The Art and Science of Conducting a Video Interview
Research from Office Team tells us that video interviewing usage is now anywhere between 60 and 70 percent, that is around two-thirds of businesses are regularly using video interviews as part of their hiring process. At the moment, it seems that video interviews seem to be used as a replacement for the first round face-to-face interview or the long standing first round telephone interview, the...
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Shadow Boxing for a Job Match: a Vanishing Technique
Imagine job hunters preparing and competing for a job match like shadow boxers preparing and competing for (instead of in) a boxing match. No direct toe-to-toe, in-your-face mano a mano or group-interview quasi-gladiatorial competition with rivals. No close reviews of competitor's credentials, profiles, self-promotions, reviews, strengths, weaknesses, "friends" lists, or ratings. Not a...
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IntelliBuzz Social Media Monitoring Service Released by Intelliverse
B2B cloud services provider Intelliverse has announced the launch of IntelliBuzz, a new service offering organizations the ability to monitor, measure, and optimize social media interactions across varied social media platforms. The goal is to help companies better understand their customers while integrating a social CRM channel for aligning social media strategies with the greater business...
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Unemployment Benefits Claims Numbers Sink to Half-Decade Low
Americans applying for unemployment benefits plunged to a five-year low during the week ending January 12 though much of the fall in claimants is thought to have arisen due to seasonal flux. For the week, applications feel by 37,000 to reach 335,000, the lowest since January 2008. The four-week average also fell to 359,250. The variable applications data for January usually spikes during the...
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Are you Turning Candidates Away?
I know all the reasons for not caring at all about candidate experience: You have too many applicants. They should want the job more. You are busy too. You have actual employees to deal with... Got it, thank you and noted. Now, for those of you not busy making excuses, let's talk about it for a second. There are some serious issues with your interview etiquette and I'd love to chat about it....
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The "Growing Pains" of Success
According to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, growing pains is a harmless condition—cause unknown—that affects 10-20 percent of all growing children and most often occurs in children ages 3-12. Symptoms include pain in legs (calves and thigh), typically during evening or nighttime and treatments range from heating pads to mild nonprescription pain medications. Yet, the biggest treatment...
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CEO Social Media Strategy Affects on Leadership
C-suite executive social media leadership branding firm BRANDfog recently announced the release of its 2013 CEO Social Media and Leadership Survey. The survey was designed to better understand C-suite social media strategy and to measure its effect on leadership, brand image, and brand trust. The survey resulted showed: Social media are important communications channels for CEOs to engage...
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Workforce Woes: 85 Percent of Employers Can't Find New Hires
The Fluke 2012 Workforce Trends Study, released by electronic test tools provider Fluke Corporation, has found that while nearly 25 percent of the American workforce is set to retire within the next five years, 85 percent of employers are having a difficult time finding candidates with the right skill sets to perform the soon-to-be-vacant jobs. "We are going to be looking at a lot of people...
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Job Seekers Are Getting Smarter, Employers should Follow Suit
Job seekers are becoming more informed about the task of job seeking. Sure, there are still plenty of job seekers out there with bad habits, but we cannot ignore the fact that the average diligent job seeker has access to unprecedented levels of high quality, online advice in the following areas: resume preparation, interviewing, assessment centers and salary negotiation. The average job seeker's...
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How to Hire Employees as Great as the Golden Globes Hosts
This year, the Golden Globes made a smart hiring decision. Instead of going with controversial funnyman Ricky Gervais, the awards loosest telecast decided to recruit from a little closer to home. The Globes chose small screen comedians Amy Poehler of NBC's Parks and Recreation and Tina Fey of NBC's 30 Rock to host the ceremony. Both are gifted comedians as well as improv veterans, Saturday...
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6 Steps to Create a Professional Development Plan
Who reading this has a five-year plan? (Halfway raises my own hand.) You see, I am certainly a planner and like to have things in my life mapped out, yet I'd never considered really sitting down and dedicating the time to plan out my life for the next five years. But as the topic of five-year and ten-year plans kept surfacing, I decided to give it a try. What hopes and dreams made my...
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Video Interviewing Company Montage Receives $4M Investment
Leading provider of video interviewing solutions Montage Talent recently announced that the company has received a $4 million investment to support its vision and continued growth. Montage said monies from the investment will be used to support its dynamic expansion into international markets, assist with continued technology innovation, and fund client success and sales objectives. Financing...
