How to Incorporate Mediation Techniques into Talent Acquisition
Mediation is a formal technique for resolving conflict between two opposing parties. It is one of the core principles within the Alternative Dispute Resolution framework and involves a neutral third party working together with two parties in dispute so as to reach a mutual agreement. The neutral third party is known as the mediator. Research from the UK CIPD shows that in situations...
Read More
ACAS
ACAS is the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service for the UK. It is a non-departmental government body (NGO), which is largely funded by the Government Department for Business Innovation. It is governed by an independent Council which means that it can operate in an independent, impartial and confidential manner. It offers three types of services to employers; these are Advice,...
Read More
Court Expands Employer Responsibility Regarding Online Bullying
A federal appeals court in California recently ruled in favor of a state correctional officer when they held his employer liable for harassment the employee underwent after hours on his blog. The employee, Ralph Espinoza, who was born with a congenital hand deformation, claimed to have been badgered and persecuted by co-workers who posted humiliating messages on Espinoza's blog. Once alerted...
Read More
Deloitte Consulting Acquires HR Tech Consultancy Company
In a move that propels Deloitte to the top of the ranks of Workday HR and finance consulting firms, the company has announced the completion of its purchase of Aggressor LLC which focuses solely on deployment and integration services for Workday solutions. The purchase also strengthens Deloitte's HR tech and transformation consulting practice. Companies use Workday to acquire, assess, evolve,...
Read More
Brosix Business Instant Messenger Updated to Version 3.2
Communications software developer Brosix has officially released the newest version of its workplace instant messaging system, adding major new features such as high-quality video and voice chat and echo cancellation. The program is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. Other new features include missed event notifications, global shortcut keys, away time management (network...
Read More
Self-Fulfilling Job Reports: a Better Approach to Monthly Employment Data
Monthly employment reports, such as Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor Force Participation Rates (the BLS LFPR) and unemployment data come and go, sometimes claiming growth in the number of Americans in the work force or increases in the number of jobs or the employed, other times declines. But there is one thing that they always have in common: They are always disputed—either along politically...
Read More
Cornerstone OnDemand Delivers Recruiting Cloud
Cloud-based talent management software solutions provider Cornerstone OnDemand has announced the release of its Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud which allows organizations perform a variety of functions on the Web. Integrated with Cornerstones existing software suite, Recruiting Cloud gives clients the ability to manage job requisitions, post jobs to online job boards and social networks, create...
Read More
Evolv Addresses Problems of Recruitment Process Outsourcing with New Service
Data-driven workforce selection provider Evolv has announced its new Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service which offers sourcing through skills testing and candidate screening. Using an easily digestible, one-number scoring system, employers are able to see how candidates fared through Evolv's screening process at a glance and understand how a candidate's score relates to his or her...
Read More
Department of Health and Human Services Reports Lifetime Limit Rule Benefits 105 Million People
The HHS has released new data it claims shows the positive impact of one portion of the healthcare reform law. The law's ban on lifetime monetary limits in health insurance coverage has affected 105 million people, the department says. The law was a response to circumstances where individuals faced illnesses (such as cancer) that risked bypassing predefined lifetime dollar limits set by their...
Read More
Protect your Privacy without Jeopardizing Hiring Potential
After last year's FTC ruling that employers could use public information gathered from social media sites as part of a background check, many companies are adopting a practice of "shoulder surfing" where a hiring manager asks a job candidate to login to his or her social media account so that friends-only posting may be screened for objectionable material. Some types of employers,...
Read More
SelectMinds and HireClix Create Partnership to Automate Social Recruiting Solutions
Social recruiting solutions provider SelectMinds and digital recruitment marketing agency HireClix have announced a partnership with the expressed goal being to enhance the effectiveness of corporate employee referral programs through the use of social networks. Part of the strategy is the authorization of HireClix to resell SelectMinds' social recruiting solution TalentVine. "Through our...
Read More
Study Shows that Benefits are the Primary Incentive for Employees
MetLife's 10th annual "Study of Employee Benefits Trends," a study involving over 1,400 full-time adult employees, has shown that one of the only things keeping people on the job is their benefits package. Specifically, the study revealed that only 42 percent of employees feel a strong sense of loyalty to their employers, down 12 percent from 2007. Over one-third of all employees reported...
