World's Largest Staffing Industry Event Brings Together Thought Leaders and Innovators
Staffing World 2011, the world's preeminent staffing industry event, arrives in New Orleans this month, October 11- 14, 2011. Hosted by the American Staffing Association, the conference brings together the largest gathering of staffing leaders, innovators and suppliers for four days of industry insights and learning. Attendees will have access to networking opportunities, professional...
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How to Bond With Your Interviewer
When it comes to landing a job, developing positive rapport with your interviewer is almost a necessity. Sure, it's possible to get hired even if you're anti-social - provided you have the right skills under the right circumstances - but it's more likely that "unlikable" that candidates will find themselves shelved in a recruiter's contacts or buried under a hiring manager's stack of...
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I Refer Thee....
Referrals are part of how many businesses operate and should form part of any successful recruitment strategy. Very often this means putting in place an employee referral bonus and sitting back waiting for the results. This method may bring some results but significantly underutilises the potential of referrals by taking advantage of only one channel and not being pro-active enough about...
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Resume Matching Software Debuts
MIIAtech, a next generation search and analysis software company, has recently launched Goldfish, an innovative job and resume search and matching software platform designed for recruiters and HR professionals. The software tool allows users to quickly and accurately match candidates to open positions. "Recruiters and HR managers are often overwhelmed with trying to sift through tens of...
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New Talent Assessment Solution from SHL
SHL (re-branded from SHLPreVisor), a global leader in talent assessment solutions, has recently launched a new assessment tool that assists organizations in making better job placements. Known as the SHL JobMatch Tool, the solution compares candidate strengths and skills against a pre-set list of over 7,000 job profiles, simplifying candidate placement by allowing organizations to quickly and...
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New Candidate Assessment Tools from InterviewStream
InterviewStream, a leading provider of video interviewing technology, has recently announced new features for their namesake interview solution. The platform now comes equipped with candidate assessment tools that assist candidates in highlighting their strengths and skills, allowing hiring managers to make better placements. In addition, new functionality that supports electronic document upload...
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Should You Start a Career in Recruiting?
Most recruiting professionals seem to have fallen into their career by chance, luck, or fate. You don't often (if ever) hear kids saying they want to grow up and be a recruiter. Recruiting also isn't typically the first thing on the tip of your tongue when you're thinking about a new career path. So where do recruiters come from? How are they made? Are some people just born to be...
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Digital Interview Platform Launches for On Demand Interviewing
HireVue, a leading provider of digital interview technologies, has recently launched a new website to coincide with the release of their innovative Digital Interview Platform. The offering allows recruiters and hiring managers to conduct their interviews on demand - whenever and wherever they want. HireVue boasts that the platform helps users interview up to 10 times faster, nine times cheaper,...
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US Department of Labor to Provide 1,500 Temp Jobs for Dislocated Workers in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Department of Labor has recently launched a $12,845,000 National Emergency Grant to help Puerto Rico with recovery efforts following massive destruction caused by Hurricane Irene. The grant serves a dual purpose, providing displaced workers with jobs, and providing jobs that are related to cleanup and recovery. "This storm cut a path of destruction across Puerto Rico, leaving more...
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Peoplefluent iPad App Selected For Presentation at HR Technology Conference and Expo
Peoplefluent, a leading provider of mobile and SaaS solutions for talent management, vendor management and workforce compliance, has recently announced that their innovative Workforce Explorer iPad application has been chosen for presentation during the HR Technology Conference and Expo's "Awesome New Technologies for HR" session. The session aims to showcase six of the most progressive HR...
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How To Write a Rock Solid Job Requisition
Job requisitions are easy to write but hard to perfect. Like any advertisement, requisitions need to be simple, informative, and persuasive in order to make an impact on job seekers. Did you see how we just called them advertisements? Remember that what you are doing with a job post of any kind is convincing people to do something. A great requisition will be written with specificity in...
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Recruiting the New Textistentialists
The double thumbs-up of the "thumbed-down" generation of iPhone texting-addicts is perhaps the most vivid icon of modern mass society and a ubiquitous symbol of a lot more that is and isn't going on in the minds and souls of the youth labor pool. Apart from the kind of obsessive-compulsive texting-induced "devolution" of human social and cognitive performance I've previously...
