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Building Diverse Teams Takes Time, Patience and Long Term Planning
Research shows that when a company embraces diversity, it can become more innovative and competitive. These traits are especially important for companies who continue to experience exponential growth,...
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How to Hire Patient People
I once saw a photograph of a dandelion plant. On its own, that image wouldn’t be anything special: dandelions are everywhere. But these dandelions were nestled atop a small mound of asphalt. Somehow...
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6 Steps to Move Hiring out of the Slow Lane
Achieving success in business is all about people. When we say we love a company or a brand, what we're really saying is we love the work being done by the exceptional people in these organizations....
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3 Ways To Increase Your Veteran Hiring
Our Veterans, America's sons and daughters, pursued a noble cause to protect and defend our nation’s freedoms. According to the Population Representation in the Military Services, Service Members...
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5 Unique Interview Questions Every Recruiter Should Ask
Interviewing to discover who will succeed in your organization is a crucial component to hiring well. Many candidates will have the skills and qualifications you are looking for, but only a few will...
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The Secret Recipe For Great Hiring is Finger Lickin’ Good, Y’all
Talent Acquisition Specialists, time to look in the mirror for 2017. How do you make your recruiting efforts sky-rocket? Let your hiring managers run the show.Here are some of my fundamental...
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#Nextchat: The Secret Recipe for Great Hiring
It’s a common mission: Hiring managers and recruiters both want to find the best candidate for the job. Like any other relationship, talent acquisition teamwork requires trust and communication to be...
View Article#Nextchat RECAP: The Secret Recipe for Great Hiring
On August 30, @shrmnextchat chatted with special guest Dawn Burke (@DawnHBurke) on The Secret Recipe for Great Hiring.In case you missed this informative chat, you can read the tweets here: [View the...
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To Win the War for Talent: Do this One Thing for your Next Game-Changing Hire
I’ve interviewed and hired for every level of talent in my career; from individual contributor to C-level leaders for Fortune 500 companies. Quite simply, I’ve seen a lot of resumes and had a...
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Hiring Discrimination Isn’t Getting Better
According to a new study there has been little to no progress in reducing racial hiring discrimination since 1989. Researchers from Northwestern University, Harvard, and the Institute for Social...
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How You Reject a Job Candidate Defines Your Recruitment Strategy
An organization's HR team can create advocates out of any applicant—even the rejected ones—by ensuring each candidate has a positive experience. But too many organizations ignore, or blunder through...
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Impact Hiring: A Double Bottom-Line Solution to Today’s Entry-Level Talent Needs
With the nation's unemployment rate, which dropped to 4.3% over the summer, at the lowest levels in 16 years, competition for entry-level talent has stiffened considerably. Target's recent...
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#Nextchat: The Balance that Creates an Amazing Candidate Experience
Recruiting technologies that have emerged over the past few years have been a boon for HR when it comes to unloading many of the burdensome administrative tasks that accompany the hiring process....
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Making Decisions About People
How can we make the best decision possible when choosing whom to hire (or befriend or date or commit ourselves to for one reason or another)? Is there a way to predict a candidate's future behavior...
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Words of Wisdom: Discovering a Different Diversity
People’s past mistakes shouldn’t preclude their future successes. Coming of age in the 1960s shaped my perspective. I lived through some of the defining events of the 20th century: the assassinations...
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Learn to Navigate Life's Challenges
Life is full of challenges: some of the hardest are those faced by recently released felons. Jon Ponder, the founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners (the Las Vegas-based non-profit that trains and...
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Hiring Manager and Recruiter Relationship: Communication Is Key!
When I get word that a new job opening is coming down the pike (for example, a senior engineer), the first thing I start to do is some personal research. The majority of the team is senior engineers....
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Culture Fit and Rocking the Boat
Firstly, I think HR is the reason why hiring managers care about culture fit when interviewing to bring someone new onto their team. Culture fit is a buzz word I’ve heard coming from the HR...
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SHRM board member David Windley discusses how unconscious bias can derail workplace diversity efforts. To see more HR Storytellers, please click here. Tags: unconscious biasBiasDiversityHiring
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#Nextchat: Why Resumes Need to Retire
Resumes. Should they stay or should they go?Some will argue that resumes are no longer relevant in the new world of work, and that a list of past jobs and responsibilities and a college degree can’t...
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