Recruitment Advertising Firm CKR Interactive Wins Competition
CKR Interactive - a recruitment advertising agency, just won a national website redesign competition hosted by the National Association of Health Care Recruiters (N.A.H.C.R.) The N.A.H.C.R. serves more than 800 hospital and health system members and works to promote the expertise and influence of health care recruiters. The competition was aimed at increasing the value and effectiveness of...
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Free Recruiting Website Builder from ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter, a job distribution service for posting jobs to multiple job boards, has launched a new recruiting website builder. The new product, named ZipSites, allows recruiters to quickly build recruiting websites using an easy template system. The website has the core functionality that a recruiter needs, including descriptive areas for company information, contact forms, and a way to post...
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Hulu For Sale?
It looks like the popular online television site, Hulu - may be up for grabs. While nothing is set in stone, speculation rages across the tech world as to who potential buyers might be. While no formal bids have been cast, an unidentified source has already made an unsolicited bid for the TV website. Bloomberg reports that while potential buyers remain unknown, possible buyers include Yahoo...
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Women's Earnings On the Rise
Society assumes we bridged the gender equality gap a long time ago. In truth, there's still much to be done, especially in terms of equal earnings. Fortunately, significant progress has been made over the last 21 years. Between 1979 and 2010, the earnings gap between women and men narrowed for most age groups, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Additionally, women aged 25 years and...
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First Advantage Backs Workstream
First Advantage, a global provider of talent acquisition solutions, recently announced their substantial investment in Workstream. Workstream supplies companies with technology products and services that focus on talent management and talent acquisition. Their highly regarded software solutions help employers reduce inefficiencies and assist in managing essential functions relating to the...
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5 Tips for Working With Recruiters
It's still a tough economy out there. Last month, the unemployment rate rose to 9.2%. Maybe you're one of the millions out of work and hunting for a job. You've tried job boards, employer's websites, and called everyone you know. Still no luck. Maybe it's time you considered contacting a recruiter. Whether you're unemployed or just looking for a change, recruiters can help. It's THEIR job to...
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Old School Networking Still Lands People the Most Jobs
How did you get the job that you have now? Did a friend put in a good word for you? Or a friend of a friend of a friend? Or did you just call up the organization and see if they were interested in meeting with you? Although a huge percentage of people find themselves using internet job boards, old-fashioned networking remains the dominant way people find new jobs, according to a study...
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Monster Frees Resume Search Technology
Monster.com, known for their job board and intelligent resume search technology, is now offering to share their powerful 6Sense semantic search technology with the rest of the world. The SaaS-based SeeMore platform will be the first of its kind - a cloud based semantic search and analytics service for managing companies' own resume and applicant databases, Monster confirmed in a recent press...
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The Top Three Tips For Your Video Interview
The next time you go on a job interview, you may find yourself in front of the computer - or a video camera. Sounds great right? No driving, no traffic, no gas. Almost seems too easy (except the part where you still have to ace the interview, dress up, and impress a total stranger). Take a deep breath and don't panic. Fortunately for the job seeker, video interviews are a lot like their...
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New Study Pinpoints Most Common Weaknesses in Leaders
Checkster, a leading provider of talent assessment tools, recently announced their findings of a leadership competency study. The study looked at over 17,000 businesses, non-profit and government employees in order to determine which management skills needed the most improvement. Checkster showcased their results in a recent press release, ultimately concluding that, "the ability to energize...
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Wage Disparities by Ethnicity and Education
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released some interesting wage data for the second quarter of 2011. The results feature some unsettling disparities. For the 100.6 million full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S., the median wage amounted to ($753). Further demographic breakdown, by ethnicity and education, are featured below on the graph. In terms of ethnicity, Asians appeared...
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GF Education Group Calls for Employer Feedback
GF Education Group are the creators of the CBL Exam (Certified Business Laureate) exam, which is a business test that qualifies and quantifies the skills of recent college graduates. The career test attempts to remedy a common hiring problem: assessment of applicants with little or no "real-world" experience. The CBL Exam offers testing in the core skills and competencies required for working in...
