Recruitment Technology Provider Kenexa Buys HR Assessment Company
Kenexa, a global provider of Recruiting and HR business solutions, recently announced their acquisition of The Ashbourne Group - a supplier of HR assessment and development solutions. The Ashbourne Group has almost 20 years industry expertise and caters primarily to audiences in the U.K. and Ireland. The Ashbourne Group has garnered a significant reputation for their work on the U.K. public...
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Applicant Tracking Vendor myStaffingPro Announces Mobile Recruiting Webinar
Known for their SaaS applicant tracking system, myStaffingPro recently announced an upcoming webinar entitled, "Go Mobile: 20 Tips for a Successful Mobile Candidate Experience." The webinar seeks to educate participants on the increasingly popular "on-the-go" recruitment market, sometimes called "mobile recruiting". The event will take place Thursday, August 18th at 2pm (ET), and will be hosted...
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HR Recruiting Software Vendor iCIMS is Finalist in Customer Service Award
iCIMS, one of the largest providers of Software-as-a-Service HR recruiting software and applicant tracking systems, proudly announced their nomination as a finalist in the best practice category of "Customer Service" by the New York Enterprise Report Small Business Awards. The NYERSB Awards are an annual offering, aimed at honoring the tri-state area's premier small businesses that strive for...
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Five Tips on Interview Body Language
There's already enough to worry about before an exciting interview - the right clothes, the right questions, the right responses... What about the right body language? If you've seen Fox's Lie to Me, you already understand that body language and facial expressions matter a lot. On the show, they solve murders and kidnappings. For you, they can help you nail an interview and get a...
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Healthcare Recruiting Technology Stays Healthy
Healthcare and medical recruitment is an area that requires great specialization. Additionally, the US is expected to experience a tremendous shortage of qualified healthcare and medical professionals in the coming years. Specialized healthcare staffing technology, as would be expected, is also in high demand. Known largely for its talent management solutions focused on the healthcare...
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Internet Recruitment Training Provider AIRS Launches New Technical Recruiting Course
AIRS, known for their award winning sourcing technology and recruitment training solutions, recently announced the launch of a new Internet based training class entitled, "Effective Sourcing for Engineering and IT Experts." The four hour course is designed to provide significant insight into the technical aspects of Engineering and IT roles, enabling technical recruiters to be able to source...
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One out of Three Employees Expect to Leave Their Job, New Survey Suggests
A new survey report launched by Lumesse, entitled Inspiring Talent 2011 - suggests that all is not well in the workplace. In a recent press release from the company, survey results revealed that 29% of workers expect to leave their company within 5 years. Additionally, four out of five employees felt that their skills were not fully utilized, while nearly half of those surveyed felt their...
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Green Jobs Grow Through Green Construction Expansion
Green construction is proving to be an increasingly attractive profession. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the industry has seen rapid job growth over the past few years as interest in long term sustainability and environmental protection becomes more prevalent. LEED construction standards and other specialized processes are forcing innovation and growth of green...
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Executive Poverty
"You can't always get what you want, and if you try sometime, you find you get what you need."—Mick Jagger, in "You Can't Always Get What You Want" The splash of Slurpee fairy-tale colors in this photo taken at the July 31, 2011 Vancouver Gay Pride Parade catches the eye first, but then there's the BC Hospital Employees' Union banner: "Work should lift you out of poverty, not...
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Tell Me About Yourself: Tips To Answer this Tough Interview Question
At least once, every job seeker dreads the seemingly innocuous interview question, "So, tell me about yourself." A standard in the interviewer's arsenal, this open-ended classic can be scary. However, just like any other interview question, if you are prepared and practice, it can be a no-brainer. Start with your name: A no-brainer, many job seekers panic right off the bat by incorrectly...
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5 Ways You're Wrecking Your Career
No career is bulletproof. It doesn't matter if you're the boss or the intern, it's easy to fall off the right track and jeopardize your position by making poor decisions. You might be here one day, gone the next. It happens all the time. But there are good reasons why it happens. Fortunately for all of us, career breakers come on slow and have little to do with day-to-day accountability....
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OSHA Announces Improved Whistleblower Protection Program
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) recently made significant changes to the continuously improving Whistleblower Protection Program. The enhancements are designed to strengthen the system by reducing oversights and inefficiencies. "The whistleblower provision laws enacted by Congress prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who...
