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Gender-blind hiring is BS. Here’s why so many companies are failing.

Recruiting Daily

Blind hiring aims to remove any and all identifying information (personal, demographic, etc.) from the recruiting process so that recruiters and hiring managers can evaluate candidates based on their abilities alone. Sounds good in theory, right? The reality of blind hiring is something different altogether. So much so that recruiters, as well as […].

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Gray Area: A Simple Framework for Winning with the Aging Workforce

Breezy HR

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Candidate Quality: How Your Job Description Helps You Get Closer to the Hire

Indeed

Do you ever look at your candidate list and wonder why some people thought the position you posted was a good fit for them? You’ve read through their background and are unable to connect the dots. Well, you’re not alone. Although finding a new hire can be time consuming, the process will be much faster if you set the appropriate expectations about your positions early on.

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How to Define Your Employee Value Proposition: The DIY Approach

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you want to take charge of your company’s Employer Brand, a good place to start is by defining your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Your EVP consists of the tangible and intangible rewards (i.e. the value) employees can expect in exchange for their time and effort working for your company. The EVP is all about understanding why your employees love working for your company.

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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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An unforgettable welcome for your new hire

Lever

At Lever, the moment a new hire signs an offer letter is the best part of our day. We have the same high bar for everyone who joins our 200+ person team, so whether we built a relationship with a candidate for months or we sped them through a whirlwind, week-long process, we’re never less than completely pumped at the prospect of welcoming a new member on board.

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Machine Learning and The Future of Hiring

Social Talent

The future of recruitment is inherently connected with the future of tech, and as advances are made in the world of machine learning it is important for those in the business of hiring to take notice. So, what is machine learning? How will it change the future of recruitment? And, why should you know about it? What is machine learning? Machine Learning is a vast and complex area of data science, impossible to surmise in a few sentences.

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Soft Marketing for Recruitment Marketers: What is it and What’s the ROI?

Rally Recruitment Marketing

In traditional marketing, we sometimes talk about hard versus soft marketing techniques. This isn’t a topic I’ve seen explored much from a Recruitment Marketing perspective, but I think it’s worth talking about because it can be easy for organizations to prioritize hard marketing approaches at the expense of soft marketing – but both are really important!

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How Foodstuffs Saved Over $1M in Agency Fees

Lever

Finding and hiring the right talent is tough enough these days. Add in the complexity of filling high volume retail roles alongside cutting edge corporate roles — from the top to the bottom of the country no less — and it gets a whole lot tougher.

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Global Employment Trends: How Hiring Models Are Evolving.

Allegis Global Solutions

Given the talent shortages across North America, and the EMEA and APAC regions, companies are feeling the pressure to improve their ability to secure the workforce they need, and employers will continue to engage talent solutions partners to better acquire and manage talent across all work models.

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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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9 Strategies to Attract More Women in Tech

Glassdoor for Employers

Hiring and retaining women to work in STEM fields presents a unique challenge for employers. Women constitute slightly more than half of college-educated workers, but make up only 25% of college-educated STEM workers.(1). However, employers who invest in hiring and retaining women in STEM careers can reap significant rewards. The World Economic Forum has projected that correcting gender segregation in employment and in entrepreneurship could increase aggregate productivity globally by as much as

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How to Shape Your Employee Value Proposition: The DIY Approach!

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you want to take charge of your company’s Employer Brand, a good place to start is by defining your Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Your EVP consists of the tangible and intangible rewards (i.e. the value) employees can expect in exchange for their time and effort working for your company. The EVP is all about understanding why your employees love working for your company.

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Maximizing Your Recruitment Marketing with Programmatic

Proactive Talent

Say you and your friend both own the exact same Dodge Ram pick-up truck, but one of you uses it to tow a boat to the lake and the other uses it for mostly inner-city commuting. You’re going to have drastically different MPGs, but it isn’t due to the vehicle, it’s because of the way it was driven. While you have the same vehicle (technology) the goals and objectives are much different (outcomes).

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2019 Recruiting Trend Predictions: Recruiting Feedback-Driven Hiring

Survale

So every year we see a crop of recruiting trend predictions coming from everywhere. Most are self-serving and this article is no different. The rise of recruiting feedback driven culture looms so large on the recruiting horizon that I can’t ignore the prediction, even though I am co-founder of the platform that is in large part enabling this trend. While it may be self-serving to predict that 2019 will be an inflection point for recruiting feedback-driven culture, I forward the prediction from a

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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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When the Perfect Candidate Turns Out To Be an Imperfect Fit

SimplyHired

The post When the Perfect Candidate Turns Out To Be an Imperfect Fit appeared first on Simply Hired Blog.

