Large Study Finds Varying Factors Affect Absenteeism, Job Performance
The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has published a study from the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) that shows improved job performance and reduced absenteeism were present in employees who were healthy eaters and exercised regularly. Absenteeism was found to be 27 percent lower for these employees. Additional performance findings include: • 25 percent of...
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Top Human Resources Trends for 2013
As we head into 2013, here are a handful of the biggest anticipated trends in the workplace for the next year. Mainstreet.com expects flextime and telecommuting to continue their growth given the beneficial effects these features have shown for both retention and employee health. Real-world experience has shown both workplace allowances to save employees money and give them a better sense of...
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Benefits and Salary Not Enough to Counter Turnover
In a new survey, the American Psychological Association found that 67 percent of employees remain with their employer thanks to a satisfactory "work/life fit," more than those who stay for salary (59 percent) or benefits (60 percent). The findings come as most companies are struggling to find and keep mission-critical employees, with 61 percent having trouble hiring these employees and half...
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Women Leaders Still Scarce in Legal Firms
AM Law's The American Lawyer Magazine has reported that almost 80 percent of AM Law's Top 100 list of American legal firms have two or fewer women serving on their governing boards; 42 percent have just one female member. Many firms reported having governing committee lacking women entirely, however there exist some firms with women composing one-third to one-half of a governing or...
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Randstad Technologies Partners with Technisource to Create a Total IT Resource
Randstad Technologies, the technology services wing of Randstad US, has announced a partnership with Technisource to provide a comprehensive IT resource. Operating under the Randstad Technologies name, the combined effort will be the second largest IT talent and staffing solutions firm in the country. The company will deliver best matches for technology and talent solutions for clients around the...
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SkyPrep Upgrades Learning Management System with Improved User Experience
Online training software provider, SkyPrep, has unveiled a feature-rich update for its online learning management system making it more user friendly and accessible to non-technical users. The software is designed to allow businesses to train employees and course providers to use the e-commerce platform to sell courses to the public. The new feature set was added based solely on user feedback and...
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The Age of the Aggregated Resume
What is a social resume? Is it the same as a profile? Does it replace anything or add to it? The reason for these questions are simple, these products are popping up everywhere. Essentially, services like Entelo, Gild, CareerCloud and more take publicly available data and create an aggregated list or profile based on that data. In most cases, the general crux of the social resume is created from...
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2013 Recruitment Technology Trends—Social Media & Talent Communities
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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Atlas Van Lines Shares Population Migration Trends for 2012
Atlas Van Lines, a leading national mover, has reported on inbound and outbound moving shifts as determined by moving patterns of its nationwide customers in 2012. The 2012 Atlas Van Lines Migration Patterns report found that the most popular inbound states were found in the Southwestern and Mid-Atlantic regions. The Midwest also transitioned from a more heavily outbound region to one that was...
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Changes Ahead for HR as Obama Enters Second Term
While the future is never certain, experts are already weighing in on what the effects of a second term for the current Obama administration will mean for HR professionals. The following five areas are expected to experience major changes over the next several years. A sampling of those changes are included that reflect the general consensus of experts in the industry. Regarding immigration,...
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Resume Improvement Mobile App Released by Career Confidential
Career Confidential's new iPhone and iPad app, Resume Review Pro, offers a free way to "grade" resumes from A to F through a set of videos from career coach, said CEO of Career Confidential Peggy McKee. The videos breakdown the resume into 10 basic elements and explain how they come together to form a great resume. McKee gives detailed explanations of what mistakes constitute an F and how...
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Social Media Privacy: What You Should Know When Hiring
When the ball dropped on 2012, we weren't just ringing in the New Year -- we were also ringing in a start to social media privacy laws in the workplace. Many of these laws were passed in 2012 but only went into effect when the clock struck midnight on January 1st. Indeed, 2013 will be the year when employers and employees will need to worry about how social media interacts with the...
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Three More States Enact Ban on Social Media Password Requests
Beginning on January 1st, California and Illinois-based employers are no longer allowed to demand access to the password-protected social networking accounts of employees. The prohibition extends to requests for any non-publicly available information from employees, job candidates, or students. A new Michigan law that went into effect in December penalizes educational institutions for expelling...
