Presidential Campaign Slogans as Employment Tool
Getting or offering a job, like an election campaign, requires, or at least benefits from, a pitch—some clinch-the-deal promotional angle designed to persuade the reluctant, dissuade the resistant and to reassure the believers. Since political slogans seem to work for or do no harm to the eventual victor's campaign, why not adopt the same kind of sloganeering when offering or applying for...
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TalentWise Hire Automates Hiring Process from Job Offer to First Day on the Job
Leading technology company TalentWise has announced its newest venture into the automation space with the release of TalentWise Hire, a new platform that automates the hiring process from beginning to end. TalentWise Hire electronically automates all hiring activities such as applications, assessments, job offers, background testing, employment eligibility verification, tax credit, and new hire...
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Can Exit Interviews Drive Your Hiring Strategy?
In a highly competitive talent market, such as we have today, hiring professionals are always looking for new approaches, angles, and ideas that can help tip the balance in their favor. One area that often gets overlooked is exit interviews, which have in many organizations become stale, transactional processes that are often mistrusted by employees; they can be viewed as a box-ticking exercise...
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From College to Career: Tips From Gen Y Expert Lindsey Pollak
During her senior year of college, she was a residential assistant. She quickly fell in love with advising and mentoring those younger than her on career choices and life decisions. In 2001, the dotcom company she worked for went out of business. Her former employer handed her her laptop and said "Go start a business, you can do this on your own," one of the best moments of her life. Ten...
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TalentBin Scores Offer Recruiters Quick Look at Candidates' Professional Interests
TalentBin recently launched a new addition to its social recruiting solution, TalentBin Scores. They are designed to allow employers to zero in on the candidates most likely to fit their specific skills requirements for their open positions.The new tool provides an in-depth look at how much a candidate exhibits a given professional interest or skill across the web. This feature will better help...
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International HR Survey Reveals Highest Priorities of Employees and Job Candidates
A newly released survey commissioned by SuccessFactors has collected data that will help employers best identify and access the best hires through social media and the mobile web and retain that talent through creative benefits and perks. The 2012 HR Beat survey reports that modern employees are not shy about asking for raises and seek work flexibility and enhanced benefits from their...
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Over 100k Jobs Created in September; Economy Improving
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported that 114,000 net jobs were created in September 2012, while job-opening research firm EmploymentCrossing located about 1.9 million job openings. The job surge led to a drop in unemployment from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent. The BLS also revised its reported number of jobs created in July and August to include 86,000 jobs not initially...
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8 Ways Your Hiring Process May Be Deterring Candidates
In the face of global talent shortages, it is surprising to find that many firm's hiring processes are serving as a deterrent to attracting the talent that they so desperately seek. Yes, the hiring process of many companies unknowingly includes features and elements that are deterring applicants from: applying for the role, recommending their business to others, completing the application form...
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Employee Confidence Ticks Up in September
Randstad's Employee Confidence Index edged up slightly by 0.8 points to 52.4 in September, up 7.6 points over September 2011. Compared to this time last year, employees feel more confident in their jobs and the future of their employers. Well over half (56 percent) of workers say that they are not planning to begin a job search within the next year despite an improved job market. "The Index...
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Survey: Trends of the Global Workforce
Today, cloud-based human capital management company SuccessFactors released a new, independent report from Dimensional Research called "2012 HR Beat: A Survey of the Pulse of Today's Global Workforce." The international survey results were from more than 1,500 hiring managers and professionals. It was designed to identify what matters most to employees across age, geography and...
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Most 401(k) Participants Desire More Plan Education, Says Study
KK Company and Greenwald Associates' Fourth Annual 2012 DC Participation Experience Study found that about 60 percent of 401(k) plan participants want to be more educated about their retirement plan options. The study said that 401(k) participants want their companies to provide additional plan analysis tools and guidance to help optimize retirement plan usage. Nearly half of plan...
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Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.8%, Lowest Since 2009
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the national unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest rate since January 2009. This decline comes just days after President Obama and GOP Candidate Mitt Romney went back-and-forth on job creation and unemployment, one of the largest issues facing Americans during the Presidential Debate Oct. 3. With 114,000 new jobs...
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Does Your Organization Have Enough Career Agility?