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7 Strategies for the Busy (Or Lazy) Job Seeker
I'm going to be honest with you: I'm a bit tired of hearing the saying, "Applying for a job is a full-time job." Yes, there is some truth to it. Finding a new job is not always easy nor is it always fun. But there are many things that job seekers can do to more efficiently conduct and manage their job searches. If you find yourself spending hours on the "search" end of searching for a job (or...
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The Free Market as Toll-Free Freeway, Karate Free-Fighting and Free-Style Swimming
Typically, the mantra of the business community is "Free the free market!", with a cry for fewer regulations in any given year than in the year before. However, it can be argued that a "free market", including a free job market, has to be like a toll-free highway, karate tournament free-fighting, and free-style swimming— regulated, or at least-self regulated, if it is going to be...
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Telling the Recruiter What They Want To Hear
Before you head into the office for an in-person interview with management, there's a good chance that you'll speak to a recruiter, probably over the phone. The goal of the recruiter is create a qualified shortlist of candidates. In my calls with recruiters, I've developed a system to get on that shortlist. The best piece of advice I can give you for acing a phone interview (and it only...
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Wage Growth Strong in Small Business, Media, Construction & More
There are many great reasons to work at a small company, and a recent study from PayScale adds another biggie to the list—the potential for pay increases. For the second consecutive quarter, small companies outpaced medium and large companies where wage growth is concerned. "Wages in Q4 2012 grew by 2.2 percent for small companies compared to only 1 percent for medium companies and 0.9...
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Survey: HR Hiring Officials Overlooking Qualified Job Seekers
Despite working through a period where qualified candidates seem hard to come by, a recent Beyond.com survey supports the idea that poor communication is contributing to hiring managers and HR officials overlooking potentially qualified candidates. Rich Milgram, CEO of Beyond.com, thinks job descriptions are frequently either vague or overly specific and that HR staff may overlook otherwise...
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Pursuit of Talent Strongest in U.S. in 2013
According to BlueSteps' 2013 Global Executive Outlook Survey, most executives are neutral or positive towards the current executive job market with 37 percent of survey participants reporting a neutral attitude and 36 percent having an overall positive outlook for the year. What's more, 42 percent of executives are positive about the general business climate in 2013, 7 percentage points...
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Big Expansion at Ford
Ford Motor Co. plans to add 2,200 salaried jobs in the country, the U.S. automaker's largest increase in those types of positions in more than a decade. In a statement Jan. 11, the nation's second-ranked automaker said that the new jobs would be primarily in engineering, production, and IT. Last year, Ford hired 8,100 new employees, in both salaried and hourly positions. This new addition...
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An SEO Expert? No, I'm Not
As the title of this article clearly explains, I am not an SEO expert. Yet, in my line of work, I often work in tandem with some experts and while great SEO doesn't come cheap, there are some ways of educating yourself and creating more "juice" on the career site you have until you can afford a guru. There are a couple of caveats with SEO: The first is that it's always changing; the second is...
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2013 Recruitment Technology Trends: Customer Demand
This new year of 2013 will have a lot to offer for the recruiting world and here at Recruiter.com we'd like to give you a heads up on what's to come. We've compiled the expertise and insight from some of the industry's leading and most knowledgeable experts to give our readers an exclusive look at the current and upcoming trends in recruitment technology. From CEOs and VPs of HR and...
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Job Hunt: How to Conceal Your Age
Ageism is rampant in our economy. Older employees are often laid off, discharged, and overlooked for promotions or new jobs. Hiring managers will often say an older candidate is "not a good 'culture fit'" or "over experienced." But what they really mean is, this candidate is too old and we don't want to risk hiring someone who might retire, ask for too much money, or get sick to...
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Job Discrimination Enforcement Vulnerable to Budget Cuts
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's ability to enforce discrimination laws may be devastated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), as proposed budget cuts in March could eliminate up to $30 million from the EEOC's annual budget. The majority of the budget already goes to paying salaries and operating expenses so cuts of this magnitude (ranging from...
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New Tool for Evaluating Tech Candidates
Tech startup TrueAbility has announced the end of its closed beta and a Q1 2013 release target for its flagship AbilityScreen service for evaluating technical job candidates. The cloud-based assessment service helps recruiters gauge the abilities of technical candidates in areas such as technologies, platforms, vendor certifications, and industry standards. AbilityScreen presents real-world...
