As is well known, broadening your own horizons is always a good idea. Many companies have recognized this and are investing in regular continuing education of their own employees for two reasons in particular
- Increasing company success
- Employee satisfaction
However, with an average of two to three days of continuing education per employee per year, employees still have plenty of time to acquire new knowledge on their own in addition to the official continuing education program. Within a company, the People & Culture team often oversees and organizes the continuing education budget for the various departments and ensures that everyone receives the offers they are entitled to. They give colleagues good and inspiring tips, advice and support — and may often forget their own needs in the process.
In recruiting, as in any other specialist area, it is just as important to constantly get new impetus, to be inspired within the official continuing education budget and to learn new things. After all, new trends are constantly being added, especially in digital recruiting, which you shouldn't miss — if you want to be at the forefront of the race for the best talent (keyword: shortage of skilled workers). Today we have a few (free) addresses to learn new tips and tricks for your recruiting. Let's go!
1. Listen and Learn: Our Favorite Podcasts for Recruiters
For several years now, podcasts have been an incredibly popular and successful tool to entertain, inspire and make listeners smarter in all subject areas. We have all our favorites — from entertaining celebrity podcasts, various true crime or science programs to podcasts that are exciting for a wide range of areas of business: marketing, finance — and even recruiting, people & culture. You should definitely save the following podcasts and enjoy exciting insights from the world of digital recruiting:
Tech and Fuss
Moritz Stoll from Netzpiloten talks about companies and the digital world in his podcast. The topics range from digital transformation to the job search of the future. Always there: interesting guests who have exciting insights into the various topics. Robin Sudermann, CEO of talentsconnect, was also a guest recently. The other episodes are also very worthwhile, I promise! Click here for the podcast:
What does the job search of the future look like? - with Robin Sudermann
Clara makes it clearer
The Talentsconnect Data Insights podcast is exciting every week. Everything here revolves around intelligent and data-based recruiting. Clara Schnittert explains what influence recruiting managers can have in order to attract the right talent to their own company and the right jobs.
Example episode: How to attract nerds
Saatkorn
This is all about the — we quote — “sexy sides of HR.” In a new podcast episode every Friday, Gero Hesse shares news from the World of Digital Recruiting, from Employer Branding to Recruiting and HR in Startups to New Work. Don't miss out and subscribe right away:
Jobs of the week: SENIOR and JUNIOR HR MANAGER (m/f/d)
2. Free Master Classes for Digital Recruiting
In the free online workshops and Masterclasses The talentsconnect Academy is all about digital recruiting. In the workshops, participants can, among other things, learn more about Take on the applicants' perspective and to understand them even better. From best practice examples from the market to insights from 2 million user data to live analysis of participants' career pages. The topics of the TalentsConnect Masterclasses are diverse and range from:
- Twice as many online applicants with half a recruiting budget
- Efficient recruiting without a job board and headhunter?
- The most expensive mistakes in recruiting 2022
- The best online recruiting strategies 2022
Sounds exciting? Then you should definitely stop by the TalentsConnect Academy and book one of the free master classes.
3. Inspiring exchange and joint learning: Hello, LinkedIn groups
Often better than any newsletter: LinkedIn groups in which other recruiting or digital experts share a wide variety of interesting contributions, invite discussion, share experiences or even organize events. There is always something going on here — and regardless of whether you are taking action yourself or as a silent observer following what is happening in a group — here you can take away a whole lot for yourself or your recruiting activities. We find these groups exciting:
5050 by OMR
As recruiting experts, we can actively contribute to closing the gender pay gap and working to ensure that there are finally as many women* as men named Thomas on management levels. The online marketing rock stars “5050 by OMR” are dedicated to the topic of gender equality. In doing so, they do not want to teach anyone, but rather to create an open and positive space for discourse.
Click here for the LinkedIn Group
LinkedIn HR Group
Admittedly, not everyone gets in here anymore, as the group is now the largest HR group on LinkedIn. However, senior HR professionals can still ask for admission and then benefit from a huge worldwide community network.
The Recruiter Network
A large worldwide network of recruiting experts promises a LinkedIn group in which numerous professionals from the recruiting peer group romp around and inspire each other. Maybe it's worth a look?
Whether it's a podcast, a masterclass, or a LinkedIn group — we hope these tips have inspired you! This is how easy and quick you can pick up the additional daily portion of continuing education and gather new ideas in no time at all — without any application, approval or long-term planning.
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