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Creative Strategies for Recruiting Talent During a Labor Shortage

Harvard Business

The growing challenge of labor shortages across various industries has highlighted the need for innovative recruitment approaches to bridge the gap between job openings and the available workforce.

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3 Strategies to Recruit and Support First-Gen College Grads

Harvard Business

Researchers talked to students and recruiters to understand how employers can better engage with this often-overlooked talent pool.

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How to Build an Intersectional Approach to Talent Management

Harvard Business

Many organizations now realize that their struggles with workplace culture and recruitment may stem from a monolithic approach to policies, processes, and mindsets.

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Another common strategy we’ve seen is firms rushing to train internal talent.

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12 Plays to Kickstart Your Recruitment Process

According to Harvard Business Review, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated seismic shifts that were already rocking the talent market. With remote work making white-collar jobs more flexible and talent more mobile, a rebound in hiring meant the race for quality candidates had become even more frantic.

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Research: Trying to Pick the “Best of the Best” Is the Wrong Approach

Harvard Business

A better approach might be: keep the selection criteria for identifying talent or potential relatively broad, dont try to select the best of the best and instead use other criteria such as diversity or cultural fit, involve experts early in the process, and create a community of winners that includes all finalists.

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Research: Why Inclusive Hiring Must Include Refugees

Harvard Business

When companies seek to engage in more inclusive recruitment, they often overlook recruitment initiatives focused on refugees. The number of global refugees, asylum seekers, and others in need of international protection surpassed 50.3 million people at the end of 2023, per the U.N. Refugee Agency.

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The Data Intelligence Glossary for Recruiting and HR Professionals

As a recruiter, your goal is to place the right candidates at the right jobs or into ideal accounts. To build a candidate pipeline and keep the talent flowing into your agencies and organizations, it’s important to understand data-driven recruiting concepts to stay ahead of competitors.

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The Ultimate Guide to Executive Recruiting

It's no secret that hiring for a senior management position is a tough task for recruiters, and remaining open to changes and seeking better ways to source candidates is critical. How to Source Talent. In this eBook, learn: The Discovery Processes. Ways to Reach Best-fit Candidates.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

What is ZoomInfo for Recruiters? Find and connect with the right talent to fill roles fast with these tools: More data! Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system.

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A Recruiter’s Guide To Hiring In 2021

And recruiting professionals are caught in the middle. To make the most of this disruption, you need to understand the economic drivers, develop a strong strategy for unearthing valuable talent, and use the latest tech tools to get the job done. Read this guide to get your recruiting practice ready to thrive in the new normal.

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The Recruiting Crossword Puzzle

Recruiting in today’s world of tech-everything is a far cry from the way recruitment was done years before. You can solve your recruiting problems using new tools and data specifically designed to help do your job: find top passive talent and fill those open reqs – faster than you thought possible. The good news?