Social Media Sites Make Referrals Easier and Even Cheaper to Find
According to software recruiting company Bullhorn, about one-third of recruiters say referrals set candidates apart while a general token of industry knowledge states that they also typically deliver the best candidates, as well. With the dawn of social media, those referrals have now become both cheaper and easier to find. But the networking technology is most efficiently used if companies use...
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North American Workers Demonstrating a Pattern of Discontent
Right Management's poll of 760 U.S. employees determined that most workers continue to intend to find new employment for the fourth consecutive year. The larger majority (86 percent) of polled employees said they plan to look for new jobs next year and an additional 8 percent said they are considering a change and are networking. Just 5 percent expressed the desire to stay in their current job...
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TalentKick Offers Web-Based Workforce Management and Staffing Services
Full-service staffing agency Alliance Solutions Group is now offering enhanced management services with its TalentKick Workforce solutions unit. TalentKick provides workforce management consulting and staffing services plus more predictable results from workforce sourcing, hiring, and management through its web-based, vendor-neutral, e-procurement application. "Staffing management requires...
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The Day Work Became a Choice
My grandfather worked at a paper supplier and printing company. He wore coveralls and brought home small scratch pads, which probably have something to do with my lifelong love of school supplies. He got up before 6 a.m. and went to work every day from the time my father was small until he retired when he was 60. He died shortly thereafter. Work for my grandpa, a father of four, was not an...
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TheLadders Offers Free Services to Job Seekers Affected by Sandy
Online job-matching service TheLadders has donated more than $300,000 in services to new and existing members located in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Members are able to redeem a free three-month premium membership to help jumpstart efforts to improve the Tri-State Area's damaged employment market. The plan offers job matches, hiring alerts, job applications, and resume uploading, which...
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Facebook Job Board a True Threat?
In a move that has some experts foretelling the downfall of LinkedIn and other job boards, a mega-partnership between Facebook and five other organizations has resulted in the release of Facebook's new jobs app. But the performance of the new service is being questioned by users who are noting a series of obstacles that must be overcome before it can pose a real threat to LinkedIn's...
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Effects of Sandy Slowly Declining as Fewer Seek Employment Aid
Though applications for unemployment benefits remained elevated for the week of November 12, the U.S. Labor Department said that first-time benefits fell by 41,000 to 410,000, only partially offsetting the surge of applications that arose in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. During that period a few weeks ago, applications jumped by 90,000 to 451,000 marking an 18-month peak. Unemployment applications...
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How to Network during the Holidays
What better gift to yourself this Holiday Season than a better job. Your first impulse may be to take a break, but you'll miss some great opportunities to strengthen your professional network. Beyond the basic rules of networking, you can do much more than just stay on track over the holidays. Â The Christmas/Holiday Card is not dead. With our bombardment by electronic communication,...
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2012 Sees Modest Gains for HR Staff and Budgets
In its annual HR survey, Bloomberg BNA reported that human resources departments showed positive signs of recovery in 2012, though these gains are not expected to overcome the cuts undergone during and after the recession. For two consecutive years, beginning in 2010, HR departments were more likely to cut staff than increase them, but 2012 saw staffing gains outpace reductions by 10 percent. HR...
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Most HR Departments Don't Block Social Media, Despite Security Concerns
Holos Research's recent survey of HR executives has discovered that while most are worried over the potential for social media to jeopardize security and productivity, it has not been enough to spur a large movement to block social media networks on workplace computers. In fact, the most common reaction from personnel managers has been to ignore the use of social sites and the use of personal...
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ExecuNet Survey Identifies Growth Areas for Executive Recruiters
ExecuNet's new 20th Annual Executive Job Market Intelligence Report's polling of executive recruiters has identified the top 10 industries primed for senior management growth and top 5 growth functions for executives expected to be in high demand over the next year. ExecuNet advises recruiters looking for new opportunities to identify executive talent to look to these areas for abundant...
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4 Hiring Apps To Keep You in The Game in 2013
As we approach the end of 2012, many of us will be taking stock of the key developments of the last 12 months and reviewing our recruiting practices and strategies to ensure they are appropriate for 2013. The landscape, processes, approach, culture and technologies relating to the talent attraction sector are continually shifting and evolving and it is important that we don't blindly follow our...