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IntelliTalent Announces Online Recruiting Service Beta
IntelliTalent moves to help mid-sized companies find the best talent with its new online recruitment tool, currently entering beta. Designed to aid mid-sized companies avoid the costs of typical recruiting agencies, IntelliTalent offers front-end access to agency process (namely, talent sourcing), thus providing them with fast lists of top candidates ready for interviews. The service uses a...
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Performance Reviews Not as Hated as Believed
The 2013 U.S. Employee Report by Cornerstone OnDemand has discovered that nearly half (47 percent) of employees feel that current performance review practices are fair and accurate in depicting their performance. Nearly as many employees (40 percent) said that their performance is significantly improved by the feedback they receive during their reviews. All told, the survey found that, on...
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Truths and Lies about Hiring the Unemployed
The Unemployed Aren't What They Used to Be... The widely held belief among employers is that currently employed job applicants are a better proposition than unemployed job applicants. In fact, reports show that some employers have gone as far as to even include restrictions in job adverts stating that unemployed candidates will not be considered. And as the worrying results from a Bullhorn...
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Job Tenure: A Millennial's Perspective
To stay at my current job or not to stay, that is the question. Here are the facts: -According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of January 2012, today's average worker stays at each of his or her jobs for 4.6 years, a .2 increase from the median tenure two years earlier. -According to the Future Workplace Multiple Generations @ Work survey, a whopping 91 percent of Millennials —...
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Jobsite Talk Radio Show to Share Job-Search Info, Supplement Blog
Premiering on January 25, 2013, Jobsite.com's Jobsite Talk will begin transmitting periodic radio shows to expand upon the content already available on the site's blog. The first episode will host Chris Fields as he discusses becoming more hirable in 2013 with host Rayanne Thorn. Later episodes will feature discussions with Jobsite.com blog writers about job search advice for job seekers,...
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Popularity of Wellness Trends to Continue in 2013
Wellness plans are a popular option for employers trying to control rising health care costs and 2013 is primed to become a year where even more will be expected from such programs. While employee engagement in wellness programs has garnered much attention from employers, they must also focus on using the programs in retention efforts. An effective wellness program creates sustainable lifestyle...
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Really (Really) Dumb Interview Questions
Sometimes I wonder if there are interviewers out there who actually ask some of the questions you see in blog posts, career books and even some (ahem) articles. Is it possible that people out there actually ask these questions? I've been writing for nearly seven years about careers, recruiting, HR and marketing. In all that time, I have seen countless articles on the subject and they are STILL...
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American Express to Slash 5,400 Jobs, $287M Hit
American Express plans to cut 5,400 jobs resulting in a $287 million impact related to the layoffs. Part of the cost of the company's restructuring plans is due to the severance payments related to the elimination of the thousands of jobs. According to a press release from the company, job reductions will take place across seniority levels, businesses and staff groups. The largest reductions...
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2013 Recruitment Technology Trends: Video, Big Data & Analytics
This new year of 2013 will have a lot to offer for the recruiting world and here at Recruiter.com we'd like to give you a heads up on what's to come. We've compiled the expertise and insight from some of the industry's leading and most knowledgeable experts to give our readers an exclusive look at the current and upcoming trends in recruitment technology. From CEOs and VPs of HR and...
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2013 Recruitment Technology Trends: ATS & Applications
This new year of 2013 will have a lot to offer for the recruiting world and here at Recruiter.com we'd like to give you a heads up on what's to come. We've compiled the expertise and insight from some of the industry's leading and most knowledgeable experts to give our readers an exclusive look at the current and upcoming trends in recruitment technology. From CEOs and VPs of HR and...
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The Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions for 2013
According to the Q4 Glassdoor Employee Confidence Survey, one in five employees plan to look for a new job in the next three months, assuming the economy stays the same or improves. To help potential job candidates during the interview process, Glassdoor released its annual list of Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions —a compilation of the tens of thousands of interview questions shared by job...
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Employee Referral Resolutions [INFOGRAPHIC]
Yup, it's a new year. A chance to do a few things better. And that includes how you recruit and hire, not just losing those 15 lbs you gained over the holiday. So what should be one of the first resolutions in your list? To improve your employee referral program and generate a lot more quality hires than you did last year. Referrals can make the best hires and what's more - they are the lowest...
