WebMD to cut 250 Jobs
WebMD Health Corp, the health and medical news information site, just announced its plans to cut around 250 jobs in an effort to reduce costs. The lost jobs equal 14 percent of its workforce. According to Reuters' data, the company had about 1700 employees. The company also said that it plans to restructure its operations and focus its resources on the following: increasing user engagement,...
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5 Ways To Determine The Perfect Fit For Your Job Opening
It's an age-old tale -- employers, hiring managers, and recruiters are all looking for the most efficient and effective way to fill open positions with the most qualified candidates available. For some this means a number of different candidate search tactics including implementing social recruiting tools, online sourcing methods, or paying for the posting on job boards. But are they really...
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Sociology Report: Firms Want Cultural Fit Over Qualifications
New research from peer-reviewed journal American Sociological Review suggests that an employee's cultural fit at their employer may play a more important role in hiring than any other factor, including job qualifications. Companies are placing more emphasis on hiring employees with similar interests and goals. And while employers are still sure to hire well-qualified candidates, hiring managers...
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Hiring in Service Sector Reaches Four-Year High
The National Employment report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has reported that 43.3 percent of service-sector employers are hiring in December while 9.3 percent of employers are cutting staff. The net increase of 34 percent hiring is a four-year high. The remaining 47.4 percent of employers expect no change in personnel numbers. "The expected rise in service-sector...
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Worker Confidence Loses Steam, Drops to Three-Month Low
Randstad's November Employee Confidence Index showed the first decline in worker confidence since August as it fell to 51.7 (a 1.9 point decline) percent. Uncertainty was on the rise for the month as workers questioned the availability of new jobs and the strength of the economy in the lead up to the fiscal stiff. Though optimism fell, most workers (59 percent) held onto strong levels of...
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5 Mobile HR Apps to Jumpstart 2013
In the KMPG whitepaper, Rethinking Human Resource in a Changing World, they outlined three strategic challenges that talent managements professionals are likely to face next year. The two challenges that interest me here are the need to be able to manage the new global, flexible and remote workforce and the need to be able to predict future talent needs and shortages using data analytics, which...
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T.E.A.M Work Makes the D.R.E.A.M Work
Since childhood we have been taught to work with others. You remember the sayings: There is no "I" in TEAM; Sharing is Caring, and Together Everyone Achieves More. In school you always had to partner with someone for an assignment, in Chemistry labs you worked in groups and regularly participating in group discussions was a requirement for most college courses. Fast forward to the present...
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7 Deadly Emotional Sins at Work and Home (Part II: the Battle between Fear and Desire)
The confusion of hurt and disappointment, of anger and frustration, and succumbing to the illusion and misinterpretation of self esteem are three "7 Deadly Emotional Sins" (analyzed in Part 1), that are relatively easy to control. That's because both their triggers and their manifestations are subject to internal, personal control. Yes, you can choose to be disappointed rather than...
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Do Your Applicants Belong on the Naughty or Nice List? [INFOGRAPHIC]
With the holidays fast approaching, it's time to don your best cozy winter sweater and spend time around the fire with family and friends. While the holidays can be a magical time, it's still difficult to find the right candidates for your company's open positions. Will your candidate turn out to be the top talent you need or turn into the office Grinch? The infographic below, compiled...
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iCIMS Launches Connect, new Talent Acquisition Tool
Leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider iCIMS just announced the release of its newest product Connect, a tool that helps customers engage passive candidates and create a sourcing channel for future hiring needs. Connect is a part of iCIMS' Talent Platform; Recruit and Onboard are the other two talent acquisition solutions that make up the platform. "In the world of recruitment, many...
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Beyond.com Acquires Online Job Board JobCircle.com
The Career Network Beyond.com Inc. just announced its acquisition of job board JobCircle.com. The online job portal is dedicated to employers and job seekers in the nation's Mid-Atlantic region. JobCircle.com offers its 1.3 million registered members with a variety of tools to simplify job posting and candidate search processes. The site was founded in 1998, and is well known for developing...
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Hiring Managers Expect Solid Job Creation in 2013
Website provider Dice Holdings, Inc. reported that hiring experts are predicting a strong, but not superb, year for hiring in 2013. The survey of hiring professionals showed that 46 percent of hiring managers and recruiters expect increased hiring throughout the first half of the year while 44 percent said the economy plays no part in their hiring behavior. Over half of hiring managers also...
