Recruiting News RoundUp

This week's recruiting news:

How to Hire Awesome Employees
When recruiting for open positions, employers look for candidates with the skills, experience, and demeanor they believe will benefit their organizations. The qualifications for positions can vary widely among organizations and from job to job, but employers tend to look for reliable, hard-working people who they believe will impact their organizations positively and with consistent, high-quality work.

3 Things Millennials Want — And How You Can Deliver Them
Millennials: A generation that’s warped with stereotypes. But do you really know what they want? It’s easy to peg Millennials as selfish or ungrateful — a “me, me, me” generation of sorts. But if you want to get the most out of this segment of your workforce, you need to take the time to think about what they are really looking for in a career. Here’s a breakdown.

5 Interview Red Flags for Employers
From lies to lack of preparation, poor attitude, and insincerity, you can pick up on signs and collect evidence during an interview that the potential employee is not for you. If you know what you are looking for, employers can successfully spot these job interview red flags - before making a job offer to a prospective employee.

Company Career Sites Have Come a Long Way, Baby
Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin, through their CareerXroads firm, have analyzed company career pages for years, and they’ve generally been a tough crowd. So when Mehler and Crispin say things are getting better, that’s good news. And in their latest report, which I’ve embedded below, on the career pages of the Fortune 500 in the U.S., CareerXroads has at least some good news.

Nearly 2 in 5 Employers Have Jobs Open 4+ Months Due to a Skills Gap
If you paid attention to the latest jobs report, you’ll know that the U.S. added 204,000 jobs in October – 84,000 MORE than the 120,000 jobs economists were expecting. Even though there were some cheers heard the day this report came out, the employment landscape is far from a bed of roses.

Now You Can Create Subsections For Your LinkedIn Company Pages
LinkedIn introduces a new feature today that will be welcomed by businesses with multiple brands, locations, and product lines. Three years after launching company pages, LinkedIn has now made it possible to add multiple subsections to these pages.

Three Companies that “Get” Employer Branding
To make it quick: employer branding ultimately comes down to your employees’ job satisfaction. So to do it right, you have to treat your employees right. Here are three companies that have a compelling web footprint, which is important to recruit top talent. Learn what these companies are doing for their brand and how you can do the same.

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Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web

Recruiting Roundup: This week what would you do if you had to hire 2,000 people, interview red flags, which jobs have grown over 30% this year and more  ... this week's top recruiting stories from around the web.

Want to Attract Top Talent? Offer a Killer 401(k)
Salary, stock options, and equity are certainly valuable. But a great retirement plan can help sweeten the deal. The lifeblood of your growing business is the intellectual firepower and energy of your employees. Keeping those brains engaged and motivated--and not hightailing it to the next better opportunity--probably crosses your mind all too frequently. As does making sure you can keep attracting new talent to your enterprise.


More Young People Give Up on Job Search
The number of entry-level employees in workforce has not been this low since 1955, one report says. The unemployment rate may have gone down slightly in August, but that was in part because more people have given up looking for jobs. More concerning, however, is the fact the shrinking labor force is losing the very job seekers that are supposed to make up your future employee base.


Ten Jobs That Have Grown Over 30 Percent in the Last Year
As the job market continues to be a central focus of political debate leading up to the Presidential election, CareerBuilder experts have identified areas of employment that are growing at an accelerated rate.
 

Five More Interview Red Flags
If you've interviewed potential employees, you have stories to tell. Candidates dress unprofessionally. They arrive late, and they fail to prepare for the interview. They embellish their resumes and can't provide examples of work that they say they've accomplished.


How would YOU Hire 2,000 People?
Last week Amazon announced its UK division is currently conducting a mass recruitment initiative to hire around 2,000 people to help with next month's release of its Kindle Fire. The new additions will work in Amazon's fulfillment centers; centers designed to make sure online orders are processed and packaged. The mega eCommerce retailer plans for big growth over the next two ...

Best Interview Technique You Never Use
The more questions you ask, the more you learn about a job candidate, right? Wrong. Here's a better strategy. Eventually, almost every interview turns into a question-and-answer session. You ask a question. The candidate answers as you check a mental tick-box (good answer? bad answer?).

Four Signs You Need a Talent Network
Does the phrase “workforce planning” make you long for a fully staffed and centralized recruitment team? Does it make you think twice (or three times) about every technology system you use to recruit candidates? Or is workforce planning something only “large” companies do? Actually, companies of all sizes can benefit from workforce planning – and it’s not nearly as complicated as you might think!

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