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Personalizing the Candidate Experience
In 2023, employers continue to prioritize the candidate experience in order to overcome the challenges of a talent shortage, increased competition, and evolving candidate expectations. While AI can handle time consuming tasks like resume screening, candidate sourcing, and predictive analytics, today’s hiring managers can more strategically focus their time on creating a personalized hiring experience…
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Recommended Books for Reaching Your Career Goals
According to a recent poll, 42 percent of U.S. adults haven’t read a nonfiction book in the last 12 months and only 39 percent of them had read 1-5 books in that same amount of time. During schooling, books are the go-to source for gathering and learning new information. When we leave school, we don’t…
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Roadblocks to Job Search Success
We all have roadblocks; little and big snares that catch us and keep us from making progress towards something we want. In a job search, as in the rest of life, it is possible to get stuck and not even realize it. These are four ways people get “stuck” in their search, how to recognize…
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Writing Compelling Job Posts
At Job News we have a strict job staging process, which has revealed a number of good insights as to what makes a job posting more successful. Job postings that follow these best practices will typically generate more traffic to the posting itself. However, the biggest difference between a poorly composed job posting and a…
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Job News In-Person Job Fairs & Targeted Digital jobBlasts
According to top sources, over 80% of employers plan to make new hires and hire back previously laid off and furloughed employees. However, 87% of employers say they are struggling to find qualified candidates. The Job News USA Recruitment Combo of In-Person Job Fair and Targeted Digital jobBlast can give employers the hiring edge they…
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Hiring Frenzy to Famine in 2021
Not long ago everyone was writing about the hiring frenzy going on based on the strong BLS March report of 916,000 new jobs added (777,000 adjusted). However, the April jobs report was less than stellar at 266,000 new jobs added when close to a million jobs were projected. In May, we were back on a…
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Pivots in the Time of Covid
Desperate times call for desperate measures and people got creative when it came to ideas for keeping their large and small businesses afloat during the pandemic. Some ideas were more likely short-term publicity plays than long-term business strategies. But it’s amazing what people can come up with when necessary for survival.1 Short Term Pivots Hot…
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Will Your Company Require Vaccinations?
According to an Arizona State Survey sponsored by the Rockefeller foundation, 67% of Employers plan to offer incentives to returning workers to get vaccinated and 44% of those will then mandate vaccinations if that doesn’t work. 33% say they will encourage but not require vaccinations. According to Amber Clayton, director of the SHRM Knowledge Center,…
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It’s Time to Build
Well-known technology and software expert Marc Andreessen has flourished in his field. That’s why people are taking notice of what he has to say in his recent article on the need for challenging the status quo, creating, making and building for our future. Following is his recent article: By Marc Andreessen Every Western institution was…
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Together We Work Initiatives
Job News has successfully connected employers with job seekers for more than 25 years. This is our passion and purpose and never has this mission been more important than today! As America begins to reopen the economy, Job News is committed to working in new, innovative ways to ensure families and loved ones are healthy,…
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