Controlling 'Testosterogues': A Workplace and Pop-Culture Clash
Powerful, yet polite: What images does this combination conjure up? Naturally and nostalgically, it suggests brawny "Superman" and sinewy "Wonder Woman"—increasingly rare exceptions to the pop-culture rule of the rude. On further reflection, and in the real world, senior bank managers, U.S. presidents, and a Wall Street CEO or a 4-star jut-jawed general giving Senate testimony...
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Dealing with the Fallout of a Fired Boss
To some extent, we all come to depend on our bosses for direction, problem solving, and inspiration. And while some bosses are inevitably better than others, it can be a jolting experience when the big man or woman of the office is laid off or fired. Plus, there is no question that the power vacuum left behind can mean major disruption and performance hits for days or weeks after the fact as...
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Study Finds Employers Still Unable to Fill Key Jobs
Leading staffing and human capital consulting firm ManpowerGroup has issued a new report on talent availability. Their new report, the 2012 Talent Shortage Survey has recently found that 49 percent of U.S. employers are finding it difficult to fill mission-critical positions, especially jobs in skilled trades, IT, and engineering. However, 56 percent of worldwide employers say that unfilled...
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On the Heels of Supreme Court Vote, Three States Opt Out of PPACA Provisions
The list of states opting out of two major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has expanded to three, now including Louisiana, Wisconsin, and most recently Florida. All three states have rejected plans to expand current Medicaid programs and have opted not to create health insurances exchanges. Such actions are legal given the decision of the Supreme Court to not...
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Employment Index Rises 5 Percent Over the Year
Leading career site Monster.com has reported that its U.S. employment index grew by 5 percent year-over-year and 5 percent over the month. The top growth sectors for employment were the transportation and warehousing industries and retail trade is showing signs of accelerated growth. The information sector was flat year-over-year while educational services, utilities, and public administration...
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5 Bad Social Networking Habits to Break
Social Networking is beyond entrenched in our daily lives, both personal and professional. Chances are you got to this article today through some form of social network; the value is clearly established. But like any channel with that much power, comes much responsibility, and sometimes, we blow it. Here are five social networking habits that are sapping your productivity, annoying your...
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U.S. Hiring Should Rise in Second Half of 2012
With the consequences of the recession still lingering and U.S. jobs recovery lagging behind recovery rates for previous recessions, the back half of 2012 looks to show improvement in hiring rates over the same period last year. A survey conducted by CareerBuilder found that 44 percent of private sector employers are planning to hire full-time staff on a permanent basis during the period of July...
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Shake the Stigma: Splits Are Good Business
Most recruiters I know, the majority of whom work for agencies, have a long standing stigma against the idea of "splits". The split seems to carry with it the idea of concession. Concession of control, ability, success, status, revenue, etc. These are all very valid points given the very simple fact that, when you engage in a split placement, you lose half of your revenue. A...
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How Your Job Description May Be Excluding Potential Candidates
An essential part of recruiting the right person for your job opening is writing the best job description possible. While the objective is to describe the ideal candidate to successfully fill the position, it's a fine line between describing a superhuman who has all of the skills you think you need and excluding high potential candidates with the right aptitude and attitude become your next...
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What They Tell You to do about Candidate Experience
Why is candidate experience everyone's favorite subject? Because it's easy to talk about and much harder to do. Here are some statements that busy recruiters hear all the time: What they say: Go through your own application process. Why they say it:? Because it helps. Once you realize what it's like from a candidate's perspective, you get a better feel for your tech, you more easily see...
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Employers Focus on Next Wave of Compliance Issues from ACA
The Obama administration's healthcare reform law, otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was recently found constitutional by the federal Supreme Court in one of the most important high-court decisions of this century. Not only did the centerpiece legislation of the law, the individual mandate, pass through on a technicality, the Court also upheld the expansion to...
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Contact and Recruiting Lead Provider Offers CRM
Name and lead data provider The List has announced the launch of its new cloud-based customer relationship management tool, The List CRM, in conjunction with leading CRM business software provider Sugar CRM. The List CRM gives clients the power to mange and track prospects and sales opportunities from a single hub. Recruiters typically use The List service to find qualified candidates and get...
