Most Employees Optimistic About Career Growth Opportunities
A University of Phoenix survey has found that 89 percent of American workers say they have opportunities to grow their careers, despite the current weak economic conditions. Of the survey respondents who were not full-time students, 41 percent said they expect to return to school in the future, and 64 percent of these foresee doing so within the next two years. Of employed respondents, 54 percent...
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Most Foundation Boards Lack Asians, Pacific Islanders, says LEAP
The most recent of the Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP) research reports has examined the inclusion of Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in the top 100 foundation boards. The results have revealed a real scarcity of APIs in the foundation world. While APIs increased their numbers of board seats by six in 2012, inclusion has dropped from 4.95 percent in 2010 to 4 percent this...
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Jobless Claims Jump, Reverse Four-Week Decline
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped by 17,000 for the week ending December 15, the first increase in nearly a month. However, the number of people seeking aid remains amendable to a job market in the midst of modest growth. Claims rose to an adjusted 361,000 over while the four-week moving average fell 13,750 to...
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American Job Duration Increases but Remains Low
New research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has found that Americans are staying at their jobs longer, on average, than in 2010. The average length of time per job was measured at 5.4 years in 2012, compared to 5.2 years in 2010 and 5 years in 1983. The median tenure for male workers actually decreased from 5.9 years in 1983 to 5.5 years in 2012 while the median tenure for...
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Traits of High Performers Named by CEB
Advisory company CEB has released its annual Executive Guidance report identifying the competencies possessed by employees recognized as high performers. CEB found the ingredients for a high-performance employee to be immunity to the complexities of change, a willingness to collaborate with a diverse range of personalities, and the ability to apply sound judgment in increasingly complex roles....
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Skillrater.com Launched as "Future of 360-degree Assessment"
Online social platform Skillrater.com has launched as a way for users to request work performance ratings and direct reports from a global workforce. The self-described "world's first rating, networking and feedback tool on a social platform" allows executives, employees, and entrepreneurs to received skill ratings and feedback from other friended members at Skillrater.com. The network is...
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Presenteeism on the Rise: Most Workers go to Work Sick
A November study by Cintas Corporation has uncovered a disturbing feature of the American workforce: 84 percent of employed adults admit to having gone to work sick and 45 percent of themtake/took no precautions to avoid contact (shaking hands and other physical contact) with others. Coincidentally, 45 percent of employed adults also admitted to not warning others that they were...
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Certify LLC Shows where Employees Spend Company Travel Expenses
In a survey of the top five expensed restaurants, cities, airlines, hotels, and rental car agencies among its list of clients, cloud-based expense management software provider Certify LLC has shown a level of predictability in how employees use their employer's expense accounts on travel and entertainment costs. Among restaurants, Starbucks collected almost 8,000 more expense reports than did...
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2013 to see Modest Salary Increases, Focused on High-Impact Employees
In an online poll conducted by compensation consultants Pearl Meyer Partners in partnership with WorldatWork, most employers reported predicting conservative budgets for pay raises in 2013 aimed strategically at employees' most affecting organizational performance. The poll, Doing More with Less: Maximizing Limited Compensation Resources in 2013, surveyed 150 compensation and HR professionals in...
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GoodRevu Announces Drag-and-Drop Online Evaluations Interface
Cloud-computing software company GoodRevu has announced the launch of its online performance evaluation software with a simple icon-based, drag-and-drop evaluation interface. Users create reviews through a selection of icons that represent the skills and goals for each employee. The simplified interface is designed to decrease the amount of time required to construct evaluations so that more time...
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ANSI Approves Performance Management Standard, 2nd American National HR Standard
On Nov. 30, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the performance management standard as the second American national HR standard sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The performance management standard gives employers a uniform way to analyze and discuss their employees' job performances, including goal setting and performance improvement plans....
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5 Things to do Before the Holiday Break
Christmas is five days away (if you count today), and that, of course, means the start of 2013 is soon after. With the holidays fast approaching, most people have so much to do in what feels like so little time. We think of getting things ready in our personal lives—last minute shopping, wrapping gifts, putting up Christmas decor—but what about making sure to tie up any loose ends in our...
