Are Your Job Descriptions Gender-Biased? How to be More Inclusive!

Are your job descriptions as effective as they could be? They could include gender-specific words that turn off a large segment of job seekers.

Gender Bais in Job Descriptions?One of the most valuable pieces of advertising in recruitment is the job description.

Everyone agrees that a well-crafted job description is the most crucial tool to access the best-qualified candidates.

However, you might be sending out something that turns off nearly half of all job seekers—and you don’t even know it!

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Busting Five Myths About Employee Referral Programs

How can you get the most of your professional network when hiring? The answer is employee referrals.

Five Myths About Employee ReferralsIn a recent blog post by Heather Huhman for BusinessInsider.com, she busted a few of the myths of employee referrals. In the piece, she reminds readers that employee referrals provide better workers, as well as loyal employees who stay with the company longer than the average outside hire.

The sad thing is that despite evidence employee referrals are a powerful recruitment tool, many organizations remain skeptical.

If these companies can only see referrals in a new light, they will not only gain more candidates, but also a wider range of quality candidates from which to choose.

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Five Job Search Secrets to Get You the Next Great Job

Making it to the next phase of your career does not just take right qualifications, excellent skills and a little hard work.

It helps to know a few job search secrets, as well.

top secret job search secretsHere are five job search secrets that will get you the perfect job. They are mostly about the ways you see the job search, as well as your own frame of mind.

They are not particularly difficult to use, and you can add them into your regular job search routine easily.

To get the job quickly, take these job search secrets and let them start working for you:

Job Search Secret #1: Mine for referral gold first

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How to Narrow the Perception Gap Between Millennials and Human Resources Pros

On a job search, human resources pros learn how you see yourself through two things: your resume and interview.

Millennials and Human Resources ProsProficiency, knowledge, and capacity to do a job are not tied to any single generation. In an interview, the hiring managers or human resources pros hold all the cards. In fact, theirs are the only cards that truly matters.

They are the only thing between “thank you for coming” and “you’re hired.”

Perception over Millennials—the generation just now entering the workforce in earnest—is where these young workers need to pay particular attention.

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7 Interview Mistakes That Scare Away Top Talent

Via Business 2 Community:

Employers may think they hold all the cards when it comes to interviewing job candidates, but they too can do things that will scare off would-be workers.

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Interview (Photo credit: smiling_da_vinci)

That may not matter if it’s a low-level position the company is seeking to fill, but if its top talent the company is after, then interviewers have to tread carefully during the interview process.

“Employers scare off candidates probably more often than they realize,” says Crystal Miller, a strategist at Branded Strategies, the recruitment and brand strategy company. “Everything is geared toward what the candidate should and shouldn’t do. Many employers don’t realize it’s an audition for them too.”

The job market may be tight, but when it comes to sought-after skills, companies are increasingly competing for top talent. The worst thing a company wants to do is lose a potentially great employee because of bad behavior on the part of the interviewer. From being unprepared to saying inappropriate things, here’s a look at seven behaviors that will send potential employees running for the hills.

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