The findings from Randstad's 2012 Employment Survey provide some illuminating and up to the minute insight into the reasons that today's employees are leaving their jobs. The survey revealed that approximately 86% of employees that are leaving jobs are doing so as a result of a lack of career development. Combine this finding with what we already know which is that candidate confidence has...
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Retaining Talent Through Stay Interviews
During my senior year of college I interned with Avnet Inc., a global electronics distributor. For four consecutive years (2009-12) Avnet was named no.1 of Fortune Magazine's "Most Admired" Companies and as I worked there, I started to see why. So many of its employees have been with the company for years. One lady I met in the finance department has been working at Avnet for 29 years; this...
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Survey: Higher Education Required for Future Jobs
A new joint survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Achieve, a nonprofit dedicated to improving education standards, revealed that technical and educational requirements are increasing across job categories. The results were based on the responses of 4,695 HR professionals in nine industries. It was released Oct. 3 during SHRM's annual strategy conference; more than...
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SuccessFactors Patents Recruiting Technology Optimizing SEO
SuccessFactors, a market leader in providing business execution software from the cloud, has announced a newly patented technology for search engine optimization (SEO) on talent landing pages. The patent, System and Method for Career Website Optimization, will be a part of the company's Recruiting Marketing solution offering clients easier access to candidates, better search engine placement,...
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The 'Over-Excitable Gifted': Managing Talent and Five Forms of Excitability
Are you over-excitable? You may be a genius. (Don't get overexcited: that was only "may"). But, suppose you, in fact, are gifted—some kind of genius. Then, if the ideas and research of Polish physician and psychiatrist Kazimierz Dabrowski, his associates and proponents of his "theory of positive degeneration" are right, the odds are that you are also much more excitable than the...
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Survey Shows Added Jobs but Slowed Growth in September
A survey by ADP shows that U.S. businesses added 162,000 jobs in September 2012 but growth slowed from the prior month from 189,000 jobs. However, the increase for the month was better than expected despite not being enough to push down the unemployment rate considerably. Around 100,000 new jobs are required every month to keep up with the working-age population while twice that amount is needed...
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New Employee Referral Platform Uses Game Mechanics
The new Employee Referral Platform from willbeHired is designed to motivate employee engagement and friend referrals through better social interactions and access. "Employee referral programs are a source for the highest quality talent, and are cost-effective and proven to have better onboarding experiences and lower rates of attrition," said Thor Culverhouse, CEO and co-founder at...
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Inaugural Study Finds Employee Wellbeing a Strong Predictor of Performance
A first ever study by Healthways, published in online journal Population Health Management, has uncovered scientific evidence supporting the relationship between the wellbeing of employees and performance outcomes. The new data shows that employee wellbeing is a strong indicator of the future health, cost, and performance outcomes for a long list of factors such as short-term disability leave,...
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SHRM Surveys Shows Overall Employee Satisfaction Declines
The Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 2012 Job Satisfaction and Engagement Research Report reports that while 81 percent of U.S. employees are satisfied with their job, less than 40 percent are very satisfied, with the most impactful elements of their jobs such as job security, compensation, and relationships with upper management and immediate supervisors. "Economic,...
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Employee Engagement Down; Hiring on the Upswing
Mercer's 2012 Attraction and Retention Survey found that over 40 percent of employers are hiring on more employees this year compared with 2010 where just 27 percent reported the same. The number of employers cutting staff has also fallen significantly over the past two years with 16 percent of employers reporting layoffs compared with 25 percent in 2010. However, 24 percent of respondents said...
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Towers Watson Foresees Big Structural Changes in Healthcare Plan in 2014
Although most employers only see minimal plan changes during the open enrollment season for the 2013 plan year, factors such as rising costs, health care reform, development of new delivery models, and new network configurations foretell significant changes to the structure of healthcare plans in 2014. According to the 2012 Towers Watson Health Care Changes Ahead survey, 63 percent of employers...
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Free Upgrades Offered to DataServ Evolution | 12 Service
Global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider DataServ announced the release of a range of no-cost upgrades available to DataServ clients. "The reveal of our annual Evolution upgrades is always an exciting time at DataServ," says Managing Partner Jeff Haller. "We get a kick out of evolving DataServ solutions for our clients, and we love hearing the success stories that come from Evolution...
