HR Tech Is Booming, Thanks to the Gig Economy
There are so many tools available today to help you streamline your life. Productivity apps, remote working platforms, smartphone-based banking – all have helped people stay on top of things in this fast-paced world. In the workforce, people are working harder and faster to reach their goals – especially in the gig economy. Gig workers see their employment status – working gig to gig...
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A Look at Facebook's New Job Board
Businesses large and small have a new reason to encourage traffic to their Facebook pages: The social media network recently rolled out a new job board feature in the U.S. and Canada. With this new feature, candidates can search through a list of potential employers on Facebook and apply directly through the site. They can also communicate with these employers through Facebook's Messenger...
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The Major Opportunity Recruiters Are Missing: Company User Bases
People often say that recruiting and marketing are more similar than not, but we don't always take this to its logical conclusion. If recruiting talent and attracting customers are so alike, why don't more companies try to source talent from their customer bases? It was this question that spurred former marketer David Sokolow to found WeFind, a recruiting software company that helps...
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3 Ways to Make Sure Tech Doesn't Kill Your Employees' Productivity
The workday begins. Your employees enter the office. They check email, answer messages, shift files. Then they take a quick peek at the news. Then they jump over to YouTube for a hilarious two-minute video. Next it's a sneak peek at the latest iPhone on TechCrunch, followed by the holy trinity of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. With smartphones at arm's reach and the internet loaded with...
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Empower Your Teams by Putting Learning Programs in the Palms of Their Hands
Mobile content consumption is more prominent than ever in today's business world. Influenced by faster data speeds, consumer apps, and shifting consumer behavior, businesses are embracing mobile to improve productivity and empower employees through learning and information accessibility. Shifting corporate learning programs to mobile is a natural outgrowth of the need to empower employees,...
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Are Curated Online Talent Platforms Running Recruiters Out of Business?
Curated online talent platforms are on the rise. Frustrated with behemoth job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed, many job seekers are now turning to talent platforms tailored to their specific industry or role. At the same time, companies are increasingly utilizing these niche talent platforms in order to find the specific talent they need far more quickly than they could on larger job...
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How A.I. Can Close the 'ATS Black Hole'
We all know what the ATS black hole is: When a candidate sends their resume into an applicant tracking system and then never hears back from the company again. It happens to the best of talent – even people who would be a perfect cultural and technical fit for a role. Unfortunately, many applicant tracking technologies fail to meet the needs of hiring teams and the candidates they're...
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What the Heck Is Artificial Intelligence Anyway? This Video Has the Answers:
The subject has attracted a lot of attention recently, but many people are still wondering: What exactly is artificial intelligence? According to a report issued by the Obama White House last year, "Some define AI loosely as a computerized system that exhibits behavior commonly thought of as requiring intelligence." Sounds simple enough – but this seemingly simply buzzword has made its...
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3 Ways Hiring Assessments Fail You and Your Candidates
Each year, the team here at Talent Tech Labs looks at trends in talent acquisition and tries to predict what will make the most waves in the coming months. While we've been exploring which hiring assessment technologies are pushing boundaries furthest, we have found that there can sometimes be miscommunications between the technologies that exist and the needs of the users. Though we see...
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Dear Facebook: I'd Rather Use Your Job Search Mobile App (If You Had One)
Dear Facebook, You have charmed billions. You are a daily fixture in the lives of at least hundreds of millions of people. You've introduced so many to the seasoning of chicken, pet adoption, polarizing politics, and fake news. Facebook is where the people are. We are obsessed with you. You know our dirty secrets, lies, medical conditions, and family news. You also know our career...
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Your Introvert Employees Aren't Shy – You Just Don't Have the Right Structures in Place
Corporate philanthropy platform Causecast operates with a relatively small team – and a significant chunk of it consists of people you might describe as "introverts." "You might expect it's our engineers who are introverted, but we have a lot of introverts everywhere," says Laura Plato, COO and president at Causecast. "Our services team tends to kind of walk the line between...
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Friend, Foe, or Frenemy? The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Talent Acquisition
Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I love that it enables quick access to information, allows for swift communication, and speeds along processes, but I hate that it sometimes feels difficult to keep up with all the changes. Like others who work in talent acquisition, I look with some trepidation at the emerging technologies that are about to take our business...