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Recruiting and Relocation Trends
According to the 2012 Allied Workforce Mobility Survey, about two-thirds of HR professionals report to planning extensive to moderate hiring sprees throughout the second half of 2012. Large companies comprised of over 10,000 employees are especially bullish, with 80 percent of HR professionals from these employers expecting extensive to moderate recruiting plans. And for companies, especially...
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Timesheet Software Provider Expands into Resource Planning
ClickTime.com, a provider of timesheet software, is slated to release its ClickTime Resource Planning Suite alongside its updated ClickTime WebTimesheet 7.0 and will expand ClickTime's product offering to include major project management enhancements that allow companies to use real-time business analytics to better predict resource and budget needs. "The combination of our proven timesheet...
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How Do You Spot a Great Leader?
As the world slowly climbs out of recession into what we all hope is a sustained recovery, firms who have for the past few years been locked in to a recession based business strategy, will be developing a new post-recession outlook. Most of them will be looking to seize an early advantage and many will be ready to take more risks and exploit new opportunities with more vigor than they may have...
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How to Work from Home without Ruining your Home Life
It might be difficult to accept, but many professionals are expected to be productive even after their official work hours. The demands of the workplace can often put pressure and create challenges involving the care of family and friends who want to be involved in your life. Even worse, bringing work home can create a condition called "role conflict," where your mind can't decide whether...
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Thompson v. North American Stainless Beginning to Generate Waves for HR
A 2011 Supreme Court ruling stating that federal discrimination law extended protection to employees simply affiliated with a person making a workplace complaint is finally generating fallout for human resource professionals. Before the Thompson v North American Stainless ruling, HR would review a checklist of traits to determine whether there was reason to work carefully to avoid retaliation...
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HR and Employment Service Industry to Increase Value to a Half Trillion Dollars
In Research and Markets' Global Human Resources Employment Services report, the HR Employment services industry is forecast to grow to a value of $490.1 billion by the end of 2016. The market surveyed consists of revenues received from temporary staffing, search and placement, and corporate training services performed by third-party providers. Not included are independent contracting and...
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Can Anybody be a Recruiter Now?
Recruiting is easier these days. The technology does all the work for you. Sourcing? Not even a necessary skill anymore. Take a stroll around any expo hall floor and these arguments (we've been hearing them for years) may start to sound a little...true? I know it sounds harsh, but as technology gets more sophisticated, does the worth of your average corporate or third party recruiter plummet?...
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Most Businesses Can't Transform BI into Competitive Advantage
Findings from a recent comprehensive review of seven businesses by Customer Relationship Metrics, L.C. show that most businesses may not be receiving benefits beyond the most basic of advantages from their business intelligence (BI) solutions. The study correlated a better conversion of BI into tangible results with the companies gaining a slight market share from their competitors. The more...
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Stort Media Launches Job Search Websites Focused on Music and Tax Professionals
Job search website operator Stort Media has recently acquired and relaunched MusicJobs.cc giving advanced search functionality to job-seeking music industry professionals. The new site is designed to cater to record labels, music publishers, radio stations, and other companies within the music industry in need of qualified music professionals. The site will aid in matching job seekers with HR...
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Generation Y: Tips to Landing That Job
Being a member of "Generation Y", I can attest that we are often characterized as lazy, entitled, and demanding. However, many of us are desperate for work (any kind of work, I assure you) and getting it is nearly impossible. So what can a young person do? Actually, there are quite a few things, however, people either don't know about it or don't care to do it. While the basics are...
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San Francisco's 'Puppies for Panhandlers' Program: a Good Job-Creation Model?
Giving otherwise strapped panhandlers a monthly stipend for full-time guardianship of otherwise homeless puppies is San Francisco's City Hall imaginative approach to dealing with a mosaic of challenges—economic, moral, social, psychological and ecological. The "WOOF" program (the official acronym for what the city's mayor's office is calling "Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants...
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Employers Face New Provisions of the Affordable Care Act
With the healthcare reform law, otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in constitutional limbo, employers could only watch from the sidelines and prepare for the potentiality that the law would remain in force. Yesterday, the 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the ACA. Employers find themselves still in roughly the same situation as...
