3 Simple Steps to Help Transition Careers
A woman I know was a lawyer for 22 years. She practiced at a prominent law firm in her community, made excellent money, and seemed to be content with life. Yet, last year she gave all of that up when she quit her job to pursue her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant. She is currently in culinary school and works part-time at a local restaurant. Although her income today isn't even...
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Care.com Reveals 8 Secrets Employees Don't Want HR to Know
Let's face it, there are just some things employees don't want the HR department of their companies to know about. Unexpected events occur each day, yet there are many workers who would rather keep the details hidden from HR for fear of negative consequences. Care.com's Workplace Solutions provides high-impact solutions for employers looking to improve employee wellness and loyalty while...
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Recruiting Trends Sourcing & Recruiting Social Summit to Take Place April 2013
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn—with so many different social media applications out there, how do you choose the best tools to fulfill your recruitment needs? If you need help answering this question, an upcoming HR event should be able to assist you. The Recruiting Trends Sourcing Recruiting Social Summit is taking place April 11, 2013 in Washington, DC. The one-of-a-kind, one-day event will...
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Sterling Infosystems and Innovate CV Integrate Platforms to Ease Recruitment Process
World leader in background checks, Sterling Infosystems, and Innovate CV, a leader in leveraging technology to streamline recruitment, have merged their platforms to help make the recruitment process "easier and more efficient." Their partnership now offers: A custom and easy-to-use recruiting platform; which Allows recruiters and HR managers to manage a large volume of interactive...
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WinTheView Introduces New Software Giving Job Candidates Marketing Advantages
After proving the effectiveness of the WinTheView (WTV) concept with his own candidates, CEO of Digital Action executive search, Ken Diamond, has expanded WTV to encompass a suite of interview presentation tools that encompass the entire job search process. The proffered step-by-step tools help candidates in the job market develop and present stories of personal accomplishment, elevator pitches,...
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TeleTech Survey Uncovers Major Flaws in Customer Experience Strategies
Provider of technology-enabled customer experience solutions, TeleTech Holdings, has announced the results of its Customer Experience Expectations study which found that industries such as telecommunications, health care, financial services, and automobile sellers are severely lacking in customer experience strategies. Even with the social media boom, and easy access to the opinions of many...
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New ELITE Program Launched by TheLadders for Top Community Leaders
As a reward to its most active and engaged members, TheLadders has announced the launch of TheLadders ELITE, a recognition tool for employers ranking in the top 1 percent of the site's 35,000 member network. Each employer recognized as ELITE is graded on their trailing-twelve-month (TTM) performance and outstanding leadership and participation within TheLadders' community. "We have been...
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EmployeeScreenIQ Makes Case for Importance of Background Checks in Hiring Process
After polling nearly 1,000 HR professionals for its annual survey on background screening, EmployeeScreenIQ argues that smart screening is a crucial ingredient in the hiring process. In examining how companies use background checks the report, Employment Screening Practices and Trends: The Era of Heightened Care and Diligence, found that most HR pros are conscientious in how they conduct...
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Guidelines for Interviewing Short-Listed Leprechauns
To mark St. Patrick's Day (here in London), of course I have to write something about leprechauns. But to keep it relevant to jobs and hiring, it seems appropriate to explore a central leprechaun recruitment issue: How to handle a leprechaun you've short-listed for a job. That special interviewing and vetting techniques are likely to be required should come as no big surprise; after all,...
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4 Steps to Becoming a Self-Employed Worker
Not everyone's dream job is working in a large corporate office. Some people aspire to a career in freelancing; that is, pursuing projects within a certain skill set from companies that are in need of work but are not in the market for a regular employee. This work format is ideal for certain types of workers, including writers, graphic designers, web builders, and editors. And nowadays, more...
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7 Signs an Applicant Loves You – Signs an ATS can Miss
Resume sifting can be a laborious, repetitive and dull job, which is why this process is increasingly being handed over to machines in the form of an ATS. But, one of the things that ATS cannot measure, despite their sophisticated semantic keyword searching, is love/enthusiasm for your business. ATS measure technical skills, they cannot assess how much a candidate loves your business and how...
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Bloomberg BNA Finds Turnover Stable, Job Absences Up in Q4 2012
Bloomberg BNA's quarterly employer survey has found that employee turnover remained stagnant during Q4 2012 as rates of separation for the year indicates little to no change in the number of worker departures. Job absences began to rise in late 2012 after having declined throughout the summer. Even as the national turnover rate stabilized higher than the record lows experienced in 2009,...