Read More
Courts Rule about how FMLA Applies to States
A case brought by a Maryland Court of Appeals employee has changed the way FMLA is being interpreted thanks to a Supreme Court ruling against the plaintiff. The employee, Daniel Coleman, had initially sued his employer after being terminated for requesting "self-care" leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Armed with the argument that the Act provides employees the right to up to 12...
Read More
A No Resume Hiring Process
Leading video games and entertainment company IGN has initiated its second annual Code-Foo Challenge in an effort to find coding talent with a strict "no resumes allowed" hiring approach. The six-week program offers programmers the opportunity to learn coding languages and work on live engineering projects under the tutelage of leading industry talent, at IGN's expense. While the...
Read More
CKR Interactive Celebrates Eleventh Anniversary and Launches new HR Product Line
In celebration of its eleventh anniversary on April 1, 2012, recruitment marketing agency CKR Interactive has launched three new solutions to optimize recruitment efforts and return on investment. The new product line is aimed at taking on some of the most frequently troublesome issues faced by HR professionals in the realms of recruitment and employee retention. Deployee helps employers to...
Read More
Major Cities Continue to Gain Jobs
Good news for the major cities - over 90 percent of the nation's major metropolitan areas experienced unemployment rates in January that were lower than the comparable period in 2011, reports the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the 372 metro areas, 345 areas reported lower unemployment rates, 16 recorded higher rates, and the remaining 11 areas experienced no change. An equal number of...
Read More
Feb Mass Layoffs Summary
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that 1,293 mass layoff events occurred in February 2012. The layoffs affected 119,463 employees nationwide. The number of February events was a decrease of 141 over January and equated to an associated decrease in initial unemployment claims which were down by 10,457 under January's number. Each mass layoff event affected at least 50 employees...
Read More
Snagajob Summer Survey Indicates Consistent Job Growth over the Summer
U.S. employers have added an average of over 200,000 jobs per month over the past three months leading hiring managers to predict healthy seasonal hiring during the summer months, reports Snagajob's annual employment survey. Hiring levels are expected to mirror those of last year which have largely recovered from the recessional jobs trough. Additionally, respondents expect to begin summer...
Read More
Employer Size Greatest Indicator of Financial Effects of Affordable Care Act
The financial impact of the new Affordable Care Act (ACA) on businesses is far less than anticipated, ameliorating employer fears and reviving hope that most companies will decide not to drop coverage due to changes in healthcare laws. This unexpected optimism was uncovered by the new 2012 Midwest Business Group on Health employer survey. Additionally, a significant portion of respondents...
Read More
IBISWorld Report Indicates Business Coaching Industry Experience a Return to Growth
After experiencing regular revenue decline between 2008 and 2010, as a result of the global recession and shrinking corporate profits, the business coaching industry has returned to growth and more than offset its losses over the past five years. Industry revenue is currently expected to continue experiencing significant growth through 2017 as the migration of its training services onto the...
Read More
What Candidates Think
Ahem. Over here! Yes, me, I'm the candidate. I may be passive, or active or "lurking" but I'm the still the person you all claim to be trying to find. Don't you want to hear from me? We've discussed before the discrepancies between where candidates are looking for work (Facebook) and where Recruiters say they get the most value (LinkedIn), we've identified the fact that candidates don't...
Read More
Avoid These Two Extremes in Your LinkedIn Headline
There are certain areas, when training people on using LinkedIn, that always seem to cause controversy. The first area of controversy is about profile pictures. But the second, and I think most misunderstood area, is your professional headline. Your headline is the area just below your name in the top-most blue box of your profile. Every time you send an invitation to connect, or send an...
Read More
Some Spiffy New Updates
The world around us may change quickly, but I've noticed that even the smallest website redesigns take a lot of time. These things are way more complicated than they appear - especially if you think about it way too much. So after a bit of work, today we made some changes to the site about which we would love your input. We designed what we hope is a much more user-friendly experience for our...
Read More
Team Player vs. Team Member: a Dilemma-Busting Distinction
Very bright, full bilingual and finally able, through corrective surgery two months ago, to begin to overcome the childhood handicap of badly burned and deformed hands, Liu, now 27, from a small village in China and with a 5-year degree in clinical medicine, has just landed her dream job as a bilingual medical consultant and staff instructor at a top-tier hospital in southeast China. But, despite...
