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10 Diversity Hiring Statistics That Will Make You Think

ClearCompany Recruiting

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue.

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How Non-Techies Can Find the Right Tech Talent (Infographic)

Social Talent

For anyone within the tech and IT industries, knowing the correct lingo and techno terminology is essential in getting by in your day-to-day job, so how are recruiters supposed to be able to find tech talent if they don’t know the lingo themselves? Any recruiters out there who don’t know their java software from their java coffee beans will need to check out the latest research Modis have done on how non-tech recruiters are able to find the right tech talent.

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Glassdoor’s 2015 Recruiting Metrics: Revealed

Glassdoor for Employers

It’s planning time! It’s time to figure out your 2016 recruiting goals, strategies and tactics. It’s also time to nail down the budget and resources you need to hit those goals. And of course, you aren’t done until you’ve convinced your boss that your budget requests are reasonable. Last year, we published our complete 2014 Recruiting Budget for recruiters around the world to see what Glassdoor’s hiring goals were and how we accomplished them.

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7 of the Best Questions to Screen for Toxic Employees in the Interview

Spark Hire

You hire a candidate who seems perfect on paper and who seemed friendly in the interview. But after a few weeks on the job, they’re not working out. They don’t work well with the team, they gossip, and are arrogant. They’re a toxic employee, and they’re poisoning your team. Hiring a toxic employee is more costly than you think. A study conducted by Cornerstone OnDemand found that good employees are 54 percent more likely to quit when they work with a toxic employee.

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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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How To Find Candidates Through Niche Social Networks

SmartRecruiters

Promoting job ads through social networks is a cost-effective way to engage with candidates. Sourcing talent is not unlike finding customers: in both cases you are using content to generate inbound leads. The problem is that customers and candidates are experiencing content fatigue on the major social networks. Focusing exclusively on the top three ( Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn ), plus other large networks, such as Instagram and Pinterest, will limit the quality of candidates in your talent pipe

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5 Fun Ways Supervisors Can Recognize Employees

CareerBuilder

I’m a big fan of what the team at The Marcus Buckingham Company , or TMBC, is doing when it comes to employee engagement, particularly around front-line leaders of people. TMBC has found that the attitudes and behaviors of front-line supervisors have the biggest impact on employee engagement and retention. We should be focusing our training and development efforts on these leaders to help us improve employee engagement and drive retention — and to prevent recruiters and staffing profession

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How to Conduct Successful Performance Reviews

HRsoft

Performance reviews are often one of the most dreaded processes within the organization. Employees dread it because it is both a grueling and mind numbing process. Studies conducted have shown that less than 50% of employees believe that performance review helps in career progression because of the lack of transparency between management level and themselves.

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Resume Dos and Don’ts: Making Recruiters Take Notice

AkkenCloud

Finding the right candidates has always been and will continue to be a top challenge for recruiters and their clients. And, with the job market as strong as it is now, often times active and passive candidates for employment are relying on the available new media channels and not spending as much time as they should on dusting off an old resume or perhaps creating a new one.

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Temp Employment To Grow 13% Over Next Five Years

Staffing Talk

'" Temporary employment is expected to grow 3% from 2014 to 2015, and 13% from 2014 to 2019, according to new data just released. [.

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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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Preparing for Millennial Employee Churn [Infographic]

HireRight

Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y, or those born between 1982-2004 ) now comprise the largest generation in the workforce. In fact more than a third of all American workers today are Millennials. You’ve probably already hired Millennials and will be hiring more. But don’t expect them to stay long. Millennials are twice as likely as 30-somethings [.].

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The 5 daily habits of the world’s most successful people

Beamery

'We all like to borrow from people we admire to get more productive. Highly successful Square founder Jack Dorsey strictly copied Steve Jobs, using much of Jobs’ onstage rhetoric when describing Square’s features and even insisting on being referred to as an ‘editor’ as soon as he heard that Jobs had adopted that title in some circles at Apple!

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Biggest Global Recruiting Trends of 2015 So Far (Infographic)

Social Talent

I think we can all agree that 2015 has absolutely flown by! One minute it was January, the next we ended up here in November! How did that happen so fast?! But while the year might not be over yet, 2015 has already proved to be an important year for the development of the recruitment industry and has marked the start of a number of key changes in how we source and how candidates look for jobs.

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Glassdoor Halloween Contest: See Which Companies Won

Glassdoor for Employers

A few weeks ago, we shared 6 Ways to Win Halloween in the Office , including throwing a party, encouraging costumes, and providing spooky treats. Many employers rose to our challenge of entering the first ever Glassdoor Halloween Photo Contest , too. Hundreds of companies used the Glassdoor app to post photos of their companies getting in the Halloween spirit.