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Collaborative Recruiting for SMBs: 5 Tips
Collaborative recruiting is a great marketing term. But for small to medium businesses across the globe, it's more than a nice, fuzzy term, it's a reality. Why? Because competing against the Fortune 500 or even the Fortune 1000 for talent is tough. Smaller companies often have fewer internal resources, smaller teams, less brand presence in local markets and a host of other hurdles to...
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How to Find The Best Talent When They aren't Looking for You
Your company needs great employees, but it seems like everyone in your industry is recruiting from the same limited talent pool. Even with 7.9 percent unemployment, employers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to shoestring startups are finding it harder to hire great people. The gap between the skills employers need and the skills job seekers possess seems to be widening by the day. A recent...
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4 Tactics To Revitalize an Unmotivated Hiring Team
As a recruiting team leader, at some point in your career, you may find yourself at the head of an unmotivated and under performing recruitment team that is failing to hit all its key metrics and failing to cooperate effectively as a team. It could be that you have inherited an existing team or it may be possible that your own team has faced many challenges and has become jaded to some degree....
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Few Employers use Promotions for Recruitment and Retention
The 2012 Promotional Guidelines report from WorldatWork has found that just 16 percent of employers use opportunities for promotions as recruitment and retention tools. "WorldatWork has been studying promotional practices for several years and have found that organizations consistently under communicate promotional guidelines and policies to the general employee population,"Kerry Chou, a...
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Insperity, Inc. Releases Recruiting Sourcing Services Platform
HR solutions provider Insperity, Inc. has announced the launch of Sourcing Services to help companies identify and communicate with candidates at the start of the recruitment process. Insperity's nationwide recruitment efforts are supplemented by sourcing experts using state-of-the-art proprietary tools and techniques. "Insperity Sourcing Services was developed for organizations that...
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Mobile Job Hunting Site Arrives from Job-Applications.com
Job-Applications.com is a free online employment site for first-time and entry-level job seekers. With the company's newly announced mobile version of the site, the employment resources offered on Job-Applications.com are now available on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The mobile site offers users job resources for thousands of companies, job search tips, and a video library...
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Tackle Prolonged Unemployment in 2 Steps
Although the economy is slowly improving and statistics show that the national unemployment rate is decreasing, a lot of people are still struggling to obtain jobs. In fact, reports have claimed that the drop in unemployment is partially due to many Americans dropping out of the job-search field. While this is definitely not an ideal position in which to find yourself, it is an opportunity for...
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How to Develop Successful Talent Pipelines [infographic]
We all know that a company's success is based on its employees and those employees must be talented. Having a database of talented job seekers, or a talent pipeline, can help a company ensure it is bringing in the cream of the crop during the recruiting process. Yet, according to the infographic Talent Piplines: Approach Pays Off by recruitment research firm Qualigence International, "the...
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SmashFly Upgrades Recruitment Marketing Platform
Recruitment marketing technology firm SmashFly Technologies has released the most recent version of its flagship Recruitment Marketing Platform enhancing its social functionality, focusing on collaboration and engagement, and improving overall usability. The new enhancements improve identification, attraction, retention, and engagement tools for employers and simplify the measurement of...
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How to Integrate Video Interviews Into Your Hiring Process in 2013
As the new year approaches, it's time again for recruiters to consider what changes they want to implement to their hiring process in 2013. As we all put together our list of resolutions, it's time to look at your current hiring process and see what you can integrate to make finding the best candidates simpler. Utilizing video interviewing is one solution many recruiters and hiring...
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What your Company can Learn from this Tragedy
Since Friday Dec. 16, media outlets have provided extensive coverage of the tragic shooting incident in Newtown, Conn. We've read the stories, we've watched the videos and we've scene the photos. The news of this devastating event has traveled across the globe and most people are more than aware of the facts: Â 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook...
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Survey: U.S. Workers More Optimistic about Jobs, Economy in 2013
According to a recent survey by employment services provider Randstad U.S., the nation's workers reported that when it comes to jobs and the economy, they are hopeful for a better year in 2013. According to the survey of 3,417 full-time employed adults aged 18 and older, 57 percent of workers believe they are likely to receive a raise in 2013, an increase of 10 percent from last year. More...
