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It’s a Double-Edged Sword Using AI in Recruitment: Is AI Filtering Out the Best Job Applicants?
Recruitment is a fast-evolving world, and AI is increasingly being used for things like screening resumes to predicting candidate success. Artificial intelligence promises efficiency and precision. However, while AI can enhance the recruitment process, it also raises significant concerns about inadvertently filtering out the very talent we seek. Let’s take a closer look at how…
Read More »COVID-19 has changed life and work. What role does learning and development, Instructional Design, and Distance Learning play for the future?
It’s clear the effects of COVID on our work and life are here to stay in the short-term. And, some of the effects will also prove to be long-lasting. L&D professionals are being called upon to step-up. Clearly this exists in the education space (as we have all seen and experienced), but also in the…
Read More »Crowdsourcing for Recruiting: Has Its Time Come?
Companies like Amazon, Cisco, IBM and Starbucks all use crowdsourcing techniques to generate ideas new product and service innovations. What is crowdsourcing? Coined around 2005, it’s the process of obtaining services, ideas or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people or an online community. Crowdsourcing combines efforts of many self-selected volunteers; each…
Read More »Top Six Reasons to Ghost Someone
We lied. There are zero reasons to ghost someone. Have you been ghosted? Have you been the ghost? What is the term, “Ghosting?” Briefly, it’s the term used to describe ending a relationship by not responding to emails, texts or calls. What’s becoming more the norm is for employers to express interest in a candidate,…
Read More »How To Hire Generation Z Employees
Now that we have finally figured out how to work effectively with Millennials (Generation Y), Generation Z employees are coming into the workplace at a rapid pace and their needs are very different from past generations. Generation Z applicants have the following demographics: Their parents are Gen x’ers Over 23 million Americans make up the…
Read More »How to Write the Perfect Post-Interview Email
Landing a job takes more than just nailing your interview. An additional key component of the job application process today is your follow-up email. The secret to the perfect post-interview email? Personalization! Consider these ideas: Include something the interviewer said in the conversation that stood out to you. This proves you listened and makes the…
Read More »Be Group Launches Beferral
Beferral is a trusted candidate referral program by Be Group. When you join Beferral, you help us to identify qualified candidates for our open positions. Sign Up for Beferral The process starts as you build your circle of colleagues, or your Beferral network. When someone is referred from your Beferral circles and becomes employed, Be Group…
Read More »How Important is the Summary Section of Your Resume?
The summary section of your resume – aka your “elevator speech” – is probably the single most important ingredient of your resume. While it’s your first introduction to the recruiter or hiring manager, your resume is read – on average – in about 10 seconds. That means it better be good in order to buy…
Read More »Talent Placement firm Be Group Launches in Philadelphia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Talent Placement firm Be Group Launches in Philadelphia Entrepreneur, Staci Bender Epstein Launches Her Second Company; Placing Marketing and Communications Professionals at Companies Throughout the Region Jan. 27, 2015 (Philadelphia) – Serial Entrepreneur, Staci Bender Epstein announced today the launch of her second company, Be Group. Epstein has a track…
Read More »2015 Philadelphia 100® Nomination Search
The Philadelphia 100® is an annual project conducted by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center. The Philadelphia 100® winners are recognized as the fastest growing, privately held companies in the region each year. By tracking the fastest growing, privately held companies in the Greater Philadelphia, we: Help to…
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