5 Staffing Firms Doing Their Part
The concept of corporate responsibility has changed considerably as a result of the globalization of the 21st century. With national and cultural borders being eroded by multinational expansion and increasing standards of communication, organizations are now being held to a higher ethical standard than ever before. Whenever an organization is viewed as acting unethically, it is often a...
Read More
ZipRecruiter Adds Social Recruiting to Job Posting Service
ZipRecruiter, a SaaS- based job posting and resume database tool for recruiters and employers, recently launched a new social recruiting service to add to its job distribution. In addition to posting jobs to over 20 large job boards, the ZipRecruiter web service now also posts jobs to the three most popular social networks: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The new feature integrates seamlessly...
Read More
New Time Clock Software makes Employee Attendance Tracking Simple and Affordable
Employee attendance tracking is now easier and affordable, as Halfpricesoft.com has released ezTimesheet, an improved employee time clock software program. The new features save companies time and money so they can focus more on productivity. The new software is ideal for non-technical business owners, as it is user-friendly and there are clear cut directions for each step of the process. It...
Read More
Patriot PAY Offers Free Set-Up Package for New Payroll Customers
For small business owners needing access to online payroll at any time, Patriot Software is providing Patriot PAY, an online payroll software package designed to simplify employee payroll management. With a free set-up package for a limited time, new customers can utilize the software at an affordable monthly price beginning at $10 per month. Customer support representatives are on hand to...
Read More
Amid Downturn, W2 Software Helps Businesses Be Productive
The new edition of ezW2 software is now available from halfpricesoft.com, with new features and updated forms that make filing W2s and 1099 forms easier. With the economic downturn, businesses seeking ways to increase productivity will benefit from the tax reporting and printing software that is available for free with no obligation. EzW2 prepares and prints 1099 MISC, 1096, W-2 and W-3 forms,...
Read More
New Recruiter TV Show: The Headhuntress on Bravo
If you've thought that the life of a recruiter would make a great TV show, you're finally not alone. Bravo, the network famous for their reality shows, is premiering a new TV show about an agency recruiter on Monday, 11/14/2011 at 10pm. The real life documentary will focus on a prestigious recruiter in Los Angeles named Wendy Doulton, aka "The Headhuntress." The TV show will follow...
Read More
New Blog for Leadership and Management Advice
Profiles International has released a new blog by chief marketing officer, Dario Priolo, entitled, "Employee Assessment Solutions Blog." The global assessment organization has designed the blog to offer daily leadership and management advice on numerous topics regarding the workplace. Every day a new blog post is offered that gives insight into a variety of topics, such as corporate...
Read More
Proposed FUTA Wage Base Increase Due to Increased State Employment Tax Rates
By the year 2014, State Unemployment Tax Rates may double due to an increase in the FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act), which will hurt employers financially if the proposal goes through. The FUTA taxable wage base right now is $7,000, but it may more than double to $15,000 in just a couple of years according to the Unemployment Services Trust (UST). Many states currently have depleted their...
Read More
Seamless Background Checks Provided by EmployeeScreenIQ and Taleo Business Edition
EmployeeScreenIQ and Taleo Business Edition have combined to offer paperless background checks for hiring managers. A global employment background screening provider, EmployeeScreenIQ assists recruiters with streamlined employment screening modules. Taleo brings to the table leading on-demand talent management solutions for small and medium sized companies. Recruiters can utilize EmployerScreen...
Read More
VirtualOutplacement.com Provides Free Digital Tablets and 3D Center for Laid Off Workers
VirtualOutplacement.com is now providing employer's displaced workforce with six months access to a 3D Virtual Outplacement Center designed to improve career transitions. Owned by Career Communications, Inc. the new digital outplacement service provides job and career information to employees to assist them in finding another job quickly. Aimed at employers and human resource professionals...
Read More
Empathia and Edington Associates Combine Forces to Deliver Corporate Wellness Tools
Empathia and Edington Associates have combined forces to assist businesses focus more on corporate wellness with successful tools and strategies. Empathia, a behavioral health solutions provider, and Edington Associates, who partner with organizations to foster healthy workplaces, will now be offering assessments and unique tools to foster leadership, positive behaviors, and sustain a healthy...
Read More
Free WOTC and American Jobs Act Webinar Provided by TALX Tax Credit and Incentives Experts
A complimentary webinar by TALX Tax Credit and Incentives Experts providing a regulatory update on the American Jobs Act and its tax credit opportunities and the Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) will be held Wednesday, November 16th at 12:00 p.m. ET and Friday, November 18th at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. The webinar, "The Outlook for WOTC: A Briefing on the View from Washington", will host...
