Tag: guest post
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How To Build A Mobile Recruiting Strategy
The move towards a mobile-dominated world has happened faster than anyone could have imagined. By the end of 2015, there will be more than two billion smartphone and tablet users worldwide. And with desktop usage dropping, consumers are using these mobile devices for more and more activities – including looking for jobs. More than 90…
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3 Software Solutions to Streamline Performance Reviews
While employee appraisal methods (also known as performance reviews) have had their fair share of critics, a lot of companies praise them as an efficient way to identify employee strengths and weaknesses, provide feedback and eventually, boost productivity. But the whole process can be pretty time-consuming and leave you buried under a mountain of paper.…
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Does Glassdoor Really Matter?
It’s amazing to me how many times I’ve been asked, “Does Glassdoor really matter?” It’s amazing because those same people asking are the ones who use Consumer Reports to make purchasing decisions, look at movie reviews before buying tickets and many of them when asked will admit to having Yelp profiles to look at restaurant…
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How Recruiters Can Take Advantage of the New Blended Workforce Model
As contract staffing continues to break records every month, most recently hitting a high of 2,859,2000 jobs in May, it’s clear that its growth is not a knee-jerk reaction to the recession or the slow recovery. Rather, companies are building a new blended workforce model around contractors as part of a deliberate, long-term business strategy.…
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RecFest: Peace, Love & Talent And Sunflowers At A Recruitment Conference
Every so often recruitment conferences (of which there are many,) need defibrillators strapped to them and set to 50,000 volts! They need a serious jolt – you know they do! Too many conferences use the same format over and over again, based on the ‘that’s the way it has always been done, so why change’ approach.…
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3 Ways To Raise Your Talent IQ
The next big transformation in human capital management is underway, led by changes in talent acquisition. While candidate expectations are rising regarding the frequency, pace and transparency of communication in the hiring process, recruiters have not kept up. According to two recent studies from the ADP Research Institute, there’s a growing chasm between recruiters and…
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Why Does Everyone Hate HR?
Many people believe HR is: Old. Slow. Dowdy. Bloated. Bureaucratic. Run by middle-aged women who like cats. Some of that is true — especially the part about cats — but the majority of my colleagues were smart people with big hearts. More than 46 percent of HR professionals pursued graduate degrees. More than 12 percent…
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Think Job Boards Are Dead? Think Again.
Rumors of the death of job boards, with apologies to Mark Twain, might be greatly exaggerated, but that hasn’t stopped their reported demise from becoming something of a ’cause celebre’ among industry pundits and influencers. A quick Google search for the phrase “job boards are dead” (no Boolean black belt required) and you’ll get around…
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Say Something: The Emotional Impact of Candidate Experience
We think, and talk a lot about, the need to “Say Something” to attract an audience. Send a message…. push it out. Be noticed and heard. But let’s be honest: most of what we think about and talk about? Is all about us. Whether it’s corporate/consumer marketing or talent attraction based-marketing, our focus is typically centered from a place…