2020

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The Power of Human Interaction in the Current Hiring Climate

Allegis Global Solutions

AI has become an increasingly pervasive part of the talent acquisition landscape. But even the most sophisticated algorithm in the most advanced instance of any talent management product couldn’t have predicted COVID-19.

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Can Employers Order Workers to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

Proactive Talent

The Thanksgiving holidays are almost upon us and as of Saturday, November 21, 2020, according to CNBC….

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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

Greg Savage

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. (Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!) Profit margins have collapsed from 4.2% of […].

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4 Ways to Get the Most Out of Peer Assessments

ClearCompany Recruiting

This article was originally published on December 27, 2019. It has since been updated as of October 13, 2020. There isn’t a manager alive who can get the full picture of an employee’s behavior, attitude or performance. A manager simply cannot be everywhere at once, nor do they necessarily get to see all sides of an employee. This can account for why more than 87% of surveyed employees see traditional performance reviews as ineffective.

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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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14 Benefits of Remote Working and Hiring (and How to Do Each Successfully)

JazzHR

Remote working has grown in popularity by around 400 percent in the last ten years. And, considering recent events , it doesn’t show signs of stopping. Some are already calling it ‘the future of work’. . What’s behind the impressive numbers and the work-from-home hype? The more that businesses dip their toes into remote working waters, the more it seems to grow.

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9 Types of Unconscious Bias and the Shocking Ways They Affect Your Recruiting Efforts

Social Talent

We make countless decisions every day without even realising it. Even as you sit here reading this, you’re making decisions. Decisions about the content, the questions being asked of you. And the answers to these are influenced heavily by something researchers refer to as “unconscious bias.”. What is “unconscious bias”? Bias is an inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group.

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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Greg Savage

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […].

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4 Best Practices for High-Volume Hiring

Recruitics

Just like the seasons, some events (like a global pandemic) sometimes prelude a large influx of hires to help support initiatives. Whether you’re opening business back up after a shut down or preparing for holiday and seasonality consumer demands, there are several approaches and tips to ensure you can be successful in your high-volume hiring push.

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3 Candidate Engagement Tactics That Identify the Best Fit

Leoforce

Arya - Recruiting AI Technology. 3 Candidate Engagement Tactics That Identify the Best Fit. Most small businesses and startups begin as “pie in the sky” concepts. You craft an idea, try to wrangle the capital to bring it to market, and then attempt to build a team that can realize that vision on a regular and profitable scale. Unfortunately, finding top talent — specifically with regard to candidate engagement — is a struggle many small companies face.

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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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High Unemployment is Not an Excuse to Avoid Hiring Process Improvement

ExactHire Recruiting

I’ve seen a lot of change in HR technology over the past decade as well as many employer pitfalls when it comes to leveraging technology to improve the quality of hire and increase the number of job applicants. Those employer pitfalls have really stuck out like a sore thumb this year, as the global pandemic has had a profound impact on employer recruitment and retention success.

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How to write job descriptions for remote work

Social Talent

It’s fair to say that 2020 has turned the recruitment world on its head. So many of the best practices and conventional methods of hiring irreparably shifted overnight, and it feels like we have been scrambling to realign. Remote work is now en vogue, initially from pure necessity but many companies have seen the benefits and it looks set to remain.

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Simple Ways to Create a Better Candidate Experience: Ramblings of a Quarantined Recruiter

ClearCompany Recruiting

Candidate experience is a critical point to recruiting and hiring the top talent. These tips will help you re-evaluate how applicants interact with your company.

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15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline

Lever

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are top of mind for many executives and talent professionals. We’re making progress, but there is still much work to be done. Women and people of color are underrepresented in leadership positions, certain job categories, and entire industries. Read More. The post 15 Ways to Build a More Diverse Talent Pipeline appeared first on Lever.

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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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13 Activities to Engage Remote Employees Today

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Although the movement towards increased remote work was already a trend before COVID-19, the pandemic has sped things up significantly. In addition, since it has slowed hiring for many organizations, a lot of us in Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Marketing have had to shift more of our time from external recruitment to internal employee engagement activities.

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If You Can’t Trust Them, Why Hire Them?

Proactive Talent

The impact of the coronavirus on the world of work is ongoing and in at least one way, the ramifications are affecting the privacy of remote workers. What do I mean? Well, one of the hottest types of software to fly off the shelves these days is employee monitoring software. With more people telecommuting than ever before, companies want to make sure that their people are indeed working.

