5 Quick Ways to Get an Interview
1. Attend Job Fairs One of the quickest ways to get an interview is to attend a job fair. Last year I received three job offers. All three were offers were from recruiters I had met at job fairs. At job fairs, you can meet dozens of recruiters in a short amount of time. Bring at least twenty resumes and business cards, if you have any. Recruiters like to see candidates who come prepared....
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Heavy Bullets vs. Light Lightning: The Right and Wrong Ways to Interview or Provide Customer Service
What's the secret of how to make a job interview or a job boring and alienating? No secret: Fire off or expect questions and answers that are more like bullets than like lightning. What's the difference? Start with "bullet interviews": A bullet-riddled interview is one in which questions are rattled off by the interviewer as though they were cue-card individually-scripted monorail...
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12 Innovative Hiring Approaches to Try when Talent is Scarce
I realize that you are all a pretty experienced bunch and most of you will have a range of hiring tactics within your arsenal, but even the most experienced of recruiters will find themselves in a tough spot from time to time, e.g. talent is scarce, your business is chronically understaffed, hiring managers are complaining, time to hires are soaring, and your CEO is breathing down your neck for...
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Towers Watson Releases Latest Version of Talent|REWARD Solution
Professional services company Towers Watson announced the release of the latest version of its Talent|REWARD software solution. The new version, version 7.2, offers a wider range of capabilities for managing the HR process and employees. Software updates were based on feedback from Towers Watson clients and the support teams who regularly interact with product users. "With organizations...
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Social Media Policy is a Top Challenge for 2013
HR professionals reported that social media policy will be the most formidable challenge for organizations in 2013, noting that social media policies will also be the most likely candidates for updating by the turn of the new year. The BLR survey found that 47.1 percent of respondents identified social media as the biggest challenge, followed by policies addressing cell phone use and distracted...
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Poor Health Costs Staggering Due to Absenteeism and Reduced Productivity
A study from The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a non-profit research firm, showed that poor health is costing the economy almost $600 billion per year, 40 percent of which (about $227 billion) is due to lost productivity. The lost productivity springs either from illness-induced absenteeism or decreased production performed by sick employees. The remaining costs come from worker's...
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More People Applying and Being Hired in Retail Industry
The recently announced September release of the Kronos Retail Labor Index shows a declined 3.9 percent in August, signaling a gain in number of applications and an increase in number of new hires within the industry. The Index, representing 18,362 locations across the nation, made nearly 35,000 new hires in August 2012, contributing to an annual rise in total hires this year, which is up 6.5...
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TalentBrew Recruiting Platform Adds Location-Based Component
TMP Worldwide announced the latest update to its recruiting software platform TalentBrew that adds a new focus on providing office locations and an improved candidate searching experience offering access to information beyond simple job descriptions. Available for both desktop and mobile devices, TalentBrew grants users the ability to include information related to the geographical location of a...
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Wellness Programs in America [infographic]
How are the nation's largest companies dealing with worsening employee health and increasing health care costs? This is the question ShapeUp, an employee wellness company, sought to answer through its infographic, The State of Corporate Wellness Programs in America. Based on ShapeUp's annual employer wellness survey, the company created the first ever corporate wellness infographic. So,...
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Hire Tough, Manage Easy... and 25 Other Workplace Truisms
Truism, according to Merriam Webster's dictionary, is an undoubted or self-evident truth. We have all heard plenty of truisms before, haven't we? Experience is the best teacher. You can't win them all. Practice makes perfect. The list goes on and on and on. There are truisms for project managers, truisms for campus life, truisms for social media and Gen Yers; there are even those for...
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HR Technology Conference Coming Up
The HR Executive's 15th Annual Technology Conference and Exposition is fast approaching?Oct. 8-10 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The conference will address HR issues such as the cloud, social technology in the enterprise and the current generational shift occurring in the computing industry. The three-day HR technology conference will begin with an opening keynote from Delphi Group founder...
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Work in Paradise
Tired of the daily bumper-to-bumper commute; tired of the nine to five grind; tired of a wretched boss not understanding your abilities and needs; tired of having a day off only to have rotten weather? If the answer to any of those above is yes, consider relocating your career to paradise. What is paradise? Everyone has their own definition. Discover your perspective and start a business...
