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18 Undeniable Reasons You Need an Applicant Tracking System

Applicant tracking systems are great for HR professionals and recruiters. There are disputes about their effectiveness because they target keywords rather than candidate skill. Even though most candidates don’t like their experience when a company uses an ATS, it greatly helps recruiters minimize the size of the talent pool without wasting precious time…

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Added by Raj Sheth on June 20, 2014 at 9:00am — No Comments

Snippet Repo: New Code Repository Is Great Place To Source

There is a new code repository out there called Snippet Repo that has over 8745 lines of code snippeds and well over 2000 users and counting. Now to join you have to have a snippet…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on June 19, 2014 at 7:00pm — No Comments

When Good Interviews Go Bad

Peter Clayton recently posted "The Job Interview..." where he discussed the ubiquitous Candidate Experience. After a few decades of recruiting, I know that the CE is a by-product of both sides of the fence. The Good, the Bad, and the really freakin' Ugly.

Perhaps using humor is a better strategy for teaching the Do's and Don'ts of interviewing. Do any of…

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Added by Steve Levy on June 19, 2014 at 12:30pm — 7 Comments

I am just sayin....

My “daughter” likes to preface her more profound statements with the saying “ I am just sayin…” and it seemed appropriate for this post to begin with her saying. Over the past year there has been much discussion in the social media realm about the future of HR.

Recently I have read and heard an ongoing discussion about the future of the human resource profession. On one side is the school of thought that says we need to go back to the days when we were called Personnel. Back to the…

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Added by Daniel T. Bloom on June 19, 2014 at 11:32am — 1 Comment

Hardest-to-Fill Healthcare Jobs

The rapid growth in demand for Registered Nurses, the competition for talent, and the shortage of workers in this profession make this a healthcare job that's known to be hard-to-fill. However, there are other healthcare positions that actually rank as harder to fill on the WANTED Analytics Hiring Scale. Our…

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Added by Ashley Zito Rowe on June 19, 2014 at 10:19am — No Comments

Job boards Aren't Dying (but a lot of recruiters are doing their best to help kill them off)

I sometimes think people are thinking far too hard and becoming much too confused about the whole recruitment process and how to attract applicants.

Job boards to me are the ideal and only place I would look for jobs. Why? Because it is so bloody simple. I register and set up some search terms so that when a job is posted that matches my criteria I get an email alert…

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Added by Alasdair Murray on June 19, 2014 at 6:30am — 7 Comments

My Break-Up Letter To The Cover Letter

Dear Cover Letter,

It has been great. We’ve had a lot of great years, a lot of great memories, reading you under those humming florescent lights, tucked away in my cubicle.

But I’m sorry. It is over. It just isn’t working out anymore.

It isn’t you. I swear. You’ve always been so polite, so chivalrous, so overtly formal. It…

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Added by Paul Petrone on June 18, 2014 at 2:45pm — 12 Comments

Healthcare Costs Drive Business Decisions, Impacting Recruiters, Candidates, and Companies

No matter how you feel about the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare), it is clear that employer-sponsored health insurance has become more expensive and complicated over the past several years. This reality is forcing many companies to make difficult business decisions that are impacting everyone in the employment arena.

Experts estimate that health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored plans have gone up 80-100% in the past decade. As a result, 49% of…

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Added by Debbie Fledderjohann on June 18, 2014 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Start Job Search by Creating Your Brand

 

You are in the initial stages of a job search and trying to figure out how to get the ball rolling.  Step back and think about your last shopping expedition for any significant item.  Maybe it was a car - or a suit - or a piece of furniture.  What led you to purchase that item right from the start?  You may have done some initial research online and then gone shopping in a store.  What caught your eye initially?  A flashy website?  A very appealing display in the…

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Added by Brian Hill on June 18, 2014 at 9:30am — No Comments

4 Job Searching Guidelines for the Over-50s

There are more than seventy-seven millions of people were born in year 1946-1963 in the region of United States. But only an estimate of 42% people has a well-run job. More than 25% people of United States’ citizens have their retirements. So, there are a huge number of people who are over 50s now and do not have any job to run their home.…

