New Tool to Monitor and Analyze HR Data Introduced
Governance, risk and compliance automation solutions provider ControlPanel has announced an HR analyzer for companies using SAP HCM and in need of improving the security of employee data. The module, HR Analyzer, focuses on resolving three primary issues: monitoring organizational usage of sensitive HR data; protecting that data from inappropriate use; and syncing HR events with SAP ID and...
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12 Reasons Why You Need an Interview Coach
Interview coaches are increasingly becoming an important part of the job search process. Yet many job seekers still fail to realise the value of investing in one. They often look to their recruiters to provide them with impartial advice on how best to improve their CV/resume or interview technique. Whilst many recruiters take this part of their role seriously, not all of them do. Within the...
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IT Job Board
Looking for a job in IT or want to hire top technical talent for your company? We've got the top 5 IT job boards that you need to bookmark right now! Here's a quick synopsis of each job board, and why it needs to be a part of your technical job search and recruiting strategy. Â Top IT, Technical, and Software Engineering Job Boards Dice.Com With almost 90,000 tech jobs posted...
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Job Board Software
Job board software enables you to build job listings into your website, enabling your site to act as a jobs portal and accept candidate applications. Why would you want to do this? Simple: you either need to attract candidates to your open positions in the job market or you are a publisher and will be paid, typically according to some form of revenue share or PPC revenue model. Interested? Read...
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Call Me!
Imagine this scenario: You post a position, get several qualified candidates and start making lists and calling potentials to set up interviews. It used to be you only owed the desired candidates a call or even a call back. But in these days of candidate experience the question begs asking: Do you owe bad candidates a call back? In a perfect world, all candidates would get the best treatment,...
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Employers may be Unprepared for New Regulations and Workplace Challenges
New research from employer and labor law specialists Littler Mendelson in its 2012 Executive Employer Survey has found that over 70 percent of employers will be hiring more workers over the next twelve months, but should be cautious of new federal employment regulations coming into effect this year. Areas expected to make the most significant impact on employers, as found in the survey,...
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Oracle Launches Public Cloud Computer Service
Oracle Corp. has recently launched its public cloud system, known as Oracle Cloud, offering an array of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and social applications. Remote data centers are capable of delivering from a library of over 100 apps that are available to customers for immediate use. Paying customers gain access to these services without the need for an onsite...
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Banning Email might not be a Good Idea
A recent research study by The Grossman Group has revealed that the trend of limiting or banning internal email to employees is considered misguided by executives participating in the 2012 Work-related Email Perception Study. While it is true that middle managers spend an average of 100 hours per year reading irrelevant email, they would much prefer policies to reduce the volume of such email, as...
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Delayed Retirement Leading to Generational Fatigue in the Workplace
Ira Wolfe, president of Success Performance Solutions, famous for predicting the so-called Perfect Labor Storm, has recently warned of significant challenges facing employers as they seek to manage a workforce with ever more diversifying lifestyles, attitudes, and approaches. And as Baby Boomers continue to delay retirement, forcing workers in their forties to remain stuck in lower-level...
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What Motivates People to Jump
A recent poll of recruiters from MRI Network revealed that 28% of January 2012's job opening were due to employees resigning, which is a 7% increase from July 2011. If the issue of staff retention hasn't been on your radar lately, then it should be. We may be seeing a return of candidate confidence as the US economy continues its slow but sure climb out of recession. Fueled by this...
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Recruiter Competes on Master Chef
As reported by the Seattle Times, a recently laid-off recruiter must be thanking her lucky stars today. Shami Marangwanda of Kirkland was probably still trying to shake the blues when a friend asked her to audition for the new season of Master Chef because she thought Shami was the best cook she knew. Shami is originally from Zimbabwe and admits she made it to the audition just for the fun of...
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New Platform for Hiring and Social Recruiting Released
Company willbeHired has announced the release of its next-generation recruitment and tracking platform designed to offer predictive analytics to increase hiring process efficiency. The new platform extracts individual applicant employment data and constructs a profile based on a candidate's experience, behavioral attributes, and cultural preferences. Applicant profiles are then compared against...
