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3 Benefits Your Clients Need to Know About Seasonal Hiring and Staffing Agencies

Spark Hire

Crawford Thomas Recruiting , a full service staffing agency supporting multiple offices from the southeast to midwest United States, was seeking a better way to access and interview a talent pool of premium candidates for clients across geographical barriers. The Bersin by Deloitte Talent Acquisition Factbook 2015 report revealed U.S.

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Freelance and Contract Workers: Why Comprehensive Background Checks are Important

Cisive

While this impacts talent acquisition and management, one question keeps coming up: Should companies screen temporary or contract workers? can use their successes (and failures) as a guide on how to handle background screening for a large contract workforce. In short, yes. Where Background Checks Come In.

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Talent Acquisition 2014: A Look Back and Ahead

Brandon Hall

Talent acquisition is the most complex area of human capital management, yet many companies lack the necessary resources, tools and capabilities to build a results-driven program. In fact, only 8% of companies have an optimized talent acquisition strategy. 5 KPIs of High-Performing Onboarding.

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Piloting a New Era of Talent Acquisition at American Airlines

HRExecutive

When Robert Daugherty joined American Airlines as its director of global talent acquisition in 2014, the giant airline was trying to put more than a decade of misery behind it. The state of the airline’s talent acquisition infrastructure was also in dire shape.

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Transforming Talent Acquisition

HRExecutive

As a talent-acquisition leader, it’s your job to take care of three constituencies: your organization’s hiring managers, the job candidates and, last but not least, the people who work within the TA function. There was no pre-screening or candidate assessments, and “no consistency in interviewing,” she said.

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Make HR Analytics a Priority, But See the Bigger Picture

Visier

Employee turnover and talent acquisition provide two cases in point. Yet, a fixation on the increasing hiring predictions can actually reduce cost-effective talent acquisition. . Each of three interviews rounds was predictive, but the second round screened out very few applicants.

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Brave The Flaming Bullseye With Total Talent Acquisition

TalentCulture

The senior vice president of talent acquisition led the meeting and at one point he said something quite profound and refreshing, not something I’d heard of late: “We cannot allow compliance to manage us. Well, more jobs were created in 2014 than in any other year since 1999. Wait, what?