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Performance Management System ReviewSNAP Announces New Features
ReviewSNAP, a division of parent company Applied Training Systems - recently announced increased functionality for their acclaimed web based performance management system.The new features will focus on benefits-based performance management, with a release slated for the fourth quarter of 2011. ReviewSNAP's completely automated system already supplies multifaceted performance reviews and 360...
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Private Industry Compensation Costs on the Rise
Compensation costs for private industry employees are going up. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the compensation costs for private industry workers rose 2.1 percent over a 12 month period, ending June 2011. When compared to the compensation costs measured after a 12 month period in 2010, the cost rose only 1.9 percent. The graph below looks at private industry workers by...
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Are Almost Half of Employees Burned out?
A new CareerBuilder survey suggests that employers are currently casting doubts on the effectiveness of their workforce. The productivity survey found that nearly half of employers (45%) think that their workers are currently burned out on their jobs. The survey also looked at seasonal effectiveness and concluded that 26% of employers say their employees are less productive in the summertime....
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ZipRecruiter Introduces ZipSites – Beautiful and Easy to Set-up Free Recruiter Websites
Another Truly Easy to Use Solution from ZipRecruiter A lot of technology companies talk about "easy" in their marketing, but usually that means "easy once you're trained." Not ZipRecruiter. These guys have a knack for producing products that you sit down in front of and just know how to use. To date they've launched job posting distribution and a searchable resume database....
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SmartSearch Upgrades Green Recruiting Capabilities
Green recruiting initiatives are one part of a larger trend toward locating the "green" or "sustainability" efforts from inside the Human Resources function. Sustainability and carbon management efforts have recently attracted the attention of recruiting technology vendors, as well as general HR carbon management consulting firms such as HR Carbon. Advancing the green recruiting trend,...
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Hidden Jobs: How Recruiters Can Help
They say that 80% of all available open jobs go unadvertised. If you're applying through job boards or company websites or even flipping through newspapers - you might only be hitting 20% of all open positions. How can this be? Most companies don't have the time or advertising budget to broadcast all their hiring needs. Other organizations prefer to keep thing confidential and you'd never even...
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myJoblinx Announces Facebook Recruitment Solution
myJoblinx - a Facebook recruitment application that leverages the power of social media to connect recruiters with top talent, recently previewed their namesake product to the public at the Northern California Human Resources Association's staffing and talent management conference. While the social recruiting solution has garnered vigorously positive reviews from its select audience of beta...
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Searching for the Causes of Future Work
(Part 3 of a 3-part series on recent PwC HR and workplace forecasts. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) The employment forecasts contained in the PwC report "Managing Tomorrow's People: The Future of Work to 2010" analyzed in two of my recent articles critically depend on a descriptive-explanatory paradigm that identifies "individualism" ("individualistic"), "collectivism"...
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How to Negotiate a Higher Salary
You're in a job interview. Not just any job interview - the best interview of your life.You're nervous and excited and everything's going perfectly. The interviewer fawns over your credentials. From the sound of it - you're a rock star, an astronaut, a Hollywood movie star...of talent! Then it's time to talk compensation and salary. "It's a tough economy out there," the interviewer says,...
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Arguments for Not Hiring the Unemployed: The Logic of Lions?
Imagine an economy with virtually full unemployment— nearly 100%, say, during the worst depression imaginable. The then incumbent president goes on air to rally the will and stir the hopes of the American people and says, "We have nothing to fear but fear of the unemployed." Deliciously ambiguous, that remark seems to precisely and accurately encapsulate and address 1. The current...
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Monster Reports Solid Quarter
Monster Worldwide - parent company of the popular job board website Monster.com, recently reported their Second Quarter 2011 financial results. On the heels of their new search and analytics platform, Monster announced substantial earnings despite a sluggish economy. Quarterly revenue increased by 25% to $270 Million, up from $215 million in the second quarter of 2010. Bookings increased by...
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Colleague Recruitment Software Boasts Full Functionality With Saber
Colleague Recruitment Software - a leading provider of integrated software solutions for the recruitment industry, is now boasting complete integration with Saber, a premier provider of recruitment analytics and performance software. "This is fantastic news for our customers," said Will Minns, Managing Director of Colleague Software. "Saber will allow recruitment consultancies to further...
