A Practical Guide to Social Media Screening: Keeping It Simple in a Complex World
Social networks have developed into an excellent communication channel between candidates and employers. The latest numbers show an astonishing 3.78 billion social media users worldwide in 2021 across a variety of platforms. Each social media site has its own unique audience in the employment market. LinkedIn, for example, is the go-to professional networking site for more than 750 million...
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New Recruiting Software Updates: Find the Best Talent Faster
This month, we're excited to announce new updates to our AI talent-matching platform that will shorten your time spent not only finding new candidates but also reaching out to them! We hope that you enjoy these updates as much as we do. Here's a quick summary of our (exciting!) new features: Improved search capability – search for candidates for your roles by current or...
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How to Fully Engage a Hiring Manager in the Recruitment Process at Your Company
It takes a dedicated team to find and hire the ideal applicant. It involves tight communication amongst various members working across departments. As the de facto head of your hiring team, the hiring manager plays a critical role in this process. Unfortunately, hiring managers frequently struggle to engage in the hiring process properly. This might lead to a lack of team cohesion and...
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Employee Benefits Are Evolving. Are Employers Keeping Up?
Flexibility is often cited as one of the keys to a strong employee benefits program, but exactly what kind of flexibility are workers looking for? Is it the flexibility to choose how and when benefits are used? The freedom to access them at any time and from any location? Is it the flexibility to create unique packages for each employee's individual needs? The truth is, benefits are...
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The Data Point Revolution: How Gig Platforms Are Changing the Way We Hire Professional Talent
Gig economy platforms like Uber and DoorDash have changed the way we get to the airport, order food, and find a place to stay when traveling. By now, you've probably heard the expression "Uber for X" to describe bringing these gig-platform models to other industries. Now, the model is changing how businesses hire workers, too. Traditional hiring methods rely on resumes and word-of-mouth....
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The Best Companies Are Embracing Data-Driven Recruiting – Are You?
With unemployment rates starting to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, it's natural to assume that employers are experiencing a challenging recruiting environment. The Great Resignation is also causing issues with hiring. While it can certainly appear daunting, taking this assumption at face value misses an equally crucial recruiting metric. The other key market trend to consider is...
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Are You Using Employee Resource Groups to Their Full Potential?
Organizations widely utilize employee resource groups (ERGs) as tools to amplify the voices of underrepresented employees. By creating empowering spaces for people of shared, marginalized identities, these groups can become positive forces for female, BIPOC, disabled, LGBTQ+, and veteran employees. As businesses increasingly focus on scaling the impact of their diversity, equity, and...
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3 Steps to Guarantee Your Next Job is More Fulfilling
Finding a new job can be arduous. Securing a new position that enables boundless joy can seem virtually unattainable. However, with a bit of self-exploration and awareness, attaining a role that fuels joy is possible. Follow these steps to find out how. 1 | Ensure the job matches your values: Can you quickly rattle off your top 5-10 values? I would venture to say probably not. ...
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Should Organizations Look to AI Tools for Hiring?
Whether or not we should be using AI in hiring is the wrong question. A better question is, how should AI be safely and ethically used to support more effective and fair hiring decisions? Why is the first question wrong? Because AI is just a statistical analysis tool, you should use it to process and understand jobs data. AI is generally not what people think it is. It is not an evil robot...
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The Hiring Manager's Guide to Workforce Scheduling and How to Make the Most of It
Finding new ways to improve your company's performance is crucial in today's fast-changing global economy. HR directors and operations managers worldwide are turning to workforce management (WFM) solutions to get the most out of their staffing strategies. Investment in workforce management systems has consistently increased over the last five years, with global market revenue from WFM...
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Hiring Gen. Z Candidates Today: Why 1 in 3 Zoomers Are Reconsidering Their Careers
The children of Generation X and the millennials, Gen. Z-ers — also known as "zoomers" — are an especially attractive target for recruiters. They're known for being loyal, likely to stay in their first jobs for three years or longer — a dramatic difference from the average millennial's tenure. Gen. Z candidates are willing to make a long-term investment in your company, so it's...
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The Pipeline of Women in Leadership Is Shrinking. Here's What Businesses Can Do to Change That.
The shift to remote work at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic put the spotlight on the incredible pressures working women face both in their careers and at home. Businesses more clearly saw the load of a "second shift" of family responsibilities that many women shoulder once their day jobs end, with working mothers especially bearing the brunt of childcare and eldercare...