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Career Advancement Platform Launched for Gen Yers
My Future Job, an online career resource aimed at Generation Y employees, has announced the launch of a career advancement platform that provides content covering jobs, career guidance, and recruitment opportunities. The site is explicitly designed to address more than just a job search, and puts a focus on providing resources for the many aspects of career development. The site provides members...
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Steps to Entrepreneurship with Nonprofit Founder Joe Shure
As editors at Rutgers University's student newspaper, Rohan Mathew and Joe Shure witnessed the challenges everyday workers faced in New Brunswick, N.J. "Steady jobs were scarce, a large immigrant community struggled to get bank accounts and business loans, and nearly a third of households lived below the poverty line," said Shure. "We got to thinking what we, as a couple of college...
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Survey: Just Below Half of U.S. Companies View Talent Management as Priority
According to a recent survey by ManpowerGroup's talent and career management expert Right Management, only around half (49 percent) of major organizations regard talent management as a top priority. The survey of 537 senior managers and human resource professionals of U.S. companies showed that 13 percent of organizations viewed talent management as a secondary priority, while 38 percent of...
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Workforce 2020
Sometimes when I receive press releases, I get really excited. Like when I received one about the study on Workforce 2020, I sort of thought it could be the title of a movie or a rap song.... or at least would reference robots SOMEWHERE. No dice. But there are some interesting things to note about the Hudson Institute's study Workforce 2020, lack of robots notwithstanding, so let's get...
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The Real Reasons Your Employees are Leaving, Part 2
Last week, we published an article titled "The Real Reasons your Employees are Leaving You" and it was pretty popular. In fact, while many of you reading this right now are talent acquisition professionals (meaning recruiters, staffing pros, Human Resources workers or some other "personnel" type), many of the comments we got were from employees themselves, agreeing with some of our assessments...
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Matchmaking Comes to Jobs: eHarmony to Launch Job Board
Bloomberg recently published a news item called "EHarmony Founder Breaks Up With Investors to Reboot." The article mainly discusses changes at the popular matchmaking site and developments promoted by Neil Clark Warren, the founder of the company. Somewhat buried in the article are clear references to the fact that eHarmony will soon be launching a job board and career matching service. Just...
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Engaging Employees and Reaching Quality Candidate Referrals
Sourcing methods are changing. While they were traditionally aimed at acquiring active candidates, those seeking employment and a small representative of the overall candidate pool, social media networking, with its increased emphasis on two-way communication, now enables greater interaction with passive candidates. And with job boards reaching a limited audience of those looking for work, the...
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Hiring Managers Expect Steady Job Creation in 2013
According to a national survey from Dice Holdings Inc., a leading provider of employment websites, hiring professionals anticipate steady job creation in the first half of 2013. Almost half (46 percent) of the 1,100 hiring professionals polled reported expecting additional hiring during the first half of 2013 compared to the second half of 2012. Forty-four percent of hiring managers and...
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The Worst Part about Being a Recruiter – Why You Failed Your Interview!
One of the hardest parts of being a recruiter is telling a candidate who is excited about joining a company that they didn't pass the interview. Almost every candidate I speak to right after they interview tells me that they thought the interview went great and that they would be a great match for the company. That response has become so common for me that I cringe almost every time I...
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What Every Successful Resume Should Have
The end of the year is fast approaching, and with it comes a hiring boom. Many companies will be in search of seasonal and temporary hires to help offset the consumer holiday demands. Whether you're looking for a full-time position in hopes of it turning into a permanent job or just seeking a way to make some extra holiday cash, you're going to need to focus on one important thing: your...
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Should You Be a Deal Moderator, or Mediator?
You are the middleman in a deal and play a pivotal role in closing it. But have you been given the right role? Is it possible that you've taken on the role or been put in the position of a "mediator" when you should be working as a "moderator"? To understand the difference, don't think "labor dispute mediator" or "presidential debate moderator". The...