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Top Workforce Management Trends for 2013
Kronos Incorporated's The Workforce Institute has released its list of top trends in 2013 on issues impacting workforce management. The top predictions for the new year include: • Big Data and analytics will present a challenge for organizations as they seek to distinguish what is important information from what is merely interesting. New technologies will arise to help realize value in...
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Employment in Small Business Sector Sees Slight Bump
Intuit Inc.'s 2012 Small Business Employment and Revenue Report measured a 0.12 percent employment growth for small businesses in 2012. December alone saw an increase of 0.09 percent over the year with the addition of 24,000 jobs. However, small-business revenue actually fell by 1.2 percent between January and November 2012 and by 0.3 percent in November. "Small-business employment is...
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5 Areas that Question Company Professionalism
One of the biggest things that set the business world apart from the rest of society's functions is its level of professionalism. Most other places (with the exception of religious functions) you can dress freely and casually. Yet, when stepping into most professional environments (especially for an interview), jeans and a t-shirt just won't do. There's a certain way you carry yourself in...
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Five Career Predictions for 2013 [Part 2]
Recruiter.com had the opportunity to speak with Vice President and Managing Director at Apollo Research Institute Dr. Wilen-Daugenti to discuss her predictions from Five Career Predictions for 2013 . Check out what she had to say about her insight into the upcoming year's workplace trends and job opportunities: 1. How did you come up with your five career predictions for 2013 relating to...
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Deloitte Buys Up Assets of Bersin
Human capital consulting firm Deloitte has purchased virtually all assets of Bersin Associates, a provider of advisory services and research-based membership programs in the HR, talent, and learning markets. The acquisition creates one of the largest and broadest HR and talent management solutions library spanning data, research and analysis, strategic insight, and technology selection. "The...
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Five Career Predictions for 2013 [Part 1]
It's finally here....2013! As millions of Americans are heading back into work many are looking for this new year to bring new opportunities and experiences. But how can you really know what trends to expect for 2013? Meet Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, VP and managing director at Apollo Research Institute. With her expertise and skill set, below she offers five career predictions for...
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Aon Hewitt to Acquire Ominpoint's Workday Services Company
Global human resources solutions business Aon Hewitt just announced its plan to acquire OmniPoint's Workday Services company, a leading deployment and integration firm. Workday is a market leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) HR solutions. The acquisition will allow Aon Hewitt to significantly expand and accelerate its Workday capabilities. This includes equipping HR technology and services...
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Almost Half of U.S. Workers Optimistic for First Half of 2013
According to the Glassdoor Q4 Employment Confidence Survey, just shy of half (48 percent) of employees —including those self-employed —expect their company's outlook to stay the same in the next six months. This is an eight-point increase from the previous quarter. Of those who reported a positive change at their company in the past six months, 65 percent were awarded new perks —option to...
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Customer Experience Needs More HR Involvement
While most HR professionals consider it common knowledge that engaged employees provide a better customer experience, just 15 percent reported to offer significant help in the area of employee engagement. This, and other statistics, was revealed in a new survey by market research and consulting firm Temkin Group. The survey also found that most HR departments focus the majority of their efforts...
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Employees Urged to Reassess Benefits Plan Option in Lieu of Defaulting
Aon Hewitt reports that over half of employers are choosing to default to their current benefit coverage instead of reassessing plan options risking increased costs and decreased utility. "It's easy to fall back on the status quo and assume that your 2012 benefits choices will continue to meet your needs in 2013," says Craig Rosenberg, Aon Hewitt's national leader for health and...
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SPARC Reveals Unique Live Interview Management System
SPARC's SPARCIN is a first-of-its-kind interview management system designed to offer support for live interviews being conducted on mobile and desktop devices. The aptly named Live Interview is compatible with all browsers and devices and supports time and content management during real-time video interviews. The application's layout displays detailed candidate information, the question...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Key to Increase Employee Investment is 401(k) Plan Design
The 2012 Workplace Benefits Report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch has found a quickly increasing awareness among employees that they are ever more responsible for their own retirement, and most want to do something about it. Of the 50 million 401(k) plan participants in the country, most use them inefficiently and around 8 million employees don't participate at all. The new report found...
