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Looking beyond the résumé: How talent pros can lean into skills-based hiring

HR Brew

And it’s no wonder why, according to Laura Mazzullo, owner of recruiting firm East Side Staffing. “We We have realized, in the hiring community, how often candidates were eliminated for reasons that had nothing to do with core competencies. People would just look at a résumé and say, ‘I don’t like the format. I don’t like the font.

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Outsourcing Employment Functions: Advantages of an Employer of Record

Recruiters Lineup

As a result, they focus more on core competencies while ensuring employees are adequately supported, and all legal obligations are met. Scalability and Flexibility – Employing an EOR enables businesses to scale their workforce up or down rapidly, supporting fluctuations in staffing needs.

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Is 2023 the Year of the Contract Worker?

Linkedin Talent Blog

If you’re a recruiting leader in 2023," says Stephen Lochhead , senior VP of global talent acquisition at Expedia Group , “and you don’t have a decent mix of contingent talent, you’ll be more risk-exposed to whatever the future brings — good and bad. You need some elasticity so you can flex up or down as needed.”

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6 Strategies For the Insurance Industry to Attract and Retain Millennials

Eightfold

As with so many other industries, the insurance industry is approaching a staffing evolution. AbbVie Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition Sheila Stygar explains that her former employer, PepsiCo, had to reinvent its employer brand to compete with tech companies for STEM and millennials employees.

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9 Books Every Recruiter Needs to Read at Least Once

Linkedin Talent Blog

Grant argues that in fast-changing times, businesses need people to think differently if they’re going to compete, as nonconformity is the secret to adaptability and agility. In the recruiting world, everyone talks about Google’s reinventing culture, why not copy some of Bock’s staffing secrets?

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Talent Acquisition

Analytics in HR

While talent acquisition and recruitment share the same primary goal of filling open positions in an organization, there are some notable differences. Talent acquisition is a more strategic, long-term process aimed at finding highly qualified employees for hard-to-fill roles and anticipating future staffing needs.