Are You Leveraging the Power of Body Language?
As recruitment professionals, we respect the power of a first impression. Meet a candidate face-to-face and in mere seconds you've formed a mental picture of that person based on hundreds of non-verbal cues. Whether you buy into the research that states "two-thirds of communication is non-verbal" or view it as myth, the fact is, as humans, we are equipped to evaluate each other's body...
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The Real Cost of Replacing a Mis-hired Employee
If you've ever hired someone who impressed you before they were an employee only to disappoint you afterward, you are sadly far from alone. In fact, studies have shown that within a year of being hired, an astounding 84 percent of new hires will not live up to expectations. The worst part isn't the frustration at their failures, the need to let them go, or even the slog of having to find...
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CBIZ Employment Index Records Positive Hiring Trend
The CBIZ Small Business Index (SBEI), a measurement for national hiring trends in small business, rose by .2 percent in February, beginning what is hoped to be a sustained rebound from January's 2.37 percent decrease. "Our SBEI returned to positive territory in February, showing consistency with a gradually improving economy and a slowly improving job market," says Philip Noftsinger,...
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Randstad Survey Shows Employee Confidence Up in February
According to the The Randstad Employee Confidence Index, as of February 2013, U.S. workers may be feeling slightly more upbeat about the economy and the job market. The Index rose 1.4 points last month to 53.5 and revealed that of the more than 1,000 U.S. workers surveyed, 30 percent believe the economy is strengthening and nearly a quarter say more jobs are available. Each month the study,...
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Abused vs. Abusive Employment Systems and Practices (Part I)
It has often been remarked that "every system has its abuses". If that is true, in whatever political, financial, welfare, production, distribution, military, ecological, ecclesiastical, technological, educational, cultural/social (including family), or other system in which we find ourselves embedded or to which we are exposed, something or someone will find a way to abuse others, oneself,...
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Study Finds Recruiters Lack Mobile Edge
Even while job seekers are more frequently turning to mobile devices for their job search needs, employers are not working to meet their needs by implementing mobile recruitment strategies. As reported in a survey by Potentialpark, 26 percent of job seekers are using their mobile devices for career-related purposes and an additional 59 percent can foresee themselves doing so in the future. But...
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Most Ethical Companies List Released for 2013
The Ethisphere Institute's 2013 World's Most Ethical Companies (WME) list recognizes companies that make statements about doing business ethically while transforming those statements into actions. For the year, a record high 145 companies, from over 36 industries, made the list including 23 companies that have placed on the list for the entire six-year history of the WME. Some of these...
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SmartRecruiters Offers New Recruiting Agency Management Capability
Hiring platform SmartRecruiters recently announced a new Recruiter Marketplace that makes it easy for companies to contract and manage all their agency recruiters from a single point. Features of the new recruiting agency management capability include: Best Recruiters—As an invitation-only marketplace, customers can invite their preferred suppliers or discover new ones vetted by their...
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IT Hiring Lessons from Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari is a funny guy. And while he's been involved in lots of hilarious projects, his one-hour standup special Dangerously Delicious is one of my favorites. In one bit during Delicious, Ansari begins describing a common scenario he encounters when courting women over text message. He mentions that he'll text a woman, she'll quickly text him back and this cycle repeats itself many...
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HireInfluence Platform Offers Companies Unique Method of Sourcing Marketing Pros
HireInfluence, Inc. has announced its first-to-market sourcing platform that allows companies to identify, analyze, and verify the influence and networking value of individuals. HireInfluence is designed to change marketing strategies by gauging the real influence of candidates with quantifiable results. For applicants, HireInfluence is a social media platform that allows them to be discovered...
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Career Recognition Tied to Decreased Turnover, Increased ROI
In the newly released white paper, Celebrate Careers: An Effective Strategy for Driving Employee Engagement and Retention, O.C. Tanner has found that the establishment of employee recognition programs enhance employee engagement and reinforce corporate values and culture. An additional benefit is the correlation between effective employee recognition programs and a strong return on investment...
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Four-week Unemployment Claims Average Hits Five-year Low
Americans seeking unemployment aid declined to 340,000 claims for the week ending March 2. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that applications for benefits fell by 7,000, also near five-year lows, which were reached this past January. The four-week average declined to 348,750, the lowest number since 2008. The continuing decline offers further evidence that economists' projections of...
