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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 Text Recruiting Can Boost Your Candidate Flow: RallyFwd Sneak Peek

Rally Recruitment Marketing

As Recruitment Marketers, it’s our job to create strategy and content that drives candidates to take a desired action. Text recruiting can be a great way to influence candidates to take typical recruiting actions, like applying for jobs, joining your talent network or attending an upcoming recruiting event. At our upcoming RallyFwd Virtual Conference (happening December 5!

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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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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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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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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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Top-Level Customer Service: The ClearCompany Way

ClearCompany Recruiting

Great customer service is crucial for your company to retain customers, build your reputation and continue to grow. The service experience begins at the initial purchase but offers opportunities for engagement and growth throughout the customer’s lifecycle. Customer service is more than just providing answers to customers’ issues or questions, it’s an important part of the commitment you make to each of your customers.

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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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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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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today!

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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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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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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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Five FREE Recruitment Resources To Tap Into Today

Social Talent

The recruitment industry changes, changes, and then changes again. Each week there is a hot new tool or resources that all the cool kids seem to be using, so it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by all the help that’s available. At SocialTalent, we’re all about getting the most out of our work day at the least expense of time and money. We’ve gathered together five of the best free resources for recruiters so that you can start working smarter and reaching your goals.

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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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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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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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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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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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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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3 Top Companies’ Strategies for Hiring & Retaining Women in STEM

Glassdoor for Employers

Candidates with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) backgrounds are among the most sought out today, as companies aim to fill highly specialized technical positions. But in attracting these candidates, many companies struggle to achieve a gender balance — an imperative today given that diverse, inclusive workplaces generate more productivity and revenue.

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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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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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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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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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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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HR Check! Here’s How You Lose The Best Candidates

Social Talent

The battle for talent is never straightforward. This is especially the case if your allowing talent to slip through the cracks. If you’re working in HR, it’s up to you to ensure that a proper procedure is put in place. Without one, you could see a serious decline in your talent pool. Usually, the leaky bucket can be due to HR or Hiring Manager negligence.

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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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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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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Improving Your Pre-Interview Process

Newton Software

To improve the effectiveness of your company’s hiring initiatives, every stage of the recruitment process must be examined and analyzed to see where improvements can be made. One of the most overlooked stages is the pre-interview process. While a great deal of energy is often dedicated to ensuring that the in-person interview goes smoothly, the pre-interview process is just as important to make sure you hire the best candidate possible.

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Why You Need to Examine Your Onboaring Strategy NOW

Social Talent

As a recruiter, you’re well versed in the art of dealing with different people with different motivations. You know what makes people tick and you understand how you can influence decisions. It’s safe to say you need that personal touch to be a skilled recruiter. In order for a company to have a successful and robust hiring process, it’s vital that every stage of the process is examined and perfected.

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Top Three Recruiting Trends for Staffing Success in 2019

Avionte

The staffing and recruiting industry is changing so quickly. If you’re not keeping up with the latest industry developments, you’re missing key opportunities to advance your business. Here’s what’s trending and how you could implement them into your staffing firm. 1. Interviewing via Texting – Looking for ways to work faster and hire better in this candidate-led market?