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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 Millennial Recruiting Techniques You Need to Know About

Spark Hire

Millennials are taking over today’s workforce. According to the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce study by Elance-oDesk and Millennial Branding, Millennials will be the largest generation in the U.S. workforce as of this year. In fact, the study found that 28 percent of Millennial workers are already at management level. Unfortunately, while the study found that 82 percent of hiring professionals believe Millennials bring a unique set of skills to the workplace and are more technically adept th

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The 3 Most Important Interview Questions To Ask

SmartRecruiters

Today I’d like to go back to the basics. I think it’s important to review our foundations every now and then. Just to make sure that we’re beginning at the right starting point. So, before you read any further, take a minute to jot down (even if it’s just in your head) the three interview questions which are crucial to any interview you take. Not the questions like “What’s your name?

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7 Benchmark Metrics to Help You Master Your Recruiting Funnel

Jobvite

Deconstructing the Recruiting Funnel. Data is always a hot topic. Every year we learn a new data-related buzzword, from “big data” – to “data analytics” – and these days “predictive analytics” is the supposed key to the future. So it’s expected that any relevant, credible recruiting technology would provide data, big data or analytics – but, now what?

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3 Surprising Ways to Recognize Gen Y and Gen Z Workers

CareerBuilder

The job market is strong for the current crop of new workers. . Unemployment is dropping, and the stock market is improving enough to allow the baby boomer generation to finally retire. It’s a job seeker’s market, and organizations will have to be more adept at using smart techniques to source, recruit, hire, engage and retain a young generation of workers.

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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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Benefits of Human Capital Software

HRsoft

Human capital management is an approach to employee staffing that perceives employees of an organization as assets whose value can be quantified and whose future value can be nurtured and enhanced through continuous engagement and investment. A company with good human capital capabilities supports the personal growth of employees within the organization through a series of engagement processes held responsible by managers and supervisors. .

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Inbound Marketing: How to Attract, Engage, and Convert

AkkenCloud

This past week, I had the opportunity to speak with many executives who lead staffing and recruiting companies at the American Staffing Association Staffing Law Conference in Maryland. When we discussed their top challenges, they indicated talent acquisition and keeping up with today's technology and marketing trends rank right at the top of their list.

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What is Talent Management and How is it Different from HR?

Capterra

We all know that couple. They’re the ones who have been on-again off-again since high school. They go to all the same parties, share the same social circles, and live in the same neighborhoods. They’re so finely enmeshed with each other it’s hard to think of one without also bringing to mind the other. Even when they try to break up, their history and everything else they have in common inevitably brings them back together again.

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The Top 15 HR Technologies And Recruiting Tools of 2015: The Final Countdown.

Recruiting Daily

With the price of admission prohibitively expensive for many startups and SMBs, companies that do shell out the Benjamins on activating the annual HR Technology Conference boondoggle ostensibly do so more or less for the opportunity to be seen. The strongest motivator keeping exhibitors coming back to #HRTechConf each and every year, seems decidedly driven more from FOMO than by ROI.

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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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Employer branding: important or illusion? The expert review

Beamery

'Branding building has been part and parcel of the marketing process for years. Nowadays though, the way we market our companies to candidates is becoming increasingly important. Long gone are the days of top talent beating a path to our door, nowadays the onus is on earning the best candidates’ attention. Job applications are starting to receive the same scrutiny as any other purchasing decision.

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The Secret to Fantastic Candidate Engagement Great Recruiters Don’t Tell You

Social Talent

How many unread emails do you currently have in your inbox? I have 12. My colleague Reza has 11, George has the slightly larger number of 473, while Laura has a staggering 26,532… It’s not that we all actively decided not open and to ignore these unread emails, the truth is we were probably all busy when they arrived on our inboxes. By the time we had a chance to look at them, 10 new emails had arrived in our inboxes, pushing those other emails further down and out of sight.

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How VMware Recruits and Retains Military Veterans

Glassdoor for Employers

While serving as a military police sergeant for the U.S. Army, Aaron Dumbrow was accustomed to higher-level officers paying attention to his reports from the field. When he entered the IT field after medical retirement from the Army, Dumbrow wasn’t sure his voice would continue to be heard in the same way. But soon after joining cloud solutions provider VMware as a senior systems engineer , Dumbrow was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from the company’s CEO, following up on his recent st

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8 Candidate Red Flags You Need to Watch For

Spark Hire

It’s only natural for candidates to want to put their best foot forward during a job interview — even if that means stretching the truth or holding back potentially game-changing information. For hiring professionals, the mask that job interviewees tend to wear can make it tricky to really get to know the candidate and evaluate their ability to perform well in any given role.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.