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The Common Path to Uncommon Success Begins With an Idea
Article by John Lee Dumas You've been lied to. In fact, we've all been lied to. The reason? Most people don't want you to know one simple fact: Uncommon success is achievable, and the path there is a common one. I thought success meant money, respect, and maybe even fame. That warped definition led me to law school, where after one miserable semester, I dropped out. Then I dove into...
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The Future Of Recruiting Is AI-powered Assessments! But Don't Sweat It
Did you know that the more steps the hiring process includes, the less motivation the candidate has to take a position at the end of this path? However, another question appears: how can you be sure that you hire the best candidates after just one or two interviews? The answer is AI-powered hiring assessments. In this article, we want to show you how you can improve your hiring process and...
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Current Trends in Hiring Sustainability Professionals
The growing awareness of sustainability has become a hot topic for companies worldwide. Society is demanding businesses create changes in how they operate. They want greener, more sustainable efforts in their agendas. Now that leaders have succumbed to the growing demand, the job market is shifting quickly. The need for talent in sustainability is increasing. Linkedin's Global Green Skills...
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45 Seconds to Change the World: What Every Woman Can Do to Help Close the Gender Pay Gap
Equal Pay Day is observed annually to demonstrate how much of a head start men have in earnings in a typical year. In 2021, it took until March 24 for women to earn an amount equal to what men earned in 2020. That's right: Women needed almost three extra months of work to close the pay gap. And the lack of pay equity was more obvious than ever in 2020, with the pandemic taking a much...
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The Top 7 Recruitment Podcasts You Need To Listen To
As a recruiter, you should always be learning, because the way you work will be changing and evolving. How do you fit this learning time into your day, though? It's easy to do with the right podcast. You can listen to them on your drive to work, during your work out, or while you finish chores. Here are seven of the best recruitment podcasts out there right now that you can check out. 1....
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Why Are People With Disabilities Left Out of Conversations About Board Diversity?
According to the CDC, 61 million Americans — about 26 percent of the population — have some type of disability. Yet I was not surprised when Nasdaq's recent board diversity proposal failed to reference people with disabilities. I had the same reaction to a study published recently in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which found 75 percent of nonprofit boards don't have people with...
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Employees Want More Virtual Team-Building Events — but Skip the Zoom Happy Hours
When the pandemic hit in early 2020, the future of Emeraude Escape Rooms looked bleak at best. We were experts at putting groups of people into small rooms, which they could only leave once they solved a series of clues or their time ran out. Good for team building. Bad for social distancing. In April, just two months into the pandemic, I decided to go all-in on digital. Like many other...
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What is Recruitment OnDemand in Workforce Planning?
As an HR leader, are you feeling the daily pressures of recruiting candidates to fill your organization's open positions? Do you need a new way to plan and manage workforce recruitment needs strategically? With Recruitment OnDemand, you can take control of your staffing requirements and maximize the efficiency of an agile workforce. By utilizing this cutting-edge technology solution that...
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Why German Workers Outperform Americans While Spending Less Time at the Office
The struggle to achieve work/life balance has taken on a new urgency in the pandemic. Now that more employees than ever have tried working from home, we can expect flexible hours, child-friendly policies, reduced overtime, more holidays, and remote work to be among job seekers' key priorities going forward. The most successful businesses deliver value to all their stakeholders: customers,...
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Building a Top-Notch Technical Hub from Scratch with Recruiter.com
In 2020, a fast-growing SaaS provider faced a daunting task: building a highly skilled technical hub in Singapore from scratch. With the pandemic raging, travel restrictions and social distancing made it challenging to find top-notch talent. Additionally, the company was in hyper-growth mode and needed a constant flow of Java developers to support its ambitious goals. Finding the Right...
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Crafting the Perfect Candidate Pitch: Best Practices and How AI Can Help
Leverage psychological constructs, marketing tactics, and the Candidate Pitch AI tool to create powerful candidate summaries. In today's competitive job market, a recruiter's ability to effectively market their candidates to hiring managers can make all the difference. Crafting a compelling candidate pitch highlights the candidate's relevant experience and professional summary and helps...