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TalentBin Releases Free iPhone App with People Search Engine Technology
Talent search engine TalentBin has released a free people-search app for iPhone based on the technology behind the company's solution for corporate recruiters. The app, Lookup, allows users to look up and review public information about colleagues, business contacts, and other people in order to discover more about their professional and social interests. The information includes relevant...
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TalentBin Launches Recruiting Tool Expanding Coverage to US Patent Database
TalentBin added the US Patent database to its list of talent sources in the employment market. With access to the new source, recruiters can now discover talent from the list of five million patent holders and patent appliers going back to 2005; this represents talent from over 100,000 companies and over one million individuals. Patent holders, who often have highly specialized skills, are part...
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Learning from the Younger Set: Productivity Lessons from Generation Y
Though the work style of Gen Y workers is frequently denigrated by veterans of the business world, they also possess a knowledge base completely foreign to many upper managers and executives and shouldn't be ignored for their tech savviness and the productivity benefits that come from this know-how. In fact, there are a number of unconventional productivity lessons that can be learned by the...
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4 Best Practices in Online Hiring
Online hiring is a common undertaking for many organizations today, especially due to globalization. The Internet, telecommuting, and outsourcing are making Internet hiring a popular choice for businesses that wish to make it on the global scene. But online hiring also has its challenges. Securing its processes is key when making sure qualified applicants are ushered into the system and assessed...
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Polar Bear Club Lessons for Job Hunters
There is one good reason why I never join the January 1st Vancouver English Bay Polar Bear Club swim: I am afraid that the shock to my heart would send me into "Kodiak arrest" . Still, merely by observing the swim from the dry shore, I've learned and confirmed useful lessons about job hunting. As I interviewed a number of PBC swimmers on their 2012 swim, including the first-timer...
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ASBL: Small Business Programs in Danger as Fiscal Cliff Looms
The American Small Business League (ASBL) said that it is concerned that all federal programs to assist small businesses could be in danger while Congress and President Obama negotiate budget cuts to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff." According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau: Â Small businesses account for more than 90 percent of net new jobs in the...
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Job Loyalty Is Dead—5 Ways to Engage with a Transient Workforce
Research from CareerBuilder of 1,078 professionals in October 2012 highlights an interesting trend or even change to the employee-employer dynamic. Their research suggests that the time of the passive job seeker may have indeed passed, and they present four statistics, which suggest this may be the case. And these are that: 74 percent of employees are either actively searching for a new job...
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Ranking Talent Management Vendors vs Personalities
A few weeks ago, I was checking my handy Google alerts for blog post ideas and an infographic popped up in my feed from Capterra. It wasn't fancy and didn't have tons of entertaining drawings, but the title caught my eye: Top Talent Management Solutions. In the infographic and accompanying article (below), the talent management systems are ranked in order of users, customers, compete rank and...
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SHRM Reports on Four Biggest HR Challenges for 2013
The arrival of 2013 heralds a New Year expected to continue recruitment and retention challenges experienced throughout 2012. HR pros will be required to tend not only to the concerns of retention and recruiting but to provide employees with career development guidance while improving their own business acumen. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has identified the four most...
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Dear Corporate World
Dear Corporate World, It's been a year or so since we broke up for good. I'm so glad it happened. While I learned a lot about myself from you and realized that you are probably perfect for some girls out there, I'm not one of them. When I left I thought that it was because of your incessant desire to have me in the office at normal hours, your constant nagging about the clothes I was or...
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Top 10 Recruiter.com Stories of 2012
In just a few more hours the new year will finally be here. From a nail-biting presidential election to the current negotiations over the looming "fiscal cliff," 2012 has had its share of events that have affected the HR and business fields—some good, some bad. Recruiter.com is proud to serve as a career networking and recruitment platform for job seekers and recruiters, bringing our...
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Survey: 96 Percent of Business Leaders Favor Strong Outcomes for Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
According to the recent National Center for Middle Market survey, 96 percent of middle market business leaders have strong preferences for the outcome of the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. The survey of 1,000 mid-sized business leaders covered all of the nation's industry sectors and geographic regions. When asked to identify up to three preferences for the outcome of the current fiscal...
