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3 recruiting metrics that can help startups make more data-driven hiring decisions

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According to Harvard Business Review , the price of a bad hire is 30–50% of their salary, which can hit startup budgets hard in 2023. It helps a recruitment team test different strategies, as well as spot areas where they can trim costs and optimize hiring. I track the cost per hire monthly to continually optimize the process.

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“If organisations are hacked, they should stay calm and act quickly by instantly activating their incident response plan”

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Legislative changes on a global scale have been a daily challenge faced and often exacerbated by the need to instantly change course and work towards compliance to avoid the often-hefty fines and penalties, legal liabilities and reputational damage associated with non-compliance. Can you highlight the top challenges you’ve encountered?

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7 signs it’s time for a new CIO job

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Parting may be a sweet sorrow, but it can be inevitable when a CIO detects a tell-tale sign that a quick and clean employment departure represents the best course of action. Deep, unreasonable budget cuts. The IT budget has just been slashed by colleagues who have no idea how their decision will damage essential services.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

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We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. This past year has proven to be a great time to build the team you need for the next few years.”

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Fetcher raises $27M to automate aspects of job candidate sourcing

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After a few years, the founding Fetcher team decided to pivot into recruitment, leveraging some of the automation technology they’d built into Caliber. ” Through a Chrome extension, Fetcher’s platform ties in with ATS products as well as Gmail and Outlook to allow recruiters to source candidates directly from LinkedIn. .

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Schneider Electric leverages AI to help develop employees’ careers

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Filling skill gaps on the fly Another major benefit of OTM is that it enables Schneider Electric to address any skills gaps in the organization without having to hire temporary workers or recruit outside the organization. As both a recruiter and a candidate, I’ve learned new skills.

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3 things that make a CIO-CFO dream team

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Thistle, who’s been recruiting C-level executives for over three decades, says that CIO candidates generally prefer not to report to CFOs because it signals that the organization considers IT as more of a cost center. Of course, there are other places where a CIO might report. I’ve changed my thinking on that.