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3 Things Managers Need To Remember
Managers often forget what it's like to be on the other side of the desk - to be part of the team instead of leading it. They tend to get wrapped up in their own leadership, believing they can control everything and make everyone happy (two mutually exclusive, if not impossible ideas). Fortunately, its easy to put things back into perspective. Here are a few things that all managers should...
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The Top Ten Screening Mistakes by Recruiters
This infographic about mistakes that recruiters make when screening candidates was contributed by Resoomay. Resoomay is a new cloud based, SaaS tool for creating greater hiring efficiencies. Using Resoomay, you can design custom interviews for precise screening of candidates.Screening mistakes will never go away, but it's a recruiter's job to try to reduce these mistakes as much as...
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5 Ways To Stay Motivated During The Day
Whether you're employed or still searching for a job, it can be tough to stay motivated day after day, week after week. Job seekers know what it's like to suddenly run out of steam - chasing after endless dead-end leads and tailoring countless cover letters for employers they never hear back from. Employees too, face frequent burnout from overbearing employers, callous co-workers and stressful...
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You Know You're a Recruiter When...
Reading articles and blogs centered on your profession is just good business. It's a great way to understand the top people in your industry, sharpen some skills, learn new tools and sometimes, have a good laugh. And let's be honest: having a good laugh every now and then is what keeps a Recruiter sane. Recruiters come up with all types of tricks and tips to work through the stress and...
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Four HR Cloud Software Vendors Team Up
When competitors get in the same room together, there are sometimes fistfights, sometimes a few awkward introductions. However, in a new partnership, four industry leading HR software providers have teamed up to deliver a powerful, affordable and comprehensive, cloud-based HR Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution entitled, "HR in the Cloud." Combining the cloud based technologies of...
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Talent Management Software Solution Sees Rapid Growth
Human Resource Systems Group (HRSG), a provider of talent management software and competency-based services, has proudly announced that their i-SkillSuite talent management software tool has seen an average growth rate of 50 percent year-over-year, for the past five years. The solution helps organizations efficiently and effectively manage every stage of the employee talent life cycle, from...
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Google Ranks as World's Most Attractive Employer
Universum, a global leader in employer branding, has recently released their global talent attraction index, "The World's Most Attractive Employers 2011." Based on the survey results of over 160,000 job seekers with a business or engineering background, the index reveals the most sought after and highly regarded organizations to work for - shedding light on an employer's potential to...
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Clear-Cut Recruiting: Logging Models for Recruiters
Imagine, as some cynics do, that your job in supplying "human resources" is to source workers like logs. Within that paradigm, one way your profit—personal or corporate—can be maximized is by maximizing the flow-through of employee logs to your company or client companies. As a business model, this one has greatest relevance to independent recruiters with multiple clients and a...
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Those Impossible to Find Newbies
Back when I was in technology recruiting, I remember that when a hiring manager said they wanted an inexperienced hire, I would mentally groan. Their words after that were scattered as my brain subjugated its listening function to a frustrated internal monologue. Their rhetoric, always the same, would come across choppy, as my brain filled in the conversation with what else I could be doing...
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The Pros and Cons of Job Hunting Groups
Searching for a new job opportunity is a lonesome endeavor. The modern job seeker can be something of a recluse, armed only with a computer and cellphone, sitting alone at home or in coffee shops and public libraries - endlessly chasing after Internet job leads. These individuals commit themselves to solitary confinement in hopes that their diligence will pay off in the form of new job...
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The Five Worst Recruiting Habits
It seems like in any profession, whether you're a seasoned professional or a newbie, it's easy to fall into a pattern of bad habits and lousy tactics. Habits are worse than mistakes, as they doom us, much like our friend Sisyphus here, to an endless cycle of failure. Experienced recruiters know what works for them, and what doesn't - but that finesse also makes them susceptible to getting...
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Mobile Recruiting Application Launches from Lumesse
Lumesse, a global provider of integrated talent management solutions, has recently announced the release of their new on-the-go mobile recruiting application, Lumesse Mobile. The interface is designed to connect with Lumesse's TalentLink SaaS talent management platform, enabling users to take their "office" with them wherever they go. The application is now available on Android, Apple iOS, and...
