Advanced RPO

04/17/2024

We love Morning’s smart advice for creating a compelling talent value proposition 👇

Get specific in identifying your target audience.
Research what your own employees in that target group like about your company.
Dig into what your competitors are doing to entice candidates.
Develop a formal, authentic talent value proposition that is truly unique.
Bring it to life through job postings, social media posts, and other marketing and advertising channels.

Check out the full article.

Struggling to attract top talent? Learn how talent value propositions personalize your employer brand to resonate with specific candidate needs and motivations.

04/15/2024

Is it just us, or have interview questions gotten trickier to answer in today’s hiring climate? 🤔

Hinrichsen is our own resident expert on the topic, and reached out to her for her take on offbeat interview questions. She offered up this one: "What systems and/or technology have you used, and what's one thing you do to hold yourself accountable to learning a new system? Please provide an example."

Here’s what she said about it 👇

“As technology evolves and alternative technologies emerge, it's important that candidates not only have experience using multiple systems but that they've had to learn and adapt to new systems within an existing organization.”

Check out more of the less common interview questions you should be prepared to answer.

Candidates are also screening us, so a good question is, "What is something that you wouldn't like to find here?"

04/09/2024

According to , more than one million new workers will be needed to meet demand in the semiconductor industry by 2030. That equates to more than 100,000 new workers EACH YEAR.

This is a good time to remember that TALENT competitors are often different from your BUSINESS competitors. Semiconductor manufacturers will be identifying and reskilling workers from other industries – including yours – to fill their factories.

Do you know how you stack up against your local talent competitors? Check out our recruitment scorecard for a step-by-step guide to evaluating your hiring process.

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04/04/2024

🚨 JOB TREND ALERT 🚨

When it comes to Gen Z, job demand is shifting back to the trades. This is ~5 years in the making, as a result of AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, skyrocketing college costs, increased instability in the corporate world, an unpredictable world economy, and more.

Check out the Street Journal in-depth article 👇

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More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.

04/03/2024

Are you ready for pay transparency? If you’re not already, you’ll need to be soon.

Many companies are fine to publish a salary range in a new job posting, but struggle with the domino effect pay transparency has on its existing employees.

Are managers trained to have meaningful conversations around pay?
Do employees understand salary vs. total compensation?
Do you have a plan to proactively address any underpaid employees?

These are just a few questions we ask in our conversations with clients as they develop their internal processes around pay transparency.

04/02/2024

The US has always struggled with a manufacturing talent shortage, but it’s about to get much, much worse thanks to a flood of investment in electronic vehicle (EV) production.

This map from the Defense Fund’s March 2024 report is just one more example of the fact that today’s talent challenges are far from one-size-fits-all.

You can find the full report here ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q02rvfyG0

03/28/2024

Eliminating the college degree requirement should bring more candidates in. However, for most companies, it doesn’t.

Many businesses think it’s as simple as deleting it from the requirements list, but it takes a completely new recruiting and hiring approach.

This article offers some smart considerations for implementing this strategy for success.
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To successfully hire and advance candidates without college degrees, experts say, HR needs to first lead changes to hiring processes.

03/27/2024

Skills-based hiring can help employers increase talent pools by 10x, according to a new report by .

In geographies and industries where talent is in short supply, skills-based hiring could be a smart solution.

That’s just one of six trends gaining speed in the world of recruiting. Check out a sneak peek of the report 👇

https://hubs.la/Q02qVllp0

03/22/2024

Our first time at the American Manufacturing Summit didn’t disappoint!

We enjoyed some great sessions, connected with attendees in 1:1 meetings, and met tons of people at our booth. It was during our lunch roundtable that we dug into some of the biggest challenges when it comes to recruiting in the manufacturing industry today 👇

Getting younger talent to see manufacturing as a career path
ROI of upskilling amid retention challenges faced industry wide
What hourly workers really want and how to get them to stay

03/20/2024

Calling yourself INCLUSIVE and FLEXIBLE in a job description in order to attract more women to your roles can backfire on you. Here’s what we mean 👇

➡️ INCLUSIVE

You need to create an authentic culture of inclusivity before it becomes part of your recruiting advantage in the market. You can’t attract women without women in roles. Being willing and capable of inclusivity is different that being inclusive.

➡️ FLEXIBLE

We see this word thrown around so often to describe a culture that it’s lost its meaning. Take the time to understand and articulate what flexible actually means in your organization. Keep in mind that flexibility means different things to different people, too.

Would you add any more words to this list?

03/19/2024

Advanced RPO’s Tim Oyer and Justin King are in Chicago as we type this, diving into talent acquisition challenges in the manufacturing industry.

How can businesses…

attract new job seekers to manufacturing careers❓
meet expectations around pay and benefits in a soft market❓
increase the technical skills of their workforces❓

Check back here Friday. We’ll share some thoughts about these topics and event highlights.

03/14/2024

As an RPO provider, we’re in the business of relationships.

Technology is a critical tool we use to automate various steps in the recruiting process. However, that’s ONLY IF it will create a better experience for our candidates and clients.

Recruiting teams must strike the right balance between high-tech and high-touch processes.

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Only 12% of HR leaders have used AI in hiring to assess candidates and make talent-related decisions, according to a study by SHL.