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A Few Thoughts on Leveraging Social Media for Recruitment
While social media is definitely a great way to increase your company's visibility, it's also a much more cost-efficient way to recruit new talent for your organization. With over two-thirds of adults maintaining social profiles, recruiters can often use the information provided in those profiles to gauge whether or not the person might be a viable lead for candidacy. 3 Tips For Recruiters...
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Recruiting in the Hotel Industry
When your hotel is looking to hire, not only do you need to be sure that your potential employees are going to be valuable member of you team, bus as a hotel, you need to be sure that you can trust them with your guests all times. The entire stay will reflect on your brand, so ensuring your employees are able to accurately display that is critical. Instead of referring to standard HR software...
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Even before Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Reform, DOL begins Auditing Plans
Though President Obama's health care reform law, which went into effect in 2012, won't receive a Supreme Court ruling regarding its constitutionality until June, the Department of Labor has begun auditing healthcare plans for compliance. Should the law be struck down by the nation's highest court, the federal government still fully intends to punish violators of the law while it is in...
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tenXer Launches "Revolutionary" Human Capital Management and Productivity Platform
Technology company tenXer announced the arrival of its new personal HCM and productivity platform of the same name that will use metrics to build game-like systems to improve job performance. These game-like programs act as social motivation systems by providing leader boards and activity streams that help make employees better at what they do, no matter their field. tenXer is primarily...
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October Job Creation Highest in Texas
Data from job site Employment Crossing indicate that Texas added 36,600 jobs in October, the state's highest mark since January and top spot for job creation in the U.S. The housing market is the most influential in overall growth in customer confidence. Currently, there are 143,000 job openings throughout the state. The job surge has dropped the state's unemployment rate down from 6.8...
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New HCM Blog to Share Insights for Better Employee and Business Management
CBIZ, Inc. launched a new blog, the CBIZ Human Capitalizing blog, to help employers best utilize their workers while also working to motivate and retain current employees and attracting new ones. The blog's primary foci will be the areas of benefits and wellness, employee management, and fiscal management. The initial batch of posts include: the introduction of the CBIZ Small Business...
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Accountemps Survey: Employees Report High Morale
A new Accountemps survey found that 39 percent of employees have very good morale within their organizations and an additional 42 percent have somewhat good morale. Just 12 percent of respondents reported somewhat poor morale and 6 percent reported very poor morale. "People ultimately want work they're proud of, colleagues they respect and an environment where their contributions are valued,"...
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Online Reputation Often Overlooked, but Plays Big Role in Attracting/Repelling Talent
A growing number of companies, like GlassDoor.com, have sprung up over the past few years to offer job seekers unprecedented exposure to the experiences of current and past employees at a huge variety of companies. In some cases, disgruntled employees, or even competitors, make fraudulent claims that equate to real damage to a company's reputation. Negative reviews are making it especially...
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Corporate Renaissance Group Feature Offers Real-Time Performance Feedback
Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG) emPerform's new emPerform tag feature offers a new innovation in talent management technology enabling real-time performance feedback. The tag feature is integrated into emPerform's online talent management suite and allows for the continuous capturing of performance feedback throughout the year. The tag tool offers a way to manage talent through documenting...
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Flypaper Studio Adds Connect Functionality to Google Calendar
Flypaper Studio, maker of leading content creation platform Flypaper 3.7, has announced the addition of Flypaper Connect for Google Calendar, which allows users to access and update event information already stored in a Google Calendar document. Content may then be displayed without the need to republish a Flypaper project. All data-based event and appointment information for digital signage...
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Business Results Boosted with Sophisticated Employee Development, Study Says
A survey from Bersin Associates has attributed an average of three times higher revenue growth to companies with high-performance employee development programs. Categorized as "high-performance learning organizations (HILOs)," these companies are also eight times more likely to be perceived as strategically valuable and three times more likely to align development initiatives with general...
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Individual Learning Solution Introduced for Health and Safety Training
MySafetySkills, provider of 300 OSHA, EPA, and DOT-compliant online safety training courses, has developed a new solution for individual learners. The suite of training courses for individuals are the same as those offered to corporate customers. The competency-based training requires no setup or long-term commitment and is suitable for employees required to take a course during their tenure at...
