Perceptive Interact Solution Released for Microsoft Outlook
Process and content management solutions provider Perceptive Software has announced the release of Perceptive Interact for Microsoft Outlook, allowing users to access and capture content and execute workflow process right from their Outlook interface. With Perceptive Interact, business information is capturable at the point of receipt transforming emails into a business asset processed in the...
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Most Employers to Provide Health Coverage in 2014
According to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' 2012 Post-Election Survey, 84 percent of U.S. employers are at least "very likely" to continue providing employer-sponsored health coverage to full-time employees in 2014. "With President Obama's reelection confirming that the ACA will survive, we saw a 7 percent increase in organizations planning on providing...
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Productivity Must Increase in 2013 to Offset Decline in Hiring
Advisory company CEB, in its newly released Executive Guidance report, has shown that most executives are searching for ways to improve performance by 20 percent from its existing employees in order to reach their business goals for 2013. Discouragingly, only 5 percent of their current employees actually have the combination of core skills and competencies to perform at the required level. With...
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U.S. Sees Lowest Unemployment Rate in Four Years, Adds 146K Jobs
With the U.S. unemployment rate dipping to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, November saw the creation of 146,000 jobs as the effects of Hurricane Sandy subsided and the economy continued its trek to normalization. Though hiring remained steady in the run up to the potential fiscal cliff in January 2013, employers added nearly 50,000 fewer jobs in October and September than was...
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Upgraded Employee Benefit Portals Announced by AOR Technology
AOR Technology provides centralized management solutions for HR and benefits websites that increase accessibility and communications. The company works with employer groups with their benefits, payroll, and wellness resources in order to consolidate them into a single platform accessible with a single sign-on. The platform makes critical information available on any Internet connected desktop,...
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Two-Thirds of Business Experienced Bad Hires in 2012, says CareerBuilder
A new survey from CareerBuilder has shown that 69 percent of employers report being negatively affected by a bad hiring decision within the past year with 41 percent of this group estimating costs exceeding $25,000 per bad hire. An additional 24 percent said bad hires cost them in excess of $50,000 per hire. Rosemary Haefner, vice president of HR at CareerBuilder said: "Whether it's a...
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Paperless Verification Audits Released by Benefit Express Services
Benefit Express Services, LLC provides benefits administration solutions for organizations of all sizes and has recently expanded its offerings with the launch of paperless dependent verification audits. According to Benefit Express, large organizations can expect a 5 to 10 percent reduction in the number of covered dependents after administering an audit. Uncovering ineligible members can lead...
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Online Lender Claims Half of Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
A recent survey administered by NetCredit.com has found that 48 percent of American workers report to living paycheck to paycheck. An additional 44 percent said they were only able to stay up to date on bills and other household payments in order to avoid excessive debt or bankruptcy. Broken down by select demographics, 62 percent of survey participants in their 30s were concerned about living...
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Unemployment Applications Continue to Fall Week to Week
The job market continues to show signs of improvement as applications for unemployment benefits fell sharply for the fourth consecutive week. The U.S. Department of Labor has reported that applications fell by 29,000 for the week ending December 7 tumbling to 343,000, the lowest number in two months and the second lowest total this year. The decline in applications suggests companies are making...
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LBi Software's HR HelpDesk Version 5.0 Released
LBi Software has announced the release of the newest version of its flagship product, LBi HR HelpDesk. Like its predecessors, version 5.0 is a browser-based application that manages employee inquiries about HR, payroll, recruitment, talent management, and benefits. Nearly every aspect of HR HelpDesk was enhanced with the update from adding mobile functionality to improved reporting features. The...
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Unemployment Expected to Remain High for Three Years, say Feds
The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced its projection that the national unemployment rate will remain elevated until the end of 2015 signaling continuing low interest rates for the short-term. With the unemployment rate at 7.7 percent in November, The Fed expects economic growth to improve next year but not to become strong enough to spur widespread employment growth. Growth is expected to...
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Paylocity Releases Newest Versions of Web Time and Web Pay
Cloud-based payroll and HR solutions provider Paylocity has announced the newest version of its flagship product Web Time and Web Pay. Web Pay delivers payroll and HR solutions from the cloud while Web Time offers time and labor functionality. Web Pay 10.1 provides a redesigned report writer and self-service portal and Web Time now offers improved speed and performance with its...
