Crafting a Talent Acquisition Roadmap: A Guide to Finding Top Health Care Professionals
85% of healthcare facilities (including hospitals, medical groups, and home health providers) are experiencing a shortage of allied healthcare professionals. With emerging technologies and an increasingly diverse population, healthcare organizations must be strategic in their approach to attracting and retaining the best people. Crafting a comprehensive and effective Talent Acquisition...
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How the Shift to Remote Work Is Revitalizing Employee Benefits
Any disruption is a chance to evaluate and revitalize old processes. COVID-19 has been, for many companies, the catalyst to rethink benefits structures and compensation arrangements as employees adapt to an increasingly virtual work environment. The dramatic changes to the way people work have given employees all across the country an opportunity to rethink their priorities when it comes...
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McDonald's Could Reach Its Diversity Targets Faster If It Had the Right Data on Hand
As we move into the second quarter of 2021, more and more companies are working toward greater levels of gender parity in their leadership ranks. While this is a noble endeavor, good intentions without results are as bad as — or worse than — doing nothing at all. The many repeated commitments to progress are encouraging at a glance, but how many will turn out to be token gestures leading...
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How to Accurately Predict Future Hiring Needs
Predictive Hiring and Workforce Planning So, what is predictive hiring? Predictive hiring is the process of using data and analytics to identify future hiring needs and trends. By understanding the patterns and trends in your data, you can make better-informed decisions about your workforce planning and Talent Acquisition strategies. A predictive hiring system is a powerful tool that uses...
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Workforce Planning in Unpredictable Times
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruption in the job market, leaving many companies uncertain of their workforce planning strategies. As businesses strive to stay competitive in this rapidly changing business landscape, it is essential for talent leaders, CHROs and CFOs to take a proactive approach to navigating these unpredictable times. Strategic workforce planning helps...
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Revolutionizing Recruiting: How Recruiting with ChatGPT Transforms Talent Acquisition [Updated May 2023]
ChatGPT Recruiting Comprehensive Online Course on Recruiting with ChatGPT - This course from Recruiting Classes, "Recruiting with ChatGPT provides ongoing learning and development on ChatGPT use cases in recruiting and talent acquisition. eBook: "Unlocking the Potential of Talent Acquisition with ChatGPT" - This guide provides information and insights into how ChatGPT can...
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Hiring IT Security Specialists
The demand for qualified IT Security Specialists is rising as organizations increasingly rely on technology to store and protect sensitive data. With the growing number of cyber threats, companies need professionals to identify and mitigate potential risks. Recruiting the right IT Security Specialist ensures an organization's data remains secure. This article will discuss the key elements...
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10 Important Steps to Develop an Effective Targeted Hiring Program
Today's Question: When developing a targeted hiring program for a particular group of people, skill set, or experience level, what's one important step companies should take? Why? The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is a renowned organization that brings together the world's most successful young entrepreneurs from various industries. These entrepreneurs have generated billions of dollars...
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Qualified Candidates by Next Week with On-Demand Recruiters
In 2023, hiring qualified candidates can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Companies are feeling the pressure of finding top talent faster and more efficiently, making on-demand recruiters an invaluable part of workforce planning. On-demand recruiting enables businesses to quickly source and vet potential applicants, freeing up valuable time to focus on other tasks. Not to mention that...
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Eight Major Recruiting Trends These Entrepreneurs Expect to See in the Coming Months [2023]
Today's Question: When it comes to recruiting, what's one major trend you expect we'll see this year, and why? What impact will this have on companies trying to find talent? Recruiting is an ever-evolving field, with new trends and technologies emerging every year. As companies scramble to find top talent in a competitive job market, staying ahead of the curve is more important than ever. To...
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'Like Holding a Yoga Pose for 24 Hours': Joann S. Lublin on the Challenges and Triumphs of Executive Women
While writing Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons From Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World, former Wall Street Journal career columnist Joann S. Lublin noticed something interesting. Among the 52 executive women with whom she spoke for the book, most were mothers. Among those who had become public company CEOs, the percentage of mothers was even higher. Lublin started to wonder:...