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Study Finds Personality Assessments Improve Entry Level Hiring
A recent study by Hogan Assessment Systems found that personality assessments lead to improved hiring and increased employee performance in high turnover positions. Their research suggests that candidates who are screened through the Hogan Advantage Report are more likely to succeed at their job if they measure strongly for certain skills and criteria. The Hogan Advantage Report is based off ...
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Employee Assessment Company Vangent Integrates with Taleo
Vangent - a leading provider of pre-employment risk assessments, revealed in a recent press release that its Risk and Talent Management tools are now integrated with Taleo Business Edition. The partnerships enables Vangent to provide a number of assessment and risk management resources to Taleo Business Edition customers. "For many years, Taleo and Vangent have been leaders in the talent...
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Monster and Indeed: Clash of the Jobs Titans?
On July 27,2011, Michael Glenn on his blog "Glennlist" suggested that Monster.com has blocked Indeed.com from indexing its jobs. Is it true? There has been no official word from either company (that we know of) about the change. However, a few quick searches for Monster jobs on Indeed seem to show that they are not indexed. Note: this could be a technical error or a small quirk. As of...
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Broadbean Showcases New Website
Broadbean, a leading provider of job distribution services, sourcing tools for finding talent and recruitment processes optimization, has recently announced the release of their brand new website. Developed by Tela Ltd, the new Broadbean website strikes at once with a fresh and energized appearance. New design features include accessibility options for mobile devices, touch-screen navigation,...
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LinkedIn Groups Hit One Million
The popular social network LinkedIn has achieved yet another important milestone. In March of this year, Linkedin crossed one hundred million members. Now, LinkedIn Groups have reached the one million mark (currently 1,000,237). That means that over one million groups have been created by LinkedIn members. LinkedIn groups are popular discussion areas on LinkedIn and an important source of...
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How to Succeed at any Career
Woody Allen once said, "80% of success is just showing up." While there's definitely some truth to that - in practice, success requires a bit more effort than just showing up - especially if you want to succeed at your career. Employers are constantly looking for the right signs to qualify you as promotion-worthy material. You just need to show them you are qualified. Remember, it's not a...
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OutSolve Announces Partnership with America's Job Exchange
OutSolve, the nation's leading outsourcing provider of OFCCP compliant affirmative action plans, today announced a partnership with America's Job Exchange, a leading compliance and diversity job posting site. The partnership will allow America's Job Exchange customers access to OutSolve's comprehensive affirmative action plan development and execution services. Users will have their...
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Certain States on the Right Track for Jobs
Looking back from June 2010 to June 2011, 7 states are reporting significantly lower unemployment rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in a recent press release. An additional 11 states have minor decreases in unemployment. As of June this year, 26 states have an unemployment rate lower than the national average of 9.2 percent. Nevada experienced the largest decrease over the year,...
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Axes to Grind: The PwC Future Job Grid
(Part 2 of a 3-part series on recent PwC HR and workplace forecasts. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) If all the world, including the world of employment, is, as Shakespeare timelessly suggested, a stage on which we are the players, it can pay to know who or what is writing or calling the plays, the outcomes written into them and the roles we are likely to be assigned, including in the...
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Featured Review of Free Recruiting Software Zoho Recruit
The bar for recruiting software gets moved higher every year. The features available in last year's most sophisticated applicant tracking systems are today's standard base package. The Zoho Recruit applicant tracking system recently upped the ante. Zoho Recruit is a free recruiting software platform that offers the rich functionality and comprehensive feature set previously available only...
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Kinder Morgan To Pay More Than $830,000 in Labor Lawsuit
Kinder Morgan - one of the largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies in North America, has agreed to pay out $830,422 in back wages to 4,659 current and former employees, the Department of Labor said in a recent press release. The payment will resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor that alleged Kinder Morgan violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by denying...
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Texas Adds the Most New Jobs
Jobs are coming back slowly - if you're in the right state. From May 2011 to June 2011, 16 U.S. states recorded statistically significant changes in employment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The graph below outlines the top states experiencing positive gains and serious losses. The largest over-the-month change occurred in Texas, with over 32,000 new jobs added. California...