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New Recruiter Search Service Debuts
Executive recruiter search platform RecruiterAccess.com has been announced for use as an executive recruiter finder and client and job requirement development tool for recruiters themselves. With the new platform, employers can post job search projects for free and receive proposals from retained recruiters vying for the position. Each job search project is delivered for review to the list of...
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GetHired.com Starts Up Daily Email Highlighting Job Seekers
GetHired, a provider of end-to-end hiring solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, has announced its Job Seeker Spotlight program for sending daily updates to employers and recruiters highlighting five pre-screened applicants whose resumes are exceptionally well suited for a particular job post. Job Seeker Spotlight is available for all types of jobs from hourly positions to those...
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Kenexa Upgrades Hot Lava Mobile as it Enters into Mobile Learning Marketplace
HR business solutions provider Kenexa has announced the launch of Kenexa Lava Mobile 3.0 designed to help develop, manage, and analyze results from performance support, enterprise learning, surveys, and device communications. Hot Lava Mobile was recently added to Kenexa's portfolio upon the purchase of OutStart this February. Hot Lava Mobile aids organizations in developing content and...
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HR Certification Institute Launches Connection Platform for Credentialed HR Professionals
The certifying body for the HR profession, The HR Certification Institute (HCI) has announced its online Certified Voice platform that allows HR pros with HCI credentials to connect with colleagues, share expertise, and create professional networks. Powered by Kaleo, Certified Voice is a next-gen enterprise collaboration platform supporting the Institute's 120,000 credentialed...
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Workforce Trend: Employee Assistance Programs Extend to Global Workforce
According to ComPsych Corporation's Global Trends Report, 51 percent of worldwide workplaces have experienced a crisis, such as the death of an employee or a natural disaster, within the past year. Consequently, 37 percent of participating companies also reported plans to expand their employee assistance program (EAP) benefits to their employees around the globe. ComPsych is a leading...
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Employer Sponsored Wellness Programs
While it is generally true that investments in wellness save three to four times their costs in healthcare cost savings, how can you know that your program is performing at peak capacity? How do you know whether you are getting a return on your investment in employee health? Consider the following five key indicators and data when looking to gauge and measure the success of your company's...
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Brosix Announces Release of Version 3.3 of its Enterprise Instant Messenger
Brosix's newest update to its instant messenger contains multiple major improvements and includes features such as multi-monitor support for screen-sharing purposes and editable screenshot functionality. Also included in the update in an improved notifications system, an auto-away status message when the computer is locked or another full-screen application is active, and improved audio/visual...
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Working for Nothing: The Breaking Point
Initially, I was taken aback by the CNBC headline "Greek Workers Keep Working Without Pay" and the illustrative report that staff at the Henry Dunant Hospital in recession-wracked Athens are still working, despite being owed five months pay, and even after having agreed to a 15% pay cut. "Wow! Working for nothing!", I was tempted to think. But then, I thought the obvious: Working...
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Grey Matters – Why and How to Engage Older Workers
Jobless people aged 55 and over in the US remain unemployed for an average of 53 weeks, and in the UK the number of over 50s who have been unemployed for over 12 months has risen by 52% to a 10 year high. It easy to think that maybe this is intentional and that maybe older workers would want to be retiring and enjoying the fruits of their life long labor. But, this would be wrong to a large...
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HR Certification Institute Launches Certification Mentor Program
The HR Certification Institute, an internationally-recognized certifying body for the HR profession, is seeking to aid HR professionals seeking certification in earning their credentials by pairing certification seekers with professionals who already hold program certificates such as the Professional in Human Resources, Senior Professional in Human Resources, Global Professional in Human...
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The Booth Company Buffs up TruScore Survey Portal with Enhanced Assessment Features
The Booth Company (TBC), provider of survey hosting solutions and 360 feedback assessments, has announced a revamped survey portal to improve user experience and simplify the assessment survey process. In addition to adding support for mobile devices, the portal has been redesigned to allow for quick and efficient assessment navigation, goal setting, and report viewing. "We are consistently...
