Ongig
MAY 3, 2019
Where should your “About Us” section go in a job posting? The start? The middle? The end? If you guessed the start, you’re not alone, but you might be in for a surprise about its effectiveness. An informal survey of job postings on Indeed, Glassdoor and Google for Jobs shows that 53.8% of employers start their postings with About Us.
Glassdoor for Employers
APRIL 29, 2019
Apprenticeships have been around since the Middle Ages. Back then, young laborers seeking to gain entry into a craft guild spent time training under expert guidance. Since the early 20th century, apprenticeships have been on the decline — and they aren’t exactly roaring back into public consciousness. But apprenticeship programs might just be the perfect solution to the labor shortage threatening to upend the American technology and manufacturing industries.
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ClearCompany Recruiting
APRIL 29, 2019
Organizations are looking towards HR to help better manage their employees. Today, the key to having self-motivated employees is effective coaching. Coaching Strategies for Performance Improvement. By combining the two main aspects of coaching, feedback and goal setting, employees are presented a concrete roadmap of performance initiatives that they want to achieve, along with developmental training on how they can succeed throughout their role.
Greg Savage
APRIL 29, 2019
2018 was a great year for the recruitment agency industry in Australia and New Zealand. 95% of recruitment agencies reporting to Staffing Industry Metrics made profits in 2018, leaving just 5% of firms trading at a loss, the lowest and best result in 7 years. Of the 95% of recruitment agencies which made a profit […].
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.
ExactHire Recruiting
APRIL 30, 2019
How often have you progressed through the hiring process and ultimately realized that your final two candidates were almost evenly matched–one just slightly nudged out the other for the gold medal employment offer? While it’s great to be in that kind of position as the employer, it can be tough to turn down a talented second choice candidate. However, these “silver medal candidates” pose a significant opportunity for your company and great care should be taken to continuously engage them.
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ClearCompany Recruiting
MAY 3, 2019
HR technology has continued to make appearances in the manufacturing industry from recent years. Employees play a vital role in operations and the overall success of the industry, so it’s important to keep them wanting to come back to your workplace, and focusing on their engagement will do just that. Not only do engaged employees outperform those that aren’t by 202%, but they are happier and want to see their contributions benefit the company's long-term goals.
JazzHR
APRIL 29, 2019
While there’s nothing wrong with having high standards and a tough barrier for entry, no company should want to make life difficult for the individuals who are applying to work there. A CareerBuilder survey found that 42% of job seekers who have a bad candidate experience at a company say they would never apply there again, and 22% say they would tell other candidates not to work there.
ExactHire Recruiting
APRIL 30, 2019
How often have you progressed through the hiring process and ultimately realized that your final two candidates were almost evenly matched–one just slightly nudged out the other for the gold medal employment offer? While it’s great to be in that kind of position as the employer, it can be tough to turn down a talented second choice candidate. However, these “silver medal candidates” pose a significant opportunity for your company and great care should be taken to continuously engage them.
Katrina Kibben
APRIL 30, 2019
By day, we’re told that “people are our greatest asset.” At night, we nod, we smile, we cry at home. What does it "greatest asset" mean anyway? The post Your Greatest Asset: What Does That Even Mean? appeared first on Katrina Kibben.
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Indeed
APRIL 30, 2019
Generations are a funny thing and a concept that we have yet to define in concrete terms. No, seriously. By most accounts, it means something nebulous like “ all of the people born and living at about the same time, taken collectively.” Doesn’t exactly give you a lot to work with, and yet, when millennials rolled into the workforce, the whole corporate world reacted with surprise (to say the least): “Who are these people, and what are we supposed to do with them?”.
JazzHR
MAY 2, 2019
With summer around the corner, a new group of college graduates will be looking to join the workforce. Here are four tips for making informed hiring decisions: 1. Talk to local professors. If your company is facing a skills gap and your hiring team is looking for educated candidates, consider reaching out to local professors. You can ask them if they know of any students that have shown strong work ethic and topical knowledge related to your industry.
Glassdoor for Employers
APRIL 29, 2019
It’s better to be a job seeker right now than an employer looking to fill a job opening. At least that’s what any reasonable person would surmise from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ’ report that the number of unemployed persons per job opening was 0.9 in January 2019 compared to 6.4 at the peak of the recession in July 2009. If you’ve been trying to hire people recently, you didn’t need to see those stats because you feel the change.
Spark Hire
APRIL 30, 2019
Communication skills are always in-demand, but since the ways we communicate change, recruiters aren’t always looking for the same old skills from candidates. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew what the next hot skill is going to be? To get you ahead of the game, we asked recruiting experts about the most important communication trends impacting the workplace in the near future.
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Katrina Kibben
MAY 2, 2019
Here's the reality. Job post word count is all about candidate attention. You need to get it and keep it long enough to convince them to apply. The post How long should your job post be? appeared first on Katrina Kibben.
