The Stress Number Report Reveals That Stress Causes Annual $5000 Loss Per Employee
The Oxygen Plan Corporation has reported the results of the 2011 online stress test, The Stress Number. Over 47,000 people participated in the 30 question test that gauged individual stress in the areas of home, work, and social stress. The findings indicate that stress continues to be prevalent. The scoring ranged from 0 to 100, with lower numbers meaning extreme stress and higher numbers...
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Latest Research Indicates Graduates Rank Training and Development Above Salary
Recent college graduates report that they value training and development over salary according to the latest research by Ernst Young. In conducting a poll of 600 respondents, results showed that 41% of graduates value training as a priority when looking at potential employers, whereas in 2007 the top priority was salary. Graduates are now more interested in long-term career development...
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ApplyNow.Me Launches New Website With Goal To Simplify Job Application Process
Job candidates sometimes find that filling out applications can be time-consuming and not always effective for both the applicant and the employer. To simplify the application process, ApplyNow.Me has launched a website with the primary goal to make the application process easier for both. For $10 a month, a company can sign up and within minutes a personalized ApplyNow.Me website will be...
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Recruiting at a New Year's Eve Party—Tacky?
The best recruiters recognize the recruiting opportunities in any situation and when it is or isn't appropriate to explore or exploit them. They know when an opportunity is clearly off-limits, e.g., you don't hand out your card at funerals or join AA looking for a regional director of wine sales. But what about New Year's Eve parties? Now that's a grey area. But why not do it? On...
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Recruiting Tech: 5 Game Changers for 2012
No one knows what 2012 will bring us, but we do know that the landscape of recruiting technology is changing rapidly. Improving employment, cash rich software companies, and a frothy outlook for social media could make for a dramatic year. Here are 5 events that would shake up the recruiting tech industry and even further, disrupt large economic models and industries. Someone buys Monster....
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OSHA Proposes Fines Exceeding $1 Million to Employer in Houston, TX
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has identified Houston, Texas based Piping Technology and Products Inc. for citations amounting to over $1 million for 17 serious and 13 willful OSHA violations. The citations accuse the company of exposing workers to undue amputation hazards and increased risks for other serious injuries from the operation of machinery, in addition to...
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U.S. Import-Export Price Indices – November 2011
The United States' Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently reported an import price increase of 0.7 percent for November; bucking a downward trend over the prior three months. Despite a decrease in non-fuel imports, rising fuel prices countervailed falling prices elsewhere. Export prices also raised slightly for the month, up 0.1 percent; having dropped by 2.1 percent in October. The highest...
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A Recruiter To-Do List for 2012
Not to overwhelm you, but it's almost here. 2012. A brand new year to be all that we can be. You know, 2012, when there should be robots flying around serving us coffee. Instead, it's going to be a whole lot like this year except with cooler mobile devices. Whatever the new year is going to be, it's time to get down to business. Here's a quick to-do list for recruiters looking for more...
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Don't be Yourself
Don't be yourself. Try not to be. Try not to be yourself for once. Try for a day or try for a week. Try to be someone better than you are. Try to be someone different than you are. Try to be anything but you. Try not to try so hard. Try not to try at all and see where you end up. Try to become who you should be and not who you are. Look in a mirror and don't like what you see. Or like...
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Can You Rely on Your Intuition?
What role should intuition play in the hiring process? Not all decisions have a right or wrong answer. You can't possibly put a formula into place that assesses every factor of a persona and then comes out with a decision to hire or not hire. If that method ever comes into existence then we all need to be very scared for our jobs. There is merit to intuition. Intuition isn't...
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WorldatWork Receives WLIFE Award for Providing Personal Finance Education To Employees
WorldatWork has received the WLIFE award (Workplace Leader in Financial Education) for its commitment to bringing financial education to employees. The award recognizes those that create innovative personal finance education programs for the workplace. Created this year by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the...
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JobLander's Infographic App Helps Resumes Shine
Recruiters and staffing firms seeking to make their job candidates shine will benefit from a unique app from JobLander that showcases work experience and education by using an innovative infographic. With massive numbers of resumes pouring in for just one job opening, utilizing this creative app in a resume could be the edge needed to rise above the crowd. JobLander benefits both recruiters...