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Consumers Spent $5.5 Billion on Small Business Saturday
According to the second part of the Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey, released by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and American Express, U.S. consumers spent $5.5 billion "shopping small" on Small Business Saturday. Awareness of the day, which was Nov. 24, increased to 67 percent from 34 percent only two weeks ago. Of the people aware of the date, almost...
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The Comma and Your Career
How Your Writing Can Help – or Hurt – Job Prospects Written communication is one of the most important ways that job seekers can remain competitive. A resume without typos can mean the difference between getting an interview or not. Although this may seem obvious to many job seekers, Grammarly recently found that the average candidate makes up to six spelling, punctuation, and grammar...
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4 Steps to Survive your Next Team Meeting
Meetings are a staple of office life that everyone loves to hate. And not only are they frequently unnecessary 'time eaters' and devourers of productivity, but they are typically long, usually boring, and almost always mandatory. So how do you turn regular meetings into more tolerable situations? Consider the following methods as viable alternatives to bashing your head against the conference...
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Black Friday Coincides with Hiring Ramp Up in Retail
In its most recent Retail Industry Report, Monster.com's snapshot of online job postings has found that retailers have posted 10 percent more jobs over the year in the run up to the holiday sales season. "While the economy is clearly in recovery mode, the past few months have shown signs of improved consumer confidence," says Charles Purdy, senior editor and career advice expert for...
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LinkedIn Posts Impressive Numbers, Solidifies Top Position in Recruiting Software
Over the past four years, LinkedIn has assembled a business network of over 187 million members and 13,700 corporate customers. And since the opening of its corporate-hiring products division in 2008, its software and services have driven 55 percent of the company's revenue, equating to $363 million for the first three quarters of 2012 alone. LinkedIn current has over 13,700 clients paying...
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#Trending in Recruiting
It's that time of year again where everyone gathers together to open presents and eat with family predict what might happen next year in recruiting. At their essence, predictions are simply educated guesses, a quick glance at what could happen based on what we saw in the past year. Analysts keep their ears to the ground hoping that they can pinpoint the coming surge of technology or service...
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6 Ways to Avoid Negative Company Reviews
We live in a 'review society.' From Yelp to CNET, nowadays you can read about someone's experience with just about anything. People will tell you how vibrant the colors were on a rug they bought from Amazon.com, or how long a hand lotion's moisture lasted that was purchased from Walmart. Products, places and even people (or how to search for them) have reviews. Everyone has opinion about...
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Veloxiti Launches Thinking Software for Improved Decision Making
"Thinking software" provider Veloxiti announced its official company launch Monday making its intelligent-agent software now available for commercial use. Veloxiti provides software that helps businesses make better, faster and more comprehensive data-driven decisions. The company states that it adds intelligence to existing IT solutions and accelerates the speed and productivity of...
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Survey: Small Businesses Influenced Voters in 2012 Election
Paychex, Inc., provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions, released the results of its 2012 post-election survey question on how small businesses influenced voters. The survey— conducted by Heart+Mind Strategies on November 6 and 7—polled more than 1,000 people who voted in this year's Presidential election. The company asked voters how much their vote was...
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A New View for a New Year
Some events cause you to look back retrospectively on what got you there, others cause you to think about the future and dream about what's going to happen. But other events make you look forward and back at the same time. Few things stir your imagination and cause you to reminisce like moving. That feeling of putting your new key in the doorway or looking back once more before locking up an old...
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Prudential Report Finds Return to Work Programs Help Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity
A white paper released by Prudential Financial has shown that employer-sponsored return to work programs work to reduce the length of disability absences, reduce costs, and boost employee productivity. Entitled Controlling the Uncontrollable, the paper concludes that a successful return-to-work program helps disabled employees return to work quicker through pro-actively identifying appropriate...
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BlueBell Offers Free Consultation and Employee Assessment to Owners and Execs
BlueBell Consulting Solutions partners with business owners and executives to make better decisions for people issues through accurate employee assessments. Aligning executives, managers, and non-management personnel is a necessity to achieve the highest level of performance in any business, and Bluebell is offering a free consultation and assessment as a part of its seasonal promotion through...