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It's Time to do some Social Media Damage Control
With social media use on a continual rise, online profiles now serve as secondary resumes. A new study states that as many as 92% of all employers nationwide check a job applicant's social media profile before hiring. In addition, 69% of respondents report not hiring a candidate based on something found on a social networking site. Companies and universities take advantage of the personal...
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Tech Empowers Talent Acquisition in the Global Workforce
The global workforce has dominated headlines for some time and it's clear to many in our industry that the borders and guidelines that used to dictate hiring and retention practices within companies are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. While there are still many hurdles and challenges to recruiting and managing a workforce unhindered by time zones, language barriers and connectivity,...
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8 Steps to Make your Time Work for You
Besides money, what is the one thing on any given day most people will say they don't have enough of? Time. Subtracting the recommended 8 hours of sleep (that most will say they don't get anyway), 16-hour days just don't seem to be enough. Between work, school, friends and family, and activities, where does all of our time go? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic's most recent...
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FedEx to Offer Buyouts, Up to 2 Years' Pay
FedEx, the world's second-largest package delivery company, just announced its plans to offer some of its employees buyout options totaling up to two years' pay. The buyouts will start next year. The program, which is voluntary, is a part of FedEx's effort to cut annual costs by $1.7 billion over three years. According to the Associated Press, the cutbacks are direct responses "to a...
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Bright.com Releases New Tool for Recruiters
Bright.com, an innovative job search tool that uses data science to connect job candidates with the best opportunities, just released a free tool to help recruiters instantly match resumes to jobs—The Bright Score Calculator. Current job seekers can also use the new feature to get an idea of how their skills and expertise match up with a certain job opening. By looking at hundreds of factors...
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U.S. CFOs Optimism Decreases about Economy
According to the CFO Outlook Survey, conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) around the world, especially in the U.S., are uncertain about the economic future, their businesses and the expectation of recovery. The study, done Nov.9-20, came from 180 corporate CFOs from the United States, 32 corporate...
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Survey Finds Many Americans Aren't Saving for Retirement
According to a new survey from Capital One ShareBuilder, a majority (54 percent) of Americans plan to retire by age 65, yet 36 percent aren't actively contributing to a retirement plan and 26 percent don't know how much they need to save. The survey of around 1,000 Americans (age 18+) revealed that although confidence in the ability to save for retirement has improved—33 percent claimed...
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5 Key Hiring Metrics for 2013
With 2013 fast approaching, many of us will be using the traditionally quieter hiring month of December to take stock of the key industry developments and market trends of 2012 in order to refine our strategic approaches accordingly for 2013. These refinements may include a change in strategy, tactics or processes or it could involve the adoption of new cutting edge technologies. Evidence does...
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Is the .JOBS Domain the Future of Job Search?
On Tuesday Nov. 6, the DirectEmployers Association partnered with TalentCircles, a leading candidate engagement and management platform. Through this platform, members of the Association can now create a branded talent network while also providing "an enhanced candidate experience." The new technology partnership enables DirectEmployers members to add a private talent network to their new...
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The Holidays are Here—It's Time for Employee Gift-Giving
The holiday season is in full swing and it's time for small businesses, HR departments and C-level executives to decide: what am I going to give my employees this year? Holiday gifts are the perfect way to show employees how grateful you are for a year's worth of hard work. A recent survey revealed that 38.5% of survey respondents rank gift cards as their favorite or usually favorite gift to...
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Company Culture Should be Top Priority for Every Graduate with an MBA
For eager entrepreneurs developing a business plan, the sheer number of elements to consider can be staggering. Decisions regarding the nature and size of the business, how to market the product and what sort of profits to expect are all necessary considerations. However, with so many factors to juggle, even the savviest entrepreneurs often overlook the importance of company culture. A positive,...
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Importance of Families Still Trumps Financial Perks
There is more reason than ever to consider work life balance as just as important of a factor as any other to retaining and attracting key employee talent. New York Life's Keep Going Good Report finds that despite the fact that 71 percent of American workers reported that they would be happier with more pay, only a small portion would be willing to trade between their financial situation and...
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Blogging for a Job or a Job Search? Check Out These WordPress Plugins for a Productivity Boost
As a content management system, WordPress is one of the most beloved and user friendly platforms for both blog visitors and bloggers / site administrators. Just one of the benefits the blogging platform brings to content creators is the myriad plugins available to writers to tweak and optimize their blog administration and productivity. As a blogger for business or pleasure, consider the...