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Flexibility and Work-Life Balance: Career Expert Weighs in on Yahoo! Telecommuting Controversy
By now, anyone who is anyone (in the working world) has heard of the Yahoo! Telecommuting controversy with its new CEO Marissa Mayer. But, for those who aren't as up-to-date with their news, let me recap: According to the site AllThingsD in an article by Kara Swisher, Mayer decided that, beginning June 2013, all employees who work remotely for the company must report to in-office facilities....
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OneWire Exclusive Video Interview Series Offer Career Advice from Leading Executives
OneWire® recently released its brand new video series, "Open Door with Skiddy von Stade." The series features the company's Founder and CEO Skiddy von Stade as he interviews high-profile executives in the Fortune 500 and financial services sector about their experiences in their respective fields. From landing their first job to rising to the top of their companies, von Stade's guests...
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The 10 Big Mistakes In Employee Reference Checking
Reference checking is often see as a formality, a transactional process that is handed down the line to junior HR staff once the exciting, tactical recruitment tasks have been completed. This would be the first mistake in referencing – not that it is handed down the line – but that is considered a formality. It most certainly isn't, as a recent CareerBuilder survey revealed. It showed...
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Finding Personal Satisfaction in your Professional Life
What are the ingredients for a successful career? Most people would say something like hard work, personal sacrifices, determination, and a dose of luck. But even after giving your all for the benefit of your career, can you still say it was all worth it? Though many people are content once they reach the pinnacle of their professions, many others answer this question with a resounding "no."...
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Get Your Career Site Together Man!
Recently, I sat in on a TalentNet Interactive Radio show. The selected topic was Employment Branding, but much of what we talked about had to do with the candidate experience, and all that begins with the career site. While blogs and micro-blogs, social recruiting and stealth sourcing, get all the attention, the career site (often the baby of HR and IT, maybe....marketing) that dominates much...
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New Recruiting Technology Trends Report for 2013
Recruiter.com's new 2013 Recruiting Technology Trends Report is available today for free, with no registration required to download. This 29 page report offers HR and recruiting practitioners insight into the major tech trends for the year, and offers useful recruiting advice as well. This exclusive report is loaded with smart advice and intelligent commentary to keep you on the leading edge...
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Survey Shows 20-and-30-Somethings Lack Basic Financial Knowledge
According to a survey by LearnVest and The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America ("Guardian"), our nation's 20- and 30-somethings are very aware of the serious financial obligations they face and feel strongly about not placing unnecessary financial burden on their parents, spouses or partners should anything happen to them. Yet, the survey, called Life and Disability Insurance: What...
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Workplace Screaming: a Self-Defeating Effort?
To be "pathological" or nearly so, behavior doesn't have to be menacing or insane. Stupid, pointless and self-sabotaging behavior, such as screaming at employees, will do as close approximations, especially when the consequences for the individual or for others are dire. Acting in a merely neurotically self-defeating way, especially when it is habitual, is sometimes enough, even if...
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Male-specific Study Finds Extended Desk Jobs Lead to Cancer, Diabetes
A study from the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity has confirmed that men who sit at a desk for at least four hours per day have significantly increases risks for developing cancer, diabetes, or other chronic diseases. Considering that over 8 out of 10 jobs in the U.S. are sedentary, this issue is of serious concern to millions of workers on a daily basis. In...
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Performance Solutions Updates "Brain-Friendly" Productivity-boosting Tool
Performance Solutions Technology, LLC, maker of management software ManagePro, has released Version 11 of its flagship product designed to optimize how employees get things done. ManagePro 11 is multi-purpose employee talent software that supports the brain in cross-relating and updating data throughout the day. The software helps manage common tasks within one workspace by connecting and...
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Telecommuting Benefits Work/Life Balance and both Employees and Employers
The second annual telecommunications survey from Staples Advantage has found that telecommuting programs benefit employers and employees by reducing both absenteeism and stress. Over 90 percent of employees participating in the survey reported that telecommuting is good for both parties while 53 percent of decision-makers agreed that telecommuting produced more productive employees. Over the...
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Employers Promise Big Changes in How they Offer Health Benefits
While the vast majority of employers have pledged to continue providing health benefits after the new health reform policies are fully implemented, the way that they offer benefits are set to change in some big ways. A recent analysis by Aon Hewitt has found that 94 percent of employers plan to continue offering health benefits for the next three to five year but nearly two-thirds will also...
