Pay Range Adjustments to Largely Stagnate Through 2013
Projections for average pay increases in 2013 are unimpressive as reported by Compdata Surveys BenchmarkPro ,which only anticipates a 2.8 percent jump over current budgets. Pay range adjustments are also expected to remain stable as more than 75 percent of organizations have pay structures that have already been, or will be, adjusted in 2012. The average adjustment for the year was 1.9 percent,...
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Free Downloadable Hiring Process Map for Law Firms
The Attorney Search Group, a leading legal-search firm recruiting partner-level attorneys, has released a downloadable process map to help law firms improve hiring capacity and effectiveness. Called Recommended Lateral Hiring Process Flow Chart, the free tool is the brainchild of recruiting expert, Scott Love, founder of The Attorney Search Group. "Growth through lateral hiring is a sound...
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Kaiser Permanente Reaches Agreement with Union
Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative three-year agreement with its union partner, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which affects nearly 100,000 workers and is the largest private-sector union agreement so far this year. The agreement stipulates a 3 percent wage increase per year for employees within California and a 2 percent wage increase per year for employees outside of that state. All...
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Click 4 Compliance Launches Free App Offering Anti-corruption Tips
Virginia-based Click 4 Compliance announced the release of its free C4C Compliance Officer app that gives quick access to relevant, domestic and international (such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) anti-corruption compliance tips. "This ground-breaking app gets compliance information to on-the-go employees in a way that hasn't been done until now," said Farzad Barkhordari, founder...
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The Network, Inc. Offers new SaaS Policy-control Solution to Address Compliance Issues
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions provider The Network, Inc. announced the release of its new management solution, Policy Management. The SaaS-based app helps direct the policy management lifecycle from conception to implementation and ensures that companies maintain compliance with all relevant regulations. The software also acts as a centralized hub for the access and...
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GAO Report: Improper Employer Policies Discourage Injury Reporting
The Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report demonstrated the true pervasiveness of workplace policies that discourage employees from reporting on-the-job injuries and illnesses and presents a number of steps that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should consider in order to eliminate these policies as common practice. The report, entitled Workplace Safety and...
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States Crack Down on Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits Claims
The Unemployment Services Trust (UST), the nation's largest unemployment trust, has discovered that many states are making it a priority to catch citizens filing fraudulent unemployment claims. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that fraudulent claims of this type reached almost $17 billion in 2011 alone while each state experiences a fraudulent claims rate of about 12 percent. And while it...
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Study: Average Executive Post-Recession Salary Increases Still Low
According to a study by executive search firm Salveson Stetson Group, although the average pay increase executives received when changing jobs has improved since the recession, salaries have not returned to the levels reached in the years leading up to the financial crisis. Since 2010, senior executives who have moved to new companies received a more than 16 percent average increase in total...
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Veterans in The Workforce – A New Kind of Battle
The challenges for veterans returning to civilian life are many. Not only are they faced with the mental and emotional struggles of a culture change, but, for many, this is coupled with psychological struggles as well. These struggles are especially marked in those suffering Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). One of the most impacted areas is post...
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7 Reasons to Stay at a Job
Although jobs can be hard to come by nowadays, people are still quitting their jobs. According to an article from Business Insider, the number one reason Generation X workers leave their jobs is because they don't trust the corporations they work for. Like in any relationship, trust is key. But what about those employees who decide to stay? What are the reasons workers decide to stick it out...
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Rewarded Failure: The Cushiest Jobs in the World
Fail once and you're gone. That's the norm in many careers and jobs, irrespective of whether they are blue collar or blue operating room-gown jobs. A dish washer who breaks a pile of dishes, a surgeon who botches an arterial repair, a pilot who shows up drunk just once—all terminated. Fireproof Jobs Now, that's pretty strict employee supervision. So, why is it that not only do some...
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Impending Recession Warning Emerges from Merrill Lynch
The Congressional stalemate over extending the Bush tax cuts and spending decisions are edging the country to the brink of a new recession, says a report from Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. According to its After the Election report, the automatic jump in taxes for high-earners and federal spending cuts may be too much for the Federal Reserve to handle. "If no compromise is reached by the...
