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Recruiters: Use Cognitive Aptitude Tests to Expand Your Candidate Pipeline

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Criteria Corp , a leading provider of pre-employment testing services. It might not come as a surprise to you that low unemployment and a growing skills gap have created a talent deficit. Possible Solution: Hiring Candidates Who are “Work Experience Light”.

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Talent Acquisition

Analytics in HR

What is talent acquisition? The core of talent acquisition is to attract employees to an organization and hire the ones that fit with the organization and role. Doing this well leads to lower turnover, higher productivity, and increased engagement. The first force is attraction.

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5 trends revolutionizing the talent acquisition space

HRExecutive

Talent acquisition is facing new challenges in the age of the Great Resignation as scores of workers leave their jobs. Advertisement As employers step up their hiring efforts, Laurano offered five trends HR leaders need to be aware of in the talent acquisition space. There is also a lack of resources.

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Employer Strategies for Successfully Hiring Justice Involved Job Candidates

ExactHire

My gut tells me that many employers are open to the idea of hiring individuals from the justice involved community, but have historically avoided the opportunity for a variety of reasons. Why you should consider hiring the justice involved population. Today, employers can’t afford NOT to look at every viable employee population.

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We Are Young: Tactics for Hiring Junior Developers

Speaker: Katrina Kibben, Founder and Principal Consultant of Three Ears Media, and Katherine Linchey, Relationship Manager at Codility

Pat Benatar left out a battlefield when she sang about love: the tech hiring battlefield. Now more competitive than ever, recruiters are finding themselves in a challenging market with more high tech roles available than experienced candidates. Tactics to identify aptitude to grow as well as hiring for current ability. .:

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14 Recruiting Skills You Need to Succeed 

Analytics in HR

Recruiting has always remained a function within Human Resources, so why are recruiting skills more important now than ever? According to Gartner research , recruiting is one of the top 5 priorities for HR leaders in the upcoming year. Contents Top recruiting skills to enhance 1. Technology aptitude 4.

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How can talent teams succeed in this ‘real, pivotal moment’ to deliver?

HRExecutive

As if keeping the talent pipeline healthy wasn’t already enough of a challenge for talent acquisition leaders, doing it during a pandemic has made TA a moving target. For example, he says, he is putting together the concept of a “zero-emissions talent pipeline,” which mimics GM’s strategic objectives for product innovation.