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The Ultimate Guide To Social Recruiting

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The tech industry needed to throw out ancient processes and discover newer avenues, especially in the field of tech recruiting. Yes, I am talking about social media, its massive reach, and one form of recruiting that has shot into the limelight – Social Recruiting. What is social recruiting?

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Hiring The Class Of 2021: A Guide For Recruiters

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The last time college graduates faced an uncertain job future, it was 2008 and we were staring down at the Great Recession. Statistics suggest that the pandemic has left us with a worse labor market than 2008. If you’re a tech recruiter hiring in 2021, you know that the playing field has changed. So did the class of 2008.

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4 hiring strategies that the 2008 recession taught me

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year’s total job losses to 2.6 In contrast to the underlying financial cause of the 2008 recession, the current crisis is rooted in a health emergency. “ In 2008, the business crashed and there was no financial support.

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3 strategies to make adopting new HR tech easier for hiring managers

TechCrunch

Recruiting for technical roles can be challenging. Working with talent acquisition (TA) leaders and technical recruiters can help companies scalably, accurately and fairly assess potential candidates’ technical skills to fill high-value engineering roles.

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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

CIO

And the murder of George Floyd — and the social unrest that followed — made it clear that taking a stand around social justice is necessary to recruitment, retention, and even the viability of your brand. Much of the disappointment is not with recruitment, however. These are not recruitment goals. It’s with employee retention.

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AccountsIQ scores €5.8M for its financial management software for multi-entity SMEs

TechCrunch

AccountsIQ says the injection of capital will be used for accelerated growth and recruitment across sales and marketing, customer success and engineering to continue to enhance the product.

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Developers are on edge

David Heinemeier Hansson

Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on their door nonstop can suddenly barely get a callback. Contrast the fortunes of premium programmers in 2024 with their situation from 2014 or 2008, and they're still looking mighty privileged. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. Are we moving up or down?