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Don't Bluff a Recruiter!
Believe it or not, there are a lot of parallels between being a successful poker player and a successful recruiter. I should know. In addition to being a third-party recruiter for almost 10 years, I have played poker with some degree of seriousness since college. Recently, I won one of the World Poker Tour's marquee events, the Legends of Poker, at the Bicycle Casino, besting a field of mostly...
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Companies that Use Social Media to Recruit Have Lower Turnover
There are some very compelling reasons that social job search and social recruiting are just good business. In a study of over 1,800 individuals by The A-List, over 60 percent of those who used personal connections to get hired reported being extremely satisfied with their jobs. The rest, about 40 percent, who got jobs via other means (think job boards), reported dissatisfaction with their...
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How To Build A Social Network Around Every Job
A whopping 73 percent of employers successfully hired a candidate via social media this year. But guess what? That number could be much, much higher. How? By creating a social network around your job. Social recruiting is becoming increasingly important when searching for quality job candidates. Sure, recruiters know about Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And you certainly can screen your...
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8 Ways To Handle A Request For a Higher Starting Salary
We all know the situation: It's been a tough search with limited quality candidates and you've got a severely under-staffed internal team. At last, you find a great candidate who fits the bill and loves the company, and every thing is going fine until at offer stage they drop the clanger that they want a starting salary that was much higher than budgeted! What do you do? As a hiring manager or...
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How HR Can Drive the New Social Business
Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Cloud. Social. Mobile. Does it seem like you see these words everywhere? Do you feel a little overloaded with all the ways these tools are going to supposedly change HR while you are still firewalled from Wordpress? I know a lot of...
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Success According to LinkedIn's Allen Blue
On Sept. 5, LinkedIn co-founder and Vice President of product management Allen Blue shared his thoughts on the success behind LinkedIn during the Democratic National Convention. Allen participated in the Opportunity: What Is Working jobs panel, a jobs creation panel sponsored by The Huffington Post. Blue explained how the social and professional networking site is all about empowering every...
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Recruiter Wins World Poker Tour
Known as the "headhunter," Josh Hale, managing associate, consulting practice at General Ledger Resources, recently won the 2012 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker. Hale was one of more than 700 entrants in the competition. The 2012 WPT Legends of Poker series consisted of 37 events held at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif. Shortly after his impressive win, Hale hosted a training...
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Average Turnover Rates Ticking Upwards
As determined by Compdata Surveys' BenchmarkPro 2012, the national average total turnover rate for 2011 was 15.2 percent, up 0.8 percent over the prior year. Voluntary turnover rates rose 0.7 points to 9.8 percent during the same period. The increase comes as the national unemployment rate has remained relatively stagnant over the last several months. The hospitality industry averaged the...
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Youth Employment Problem only Solvable with Scalable Strategies
Leading workforce solutions provider ManpowerGroup released a report calling on collaboration between global governments, companies, and educators to develop and scale initiatives to increase job opportunities for young workers. The report, How Policy can Boost Youth Employment, focuses on educating relevant parties to the need for strategies to raise the number of opportunities for...
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BlessingWhite Survey: Employees Trust Managers more than Senior Execs
New research from consulting firm BlessingWhite shows that employees trust their immediate supervisors more than their upper-level counterparts. According to the report, 74 percent of staff members trust their supervisors compared with the 57 percent who trust their senior leaders. The primary reason uncovered by researchers for the disparity is a lack of communication between senior management...
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Is it Okay to Post a Fake Job Ad?
We've all been duped at some point in our lives, right? That "free" magazine subscription that conveniently charges your debit card three months after you've subscribed; those "return and get your money back, no questions asked" deals that actually do ask questions; and, my personal favorite, those $25 off your next purchase coupons where you can barely read the fine print that...
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TalentBin Releases Lookup People Search App for iPhone
TalentBin recently released Lookup, a free people search app for iPhone. The new application allows TalentBin consumers and business users to instantly look up and review publicly available online information about friends, colleagues and business contacts in a single and manageable social profile. Lookup users are able to discover more information not only about those they interact with daily,...