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Over $21 Million Awarded to Seven States for Disability Employment Initiative Funding
The U.S. Department of Labor has recently awarded seven states $21,166,560 as part of the Disability Employment Initiative to improve education, training, and employment opportunities for youth and adults who are unemployed, underemployed or receiving Social Security disability benefits. The state recipients of the program now includes California, Hawaii, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington...
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New Recruitment Metrics Software Launches
Revenue Performance Management (RPM), a provider of metrics management, performance evaluation and enhancement solutions for recruiters, has recently announced the launch of their latest Business Intelligence offering, RPM Dashboard. The cloud-based recruitment metrics software gives recruiters more control over their personal performance by identifying, tracking, and measuring key recruitment...
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The Lost Art of Electronic Etiquette
Welcome to the digital age...text messages, shooting off emails between appointments from your smart phone, brief voicemails from a Bluetooth in a car. Sadly this is the norm for communication these days. With G+, Facebook, Twitter and other social media clogging the method and means of communication, it's no surprise that common courtesy and professionalism has taken a back seat to speed and...
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Job Search App: Beyond.com Partners With HireADroid
Beyond.com, a career and job board network that aims to help professionals grow and succeed, has recently teamed up with HireADroid, the leading job search app for Android devices. The partnership enhances HireADroid's job search capabilities by enabling users to search jobs across Beyond.com's thousands of top-tier industry and local career sites. "As the mobile recruitment space...
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Who Not to Be in an Online Community
If you have spent time above ground in the past few years, you have heard about the business value of participating in online communities. The "big three" (LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter) have almost taken over the Internet with their popularity. These sites are so popular that they are considered always ways to communicate versus being just websites. However, their massive popularity hasn't...
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M.O.R.E.S.: The Five Costs of Recruiting
Cost-free recruiting— wouldn't it be nice? Well, no, since you wouldn't have a salary or get commissions. Besides, there would still be the well-known and well-analyzed "opportunity costs" associated with making your picks and choosing candidate X over Y. Those cannot be eliminated, unless you are forced to hire the last person on Earth, which would also force a shift in the wording...
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Best Staffing Company List
Inavero, a worldwide conductor of customer satisfaction surveys, has recently issued a best staffing company list, available here. The 2011 "Best of Staffing" list is constructed to recognize truly exceptional customer and talent service. The award "distinguishes staffing firms who outperformed the industry's satisfaction benchmark by nearly 50%." Made possible in part by Careerbuilder, the...
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Nevada's Unemployment Rate Highest in the U.S.
Nevada continues to carry the burden of the highest unemployment rate in the United States, The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported. Coming in at a whopping 13.4 percent in August, the state's unemployment jumped from 12.9 percent in July, indicating that the road to recovery is still far off. Nevada wasn't the only state to see higher unemployment rates compared to the month before....
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3 Tips if You've Been Unemployed for Over 6 Months
If you've ever been unemployed for over six months or for any extended amount of time, you probably understand how stressful your daily life can become. Friends and family start to worry, bills begin to pile up, and every waking moment spent searching for a job seems endlessly repetitive and fruitless. Maybe you can't find the right job offer - maybe you can't find any offer - or maybe you've...
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If Jobs were like School
If you've watched television in the past week, there is a good chance that you have run across Education Nation, which is a very important summit and debate about our educational system in the US. Education policy of course touches upon every aspect of life: from parental involvement, economic policy, and proper nutrition to teacher wages, testing, and standards. Working on Recruiter.com, I am...
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Advising Candidates on Interview Strategy
Earlier today, I heard someone giving some short instruction on how to get a job. Usually when I hear these types of lectures, speeches or talks, I walk out frustrated that people who clearly don't know what they're talking about, can't stop talking. This time, I found the advice I refreshing and frankly, spot on. So I thought I would share it with my recruiting colleagues out there...
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A Guts-for-Brains Resume?
One resume that is attracting a lot of attention on the Internet and blogosphere is that of a 28-year-old Brit named Benedict Le Gauche, apparently living in Manchester—"apparently", since he provides no address or contact information (assuming his name is not a nom de plume as a cartoonish variant of "Pepe Le Pew"). What seems to be sparking this interest is the posted resume's...
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Who Owns your Company for Good Strategy?