Read More
Unemployment in the Midwest a Mixed-Bag of Highs and Lows
Over the past year, the Midwest has exhibited a range of divergent unemployment rates, with many metropolitan areas experiencing unemployment far above or below the national average of 9.0 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that the highest unemployment rates in the Midwest metropolitan areas (as of September 2011) were seen in Rockford, Illinois at 13.4 percent,...
Read More
Excellence in Sourcing Innovation Awarded to Informatica at The Recruiting Conference
According to The Recruiting Conference Inc. held November 1st in Chicago, the 'Excellence in Sourcing Innovation' award goes to Informatica and consultant Dave Mendoza. Informatica is the leading global provider of data integration software and Dave Mendoza is a global talent acquisition consultant. The annual recruiting and sourcing event brought together recruiting leaders, sourcing...
Read More
JobScience Launches TalentCloud Recruiting Winter '12 Release
Jobscience, a leading Talent Relationship Management provider on Force.com, has recently announced the latest release of of its award-winning TalentCloud Recruiting application. The winter '12 version is available now and comes equipped with powerful new features for expanding candidate pools and improved data tracking tools for more effective compliance and EEO data collection. "Today's high...
Read More
Immigration Mobile App Now Available Through LawLogix
A new mobile application for the iPhone and Droid from LawLogix Group, Inc. makes accessing and processing Immigration case information faster and easier. LawLogix Group leads the way in I-9 Compliance, E-Verify, and Immigration Case Management Software and is providing this application free for those who use the EDGE (law firm) and GlobeTrotter (enterprise) case management solutions. The...
Read More
Payroll Services Now Available Through Services Inc.
Service Inc Staffing (SIS) has released its 2012 payroll service that caters to small and large businesses with key goals to reduce costs and improve payroll management. Services that are offered are quarterly reports, payroll tax filing, direct deposit, online payroll data submission, W2 or 1099 processing fees, and time and labor management. By streamlining the payroll process, productivity...
Read More
Taleo Teams Up With White House to Help Veterans Find Jobs
Taleo, a global leader in SaaS-based Talent Management solutions, has recently teamed up with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden to assist in their Joining Forces initiative, a national program designed to support America's veterans and their families through employment opportunities, education, and wellness, while raising awareness about the service, sacrifice, and needs of these...
Read More
Are Hiring Managers Giving You a Headache?
Here's how to get back on track... One thing is certain for all types of recruiters; the hiring managers that you are recruiting for are the pillar standing between you and your success. Whether you are a corporate recruiter, an agency recruiter, or an executive headhunter, the hiring manager's behavior directly impacts your recruiting efforts. If they don't return phone calls or...
Read More
Maintaining a Candidate Community in the Cloud
The cloud. We hear this word all the time nowadays. You can store your music in the cloud, your photos, and your videos – any file at all. One could even argue your identity is beginning to be stored in the cloud, with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and the rest of the social media platforms forming a picture of your virtual self.But how have cloud-based (software-as-a-service...
Read More
82% of Recruiters, Hiring Managers, HR, Find Evidence Of Discrimination Against the Unemployed
In a startling new survey from SmartRecruiters, an acclaimed provider of free recruiting software, it was discovered that 82% of recruiters, hiring managers, and human resources professionals reported the existence of discrimination against the unemployed. In addition, more than half of all hiring professionals reported personal experiences dealing with such situations, revealing they often felt...
Read More
CAPLA Workshop to Include Online Competency-based Assessment Tool
The Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA) will be having its Fall Focus Workshop in Toronto, Canada from November 13-15 to showcase new online competency-based assessment tools for the wood manufacturing industry. Co-presenters Shaun Vollick and Richard Lipman will be presenting, ""Building Success: Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) Tools for Today's Wood...
Read More
Insala Offers Hi-Impact Mentoring for HR Professionals
With the initiative to assist HR professionals to improve company mentoring, Insala now offers an online community through LinkedIn called the Hi-Impact Mentoring Thought Leaders Club. Leading the way in technology that helps organizations with mentoring programs, Insala delivers mentoring training and solutions by experienced mentoring consultants with 20 plus years' experience for businesses...