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5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Outsourcing in the New Year
Nearly all employees feel the weight of hard times. They have seen jobs eliminated, maybe they have survived a round or two of layoffs, but they know that at any time the belt could tighten again and their job could be next. It can be a really frightening reality. But, you can't live in fear. You do need to accept that many of the "tasks" of recruiters are tasks that can be...
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Talent Technology Offering Online Resume Service
Talent Technology has purchased VisualCV.com, adding unique online resume/CV services for those seeking employment. Talent Technology is leading the way in talent management and recruitment solutions for corporate HR and recruitment agencies. Talent Technology has committed to assist job candidates by connecting them with employers utilizing smart technology. With the acquisition of VisualCV,...
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Jobs Impact of Alabama Illegal Immigrant Law
The Alabama legislature voted in April 2011 to charge illegal immigrants residing in the state with a felony if they should enter into a broadly defined "business transaction." A business transaction in this case can be anything from signing an apartment lease to paying an electricity bill. The original bill, H.B. 56, was signed into law in June. The law is currently under fire by some in the...
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Mass Layoffs Summary for November 2011
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 1,331 mass layoffs affecting 129,887 workers in November 2011. A mass layoff is defined as a layoff event involving at least 50 workers from an individual employer. These statistics represent a decrease in mass layoff events over October (-22) and an increase in initial unemployment claims (+11,198). The United States unemployment rate fell from 9.0...
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Impact of Small Business Jobs Act to Federal Contracts
With the creation of small-business focused task force and the signing of the Small Business Jobs Act, President Barack Obama has removed several obstacles facing small businesses when applying for federal contracts. A federal contract can be a vital revenue source for fledgling businesses providing an opportunity for a business to grow, create jobs, and attract other clients. Over the past...
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Unadjusted Unemployment Insurance Claims
Initial unemployment claims under state programs declined by 17,256 to 418,466 claims during the week of December 17. Over-the-year claims also fell, down from 495,548 initial claims from the same period in 2010. The insured unemployment rate rose slightly by 0.1 percent to 2.9 percent from the prior week reflecting an increase in number of persons claiming unemployment insurance benefits; rising...
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Comparisons of International Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that national hourly compensation costs in manufacturing increased to $34.74, up 2 percent from 2009. A rate higher than Asia, South and Central America, the U.K. and 19 eastern and southern European countries such as Italy, Spain, and Poland. However, the national rates were lower than Australia, Canada, and many northern and western European countries...
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Regional and State Unemployment – November 2011
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that November 2011 saw widespread nationwide unemployment decreases across 45 states over the prior 12-month period. Five states plus Washington, DC recorded significant unemployment increases over the same period. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate dropped nearly a percentage point from 9.8 percent in November 2010 to 8.6 percent in November...
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The Dangers of Startups
A bird chirps and I can hear the distant sound of a soft tropical rain. It's night there even though it's day here. One person is beginning their day and the other is exhausted. This is our morning/night meeting and we're on Skype. Later on, it's night on the other side of the world and apparently the mosquitoes are out in droves. And then the bats swoop in with their radar and I can...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's Job Hunt
The day before Christmas, late in the afternoon, an HR company receptionist knocks on the manager's door and tells him that there's a reindeer with a resume in the waiting room. Thinking it's a novel Noel gag, the manager laughs—but, clearly uneasy, she doesn't. Incredulous, he takes a peek, and, sure enough, there's a full-sized heavily-antlered reindeer bedecked with ribbons of...
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A Workforce World View
The typical enterprise of today is a multinational organizational with thousands of employees operating within multiple time zones, geographies, cultures and jurisdictions. Organizations like IBM, Proctor and Gamble and General Electric have truly become globally integrated enterprises. All of these organizations face the challenge of being able to manage the talent of their global workforce...
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Employee Engagement Book Available by Best Selling Business Author
With employee engagement levels at all-time lows, Dr. Chris Bart has written a book to help companies learn how to engage employees at higher levels. The book, "A Tale of Two Employees and the Person Who Wanted to Lead Them", is a fable that gives insight into strategies and skills that management teams can use to create better employee engagement. Organizations are decreasing resources...