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SurePayroll Scorecard Indicates Slowed Small-Business Hiring
Small business payroll experts SurePayroll Inc., has released the results of its SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard, showing that hiring for small businesses was down 0.1 percent over the month with average paychecks remaining flat. Business-owner optimism has also taken a hit in November falling 8 points from October to sit at 60 percent. The survey also showed that most small businesses (61...
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Domestic Partnership Act Would Cost $144M Over A Decade
The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBOA) of 2011, proposed legislation that would override the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is projected to cost the federal government approximately $144 million over the next ten years should it be passed into law. The announcement by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) should work to quell fears that the enactment of the Act would...
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Anti-Competitive Markets Cause Lack of Competition in U.S. Health Insurance
A new study released by the American Medical Association (AMA) has underlined the anti-competitive nature of the American health insurance market. The report shows that anti-competitive behavior is hurting patients and physicians within the most popular managed health care plans in the country and raising health costs. The AMA reports that more than 68 percent of metro areas exhibit a major lack...
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Unemployment Applications Fall Yet Again, Post Superstorm Sandy
Falling by 23,000 last week, national unemployment benefits applications dropped to a seasonally adjusted 393,000; the second consecutive drop after Hurricane Sandy drove applications high. The effects of Sandy are now believed to have disappeared from employment data, according to analysts at the U.S. Department of Labor. The four-week average, including the spike from the storm three weeks ago,...
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Innovative Enterprises & PeopleAssessments Partnership Connects Screener Pros with Behavioral Assessment Solutions
Smart data solutions provider Innovative Enterprises, Inc. partnered with assessment solutions provider PeopleAssessments to bring best-in-class behavioral assessment solutions to the background screening industry. PeopleAssessments offers science based and proven solutions designed to allow employers to find the best candidates for the right jobs. Enterprises allows the network of its Screening...
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Growing Number of Americans Feel Higher Taxes, Spending Cuts Needed
The Emerson College Polling Society (EPCS) released its most recent poll suggesting 43 percent of Americans feel that spending cuts and tax hikes are necessary in order to solve the fiscal cliff. A further 37 percent feel that spending cuts alone are the best way to manage the deficit while 8 percent think increased tax rates are the sole solution. Alternatively, raising federal revenue without...
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Demand for Online Labor Remains Flat Over the Month
A joint research report from The Conference Board, WANTED Technologies, and HAVER ANALYTICS has revealed that online job vacancies were virtually unchanged in November sitting at 4,719,900. The Conference Board Help Wanted Online Data Series found that the supply/demand rate for online positions is 2.6 unemployed persons per vacancy. The most recent data from October showed that online...
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Working Simply: Workforce to Shift from "Survive" to "Thrive" Mindset in 2013
With the recession (very) slowly fading into memory, management consultancy firm Working Simply is predicting a reawakening of the American worker to the realization that a job must provide fulfillment and meaning, not just pay the bills. Carson Tate, founder and managing partner of Working Simply, states, "There is opportunity for everyone in this rapidly changing, often chaotic environment....
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List of 6 Top Salaried Jobs for 2013 Released by Robert Half Technologies
Making more money in 2013 will be easier in the six jobs identified by Robert Half Technologies in its 2013 Salary Guides, developed in collaboration with The Creative Group. Particularly in the information technology and creative fields, a number of positions are predicted to post above-average salary gains in 2013. The compensation increases are the result of continually increasing demand for...
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Reviewsnap Expands Learning Content Integration Module for its Performance Management System
Reviewsnap expanded its cloud-based performance management system with a new Learning Content Integration (LCI) module to bolster its suit of other management tools including modules addressing "360-degree" performance reviews, general employee performance reviews, and compensation-for-performance reviews. Being based in the cloud, Reviewsnap is maintenance free and simple to implement and...
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UCLA Highlights Professions with Strong Projected Hiring Trends in 2013
According to UCLA Extension, jobs primed for growth and salary increases in 2013 are grouped in the industries of information technology, engineering, health care, finance, construction, and management. Professional development and continuing education certificates will continue to give workers a decided edge against their competition and the opportunity to earn a higher salary and become...
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Employers End Stagnation on Health Care Decisions Post PPACA
Fortunately for many employees in post-Obama reelection America, most employers seem to be removing the option to drop health coverage from the table. According to a survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 84 percent of employers will continue to provide health care coverage for full-time employees even after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is...
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