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7 Secrets of Companies Who Are Unexpectedly Winning the Talent Fight

Proactive Talent

There are plenty of “obvious” candidates for companies who are doing amazing things to attract, hire and retain great talent within their business. They show up on the pages of HBR, Fast Company and Forbes, either filling our news feeds or staring at us from magazine covers on airport newsstands. But what about “the rest of us”? If you aren’t a part of those obvious companies, are you relegated to always being a “runner up” in the race for quality talent?

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How to Stress Test Your 2019 Hiring Plan

Lever

You’ve got your company’s hiring plans for 2019. Now you have to plan out your talent acquisition staff headcount to meet those goals. It can feel like looking into a crystal ball with only your best guess coming back to you. You could be at least a little bit worried about meeting your targets—after all, it’s your performance goals on the line, not just your company’s.

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Candidates are Calling the Shots

The Whiteboard

The tide has been turning for some time, and now more than ever it feels like a candidate’s market out there. In recent weeks I’ve seen bidding wars kick off over decidedly average candidates, egos growing disproportionately alongside; contractors who might have been scrambling for gigs six months ago now screening calls, too bombarded with need, and Average Joe reaching out for a tentative chat and finding numerous options that tick the boxes for ‘dream role’.

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10 Instagram-Worthy Employee Experience Ideas

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Instagram is a great channel to use to provide candidates with an inside look into your organization and motivate them to join your team. One of the most effective types of content that my team at WeddingWire leverages on Instagram is employee generated content. What is employee generated content, you might be wondering? Employee generated content, also called EGC, refers to social media content that is created and shared by employees.

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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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Sixty Savage Seconds – I only hire recruiters from this generation

Greg Savage

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘I only hire recruiters from this generation’ Let me know what you think! View here. .

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Behavioral Based Interview Questions

Lever

When it comes to interviewing, there are several different strategies and interview question types that can gauge candidate readiness and fit (examples of cultural fit interview questions ).

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Why Most Recruiting Fails

Katrina Kibben

If the recruitment marketing plan doesn't feel right, don't do it. This post is about that lesson and the most important criteria for doing what works.

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The Inmail Subject Lines That WORK

Social Talent

The art of the email subject line has been one of the biggest challenges of marketing teams the world over since, well, email. We know that good recruiters also display the traits of good marketers, so what can they learn about subject lines to increase their response rate from candidates? The good news for recruiters is that the average response rate to a LinkedIn email is 3 times higher than that of a traditional email.

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Holiday Hiring Trends Every Employer Needs to Know

JazzHR

Winter is coming, and the influx of shoppers is coming with it. In a strong job market where the number of seasonal positions heavily outweighs the number of available, quality workers, a more tactical hiring approach will need to be taken. Flexibility is crucial. Timing is paramount. Click the image below to see our latest infographic around the holiday hiring trends you need to know: The post Holiday Hiring Trends Every Employer Needs to Know appeared first on JazzHR Notes.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Building a Best Place to Work Starts with Inclusion

Lever

We’re beyond excited that we have been recognized as a Best Place to Work for All by Fortune. Coming off our #1 spot for the best place to work in the Bay area earlier this year, we’ve been talking about what being a great place to work means to us. Building a great company and culture isn’t trivial work, it’s something we take incredibly seriously.

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ATS vs CRM: What’s the Difference and Why You Need Both

SmartRecruiters

Don’t lose great talent to the competition because of bad recruiting software—here’s why your hiring team needs a TA solution that makes no compromises. Recruiting is changing on a fundamental level. Today, 36 percent of the US workforce currently freelances , and reports project this figure will grow to over 50 percent within the next decade. Conversations about the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning replacing human jobs are at the forefront of our social consciousness, and re

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Get Real! Are Your Recruitment Expectations Totally Unrealistic?

