It’s Time To Stop Staffing For Yesterday’s Banks

Culture, Employer Branding, Recruitment

It’s Time To Stop Staffing For Yesterday’s Banks

For the last few decades, banks have followed the same standard for hiring employees. Times have changed, and today, banks have to look beyond hiring tellers or account managers. In 2019 and for the foreseeable future, it’s imperative banking institutions identify talent that has a diverse skillset to keep up with the rapidly changing times.

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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram—and Sometimes Even Tinder

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Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram-and Sometimes Even Tinder

When it came time late last year for 23-year-old Valentino Bogliacino Bueno to revamp his résumé, he added up top an oval photo of himself smiling. He didn’t stop there. He designed a watermark of his initials and stretched it diagonally across the page.

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Kohl’s is kicking off hiring for the holidays

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Kohl’s is kicking off hiring for the holidays as the war for talent rages on

Kohl’s is getting a head start on hiring workers for the holiday season. On Wednesday, the department-store chain said that it is beginning hiring for an early wave of seasonal positions across almost half of its US stores. Hiring will begin at its remaining stores, distribution, and e-commerce fulfillment centers in August.

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Companies can stay ahead in the talent war by recruiting from within, says this LinkedIn VP

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Companies can stay ahead in the talent war by recruiting from within, says this LinkedIn VP

According to a recent study from the Wharton School of Business, companies today fill less than one-third of open positions with internal candidates. That wasn’t always the case. During the postwar era, companies filled 90% of jobs with existing employees. But unemployment rates are at historic lows, and there are more jobs open than candidates looking for those jobs.

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The U.S.-Canada War for Marijuana Talent

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The U.S.-Canada War for Marijuana Talent

Canada has blasted out of the gate in the legal cannabis industry, with revenues expected to surpass $7 billion this year according to some reports. Just a single Canadian marijuana corporation, Aurora Cannabis, sold 9 metric tons in the last quarter alone. Since Canadian law made cannabis legal last fall, there’s been an opportunity for explosive growth.

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The Role Of AI In Talent Acquisition

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Council Post: The Role Of AI And Machine Learning In Talent Acquisition

We have the ability to create systems that include the best of human experience and AI capabilities. We can use the efficiency of AI and machine learning to give our recruiters the bandwidth they need to turn candidates into hires.

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Innovation In Recruitment: “Siri, Find Me A Job”

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Innovation In Recruitment: “Siri, Find Me A Job”

Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first CV in the 15th century when he applied for a job to the Duke of Milan. There hasn’t been much change in the recruitment industry in the intervening 500-plus years.

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Attract Quality Candidates by Thinking Like a Product Marketer

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Attract Quality Candidates by Thinking Like a Product Marketer

Talented people are bombarded with opportunities. So many that yours could easily be lost in the crowd. There’s a simple way to make your opportunities stand out — package your jobs as if you’re marketing a product. I was reminded of this method when I was in the tea aisle of Whole Foods Market.

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JCPenney is enticing workers with free vacations to New York and Miami as retail’s ‘war for talent’ heats up

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JCPenney is enticing workers with free vacations to New York and Miami as retail’s ‘war for talent’ heats up

JCPenney is looking for ways to stand out from the crowd as a “war for talent” hits the retail sector. On Tuesday, JCPenney hosted a nationwide hiring day where applicants were invited to come in to its stores and interview for jobs. To entice workers, it offered expensive prizes to eight lucky candidates.

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How To Breathe New Life Into A Stale Employer Brand

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Council Post: How To Breathe New Life Into A Stale Employer Brand

If your organization has been having difficulty finding and retaining the talent it needs, it may be due in part to a stale employer brand. Not to be confused with your company brand — which encompasses the messaging, perceptions and valuation your customers have of your organization’s products and services — your employer brand is your reputation as a great place to work or an awful place to work.

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