A day in the life of a recruiter – Yasmin Bryant

What is a typical day like for a recruiter? We love getting the lowdown from our members and finding out more about their careers! We asked Yasmin Bryant from CSG Talent what her day is like; how she moved into the recruitment industry and progressed to a managerial position.

More information: https://www.rec-irp.uk.com/news-and-insight/i-love-recruitment-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-recruiter-yasmin-bryant

6 Top Recruitment Blogs You Should Follow

The recruitment industry is forever evolving and one of the most effective ways to keep on top of what’s trending and new is by following dedicated recruitment industry blogs. These blogs are written by industry experts, enabling you to gain insights within the industry and capitalise on any recruitment trends, advise and technologies as they emerge.

More information: https://www.recruitment-software.co.uk/6-top-recruitment-blogs-follow/

3 Unconventional Strategies for Recruiting Machine Learning Talent

Don’t call it a buzzword: machine learning is already one of the most in-demand skills, according to LinkedIn data—and demand for it is growing at an extremely rapid pace.

That means you’ll be facing fierce competition if you’re one of the many recruiters on the hunt for machine learning (ML) talent.

It also means you may have to get a little creative in your sourcing strategies. So we’re bringing you three actionable insights from LinkedIn data that can help you find machine learning skills by looking just a bit off the beaten path.

More information: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2018/recruiting-machine-learning-talent

The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you.

We took a look through some of the best articles published this past week for staffing and corporate recruiters and posted them below.

Here are the must-read posts for this week:

More information: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/weekly-digest/2018/the-10-must-read-articles-for-recruiters-this-week7

DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT TOMORROW’S TALENT WILL WANT?

It’s around this time of year when swathes of fresh young minds are entering the world of work for the very first time. And as they embark on their search for that perfect employer, I feel acutely aware that those things that were once important to me when I was first entering the world of work back in the 1980s, are in many ways incomparable to what matters most to a jobseeker first starting out in 2018.

More information: https://social.hays.com/2018/07/23/tomorrows-talent-want/

HR Automation software and what it means for future of recruitment

Technology has made huge inroads into our professional and personal lives, and it is no wonder then that a department that hustles several transactional tasks, which are routine yet vital to the smooth running of the organization, is undergoing a major transformation with technology at the helm.

Right from recruiting skilled talent (quite a long-drawn-out process that one!), onboarding them, entering employee data into payroll system and updating it regularly, granting leaves, handling shifts, assisting employees with any documents they might need, preparing tons of recruiting reports…

More information: https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/talent-assessment/hr-automation-recruitment-necessary-how/

How Top Recruiters Are Applying “The Toyota Way” to Talent Acquisition Part 2

Top recruiters are applying The Toyota Way — the famed comprehensive management approach practiced by the Japanese carmaker — to talent acquisition to help them deliver the talent that their organizations need in this tight labor market.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we showed how to apply Principles 1–7 of The Toyota Way to create an effective, always-improving and holistic recruiting methodology. Now let’s do the same for Principles 8–14.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/how-top-recruiters-are-applying-the-toyota-way-to-talent-1

A Surprising Practice That Can Help You Both Hire and Retain Talent

What is this mystery practice?

One word – onboarding!

Well, I bet you didn’t expect this answer, right?

But bear with me – I’ll explain exactly how a great onboarding can help you achieve 2 most important HR goals:

  1. Recruit the best people for your company
  2. Reduce turnover rate by retaining them.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/a-surprising-practice-that-can-help-you-both-hire-and-retain

The Evolving Recruitment Industry of the Middle East

The Middle East has certainly faced economic and political challenges in recent years, which has led to uncertainty in the recruitment industry.

The collapse of oil prices in 2014-15 and reduction in government spending saw many businesses respond with caution and look to reduce costs and gain improvements in efficiency by restructuring, accepting more expatriates, merging roles and indeed redundancies.

More information: https://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/the-evolving-recruitment-industry-of-the-middle-east

​Six Recruitment Blogs You Should Be Reading

If you follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn, you’ll know that we recently won the Recruitment Blog of the Year award from UK Recruiter. As a company who not only want to supply the best in recruitment software, we also pride ourselves on providing high-quality content to the industry which comes in the form of our popular whitepapers and now, award-winning blog!

More information: https://www.itris.co.uk/blog/six_recruitment_blogs_you_should_be_reading