Social Talent

Unrealistic Expectations. The war for talent & skills has intensified over the past few years and it doesn’t look like it’s about to slow down anytime soon. Attracting and retaining top talent is a priority for most companies. However, many companies in today’s age struggle with their identity and try to portray themselves as something they’re not.

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Interviewer Hacks: Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer [INFOGRAPHIC INCLUDED]

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! Read More.

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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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6 ‘Positive’ Phrases that Lose You Business in Recruitment

FireFish Software

In my ten years of working as an agency recruiter I made a LOT of calls, and over time I learned (the hard way) that there are some phrases that will almost always lose you business, no matter how convincingly you say them. Now that I’m in an internal role, I hear agency recruiters use these same phrases on an almost daily basis – and it instantly puts me off working with them!

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CRM and 4 Other Features Your ATS Needs to Have in 2019

SmartRecruiters

Hiring is all about predicting the future—is your applicant tracking system doing the same? Here’s a look at five features that aren’t just trends, but must haves for the new year. Better Buys previously identified the top trends for the ATS solutions market as social media integration, greater emphasis on interviewing and assessment tools (i.e. video interviewing), and predictive analytics.

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The Secret to Avoiding LinkedIn FOMO

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! How to mine LinkedIn’s data so you’re not missing out on key results.

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Saving Money on Recruitment Tools

NPA Worldwide

I’m doing some planning for 2019 and received sticker shock when I saw a quote for services I’m going to need next year. It’s forcing me to completely rethink the way I purchase and use this particular service, as the cost is about 50% more for next year. (And last year the price went up about that same percentage from the previous year.

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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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Why You Should Make Room for Uncomfortable Conversations in the Workplace

Glassdoor for Employers

Are you passionate about starting a conversation in your workplace about diversity and inclusion (D&I), but you’re not quite sure where to.

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How Employee Referrals Impact Retention

iCIMS

EmployeeReferrals.com has mined data from our long-term client companies to calculate the median employment duration for referral hires and non-referral hires. Our study encompasses over 50 companies and 91,000 employees.

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Transform Candidate’s Pain into Your Gain

Social Talent

Candidate experience is largely focussed on the candidates that end up getting hired. While the rules of delivering a decent candidate experience are easy to follow. But how often do you try to apply a great candidate experience to every single candidate- including the ones that don’t get made an offer? Candidates who apply for jobs and are not fortunate enough to be contacted or formally rejected could be left with a soured impression of the company.

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Top 10 Characteristics of a Good Interviewer

TalentLyft

Discover which top 10 characteristics separate the good interviewers apart from the bad ones. Don’t worry if you don’t recognize all of them in yourself - most of them can be easily learned and trained. All you need are my pro tips and tricks and a little bit of practice! 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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8 Advertising Strategies Every Business Owner Should Use To Hire New Employees

RecruitLoop

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michelle Deery Michelle is a content writer for Heroic Search. Her opinions are her own. Hiring new employees is one of the most challenging parts of running a business. Every new hire can have a huge impact of a business’s culture and performance, so the stakes are high. After […].

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Pro Tips for Interviewing Millennials

Undercover Recruiter

Sponsored by Mighty Recruiter When more than 66 million millennials took the workplace by storm a few years back, employers weren’t quite sure what to make of this new generation of workers. Born between 1980 and 1996, millennials are currently the largest generation in the American workforce. As they began coming of age, this mob. View Article. Pro Tips for Interviewing Millennials Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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5 Signs a Candidate Is Lying or Exaggerating

Glassdoor for Employers

For most recruiters, taking candidates at face value is second nature. With multiple, urgent roles to fill, tons of resumes to go.

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How to Build Trust in Your Recruitment Network

FireFish Software

Your BD strategy may be tight, but if you don’t have a positive reputation as a recruiter, your strategy won't get you anywhere. Your reputation precedes you in this industry, which is why building trust within your network is so essential to success. With this in mind, here are some tips on how to increase your trust and credibility within your candidate and client network, and generate more business as a result.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.