Youtube, Snapchat, Facetime, Skype, Zoom, Instagram stories – it’s clear that video is transforming the way we express ourselves and communicate with friends and colleagues. Video is now routine and has started taking hold in the job application process as well. Why? Because you’re hiring a real person. Soft skills, such as communication and character are a lot harder to gauge via CV, even for experienced recruiters and hiring managers. That said, we’re thrilled to launch the video cover letter functionality in JobAdder (and completely free of charge!). If you haven’t checked it out already, we’d love you to give it a test drive. Simply tick the “allow video cover letters” box next time you’re posting a job ad, and we’ll automatically enable it across your application forms. From then on, candidates can record and upload a 60 second video cover letter on their mobile, tablet or desktop device. Recruitment professionals can then watch candidates’ video submissions straight from the job application quick view. But wait – there’s more! Simply click on the “Get share link” to copy a share url for the video straight to your clipboard. From there you can share the cover letter with a team member working on the job with you, or send your best candidates straight to your hiring manager for review. View the video, then skim the CV It’s time to buckle your seatbelts. Video cover letters have the power to truly transform the way you screen and shortlist candidates. These days, it’s normal for recruiters to ask for a written Cover Letter, CV and LinkedIn profile. While these flat summaries allow you to assess a candidate’s experience on paper, they make it hard to evaluate someone’s soft skills. This is where the beauty of video cover letters comes in. With just a click of a button and 60 seconds or less of your attention, you can assess candidate’s personality. This could mean the difference between spending precious hours of your day organising and conducting phone screening/face-to-face interviews, or progressing/rejecting candidates in under a minute! How to create an effective cover letter? Think of your video cover letter as a “movie trailer”, and your career as a movie. Make it exciting, memorable and give just enough information to really interest the recruiter or hiring manager. Here are some tips to help you create an effective video cover letter:
What’s next? Trial the new video cover letter feature in JobAdder, and don’t be shy to give us your feedback. We’ll be bringing some more exciting new improvements very soon! If you have any ideas or feedback you’d like to share, reach out to Akahsha at [email protected]. In your job description, don’t forget to ask applicants to record a short introductory video cover letter and submit it along with their CV. This will serve you well! You’ll be able to see how the candidate interacts, gauge their personality, and quickly eliminate any inappropriate candidates. By reviewing both the CV and video cover letter, you can easily find the right person for the job! Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/enable-video-cover-letters-jobadder/
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By now, most recruiters are in tune with the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace. It’s proved that teams with a broader range of experiences and perspectives perform better. However, a vast body of research shows that the hiring process can be biased. Whether conscious or not, it can play a big role in whom we hire. This is especially likely to happen when recruiters have to screen dozens of job applications every day, and simply don’t have enough time to accurately assess everyone’s communication ability. With the globalisation of the workforce and an ever-expanding access to a diverse talent pool, it’s extremely important for recruiters to be able to quickly and accurately assess candidate’s English language communication skills. To help recruitment professionals make low-risk hiring decisions and increase diversity, FluentIQ has developed a robust test that allows for almost instant assessment of someone’s English language communication abilities in a real-world context. A bit about FluentIQ FluentIQ is a test of real-world English communication designed for the talent industry. Using FluentIQ provides an easier way to hire and build more diverse teams, at lower cost. The online, one-hour test assesses candidate’s speaking, listening, writing and reading skills, and provides an overall score of combined abilities alongside a compartmentalised breakdown. Even better, recruiters have the option to weight the test by capabilities, in response to the requirements for each individual role. Recruiters are then quickly able to see where candidate’s abilities align within a role and acknowledge potential for development within existing teams. Unlike existing English tests, the FluentIQ test is designed to assess the real-world communication skills needed for talent acquisition and development. Fluent IQ helps recruiters avoid unnecessary elimination of talent who would have been great hires, remove bias from the hiring process and build diverse teams with minimal effort. The FluentIQ test also has a built-in fraud protection that aims to give recruiters complete confidence that the person on the certificate is the same person who took the test. Added peace of mind is provided by way of a video of the test taker embedded into the digital certificate. JobAdder and FluentIQ work together Having FluentIQ integrated into JobAdder allows JobAdder customers to seamlessly bring the FluentIQ test into their recruitment process. Quickly send out tests to multiple candidates and compare results in JobAdder. FluentIQ’s test assesses English language fluency across the board, analysing an individual’s speaking, listening, reading and writing abilities. Once verified by Fluent IQ (24 hour process) the test scores are populated on the Candidate’s record in JobAdder. Get started straight away It’s really easy to get started with FluentIQ and JobAdder. If you’re new to FluentIQ, head to the FluentIQ website to check it out and sign up for an enterprise account. Once you have your account set up, contact JobAdder to enable the integration. Our team will link your FluentIQ Enterprise account to your JobAdder account. Finally, you are ready to go! Change any job application status to “Send FluentIQ Invite” for 15mins and an invite will be emailed to your candidate. To see FluentIQ in action, contact [email protected]. Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/remove-bias-hiring-process-build-diverse-teams/ Protected: NEW The Consummate Recruiter: A Podcast Revealing The Inner Workings of Recruitment22/9/2017 Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/new-consummate-recruiter-podcast/ If you tend to find that once the hype of the recruitment process is over, the onboarding process really drags its heels, then say hello to our new integration with Employment Hero. Employment Hero is one of the most diverse HRIS platforms on the market, with an inbuilt payroll system and a diverse benefits platform. And it’s the antidote to a slow and sluggish onboarding experience for your new employees. Here’s how it works: Once integrated with JobAdder, every placement you make in JobAdder is automatically imported into Employment Hero for you to start the onboarding process without delay. Once you select the relevant placement in Employment Hero, you’ll see that the candidate’s name, email address and other employment details, such as their salary, are already populated in the platform. Here are some of the top benefits of Employment Hero:
For more information about how to sync up your JobAdder account with Employment Hero and start streamlining the onboarding process, log in to the Support Centre to read this how-to article. Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/new-employment-hero-integration-simplifies-onboarding/ Video is currently being rolled out across LinkedIn as a standard media option for all posts. In coming months all users will be able to upload video content to supplement their posts and articles. This means LinkedIn feeds could very well end up mostly video, or video may get prioritised over text. As a recruiter or marketer, does this make you excited or nervous? Based on the content I see in my LinkedIn feed each day I’d suggest most people in recruitment should be quite terrified of the prospect of video recruitment marketing. Why do I say this when video is such an exciting and accessible medium? The reason I say this is that precious few companies have any idea how to portray themselves or their products and services on video. You can’t just pick up a video camera and wave it at some chatty people and make compelling content. This medium takes serious practice to get right. Producing a shitty video is very easy to do, but creating one that a person on LinkedIn will watch for 90 seconds and THEN click ‘like’ or ‘share’, is a whole other kettle of fish. (Who has ever put fish in a kettle??) Video is a very authentic form of communication. If your company is boring and your products and services are not differentiated or compelling, then no amount of video pizzazz will be likely to fix that. You can dress up your corporate piggy in pearls and high heels but on video it will still be a piggy. That’s the bad news out of the way. The great news is that video is actually pretty easy to do, and with some bravery and practice, any company with a mobile phone can produce fantastic video content. For video to be successful it does not have to be hilarious, or full of glamorous people – it just needs to be authentic. It needs to be genuine, unique content that delivers an interesting message and will capture someone’s attention for 30-90 seconds. Your service might be the placement of senior legal executives – (lord knows it doesn’t get less “sexy video” than that) – however there is plenty of content that lawyers do find sexy. Latest cases and precedents, changes in laws, attracting new talent, competitor updates and so on. (It’s OK I have a free pass to poke fun at lawyers because I am part of the fraternity, via marriage). Here are some examples of recruiting videos that literally anyone reading this article could produce;
Here at JobAdder as an example, we are currently a team of 65 people and have recently hired a full time videographer to produce all of our video content. Time will tell, but I feel this is going to be a great move for our business. Hiring someone full time is not necessarily a path a recruitment agency or most companies will go down, however you could definitely be considering other options such as;
Whichever way you choose to produce video, I don’t think you can consider it to be ‘optional’ any longer. Video is an essential component of any marketing proposition, so it would be a great idea to get busy with your video strategy today. My biggest piece of advice is do not over think it. Just do it. If your video is rubbish no one will watch it. You can always take it down and try again. Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/video-coming-linkedin-prepared/ Last week the Breakfast Club came to JobAdder. No, there wasn’t any detention and unfortunately Molly Ringwald was nowhere in sight, but there was a bevy of recruitment industry folk networking and trading information over a killer breakfast spread. Don’t just take our word for it – watch the video recap!
For JobAdder’s very first Breakfast Club event, produced in collaboration with the onboarding specialists at Enboarder, we had the pleasure of welcoming Alana Bennett as guest speaker. Alana is the Head of Talent at oOh!media, an ASX-listed company that recently achieved an average employee Net Promoter Score of over 90%.
During the event, Alana shared insight and practical advice about how companies can transform their new hire onboarding experience. Brent Pearson, Founder of Enboarder, shared, “Really enjoyed the Breakfast Club breakfast. It was great to mix a ton of new faces as well as some of our existing customers. I thought Alana’s presentation was fantastic and packed full of really useful information for anybody trying to improve their Employee Experience.”
JobAdder Senior Sales Consultant Dave Johnson echoed Brent’s sentiments, “The aim of JobAdder’s Breakfast Club is to add value to the HR / Talent community, by connecting thought leaders and best of breed technology with progressive HR / Talent practitioners. With this in mind, oOH!media’s Alana Bennett hit it out of the park. I can’t wait for our next event in September.”
To see more pictures from the event, check out the official event album on Facebook.