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The Real Reasons your Employees are Leaving You
It's a fact of life that's all too familiar to recruiters and HR pros alike. Employees come and they go. But as talent acquisition broadens to bring "retention" into the stable of measurements that we use to gauge our effectiveness, more information on the real reasons employees leave begins to emerge. Organizations are frequently looking to recruit, retain and train their employees - but...
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LivingSocial Cuts 400 U.S. Jobs
The online deals company LivingSocial recently laid off 400 workers, which makes up around 10 percent of its global workforce. Reuters reported that the majority of those laid off worked in sales or customer service positions for LivingSocial's U.S. operations. "After two years of hyper-growth in which the company went from 450 to 4500 employees worldwide, these moves will align our cost...
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Employers Report Prevalence of Fake References on Applications
CareerBuilder's new study on candidate references has shown that 62 percent of employers say that they have at least one experience where a listed reference has given a poor review of a job applicant while 29 percent say that they have found a fake reference on an application. The expansive survey included nearly 2,500 hiring managers HR professionals and almost 4,000 workers from a variety of...
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OroLogic Migrates Field Service Management to the Cloud with NewWaySERVICE
Management software provider OroLogic Inc. has released the latest version of its service-management solution NewWaySERVICE. The updated version is completely web based to allow technicians to manage worker orders from off-site. The system provides a network for exchanging information between workers in the field and the office. "By bringing NewWaySERVICE to the cloud, we now offer businesses...
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More Signs of a Healing Job Market: Unemployment Falls Across the Map
The U.S. Labor Department's recently released employment data for October has indicated a drop in unemployment in 37 states giving further evidence of a slowly healing job market. Nearly half of the states in the Union reported unemployment rates lower than 7 percent last month and only seven states experienced a rise in job loss; the remaining six were unchanged. The largest drop for the month...
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What's the Score With Hiring Gamification?
Gamification of hiring has certainly arrived, but it has not yet realized a lot of real-world deployments, and this is backed up by research from TJInsite which shows that despite the initial excitement generated by the appearance of gamification a few years back, just 25% of companies are currently using gamification in hiring. There is plenty of curiosity about gamification in hiring, as 66% of...
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Working from Home: 6 Pros and Cons
There's no doubt we're living in an ever-increasing, technology-driven society. We can communicate with people on the other side of the planet with the click of a mouse. We can have a full-course meal delivered to our door through an app on our smartphones. Driverless cars, Echo Smartpens to record sounds as you take notes, a smart scan mouse that scans whatever image you swipe the mouse...
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5 Onboarding Best Practices
How does your organization help new employees integrate into a new job and workplace? I've heard numerous stories where a new hire was thrown into a position without any training or background knowledge. If you've been going with the baptism by fire model, then you should consider taking a different route. Statistics show that new hires who went through a structured onboarding process were 58...
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Groupon and SCORE Partner to Educate Small Businesses
Deal-of-the-day website Groupon recently partnered with small business-focused nonprofit SCORE to educate small businesses. The two organizations have developed a series of online educational resources about customer acquisition, retention and marketing for small businesses. "Joining forces with SCORE is a great way for Groupon to help small businesses grow and become more successful,"...
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7 Emotionally Deadly Sins at Work and Home (Part I)
It's fair to say that perhaps the four most important things in your life are What happens What you think about it How you feel about it What you do about it The first, as often as not, is beyond our complete control, when not also completely beyond our control. But the second and third—what we think and how we feel about what happens and what (can) do about it—are, in general,...
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Cornell Unv. Study: HR Professionals Prefer Disability-Focused Employee Networks
According to research from the Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), human resource professionals believe that disability-focused employee networks are the key for retaining and developing workers with disabilities. More than half of HR professional surveyed for the report felt that such groups are very effective while an additional 20 percent found them somewhat...
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OutSolve Dedicates Website to Affirmative Action-Compliance Education
OutSolve, a nationwide provider of compliance services for affirmative action plans and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regulation, has released a new website offering a no-cost solution to compliance education for federal contractors. The website offers articles, blogs, webinars, and other resources to keep HR professionals up-to-date in compliance issues. "On behalf...
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