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How can we fix tech recruiting?

Workable

They’re even harder to make if you’re a recruiter. But she understands why some people think it is, particularly in the tech recruiting world. Aline used to be an engineer but she saw an opportunity to make a bigger impact as a recruiter. Being a recruiter in the Bay Area has convinced Aline that technical recruiting is broken.

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Best HR Software Providers: Standard-setters in performance tracking to 401(K) management

HR Digest

Here we look at the best HR solutions that make an assessment, learning, recruitment, strategy planning, and all things HR much easier. To aid your search we assembled a few promising HR software for some of the most important functions, mainly: (i) Recruiting Tools, (ii) Administrative HR Tools, and (iii) Human Capital Management HR Tools.

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Ending the phony war for talent

Workable

Back at McKinsey, a 2012 report gave their old idea new currency. It is this kind of hysteria and the way it has come to dominate thinking around recruitment that is largely responsible for some of the sillier hiring stories to emerge recently. Recruitment is as important as it can be hard. Evolution not an arms race.

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Employee development and the Peter Principle: Why your managers keep messing up

Workable

Who better than Workable’s top manager, CEO Nikos Moraitakis , to offer commentary? He gestures to the skyscrapers outside his office at the Workable headquarters in downtown Boston, and notes that they are technical and architectural marvels, and it would be impossible for one single person to build that whole skyscraper by themselves.

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The dishonest myth of work-life balance

Workable

This was apparent when Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in 2012 about her reasons for quitting a powerful job at the U.S. Certainly institutional structures don’t make it easy to balance work and the rest of life,” Kanter wrote in the Harvard Business Review in 2012. And like so many work-life scholars, he thinks this is a good thing.

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The leadership illusion

Workable

In her 2012 book “The End of Leadership” she found that while thinking about leadership was as old as human history, there had been an explosion of interest in leadership since 1980. The post The leadership illusion appeared first on Recruiting and Hiring Resources for Employers. The end of leadership.

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Pre-employment testing: pros and cons

Workable

To help you decide whether to include them in your recruiting process, we’ve put together an overview of pros and cons: The positive side. This is because recruiters and hiring managers often judge candidates based on subjective, rather than job-related, criteria. So, should pre-employment testing be part of a recruiting process?