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Added by Simon Hopes on June 18, 2014 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Discrimination: Tattoos and Body Modification Challenge to Business Casual and Business Attire

The face of the up and coming American and Canadian worker is changing and it’s often decorated with ink and metal. A recent study in the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology has found that just under half of people in their 20’s have either a tattoo or body piercing other than traditional earrings, and the…

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Added by Daryl Daley @IntelMinds on June 18, 2014 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Nimble Leadership

During a conference I spoke at last week, I met two types of leaders: those whose businesses were experiencing accelerated growth and the rest whose companies seemed to be stuck in neutral, going nowhere fast. The key difference in the leaders of these firms is decision making. Without exception, the leaders whose firms are growing fastest have leaders who think more nimbly and act more swiftly.

When making decisions, people strive to get them right. Never have I met…

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Added by Scott Wintrip on June 18, 2014 at 8:57am — No Comments

The Job Interview - Providing a Great Candidate Experience

"I'm sorry… Why are you here?"

There are thousands of articles, blog posts and "how-to's"  advising job seekers how to prepare for a phone screen, a video interview, and in-person job interview. But what about the other side of that desk or conference table? The hiring manager, recruiter, HR manager,  and others tasked with interviewing and evaluating candidates?  …

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Added by Peter Clayton on June 18, 2014 at 7:00am — 4 Comments

Top 10 reasons to own a Resume Parser

1 Less Errors- As the parser extracts accurate information from resumes and auto-fill the forms, there’re less chances of getting wrong emails and phone numbers of applicants. Thus  maximum candidates can be reached and contacted. This brings you the full value of a resume or a lead (Applicant) in CRM. 

2 Total Comfort- For both…

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Added by Rchilli Parser on June 18, 2014 at 2:30am — No Comments

Job Board SEO tips

Today there are more job boards than ever which increases competition for attracting relevant jobseekers. With so many job boards available ensuring your job board can be seen by search engines is vitally important for your job board’s success.

Research has shown that 67% of jobseekers start their job hunt on search engines. Without a well planned and sustained SEO…

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Added by Stephanie Mills on June 17, 2014 at 10:12am — 1 Comment

Innovative Engineering Recruitment

Engineers are constantly innovating and creating new products and services, changing our world and our lives. So it is fitting that some engineering firms and recruitment specialists are stepping up to meet the innovative levels that their world operates in when they are looking to employ new recruits. Whilst some engineering recruiters use the good old…

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Added by Rebecca Baines on June 17, 2014 at 5:28am — No Comments

Top 5 graduate sales employers

For many students, the prospect of leaving university can be intimidating. No more tomfoolery with housemates who they have become closely bonded to, no more shared trips to the launderette and no more Sunday mornings in Starbucks catching up on revision. The world at large has hundreds of scares and surprises to offer and although most students will be sufficiently prepared…

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Added by Rebecca Baines on June 17, 2014 at 4:30am — No Comments

What Businesses Can Learn From the San Antonio Spurs

Sunday night, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA championship in one of the most shocking thrashings in NBA Finals history, with the Spurs winning the last three games by at least 17 points…

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Added by Paul Petrone on June 16, 2014 at 4:25pm — 3 Comments

It’s NOT All in a Name When You Are Recruiting

It’s true. In fact there is an interesting perception that because you’re big, you are better. Everyone wants to work for you.  Who wouldn’t want to work at Google, Amazon, and Apple?  Apparently there are a few.  How can I back up this statement?  Well, in my best Jim Carrey voice “LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING!!”

The reason I know this is that ALL these…

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Added by Derdiver on June 13, 2014 at 2:16pm — 7 Comments

The 5 Biggest Lies Recruiters Tell Candidates

One of the mainstays of the weirdly niched, highly specious world of recruiting-focused content seems to revolve around how candidates can often mislead, misrepresent or downright lie during the hiring process. These cautionary tales act more as aphorisms rather than actionable advice, and while the anecdotes change, the fact is, candidates fall far…

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Added by Matt Charney on June 13, 2014 at 11:16am — 8 Comments

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