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eHire's Business Increases Using Social Media Strategies
eHire heads into 2012 ahead of most recruiting competitors by utilizing a smart social media strategy to enhance relationships with job candidates. eHire is familiar with social media and has already been using it as a tool to increase business, while other companies are just beginning to get their teams familiar with it. The need for Recruiters and Employment Specialists has increased in the...
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Infographic Shows Increase In Women's Contributions to the Economy
The latest infographic by OnlineSchools.com gauges the impact that women make on the economy and how they continue to join high-paying fields despite compensation inequalities. The research, entitled "Women at Work," evaluated the influence and growth of female professionals in the job sectors. In 1960, only 1.7 percent of women over 25 held a graduate degree compared to 10 percent in...
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The Orwellian Lobotomy
—The seepage of Newspeak into hiring and daily life "Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?"—"Symes", a state philologist, in Orwell's 1984 A clean-cut fresh-faced recent graduate abruptly stops gushing about the job you are interviewing him for to reluctantly admit under your questioning that indeed he was...
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Social Media Housekeeping Tips for 2012
New Year is almost upon us! For now, people are still rushing to get a fantastic deal on a backlit LED TV. But soon, gym memberships will be purchased, diaries started, and peace and compassion will settle down upon all of mankind. For a few short days, you will wear what you should wear, and not what you should not wear. You'll swear off cable TV and hit the treadmill instead. You'll pick...
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What If You Were Given a Pre-Employment Personality Test?
Would you: A. Refuse to take the test knowing that you probably wouldn't pass? B. Take the test with 100% confidence that you can "beat any personality test"? C. Ask your best friend to take it for you knowing she really has the personality the job requires? D. Take it and just see where the cards fall? Okay that wasn't really a question, but I think there are...
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Women and the Failure to Extend Unemployment Insurance
The remnants of the Great Recession, which continue to cast a financial shadow over the lives of millions of American families, still demand constant attention and steps continue to be taken at the federal level to offset the devastating effects increased unemployment has wrought over the past several years. For every job opening, there are currently four people seeking employment. More and more,...
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Consumer Price Index Summary – November 2011
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), a measurement of the change in price of consumer goods and services purchased by urbanites in a given time period, remained unchanged during November 2011. The all items index was up 3.4 percent for the prior 12-month period. The rate of increase slowed slightly from October 2011 which stood at 3.5 percent. Echoing index performance in...
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Real Earnings for November 2011
For the period from October to November 2011, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent; directly proportional to a 0.1 percent earnings decrease during the same period. The average work week length remained stagnant. This is down from the October 2010 peak from which average weekly earnings fell 1.7 percent. Compared November 2010, real earnings fell 1.5 percent. However, combined with a...
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What Business Insider Does Right
What's the secret to attracting top talent? Whether you are a startup or massive enterprise, certain key truths remain the same. A job at Business Insider for a recruiter made us take notice – they do a lot of things right that you might be able to learn from. They posted this open talent acquisition job on their internal company job board. At first glance, you can tell that this is...
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Indefinite Retention: the Case for Compulsory Lifetime Employment
 "Japan's success—and there is no precedent for it in history—very largely rested on organized immobility—the immobility of 'lifetime employment.'"—Peter Drucker, management theorist, author and visionary The prospect of lifetime employment has sunk in the darkening G-20 socio-economic horizon like a Rising Sun that, having risen to its full and glorious zenith, must...
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US DOL to Improve Job Opportunities for Handicapped Americans
The Department of Labor is set to enforce a new hiring mandate requiring that 7 percent of its workforce be composed of workers with disabilities, in addition to other criteria. The rule is intended to strengthen affirmative action imperatives from the early '70s (Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973) aimed at offering equal employment opportunities from federal contractors. The...
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Educational Degree Attainment and Unemployment of US Asian Population
Data from the Current Population Survey, a monthly study undertaken by the United States Census Bureau, indicate that the nation's Asian population, aged 25 and older, had both a higher level of educational attainment and a lower level of unemployment than the combined rates of non-Asian groups. For the period from 2008 to 2010, the percentage of non-Asians holding a Bachelor's degree or...