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Comprehensive Guide to Recruiter Jobs: Roles, Functions, and Key Responsibilities
The recruiting world is vast and multifaceted, encompassing a wide range of roles and functions designed to identify, attract, and secure the best talent for organizations across all industries. With the increasing competition for top talent and the ever-evolving landscape of the job market, recruiters have become an indispensable part of any successful company. In this comprehensive guide,...
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Why Recruiting Tech Talent From Outside the Industry Improves Candidate Quality
It's all too easy to succumb to the temptation to rely entirely on dependable sources of job candidates — especially in the tech sector. For one thing, it's usually much easier to recruit existing talent who already know the industry landscape and the requirements of working in the field. Veteran employees have more experience than new talent, and there's less effort and risk involved...
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A 21st Century Framework for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Executive Search
Last year was an incredible and challenging year for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Coming into 2020, many HR departments had slashed their DEI budgets, but just one year later, 90 percent of companies are making DEI a top priority for 2021, according to a survey from Reflektive. Why? Because, quite frankly, it pays off. Companies with greater levels of diversity,...
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What to Look for in HR Automation Tools for Your Candidate Screening Process
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, job openings hit a near-record high of 11 million in December 2021. As the numbers hold steady, it remains a candidate's market. Large numbers of workers are taking advantage of vacancies to find jobs with better pay, more flexibility, and substantial improvements to their quality of life. This phenomenon has been dubbed "The Great Resignation,"...
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3 Hiring Keys to Gain More Creative and Effective Team Members
The modern interview process needs a revamp. With the Great Resignation, the Great Regret, the Great Hesitation, and other so-called great recruiting woes the past year has seen, companies and recruiters looking to hire are feeling the pressure. As a result, finding the right candidate is more challenging than ever. Luckily, the key to gaining more creative and effective new hires lies...
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The Impact of the "Flynn Effect" on Recruitment
—Have globally skyrocketing IQs affected applicant screening? "It is as if some unseen hand propelled scores upward at an unvarying rate between 1952 and 1982, a rate of 6 IQ points per decade, with individual nations scattering randomly around that value... Culture-reduced tests of fluid intelligence show gains of as much as 20 points per generation (30 years); performance tests show...
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How HR Teams Can Humanize Structured Interviews
The goal of any hiring strategy is to predict how candidates will perform in a given role, but more of these strategies need to do so systematically. For example, unstructured interviews remain one of the most common hiring methods even though they have a poor record of identifying top candidates. In addition, these interviews often produce more noise than signal and allow bias to creep into...
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How to Improve Internal Initiatives to Combat the Great Resignation
Through the tumultuous pandemic-ridden years and the Great Resignation, businesses have been left to face the ongoing challenge of finding top talent and retaining current employees. The constant fluctuation in employment numbers in 2021 and BLS data showing 11.3 million job openings in January 2022 proved that organizations are still struggling to find the best talent for their companies....
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How to Navigate the 7 Recruitment Stages
Research has found that the average recruiting timeline and process take about 23.7 days. However, in a competitive market during the Great Resignation, many companies found that they needed to have a more efficient timeline to grab top talent before they were off the market. One way to do that is by analyzing all of the stages of recruitment and identifying where you can improve your...
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Managing Third Party Recruiter Calls
Corporate recruiters often get bombarded with rather generic requests from staffing and recruiting firms. Fielding these third party recruiter calls and managing the relationships can become a big part of a corporate recruiter's job. Especially in this economy, third party recruiters are of course scrambling to dig up business (which really should be commended.) Third party recruiters...
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Resilience Attracts Business
As recruiters evaluate how the economy is influencing the communities they serve and the companies they promote, a term that might have come up is "resilience." What resources help one community survive when one area of business closes shop? Which accounts that you work with continue to find ways to grown even though nationwide business is down? As you plan ahead for these uncertain times,...
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Building a Volunteer Program: 4 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers
Across the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, recruiting trends reveal that candidates are looking for engaging, flexible, and personalized opportunities to make a difference, whether at their jobs or during volunteer activities. Most notably, recruits seek opportunities that allow them to use their unique skills and passions to improve society. As you build your volunteer program from...
