best practice | SmartRecruiters Blog https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog You Are Who You Hire Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:15:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-SR-Favicon-Giant-32x32.png best practice | SmartRecruiters Blog https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog 32 32 Agenda for the Future of Recruiting https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/agenda-for-the-future-of-recruiting/ Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:13:42 +0000 https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/?p=36674

Hiring Success 18 Europe bedrocks itself on the three topics your TA team should be most thinking about: innovation, inclusion, and hiring success. No longer powered by fax blasts into the great unknowable aether, Talent Acquisition has become an industry at the crossroads of inclusion, technology, and business strategy. A place of organizational importance unimaginable […]

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Hiring Success 18 Europe bedrocks itself on the three topics your TA team should be most thinking about: innovation, inclusion, and hiring success.

No longer powered by fax blasts into the great unknowable aether, Talent Acquisition has become an industry at the crossroads of inclusion, technology, and business strategy. A place of organizational importance unimaginable to the backroom resume-shufflers of yesteryear is now our reality. We asked for a seat at the table, we got it, and now we have to bring it.

Business leaders now have begun to view the people-function of their companies as a strategic asset, as they should. The challenge then becomes to keep abreast of the ever-shortening cycles of innovation, and that’s what Hiring Success 18 Europe, September 19th-20th in Berlin, is all about. Two days of non-stop workshops, demos, interactive presentations, and collaboration for practitioners to engage with the latest in best-practice for tech, diversity, and on-the-ground recruiting.

We’ve broken it down into three most challenging topics facing TA today, check out our full agenda here!

Innovation: big data, bots, blockchain, and AI.

In our exploding age of hyper-data, learn how recruitment advertising is poised to take over traditional job posting in “The Future of Job Advertising.” Watch chatbots battle it out live to answer your questions and prove their language-processing chops in “Battle of the Bots.” Will blockchain create a new gig economy, and how can this crypto-tech be the answer for data security compliance? Find out in “Blockchain in Recruiting.” Talk AI, or demo rather, with interactive presentations that illustrate just how far we’ve already come in “The March of Artificial Intelligence.”

Also: augmented reality, assessment, and analytics!

Inclusion: leverage social media, refugee candidates, and remote work.

Sure, you have candidates, but how do you turn this random group into a community? Find out how in “The Art of Community Building.” Tap into marginalized talent markets with “Have Your Hired a Refugee.?” If you are short on candidates, maybe your bias is blinding you: in “Ageism at Work” recruiters learn to root out irrelevant judgments so they can hire the best people. Go remote without losing engagement with these tips in “Inspire Your Remote Workforce.”

Also: why unlikely applicants make great hires and gender parity!

Hiring Success: leadership strategy, employer brand, and zainy campaigns.

Get on the same page as leadership in “Aligning the Board with Your TA strategy” and anything is possible. Your company is great to work at, so make sure the candidate knows it too in, “How to Pitch Your Company.” Or get inspired by the innovative recruiting campaigns in “Creative Recruiting Combinations,” spoiler – someone uses Tinder.

Also: hyper-growth, scaling through IPO, recruiter brand, and internal mobility!

Are you ready for the future of recruiting? Get to know some of our featured speakers here!

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Not every business has the luxury of a fully functioning HR department. But that doesn’t have to be a terminal disadvantage, as fitsmallbusiness.com discovered. If you’re a small-business owner with no HR department, recruiting and advertising job openings yourself can be a real drain on time. For credibility with small business owners, who may be […]

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Not every business has the luxury of a fully functioning HR department. But that doesn’t have to be a terminal disadvantage, as fitsmallbusiness.com discovered.

If you’re a small-business owner with no HR department, recruiting and advertising job openings yourself can be a real drain on time. For credibility with small business owners, who may be skeptical of traditional HR advice, fitsmallbusiness.com reached out to a business contact, found other business owners through HARO, and approached their own in-house startup experts, like co-Founder David Waring, who likes to use Indeed to find employees.

In terms of the ordering of the list, ideas that came up time and again found their natural spots near the top. As head compiler, staff writer Laura Handrick explains, “These are simply best practices in HR, but sound so much more doable when a business owner explains the recruiting idea in their own words to a peer.”

However high or low on the list, every small business looking to grow will find something, likely several things, on the list to help them get on their the way.

Top Three:

1. Incentivize Current Employees to Refer New Talent

Barry Maher, Founder, Barry Maher & Associates

As someone who’s consulted on hundreds of hires, my favorite tip for finding great employees is to motivate your current employees to do it for you. A bonus of some kind or a cash award for every prospect recommended who is then hired, and lasts a significant amount of time, say a year or six months, often works great. Your current employees know what it takes to do the job. They have a vested interest in bringing in people who will make the workload lighter, not heavier.

2. Contact Mutual Connections

Laura Gross, Founder, Scott Circle

I go to my personal network to find good employees. My friends, colleagues and former colleagues know me well and they know to recommend the right type of candidate who would be a good fit with my PR firm. I also use LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook if we are interviewing a candidate I don’t know to see if there are any mutual connections I can ask.

3. Contact Vocational & Trade Schools

Lauren Fairbanks, Owner, My Digital Remedy

I own a chain of iPhone and laptop repair shops called Digital Remedy Repair, and we’re always hiring tech-savvy phone and computer techs. Because most of our jobs are entry-level, we reach out to the local community technical colleges that offer IT and hardware courses. These students tend to be familiar with some of our more basic repairs, and have a good foundation for learning more complex repairs.

Here is the full list of the 29 most creative ways to find new employees.

 

 

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