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Diversified Releases Software Designed to Help Employees Save for Retirement
Diversified, a firm that specializes in retirement plans, has launched the next generation of its OnTrack report software. OnTrack report provides personalized savings guidance to help guide employees to a well-funded retirement. Patricia Advaney, senior vice president, participant solutions at Diversified had this to say about Ontrack: "Our enhanced OnTrack report offers a unique...
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Summa Health System Cuts Grievance Case Settlement Time with i-Sight Software
Summa Health System, one of the biggest unified healthcare delivery systems in Ohio, has cut its grievance settlement time from 31 days to 17 days by implementing i-Sight compliance investigation software from Customer Expressions Corporation (CEC). As regulated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Summa is required to track and follow-up on grievances within 30 days with...
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Leverage the Power of Recruiters' LinkedIn Networks
LinkedIn, the professional networking giant for the new millennium, has rendered the once ubiquitous Rolodex obsolete. And the burgeoning professional site, now boasting about 135 million members in more than 200 countries, has become a disruptive force in the recruiting world. Corporate and agency recruiters alike, spend their days searching through thousands of member profiles, connecting and...
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Social Style and Grow Whitepaper Available For Free Download
A new whitepaper called, "SOCIAL STYLE AND GROW", is a downloadable free paper that observes some of the most popular workplace effectiveness programs and how behaviors and versatility perspectives of social style increase their impact. Coaches utilize SOCIAL STYLE and Versatility skills to gauge an individual's behavior style and when combined with the GROW model, coaching effectiveness...
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Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud-Based Social Performance Management Company Rypple
Revolutionary change is coming in regards to the way companies recruit and manage employees in the social world. Salesforce.com has already made great changes to the traditional Customer Relationship Management model and now plans on changing the traditional Performance Management model by purchasing Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management company that will be renamed to...
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Full-Cycle Talent Management System With HRToolbench
HR Technology Solutions (HRTS) has released HRToolbench®, a full-cycle talent management system that analyzes workforce skills and competencies and aligns them with an organization's business strategy. The software offers a personal job success profile for each employee, integrating the data across a management suite which includes candidate selection, performance management, 360 feedback,...
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OPENonline's SelectHire Customers Can Now Utilize Applicant Direct, a New and Efficient Applicant Entry System
For HR professionals that need extensive background checks, including drug screening and investigative services, OPENonline has released their newest service for SelectHire customers called Applicant Direct. The new service saves time and money as the system is user-friendly and candidates enter data instead of HR. Angela Bosworth, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of OPENonline,...
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Are We Raising Kids or Machines?
For someone not in the education industry (word used on purpose), I spend a lot of time thinking about education. Just like work issues, the constant and daily reality of school tends to hit you over the head until you just have to pay attention. The thing on my mind today is how much we force kids to record about their lives. Our schools today encourage and often require kids to monitor and...
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Study: Tangible Employee Rewards Should Be Integrated With Compensation
BI WORLDWIDE, which is a global business improvement company with offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, has published an article titled, "Keeping Up With the Jonses" – an examination of employee rewards that emphasizes the importance of using tangible (non-monetary) rewards to generate employee happiness. The key concept behind the article is...
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Is Workforce Development the Key to Reducing Unemployment?
If you understand basic addition and subtraction our unemployment rate should be less than 6%. There are over 13 Million Americans "looking for work" and over 3.4 Million jobs open. If those open positions could be filled by the people looking, we'd be down to under 10 Million unemployed workers or an unemployment rate of just under 6%. This doesn't account for the productivity...
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Old Legends of Resume Writing
For job seekers, there's nothing worse than getting bad resume advice - and the Internet has no shortage of misinformation circulating about resumes. There is actually so much old and outdated resume advice out there that it practically has its own mythology. Let's look at some of the old "truths" of resume writing that you've probably heard before, and see if they hold up to close...
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Poll, Don't Troll: LinkedIn Introduces Group Polling
Yesterday LinkedIn announced an important new feature for LinkedIn groups: polls. In groups where the moderator has polling turned on, members of groups can easily create user-friendly polls with multiple choice options. The new LinkedIn group polling feature promises to be an excellent new way to engage with other members of your LinkedIn groups. Users join LinkedIn groups for all kinds of...
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