable lessons are learned.

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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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3 Ways to Close the Widening Gender Pay Gap

JazzHR

Some may find it hard to believe that in this day and age, women are still being paid less than men. But unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie. On average, women in the United States are paid 20 percent less than their male counterparts. This leads to the typical American woman being unjustly denied roughly $400,000 over the course of her career.

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The 6 Point Recruiter Checklist for Faster Time to Hire

SmartRecruiters

In a recent study of 30,000 hires, we found exactly where the most time is wasted in hiring… and this is how you’re going to get the lead out. It likely comes as no surprise that ‘interviewing’ is the longest stage of the hiring process, taking almost half of the total time to hire, according to our recent study of 30,000 hires from multiple industries, disciplines, and countries.

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Executive Interview Questions

Lever

When hiring senior leaders or executives (CEO, CMO, CFO, COO, VPs and more) your interview should focus on strategic, leadership, and management-level interview questions.

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Some of the Best Business Lessons I've Learned, I've Learned From the Saddle

Entrepreneur

This Walmart tech executive shares his passion for mountain biking, and what it's taught him.

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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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The How-To on Rolling Out New Benefits Packages

JazzHR

Employees should take an active interest in the benefits they’re entitled to, but not all of them actually do. Finding out what they want, getting them to sign up and keeping them engaged throughout the entire process can take some prodding. But the push and pull can be worth the hassle. A Glassdoor survey from 2015 found that 79 percent of employees over the age of 18 said they would prefer a new benefit to a pay increase, meaning that the proper implementation of a new suite of benefits

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Include These 3 Points in Your Job Ads to Increase Application Rates

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! Three Points You Must Include in Your Job Ads.

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5 Tried-and-True Methods for Sourcing Passive Candidates

Glassdoor for Employers

There’s no way around it — the perfect job candidate is often already employed. These candidates, often referred to as passive candidates, present a unique set of challenges for the modern recruiter — after all, someone who is happy in their current role doesn’t typically submit applications to open positions or respond to recruiter outreach. But pursuing passive candidates is worth the additional effort.

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8 Things We Learned After Applying for 1000+ Online Jobs, and What Recruiters Need to Know

SmartRecruiters

These are the glitches that are killing your candidate experience, and here’s what you can do to it fix now! For 70 percent of candidates , the path to a new job starts on Google with a casual keyword search. A candidate wants to probe the market without committing too much time or effort; in fact, 60 percent of online applications are abandoned because they are too complicated or lengthy.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Hiring Manager Satisfaction Survey Questions

Survale

A great way to optimize recruiting is to measure hiring manager satisfaction using proper hiring manager satisfaction survey questions. I glossed over these questions in a recent article so I wanted to go a bit deeper now. I don’t like to throw out this kind of strategic content without providing context in terms of the who, what, where, why and when.

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Contacting Recruiters – It’s hard, eh?

The Whiteboard

In 1999 I had my first real crush. I memorised his home phone number and we took turns calling each other each day after school. I would sweat so much about running out of things to say that I wrote lists of potential conversation topics, and at any hint of an awkward silence would scramble to The List and rejuvenate things. At some point one of our parents would need to use the internet, so we’d huff and hang up and sulk around while they waited seven years for the dial-up to connect.

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How Anyone Can Create A Great Employer Branding Video

Spark Hire

Every day, video becomes more ingrained in our lives. You use video chats to catch up with friends and family. You watch videos online for entertainment. You learn new skills by watching how-to videos. Yet many hiring professionals are still not including videos in their employer branding efforts. This is unfortunate considering how much video can improve your employer brand.

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LinkedIn Video Dos and Don'ts for Recruiters

FireFish Software

You can’t scroll through your LinkedIn feed nowadays without being bombarded with tonnes of videos on autoplay. But there’s a reason for this – LinkedIn videos work. Every time I publish a new video on LinkedIn, I learn something valuable about what works and what doesn’t. So, I thought I’d share some dos and don’ts based on what I’ve been learning recently through trial and error.

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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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Ireland May Be On Course For A Recruitment Crisis

Social Talent

At SocialTalent, we know that recruitment news travels fast. With the hustle and bustle of working life, it can be hard to keep track of the latest news and trends in the world of hiring. That’s why every Friday we bring you the latest innovations, breakthroughs and big news in our industry. Google’s AI tool now blocking gender-based pronouns. Being at the forefront of the latest in AI technologies is an integral part of Google’s mission, and the company has set itself apart from competitors in

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Scents That Will Help Boost Productivity

Undercover Recruiter

Many people don’t realize what a powerful tool aromatherapy can be. Scents are tied directly to the part of the brain that is linked to memory and emotion, so scents can influence both. This can work very well in the business world, influencing employees to work harder, retain more information or stay alert. In fact, View Article. Scents That Will Help Boost Productivity Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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'That Was Not Appropriate Behavior': NASA Roasted Elon Musk for Smoking Weed Live on the Internet

Entrepreneur

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's smoking weed on a livestreamed podcast in September "was not appropriate behavior," according to The Atlantic.

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