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When It Comes to Workplace Technology, Your Employees Expect Big Things – But Are You Prepared to Deliver?
Often, our discussions about the future of work revolve around employers and how they believe new technologies and trends will shape their industries. But what about employees? Certainly their lives and day-to-day business functions will be impacted by new advances, won't they? As it turns out, our overemphasis on employer voices in these discussions may have come at a price, according to...
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Using Video as a Recruitment and Retention Tool
At many companies, there is a disconnect between workers on the ground and the C-suite. To workers at the bottom of the corporate ladder, executives often come across as distant leaders who don't understand the problems and needs of those who keep the operation running. To executives, criticism from the lower rungs can seem like little more than vague complaints from workers who can't see...
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Top 3 Benefits of AI in Recruitment
In 2016, artificial intelligence was a major topic of discussion. Does that mean it's time to move onto another hot trend in 2017? Not quite. AI has barely hit its stride when it comes to the benefits it can bring to recruiting and talent acquisition. Here are three ways AI can help you if you make it a part of your recruitment strategy: 1. Turning Quantity Into Quality On average,...
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Deloitte Finds HR Departments Struggle to Keep Pace With Digital Revolution
The digital revolution that began in the mid-20th century shows no signs of stopping. In fact, it only appears to be gaining speed. The development of new technologies and solutions happens now at a rate that's often unsettling for those in the business world. Human resource professionals need to keep pace with these constant shifts or risk losing the ability to appear competitive to top...
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How Chatbots Can Create Lifelike Recruiting Conversations
Chatbots have become a hot topic of conversation. These days, they can help you do everything from ordering double decker tacos to finding your soulmate. Chatbots have grown so popular, in fact, that Gartner predicts that, by 2020, the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. Now that's a notable prophecy! What about the recruiting space? Do bots have...
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5 Industry Experts on How Technology Will Affect the Future of Recruitment
Recently, MightyRecruiter put together a compilation of interviews with recruiting-industry influencers. Because I'm a guy who publishes a lot about technology, I took the liberty of sifting through this "2017 Hiring Trends and Predictions" eBook in order to find the most important insights into how technology will (or won't) change the future of recruiting. Here are a few of my...
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Chatbots in Recruiting: What You Need to Know
If you have ever booked a flight, bought a product online, or needed help from customer service, it's likely you've crossed paths with a chatbot. These automated systems have helped streamline quite a few tasks for consumers and associates alike. Could the same be said for industries outside of customer service? Here's what you need to know about chatbots and the future of...
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The Future of Recruiting Is Mobile
It wasn't even half a decade ago that top-of-the-line smartphones were out of the question for most. Today, we reach for our phones as a reflex. Faced with an unanswered question, a moment of free time, or virtually any unmet need, we turn to our smartphones. Because we shop, pay, talk, meet, and learn on our phones, it only makes sense that we would start to look for new jobs on our...
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How AI Works: A Brief Guide for Recruiters
As the Information Age becomes the Age of AI, it leaves many of us futurecasting what's in store, particularly in recruiting and hiring. Depending on whom you ask, you'll receive different opinions on what AI is and what it isn't. According to the White House's Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence report, "There is no single definition of AI that is universally...
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ATS/Background Check Integrations: The Next Big Trend in Recruiting Tech?
According to HireRight's 2016 Employment Screening Benchmark Report, 34 percent of HR departments strive for a more efficient candidate experience. That number may not be terribly high, but it's still a good trend to see: The more efficient the hiring process is, the better an employer will be at wooing candidates. In the effort to make hiring processes go more smoothly, some think that...
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The Case for Developing a Recruitment Website for Your Company
Recruiting is no longer an activity that only takes place when a company has a vacancy to fill. Today, recruitment happens 24/7/365. Smart employers are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to reach and engage prospective hires. How a Recruitment Website Can Help In an improving job market where candidates have increased leverage and multiple opportunities, it's the employer...
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Will 2017 Be the Year You Finally Upgrade Your ATS? [Infographic]
Are you happy with your applicant tracking system? According to a new infographic from talent management software company ClearCompany, the answer is probably "no." It turns out that 64 percent of recruiting and HR pros are dissatisfied with their ATSs or planning to switch to another solution. That's because many ATSs fail to deliver on the basic promise of screening talent so that only...