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Recruiters – Create AI-Powered Candidate Summaries
Learn how AI can streamline recruitment by turning resumes into persuasive professional profiles in seconds. Read on for an exclusive discount code. Introduction In the fast-paced world of recruitment, attracting and retaining top talent is crucial for organizations of all sizes. As a recruiter, you're responsible for presenting exceptional candidates to hiring managers, which often...
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Building Teams When You Can't Be Together: How to Foster Employee Connections in Remote Workplaces
As we slowly move into a post-COVID reality, we face a new truth: Remote work is here to stay. With more and more companies choosing to introduce permanent remote work options, employers will have to think about long-term solutions to the challenge of creating effective teams without the benefit of face-to-face interaction. After all, communication and collaboration are the foundations of a...
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Data-Driven Recruitment: The Future of Healthcare Hiring
By 2026, 14% of all U.S. jobs will be in the healthcare and social assistance industry, and the healthcare industry will add nearly 4.0 million jobs. Healthcare providers strive to stay ahead of the industry's transformation, and data-driven recruitment is emerging as a new and powerful tool. As hospitals increasingly require more skilled professionals at all levels, hiring employees with...
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How On-Demand Recruiting Services Can Benefit Healthcare Hiring Using Talent Roadmap Approach
The healthcare industry is facing unprecedented staffing challenges, which will only increase in 2023. As healthcare roles made up four of the twenty most in-demand jobs this year, those with open roles have their work cut out for them. Healthcare employers must be agile, flexible, and efficient in their strategies to meet the demands. Fortunately, on-demand recruiting services like...
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How to Incorporate Video Interviews Into Your Existing Hiring Process
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, just over one in five organizations were using video interviews. Now? Nearly 80 percent of employers use video interviews, and more than half of them plan to continue using video once the pandemic restrictions are fully lifted. As employers have learned over the last year, video interviewing has clear business benefits — but implementing it successfully does...
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Corporate Recruiter
The corporate recruiter is a critical but often overlooked position in any company. They are responsible for more than just finding great talent; they must also write job descriptions and screen resumes while interviewing candidates that can fill their open positions — all without forgetting about onboarding processes and effective employment branding! Best Practices for the...
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The Benefits of On-Demand Mental Health Recruiting
Currently, over 150 million people live in federally designated mental health professional shortage areas. Recruiting has become a crucial endeavor as the need for mental health professionals spikes. On-demand mental healthcare recruiters are helping bridge this gap by connecting hospitals, clinics, and private practices with qualified individuals capable of fulfilling these...
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Introducing the Recruiter.com Shortlist
Recruiter.com Shortlist is Your Simple Hiring Solution We've heard just how difficult it is to hire talented people. But, this rumor is absolutely incorrect. In reality, hiring is actually pretty simple and straightforward. The candidate wants to find meaningful employment. Their objectives align with the employer, who is interested in hiring that candidate. A job offer is made and...
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The Big Benefits of Establishing a Comprehensive Talent Roadmap
A talent roadmap serves as a strategic plan for recruiting, engaging, and managing a company's workforce over time and is essential for any recruitment team that wants to stay on top of its game in 2023. Talent roadmaps also outline the skills, experiences, and competencies needed to support an organization's current and future business goals. By mapping out these areas in advance,...
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How to Get High Quality & Cost Effective Restaurant Talent
February 2023 marked the 26th consecutive month of employment gains in the restaurant industry – representing a total increase of nearly 2.5 million jobs. Finding the right staff for a restaurant can be an arduous task for any business. With tight budget constraints, shrinking labor pools, and ever-evolving customer needs, restaurants have to find ways of streamlining their recruiting...
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The Passive Manager Is Dead: How To Spot a Proactive Leader
The passive manager is dead, buried, and six feet under. To survive record levels of burnout, managers today must be more proactive, data-driven, and intentional with communication than ever before. In this article, I'm going to break down what behaviors a successful leader must exhibit and how recruiters can spot the potential of a great manager from a mile away. The Same, but...
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Recruiter Index™: Insights from the Front Line of the Job Market
If you're looking for the most up-to-date knowledge of what's happening in the US job market, Recruiter Index™ is your source. This monthly report from Recruiter.com can give you key insights that could be essential to advancing your organization and finding success in today's competitive landscape. Drawing on expertise from recruiters, HR professionals, and Talent Acquisition experts, this...
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The MBTI Is Backed by Solid Science. Why Do Some Claim Otherwise?