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Unemployment Claims Continue to Reach Recent Record Lows
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the average number of weekly unemployment aid applications fell last week reaching a new five-year low. Applications dropped by 10,000 to 332,000 after seasonal adjustment, bringing down the four-week average to 346,750. Layoffs have also decreased nearly 13 percent since November as net hiring has increased. From November to February,...
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Survey: Very Slim Generational Gap Between Millennials and Mature Workers
According to the latest Engagement Study from Randstad, the generational gap between Millennials (born 1982-1994) and older workers (born before 1946) is slimmer than expected, with both groups reporting a more positive outlook on their careers than other demographics surveyed. The survey of 3,417 adults aged 18 and older showed that 89 percent of seasoned workers and 75 percent of...
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5 Unbelievable, yet Successful Business Ideas
A few years ago I sat talking with my friend, her visiting uncle and her mother. The relatives were reminiscing about their childhood when the uncle told me an interesting story. Back in the 1950s when he was just a child, he had an idea. "We should put water in bottles to carry around with us to drink," he'd said. But when he told his family and friends of his idea, they brushed it...
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ZipRecruiter Adds First-Ever Apply with Monster Feature
Online job distribution service ZipRecruiter offers a new feature for job seekers to apply for open positions using their Monster accounts. Usually, job seekers would have to apply for jobs using an existing profile or completing a new profile through the site, but now ZipRecruiter has added the apply with Monster option, the first and only job board to offer this. The new integration will...
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How to Create Jobs, the God Way—By Command
During the 2012 election campaign, President Obama riled his critics and was pounced on by the Romney ad team for saying entrepreneurs and business(wo)men "didn't build that", in apparent reference to the infrastructure, regulatory framework, employee work ethic, consumer or government demand for goods and services, etc., that had to exist as prerequisites of their success. (The GOP...
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Survey: Most Employers Lack RTI Figures on Talent
In its survey of U.S. employers and their return-on-investment (RTI) strategies, ACT Bridge has determined that 56 percent lack any measure of talent investment returns even as the use of analytics becomes more widespread in decision making. Even among employers who do measure RTI, just 42 percent measure their education and training programs, 32 percent measure HR information management tools,...
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Willis Group Finds Most Employers to Avoid PPACA Compliance Costs
As businesses come to grips with the impending implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a new survey by Willis Human Capital Practice found that most employers expect to avoid health care reform cost increases; however, more than half have not yet calculated increases. Further, almost two-thirds of employers who have calculated compliance costs have experienced...
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Employees Feel Employers Unresponsive to Their Needs
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), 47 percent of employers regularly seek employee feedback and only 37 percent of that population actually acts on that feedback. The Work and Well-being Survey also found that over one-third of employees admit suffering from chronic work stress, low salaries, declining opportunities for career advancement, and heavier workloads. Just 39...
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Top 20 Jobs for Veterans Released from G.I. Jobs
G.I. Jobs, a leading resource for service members transitioning into the workforce, has released its inaugural Top 20 Hot Jobs for Veterans, a list of Fortune 1000 companies actively recruiting veterans. Positions placing on the list come from a range of fields, such as construction, transportation, financial services, and human resources. Top selection were identified from their inclusion in the...
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New Panoramic Feedback Features Divert Administrative Tasks to Users
Panoramic Feedback, a leading provider in 360-degree feedback, has released features to reduce the workload of administrators by allowing those being assessed to input their own responders online for automatic delivery to busy feedback administrators. "Our aim is to relieve the pressure on administrators who manage large feedback projects," CEO Esther Kohn-Bentley said. "They're busy people,...
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Customer Relationships "Complacent," Executive Survey Says
Strativity Group, Inc., a customer experience "transformation firm," has released its 2013 Corporate Love Meter, to gauge how executives feel about how their companies' relationships with customers. Respondents were overwhelmingly negative with 74 percent reporting their customer relationships as "open marriages," signifying they expect their companies to use the services of direct...
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Study Finds Strong Relationship between Employee Wellbeing and Retention
The peer-reviewed journal, Population Health Management, has concluded a two-year study on the wellbeing of employees and found that overall wellbeing is a strong predictor of future retention, productivity, and healthcare costs. The scientific findings also concluded that a strong connection exists between improvements to the wellbeing of a workforce and better health and performance outcomes...