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Only Three Percent of Companies are Self-Governing
The HOW Report, developed by LRN, gives a global-scale analysis of how companies work and found that less than one in 30 companies are self-governing, but those that are have an extreme marketplace advantage. The study also found that CEOs are distressingly disconnected from their employees regarding the operation of their companies, especially in the U.S. Specifically, The HOW Report examines...
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Study: Economic Mobility Above Average in Northeast, Lower in South
Pew's "Economic Mobility of the States" report discovered the areas of the country where employees are more likely to earn more or less as compared to their national peers. Of the eight states found to offer higher than average economic mobility, six are in the Northeast: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The remaining two areas identified as...
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Professional Development: A Must for Today's Worker
It's no secret that our world is ever changing. Back in 1998 when it was just coming on the scene, most people were asking "What's a Google?" Today, 14 years later, Google is the number one search engine on the web. Dinosaur-like cellular phones and pagers have transformed into sleek, lightweight iPhones and PDAs. Hand-written letters have been swapped for emails and landlines are being...
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Dispelling Veteran Recruitment Myths with Dr. Harry Croft
Dr. Harry Croft said he's asked veterans where they sit when they go to a restaurant and it's pretty empty. Their answers are always the same: I always sit with my back to the wall so that I can see what's coming in. Croft said their responses reflect hyper-vigilance—always looking for danger—one of the symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a psychiatrist dedicated to...
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Monster.com Joins New Facebook Social Jobs Partnership App
Leading job-search engine / job board Monster.com recently announced its participation in Facebook's new application for the Social Jobs Partnership. The new app is in an effort to help the unemployed, underemployed and transitioning veterans by now making jobs easily available to millions of America's Facebook users. It is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor, the National...
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How the Obesity Epidemic Costs Employers
Not only has obesity been found to be more costly to employers than any other medical condition or smoking, new statistics from Compliance and Safety show that the condition is causing more damage than simply raising the healthcare bottom line. In fact, one-third of adults in the U.S. are obese and have become a severe burden on their employers. With obesity, the risks of a list of serious...
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Survey Shows Lack of Consensus on Talent Management Strategy
The results of a Right Management survey of 537 U.S. companies found that just 12 percent have a talent management strategy fully implemented into their organization. Very little consensus developed on the issue with 25 percent of respondents reporting that they have created a strategy but face obstacles with implementation and 7 percent reporting their strategy of consisting of only a list of...
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Study: Organizations Shifting to Market-based Pay Structures Increasing
A recent study by nonprofit human resources association WorldatWork and Deloitte Consulting LLP, entitled 2012 Survey of Salary Structure Policies and Practices, found that at 64 percent, market-based salary structures are the most common type of pay structure being used today. Although popular in the past, traditional and broadband structures aren't used as widely today with just 23 percent...
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ADP Enhances Payroll Platform for Small Businesses
Human capital management solutions provider ADP® just announced major enhancements to its RUN Powered by ADP® payroll platform. The tool now offers small businesses new HR features including the ability to store, manage and access employee information and frequently used forms and reports. The platform now combines a human resource system with an easy-to-use payroll solution, which allows small...
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Bank of America Partners with George W. Bush Institute for Military Jobs
Through a $1 million grant, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is partnering with the George W. Bush Institute to help fund the Military Service Initiative (MSI), a program dedicated to improving the well-being and economic security of the nation's veterans. The partnership supports the new military hiring priority, being led by the Military Affairs Advisory Group. It was designed to...
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Companies Found to Still Focus on Pay-for-Performance
A recent Towers Watson survey found that despite most public companies receiving substantial support from shareholders for their executive compensation programs, nearly half have already made, or will make, program changes to solidify the link between performance and pay. The survey also found that about 60 percent of companies conduct analyses of their pay-for-performance programs to emphasize...
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3 Key Steps to Sell Your Company During an Interview
In this increasingly competitive talent market, employers are now having to dedicate as much time to employer branding as they do to the branding and marketing of the products and services. Yes, if businesses want to build and sell great products they first need to sell their business to the candidate marketplace to hire and retain a team of great implementers and strategists. Employers need...