Read More
Cloud-Based Document Management Now Available in Australia and New Zealand Through KnowledgeTree
Cloud Veterans and Content Management have partnered to bring business-focused document management to businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Utilizing each company's expertise in cloud-based "smart" tools and content management, users can use tools such as analytics, workflow tools, and alerts to manage documents immediately. The business sector is growing at a rapid rate in Australia...
Read More
Barbershop Politics
There is a lot of chatter, political punditry and all around noise surrounding business and politics these days. With the economy effectively screeching to a halt before our eyes and political leaders jockeying for position rather than seeking a solution, people have begun to lose hope. People have begun to look to their futures with fear rather than faith. What went wrong? I was sitting...
Read More
Infographic Resumes: Fad or Trend?
With unemployment still hovering at impossibly high numbers, there are still many more people to compete against to find a job. When you email your resume off to a hiring manager, how can you be sure that they will even give yours more than a cursory 20 second glance? In recent years the solution to making your resume stand out from stacks and stacks of other resumes is to include clever and...
Read More
Global Job-Flow: a Thermodynamic Model of Job Justice
Compare a pot of boiling water heated by a blazing fire with a block of ice. That, in some respects, was the comparative state of the U.S. economy at the end of World War II, if the robust U.S. economy and job market then—which, logged a minuscule 1.2% unemployment rate in 1944 (admittedly, kept low by "employed" servicemen and stay-at-home housewives)—is compared with that of much of...
Read More
Veterans Often Overlooked In Employers' Talent Search
New research by RightManagement, the talent and career management experts within ManpowerGroup, suggests that many employers largely disregard the unique skills and experiences of military veterans when considering a candidate for a position. This unfortunate oversight leads to missed opportunities in acquiring top talent. "Employers sometimes think military experience is narrow or not...
Read More
Talent Management Releases PerformancePAM Enhanced Goals
Leading the way in talent and performance management systems, PerformancePAM has recently launched its newest 7.5 version, which will provide users with advanced goal management, appointment setting, employee journals, budget entry screen, and visual analytics. PerformancePAM encourages employee development and allows for improved performance in the workplace. According to Elizabeth Berlin,...
Read More
Are Your Job Applicants Hiding Something? New Webinar Assists Employers In Uncovering the Truth
EmployeeScreenIQ, a leading global provider of background screening services, has recently announced a new educational webinar that gives employers the upper hand in conducting background checks on their job applicants. Entitled, "Your Applicants Have Something to Hide: Why You're Not Finding It," the free web event is open to all and has been pre-approved by the HR Certification Institute...
Read More
Vantage+ Communications Center Released by Valiant
Serving predominantly the Security, Parking, Hospitality, and Government sector, Valiant leads the way in providing workforce management software solutions to enhance real time remote workforce management. Introducing its new Vantage+ Communications Center, Valiant now offers tools that will help businesses run more efficiently. The new features add to previous generations of software with VOIP...
Read More
Webinar Offers Lessons in Inspiring Employee Engagement, Retaining Top Talent
Juice, known for their training and development services designed to increase employee engagement and productivity, has recently announced an upcoming webinar focused on inspiring employee engagement. Entitled, "How to Measure Results in the Feelings Economy," the event will educate participants on the benefits of effective internal communication, and reveal how proper dialogue can increase...
Read More
Pump Up Your Recruiters, Pump Up Your Results
If you talk to employees across a variety of industries and fields you'll probably hear a common theme. Employees today are feeling overworked, underpaid, unrecognized, and unsure how long they can keep doing what they're doing. Everyone is doing more with less, being expected to produce unprecedented results, and often workers know that if they left their job today they would have a hard...
Read More
Beyond Recruiting Metrics: Building Relationships
"All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust." -Bob Burg Many recruiting professionals now use dozens of transactional and quantitative metrics to measure their placements. With the growing popularity of applicant tracking ssystems, it's easier than ever before for organizations to collect data on placements and...
Read More
10 Twitter Career Personalities to Follow
Twitter is one of the most used social networking sites in America and is growing in popularity all over the word. Savvy tweeters are using this social networking site to do more than just post about what they had for breakfast; many offer relevant and interesting advice on a range of topics, including jobs and careers. Useful ideas about careers and job searching can be found posted by many...
Read More
WorkSimple Uses Social Network Streaming to Help Employees Manage Goals
Known for making employee goals social and performance results-driven, WorkSimple has now made performance communication part of the stream by adding Agile Goals and Activity Stream. Just as social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter have live feeds that stream information and feedback, WorkSimple has a live stream to share goals and feedback in the workplace allowing employees to give...