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Avoid These 7 Social Networking Photo Distasters
Embarrassing moments happen to everyone, many times because of something the individual did. Accidents happen. You have a good laugh, shake it off and keep on pushing. Yet, sometimes certain slip ups occur that can be costly. Prime example: I attended a conference a few years ago while in school. The speaker was pulling up his power point slides as the room of well over 200 people waited...
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More Jobs Added In September, 27k Decrease from August
According to the latest ADP National Employment Report for September 2012, private-sector employment increased by 162,000 from August to September. While the increase is more than expected, it's still lower than the 189,000 job increase from August. The private service-providing sector expanded the most last month with 144,000 jobs. This is still a decrease of 31,000 jobs from the number of...
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Inside the Brain of a Passive Candidate [infographic]
Ah, passive candidates - mysterious, yet in plain sight. Rare, but all around us. If could be said that the allure of these rare creatures are actually why recruiters exist. Why go to the zoo and look at a tiger when you can hire a guide to tramp through an Indonesian jungle to find a Javan Rhino? Why be satisfied with talent that plops into your lap? Why look through your resume database when...
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LinkedIn Influencers: A New Follow Feature for LinkedIn Users
On Oct. 2 LinkedIn announced a new follow feature that allows users to follow 150 ''INfluencers.'' The special group of LinkedIn influencers includes people like President Barack Obama, GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Huffington Post Media Group Arianna Huffington and LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner. Like Twitter, people can follow the group of...
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Employee Engagement Study Released by Randstad
A new Randstad study has found that most U.S workers identify the most effective ways to keep them engaged include promotions and financial bonuses. The Randstad Engagement Index revealed that 36 percent of employees find financial motivations as the primary way to keep them engaged. But just 27 percent say their employers offer such incentives, while 28 percent agree that their employers...
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NAPA Net Launched as Portal for Retirement Plan Advisors
A new web portal to keep retirement plan advisors connected was launched by The American Society of Pension Professionals Actuaries (ASPPA) affiliate The National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA). The new portal, NAPA Net, is a hub giving users access to sharable news, commentary, research, webcasts, and member forums. A number of topic-specific channels are also featured on a variety of...
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IBI Introduces Absence Benchmarking Database with More Data, Better Features
The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) has expanded the data and feature set included with its health and productivity benchmarking database to help companies better understand benefit program activity and undertake peer comparisons to show how each company compares to others in their industry. IBI comparison tools compare companies by performance in short-term disability, long-term disability,...
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4 Ways to Examine LinkedIn Connections
Let's compare and contrast the three major social networks: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook: Est. in 2004, 995 million users as of June 2012. Although it has many business pages, Facebook is most widely used for personal accounts. Features include timelines, "Like" and "Add a friend" tools Twitter: Est. in 2006, more than 500 million users in 2012. Twitter is for...
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Dovetail Software Announces New Support Suite for HR
Coming at the 15th Annual HR Technology Conference and Expo in Chicago, Dovetail Software's official launch of its newest version of Dovetail Support Suite for HR on October 8th will introduce a revamped user interface that is designed to better accommodate social interaction between users. The release includes photo avatars and conversation-oriented case flow for a more direct communication...
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4 Ways to Improve Job Boards
Job boards are dying. Job boards are outdated, old hat. The future is social (whatever that means). The doomsayers have been at this for years. It's interesting that the "job boards are dying" crowds have gotten louder and louder over the last few years, mainly prompted by announcements of profit warnings and layoffs at the big boards. But, and this is an elephant-in-the-room-sized but,...
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Does Your IT Hiring Strategy Need a Fine Tune?
As if IT hiring wasn't challenging enough already, recent research from three independent resources suggest that competition for tech staff is set to intensify over the next year. Let's start with a June survey from Dice which tells us that 73% of IT Recruiters and Hiring Managers are expecting to add more tech staff in 2012 which is an 8% increase from the start of the year. As well as this, a...
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Stop Hiring Smokers?
Extended unemployment gaps, lack of experience, the thousands of other people applying for vacant positions: job seekers already have numerous obstacles to face and, now, those seeking to join the medical field may have just one more. One employer, Beaumont and Henry Ford health systems, recently announced that beginning Jan. 1, 2013, they will no longer hire job applicants who use tobacco...