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The Top Recruitment Methods Every Recruiter Should Use
According to some research, each open vacancy will cost a company around $500 a day. To ensure that you find qualified candidates to fill those open positions as soon as possible, you'll need to have good recruitment methods in your process. Each recruiter and team have different strategies that they use to hire applicants. However, there are some strategies that every company should be...
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Recruiters: Follow the Money
During a troubled economy, where is there economic growth? Like stockbrokers or business analysts, recruiters may wish to take note of where people continue to spend their money even when their salaries suffer. While it's best not to gear your business around short term hiring trends, keeping an eye to future hot areas of employment is a very good practice. Following potential business growth...
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Had a Great Interview? Now What?
I almost never hear from a client or candidate that the interview bombed. Most interviewers are polite and make the candidate feel good about their experience and give them the impression there is a chance, if not a good chance that they will be called back for a 2nd interview. How can you increase your chances of getting to the next step if you feel you gave all you could in the interview? A...
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5 Tips for Successful Recruitment and Retention During Uncertain Times
It's no secret that continuous change in the workplace, particularly around recruitment and retention, has been the norm for the past few years. Many have tried to label these changes: the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and Quick Quitting are a few new terms we've heard about over the past few years. Regardless of the latest buzzwords, this year will continue to bring change. Even with...
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Hiding Your Linkedin Connections
A lot of people advocate hiding your connections on Linkedin. The obvious reason here is to not let your competitors see who you are connecting with. It is feasible that your competitors could spend time Linkedin-stalking you, stealing away your precious connections and business opportunities. For people who are not very active on Linkedin, hiding Linkedin connections might be a good idea. If...
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Beyond Black History Month: Don't Limit Meaningful DE&I Work to February
There are countless African Americans who have had a profound impact on American history, yet many of their stories have gone untold or underappreciated, pushed deep under the surface of a white-dominant culture. If we want humanity to shine, those stories must be uncovered and celebrated every day as part of how we live. As we work toward that future, Black History Month provides an...
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Why Aren't You Using Corporate Social Responsibility as a Recruiting Tool?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a broad-strokes term for practices companies enact to ensure their work impacts society at large in a positive way. These practices are often rooted in the organization's mission, vision, and core values, cascading from there to each stakeholder involved. CSR practices tend to be industry-specific, meaning the particular form they take depends heavily...
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9 Ways to Ensure Your Job Candidates Have a Positive Hiring Experience
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What's one specific way companies can ensure those they are recruiting have a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process? What impact does this have on both the candidate and the company? These answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur...
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Skimboarding Physics for Recruiters (Part II)
"There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch"— title of 1977 book by Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winning economist A handbook of "Skimboarding Physics for Recruiters" would be quite thick. It would have to include applications to recruiting of the key physics principles that make all of the following and other skimboarding orientations, techniques and maneuvers...
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Navigating the Future of Talent Acquisition: The Best Hiring Practices for 2023
The future of Talent Acquisition is rapidly changing, and organizations need to stay abreast of the latest trends to ensure their recruiting strategies remain competitive. As we move into 2023, employers should be aware of these key hiring practices that will help them identify and retain high-caliber talent. Employer Branding – Attract and Retain the Right Candidates: To attract...
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Recruiting Internationally? Think Local.
Recruiting in your own backyard is hard work; accessing a qualified candidate pool in another country can seem like insurmountable challenge. Try to use the approach below to recruit internationally as well as if you grew up in the town over. The largest companies in America developed comprehensive approaches to international recruitment over the past twenty years. Recruitment on a large scale...
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Hiring During a Recession: 3 Strategies to Attract the Right Candidates
Recruiting is challenging in today's job market. Even after large-scale tech layoffs and global recession predictions, the power dynamic favors talent. Except for a few industries, job seekers hold almost all the cards. This has left many recruiters scrambling to make a successful hire. Hiring a candidate with the necessary skills or experience is often needed. It would be best if you...
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Social Media Recruiting: Everything You Need to Know to Excel at it in 2023
From in-person interviews to virtual ones, from newspaper recruiting ads to online hiring, the face of recruiting has completely transformed in the 21st century. In Jobvite's recent survey, nearly 94% of the surveyed recruiters said they already use or plan to turn to social media for recruiting. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly pushed online recruiting to the forefront of talent...