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Narrowcasting: From Marketing to Recruiting
Marketing is going through a bit of a Renaissance period right now and, as I've pointed out before, where marketing goes, recruiting soon follows. The same tactics that allow a marketer to reach tons of consumers at once were soon adopted in the form of recruitment marketing and employer branding. Now, as marketing moves closer to a targeted, more narrowly-focused, consumer attraction strategy,...
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Intuit and LinkedIn Partner on Small Business Hiring Event
Intuit Inc. and LinkedIn are joining forces to host a new "Hire Smart Small Business Event" aimed at helping small businesses make the best hiring decisions. Hire Smart is a free event, which will be held at Intuit's Mountain View, Calif. campus on Saturday, April 27, and will offer guest speakers, expert advisors and free resources to assist new and growing businesses.The day will feature...
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10 Tips to Land the Job Leading to your Career Dreams
Turning a job into a career is one of the most difficult things that you are ever going to do. This is especially true if you are after a very specific career, or one that is in a popular market. And the first step to any career is having the right position to put you in place to succeed. The more competition there is for a position, the more difficult it will be to attain, and the harder that...
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Motivate, Recognize and Reward: The Generational Approach
Talking about my generation... is something that has been done to death, but a new infographic is making the rounds that focuses on the positive side of the new multi-generational workforce. It's rare that we see something that offers real solutions to the issues that our current and future organizations face and when we do, it's important to highlight them. MCF Recognition's "Appreciating A...
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Partnership to Combine Graphics Creation and Digital Signage Functionality
A partnership between Flypaper Studio, Inc. and Beabloo USA will bundle Flypaper's Express digital signage content creation software with Beabloo's digital signage operating system and platform. The combination will allow Beabloo customers to create Flash and motion-graphics content for their digital signage programs. "Adding Flypaper Express to the Beabloo Digital Marketing Solution was...
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Reducing the Amount of Interview "No Shows"
Interview "no shows" can damage the reputation of the recruiting team, causing hiring managers to lose faith and disengage with the hiring process. No shows can be costly in terms of lost interviewer work time and transit time if they have traveled to the interview location. But, is there anything that firms can do to minimize the number of no shows? Yes, although you can't eliminate this...
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Job Interviews Become More Objective with FurstPerson SmartGuide
Talent assessment provider FurstPerson has announced a new data-driven tool for increasing accuracy and objectivity in the hiring process while adding structure and an improved scoring mechanism to interviews. FurstPerson SmartGuide improves interview outcomes by allowing hiring managers to structure interviews to be easily analyzed and scored to best determine a candidate's competency....
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ManpowerGroup Survey Shows Hiring Confidence Shaky Worldwide
ManpowerGroup's Employment Outlook Survey for Q2 2013 has revealed a softening outlook of the labor market as the global economy creates uncertainty for global employers. The new research indicates that employers are awaiting news of a more robust economy before committing to sustainable hiring. Several key points were uncovered by the Q2 research, including: • Globally, 32 out of 42...
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Disruptive HR
A few months ago, I did a piece on Disruptive Recruiting. Fitting title for an article appearing on Recruiter.com, I guess, but what about Disruptive HR? There's a title that sets far more tongues a-wagging, in part because HR is not really known for being disruptive at all. HR strives to include everyone, get the agreement of the masses and walk that fine line between employees and the...
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Sprint Offers Special Deals to Help Small Businesses
Sprint just announced a new offer aimed at helping small businesses grow while reducing their costs for wireless services. The company plans to offer up to $150 in savings for small businesses that buy any Sprint smartphone plus an LTE mobile broadband device. As an added bonus, from now through the end of May, Sprint will also add a max credit of $100 on eligible customers' invoices for every...
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What Working for a Startup Really Means
A job ad on Startupers.com recently caught my attention. It read: Co founder(Full Stack Web Developer Engineer Designer) to build website from scratch based on specifications What's in it for me?: Equity, Build the next big company from the ground up, Be a part of New Media, Work with a young Entrepreneur, A great challenge and a new perspective on how business is done and how money can be...
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CareerBuilder Launches Portal for Employer-Competitiveness Comparisons
The Recruitment Performance Portal, newly released by CareerBuilder, is a free Big Data analytics tool for companies that wish to evaluate the performance of their job ads compared to other companies recruiting for the same talent in the same locations. The new portal informs companies of how effective their ads are at attracting candidates and compares applicant demographics with those of direct...