Stay tuned for details about JobAdder’s next Breakfast Club event in September by following us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram! Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/missed-jobadders-first-breakfast-club/ Last week the Breakfast Club came to JobAdder. No, there wasn’t any detention and unfortunately Molly Ringwald was nowhere in sight, but there was a bevy of recruitment industry folk networking and trading information over a killer breakfast spread. Don’t just take our word for it – here’s the video recap!
For JobAdder’s very first Breakfast Club event, produced in collaboration with the onboarding specialists at Enboarder, we had the pleasure of welcoming Alana Bennett as guest speaker. Alana is the Head of Talent at oOh!media, an ASX-listed company that recently achieved an average employee Net Promoter Score of over 90%.
During the event, Alana shared insight and practical advice about how companies can transform their new hire onboarding experience. Brent Pearson, Founder of Enboarder, shared, “Really enjoyed the Breakfast Club breakfast. It was great to mix a ton of new faces as well as some of our existing customers. I thought Alana’s presentation was fantastic and packed full of really useful information for anybody trying to improve their Employee Experience.”
JobAdder Senior Sales Consultant Dave Johnson echoed Brent’s sentiments, “The aim of JobAdder’s Breakfast Club is to add value to the HR / Talent community, by connecting thought leaders and best of breed technology with progressive HR / Talent practitioners. With this in mind, oOh!media’s Alana Bennett hit it out of the park. I can’t wait for our next event in September.” To see more pictures from the event, check out the official event album on Facebook. Stay tuned for details about JobAdder’s next Breakfast Club event in September by following us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram! Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/missed-jobadders-first-breakfast-club/ With the number of people using the JobAdder mobile app at an all-time high, we’ve been exploring new ways to raise the stakes on mobile recruitment and make the app even better for each and every user. Unsurprisingly, the mobile app feature that’s continually ranking most popular with users is the search function – just last month it was used over 9,800 times! If you think that sounds like a lot, the desktop version feature that took out the top gong for most popular feature last month was the Job Application Quick View with a whopping 1.9 million clicks! There’s no denying it – search is at the center of every recruiter’s daily workflow. As a result, extensions and improvements to the search functionality are the star feature of our latest mobile product update. Introducing the new recent keywords search.
This means that if you’re recruiting for similar types of roles, you can skip the hassle of retyping your search each time by simply tapping on it when it appears automatically below your search bar. You’ll be happy to know that this neat new feature is available on all screens with a bar search. If you haven’t already, download the JobAdder mobile app here for your iOS or your Android device to start recruiting everywhere! Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/spotlight-search-introducing-fast-new-way-search-mobile/ At JobAdder, we believe you’ve got to shake things up and do things differently in order to get the best results. So, why not challenge the norm when it comes to hosting job interviews? Picture this: you’re a candidate who’s been invited to two job interviews, one in a stiff office boardroom and one at a cozy local pub. Which job (and company for that matter) would you be more intrigued about? Recently we put this scenario to the test. Two of our Product Managers along with the head of our Mobile Product Development team invited a candidate to give a final pitch presentation at a local pub. The candidate was met at the pub by our friendly team of Adders, where beer and banter provided the backdrop to their presentation. The net effect of this unconventional recruitment strategy was that the informal setting took the edge off of the interview nerves, allowing the hiring managers to get a more accurate impression of the candidate and how they handled themself in an unorthodox environment. In turn, the candidate got the chance to experience our company values in a friendly setting and see the way our teams work together. As long as you’re not having to rely on wifi or power, which can be tricky at a pub – and you don’t coincide your interview with happy hour when there’s noise to contend with – hosting an interview at a pub is a convenient, relaxed and informal setting. Another benefit is that it gives the candidate the chance to mingle in a social setting with the team afterwards and see if they can picture themselves fitting in with the people and culture of the company. Not quite the scene you picture when you think of a job interview, right?
As companies the world over start embracing new and more liberating workforce trends, we see workplace traditions being redefined every day. For example, global mobility and increased workplace flexibility allow people to work outside the confines of one desk for the same set number of hours every day. Hosting a job interview at a pub may not be feasible for every workplace, but it’s food for thought about how you and your company can redefine traditional workplace habits. What out-of-the-box approaches does your company have towards daily work traditions and habits? Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/host-next-job-interview-pub/ Last week a group of us Adders was delighted to attend the August Captain’s Table event hosted by the team at Navigator Consulting. If you’re wondering about what the attendance list looks like at a ‘Captain’s Table’ event, no – you don’t have to be an actual captain to attend, but you do have to be a recruitment business owner or leader with an avid interest in our industry. The purpose of the Captain’s Table meet ups is for industry influencers to network and discuss current recruitment trends and issues. Supported by JobAdder, Gumtree and JXT, a group of us (non-captains) gathered at Sydney’s Hyatt Regency Hotel to discuss the topic of this session: employee retention and performance. Don’t miss this quick video of the event highlights:
Here are the top 10 insights and advice discussed at the event:
To get the official event low down, read Navigator Consulting’s full post-event article here. While you’re here, check out the event photo gallery too! Source: JobAdder News & Information - Recruit Everywhere http://blog.jobadder.com/industry-insiders-discuss-employee-retention-performance/ |