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Competition is the number one pressure faced by today’s HCM teams – by a 69% margin! Of all the pressures that contemporary HR teams face, finding and keeping quality talent ranks above everything else. As a part of that, Best-in-Class organizations need to focus on optimizing the employment experience, from hiring and onboarding, to ongoing management and transition. This report from Aberdeen explores how electronic signature solutions, as well as other digital HR technologies, can improve the employment experience throughout the journey. Read this report to learn: • Why Best-in-Class HR departments are investing in employee-friendly technologies • How digital solutions can impact employee experience, and why that matters for HR • How electronic signatures complement HRIS applications and streamline many HR processes

Employers may ask a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to implement internal systems to evaluate background checks as part of the hiring process. An adjudication matrix (also known as a hiring matrix) is commonly used by employers to designate what types of crimes over certain time periods may make an individual ineligible for employment. An adjudication matrix will typically contain labels such as “clear” or “ineligible” that designate how the individual’s background check results lined up with the matrix.

Fall and winter will be here sooner than you think, bringing new hiring challenges to HR. Get four key tips on how to seamlessly manage the process of seasonal hiring in this free e-book.

Citi, a financial services leader, implemented Codility to help them more efficiently screen and assess programming candidates. Prior to Codilty, Citi utilized internal managers and programmers to conduct initial candidate assessments. They wanted this process to be more efficient.

When you’re hiring, you need your screening process to provide reliable insights—and spotlight the best candidates in your pipeline—so you can make informed recruiting decisions. Ideally, you’re able to gather this crucial information quickly and efficiently, at scale, while simultaneously creating a great candidate experience.

Hiring a search engine optimization firm can be a difficult process. A skilled SEO firm will help you significantly increase the impact of your web presence, while a lesser firm will waste your money, and damage your online reputation. Yet, at least from the outside, the two can look relatively similar.

Talent acquisition links different phases of the hiring process by implementing a more proactive strategy that leverages more robust software solutions to better discover, communicate with, and hire top talent. Using this approach enables companies to transition out of older recruiting models by using tools that facilitate a more streamlined, cost-effective approach towards recruiting, selecting, and hiring. Discover the five steps of an effective talent acquisition strategy.

Criteria's HireSelect software helps organizations implement a pre-employment program in a timely and cost-effective way. HireSelect contains aptitude, personality and skills tests developed by leading psychologists. Sign up for a free trial today.

Understanding the sources, access and rules around the use of criminal record histories in employment-related background checks assists employers in their hiring process. This guide is a resource for any organization wanting concise information on key criminal records screening components and considerations.

Every helpdesk agent at every customer support team, anywhere in the world, dreams about Inbox Zero. However as most businesses grows from just a handful of support queries to hundreds of customers chocking the support hotline, they make the mistake of going on a hiring binge to reach that elusive promised land. The only problem? Hiring more support staff may not be the best way to scale up your customer support. This whitepaper talks about how you can scale your customer support without blindly scaling the team, with tips, ideas and insights like: - How to puncture the customer support hot-air balloon - Proactively identifying red flags and overloads - Top 4 things to know before you hire - Monitoring, understanding and reporting support trends - Tips to streamline your support process

The Structured Hiring method ensures an effective and unbiased recruiting process. Get your free guide today.

Hear how Betterment reduced dependency on agencies and built a scalable recruiting process.

Employee screening is a critical capability for organizations today. No longer just a part of the hiring process, employee background checks, eligibility verification and even tax credit screening are increasingly part of the ongoing talent life cycle. Aberdeen Group’s latest survey on talent acquisition strategies looked at the practices of over 480 organizations for best practices used and results delivered through the use of employee screening tools and solutions.

If you’re a member of the Talent Acquisition team, there’s a good chance you use a pre-employment assessment at some point in your hiring process. According to the Talent Board, 75% of employers are using some sort of pre-hire assessment. And the Aberdeen Group notes that of its “Best in Class” organizations, 91% use assessments to screen candidates.