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Skimboarder Physics for Recruiters (Part I)
"L = mvr, where L is the angular momentum, m is the mass of the small object, v is the magnitude of its velocity, and r is the separation between the objects."—from a physics webinar, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville You don't need a Ph.D. in physics to be a good recruiter. But knowing something about the skimboarder physics of surfing over thin films of...
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How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation—and Beyond
In December 2021, 6.3 million American workers left their jobs, bringing the number who voluntarily quit last year to 47.4 million. While the causes and consequences of these departures are likely to be studied for years to come, one thing is clear: current labor market dynamics are putting companies under immense pressure to retain their workers. In this environment, companies across all...
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Two Key Workforce Trends Are Combining to Create Massive Opportunities for Contract Recruiters. Now's Your Chance to Seize Them.
As the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches, we're finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccine rollouts are underway across the country and worldwide; a return to normalcy is within reach. But as the world opens back up, the pandemic's legacy will linger. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, for contract recruiters, it's shaping up to be...
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What's Next: How the Lessons of the Pandemic Will Steer the Future of the Workplace
While many of us are more than eager to shake off the weight of the pandemic, many of the lessons we've learned throughout the past year and a half will prove incredibly beneficial as we grow into the post-pandemic future. Now that companies are quickly shifting to hybrid and in-person environments, leaders must not forget everything they learned during their brief but transformative...
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Making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a 'Mantra': DE&I Strategist Talia Fox on Representation and Company Culture
Things have been different lately for Talia Fox. When the CEO of learning consulting firm KUSI Global walks into a room, she notices a new look of respect when people's eyes meet hers. The energy is different. People are paying more attention to her, as if they're wondering who she might be. "I absolutely know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's because she just became vice...
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The Labor Shortage: APIs To The Rescue
It's no secret that companies searching for and retaining top talent have faced more significant challenges over the past few years. As reported in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shared that a steep 4.5 million people had quit their jobs between March 2019 and March 2022. Society, in general, has experienced a shift within the labor market. Leaders in different industries are now...
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How On-Demand Healthcare Recruiting Can Help You Find the Talent You Need
The healthcare staffing industry is on fire, with projected yearly revenue of $50B by 2023. But why is it so hard for firms to find the talent they need? According to Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Healthcare Staffing Pulse Report, recruiting difficulty on a scale of 1-5 was rated a 3.7. As anyone who works in the healthcare industry knows, on-demand recruitment is needed now more than...
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3 Brand Reputation Strategies for Organic Recruitment
The hiring game has drastically changed over the past decade. A Glassdoor user survey showed that 86% of HR professionals indicated recruitment is becoming more like marketing. As a result, virtual recruiters, personalized candidate journeys, and a bigger emphasis on benefits packages can take up a lot of space in your budget. So, if recruitment is becoming more like marketing, how can...
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5 Tips for Writing Better Sales Job Descriptions
First impressions count, and your job descriptions are typically a job seeker's first impression of your company. If you want candidates to apply for your positions, you need job descriptions that stand out — especially right now. Although unemployment rates are high, companies are still struggling to find qualified applicants. The market is flush with talent, but not all of it is the right...
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Association Management Systems: The Key to Recruitment
Associations are typically made up of highly invested professionals in their field. While members already have a depth of knowledge about their industry, they're taking the initiative to learn even more and connect with others who are just as passionate. When recruiters and association leadership form relationships, both groups benefit. Associations can show that they are connected within...
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4 Pro Tips for Retaining Your Best Talent
Are you searching for the most effective strategies for retaining A-players at your company? Whether you are a small business owner with just a handful of employees or an established enterprise with thousands, there is no denying that having talented and engaged workers is integral to success. It is key to establish an environment where everyone feels satisfied and secure enough to stay on...
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How Competency-Based Hiring Can Help HR Teams Secure Top Talent
HR professionals have always faced challenges in recruiting and retaining talent. Despite the unprecedented access to global talent pools, the labor market remains tight, and companies need help finding the right people for open positions. Conventional hiring methods (such as a reliance on work experience) have proven ill-equipped for building a modern workforce, and companies that rely on...
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