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The Top 3 Most Valued Job Skills  Looking to land your dream job? Before you can truly interview well, you have to understand what hiring managers are looking for and how that aligns with your job skills and experience. After all, when they ask you about your strengths or fit, you want to wow them by describing the strengths that they most want and need in a candidate. Every job requires different technical knowledge and abilities, but beyond that, there is a set of essential job skills and competencies that will increase your value with just about any employer. Most Valued Job Skills 1 – 3 1. Communication Skills Employers want to hire people who are able to communicate effectively with those inside and outside of the organization. The communication skills category includes both verbal and written communication skills. That means being able to get your point across in discussions both in-person and virtual. It’s not enough to be well-sp...

Top 5 Job Interview Tips Most people feel pressured when they’re interviewing for a job; you know, sweaty palms, increased heart rate, fidgeting. It happens to all of us at one point or another.  However there are tips that will help you get through an interview at least appearing to be calm and collected.  These top 5 tips will help you cover everything you need to know to successfully ace your next job interview. 1.     Check out the Company Don’t get caught unprepared.  Learn as much as you can about the company before the job interview. Being well prepared means you will be able to answer interview questions as well as ask the interviewer questions to find out if you and the company and its culture are a good fit. Take the time, in advance, to search the Internet to discover as much information as you can about the company, its products, management and culture. This means going to t...

Video Job Interviews: Hiring Helper or Hindrance? Have you ever participated in a video job interview? More companies than ever before are using this technology to recruit candidates. HR staff and outside recruiters often screen candidates on video before sending the most promising ones on to the hiring manager for face-to-face interviews. Sometimes these initial screenings are even set up as one-way interviews, where candidates submit a video of themselves responding to a given set of interview questions. These videos can give multiple stakeholders a first peek at candidates. Decision makers can then view, rate and discuss these candidates later (often on their own time without the need for any scheduled meetings). And for companies that hire all over the country (and globe), video interviews in later stages of the recruitment process cut travel expenses and make the best-fitting candidates accessible regardless of geography. Should you consider using video job inter...

7 Smart Ways to Reinvent Your Recruiting Strategy In a competitive hiring environment, successful recruiters take advantage of various novel trends to build a robust working culture and attract top talents to their companies. If you would like to see a bigger pool of talented candidates at your doorstep, incorporate these seven action items into your recruiting strategy. 1. Location, location, location Remote work is booming and many employees are geographically distant from employers – which are just perfect if you’re work culture and system supports remote operations. It’s your job to socialize employees on a regular basis, including support for frequent travel. If your company is built to be a geographically distributed workplace (something we see more and more often), your job will be easier than you expect. 2. Go mobile Mobile platforms now dominate over various areas of recruiting, with many candidates choosing to search and apply for jobs directly from their ...

The Top 5 Headaches Faced by Talent Acquisition Executives Things are never boring in the RPO business, as each of our clients come with its own set of unique challenges based on industry, geography, and technology. While no two situations are ever the same, over time we’ve seen certain trends emerge across the entire Talent Acquisition universe.  Here are five common headaches Talent Acquisition executives repeatedly face, no matter the industry. Headache #1 – Balancing compliance with hiring manager service Talent Acquisition leaders face a constant tug of war between building a highly compliant delivery process and providing hiring managers with the necessary amount of flexibility.  To hiring managers, a highly rigorous and compliant process can seem like a maze of BFOQs (bona fide occupational qualifications), scoring matrixes, and data sampling procedures, forms, checklists, and procedure documents.  Seven Step RPO advises our clients to build a compla...

9 Biggest Mistakes to Avoid In Your Resume   Here are 9 of the biggest mistakes to avoid  In Your resume; not correcting them will instantly make your resume appear antiquated: The One Page Rule Don’t spend countless hours trying to squeeze a decade or two of valuable experience onto a single sheet of paper. The worst thing you can do is try to make the font smaller or eliminate space between lines. If you do, your resume is too hard to read. The best way to gain extra space is to decrease the margins. Use 1/2 an inch instead of an inch. The good news is that the one-page resume no longer rules, as today’s hiring manager is more likely to be scrolling down on a screen than flipping to the next page. In fact, for experienced professionals a two-page resume is the most common format. There are obvious exceptions, such as recent graduates and entry-level applicants who can easily fit all of their experience on one page without sacrifice. For seasoned p...

Are You an Expert at Job Hunting? How many things have you truly mastered? For example, you must know how to cook to survive day to day. But does your food meet the quality of a professional chef’s dishes? Similarly, you might like to travel – domestically and maybe even internationally. But how good are you at booking these trips? Good enough to book trips for others and charge for your services? In both of these examples, chances are good you would much prefer to be the  customer . You probably aren’t a professional chef or travel agent. So, where does  your  expertise lie? For example, project managers should be organized, able to write business requirements, and good at leading meetings. Let’s contrast this with what makes someone good at looking for a job: being well-spoken, good at self-promotion, and a strong  net worker . This is a short list of just a few things, but they’re all different skills. The skills needed to be a good...

Why employers must engage with their teams in new ways More often than not, most major brands out there are more concerned with how to increase consumer engagement than how to increase employee engagement. They are constantly looking for new and exciting ways to catch the attention of customers and make connections that will lead to brand loyalty. Because we are living in the age of technology, we expect brands to engage with us in relevant ways that are bespoke to us or tailored to our lives. What companies must now realise, however, is that this principle extends to its employees as well. Employees Are Consumers, Too Every brand is an organization staffed by the same people who respond so willingly to tailored engagement strategies, so why aren't more employers taking advantage of these strategies to foster a happier, more productive work environment? Why is it that, even though we are in 2016, many employers are using the same, more traditional methods of relating ...