Tooting your company's horn can be a good thing. A great thing, if your company is doing something above and beyond turning a nickel. LinkedIn is a great example of how a company can get some good out of doing good. They regularly post about how their employees give back on their company blog. There is of course a dual function to these posts: to show their employees how valuable their...
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Applicant Tracking System Provider Teams Up With Monster and CareerBuilder
ApplicantStack, an applicant tracking system provider for small and medium-sized businesses, has just partnered with Monster and CareerBuilder, two of the largest online employment websites, to make job posting faster and easier. Under the new partnership, ApplicantStack has integrated their applicant tracking system with the two online employment giants - enabling their customers to post jobs to...
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Snagajob Launches New Hiring Manager Job App
Snagajob, the leading provider of workforce management solutions for hourly employers, has recently launched a new version of their popular Hiring Manager job app, optimized for the iPhone. The Snagajob For Employers Hiring Manager app is now available on a number of different mobile devices, including Android, BlackBerry and iPhone - giving hiring managers the on-the-go tools they need on the...
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Is Facebook Timeline the New Resume?
Facebook Timeline is here. What does this mean for job seekers and general professionals? Will it be the new resume that employers use to evaluate potential employees? What are the Changes in Facebook Timeline? The new service makes it much easier to share a wealth of information about yourself. Facebook is now no longer just about moments in time; it represents the whole you. With your...
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How To Leap Over Age-Related Career Plateaus
After a certain age, many professionals see their careers walking down a dead end street. Passed over for promotions and brushed aside for new assignments, every fresh and exciting opportunity seems just out of reach for the older worker. Some professionals just give up and accept the way things are. Those younger job seekers have all the luck, right? Wrong attitude. You're never too old...
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Recruiting on Sale?
It's hard to escape the news out there these days. The stock market keeps plummeting; politicians are piling on and the dollar isn't going half as far as it did three years ago. Recruiters are subject to the market just as much as bankers, traders and real estate professionals? Why? Because as time goes on companies are less and less likely to hire. When they do hire, they're less and...
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Milicruit Teams Up With Direct Employers To Help Veterans Get Hired
Driven by global business-to-business event leader UBM Studios, subsidiary Milicruit, the leader in virtual recruitment environments for veterans and their spouses, has just partnered with DirectEmployers Association, the nonprofit human resources consortium, to increase candidate visibility and market exposure for veterans seeking jobs. The partnership introduces Direct Employer's massive...
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Peoplefluent to Present at CUPA-HR Annual Conference and Expo
Peoplefluent, a provider of recruitment and talent management solutions, will be presenting at the 2011 College University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) Conference, which runs Sunday, Sept. 25 through Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. This year's event, entitled: "Inclusion Cultivates Excellence: Making a Difference," will focus on the importance of diversity and inclusion within...
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Texas Leads the Nation with Most Jobs Added Over-the-Year
August was a rough month for U.S. job seekers Regional and state unemployment rates remained largely unchanged throughout the nation - yet minor employment fluctuations were still seen. Twenty-six states saw unemployment rate increases, 12 states saw employment rate decreases, and 12 states experienced no change at all. While the over-the-month rate changes were certainly disappointing, the U.S....
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Facebook Timeline
Much like moments in our real life, posts on your Facebook profile are quite ephemeral. They seem to disappear with the passage of time and fall out of sight and mind. Addressing this, at an event for Facebook developers this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "All of the stories you've shared over time just fall off a cliff at the bottom of your (Facebook) wall and effectively disappear." The...
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Digital Skills: a Thumbing-Down of Job Performance?
When you hire candidates, of course you are aware of their sets of digital skills. But are you also aware of the hidden price their employer may have to pay for that competence? The modern office employee and employee-to-be is expected to have various digital skills, which is usually taken to mean competence with the digital technology that has created, shaped and facilitated carrying out...
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India Sees Shortage of Top Talent
Last week's Human Potential summit, part of The Economist's "The Ideas Economy" series, offered participants the chance to hear from a wide range of global thought leaders on a number of social and economic issues. Nandita Gurjar, Senior Vice-president of Human Resources at InfoSys, and R Gopalakrishnan, Director of Tata Sons, took the stage together to provide audience members with a deeper...
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