Why we can’t always blame the algorithm

 Last week we heard that Amazon scrapped its AI tool that was reportedly demonstrating bias against female job candidates. How? It was taught.
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4 Reasons Retail & Hospitality are Adopting Recruitment Automation

 Retail is predicted to be one of three sectors most affected by automation (along with manufacturing and construction). According to a study by PwC, up to 34% of retail jobs (2.25 million roles) will have been displaced by automation by 2030. Another recent study by Oxford University determined that there is a 92% probability of … Continue reading "4 Reasons Retail & Hospitality are Adopting Recruitment Automation"
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High Volume Recruitment: How Contact Centres are Changing their Approach

 We hosted our second roundtable event for the contact centre industry last week. Our clients from the insurance, banking and utilities sectors joined the discussion.
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4 great tips to ensure your recruitment data is robust and unbiased

 By building predictive analytics into the video interviewing process, companies can benefit from automating their recruitment process and, more importantly, predict future high-performers from high-volume talent pools.
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How can contact centre recruitment benefit from automation?

 Customer experience is in the midst of mass disruption. A combination of rapidly advancing technology and increasingly high customer expectations is compelling businesses to transform the way they communicate.
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7 Reasons We Should Learn to Love AI

 Machine learning and artificial intelligence are in our everyday lives making things easier, quicker and more convenient. But when it comes to business, we’ve got reservations.
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5 tips for effective employer branding

 Your employer brand already exists. It exists in the interactions you have with potential hires, with candidates, employees and alumni. How you shape it is in your hands.
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5 Steps to a Personalised Candidate Experience

   According to Harvard Business Review, personalisation in marketing can reduce acquisition costs by as much as 50 percent, lift revenues by 5 to 15 percent, and increase the efficiency of marketing spend by 10 to 30 percent.
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How to Communicate with Candidates

   Narinder Hammond, Partnerships Director at LaunchPad and Jodie Grove, Client Partner at Meet & Engage recently hosted a webinar to explore the do’s and don’ts for creating an awesome candidate experience.
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#Recfest18 Our Picks from Stage 1

   Changing people’s lives. That’s the theme that came across to us strongly at last week’s #recfest18. What a great philosophy for what we do as in-house recruiters.
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A Framework for Agile Recruiting Implementation

71% of organizations worldwide report using agile methodologies to manage projects. It makes sense, as agile brings concrete, measurable improvements to the companies who use it: According to VisionOne’s 12th Annual State of Agile report, 71% of them are better able to manage changing priorities, for example, and 62% have improved their delivery speed or … Continue reading "A Framework for Agile Recruiting Implementation"
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Beamery Series B: Putting $28M to Work for Our Customers

When we started Beamery, we had a vision for how we were going to transform the talent acquisition landscape. We are on our way to achieving that goal. We also had a vision for the kind of software company we wanted to be. We’ve seen so many companies get away from their innovative beginnings after … Continue reading "Beamery Series B: Putting $28M to Work for Our Customers"
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Recruiters and Hiring Managers: Same Goal, Different Perspectives

   Recruiters and hiring managers want the same thing. The right people, in the right roles, at the right time. But tension in the relationship between recruiters and managers is something we often encounter.
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How to Map your Employer Brand

Imagine if employer branding was kind of like sticking a pin on a map. Guess what, it can be exactly like that. One of the most powerful tools in branding is the perceptual map, or the positioning map. It is called perceptual because it is built using the perception of users or customers, and places … Continue reading "How to Map your Employer Brand"
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Agile Recruiting Defined

Should the modern recruiting team be looking into agile recruiting? Ever since the agile manifesto came out in 2001 for the benefit of software developers, we’ve been seeing attempts to duplicate the agile principles in other fields, with varying degrees of success. We now have agile marketing, agile sales, agile retail, agile finance, agile supply … Continue reading "Agile Recruiting Defined"
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3 recruitment lessons from our contact centre community

 The LaunchPad team enjoyed hosting the first get-together of our contact centre recruitment community last week. Joining us from the worlds of insurance, banking and utilities, our roundtable discussion focused on how getting recruitment right reduces attrition.
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Upgraded Search and Filters: May release notes

May was a busy month: our inboxes were cleansed of junk newsletters we can’t remember signing up to, another Star Wars film came out, and we had a royal wedding in the UK. It didn’t even rain on the day! Of course, we also welcomed the release of Beamery 4.0. including Beamery Comply, which provides … Continue reading "Upgraded Search and Filters: May release notes"
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Candidate Experience Mapping

Recruitment marketing is, in a way, designed to hold the candidate’s hand and lead them right to your company. A great recruitment marketing campaign is one that finds its way to the most appropriate candidates. It then gives them the exact information they’re seeking about the company, adapting to where they are in their journey. … Continue reading "Candidate Experience Mapping"
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Who’s afraid of automation?