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iPhone App Manages Time and Attendance Applications for Managers and Employees
Empower Software Solutions, provider of workforce and HR solutions, announced the release of EmpowerTime Mobile for iPhone. The new app allows users to record punch-ins, transfers, and requests for time-off. Managers are thus able to automatically track and record employee time and attendance data. "EmpowerTime Mobile for iPhone is a great solution for every manager who's busy in the...
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The Secret to Landing your Dream Job? Happiness!
As we search for a job or pine for a promotion, we often think: If only I get this job, I'll be happy. If only I get this salary, I'll be happy. According to the latest research, our thinking is backward. The exploding field of neuroscience has turned the notion of "success leads to happiness" on its head. As it turns outs, quite the opposite is true: If I'm happy, then I'll...
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'Lazy' and 'Sleepy': a Behavioral Management Analysis
You are sure that the only reason your spouse, teenage son or co-worker isn't cooperating is that (s)he is just too "lazy" to do what has just been requested. But even if you are right about the immediate behavioral state, you may be very wrong about the personal trait. Accordingly, your behavioral management approach to the "laziness" problem will likewise be wrong. Getting that...
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Refocused Website Highlights Learning Management System Designed for Mobile Learning
E-Learning veteran company eLogic Learning updated and expanded its existing website for more user interaction, improved corporate branding and a tour of eSSential, eLogic's learning management system (LMS). The tour is essentially a demo of the LMS showcasing features and benefits alongside screenshots of each product characteristic. The website also focuses on the company's custom...
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TALX Reveals Remote I-9 Management Solution
A leader in HR, payroll, and tax-related services, TALX announced the details of its remote I-9 management services designed to improve onboarding of remote employees while remaining compliant with regulations. Compliance issues arise when hiring remote employees due to insufficiently informed public notaries who sometimes refuse to sign the document or do so incorrectly. TALX's Remote I-9...
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Talent Development of Soft Skills a New Focus for CFOs
A newly released survey by APQC, A New CFO Priority: Talent Development with a Focus on Soft Skills, indicates that many organizations are falling short of sufficiently skilled financial professionals as baby boomers begin to retire in growing numbers. The survey found that the gap between the value of a typical financial organization and what it can provide its stakeholders is...
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Expand The Table
When I was a kid, I was one of five girls in a very busy household. Our dining room table, as it was, was pretty big to begin with and sometimes, in lean times, it was simply a picnic table. When we had guests over, though, one of us was usually dispatched to the linen closet to get one or both of our table leaves, to expand the table for our guests. No worries, a point is coming just around...
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Executive Recruiters Blame Feds for Hiring Shortage
According to the latest ExecuNet survey, recruiter confidence declined in August reaching a level almost as low as it was after the debt ceiling crisis last year. The confidence level hit 35 percent for the month while 70 percent of executive recruiters blamed external conditions as the cause behind an executive hiring shortage. The survey, polling 152 executive recruiters, found that 36...
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TribeHR Presents New Ways to Engage Employees with Social HR Tools
Social HR provider TribeHR announced immediate enhancements to its cloud-based platform that helps HR professionals improve social recruitment, boost employee engagement and facilitate the development of a strong corporate culture. The enhancements include new LinkedIn and Facebook features that make social recruiting easier and more effective. Specifically, LinkedIn job postings driven by...
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Xora Announces StreetSmart for Empowering Mobile Employees
Mobile workforce management provider Xora, Inc. recently introduced Xora StreetSmart, a product that utilizes the set of advanced features available on smartphones and tablets to improve the management of mobile workers in the field. StreetSmart uses integrated location awareness and a job-workflow engine to provide a comprehensive solution to mobile field operations. "Xora StreetSmart...
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Study Reveals More Than Half of Public Sector Employees Engaged
A survey by ADP and the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR) showed that out of the more than 2,200 workers polled, 58 percent of public sector employees were fully engaged in their jobs. The survey measured levels of employee engagement among public sector employees at the state and local levels. The data also revealed that 38 percent of public sector...
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SHL Global Leadership Study, US Ranks 5th for Potential Leadership
According to the global leader in talent measurement solutions, SHL, the U.S. ranks 5th in the world in its Global Leadership study for the first time. The study provided a worldwide view of leadership potential as it identified the top 25 countries with the greatest supply of potential leaders relative to its workforce. Data was analyzed from more than one million people from SHL's global...