Read More
Making the Leap From Corporate Recruiting to Agency Recruiting
"All great changes are preceded by chaos." -Deepak Chopra So, you want to leave your comfortable corporate recruiting job for the bright lights of agency recruiting? Many recruiting professionals have experience working both sides of the recruiting fence, but navigating away from an in-house role to a position with an agency as a freewheeling headhunter takes careful planning and a...
Read More
Five Signs That Your Talent May be Headed Out the Door
Highly skilled engaged employees are invaluable to an organization's bottom line. With the costs to hire and train new workers soaring through the roof, it's important for businesses to retain valued employees. Unfortunately, many managers fail to recognize the classic signs of an unhappy employee preparing to make an exit, before it's too late. A young hotel worker in Providence, Rhode...
Read More
Wage vs. ROUE: Tax, Trust Fund and Benefits Impacts of Not Hiring the Unemployed
UNEMPLOYMENT DENIED/Image: Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise The recently proposed American Jobs Act (the "AJA") contains provisions designed to prohibit, prevent and punish what it characterizes as discrimination against the unemployed whose applications are rejected when the applicant is unemployed. Further characterizing the refusal to hire the unemployed solely because...
Read More
Demand for Employees with Mobile Development Skills Grows
New jobs for Computer Programmers have increased more than 50 percent when compared to the same time period in 2010. According the WANTED Analytics, in the past 90 days, at least 42,000 new jobs have been placed online for Computer Programmers and Computer Specialists that have mobile and development skill, with salaries ranging from $91,800 to $106,000. In September, 2011, at least 17,000...
Read More
Employment Technology Helps Improve Retail Turnover Rate
Employment Technology, creator of employment simulations, has released a new Virtual Customer Simulations system intended to create a more pleasant experience for seasonal jobs applicants. Awarded Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, Virtual Customer Simulations offers a virtual workplace combining assessment and gaming technology that allows job candidates to "test...
Read More
New Guide to HR Costs
Lyceum, a payroll and HR systems provider, has released a free 12-page downloadable guide that is intended to help control HR administrative costs. The HR costs guide was created to share insights with companies into how they can diminish administrative costs in key areas such as payroll, insurance, and retirement programs. A major focus of the guide shows companies how they can decrease HR...
Read More
Professional Networking Site for Students and Recent Grads Receives Venture Capital Funding
AfterCollege, a professional networking site for students and recent graduates, has recently acquired venture capital funding to enhance the development and marketing of their job seeker tools. Bringing together students, alumni, and employers, AfterCollege's free service connects fresh talent with career opportunities before these top candidates hit the traditional job market. "AfterCollege...
Read More
Chefs, Cooks, and Recruiters
Being an excellent recruiter is like being an excellent chef, there are some who have true talent, and others who are really "cooks", best suited for diners and roadside cafes. There is a place for both. They both know how to use the oven and the range, but they don't always know how to pair the perfect ingredients to cook an exquisite dinner. Today, the "cooks" of recruiting are...
Read More
Free Webinar by EmployeeScreenIQ
EmployeeScreenIQ, one of the world's leading background screening services provider, plans on hosting a new webinar that will help HR professionals how to discover negative background of job candidates. The free webinar, entitled, "Your Applicants Have Something to Hide: Why You're Not Finding It," will be held on November 17, 2011, and will focus on teaching how HR professionals can...
Read More
New Career Site Webinar Offered
Certified Usability Analyst, Jennifer Brogee, is set to share, "10 Essential Strategies for Making Your Career Site Usable, not Confusable," in a free webinar hosted by myStaffingPro on Thursday, November 10 at 2 p.m. EST. Leading the way in providing SaaS applicant tracking software, myStaffingPro is offering this one-hour complimentary webinar to lessen the hiring process time with a...
Read More
OPENonline's New Blog
Known for its educational webinars and Tip of the Week emails, OPENonline has now added the OPEN360 blog as a communication blog to keep viewers updated on employment screening legislation, credit checks, criminal records, and how social media can be used in the screening process. Accredited by the NAPBS Background Screening Credentialing Council, OPENonline's blog has been designed to...
Read More
Why Use Video Interviews? [Infographic]
Video interviews are a fairly new development in the world of recruiting, but one that is receiving a lot of attention. Should you dive into using video interviews to screen and assess candidates? Why might you use video interviewing instead of more traditional interview methods? This infographic by Resoomay, a cloud based hiring efficiency tool, discusses video interviews for both recruiters and...
Read More