  
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Change Management for Recruitment Marketing Teams

When you decide to step up your recruitment marketing game, finding the right tool is only half the battle. You do endless amounts of research, build an airtight business case, campaign tirelessly with other leaders in your organization to get them to back your purchase decision, and finally, when that happens, you discover that you’ve … Continue reading "Change Management for Recruitment Marketing Teams"
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Infographic: Advanced Automation

 The future is here – find out why you need to be using advanced automation and how it can help you to work smarter and improve the candidate experience for the better.
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Recruiting Pipeline Coverage

No one can make guarantees about the future. But great companies make contingency plans, stay proactive, and manage risk; recruiting pipeline coverage is an excellent metric for that. Sales teams use pipeline coverage to predict whether they are going to hit their periodic sales targets. It’s a way to forecast their performance, and to reduce … Continue reading "Recruiting Pipeline Coverage"
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How to Hire Awesome Engineers while on Vacation

Here is a question for you. How would it feel to go on a week-long vacation after a quick 15 minute handover with your Head of People, come back all refreshed and full of energy, and know that you have scheduled interviews with extremely promising engineers while you were away? Adam, a lead technical recruiter … Continue reading "How to Hire Awesome Engineers while on Vacation"
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Announcing: Beamery 4.0

At Beamery, we’re dedicated to helping our customers create better relationships with talent. In many cases, this comes down to better talent pipelining, engagement, and everything in between. Today though, it’s about handling candidate data with care, and ensuring that you don’t lose trust that you’ve worked hard to gain. This is one of the … Continue reading "Announcing: Beamery 4.0"
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Building an Employer Brand for Success

   Laura Johnson, Recruitment Manager at Caffe Nero recently talked to Chris Pateman, Client Relationship Manager at LaunchPad, about building an employer brand for success.
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AI for Recruiting: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

This may or may not have made it on your newsfeed last week: the UK is making strides in regulating Artificial Intelligence. The House of Lords’s recently formed AI committee just shared a short “AI code” to try and influence the development of the AI industry, rather than “passively accept its consequences”. It touches on … Continue reading "AI for Recruiting: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown"
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Recruitment Marketing: What are you Measuring ?

We keep saying that the old recruiting metrics don’t work for the new recruiting world. Specifically, traditional metrics are not enough to measure recruitment marketing performance, and help companies use their resources in the most efficient way to build an employer brand and attract the best candidates. We use the old metrics to measure new … Continue reading "Recruitment Marketing: What are you Measuring ?"
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Launchpad mobile: The new app

 We’ve given our mobile app an overhaul – so you can now deliver an even better candidate experience using the LaunchPad platform
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Recruiting in the Age of Data

The average number of social media account per internet user worldwide is 7.6. The important word here is “worldwide”. This means that the number is much, much higher in countries like Germany, the United States, Singapore or the UK. And yet, how many social media profiles do recruiters look at when vetting candidates? How many … Continue reading "Recruiting in the Age of Data"
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Recruiting in the Age of Data

The average number of social media account per internet user worldwide is 7.6. The important word here is “worldwide”. This means that the number is much, much higher in countries like Germany, the United States, Singapore or the UK. And yet, how many social media profiles do recruiters look at when vetting candidates? How many … Continue reading "Recruiting in the Age of Data"
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How talent acquisition teams can show their value

   Our recent research found that only 36% of in-house recruiters feel their business places a lot of value on their TA team.
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How to Track Recruiting Event ROI

Events yield a whopping 3:1 ROI for 44% of marketers, according to Statista. Could your Talent Acquisition teams capture a similar amount of value from its recruiting events? The answer is: unless you track recruiting events correctly, you’ll never know. Calculating the ROI of any business action is, in theory, pretty straightforward: In practice, however, … Continue reading "How to Track Recruiting Event ROI"
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Five Tactics for Successful Hiring Without CVs

 Does the CV really work for employers or candidates? Feedback from senior in-house recruiters at our recent roundtable events is that fewer and fewer companies are relying on the CV to identify right-fit talent.
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Candidate Sourcing Scorecards: the Complete Guide

Sourcing proactively means 90% of the working population could be your target. How do you identify the best prospects in such a huge pool of candidates? Targeting specific individuals, reaching out to candidates and allowing them to get to know your company, building quality relationships with them… it takes time and resources, things that we … Continue reading "Candidate Sourcing Scorecards: the Complete Guide"
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Strategic Sourcing: What it is and Why it Matters