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3 Interview Tips To Get You Going
What's the worst part about finding a job? You hear Job Seekers complain about the interview more than anything else. And rightfully so, there's something very stressful about the interview process - no one likes to be analyzed too closely; too be told that you're not qualified or not the right fit. And perhaps worse than the scrutiny, applicants are afraid of saying the wrong thing, or...
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Recruiting Software Sendouts Unveils New Release
Sendouts - a leading provider of staffing and recruitment software, recently announced that the latest iteration of their namesake product would be released on 7/27/2011. Sendouts focuses on software for recruitment firms (both direct hire and staffing). Sendouts was also recently in the news for winning an Interactive Media design award. "We are excited to provide our clients with...
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Sponsored Challenge by CodeEval Brings in First Hire
On June 9th, 2011, Techcrunch reported on the launch of CodeEval: "Just in time for the impending Silicon Valley talent apocalypse, CodeEval, a platform that uses coding challenges to help recruiters find and filter the best programming candidates for the job, is launching today to the public." CodeEval offers an interesting take on sourcing great talent. Instead of posting regular job...
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Did Linkedin Kill the Cover Letter?
Not quite. By now you've probably heard about the new, "Apply with Linkedin Button." It allows job seekers to use their Linkedin profile as a de facto resume when applying for jobs online. So what about all those long nights you spent crafting the perfect resume, the hours you poured into learning complete cover letter etiquette? Don't worry, you're still going to need those...
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Top Talent More Mobile Than Ever
According to a recent survey by Right Management, three out of four organizations lost high performance employees last year. While it's typically expected that top talent will move around - exercising their leverage and shopping around for the best offers - recent data suggests that the trend of lower retention is taking off to a whole new level. The Right Management survey asked more than 268...
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The "Age-Bomb": The Trajectory to Your Office
Submerged in, if not subscribing to what critics would describe as our out-of-control(-)youth cult(ure), we can be forgiven for taking it for granted, even though we should not. But that absolution does not also absolve us from making an effort to understand how the youth culture (and its flip side, ageism) has become such a dominant cultural and economic force —a pervasive influence...
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Staffing Software Vendor Bond Merges 3 Divisions
Bond International Software - a global leader in staffing and recruitment software, recently announced that it will be reorganizing its three U.S. operating divisions. Bond Adapt, Bond eEmpACT, and Bond VCG will be combined into a single entity operating under the flagship Bond International Software name. In a recent press release, Steve Russell, Group Chief Executive of Bond International...
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The Apply with Linkedin Button Arrives
When we last wrote about the new Linkedin button for applying to jobs, it was really just a rumor. Now, it's here. But even when it was just a rumor, people were busy theorizing and making predictions about Linkedin's new service. Recruiter.com: Apply with Linkedin Button: "Linkedin could become a web standard instead of a website." Mashable: Linkedin to Launch Job Application Button:...
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The Age-Bomb: Screening Out the Fallout
What is it that makes the hiring issue of age an issue at all, an "Age-Bomb" with a time fuse and propensity to detonate at some point, even if only in the minds—rather than in the actual screening—of older job hunters, especially when officially and legally it is not supposed to exist at all? Why, like a Cold War H-bomb, does the Age-Bomb make so many older job applicants...
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Mass Layoffs Down For June
New filings for unemployment insurance benefits dropped off during the month of June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The overall decrease was miniscule, but suggested a small degree of economic progress. Seasonally adjusted, employers took 1,532 mass layoff actions involving 143,444 workers. Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers let go by a single employer. "The number of...
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A Beginner's Guide for Applicant Tracking Systems
Are you a hiring professional working in a small or mid-sized business? When your organization announces, "We're hiring again," are your paralyzed with the fear of being buried under stacks of resumes? The process of reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, and hiring/on-boarding is time-consuming. When searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, keeping organized should should be...
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In Defence Of The Social Media Resume
Resumes are inherently boring. There's nothing very exciting about facts and figures or the number of years you spent diving for golf balls in luxury golf-course water traps. Well, maybe that last one's interesting. (Also a totally real profession.) But the hard truth is that most of us look dull on paper. Most of us are just another name, another job title, another piece of paper....
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