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SPARCIN Interview Management System Delivers Engaging Interviews for Better Branding
HR 2.0 product provider SPARC, with its interview management system SPARCIN, offers a dynamic and engaging interview creation tool to improve the interview experience for both interviewers and candidates. SPARCIN is designed to provide the best interview questions pulled from customized, private lists and a crowd-sourced pool resulting in an interview tailored for each company and individual...
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East Coast Weather Distorts Jobless Claims Data
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the number of Americans who filed for unemployment insurance last week was lower than expected, especially after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Yet, the severe weather on the East Coast may be disrupting the data. Jobless claims decreased by 8,000 to 355,000 in the week ending Nov. 3. One state reported that filings were suppressed due to...
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Exactly When Should the Boss Step In?
Have you ever encountered parents who wanted to be friends with their kids? Instead of disciplining them and teaching them right from wrong, the parents try to hang out with their children, are extremely laid back and give them freewill to do as they please. Why? The parents want to be liked, to be deemed as cool parents who are open. They hope that if they're less "parent-like" and more...
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Slices of Life and R3: The Art of Reading Career Salami
There are no two ways about it: If you want to properly understand or evaluate anyone or anything, including peppered salami, you have to have at least two very different slices of it, him or her. For example, to make it past the first cut in an interview, an applicant has to provide two cuts of his or her life. These are: a "personal history" slice, which is the "longitudinal"...
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Let's Talk Turkey: The Importance of Perks in Today's Workplace
It's November; and that signals two things for me: the start of my annual holiday baking frenzy and the drafting of my holiday wish list. The craziness of the holidays clearly extends beyond my personal life and into my professional life, and this got me thinking about the treats and gifts that (some) companies give to employees. There's been a flurry of articles lately about the changing...
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How to Use Google to Make More Direct Hires
Here are a few ways you can increase the amount of people visiting the jobs listed on your website. More visitors means more jobs filled directly... and that's a good thing. I'm going to give you some tips on how to optimize your career website so it gets indexed by search engines and once the likes of Google start showing your job, then job seeking traffic is sure to follow. 1. Make sure...
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Aquacommuting: A Different Way to Work
Modern jobs usually offer three options (or combinations thereof): working at the company, working at home or working in the field, e.g., meeting clients at their offices, making home deliveries or working from your laptop in an airport. But what about working exclusively from a mobile office—a real office that moves? Air Force One, the presidential jet, approximates this, but, eventually...
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How To Hire One Of the Truly Innovative 6%
According to a study by SHL of 4 million candidate and employment assessments from 205 countries and territories, only 5.8% of the global population have the ability to truly innovate. This is an interesting finding for me for two reasons; the first is that with a data set of 4 million, this is a significant sample size which means that the results really deserved to be listened to; the...
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Jobless Claims Continue to Fall Week-Over-Week
Though the new weekly figures are reported to be distorted due to Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Department of Labor has reported a drop in unemployment claims by 8,000 last week equating to a seasonally adjusted 355,000 claims; an otherwise positive sign of an improvement in the market. The four week average of applications rose by 3,250 to reach 370,500. Weekly applications are expected to be...
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SumTotal Systems Releases Government Compliance Solution for Businesses
SumTotal, leading provider of strategic HCM solutions released its TotalRegulation solution to aid companies in complying with government-mandated requirements. Most governments, both in the U.S. and around the world, create outlines that identify allowable budgeting, reporting, and delivering process of which companies must abide. SumTotal, in a partnership with government training compliance...
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Hiring Stalled by Rising Costs of HealthCare
A recent survey from Adecco Staffing US, polling senior executives on obstacles to new hiring found that 35 percent of respondents are delaying hiring due to the higher costs of healthcare resulting from the healthcare reform law. However, 35 percent also said that health care costs were a primary concern even prior to the recession, suggesting such costs have been a challenge for a long time....
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Impact of Presidential Election on Nation's Healthcare Workforce
API Healthcare offered its insight into the impact of the re-election of President Barack Obama on the healthcare workforce of America. "The Affordable Care Act is now solidly in place and its impact will continue to ripple across the industry in 2013 causing healthcare delivery organizations to pay particular attention to their investment in their workforce," said J.P. Fingado, president...