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PBGC: National Pensions Reach Record Deficit
In its newly released annual report, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) shared the news that the agency is experiencing the largest deficit in its 38-year history: $34 billion. The news comes despite PBGC's work to protect defined benefit pension plans across the nation, such as those found at companies like the struggling American Airlines and Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt...
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Dominion Enterprises Introduces HireFuel for Recruitment Simplification
Marketing services and publishing company Dominion Enterprises just announced HireFuel, a cloud-based recruitment software solution optimized for mobile devices. HireFuel is divided into three separate offerings: Recruit, Share, and Reward. Each product is designed to address part of the hiring experience and make it more streamlined and simplified. HireFuel Recruit is a job distribution tool...
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Learn how to Handle Distracting Coworkers
Whether you are trying to keep up with your growing pile of paper work, make a few contacts over the phone, or simply take a quiet break at your desk, sometimes it seems there is always a face hovering over your cubicle wall wanting to chat, gossip, or otherwise distract you from you need to, or rather would be doing. Going to work can often seem like an affair of endless socializing at the...
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Camera Time: 5 Ways to Wow Skype Nation
Once upon a time in the land of professionals, it was considered okay to have a stray hair, wear a striped shirt or neglect to attend a Toastmaster's meeting and pepper your conversations with "ums" and "uhs". But these days with video interviewing, Google hangouts, transcontinental Skype sessions and YouTube stars, the game has most certainly changed. While marketing pros, former newscasters and...
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Employee Recognition Programs Impact Corporate Culture, Says SHRM
A joint survey between the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Globoforce revealed that about 70 percent of organizations use employee recognition programs to enhance corporate culture. The survey found that 72 percent of HR pros feel their company's employee recognition programs helps to reinforce corporate values within their employees. More than 80 percent said recognition...
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5 Ways for Introverts to Build Personal Brands
Creating and maintaining a successful career is not simply a matter of qualifications and skill sets, but also about how you use your credentials to brand yourself and create professional networks within your industry. And while the complexities of maintaining a widespread network of contacts while keeping yourself visible and well represented in relevant social circles can be a daunting task for...
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Paychex to Launch Upgraded Site for Entreprenuers
Payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions provider Paychex Inc. plans to launch its enhanced online resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners, BuildMyBiz.com. The improved website includes various new features that will provide enhanced resources to entrepreneurs, giving them the ability to tap into a greater pool of valuable information. Features include: Biz...
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Seasonal Hiring Trends [infographic]
Thanksgiving is Thursday and Christmas is just weeks away. With the holiday season in full effect, more and more employers are gearing up to meet the needs of their customers. How so? Well, by hiring, of course. According to an infographic, Shake Up Hiring For the Holiday Season by Hire Vue and Aon Hewitt, 75 percent of retailers are planning to hire additional staff for the holiday season...
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Recruiting Tools to be Thankful For This Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving time once again. By now, you're probably more focused on your Thanksgiving dinner plan of attack than your recruiting strategy. As family flies in and cans of cranberries are popped open, it can become hard to remember the true lesson of the holiday. Thanksgiving isn't just a time to gorge ourselves on amazing food and slip into a tryptophan-induced nap. It's also the...
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Study: Unequal Access to Top Jobs Hurts Women's Careers
According to a new report by the non-profit group Catalyst, women worldwide are hindered from advancing in their careers because of the unequal access to "hot" —high visibility— jobs and international experience. The report found that, upon completing graduate school, women start at lower-level jobs and receive less pay than men. This gender gap only gets wider as women's careers...
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Workers Feeling the Pressure to Do Less with More
A recent TrackVia survey has shown that 84 percent of non-executive office workers at least occasionally feel pressure to work faster and be more productive with fewer resources. The philosophy of doing less with more appeared nearly universal in the survey where most polled employees listed speed of work as an important aspect of their job. Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents said work speed...
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Executives Joining in the Act of Social Networking Faux Pas
It seems senior executives are as apt to participate in inappropriate sharing through social media as their underlings. In fact, given that social media is everywhere and here to stay, it is easy to see how no one is truly safe from being scrutinized for careless comments made on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media platform. A case in point involves Gene Morphis, the former CFO of retail...