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3 Capabilities the Software Industry Needs, to Solve the Developer Talent Crunch

Entrepreneur

Today, we see more and more job descriptions for developers asking not only for test-driven experience but also behavior-driven design and development experience.

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How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog

RecruitmentJuice

Getting information out to consumers and finding leads is a challenging process. There are so many rules to follow for search engine optimization and keywords and content. It can be incredibly confusing. On top of all of that, you’re competing with hundreds if not thousands of other businesses online to have your voice heard and […]. The post How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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I Want It That Way: Personalizing Recruitment Automation Messages

Katrina Kibben

How do you personalize recruitment automation and make candidates feel something even when the machine is doing the talking? The post I Want It That Way: Personalizing Recruitment Automation Messages appeared first on Three Ears Media Blog.

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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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How to Build a High-Performance Recruitment Team for 2019

FireFish Software

The whole concept of what makes a ‘good’ recruiter, and what’s needed to create a high-performance recruitment team, has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years. Yet, as an industry we’re stuck in our ways: We still look to the same old sh*t KPIs, techniques and strategies when building our teams. But this needs to change if we want to continue getting the best out of our recruitment teams in 2019 and beyond.

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Building Your Brand Is How You Will Stand Out When Applying for a Job

Entrepreneur

That interview is far more likely to go well if the employer is eager to talk.

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Meaningful Engagement: Making Your One-on-Ones Matter

Indeed

One-on-one meetings can sometimes feel like trips to the doctor. Most people need them, and some of us dread them. But if you show up, share the necessary information and work together, your health will improve, and you’ll both be more meaningfully engaged in your well-being. Whether it’s in the doctor’s office or a one-on-one, the risks of not working together effectively can have serious consequences.

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Purpose over Paychecks: How to Cultivate Meaning and Attract Top Talent

RecruitmentJuice

As Studs Terkel said in his book Working (1974), “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.” If you were able to find a job that offered meaning, purpose and reward, would you be willing to take a pay cut? According to recent reports, we’ve entered an era of meaning […]. The post Purpose over Paychecks: How to Cultivate Meaning and Attract Top Talent appeared first on Recruitment Juice.

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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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6 of the Worst Job Ads of 2018

FireFish Software

As recruiters, we pride ourselves in writing great job ads, but of course we don’t get it right 100% of the time – and neither do employers. But to make ourselves feel better, let’s take a minute to reflect on a few of the worst, most cringey and downright outrageous job ads to have hit our computer screens in 2018.

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Yes, Your Employees Are Probably Looking for Other Jobs. Stop Trying to Fight It.

TalentCulture - Recruiting

With low unemployment and growing demand for talent, it’s absolutely a job seeker’s market out there right now. A survey last year found that 82 percent of workers were open to new employment opportunities, and Gallup data from 2015 and 2016 indicated that half of all employees in the U.S. were actively seeking new jobs. The ongoing talent crunch means a huge percentage of job applicants are actively employed at other companies.

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Re-Orientation: A Survival Guide for APAC Recruitment

Allegis Global Solutions

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Using Video in Recruitment: Interview with Abby Cheesman, Co-founder at Skill Scout

TalentLyft

We interviewed Abby Cheesman, a Co-founder at Skill Scout. We asked her about the video recruitment best practices and challenges. Abbyy also presented great insights, tactics and examples of using videos to attract, hire and develop talent. Read More.

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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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7 Ways to Perfect Your Candidate Application Journey [Infographic]

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This post is by Paul Slezak, Cofounder and CEO of RecruitLoop – the World’s largest marketplace of expert Recruiters and Sourcers available on-demand. As a candidate progresses through your job application process, their candidate journey is made up of all the touch points they have with your organisation. This candidate application journey will play a big part in how your brand […].

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How To Source Amazing Contractors on LinkedIn

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 to keep it: Short. Simple. Ready to use! Sound good to you? Let’s begin! Sourcing Contractors on LinkedIn. Johnny Campbell helps you get the most out of LinkedIn by thinking outside the box when it comes to searching for contractors.

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7 Ways to Foster a Positive Work Environment

Undercover Recruiter

A key facet of any successful company lies in the working environment. A company will ultimately be limited in its successes if employers find the workplace unpleasant, negative or stressful. Yet fostering and maintaining a positive work environment can be tricky, especially when finding a balance and not ending up being underproductive and unprofessional.