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Employee Recognition Programs Generate Strong Business Results
Bersin Associates announced the results of its survey The Employee Recognition Maturity Model: A Roadmap to Strategic Recognition, which indicates that companies with successful employee recognition programs are, on average, 12 times more likely to generate strong business results than companies with weak or non-existent programs. "Nearly 80 percent of organizations unfortunately focus on...
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Flypaper Studio Announces Tools Bundle for Real-Time Digital Signage Content
Flypaper Studio has announced the availability of Flypaper Connect, its new family of bundled tools for creating real-time data-based content for digital signage programs. Flypaper Connect allows users to maintain and update digital content with existing data sources. The software creates a two-way channel between it and databases in the cloud, pulls content instantly, and drives it to digital...
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Report Shows Growth in Employment Services Market
In its report, Employment Services: A Global Strategic Business, Global Industry Analysts, Inc. revealed that the employment services market continues to improve amidst an erratic economic climate. The World Employment Services market is expected to expand to $35 billion within the next five years due to growing enterprise numbers, an increased need for HR services, the rise of the Internet...
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Survey Shows 42 Percent of Workers Change Industries for New Positions
According to a survey from Right Management polling 7,000 North American workers, 42 percent of job seekers chose to change industries this year in order to land a new position. A further 40 percent chose to change job functions for a new position. "It's no surprise that so many people are able to change industries, since many competencies or skills are readily transferable, particularly...
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LABOR COMMAND by MetriTech Offers Unique LCM Cost Control
MetriTech, a labor management software and services provider, has announced LABOR COMMAND, a new labor cost management (LCM) system for the transportation and logistics industries. LABOR COMMAND is a unique LCM that measures performance against pre-determined standards. "LABOR COMMAND© provides shift-by-shift, department-by-department and location-by-location planning and analysis," said...
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Insala Releases Version 5 of its Online Mentoring Software Solution
Web-based mentoring software solutions provider Insala has announced the release of the newest version of its Hi-Impact Mentoring software system that allows for its integration into individual mentoring and coaching programs creating a single mentoring solution. The integration helps to lower the cost of offering mentoring and coaching programs while increasing the efficiency of the programs in...
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Two Government Surveys Show Both Unemployment and New Jobs Increase
The federal government reported that the economy added 171,000 jobs last month, almost 25,000 thousand more jobs than in September. But a second survey from the same source also reported that the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 points to 7.9 percent. The surveys differ based on from whom the information is collected. The popularly used unemployment rate is gathered from the household survey,...
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November New Hires Expected to Rise
The Society for Human Resource Management's newest Leading Indicators of National Employment report found that about one-third of employers in the manufacturing and service sectors expect to hire new employees at some point during November, the fourth consecutive month of this occurrence. Of employers in manufacturing, 45.7 percent plan to hire new employees and 12.1 percent intend to reduce...
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Majority of Small Businesses Don't Offer Health Coverage
A study from The Commonwealth Fund revealed that 49 percent of small-business employees were offered employer-sponsored health insurance, down from 58 percent in 2003. By contrast, larger employers (those with at least 100 employees) offer health insurance 90 percent of the time. Predictably, low-wage workers were least likely to be offered and eligible for health coverage. The survey found that...
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The Top 3 Ways To Annoy A Recruiter – And Lose Out On A Job!
Once you apply to a position, your resume will most likely be sent to a recruiter. It's important to know how to work with recruiters because they can be a powerful ally in helping you land your dream job or they can prevent you from being considered for a position all together. This should be something that is easy to do and logical, but I am still surprised by how many candidates fail at...
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September Job Postings Lowest in Five Months
The U.S. Department of Labor has reported that job openings dropped by 100,000 in September, the fewest in five months. August job openings were at 3.66 million falling to 3.56 million last month. Since the end of the recession, the number of available jobs has risen by 63 percent, however jobs are still considerably less than the more than 4 million jobs available per month before the beginning...
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The Top Five MOST Annoying Buzz Phrases
A few weeks ago, Steve Boese posted an interesting question on his Facebook wall. He wanted to hear the most annoying business speak out there. Of course, everyone chimed in with his or her most hated phrase until someone (me) asked the obvious question. "Steve," said I. " Are you using this for blog fodder?" "Nope, it's all yours," says Steve, who works at Oracle and has a fantastic blog...
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