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HalfPriceSoft's New Attendance Tracker aims to Meet Small Business Time-Tracking Needs
HalfPriceSoft, maker of small business financial software, has introduced its new computerized timesheet software, EzTimeSheet, designed for computer novices seeking to track employee attendance in a small business environment. Key new features included with the release include: automatic calculations of paid time off based on an accrual plan, employee leave tracking and reporting, and employee...
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Tips for Growing a Startup with Colin Day
It's all about getting the right opportunity and being prepared to take advantage of it once it falls into your lap. At 23, Colin Day said this was exactly what helped him start iCIMS, leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) recruiting and hiring software. The right opportunity Day graduated from Cornell with a Degree in Psychology knowing one thing he wanted to do with his life:...
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What Employers Can Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving [INFOGRAPHIC]
Thanksgiving is about more than stuffing turkeys and full bellies after a good meal. The holiday is really about recognizing our blessings and being thankful for the wonderful things we have in life. For companies looking to find the best talent in order to grow and stay competitive in this tough marketplace, great candidates are truly a reason to be thankful. The infographic below, compiled...
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New Website Hosts List of Top 20 Executive Search Firms
A new website was recently created by industry experts and executive recruiters to provide businesses with leading information about finding candidates to fill executive positions. The new site consists of a listing of the top 20 executive search firms in the country. In addition to the listed sources, the site gives details on each firm, such as company website, location, and corporate...
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Slowly but Surely, Salary Freezes End, Benefits Return as Economy Improves
It seems the trend of extreme cost-cutting measures undertaken by most employers during the recession is beginning to reverse. A report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies indicates that the past year has been beneficial for employers who said they did not need to make the severe cuts that marked the past several years. The study, Weathering the Economic Store: Retirement Plans in...
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KPA Announces Online, On-Demand HR Live Service
Internet marketing company KPA, serving automotive and equipment dealerships and service companies, has announced the expansion of its HR Management line to include HR Live, a new service that provides live HR advice and self-service resources to support HR compliance. KPA president and CEO Vane Clayton commented on the release of HR Live. He said, "HR Live was designed for dealerships and...
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One-Third of Americans Doubtful they can Retire
According to a Pentegra Retirement Services survey, 32 percent of American workers who would like to retire do not think that they are financially able. A further 19 percent believe that they will have the financial means to retire by 65. An overwhelming 92 percent of respondents agree that some portion of each paycheck should go into a retirement account at an average rate of 14 percent per...
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Slow Economy Sees Public Employers Modifying Pensions vs.Switching to Alternatives
The National Institute on Retirement Security's new report, The Great Recession: Pressures on Public Pensions, Employment Relations and Reforms, showed that almost all public employers, both local and state level, have chosen to modify their pension plans rather than find alternative designs. Key findings of the report include: • Switching benefits away from pensions would attract a...
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INXPO Unveils Next-Gen Social Business Broadcasting
Social media technology firm INXPO has announced a new offering that will bring the technologies and social features used by TV networks to create interactive television to the workplace. The Social Business TV (SBTV) platform combines the conventional means for broadcasting and webcasting with social media tools to create interactive brands usable by employees, customers, and partners from...
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How to Control "For me" and "Against me" Thoughts
According to UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, the average person has around 70,000 thoughts per day. That is overwhelming. The majority of a person's thoughts will be on whatever he or she is focused on in that given moment. This means that during the week, most people tend to focus on work and work-related issues. Because our jobs and careers are such a large and important aspect of...
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Pitney Bowes Updates Website to Hire Veterans
Technology solutions provider Pitney Bowes Inc. recently added a special website devoted to helping military veterans and their families find work within the Connecticut-based company. The site, www.pb.com/careers, enables military veterans to map their training and skills to a list of current job openings listed on the Pitney Bowes site. When a veteran selects his or her military job title on...
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State and Local Government Pensions Jumped 13.2 Percent in 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau has released new statistics revealing that public employees at the state and local levels had approximately $3 trillion in cash and investment holdings in 2011; a 13.2 percent increase over 2010. Previously, 2010 saw gains of $288.7 billion over 2009. The statistics, from the 2011 Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data, showed...
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