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Can a 'Leadership Simulator' Help You Make Better Succession Plans?
Running a successful company requires a team of successful managers. The day-to-day operations of most organizations depend on quality management, so it's important to get the right people into those positions in a timely manner. Not every good employee makes a good manager. An excellent worker can know the business inside and out and still lack the correct skill set to manage other...
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4 Top-Tier Tools to Keep Your Employees Connected
Communicating with clients is a critical work task – as is regularly interacting with your fellow employees. Contrary to widely accepted belief, neither is more important than the other. Yes, loyal, long-term clients are the ones technically keeping your place of business afloat, but it's a strong, unified team that keeps things running properly. You'd be wise to keep it this way. If you...
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Recruiters Must Take Action to Protect Private Data
It doesn't get much attention in the corporate recruiting field, but hacking is on everyone's mind these days. The CIA claims that Russian hackers influenced the outcome of the U.S. election. Last year, Twitter, Reddit, and Spotify suffered hacks that took them offline for unprecedented amounts of time. In February 2016, hackers stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank. Even the National...
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6 Ways to Make Applicant Tracking Systems Better
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What improvements, new functionalities, or new technologies would you like to see incorporated in your ATS? How can we make...
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Glassdoor Launches New Recruiting Tools
Once upon a time, corporate recruiting was largely based on intuition. Recruiters had to go with their guts, trusting opinions they had formed based only on short interviews and background checks. Thanks to modern technology, guesswork is much less prevalent in the hiring process. Today's recruiters are able not only to reach more candidates than ever before, but also to target specific...
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Candidate Engagement: Will You Lead the Pack in 2017?
Every organization has its own definition of "staying ahead of the competition." For talent acquisition leaders, however, it can only mean one thing: Beating your competitors to the best hires. In 2017, that's going to happen for the companies that are able to turn up their levels of candidate engagement, and technology will play a critical role in those efforts. Is your T.A....
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Upgrade Your Employee Wellness Program by Adding a Tech Component
One of the biggest problems with employee wellness initiatives is that they often lack any way for participants to actively track their progress. Employees are provided with the tools to get started – a gym membership, a diet plan, smoking cessation aid, or a kickoff program such as a company fun run – but are then left to their own devices. This lack of accountability makes it easy...
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Engaging Employees Should Be an Everyday Affair
Key to creating a positive, productive work environment is collecting feedback from your employees – the very people who form the lifeblood of your organization and whose opinions and attitudes determine its success. However, many companies find that gathering such feedback is easier said than done. Despite the creation of seemingly ideal web-based surveys – a giant leap forward from...
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New LinkedIn Product Changes the Rules of the Salary Game
One of the most awkward parts of the interview process is the salary discussion. Candidates don't want to bring it up, and neither do recruiters. As a result, it's not uncommon for prospective employees to go through several interviews before realizing that the company isn't offering a salary near what they were expecting. LinkedIn is aiming to change all that with LinkedIn Salary, a new tool...
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Can't We All Just Get Along? Opportunities for Managing Employees Across Generations
Traditionalists. Baby Boomers. Generation X. Millennials. Generation Z. Today's employment environment is more complex than ever before, filled with these five distinct generations that each bring their own unique sets of skills, competencies, perspectives, and developmental opportunities. Coupled with a global business focus, multinational employers and HR departments now face new and daunting...
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Workforce Management Solutions Come to the Cannabis Industry
Workforce management solutions (WMS) have been around for many years. This type of software automates and speeds up important tasks like payroll, scheduling, and employee onboarding. These solutions can also often help answer key questions about the cost and effectiveness of your workforce, including inquiries like "Which shift has the lowest variance from standard labor cost and why?" and "Which...
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For the Best Tech Tools, HR May Want to Look to the Consumer Side of Things
It's an exciting time for HR technology, with new software, systems, and platforms arriving at a steady pace, but unfortunately, few HR departments get to take advantage of the most interesting of these developments. Instead of being on the cutting edge of new technologies, many HR pros are limited to systems that serve their core functions, like HRISs, ATSs, payroll software, and so...