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Allianz Identifies Top Economic Concerns of 2012
According to the 2012 Bad Financial Habits Survey released by the Allianz Life Insurance Company, 44 percent of American workers cite unemployment as their top economic concern of the year. The approaching "fiscal cliff" was number two on the list indicated by 31 percent of respondents. When asked about bad financial habits, 30 percent said not saving money was their worst habit in 2012 and...
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iCIMS 12.2 Launches with Google+ Functionality and Software Enhancements
iCIMS, Inc., provider of SaaS talent acquisition software solutions, has announced that the newest version of its iCIMS platform, version 12.2, is now available. Notable new features include Connect, a new recruitment CRN, improved Social Apply capabilities, enhanced resume parsing, and other interface uses for the employment market. Job candidates may now apply for jobs from their Google+...
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FPC Survey Finds Good jobs now Easier to Find
The most recent Workplace Poll released by FPC found that 49 percent of the 1,300 professionals polled believe that there are either more good job openings now than 12 months ago or their company is hiring more. A little over one-third reported the opposite saying that there is a consistent lack of job openings in their field or that their company was delaying new hires. The remaining...
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Recruitment Firm Diabsolut Acquires Precision Systems Group
Diabsolut, Inc., a leader in strategic workforce management, Salesforce.com consulting services, and business and cloud solutions, has announced its acquisition of Precision Systems Group (PSG), a boutique IT recruitment firm specialized in IT contract staffing, permanent staffing, and recruitment process outsourcing. PSG's entire operations will become consolidated into Diabsolut's portfolio...
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ManageElite Discovers why Management Hates Meetings
ManageElite, in its survey of 948 C-suite executives, directors, managers, and supervisors, has highlighted the inefficiency of upper management to run effective meetings and convey their organizations' mission to their employees. Specifically: • 44.8 percent of executives and managers said that meetings they attended accomplish nothing; • 90.4 percent of respondents said that when...
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Rising Health Care Costs to Lose Steam in 2013?
Xerox-owned consulting firm Buck Consultants has recently projected that health care cost increases for all types of medical plans will slow by between 0.2 percent and 0.6 percent for at least the first six months of 2013. This is the first time since 2001 that the Buck's survey has indicated increases of less than 10 percent for any plan type. In its newest National Health Care Trend Survey,...
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Hopes for Healthcare Reform Highest Among Uninsured
According to new research from WG Consulting, about 75 percent of Americans expect healthcare costs to rise while quality of care declines. These Americans also feel that access to medications and doctors, treatment availability, treatment innovations, and insurance costs and coverage will remain the same or get worse. Unsurprisingly, voters who voted for Romney in the 2012 presidential election...
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3 Ways To Reduce Bad Hires
According to a recent Careeerbuilder survey of 2,494 U.S. managers and Human Resource professionals between August 13 and September 6, nearly 70 percent of employers have reported that they have been affected by a bad hire this year. And what constituted a bad hire? In this case, it meant that the hire did not live up to expectations in terms of performance and there were six areas of...
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Start the New Year with a New Job
Every year recruiters and HR pros go through the annual tug of war that is is holiday job seeking. Is it the worst time to look for a job? Is it the BEST time to look for a job? Do HR pros effectively take the final weeks of the year off? Will folks who apply for 2012 jobs have to wait until 2013? All boiled down, the questions reflect a fundamental disagreement about whether or not...
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Time-off Requests on Overdrive? Get into Gear with a Vacation Form
Christmas is eight days away! In school, this used to mean looking forward to much-needed time off for a couple weeks (at my university we got an entire month for winter break). But as many of us 9-to-5ers now know, that extended break in the working world is nonexistent. But perhaps you've saved up some vacation time and have decided that this year is the year to get a taste of that holiday...
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Study Reveals Mistakes in Global Hiring Process
According to the latest global research on hiring trends from Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global human resources consulting firm, half of new employees are experiencing "buyer's remorse" after taking a job offer in 2012. The research also showed that many organizations question whether or not they made wise hiring decisions because one in eight new employees were...
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Tips to Help Women get their Desired Salaries [infographic]
Inequality among men and women in the workplace continues to be a major issue. Women desire equal roles, equal rights...and an equal salary. Yet, according to the infographic from Levo League, a career destination for Gen Y women, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Kate White, women have the tendency to shy away from salary negotiation, which can lead lower salaries and a loss of...