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Hiring Decisions Being Questioned by Most Employers, Employees
A Development Dimensions International survey has determined that about half of employees regret accepting their job offers this year and many employers are second guessing their hiring decision. Additionally, about one in eight hires did not work out successfully in 2012. "There is a great paradox in that both unemployment and the number of open positions hover at uncomfortably high levels...
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Unemployment Applications Reach Record Low
The U.S. Department of Labor has reported that weekly jobless applications fell by 12,000 to 350,000 for the week ending December 22. The four-week average fell to 356,750 applications, its lowest level since March 2008. However, since unemployment offices were closed two days for Christmas, the figures could be distorted and will likely be revised to more normal numbers during the final week of...
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Paychex Identifies Top 13 Regulatory Changes to Anticipate in 2013
Payroll, HR, and benefits outsourcing company Paychex, Inc., has compiled a list of the top 13 regulatory changes to affect American small- and medium-sized businesses in 2013. "As we approach the New Year, Paychex wants to help small business owners understand the major regulatory issues that may potentially affect their business, either legislatively or through simple rule...
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CareerBuilder Cautiously Optimistic about 2013 Job Market
CareerBuilder's annual hiring forecast for 2013 has expressed general optimism, but also caution as companies continue to play it safe when expanding staff. According to the report, 26 percent of hiring managers are expected to add permanent, full-time employees in 2013; a 3 point improvement over 2012. High-skilled jobs are also predicted to experience increased competition and improved...
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5 Steps to get Back into the Work Mindset
You've opened up gifts, stuffed your belly and spent time with loved ones. Now it's all coming to an end. And, for many workers, once the holidays have ended, so have their not-doing-work days. It's extremely easy to get accustomed to being on vacation, even if it's just for a short while. But no matter how comfortable we get, at some point we all have to go back to work. Even though...
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A Recruiter To-Do List for 2013
It's almost here. That's right. 2013. A brand new year to be all that we can be. Or be what our parents hoped we would not be. Or to be something in the middle. Last year, we published a to-do list for recruiters that was really popular. Most of the items on the list are still relevant... and I bet you did all of them religiously, right? Perhaps this is your chance to take another crack at...
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Klout, Kred and the lowest form of metrics
Let's talk about social measurement for a moment. Now that social recruitment has taken hold in at least 92% of companies surveyed, it's only a matter of time before social measurement starts becoming a metric that factors into hiring. In fact, some job adverts are asking applicants for their klout score, in an effort to pinpoint where niche social influence lies. "We look at this as similar...
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Why Not On-The-Job Tartan Kilts and Suits?—the Case Against Plaid at Work and in Nature
Like the colors that animals display in nature, whatever we wear on the job has various impacts and cost-benefit implications, apart from the purchase price: The male peacock's full-fan display dazzles the ladies, but is a huge encumbrance. The suit makes the man look cool, but feel overheated in the summer and the office. If you're a woman, high heels make you look taller and more...
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Getting Better at LinkedIn in 7 Steps
LinkedIn has changed the way we recruit. Not completely and not overnight, but it has slowly and surely crept into nearly every recruiter's arsenal in one form or another. In fact, recruiting pros were one of the first to really embrace LinkedIn when it debuted, helping the site to gain true growth traction. With the site's growth, several companies, training sessions, sourcing gurus and more...
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Employers Not Communicating BYOD Policies to Employees
Survey results from technology innovator GLOBO have revealed that most IT departments are not making employee sufficiently aware of their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies even though 68 percent of employees use their personal devices at work. Just 29 percent of employees reported that their employer even had a BYOD policy. A further 42 percent of employees are unsure whether or not their...
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Need for Agile Developers Far Outpacing Number of Qualified Candidates
Looking to improve delivery speeds and better consumer value, many companies are ramping up their search for agile software developers, but a study conducted by CareerBuilder's Yoh has found that the number of jobs posted for agile developers outnumber candidates by over 4.5 to 1. The Agile Development: Who's Hiring Who's Hirable report found that a widening skills gap is mostly to blame...
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