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3 Recruiting Software Predictions for 2017
The world of recruiting software has been evolving, and 2017 will bring more drastic changes. According to a recently published article in Human Resources Today, next year will be marked by a shift from cloud to mobile, Equal Employment Opportunity enforcement, improved employee flexibility, team-based reviews and engagement, and more freelance workers rounding out the...
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5 Predictions for the Future of Mobile Recruiting
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question about the employment market you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: At Recruiter.com, we're wondering what the future of mobile recruiting will look like. What do you...
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New LinkedIn Solutions Expand Talent Pool for Recruiters
If you're reading our digital magazine about human resources and recruiting and haven't yet heard of LinkedIn, your office is probably somewhere in a deep, dark hole – and you should let us know if we need to send someone to save you. But chances are you already know that since its inception in 2002, the social media site for professionals has become a household name and a staple for...
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Is Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Poised to Change the Recruitment Industry?
Recruitment marketing has come a long way – PPC, SEO, job boards, social selling, inbound marketing, content marketing – and it now welcomes a new entrant, account-based marketing (ABM). ABM is causing a buzz in the B2B marketing space, in part because this strategy promises the highest ROI among other B2B marketing initiatives. We're already familiar with today's darlings,...
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Companies Need Better Internal Communications to Engage Bored, Detached, and Disconnected Employees
A new report from interactive video company Rapt Media reveals that only one in three U.S. employees (32 percent) feels engaged at work. Another one-third of employees think their companies do not care about them and feel unappreciated by their supervisors, disconnected from their leaders, and bored with their employers' internal communications and training programs. Key findings from the...
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4 Reasons to Be Thankful for Resume Screeners
Resume screeners, also called applicant tracking systems (ATS), get a bad rap among job seekers. That's because many job seekers see resume screeners are black holes that rarely yield responses or interviews. However, it's Thanksgiving season, a time to find things to be thankful for! Believe it or not, if you know a little bit more about ATSs, you'll find that they actually aren't so...
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Assessing Culture Fit Without Assessments
While working in the executive recruiting field, Chris Daniels ran into an all too familiar problem. "We'd source about 100 people for a role, and when we got down to the last two or three candidates, it was always frustrating," Daniels says. "We had a good recruiting team, but I'd do a lot of interviews where the resume and LinkedIn profile looked good, but when I would get on the phone...
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The Business End of Learning Management Systems: What to Look for in a Good LMS
Learning management systems (LMSs) have been used in academia for years now. Colleges and universities realized long ago that putting courses online could provide flexible and long-distance learning options for their students. Now, in the business world, many executives are beginning to see the advantages of LMS software solutions as well. Instead of dumping new hires into a conference...
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Email, Text Message, Facebook – Oh My! Communicating With Candidates in the Age of Overload
Too much convenience can be a bad thing. For proof, look no further than the proliferation of communication methods in the digital age. At first glance, this has been a great development for us all. It wasn't that long ago when phone tag reigned supreme (admittedly, we haven't totally vanquished that nuisance just yet). Now, if you place a call and someone doesn't pick up, you can always...
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Is Big Data in Recruiting All Hype and No Action?
Much has been said about big data and how it promises to transform every business function. Given the power of almost unlimited information and analytics, recruiting has certainly benefitted from big data as well. Or so it would seem. A study from Accenture found that 94 percent of talent executives report using big data to identify new candidate sources, 90 percent report using it to...
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Beyond Active and Passive Candidates: Learning the Art of 'Talent Rediscovery'
Back in 2014, LinkedIn bought Steve Goodman's data science company Bright. It was easy to see why LinkedIn made the purchase: By aggregating and analyzing roughly 40 million resumes and 100 million job descriptions, Bright was able to make predictions about which candidates were worth interviewing and which were better left with a polite rejection email. Who wouldn't like to speed up the...
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3 Major Ways AI Is Augmenting the Recruiter's Role
After being the dominant theme at last month's HR Technology Conference, AI for recruiting suddenly seems to be everywhere. Artificial intelligence for recruiting is an emerging category of HR tech designed to automate some part of the recruiting workflow – usually low-level, high-volume tasks. One reason for the rise in AI's popularity is the growing pressure on recruiters to "do more...
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