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InteliSpend Partners with gBehavior to Incentivize Employee Wellness
InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions and gBehavior have announced a partnership to offer wellness expertise and wellness program design and delivery to lower healthcare costs for InteliSpend clients and their employees. Recent research has shown that for each dollar spent on employee wellness, medical costs decline by almost $3.25, while costs related to absenteeism fall by about $2.70. The platform,...
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IRS to Issue New Report on IRA Account Mistakes
With the IRS allegedly having left almost $300 million in IRA-related tax dollars uncollected due to failure to following up on account-holder mistakes, the federal branch is expected to release a new report by mid-October discussing how it expects contribution and withdrawal errors to be handled in the future. Expected changes to IRA procedures are expected to include additional paperwork with...
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Credit Checking Employees?
With all of the uproar in the media recently about employers asking for Facebook passwords, it has brought other frequently asked questions regarding employment practices to the forefront of the news. One of the most prominent of these has been whether or not to credit check your employees or potential candidates, and the answer is complicated and may not be as cut and dry as it seems. While...
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How to Sell Yourself in the Workplace
Many people associate selling with pushy sales people who don't listen to your objections and try to force you into parting with your money for a product or service that you don't want. However, knowing how to sell yourself is a vital tool for effective career management. The process starts with your CV or resume, in addition to interviews, internal meetings and networking events. Know...
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Facebook a Vital #2 for Social Recruiting
Jobscience, a talent management technology firm for the social enterprise, has announced the results of its recent social media survey. The survey found that over one-third of U.S. companies have Facebook in their sites as the primary tool for social recruiting in 2012. The survey also found that Facebook was the second most important social recruiting tool, trailing only LinkedIn. Data from the...
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New Online People Discovery Tool Launched
The Goalee company's new people discovery tool has gone into beta and looks to change the way people connect by matching based on personal and professional goals. By combing through Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, Goalee determines matches based on shared interests and professional histories to help users create more effective professional social networks. The tool then automates the outreach...
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Are Good Sales People an Endangered Species?
It's official, according to Manpower's May 2012 global skills shortage survey, sales representatives are the third most difficult to fill role in the world. Experts believe that this sales talent shortage is arising as a result of the shifting landscape which is changing the role of the sales professional, making some skills redundant and forcing them to develop new skills. For example,...
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Survey says: Employers without Recognition Programs Suffer from High Attrition
A recent survey from research firm Bersin Associates finds that higher turnover rates are experienced by companies if they don't offer recognition and rewards programs. Companies either lacking a program or implementing one rated as sub-par have an average attrition rate of 10.5 percent, 3.3 percent higher than that rate at companies with highly rated programs. The survey also found that...
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Wellness Data Analytics Platform Launches
Viridian Health Management has announced the release of its MAESTRO data platform to integrate data sources for the application of proven analytics in order to document the performance of worksite wellness programs. MAESTRO allows employers to track program performance and administer focused incentive programs through the integration of multiple data streams. The platform allows for the...
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Employee Benefits Platform bswift Updated
Leading employee benefits administrator bswift has announced the release of its updated Software-as-a-Service platform which includes several new features including: • A redesigned user interface optimized for use with new full and mobile browsers that have appeared over the past couple of years. • Enhancements to Exchanges, improving the overall experience of benefits shopping and...
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New Screening Solution Available on Taleo Exchange
A national leader in providing employment screening solutions such as background checks, drug screenings, electronic I-9 management, and credential verification services, Edge Information Management, Inc. has announced the availability of its set of solutions on the Taleo Solution Exchange. Taleo is a world leader in SaaS-based talent management solutions and maintains one of the world's...
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Office Coffee: Its Image and Implications
Are heavy office coffee drinkers more likely to be Type-A, go-getter, impatient, heart attack-prone types? Do espresso drinkers really tend to be moodier? Is that latte in hand a calculated personal display? Like any other entrenched habit, coffee drinking may be expected to reveal something about personality, character, brain chemistry, culture, attitudes, unconscious forces, health,...
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Who Says Recruiters Can't Innovate?
Recruiters have a tried and tested set of tools to help them find top talent in today's marketplace: jobs boards, social media, employee referrals, careers fairs; we talk about these things all the time on Recruiter.com. There is nothing wrong with these more mainstream recruitment methods; they are safe, tried and tested and get the job done. But, there are other more inventive techniques...
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