RecruitLoop
MAY 2, 2019
Do you often wonder why some hires work well, and others don't? In this post, our guest author Chathurika Kahavita suggests some reasons why you may find yourself struggling to find the right candidate and proposes helpful ways to fix the problem!
Glassdoor for Employers
MAY 1, 2019
Two decades of experience have taught Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Adam Fitzer that one size does not fit all when interviewing candidates. However, certain key questions will help set the right Q&A course. Fitzer, who works for West Monroe Partners in greater New York City, draws on his deep recruiting experience — primarily in technology and consulting — to construct certain “base questions” that lay out the direction for further probing and follow-up.
Crelate
MAY 1, 2019
Marketing automation is blowing up right now. Growing at a rate of 30%+ annually , businesses are beginning to see the potential of what marketing automation can do for them. Marketing automation is the process in which software tracks the user throughout their buyer journey and implements certain actions along the way. These actions help to improve lead generation, relationship marketing, segmentation, scheduling and tracking of clicks and engagement with your brand.
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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.
TalentLyft
APRIL 28, 2019
Learn how to attract top talent with great recruitment videos ! Video is one of the best ways of selling a company to prospective employees. Find out more about how to create a top-quality recruitment video in this infographic guide. Read More.
NPA Worldwide
APRIL 30, 2019
We had some terrific speakers at our recent Global Conference in Long Beach, California. Scott Wintrip , Mark Tortorici , and Jenifer Lambert all delivered top-notch tips and advice and were well-received by our members. I walked away with several “a-ha” moments from each speaker, but something Jenifer said really spoke to me. Jenifer is the chief revenue officer for TERRA Staffing Group, a large organization in the US Pacific Northwest.
Glassdoor for Employers
APRIL 30, 2019
As HR pros or hiring managers, you have your tried-and-tested resources for understanding the job market: which companies are on a hiring spree, what is the going base salary for software engineers, which cities are home to the best talent. However, many of these resources ( cough, cough BLS) are pulling months-old data and painting a picture that isn’t as up to date as it can be. …until now.
TalentCulture - Recruiting
MAY 2, 2019
Joe Milner, the talent acquisition manager at educational publishing and assessment giant Pearson, was at a campus event in Northern California when a company executive broached the idea of bringing in some of the promising students to the company’s primary locations in other states for interviews. “We started to do the math on airfare, hotels, all that stuff, and it starts getting expensive,” Milner says.
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Undercover Recruiter
APRIL 27, 2019
Enticing people to apply for your jobs seems like it should be a straightforward task. They want a new job, you’re offering them one that seems to be a good fit, but sometimes the applications just don’t roll in. That’s because anyone who has been through the process of applying for jobs has been burnt. View Article. The Top Reasons People Aren’t Applying for Jobs Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.
Spark Hire
MAY 2, 2019
You’ve been waiting for the perfect candidate for your open position. But none of the usual industry job boards or talent sources have panned out. Then, out of nowhere, you come across someone who’d be fantastic in the role. There’s just one problem: all their experience is in a different industry. As a recruiter, you know candidates from various fields can succeed in roles at your company.
FireFish Software
MAY 2, 2019
It’s easier than it’s ever been to set up shop as a new recruitment agency, but the downside of this is. everyone’s doing it! So, what can you do to stand out from the crowd as a strong competitor if your brand is new to the recruitment market and relatively unknown? Here are 6 tactics that will take your recruitment brand from zero to hero in no time.
TalentCulture - Recruiting
MAY 3, 2019
This episode is especially exciting for me. I love all of my guests, but it isn’t every day that I have one of my BFFs on the program. So I’m really pumped to have China Gorman back on #WorkTrends this week. Among her many jobs, Gorman is managing director of UNLEASH’s U.S. operations, and this week she gave us a special sneak peek at UNLEASH America, which will be May 14-15 in Las Vegas.
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SmartSearch
MAY 1, 2019
“Ultimately, recruiting and hiring data can be correlated with business outcomes, such as increased revenue, which positions talent acquisition as a strategic function in the business.” ~Ji-A Min, Head Data scientist, Ideal Candidate. SHRM Hawaii members gathered on April 30 for a presentation by Scott Ferrin , SHRM-SCP, CAE, PMP, and Field Services Director for the SHRM National Western District to learn about the Key Elements of an Effective Talent Acquisition Strategy.
Undercover Recruiter
APRIL 30, 2019
Businesses spend a lot of money hiring, onboarding, and training new employees. It’s a substantial investment of time and finances for the company. Each time an organization hires a new employee, it costs them thousands of dollars. With such a large investment, what happens when the new hires are underperforming or not meeting business expectations?
FireFish Software
APRIL 30, 2019
Have you ever had a situation where you’re making really positive progress with a prospect, you’ve had some great conversations and already sent out your terms, only for them to suddenly stop taking your calls and start ignoring your emails? Prospects go dark all the time in recruitment, and it can be really frustrating when it happens to you – particularly when you’ve invested a lot of time and effort in the relationship.
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