This playbook will show you: How to attract the best talent into your hiring funnel How to cast a wider net than ever before How to identify the best talent once it's there How to speed up your hiring process to get to those candidates Innovative strategies to make the most of your college recruiting efforts

WHY SO MANY COMPANIES ARE RETHINKING ASSESSMENTS If you’re a member of the Talent Acquisition team, there’s a good chance you use a pre-employment assessment at some point in your hiring process. According to the Talent Board, 75% of employers are using some sort of pre-hire assessment. And the Aberdeen Group notes that of its “Best in Class” organizations, 91% use assessments to screen candidates THIS EFFECTIVE SCREENING TOOL HAS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES In this eBook, we’ll look at the science behind traditional assessments and why despite sound science, they don’t work for candidates today- and how they can be transformed with video and artificial intelligence.

Recruiting and selecting talented people has become a top HR priority. To support this priority, many organizations are leveraging assessment tools and processes to find, hire, and select the best candidates. To better understand both the use and value of modern assessments, HR.com and its partner, HireVue, launched The State of Assessments survey. The investigation covered the following topics: • The biggest challenges to hiring the best talent • Primary benefits and uses of assessments • Features that HR professionals want most from assessment tools • Most commonly used components of assessments • Time-to-completion and completion rates associated with assessments • The role of video interviewing in the assessment process • Future investments in pre-hiring assessments • And, finally, the ways that high-performing organizations tend to differ from other organizations in terms of how they use these tools

Recruiting leaders know that if their companies aren’t sourcing and hiring for diversity they are missing valuable talent and experience. This is one of the reasons diversity has been a focus area for improvement in recent years. Many organizations start with training. While diversity training is important for creating awareness, it doesn’t a¬ffect human behavior. A 2017 meta-analysis of studies investigating bias training confirmed this. Formal training can reduce unconscious bias, but it does not change behavior.13 This has put talent leaders in a di cult position. The way to make real progress on diversity hiring initiatives is by using systematic processes that apply data-driven decision making. With structured interviews and AI, you can overcome unconscious bias and make hiring more equitable for all candidates.

In retail, your people are your greatest asset. In this eBook you'll learn how to proactively drive revenue with recruiting, and how to prove the value of your efforts. Expect to learn: • 3 ways to calculate the ROI of your recruiting • How you can use the candidate experience to generate revenue • How to use the hiring process to decrease employee turnover • 2 approaches that remove the hiring burden on store managers Want to start driving revenue through your retail recruiting? Download the free eBook now!

MOST HIRING IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS JUST A DIGITALIZATION OF HOW I T ’ S A LWAYS BEEN DONE With new technology, you can fundamentally reengineer it to be faster, more accurate, and more inclusive of underrepresented groups. This white paper will show you how world-class recruiting departments are seeing drastic improvement in time to hire, better quality hires, and increases in new hire diversity. They’re reimagining hiring so the interview is at the beginning of the hiring process.

In an era when human resources departments are constantly being asked to do more with less, it’s clear that something needs to be done. As more and more resumes pile up for each position, HR teams need help to make a quality hire quickly. Fortunately, IBM Smarter Workforce technology can help, by providing companies the ability to test candidate skills at the beginning of the hiring process. Using simple and convenient skills assessments, it’s easy for HR departments to separate the serious candidates from the rest of the applicants. Once this is done, considering the candidates and making a quality hire becomes much more manageable.

Companies are always looking for ways to determine just how effective and capable candidates can be in the workplace before they start. On paper, candidates have indicated that they can code in Python and Java or can resolve any customer service problem, but how do their skill sets compare with internal success standards, let alone everyday coding or service expectations? That’s where pre-hire assessments can be so valuable. They provide extensive insights into candidates’ skill sets, strengths, struggles, ideal working environments, and more. Top companies understand just how worthwhile such a resource is for making informed hiring decisions. In fact, Best-in-Class organizations are 45% more likely than All Others to use pre-hire assessments as part of the hiring process. Greater insights about candidates can be a game changer for the future success of any company. While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all pre-hire assessment approach to fit in with every company’s talent acquisition pr

Join this webcast and learn: 1. Leveraging your workforce analytics data to make better talent decisions to maximize business performance 2. The power of candidate experience and engagement throughout your hiring and onboarding process 3. Best-in-class examples from industry experts to help you get started

In 2013, it’s time to get your recruitment processes up to par by automating and optimizing your hiring processes. Watch this free product overview of iCIMS Recruit to see how you can optimize your programs in 2013.

The iCIMS Talent Platform simplifies the hiring process and can make hard-to-fill positions easier for recruiters.