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9 Steps to Ignite Motivation
Let's be honest: Sometimes work can be redundant. Even those areas you're passionate about can become menial and dull if you do them for eight hours a day, five days a week and 52 weeks per year (give or take a few holidays and vacations). The same task can quickly become boring and leave you feeling uninterested and unmotivated. According to Towers Watson's 2012 Global Workforce study,...
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Is College Worth It?
It's pretty incredible that we've gotten to the point where people are asking whether or not college is even worth the costs anymore. But, that's reality right now, at least in the United States. The costs of college and general living expenses are rapidly escalating while unemployment remains stubbornly high. Although it seems almost blasphemous, asking whether or not college is still worth it...
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TEKsystems Expands
Leading IT talent management and staffing firm TEKsystems has agreed to acquire global integration services firm Frontline Consulting Services (FCS). FCS's core capabilities are in Oracle BI/EPM, Oracle ERP, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Software AG/WebMethods technologies. The firm will join TEKsystems Global Services division for delivering managed, project-based and outsourced IT...
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Employers Moving Towards Exchange Based Strategies for Retiree Medical Programs
A recent survey by Aon Hewitt has found that most employers are considering a switch to exchange-based individual market strategies for retiree medical programs due to changes caused by the new health care reform law. The move would open up access to the individual Medicare plan market. Aon Hewitt's survey found that about 60 percent of employers are reviewing their retiree healthcare...
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thisCLICKS Announces TeamTxt for Customized Group Texting
The thisCLICKS company, provider of employee scheduling and communication application When I Work, has announced the launch of TeamTxt, a customizable messaging service offered through When I Work. The new app allows managers to send customized text messages to any sized groups ranging from single individuals to small groups or even to an entire staff. "Since most people are texting more than...
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How to Connect With the Silent Majority of the Candidate Market
The findings from a recent LinkedIn Survey of nearly 5,000 full-time professionals found that 83% of candidates are passive, that is they are not actively seeking work and not actively applying for jobs you may be posting; these so called passive candidates are the silent majority of the candidate market. While many employers have passive candidate recruitment strategies in place, many do not...
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6 Tips to Spot Job Scams on Craigslist
Job hunting can be a frustrating and time-consuming task. With so many resources out there in the job market, sometimes it's hard to know where to look first. According to a survey by Millennial Branding, a personal branding agency, job boards are the top source for job seekers. The survey, The Multi-Generational Job Search, analyzed the differences in ways various generations search for jobs....
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More Than Half of HR Managers Hire Applicants With Criminal Records
A new study from job site CareerBuilder found that more than half—51 percent— of HR managers reported that their businesses have hired someone with a criminal record. The study, conducted by Harris Interactive, was from 2,298 hiring managers across the country. The managers, ages 18 and over, were employed full time, not self employed and did not work for the government. The study also...
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10 Reasons To Fall In Love With Your ATS
There are two basic elements in the staffing process that determine your success as a recruiter. (1) How quickly you search and match candidates with job orders and (2) How quickly a candidate is presented to the client. The following list describes 10 reasons why you will want to fall in love with your ATS so that you can increase your aptitude at both. 10. Because Your ATS should be your...
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5 Ways to Significantly Increase Recruiting Effectiveness
Whether you are a young and aspiring recruiter, a mid career professional or a senior ranking strategist, you have an interest in increasing the hiring effectiveness of both yourself as an individual or in your organization as a whole. Many of you will face those head scratching moments when you are in brainstorming session, at an away day, or in a team meeting when the facilitator or your boss...
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Booz & Co. Named Top Tech Consulting Firm to Work For
According to the Vault.com Top Tech Consulting Rankings for 2013, global consulting firm Booz Company ranked no.1 as the top tech consulting firm to work for. The rankings are based on Vault.com's annual Tech Consulting Survey, which was conducted earlier this year. More than 1,500 tech consulting professionals representing all levels evaluated their peer firms on a scale of 1 to 10 based on...
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The Importance of 'That-Jobs': When That a Job is Done Counts as Much as How
There are some jobs that are important as much for the fact that they are done as for how or why they are done. Call these "that-jobs". Being a policeman, in the short term at least, is one of them. Knowing that police are on patrol can be enough to deter crime and give hope to otherwise apprehensive citizens, irrespective of how well-equipped, effective, motivated or large the police...
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