In the recent article titled "What HBO's Persona Gets Right and (Mostly) Wrong About Personality Test," the author makes some good points about the recent HBO documentary Persona. First, both the author of the article and the creators of the documentary were correct that some companies are misusing personality assessments. My company, The Myers-Briggs Company, has taken the consistent stance...
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What do Recruiters Need to Know about ChatGPT?
It would not be an exaggeration to say that artificial intelligence has started a technological revolution. Cognitive interfaces such as ChatGPT have already entered offices and transformed how we do almost everything, fundamentally changing how we perform work. A recent study by IBM revealed that 35 percent of companies have already integrated artificial intelligence into their operations, and...
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3 Ways Remote Work Is Changing Internships for the Better
Much like traditional employment, internships have been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Last April, 22 percent of employers surveyed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) said they were revoking offers for summer internship programs. Luckily for students seeking the experience and networking that internships offer, many organizations have retained...
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What the Growing Corporate Sustainability Movement Means for Recruiting Top Talent
It wasn't that long ago that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability teams were shoved in back offices, miles from the core operations of a business. Even worse, responsibility for corporate sustainability would sometimes be awkwardly shoved onto an existing role with little care or attention from senior leadership. Now, the picture looks very different. A perfect storm of...
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Agile Recruiting: Why Traditional Hiring Processes No Longer Apply
Finding the perfect person for a role is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It's a daunting process that requires time, resources, and a whole lot of patience. And with job market dynamics changing every second, traditional hiring processes are becoming increasingly ineffective (especially if you're rushing to hire many people!). As a result, many businesses are turning to agile...
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The Softer Side of Onboarding New Talent in a Work-From-Home World
Prior to 2020, many companies didn't embrace work-from-home (WFH) models, but the need to protect employees and business operations in the face of COVID-19 forced even the most reluctant companies to shift to remote work arrangements. In a matter of days, the way most businesses operated changed irrevocably — especially in terms of recruiting and hiring. HR pros and talent acquisition...
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The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing the Right Candidates
Are you looking for the best talent for your organization in 2023? It takes thought, strategy, and innovation to source top-tier candidates who can bring creative solutions and fresh perspectives to help build a successful team. Whether you are conducting targeted search campaigns or honing an effective interview process, having a roadmap toward sourcing the right individuals is...
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Freelancer Compliance: 5 Ways to Keep Your Company Safe When Working With Freelancers
In the wake of COVID-19, a growing number of employers have found themselves relying on freelancers to get things done. Your organization may be among them. The use of independent contractors was growing even before the pandemic, and more and more professionals turned to freelancing throughout 2020. By 2027, more than half of US workers may do freelance work in some...
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In the New Future of Work, the American Employee Must Be Versatile
Just a little over a year ago, it was business as usual for the American workforce. Companies were prepping for the next decade of digital transformation, adding to their technology stacks while encouraging employees to develop new skills for the digital, automated workplace. With close to half of American businesses adopting robotics over the last five years, the path ahead to the future of...
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Why Your Talent Roadmap Needs Recruiting & Workforce Planning
Attracting and retaining top talent is essential for the growth and sustainability of any organization. A company's recruitment and workforce planning strategies are pivotal in achieving this objective. To effectively address these challenges, it is vital to have a comprehensive recruiting and workforce planning section in a talent roadmap. Companies with a strong recruiting and workforce...
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Are You as Objective as You Think? How Traditional Hiring Methods Keep Us From Building More Divorce Workforces
"Why does it matter what our leadership team looks like? We hire and promote people based on their performance, not on the color of their skin." If you've ever been involved in discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, you've likely encountered some variation of this protestation. Maybe you've even uttered it yourself. At first glance, the logic is...
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Agile Recruiting Frameworks in Workforce Planning
As companies rush to modernize their workforce planning techniques, agile recruitment is emerging as a powerful asset. It expedites hiring processes and provides clear strategies and goals for businesses looking to maximize their talent pool. In this article, we'll demystify how an agile recruiting framework works and offer helpful tips on implementing it into your business operations. Be...
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5 Rules for Engaging, Motivating, and Recognizing Employees in a Post-Pandemic World
The pandemic has challenged us — as individuals, professionals, and organizations — in ways we could never have imagined. As the light at the end of the tunnel glows brighter and we take our initial steps towards recovery, business leaders can start to examine the impact the pandemic has had on both their organizations' bottom lines and the morale of their people. In the wake of the...
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