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Executive Workloads could be Unsustainable
ExecuNet, a company involved in networking senior-level executives and recrutiers, has concluded its survey of 153 executive recruiters and determined that most senior executives have become overburdened with unsustainable workloads and are likely to leave their current employers once the economy more fully recovers. The survey found that 57 percent of survey respondents rated the workloads of...
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Employer Health Cost Increases Expected in 2013
Increases in healthcare costs happen virtually every year. However, a recent report has put out some more specific numbers. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute has recently projected the growth rate of overall healthcare costs to hit 7.5 percent next year. This number is relatively low when compared to the increases experienced by many companies during the recession, often...
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How a PMP Certification can Boost your Career Prospects
With the current state of the economy, the job market is an extremely competitive place. Thousands of graduates with similar skill sets are fighting it out for the same pool of jobs. It's therefore important that you set yourself apart from them; and for those in the project management industry, a PMP certification is one way you can do this. The Project Management Professional (PMP)...
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House of Representatives Passes Legislation to Limit Restrictions for Flexible Spending Arrangements
The federal Ways and Means Committee within the House of Representatives has passed bills that could eliminate contentious restrictions current placed on flexible spending accounts (FSA). The first of these bills, entitled the Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2011, was passed overwhelmingly with a 23 to 6 vote. Should it be approved by the full House and Senate, the bill would change the...
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Skills Mapping Technology gets an Upgrade
Social career management solutions provider Zapoint, Inc has announced improvements to its career management application, SkillsMapper, with the addition of Career Paths, an application used to align career development with organizational needs. Career Paths will allow organizations to implement assessment criteria and competency frameworks into SkillsMapper job family groups and roles, providing...
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Mobile Business Intelligence Adoption Trends
A 2011 survey by the Aberdeen Group found that nearly 75 percent of respondents reported to be focused on deploying analytics via mobile devices to their senior executives in order for them to make real-time business decisions at any time. Organizations of all sizes are beginning to investigate adoption strategies for mobile business intelligence (BI) for executives thanks to the decreasing costs...
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Gaming for Talent?
I don't know about you, but I've never been the type to sit down and play games. My definition of sport is something that makes me sweat; a physically challenging activity that has me huffing and puffing in the shortest possible time. But a few years ago, I was enticed into a game on Facebook that had me completely addicted. In time, I realized what a waste of time it was and concluded that I...
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The Principle of Creative Redundancy—Making the Most of Unnecessary Employees and Other Applications
Lugging bags of groceries while wending my way along a forested path running past cottages, I saw a "For Sale" sign, in front of one of them, that initially seemed quite ordinary: "Priced to Sell", it trumpeted softly. I walked on. But then I did a double-take and it hit me: the "principle of creative redundancy" suddenly dawned on me (apparently only after it has occurred to...
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Study Says Employees Save 73 Minutes per Day using Alert Technology
A recent market study by DeskAlerts suggests that employees can save an average of 73 minutes per day per using desktop alerts software while increasing employee communication channels. According to the study, the average employee using a desktop alerts channel spends almost 30 minutes less per day scheduling meetings, 18 minutes less checking administrative emails, and 27 minutes less alerting...
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The Best People for Job References
It's on every application you've ever filled out: professional references. But who should you use? It can be a tricky affair choosing the elite few who will give your job recommendation and you must be shrewd and calculating in order to select the perfect candidates. It is worth it to bear in mind that the most effective references you have may not be those to whom you are closest, but those...
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Get the Wow Effect in your Recruiting
How easy should it be to video interview with your next prospective employee today? We've all tried those chat-enablers (such as MSN/Yahoo Messengers, Google, Skype and the works) that allow you to video chat with friends and family, but we haven't really employed it for interviews, have we? Now, that's where Wowzer comes in to usher in a new era of video interviewing that may become the...
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Training In Human Resources
Are you an HR Manager looking for the best way to train your HR employees? There are many different topics that Hr pros manage; it's important to make sure that your employees are getting proper coverage in each of these different skills and competencies. Here are our top 10 training sections to help get you going! Workplace Health Safety Accidents happen, and when they do, your...