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How to Get Your Resume Noticed
I've got to be honest here: Sometimes going through resumes is a drag. Don't get me wrong, HR is a great field to work in and it is incredibly rewarding, but there are things that we see in HR that cannot be unseen. Sure the job market is tough right now, but, from my experience, people still aren't putting the necessary effort into their resumes to ensure they are getting the...
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Work4 Labs Introduces Enhanced Facebook Recruiting Tool
Work4 Labs, a leader in Facebook recruiting technology, announced Wednesday it expanded its suite of social recruiting products. The company built a roster of 17,000 customers during its early phase, including Anheuser Busch, Ben and Jerry's, Kate Spade, VMWare and UPS. Due to its successful enterprise offering and the demand for Facebook recruiting tools from smaller companies, Work4 Labs plans...
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How would YOU Hire 2,000 People?
Last week Amazon announced its UK division is currently conducting a mass recruitment initiative to hire around 2,000 people to help with next month's release of its Kindle Fire. The new additions will work in Amazon's fulfillment centers; centers designed to make sure online orders are processed and packaged. The mega eCommerce retailer plans for big growth over the next two years,...
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Proofreading Your Resume to Ensure Professionalism
You have no doubt that you are a quality candidate for the desired position. So, how do you convey this? Having a clean, polished and professional resume is the first step. Your resume is an in-depth introduction of yourself to your prospective employer. This document illustrates your expertise, your abilities and the background that matters to your desired position. If you handle the...
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iCIMS Acquires Social Recruiting Tech Company
iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) recruiting and hiring software, announced on Monday that it recently acquired its former partner Jobmagic, the social media recruiting platform. Before acquiring the company, iCIMS collaborated with Jobmagic on its Social Distribution solution tool. The tool allowed iCIMS Talent Platform customers to efficiently promote job openings on...
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Free Social Recruiting Software SmartRecruiters Launches New Version
SmartRecruiters, the free social recruiting platform, marked its two-year anniversary Monday by announcing its latest product release, which will help the company continue to live up to its motto of "making hiring easy." The new version of the popular recruiting software addresses the issues that job seekers and job creators face in today's hiring process. It includes two key features...
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How to Get C-Level Approval
In the world of corporations and organizations, few things are as sacrosanct as bum bum BUUUUM! C-Level Approval. It's practically the Excalibur of Cubicle Land. And with good reason. Getting the approval of the big boss lady (or man) matters in ways that aren't always apparent right off the bat. When I speak about employment branding, building talent communities or content marketing (relatively...
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What is so Exciting about Exciting Jobs?—The Psychology and Management of Excitement at Work and Elsewhere
Is your job exciting or do you wish it were? If only there were some kind of formula or recipe for experiencing, creating or managing excitement that could be identified. Then, it might be easier to predict, explain, control or—even better—to create and manage it, at work and in the rest of your life. When it comes to hiring, employer promises and predictions of an "exciting" job or...
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The Mobile Recruiting Train Has Arrived: 5 Tips To Help You Get On Board
It is no longer sufficient to talk how about how mobile phones which shape the recruiting industry over the next few years, without talking about the mobile paradigm shift that is taking place today. We all know the fascinating statistics about smart phone adoption with Nielsen reporting earlier this year that nearly 42% of US mobile users and 44% of European mobile subscribers now use...
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Should You Link your Social Media Sites to your Resume?
The birth of social media seems to have brought with it a slew of questions regarding the professionalism of the Internet in general and what part social media can play in the job market. According to Jobvite's annual Social Recruiting Survey, 92 percent of U.S. companies are using social media and networks to discover talent in 2012. That is up from 78 percent just five years ago. The top...
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Study: Fulfilling Talent Demand Requires Flexible Work Models
Hot off the results of a recent workforce report, ManpowerGroup is advising companies to focus on developing flexible work models in order to adapt to long term workforce trends. The recommendation comes as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases unemployment data for August 2012 finding that the jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent as 96,000 new jobs were added in the private...
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Monster Employment Index Up Big Over 2011
The monthly Monster Employment Index for the U.S. grew by 6 percent year-over-year in August, with the agricultural, forestry, fishing, and hunting sector leading the charge in job growth running neck-and-neck with transportation and warehousing. Retail trade also made headway in August while growth in public administration and educational services declined 16 percent and 3 percent, respectively....
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