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Employee Referral
The Employee Referral: A Recruiter's Friend While many recruiters may think that the best way to find qualified candidates for an open position is to search resumes and comb through their talent pools, there is another simple and effective solution for sourcing talent: the employee referral. Employee referrals save recruiters time and effort in finding qualified candidates. When a current...
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Candidates and Tasty Kool-Aid
When it comes to understanding this legendary candidate dichotomy, recruiters are quick to forecast with wild-eyed certainty that one type is intrinsically more valuable than the other. One school of thought seems to suggests that job seekers "actively" looking for work are less desirable and hence unemployable. Recruiters who subscribe to this belief must have deep rooted suspicions about...
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TEDS Expands Healthcare Solutions
TEDS, Inc, a leader in the human capital development field, recently announced a number of new solutions aimed at hospitals and health care organizations. The new healthcare management tools allow organizations to "streamline their workforce, ensure regulatory compliance and maximize efficiencies," TEDS said in a recent press release. "In 1991 TEDS created a vision for full integration of...
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Networking, Not Internet, Lands More Jobs
Job search has always been a dynamic and unpredictable field. The latest competitive technologies and resources might help you find a job today, but tomorrow - you're two steps behind. That's why it's somewhat refreshing to hear that good old-fashioned "making connections" is still the number one resource for landing a job - at least in the Northeast: A new study by Right Management looked...
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June Real Employee Earnings Disappoint
Real average hourly earnings for all employees rose 0.2 percent from May to June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports. The change was a result of the 0.2 percent decrease in the Consumer Price Index, which led to the .02 percent increase for average hourly earnings. On its own, the average hourly earnings did not change. This is the second month of positive trending, after a rough downward...
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Recruitment
Recruitment is a term used to describe the entire process of finding and hiring qualified human talent for an open vacancy or for a proactive hire for an organization. In the United States, recruitment is more frequently referred to as recruiting, talent acquisition, or hiring. Around the world, particularly in the UK, recruitment is the most frequently used term to describe the process of...
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How to Use Online Networking Sites to Find a Job
When was the last time you looked at your local newspaper's classified ads section for a job opportunity? The actual newspaper, not those same listings on the paper's Web site. The way people search for jobs has changed tremendously over the last decade. It's even gone beyond job search sites such as Monster and Career Builder. Many people are using online networking tools to find jobs. If you're...
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How to Make a Job Offer
In recruiting, the job offer is the pivotal point of the hiring process because it includes all the details about compensation and the exact duties of the job that a new hire is getting. A job offer is more than just an offer of compensation to a prospective employee, it is the culmination of weeks of work for the recruiter and the final result of resume screening and interviews. Often, job...
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Work4 Labs Releases Jobs For Me App
Work4 Labs, a leading provider of Facebook recruiting technology, recently announced the launch of their new app, Jobs For Me, which allows universities to provide career center resources directly from their Facebook page. The Jobs for Me app offers complete integration with any university's online career center, redirecting the features onto the Facebook platform where students are more...
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ADP Launches Mobile HR App
Automatic Data Processing (ADP), one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions, just launched a new tool that promises to deliver Human Resources functions on-the-go. The ADP Mobile Solutions application - a free, easy-to-use app that gives employees access to their HR, Payroll and Benefits information - is now available for most major mobile devices, ADP said in a...
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Twitter Reaches 200 Million Accounts
Twitter just crossed a massive milestone. The social media network now has over 200 million accounts While this is great news for the company, it does raise some interesting questions about the numbers - how many of these accounts are still active? Or even used with relative frequency? How many are accounts are just bots spamming regurgitated content around? It goes on. Facebook takes its...
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4 Tips To Boost Your Placement Rate
There's never enough time. You're making countless candidate calls every day, interviewing candidates left and right, coordinating schedules between your hiring managers and candidates while addressing conflicts as they (invariably) arise. You're a recruiting machine - but there is only so much time in the day. After you have the volume game down, in order to improve your recruiting, you...