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The 10-Step Program to Becoming a Better Employee
It is usually pretty easy to identify those behaviors that make you less than the model employee. But what about ways to make yourself more valuable? Compare your daily work habits to the following list to see what you are and aren't doing to highlight your value to your employer and become a better employee. 1. The first, and most obvious, behavior is to not miss work. Situations arise that...
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Let's Stop Putting Our Job Candidates on Ice
Working within recruiting and staffing for most of my career, I've acquired a lot of respect for those who have mastered the profession. It's a unique combination of skills: sales, perseverance, communication, coaching, intense follow-up, all wrapped up within a winning personality that draws people in. The best recruiters can chase the targeted candidate to spark interest and pursue the...
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Sanger & Eby Launches Bloomingdales Mobile Career Site
According to a recent study, 86 percent of candidates said they would apply for a job from a mobile device if there was an easy way to do so, but only 3 percent of employers provide this option. It's time for employers to recognize this need and design their career site with this in mind. One recent example is Bloomingdales. To help ease this frustration in the job search, strategic design and...
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Millennials and the Importance of Corporate Cultural Fit
A close friend and former co-worker of mine just made an important career move, but it did not come without ruffling a few feathers. Here's the story: My friend, we will call him John, handled the social media and PR-related communications for the corporate office of a Fortune 500 company. He started as an intern (a position he sought out by directly emailing the CEO of the company) for two...
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When Photos of Life Become Photos as Life: Lessons for Job and Life Searches
Recently on the road in China (and now, in the UK, for the next three months), as I search for ever more perfect places, experiences and photos of them, I am still writing about what, for others, are more urgent searches: searches for jobs, job candidates and more effective ways of searching for both. In the midst of this, I've noticed that despite whatever obvious differences and contrasts...
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7 Reasons I'll Turn Down a Job After Interviewing With You
Interviewing is an art-form for both the job seeker and the hiring manager. A simple mistake by either party can raise enough doubt to leave the other looking elsewhere. After much reflection on what's turned me off to a job in the past, I've come up with seven interview red flags that will leave me saying, "Thanks, but no thanks" to your job offer. 1. You're Negative If you're...
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Social Media's Role in Recruiting [infographic]
At some point in our lives, we all have to look for jobs (some on more occasions than others). Although this task is something everyone does, we all go about completing it differently. Some people prefer to look at job boards, others stick to word-of-mouth and referral tactics. Yet, did you know that 79 percent of job seekers are likely to use social media in their job search? This is the...
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New Morale.Me App Helps Companies Track Employee Morale
Many employees leave reviews on sites like Glassdoor and Indeed after they depart from a company. Wouldn't it be nice to know what your employees think about you and your organization now? And wouldn't it be even better to discover this information for free? Well, thanks to internet recruiting veteran Joel Cheesman and developers and designers from Nacho Chili LLC, you can now do just...
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New Web Solution for Comparing Applicants to Top Performers
Pairin, Inc., has announced the launch of web-based Employee Pairin for SMBs in need of a solution for comparing top job candidates with highest performing employees. The Pairin system is unique because it reverses the hiring process by first emphasizing behavioral traits and design, then turns to experience and other attributes. Employee Pairin requires only a 10-minute online assessment to...
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Scorecard Shows Small Business Owners Uncertain About Economy, Hiring
The newly released February 2013 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard has shown a slight 0.1 percent gain in month-over-month hiring alongside a 0.1 percent rise in the average paycheck; the fourth consecutive pay raise in as many months. Optimism for small-business owners sat at a fairly low 59 percent, a mere two points higher than in January. "We continue to see low optimism numbers due...
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MeritShare Offers Free Online Recognition Program for Employers
With recent studies showing employee recognition is infrequent at best, MeritShare is offering its online recognition program to employers for no charge. Alongside this release, the company is also making available the first "heat map" of employee appreciation and a national recognition index that helps employers measure and track employee engagement. "Employee and peer recognition is one...
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Guaranteed Executive Search Services Offered by PrincetonOne
The recruitment market is never short of innovative new business models. New Jersey-based recruitment services provider, PrincetonOne, has announced the launch of its new offering Performance Guaranteed Search, a new take on client-recruitment firm engagement. The new services are designed to eliminate the need for companies to engage multiple search firms to fill open positions, arguing that...
