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New in our blog: HR Glossary at a glance
Candidate experience, onboarding, war for talent, … Getting to grips with recruitment and HR jargon is not always easy, even for experienced HR professionals. We have explained the most important terms for you.
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How to skilfully present your employer brand in the job advert.
Companies expect significantly more from applicants than just a sound education, professional qualifications and valuable experience. Interpersonal skills and methodical competencies should also be demonstrated. And not just first at the interview stage, but already in the application. Because soft skills play an important role in deciding on one particular candidate. But what about the other way round?
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HR Glossary: Employee Demotivation
The term 'employee demotivation' in human resource management, industrial sociology and organisational psychology aims to cover and explain the phenomena of a lack of motivation at work; and a reduction in performance to a level that is, nevertheless, still (just) acceptable.
Employee demotivation represents a "silent protest" by employees who feel frustrated and unmotivated in their work.
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Recruitment pitfalls: Exposing phoney applicants
Anyone seriously dealing with recruitment issues will probably have experienced this situation: a particularly promising candidate turns out to be phoney. If you see through the camouflage before making the appointment, it is "merely" a waste of time. But even this doesn't need to happen. How to identify cheaters as early as possible in the selection process.
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Less is more: Tips for a good application process
Many companies seek to use their online application process to pre-screen the most suitable candidates. There is a fallacy that only the best and most committed applicants will complete a lengthy multi-step application process. But in the current job market, you can not only assume that these candidates will receive several job offers; the good ones are also often already spoken for: 70 percent of permanent employees are looking for a new challenge
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HR Glossary: Headhunter
The term headhunter mostly refers to recruiters or HR consultants, who recruit professional staff and managers for companies – either as permanent employees or as freelancers. Placement through a headhunter is free of charge for the applicant. In the event of a successful placement, the headhunter receives a significant commission from the employing company.
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How to make use of the Candidate Journey in Recruiting
Learning more about why your candidates stick with your process or leave it can produce great results. While candidate journeys get more complex, companies need to give themselves the best chance to connect and nurture candidates.
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HR Glossary: Agile Recruitment
In practice, static plans are now very quickly becoming obsolete, due to an ever increasing number of external influences in today's digital world. Software developers have been very quick to recognise this: here the word 'agile' is used to describe special approaches designed to make processes more flexible, leaner and more efficient, in order to better concentrate on the end goals.
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Stay ahead of these 7 HR trends
A company’s most important asset is its people, and it is the job of human resources to take care of and manage that asset. As companies continue to battle over skilled workers and applicants, an HR department that loses its edge can lead to serious problems for the rest of the business.
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CareerBuilder at the In-House Recruitment Expo: Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Talent Acquisition
Spin back 20+ years and the role of in-house recruiter probably didn’t exist in most companies. Vacancies were likely to be routed through personnel and it was usually left to a junior member of that team to call third party agencies and register the hiring need, or to find the cheapest media deal and book an advert in the local, national or trade press. CVs and covering letters would have arrived by post
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