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How to Fail at Everything You Do
So we all know that are untold millions of ways to succeed in your career and life in general, but success only comes after a multitude of mistakes that may not have occurred had you known what NOT to do. Sometimes to succeed you must first know how to fail. By following this list of behaviors you are guaranteed to fail every time in everything that you do. Go ahead, give it a whirl. You, too,...
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How Should a Recruiter Strike Out on their Own?
The Small Business Administration (SBA), calls small business, "the heart of the economy" - and it is easy to see why when you consider the fact that small firms make up more than 99.7% of all employers, and are thought to create 75% of the net new jobs in the US economy. The picture gets even better when we look at the staffing sector in particular which hired 12.9 million workers, during...
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HR Websites
Whether you're starting out in Human Resources or you're a seasoned professional, you have probably realized that HR policies and employment laws change so quickly that you can blink and it will be different. It is important that you stay abreast of recent developments in human resources, and given the popularity of the Internet, more and more we are seeing incredible tools being offered...
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HR Call Center
It used to be that if you had a problem at work, or you were an employer looking for advice, that you could just walk into the HR office and get a solution to your problem or the answer that you were looking for. From managing an insubordinate employee to dealing with a request for a raise, Human Resources used to be responsible for all of the ins and outs of the office, so that Managers could...
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Employment Outlook Turns Positive
With the release of its new Employment Outlook report, SimplyHired.com reveals that nationwide job openings increased in May by 3.3 percent over April while job competition remained at three unemployed workers to each job opening. "This month we're seeing a positive outlook on the economy from employers, with increased confidence spurring an increase in hiring," said Gautam Godhwani, CEO...
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Employment Market Shows Signs of Growth
The May 2012 Monster Employment Index U.S. showed a 3 percent growth between May 2011 and May 2012 and a 1 percent growth over April 2012. Recruitment growth was strongest in transportation and warehousing while finance and insurance has begun to gain momentum. Sectors experiencing a double-digit decrease in index scores were educational services, utilities, and public...
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Facilitating (Tele)Working—Does It Really Help Americans and America? (Part II)
Part I presented good reasons for pitching the idea of teleworking (working from home) when placing job candidates—from employer, employee, recruiter, national security and microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. The prospect of saving the U.S. more than $650 billion annually through expanded teleworking and the national security implications of teleworking were discussed...
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Spark Hire Releases New App Bringing Video Resume and Interviewing Functionality to iPhone
With the launch of Spark Hire's free mobile app, job seekers and employers have access to video job and talent search resources. The new app allows job seekers to record a video resume and participate in online video interviews from their iPhone. "By utilizing the app, both employers and job seekers are able to save time and money by using their smartphone to communicate," said Josh Tolan,...
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Human Resources Certification
So, you're considering a career in Human Resources, good for you! HR is an integral part of every single workplace, whether you realize it or not. From making sure that staff are paid on time, to managing health and dental benefits and workplace accident claims, businesses would be lost (and most likely non-compliant with employment laws) without the help of HR. If you've been...
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Retail Job Market Improves
Kronos Inc. has released its newest report on the state of the supply and demand sides of the retail sector of the labor market. Key highlights of the study include: • Out of every 100 retail job applications received by employers, only about 4 of them lead to hires, on average. However, this decline in hiring could not outpace a pronounced drop in applications. • Of the over 18,000...
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Workers Confident, but Uncertain about Job Market
Randstad, one of the largest providers of staffing and HR services in the world, has released a new report on the state of worker confidence. The Randstad U.S. Employee Confidence Index has revealed that the confidence of U.S. workers remains positive, but has scaled back during May 2012. More employees are taking cautious stances regarding the economy, job market, and their own employment...
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New Tools to Improve the Emotional Intelligence of Organizations
Ei Powered, Inc. has released a new online emotional intelligence (EI) training suite designed to enhance the set of emotional skills exhibited by organizations and their leaders. The on-demand package provides self-assessments for EI at both the individual and organizational levels plus a three-hour training session on emotions in the workplace. The system is composed of five modules including...