The first step in adopting a strategic sourcing mindset is to plan for the future. And yet, while 83% of companies source proactively, only 46% of them know how many candidates they have in the pipeline. Source: State of Recruitment Marketing 2018, Beamery Why is that? Knowing how many candidates are coming your way, focusing … Continue reading "Strategic Sourcing: What it is and Why it Matters"
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5 Innovative Recruitment Tips from Retail and Hospitality

 On the 6th March 2018 recruitment leaders gathered from the worlds of retail and hospitality. Given that they have many challenges in common, this was an opportunity to share stories and advice on how to recruit for quantity without compromising on quality.
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How to Walk a Mile in a Candidate’s Shoes

A picture is worth a thousand words. How many times have you heard that one? It’s far easier to understand complex ideas visually, then by wading through a whole bunch of text. This week, we’re really taking that to heart over at Beamery.     We talk all talk a lot about the candidate experience, … Continue reading "How to Walk a Mile in a Candidate’s Shoes"
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10 Quick Ways to Improve Employer Branding and Top Talent Recruitment

 As the lines blur even more between marketing and recruitment, the best brands are bold and authentic, sharing ‘what it’s really like to work here.’ An insight into company culture, career progression and colleagues, is now a must for job-seekers.
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Recruitment Marketing Maturity: Where Do You Stand?

Not all recruiting teams are at the same stage in their recruitment marketing journey. Some – between 16% and 35% – have sophisticated marketing practices in place, like smart nurture campaigns, a sharp employer brand, and some really good candidate data management and performance monitoring. But many more rely mostly on batch inMail and automated … Continue reading "Recruitment Marketing Maturity: Where Do You Stand?"
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Why has the Traditional Interview Survived So Long?

 Mythical Oxbridge interview practices, taking a long car journey together, telling a joke, having the right posture. Are any of these really effective at predicting future performance? And if not, why has the traditional interview survived so long?
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Usability: February Release Notes

We are always aiming for better usability with our product. Fewer clicks, shorter workflows, a more intuitive experience… More work done, in less time. That’s what our team has been working on with Beamery’s latest releases. You will discover a number of new features, including a brand new navigation, that will make your experience faster … Continue reading "Usability: February Release Notes"
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State of Recruitment Marketing 2018: 5 Key Takeaways

We surveyed recruiting professionals from over 550 companies, from sourcers and recruiters to C-level executives, for our annual State of Recruitment Marketing report. Their answers gave us some surprising – and not-so-surprising – insights into how companies intend to approach this function in 2018. We’ve put together 5 key takeaways from the study in this … Continue reading "State of Recruitment Marketing 2018: 5 Key Takeaways"
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Discussing automation,machine-learning & the future of recruitment

  
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2018 Trends: Employer Brand Isn’t Being All Things to All People

 In the second of our series on 2018 recruitment tech trends, LaunchPad’s David Devine says recruiters need to speak to increasingly smaller audiences;  bringing an end to antiseptic template emails and cumbersome online application forms.
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How to Hire for Recruitment Operations

Recruitment Operations is probably one of the most vaguely defined, yet most important roles in the Talent organization. Organizations tend to treat it as a sort of jack-of-all-trades position with a focus on data, but without a clear understanding of the potential scope of the role, they can miss out on the outsized impact that … Continue reading "How to Hire for Recruitment Operations"
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Whatever happened to retail therapy?

 Shopping isn’t what it used to be.The new retail landscape is dominated by cost and online convenience at one end, and in-store immersive experiences offering ‘dwell space’ at the other. Savvy customers – “I’ll just check the price online” – are squeezing retailers that are already facing increased costs and suffering the ‘high street jitters’. … Continue reading "Whatever happened to retail therapy?"
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Employer Brand: Don’t be Different, Differentiate.

What makes a strong employer brand? Is it the fact that it stands out? That it’s different? Or that it attracts the highest number of candidates? Strong brands stand out from the competition in our mind. We recall them more easily, so as consumers, we tend to equate strength with being different, but there is … Continue reading "Employer Brand: Don’t be Different, Differentiate."
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For First Time in History, Solar Jobs Outnumber Coal Jobs in Virginia

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Virginia has long been coal country, but the solar power industry has been increasing its foothold in the Commonwealth over the last few years. And now, Michael Pope reports that a significant shift is taking place.

Virginia now has more jobs in the solar industry than the coal industry. Numbers from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy show a 40% drop in the number of people working in the coal industry over the last five years. Henry Childress with the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance says coal produces more energy with fewer employees.

“Coal will produce more jobs I think in the long term. But we’ve had to cut back because everyone feels like it’s not worth it to use coal anymore. And I feel that there will be a time when we will have to turn back to coal to meet the demand.”

Read More: http://wvtf.org/post/first-time-history-solar-jobs-outnumber-coal-jobs-virginia
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