Read More
How NOT to Act at a Job Interview
Successful job seekers know how to prepare for an interview: Smart outfit? Check. Researched company? Check. Prepared interview answers? Check. But just as there are those who know exactly how to act on the big day, there are just as many who are completely clueless. A recent CareerBuilder survey of 850 hiring managers revealed that 70 percent of organizations have experienced at least one weird,...
Read More
Don't Let Desperation Hijack your Job Search
After a long and tedious job search that has resulted in no job offers and perhaps only few or no interviews, it is easy to feel desperate. In a vicious circle, that desperation can then hijack your future success. It is normal for someone to fall into a despairing mood that breeds a job search tinged with desperation and an attitude of willingness towards accept any position that may come...
Read More
Job Search Advice not to Believe
Some job search advice seems to be as old as time. For example, the old saying about resumes and how they should never exceed a page in length has been with job seekers for as long as anyone can remember. But are these traditional nuggets of advice causing more harm than good? Some old rules have tended to stick around longer than they are needed and some may never have been relevant to begin...
Read More
Using Twitter as an Asset for Scoring your Dream Job
Social media has experienced a massive push into the recruitment sphere within the last few years. But while sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook receive the bulk of attention from social recruiters and job seekers alike, companies of all sizes are beginning to aggressively move into the Twitter space in order to gain a direct communications channel with consumers, employees, and potential job...
Read More
Sucking Up: The Essentials
Though the office suck-up is often the guy that everyone loves to hate, more and more frequently sucking up is becoming required behavior for getting ahead in a career. And whether we want to admit it or not, most workers have fallen back on well-honed suck-up skills from time to time. But is this really a bad thing? Perhaps if suck-ups were more positively labeled as "enthusiastic," or...
Read More
Avoiding the Perils of Quitting Work to Stay at Home
The primary reason for an individual to leave the workforce in order to remain at home is to give care to a loved one such as a child or elderly parent. While the transition can quickly lead to serious financial issues, carefully planning for the shift can alleviate some of the emotional and financial burden and help determine whether the option is even workable. It is most important to truly...
Read More
Acquire Updates Compensation Management Tool
In an update to its compensation management and planning software as a service solution, Aquire Compensation 2.0 has added several new budget modeling features and a new employee pay analysis report. With the updated budget modeling functionality, compensation managers can generate varying budgeting scenarios so that they may asses the financial impact, under such conditions, upon an organization...
Read More
Online Resume Site Offers Visual Job Matching
Using data out of social media profiles, ResumUP's new online recruiting tools allows job seekers to instantly construct infographic online resumes including a display of an applicant's work experience, education, personality, and other attributes. Recruiters can equally easily create visual job vacancies while filtering resumes through the use of multiple filter technologies that...
Read More
Unemployment Insurance Claims for Week Ending 3-10-12 (Seasonally Adjusted)
As reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, initial unemployment insurance claims under all state programs for the week ending March 17 numbered 348,000, 5,000 claims less than the prior week and 7,000 claims less over the prior four-week period. During the week ending March 10, the insured unemployment rate was 2.6 percent while the overall number of people claiming benefits was...
Read More
Department of Labor to Require Retirement Plan Providers to Prove Reasonableness of Fees
The recently finalized regulations reached by the U.S. DOL will require retirement services providers to provide financial trustees with data necessary in determining how reasonable a provider's fees are. It is regular practice for plan providers to use mutual funds in plan investments. Since mutual funds are commonly categorized into different share classes, each with its own expense...
Read More
Obama's New Plan to Reduce Unemployment: Will it Work?
President Obama's most recent proposal for reducing the nation's unemployment rate includes seven basic programs and incentives he hopes will spur job training and job matching: The Universal Displaced Worker Program (UDWP) is a proposed plan which would function to give workers who have lost their job due to closures, job cutbacks, or other economic reasons, necessary skills, job...
Read More
TheLadders Reveals Research Reporting that Resumes Spend Six Seconds with a Recruiter
In a new eye-tracking study by job-matching service TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just six seconds determining the fitness of a candidate based on a resume. This statistic is in stark contrast to the self-reported data reported by recruiters who claim to spend a minimum of four minutes with each resume during the hiring process. The quantitative study of professional recruiters...