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Time Magazine's "The Future of Work"—Signs of the Times
In its May 2009 compilation of ten articles titled "TIME Specials: The Future of Work", the online edition of Time Magazine offered its take on the future of work—its forms, functions, opportunities, challenges and constraints. After recently reviewing the more recent PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC) report, "Managing Tomorrow's People: the Future of Work to 2020", I felt a...
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CareerBuilder's Employer App For iPhone
The future of recruitment may lie in mobile devices. CareerBuilder, the leading online career site in the U.S. - recently launched their own iPhone app for employers. Entitled, "CareerBuilder for Employers," the technology embraces the way communication and talent acquisition lines are changing. "Being able to reach potential employees wherever you are provides a whole new level of...
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Using Frustration to Fight Job-Market Depression
If you need a reminder about how harrowing chronic unemployment and its direst consequences can be, visit Down But Not Out. There you will find 50 recently posted stories selected from 6,000 emails and comments chronicling the financial, professional and lifestyle devastation inflicted by these recent hard times. You will also read narratives of hopelessness, despair, desperation,...
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Jobcentre Plus
About Jobcentre Plus Jobcentre is a government agency service which is run in Great Britain for working age people. The agency formed when Employment service, merged with the Benefits Agency, and was renamed as Jobcentre in April 2002. When Jobcentre was first introduced, it was a govrnment-run Labour Exchanges system, started by Winston Churchill an William Beveridge, who worked to make more...
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HRsmart Boasts 97.5% Client Retention Rate
Treat the customer right, and the customer will come back to you. In a recent press release, HRsmart - a leading provider of recruiting and talent management technology - announced an extremely healthy 97.5% client retention rate. The company cites a long-standing client relationship priority, as well as their recent SmartPass initiatives as reasons behind the positive...
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MSHA Out to Collect $240,000 in Fines
The Mine Safety and Health Administration is trying to collect nearly $240,000 in unpaid penalties, a recent MSHA news release stated. Two offending mines have failed to pay the necessary violation fees for numerous citations that infringed upon the health and safety of mine workers. As a division of the U.S. Department of Labor, the MSHA has sought legal action against the mines - one in Texas,...
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Employee Referral Program
Benefits of an Employee Referral Program An employee referral program encourages employees at a company to refer their business contacts and qualified friends for positions at their company. As part of the program, the company rewards current employees for referring a qualified candidate for a job. Some programs feature incentives like monetary compensation, but others use non-monetary...
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Google Plus Jobs (Google+)
Every time a social network comes along, someone figures out a way to turn it into a job board. Linkedin pretty much is already a job board in and of itself, Twitter has its TweetMyJobs, and Facebook has Branchout. It's also easy to think that Facebook itself will become a job board, but it hasn't happened yet. Enter Google Plus (Google+). What does this mean for jobs? Will people regularly...
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Compensation Analyst
Compensation Analyst Job Description In the recruiting industry, a compensation analyst is a specialist in employee compensation like salaries and benefits packages. These specialized human resources professionals are highly trained in labor costs, salary analysis and benefits structures. Compensation analysts use metrics and models to understand current salary trends and predict future...
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Technical Recruiter
What Is a Technical Recruiter? A technical recruiter is a recruiting professional who focused on identifying and recruiting talented technical candidates. Normally, these recruiters will work for tech companies, but they can recruit technical talent for any company. These specialized recruiters are experts in the entire recruiting process and can handle: Sourcing candidates ...
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How to Find People on Google Plus (Google+)
If Google Plus continues to experience the kind of incredible traction it has garnered over the past couple of weeks, it will quickly be a major network. If you are looking to find people or source candidates, it should offer a unique way to both search for and find profiles and then organize profiles with the Circles technology. To follow up with an article about recruiting with Google+, we...
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The PwC "3-Worlds" Forecast: The Future of HR
"Few business thinkers have proposed that the marketing or finance functions might cease to exist in their present forms, but some are starting to say this about HR."—Michael Rendell, Partner and leader of Human Resource Services PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Part 1 of a 3-part series on recent PwC HR and workplace forecasts. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) In its recently published...