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Unique Card Game Creator Demonstrates Vast Possibilities of Entrepreneurship
While just an adolescent in fourth grade, Cole Medeiros enjoyed doodling. Now, as an adult, Medeiros has turned his childhood interests into a profitable, and exciting, business—GUBS. Gubs is a card game of "wit and luck" based off a unique set of 15 creatures that ride on the backs of Velvet Moths or Toads, hide from danger inside hollow tree stumps and forest underbrush, and search for...
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Proven Updates Android Job App, Indeed, Dropbox & Location-Based Search Integration
On-the-go employment app Proven recently announced an update for Android featuring Indeed.com integration, Dropbox integration and location-based search. The update will make it easier for job seekers to search and apply for jobs from mobile devices and browse a more expanded list of job postings. Other enhancements of the app include: New, rich job description view —including a map of...
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Automated Reboarding Added to Efficient Forms' EHX Onboarding Solution
Efficient Forms, LLC, the provider of Efficient Hire EHX employee onboarding solution, has announced the addition of an automated "reboarding" feature for payroll service providers to help companies ensure all employees have agreed to company policies. With the reboarding option, employees are able to review all current policies and explicitly state their agreement to follow them. Using EHX,...
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Sign, Seal, Deliver, and Let the Hiring Manager Know the Job is Yours
Any time gifts are exchanged, I flash back to my parents' familiar mantra: Now, what do you say? Did you say thank you? To some extent, email communication has made the handwritten note obsolete. But one area of our lives that we should not forget proper etiquette is the job search. It is imperative that job seekers send a thank you note to potential employers after every interview to prove...
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Showcasing Your Talent Management Practices
In a 2012 survey by Career Builder, 69 percent of employers reported they had been adversely impacted by a bad hire in the past year, estimating the cost of their error from $25,000 to $50,000. Most cited not properly vetting candidates as the reasons for their poor selections, while a surprising 25 percent didn't know why their new hire was a failure. It makes sense to take the time to...
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The Quiet Man: 2013 Meta-Marketing Job-Creation Lessons from Ireland
After your gall bladder operation, you receive a letter from the hospital. It's an invitation to a tour of the hospital's OR, lab, cafeteria, administrative offices, ward, radiology department, pharmacy and other onsite facilities, for an inside peek at the background, history and elements of your surgery, complete with glossy bios of the surgical staff, photos of your excised gall bladder,...
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How Recruiters Can Take Advantage of Facebook Graph Search [INFOGRAPHIC]
Facebook Graph Search is an entirely new way to look at social recruiting. With a traditional content search, you may have spent time looking for candidates on the surface. Now, you can find talented people based on their interests and experiences in a targeted search. So, what exactly makes this tool so beneficial to talent acquisition? This infographic, compiled by social employee referral...
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CareerBuilder Turns Mobile Devices into Tools for Candidate Data Capture
With the launch of a host of new mobile-apply features, CareerBuilder is quick to point out that the number candidates searching for jobs on mobile devices is currently doubling each year, but that only a small portion of employers offer the option to apply for jobs online. CareerBuilder's new suite of mobile tools help employers go to where the top talent is and avoid the abandoned...
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Towers Watson Reports More Employers Turning to Temp Workers
The growing trend for companies turning to temporary labor to fill organizational demand can be attributed to the diminished supply of talent into the workforce, according to new research from Towers Watson. The company also warns of an impending labor shortage set to plague the U.S. and the developed world sometime over the next decade. As labor becomes scarcer, Towers says that employers will...
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ACE Group Announces New Risk Management Tool for Policyholders
In partnership with labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson, the ACE Group has announced a new employment practices risk management tool available to primary EPL and Private Not-for-Profit Company Management Liability policyholders. The tool, called EPL Assist, provides legal content, forms, analysis, and advice directly from Littler lawyers through a web portal and phone...
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University Research Concludes Raising Minimum Wage Would Hurt Job Creation
Prompted by President Obama's proposal to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9 with annual increases for inflation, Texas AM University researchers have reported that raising the minimum wage will reduce job creation while not impacting layoffs or turnover rates. Called Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics, the study clarifies that currently working people...
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Ethan Bloomfield, ZipRecruiter SVP, Elected to IAEWS Board of Governors
Job boards are significant to both job seekers and recruiters. Job seekers scour big-name job boards, such as Indeed, Monster and CareerBuilder, searching for open positions to apply for while employers utilize job boards to post vacancies. It only makes sense that such a vital aspect of the workforce would have its own special organization dedicated to sustaining it, correct? Ethan...
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