Read More
FindHire Launches Recruitment App
Though currently still in beta, FindHire's new website offers a user-friendly recruitment interface while conforming to each organization's recruitment strategy and image. The app seeks to streamline and simplify the entire hiring process from the search for talent to the job offer potentially saving companies thousands of dollars in fees. With a nod to the next-generation of recruitment...
Read More
Legislation to Negate 2009 Supreme Court Decision Making Age-Discrimination Lawsuits More Difficult Introduced in Senate
Senate bill S.2189, otherwise known as the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, is being reintroduced in the Senate in repudiation of the Supreme Court's 2009 decision in the Gross v. FBL Financial Services case, which placed a further burden of proof upon the shoulders of employees filing age discrimination lawsuits. The official ruling in the case held that employees claiming...
Read More
Web Surfing at Work?
Salary.com's recent survey analyzing the non-work Internet usage of 3,200 employees seeks to reveal the extent that the behavior negatively affects personnel production and time management. First comes the squirm-inducing part: nearly two-thirds of respondents reported visiting a non-work related website every day; though even this number is down 10 percent under a similar survey conducted in...
Read More
Monster Hosts Innovation Day to Show-Off New Recruitment Technology
Monster Worldwide, Inc. has hosted its first Innovation Day to introduce its new technologies to close the expanding global skills gap. In addition to highlighting the growing challenges of the global skills gap, the event looks to give insight into semantic search technology and its role in helping to streamline recruitment while making it both more effective and cost-efficient. "In a world...
Read More
FedEx Settles Lawsuit Alleging Discriminatory Hiring Practices
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has entered into a conciliation agreement with FedEx, which it has charged with several acts of hiring discrimination by the company's federal contractors FedEx Ground Package System Inc. and FedEx SmartPost Inc. After several years of compliance reviews across facilities in multiple states, the agreement...
Read More
Facebook Password and Social Login Requests
Last week the blogosphere exploded with indignation that some companies were requesting Facebook passwords and social logins from jobseekers. Somehow, a relatively isolated maneuver by Maryland Department of Corrections turned into a firestorm of frustration over the seeming overreach of many employers. While the original story was blown out of serious proportion, employers DO sometimes ask for...
Read More
Working Families Flexibility Act to Address Employee Right to Request Employment Terms Changes
The Working Families Flexibility Act, currently being reintroduced into both chambers of Congress, is broadly designed to bring more flexibility to the workplace and give employees new rights regarding requests for changes in either the terms or conditions of their employment. Under the Act, employees would have the right to directly request changes to required minimum work hours, the time that...
Read More
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Reports that Talent Remains Top Priority for CEOs
PwC US has reported in its survey, "Delivering Results: Growth and Value in a Volatile World" that talent continues to remain the top priority for CEOs while the top concern remains recruiting and retaining talent. Nearly half of U.S. CEOs see the lack of availability of qualified talent as a threat to growth. Over 70 percent of U.S. CEOS desire to spend more time developing corporate...
Read More
Hiring for Mobile Developers Booms
WANTED Analytics, provider of real-time business intelligence for the talent market, has reported that over 19,000 jobs for mobile developers were posted online in February; a rate of growth over 80 percent faster over the year. Additionally, hiring demand for the specialty field is up nearly 300 percent over 2010 and over 400 percent from 2009. The speedy pace is abetted by the newer 4G LTE...
Read More
OSHA revises Hazard Communication Standard to help Protect Workers from Chemicals
In order to address a perceived lack in regulations regarding hazardous chemicals in the workplace, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration has introduced new revisions to its Hazardous Communication Standard, bringing it into alignment with the U.N.'s international labeling standard. The changes are expected to prevent about 43 deaths, resulting in over $475 million in increased...
Read More
Deadline Nears for Health Exchange Setup with New Rules in Play
In preparation for the 2014 launch of mandatory health insurance exchanges, states must report their readiness status to the federal government by December 31, 2012. States are currently in the process of laying the groundwork for the establishment of consumer friendly health insurance "marketplaces" that allow customers to easily compare the prices and benefits of health insurance plans. If...
Read More
HireClix to Offer Work4 Labs' Work for Us Facebook Application in Recruitment Products
Digital recruitment marketing agency HireClix has been authorized to resell Work4 Labs' social recruitment suite to its client community through its incorporation into the agency's Facebook recruiting campaigns. The application, named "Work for Us," gives recruiters the ability to automatically list jobs on an organization's Facebook page, target Facebook job ads, and let users refer...
Read More