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myStaffingPro Sales Take Off
The recruitment technology market is a niche one, but it is generally correlated with the broader recruiting and staffing industry. The success of recruiting software providers can indicate a healthy outlook from talent acquisition departments. Even more generally, it can suggest a positive trend for future hiring and employment. So it's a good sign for a lot of us when recruiting technology...
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Ouch! Nonfatal Injuries and Illnesses By Occupation
There were 1,238,490 cases of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That's a total incidence rate of 117 cases per every 10,000 workers. (The data looks at full time workers.) The 7 occupations graphed all had at least 20,000 cases of non fatal occupational injury or illness, ultimately requiring the employees to take time off...
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Sendouts Recruiting Software Redesign Wins Best in Class
Site redesigns are always a gamble. You risk alienating your customer base if everything doesn't turn out just right. Fortunately for Sendouts, one of the leading providers of recruiting software - they got it right, and won big. For their efforts into the Sendouts.com HTML 5 redesign, the company was awarded Best in Class by the Interactive Media Awards. The Interactive Media Awards...
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Pandora Announces New Social Network
With Google Plus and now Pandora, it seems like everyone who's anyone is launching a social network. Pandora is launching a new version of their internet radio service that also acts as a social network. The new Pandora will allow users to post comments and follow their friends, while social media standards such as liking and sharing will be supported with additional features from the internet...
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Google Plus (Google+): Finally, A Recruiting Friendly Facebook
So I'll admit it...I'm completely burned out on the social networking thing. The sheer and overwhelming nature of the entire medium has sucked all of the 'social' right out of social networking. But then again, I'm a Recruiter, so that means I use all of my tools to find talent, build networks and keep my name out there. I have Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and IM apps all over my...
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Onboarding
What is Onboarding? In the modern business world, onboarding is the term for the process by which new hires at a company are brought on board with company objectives and culture. Also called organizational socialization, orientation, or new hire training and orientation, the onboarding process folds new employees into the company and attempts to make them effective managers or contributing...
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Job Seeking
Are you making recruiters cringe? Waiting by the phone to hear back from a hiring manager? Wake up. You're sabotaging your own job search. Take a deep breath and ask yourself if you've fallen for any of the 7 deadly job seeking sins: 7) I Have an Unsavory Web Presence: Really? In this day and age? Get that Facebook cleaned up, those Flickr albums locked up. Treat Google and your name...
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GreenJobInterview Sparks Alliance with Kenexa
GreenJobInterview and Kenexa recently announced they'll be working together to enhance the recruitment platform Kenexa 2x BrassRing. The alliance will allow 2x BrassRing full integration with GreenJobInterview's live virtual interview technology. The browser-based video interview solution offers cost cutting benefits for both hiring managers and candidates. "The ability to reduce...
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AIRS SourcePoint Launches Talent Community Builder
AIRS launched a new feature for their popular SourcePoint CRM today - Talent Community Builder. The latest enhancement allows recruiters greater control over their recruitment channels. By reducing passive candidate isolation through talent communities and by maximizing recruiter's social influence, Talent Community Builder offers a comprehensive solution for connecting with talent. "With...
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Mastering the Art of Screening Candidates
The art of the pre-interview, screening phone call can't be practiced enough. It allows for careful insight into the mind of the candidate. Screening candidates accurately and efficiently often separates good recruiters from average recruiters. Here are 5 easy tips that can help you conduct better telephone screens of your candidates. 1) Do your homework: If you're a novice recruiter trying...
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How's Your Elevator Pitch?
Everything in life is for sale. Including you. Whether you're looking for a job or a promotion or just meeting someone at a restaurant, you're selling yourself all the time. So how's your elevator pitch? They say the most effective listening takes place within the first 30 - 60 seconds of a conversation. That's pretty quick. After that, your listener may have already you tuned out. Even...
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CareerBuilder Releases 2011 Mid-Year Job Forecast
CareerBuilder just released their interesting job expectations for the remainder of 2011. The report highlights some very encouraging figures for the U.S. job market. From the report: 1) "Nearly half of employers plan to hire new employees from July through December, up from 41 percent in 2010." This is welcome news after the dismal hiring figures in June, and the unemployment rate rising...
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