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Recruiting Automation: The Ultimate Guide

Talent Hero Media

A complete list of every recruiting automation service or software app. Source, screen resumes, interview, track applicants and hire on auto pilot. The post Recruiting Automation: The Ultimate Guide appeared first on Talent Hero Media.

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What Would You Do If You Stopped Receiving Free Applicants?

ApplicantPro

When it comes to hiring, I'm sure we can all agree it's been the most unique 12 months we've ever experienced. We began the year with record low unemployment rates, and in a blink of an eye saw record-high unemployment rates with extended unemployment benefit periods. Then, just as things seem like they're leveling out, there's talk of ANOTHER shutdown.

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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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What ‘The Dark Ages of Recruitment’ can teach us post-COVID

Greg Savage

Every second article I see is about how recruitment will change post-COVID. Mostly it’s BS as the majority of recruiters will go back and do exactly as they have always done. I explained that here. Of course, the opportunity to make changes has never been better, and the smart ones in our industry are working […].

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Best Practices for Advertising Remote Job Postings

Recruitics

Before the COVID-19 crisis, employers occasionally asked us the best way to advertise their job if it was remote. Since March, this has become one of the most frequently asked questions in our meetings. Recruitics spoke recently with several job boards to understand their recommendations on how to advertise a 'work-from-home' job. Here are the best practices for employers to advertise a remote job on job boards.

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The Complete List of Video Interview Questions to Ask Remote Workers

JazzHR

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed every area of our lives, including how (and where) we work. And for many of us, it seems remote work is here to stay. As businesses start to rebuild their workforces , hiring teams must adapt to the new reality of virtual hiring – including remote interviews. Thanks to video interviewing solutions , meeting with candidates virtually are, in many ways, no different than conducting in-person conversations.

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15 Stunning Recruitment Stats from 2020.

Greg Savage

We all know it has been a cataclysmic year in recruitment. But do you realise how massively Agency recruitment has been impacted? And what about the recovery? Is it happening? Which countries are doing best? Here are 15 of the most jaw-dropping recruitment statistics from 2020. Taken from the recently released JobAdder report You can […].

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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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Which is growing fastest? Temp or Perm?

Greg Savage

Jobs are coming back for Recruitment Agencies as we saw in the JobAdder data released on Tuesday. The question I get asked a lot is which will come back first, and fastest? Temp/Contract or Permanent roles? Once again, I tapped JobAdder, and they have provided brilliant answers to that question. (Sign up for the JobAdder […].

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Recruitment ‘bounce-back’ underway! The facts.

Greg Savage

Today I help you peek under the covers of Agency Recruitment. Exactly how are recruitment agencies across the world performing, right now? The facts. Not the hype or the BS or the rumour. I am an Advisor to the world-leading Recruitment ATS/CRM. JobAdder has thousands of users, and they are going to let us see […].

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Agency Recruitment. Five Brutal Truths.

Greg Savage

Recruitment agencies must move with lightning speed to stay ‘recession-fit’, but also agile enough to take advantage of an upturn. Precisely the same applies to individual recruiters. Laggards and dinosaurs won’t make it. It’s as simple as that. Here are the five big brutal truths agencies must tackle, with pace, persistence and courage. Also, ideas […].

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How much will Recruitment change Post-COVID? (Clue: F-All).

Greg Savage

Every day, there are dozens of articles on how COVID will change Recruitment. Well, here is the news. It will not. And I have the scientific, irrefutable, undebatable proof! Let me explain; Most days, I walk around my leafy Sydney suburb in a pathetic attempt to ‘keep fit’ On those walks, I pass dozens of […].

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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.

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Recruitment is not Tinder. COVID screwed that.

Greg Savage

Let’s be honest about our industry for a moment. Prior to the pandemic, technology and lack of skill drove plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Post-COVID, you have a choice. Go back to being what you always were. A keyword-matching, resume-flicking, in-box spamming, transactional recruiting hack. (Ouch!

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Drop your fees and triple your billings. Seriously

Greg Savage

I wrote recently about my Post-COVID nirvana. How the recruitment industry can be re-invented, with massive benefits for clients, candidates and recruiters. My ‘dream’ includes killing off the scourge of contingent, multi listed-order recruitment, which drives much that is bad in our industry. Speed over price, short cuts, resume racing, fee-discounts, poor service to candidate […].

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Go away PSA. Farewell PSL

Greg Savage

You gotta love it when a plan comes together! This is a true tale. And it has a warning for the recovery after COVID. Precision Sourcing is an excellent medium-sized IT recruitment business in Sydney. I have been an Advisor on the Board for almost five years. When I joined, there was a big problem. […].

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