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Staff.com to Facilitate Outsourced Talent
With many organizations turning to low-wage outsourcing to save costs while embracing cloud technology as a tool to simplify the outsourcing process, Staff.com Co-founder and CEO Dr. Rob Rawson commented, "Cloud computing means businesses can use staff in low-wage countries for accounting, customer relations and back-office services." With the launch of Staff.com, managers can monitor...
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3 in 10 Employers to Give MLK Day as Paid Holiday
According to Bloomberg BNA's most recent survey of employer holiday practices, this year, a little more than three in ten employers (32 percent) will give Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (January 21) as a paid holiday to most or all of their workers. This news comes almost 30 years after President Reagan signed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day into law. Of the 30 percent of employers who...
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Why "Hunger Games" Layoff Technique Harms Employee Morale
Last year's The Hunger Games was not only a New York Times best-selling novel, but a mega multimillion dollar grossing movie. Both adults and children were captivated by its gruesome plot and unbelievable demands of not only children, but people in general. I think what truly made the book and film so irresistible was its fantasy and the belief that those types of "games" could take place...
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Emergent Announces New Temp Staffing Model
Contingent workforce employer Emergent has announced a temp-staffing model that seeks to change the way companies secure and retain contingent workers. The solution involves removing proverbial middleman to end fees, markups, and other practices found throughout the industry. "We believe the traditional model of staffing contingent workers needs to be restructured since it is often too...
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The 10 Most & Least Stressful Jobs of 2013
Job searching site CareerCast.com has released its annual CareerCast.com Jobs Rated rankings for 2013. The list highlights the 10 most stressful and least stressful jobs of this year. The rankings are based off the results of the site's 11 stress factors, or areas/job demands that can reasonably be expected to evoke stress. These include: amount of travel, growth potential, deadlines,...
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2013 Recruitment Technology Trends—Mobility
This new year of 2013 will have a lot to offer for the recruiting world and here at Recruiter.com we'd like to give you a heads up on what's to come. We've compiled the expertise and insight from some of the industry's leading and most knowledgeable experts to give our readers an exclusive look at the current and upcoming trends in recruitment technology. From CEOs and VPs of HR and...
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Rise of the Zombies in a Tough Job Market: 'The Walking Dead' as (Un)Employment Model
Find the "Walking Dead" zombie craze puzzling? But, have you not noticed that zombies are not only unemployed, but also unemployable? Or that, like the living who become unemployed in a widening recession featuring spiraling unemployment, undead zombies create more of their kind in a vicious geometric progression? Could there be a connection between a zombie apocalypse and recessionary...
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4 Strategies to Maintain Productivity During a Hiring Freeze
Recent reports from Fitch forecast that the economic growth of major advanced economies is to remain weak, with only a slow increase to 1.4 percent and a slight acceleration to 2 percent in 2014. They also predict Eurozone growth of only 0.3 percent in 2013. This, of course, has implications for recruiters, as slow economic growth reflects slower business growth in terms of revenue and...
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6 HR Tech Resolutions for the New Year
Okay you're probably already sick of reading about resolutions on this the second week of January, but the truth is that when resolutions matter the most is when they start getting hard to keep. But it's also a good idea to maybe take the first few weeks back at work to re-imagine what resolutions might benefit your work processes going forward. Now that you've had at least one partial week...
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WIK Predicts 2013 Top Trends in Workforce Management
During its recent annual board of advisors meeting, members of The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Inc. went over their predictions about the top trends and issues that will impact the workforce management field in 2013. Trends included: Big Data Analytics –New technologies and services will help organizations find value in Big Data via function and industry-specific analytics...
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How Long Should your Resume Be?
Remember when you first started applying for work all those years ago? There is a very good chance that someone, somewhere told you that in order for your resume to get past the initial screening process, you would need to make sure that it was one page and one page only. Of course, as the years go by and you find yourself winning awards and adding to your volunteer and work experience, it has...
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2012 Holiday Hiring Hits Recession-era Record High
Despite economic woes, November's Superstorm Sandy, and a tense presidential election seasons, retailers reached a hiring level not seen in six years adding 728,300 jobs in Q4 2012; a 10.3 percent increase over-the-year. Hiring consulting firm Challenger, Gray Christmas CEO John A. Challenger said in a statement: "More people are working, but many are still under-employed, and as a...
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