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ICANN Withdraws Breach Notice Threatening to Stop .Jobs Domain
According to an article on DomainIncite.com, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) withdrew its February 2011 breach notice against .jobs registry Employ Media, which will now open up the field for third-party job listings services in the gTLD. The letter (sent by the corporation) said that ICANN concluded that Employ Media was not currently in breach, but instead in...
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Can You Get a Job via Facebook or Twitter?
Can you get a job via Facebook or Twitter? Absolutely! I landed my current job thanks to Twitter. I still remember telling my computer-wary coworkers about how I found my job. They were baffled. "Twitter?" they said, "You found this job through Twitter?" Five years ago in 2007, when I first started using Twitter, it was mostly used by forum enthusiasts, youtubers, and big time gamers....
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Off(ice) Naps: the Case for Sleeping at Work
"Sleeping off the job"—or what I'll call "off(ice) napping" (my meld of "office napping" and hockey player "off-ice" time)—should include more than sleeping at home on the train commute home or on a grassy knoll in the park across from your office during a lunch break. It should also include sleeping at your work site, like the naps these Chinese workers are taking on...
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Survey Finds Growing Skills Gap in National Workforce
The results of a new survey from Cornerstone OnDemand have named the skills gap as another serious issue for employees to consider entering into the already troubling 2013 economy. The report says that organizations unable to compensate for a general lack of talent will force them to suffer a loss of their competitive edge. The researched showed that more than 19 million workers are planning to...
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Health Care Jobs Top List of Best for People with Disabilities
According to CareerCast.com, the top three best professions for workers with disabilities include pharmaceutical sales, pharmacy technician, and physician's assistant. The report notes that while 54 million Americans currently have a disability, only about 20 percent participate in the traditional workforce. Discrimination is the primary obstacle for disabled job seekers when searching for...
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Moody's Predicts Economic Growth During Latter Half of 2013
Moody's Analytics states in its report, U.S. Macro Outlook 2013: Poised for Liftoff, that while current fiscal policy will drag down U.S. growth entering into 2013, economic growth should accelerate by Q3 thanks to a revived private sector. The sunny outlook relies on a comprehensive budget plan avoiding tax hikes and spending cuts (the so-called "fiscal cliff") scheduled to take effect in...
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Getting the Highest Valuation for your Staffing Firm
As the head of a staffing firm, you will at some point have to consider your succession from the firm. This could involve one of several scenarios: outright sale of the firm, an exciting merger and new venture, sale to a current partner or even internal succession. Whenever you sell your staffing firm, and whatever your reasons for doing so, one thing remains constant: you will be looking for...
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Dr. Karie Willyerd and 5 Ways to Stay Productive to Accelerate your Career in 2013
With a little more than two weeks left until the new year, most people are even busier than usual. Gifts must be bought, living rooms decorated, spare bedrooms cleaned out and coordination of what festivities will take place during the holidays and where. So, if your personal to-do list is spilling over, why should your professional list be any different? For most people it isn't—the...
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Making Sense of Recruitment Management Systems [INFOGRAPHIC]
The longer you stay in talent acquisition, the more complex it seems to become. I began my journey in a third party agency, moved into internal HR and corporate recruiting at a couple of SMBs and never in that time did I touch anything called a Recruitment Management System. The technology counterpart that makes business outsourcing (ahem, like RPO and HRO) possible, Management Systems have only...
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Care.com Jumps into Recruiting
Care.com, a well-known portal for finding local child and special needs care, is jumping into the recruiting business. Care was founded in 2006 and has grown quickly to be a leading method of finding babysitters, nannies, and senior care professionals. The company has received some high profile attention, including investment from Brian Swette, former COO of Ebay, and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of...
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Betting Against the Mayan Apocalypse: Should You Keep Working, Even if the End May Be Near?
Nostradamus was wrong and the world did not end or get trashed at the beginning of the new millennium (although, sadly, his prophesied cataclysmic "fire that will fall from the sky" occurred a year later in September 2001—mentioned in case being approximately and partially right counts for something). Now, we've supposedly got an ancient Mayan calendar to worry about—which has...
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Three Urgent Talent Challenges in 2013
2013 may in many respects be the best and worst of times for HR. On the downside, global, critical talent shortages are set to persist in a nervous, post-recessionary economic climate where global economic growth forecasts have been downsized considerably. This means 2013 will be an especially challenging year for HR professionals, where every investment will need to be justified, but, where...