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Wealthy Americans Could Be Overlooking Critical Retirement Costs, says Schwab
According to a new survey from Charles Schwab, the confidence expressed by affluent Americans regarding their retirement readiness may be unfounded. And while the company found that over 80 percent of investors have an in-place retirement plan, and are confident in their provisions, survey respondents reported needing an average of $66,000 per year compared to their far higher $115,000 current...
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Abused vs. Abusive Employment Systems and Practices (Part II)
Of course, the most abusive work system ever is slavery, with "milder" forms of trafficking running a close second. It is an interesting historical irony that two of the most prominent spokespersons for and against slavery—Louisa S. McCord (prominent Civil War-era anti-feminist author and plantation owner who defended slavery) and Edouard Laboulaye (French abolitionist), who were...
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Top Tips for Turning a Cold Client into a Warm Client
If you're working in the recruitment industry, then one of the first skills you need to master is the ability to handle client calls effectively - and to your advantage. But sometimes, conventional wisdom becomes flawed - and new recruits miss out on the insights that can really transform their calling ability. This is particularly the case in the competitive ERP recruitment industry, where every...
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4 Reasons to Embrace Mobile Employee Referrals
There are no two ways about it – mobile adaption has become a necessary component of forward-thinking recruitment strategies. With a whopping 4.8 billion mobile users worldwide, people are connecting to the Internet grid whenever and wherever. And corporate recruiters must accommodate this upward trend. Â Mobile Recruiting Isn't Just for Candidates Say "mobile recruiting" and...
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Working from Home Elicits Mixed Feelings
While many employers perceive telecommuters are lazy, low-production employees (here's looking at you, Yahoo), workers tend to agree that working from home provides needed schedule flexibility and a better work-life balance. The Harris Poll takes a look at some of the prevailing perceptions of telecommuting in a recent online survey that found 90 percent of employees seeing telecommuting as a...
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Are Wellness Programs Really Saving Employers Money?
The trend towards adopting wellness programs aimed at reducing employee health-related costs and improving productivity is based on the assumed veracity of the claims of wellness proponents. But new research in the journal Health Affairs has raised some doubts on just how much money employers save after jumping on the wellness bandwagon. The researched focused on the two-year wellness program at...
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ManpowerGroup says Workers Must Become "Cross-Functional"
As the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in February, ManpowerGroup is recommending workers examine how they apply their core skills and develop new skills that are transferable across industries and industry functions. As a whole, the economy added 236,000 jobs last month, largely made up of positions in the business services (73,000 jobs), construction (48,000 jobs), and health care (32,000...
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Global Talent Shortage, Retention Top List of HR Challenges in 2013
In its Top Five Global Employer Rewards Priorities Survey, Deloitte Consulting LLP has underlined what many industry followers have known for some time: HR professionals are concerned about attracting and retaining top talent despite consistently high unemployment and an improving job market. The report found that HR leaders across the globe have made the so-called talent squeeze their top...
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Video Interviewing Proves Successful Recruitment Method for Adidas
We've all heard of Adidas—global manufacturer of sports clothing and accessories, home of Adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade, CCM Hockey and Rockport, and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world. And with more than 46,000 employees in major markets all over the world, you can imagine what an enormous and time-consuming task recruitment is for the company. Yet, Adidas has discovered a...
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Survey: 6 of 10 Americans Believe Servicemembers Paid Less Than Civilans
According to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index, 6 out of 10 Americans with a minimum household income of $50,000 believe that military compensation —including base pay plus allowances —is lower than civilian salaries for comparable jobs in the broader marketplace. This data surprisingly contrasts with that of the Congressional Budget Office, which reported that military pay has...
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5 Ways to Shop your ATS
"I simply don't have a thing to wear," sighs the teenage girl as she peruses an overflowing closet. "Honey! There's nothing good on TV!" shouts the dad trying to enjoy his Sunday afternoon. "I'm boooooored, there's nothing to do," says the 5-year-old in a room filled with toys. It's in our nature to ignore what's in plain sight. In each of these cases, when they say "nothing" they mean...
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5 Signs of a Great Recruiter
I was talking to a friend of mine at a party that will soon be looking for a job. He pretty much knows where he wants to work already, as it's a small industry and market. He also already has an "inside connection" at the company - a relative of his works there and can help him out with introductions to key team members. However, the company where he wants to work is a big place, with lots of...
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