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Indeed Resume Search Review
You all know about Indeed.com; it's the most popular job search engine/job aggregation tool on the market and now one of the most popular job sites on the web. They have been around for about eight years and until recently, they have loyally stuck to their core business model of presenting job seekers with millions of jobs from company websites and job sites all over the world. Until...
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Facilitating (Tele)Working—Does It Really Help Americans and America? (Part I)
Should recruiters and HR managers be encouraging both employers and prospective employees to switch to or increase teleworking (telecommuting, working from home)—for patriotic as well as professional and personal reasons? Consider that to be two questions: The first is the micro-economic, professional and personal-level question of whether or not teleworking will be in the clear private...
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What Makes a Top Biller?
It seems like some people have a natural ability to consistently overachieve, to exceed expectations and to rise to every challenge they are given. In recruitment these are generally our top billers or high performers. Time and again they deliver results and earn the respect of their clients and the candidates that work with them. I'm almost certain that given the right company, conditions,...
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More Entrepreneurs in the Near Future?
Wanting to start a business isn't the same thing as starting a business. However, having a very strong motivation to become an entrepreneur is an absolute first requirement. Inspiration and motivation are often more critical to success than the actual idea itself. I stumbled across this graph from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (what, you don't surf labor stats for fun?) that shows the...
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How to Use the Networking Goldmine of your Former Jobs
No one knows your capabilities, work ethic, and background better than your former colleagues and bosses. And not only do past workmates know you well, they also have their own list of contacts which may include people at other organizations where you are applying for a job. They can be professional references, sources of recommendation letters, introduce you to new opportunities, and be your...
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The New Workplace Collaboration Model
The emergence of social media technology, the globalization of talent/operations coupled to the almost universal desire for innovation is transforming the business landscape and is increasing the demand for a collaborative culture within organizations of all sizes. Businesses are realizing that with the onset of new social collaboration technologies, that staff from entry-level upwards, from...
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Visual Recruiting? The Importance of Image
We all know the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words." This is true in the realm of recruitment as well. Just like in most facets of life, image makes a difference when finding and hiring the best talent. We all know the tried and true statistic that nearly 55 percent of all communication is nonverbal. No matter how well written the resume or cover letter, if the candidate you...
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Pinterest and the Eye of the Beholder
In the last few months, you may have heard of the social network Pinterest. After raising over $100 million, the visually stimulating, borderline addictive website that allows users to "pin" and share interesting tidbits, primarily visual in nature, skyrocketed in growth, only tapering off in April. Comparisons to the early days of Twitter, particularly the "soft" user base, have done...
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Employee Turnover Decreasing as Effects of Recession remain Prominent
In Bloomberg BNA's Q2 2012 study, the Job Absence Turnover Report, the company finds that the rate of job absence rose slightly over Q1 2011 but still fell far below pre-recession numbers. The employee turnover rate also remains considerably lower than pre-recession rates and actually fell slightly over Q1 2011. The increase in job absence during the quarter lacked consistency across all...
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Web-based Compliance System for Cost-efficient SPDs Launches
ERISA Pros has announced the release of Wrap-Tight, an ERISA compliance tool for Welfare Benefits Plans that creates and publishes customized wrapped summary plan descriptions (SPDs) at low cost. And given its web-based accessibility, Wrap-Tight documents are updatable from within any web browser, whenever necessary. The ERISA Essentials suite includes templates for documents including...
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Women Significantly Less Prepared for Retirement than Men
A new report out of the ING Retirement Research Institute has found that women are lagging far behind men when it comes to retirement planning and saving. The results of the recent research study uncovered some disturbing statistics including: • Men who have started saving for retirement have saved an average of $41,000 more than similar women ($149,000 and $108,000, respectively). •...
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New Cloud-based Enterprise Office System Launches
Business app cloud company semYOU LLC has announced the imminent launch of its cloud-based office system that provides a software infrastructure for businesses of any size that require easy applications access for any management task. The new system gives users access to 15 enterprise management apps such as Task-Manager, Project-Manager, Project-Timer-Recording, among others, that are available...
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