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CareerBliss Names America's Happiest Companies for 2013
CareerBliss' third annual 50 Happiest Companies in America Awards has identified the 50 companies "dedicated to cultivating happy work environments." Through analyzing over 100,000 independent company reviews, CareerBliss ranked the happiest company in America as Pfizer, Inc. with an overall "BlissScore" of 4.248 out of 5. The remainder of the top 10 list include, in descending order:...
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Millennials Continue to Struggle with Unemployment
Generation Opportunity's Millennial Jobs Report has indicated that the unemployment rate for workers between 18 and 29 years of age hit 10.9 percent in November with African Americans (18.5 percent) and Hispanic (12.5 percent) workers recording above average unemployment. Female Millennials fared slightly better than the average with an unemployment rate of 10.5 percent. An additional 1.7...
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November Employment Numbers Show Women Regaining Lost Jobs
An analysis of November's employment report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Institute for Women's Policy Research has shown that women have surpassed men in regaining jobs lost during the economic recovery. Woman gained about 91,000 jobs in November compared to 55,000 for men. Most jobs were gained in the retail (26,000 jobs), education and health services (21,000...
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The Marriage of Recruiting & Technology: For Better or for Worse?
I am a big fan of recruitment technology. As marketing director for a video interviewing company, technology is front and center in my every day life. Like most of my colleagues, I love new apps, new functionality and new gadgets. However, when not done right, technology may not equal advantage. Technology has been part of recruiting for many years now, and it continues to change and shape the...
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8 Tips for an Energy Efficient Workplace
Winter is here, and for most states, so are the cold temperatures. Pretty soon (if you haven't already), you'll be receiving those familiar emails from your electric and gas companies offering advice on how you can save an extra dollar during the winter season. Just like during the summer months, there are steps you can take to weatherize your home to ensure you conserve energy and avoid...
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Survey: 70 Percent of U.S. CFOs Believe Economy will Improve
According to the 2012 Fall CFO Survey from Grant Thornton LLP, almost 70 percent of the nation's chief financial officers (CFOs) of companies believe the economy will either improve or remain stable during the next six months. The survey of 1,582 CFOs showed that 39 percent of participants believe the state of the economy will remain the same in the first half of 2013, another 30 percent...
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The 6 Questions Recruiters Always Ask (and the answers)
When you run a software company, you get asked a lot of questions by burgeoning entrepreneurs. When you run a recruiting software company, you get asked a lot of questions by recruiters. And some even ask for advice. Here are the questions that come up the most and how I answer them: Q: How can I "do" social recruiting? It seems like so much work. Social recruiting is a broad term and many...
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During the Holidays, Incorporate Work and Family Instead of 'Balancing' Them
I've often noticed how so many of these "perfect work/life balance" articles tend to be structured around balancing work with toddlers and babies in the household and less about what happens to that kind of balance once the kids start to grow up. As both a mom and a CEO of my own company, MyCorporation.com, the holidays are already hectic enough at the office, but add in two sons who are no...
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Productivity Must Increase in 2013 to Offset Decline in Hiring
Advisory company CEB, in its newly released Executive Guidance report, has shown that most executives are searching for ways to improve performance by 20 percent from its existing employees in order to reach their business goals for 2013. Discouragingly, only 5 percent of their current employees actually have the combination of core skills and competencies to perform at the required level. With...
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How to Spend Your Recruiting Tech Dollars
In the race for a better, smarter, more efficient recruiting process, there are lots of options competing for your recruiting dollar. Because every business has different business objectives, every business has completely different talent acquisition and recruiting strategies. In simpler terms, the kind of organization you have, the kind of recruiting you do and even the current recruiting team...
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4 Ways To get First-Mover Advantage in the 2013 Talent War
You don't need me to tell you that January (especially) and the entire first quarter of 2013 can be the busiest period of the year for recruitment activity. There are many reasons for this, such as: reduced candidate supply in the festive December month, leading to pent up demand for talent in January, the fact that the new budget year starts for many businesses, releasing new funds, and the fact...
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Submit a 1-Page Job Proposal with CEO Joanna Riley Weidenmiller
The resume is dead —and the The One-Page Company is making strides not only to resurrect it, but to take the sending-out-resumes process one step further. The San Francisco-based startup offers job seekers and employers the opportunity to exchange the traditional, dying resume pitch for an effective one-page job proposal. Ladies and gentleman, allow me to introduce the future of job search...
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