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Youth, Unskilled Workers Bear Brunt as Global Unemployment Stays High

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the world's advanced economies will continue to see rising numbers of unemployed people even as overall economic conditions improve. In the recent OECD Employment Outlook 2013 report, the unemployment rate for countries using the euro is predicted to rise from 12.2 percent to 12.3 percent by the end of 2014. Some...

Four Reasons You Can't Find a Job—and What You Can Do About It

I have been helping people find jobs since 1973, and have personally interviewed more than 26,000 job seekers on every professional level. What I've learned is that, for many, success remains elusive because they aren't going about it in the right way—or with enough persistence. They are so focused on landing the job that they stumble during one, if not all, of the many important steps it...

What are the Most Reliable Candidate Assessment Tools?

Many of us in the trade may have been surprised to hear the announcement from Google SVP of People, Laszlo Block, that their famous brainteaser questions, such as, "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? " or "How many gas stations are there in Manhattan?" are in fact a waste of time. Yes, it seems that Google did its own exhaustive "big data'" analysis and found that these...

How to Deal with Workplace Annoyances

The workplace is renowned as a venue for any number of annoyances—overly chatty coworkers, refrigerator bandits, endless meetings. Here are a few ways to handle several common workplace issues to make your work environment better. First up, workplace food thieves. It's always great to have an office kitchen so you don't have to spend the time and money going out to eat every day, but it...

Logi-Serve, Jobvite Announce Partnership to Offer Online Recruiting, Assessment Solutions

Jobvite and Logi-Serve have announced a partnership that will allow the two companies to offer innovative online recruiting and assessment solutions. Through the partnership, the Jobvite recruiting platform will integrate Logi-Serve's online assessment tool into its workflow. Thus, Jobvite customers will have the capability to identify and assess candidates automatically. "We're proud to...

How to Hire Using Ad-Retargeting

Employers are always looking at new and innovative ways to attract talent, and the latest disruptive hiring technology to raise its head above the parapet is a process known as ad-retargeting. Sounds painful doesn't it? But, despite its awkward title, ad-retargeting is set to be at the forefront of the next wave of recruitment. Ironically, however, ad retargeting is not especially new, as it's...

Recruiters: Why Are You Hiding Your Flex?

Flexible work options are a growing trend in recruitment and retention. Over the last decade, telecommuting, for example, has grown 35 percent, and is projected to continue growing despite recent high-profile bans by Yahoo! and HP. Increasingly, qualified professionals are searching for jobs based on the type of flexible work options they offer, and smart employers are quick to embrace work...

Are we Really Me-llennials?

Millennials catch a bad rep...one I'm not too convinced is not always justified. It seems like story after story constantly paints this group in a negative, selfish and all-about-me light. Examples, you ask? At work by 10 a.m., in their skinny jeans, sharing photos of their morning espresso... (PayScale Gen Y on the Job Infographic) ... there's one con to hiring a fresh batch of...

Tribridge Acquires Intelladon, Enters HCM Market

Technology-services firm Tribridge has announced it has acquired talent management solutions consultant Intelladon, giving Tribridge a foothold in the Human Capital Management (HCM) market. "Intelladon and Tribridge have been close partners for many years, and our two companies share complementary cultures, high-growth strategies and a continual focus on delivering greater innovation and...

70+ Percent of CIOs Increase Speed, Flexibility of IT Processes by Migrating to Cloud

According to a recent survey conducted for SAP by Wakefield Research, CIOs are joining the hybrid cloud in growing numbers as more and more believe that hybrid cloud environments reduce complexity while increasing flexibility. Hybrid cloud environments integrate applications in the cloud on-premises. While most CIOs do feel the hybrid approach simplifies IT processes, they still report...

Glassdoor Releases Employee Appreciation Survey, Infographic

Everyone desires to be appreciated, and employees are no exception. And to demonstrate how greater employee appreciation equals better retention, jobs and career community site Glassdoor just released its Employee Appreciation Survey. The survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults reveals how appreciated employees feel by their employers, the biggest motivators for workers and what employer-provided...

Social Recruiting and Applicant Tracking Systems Limitations

Social media has quickly become the "it" tool in recruiting. Social media has drastically changed the way we recruit, and it is here to stay, but have our applicant tracking systems kept up with demands for social in recruiting? We've traded in newspaper ads and the big job boards for social media, but a lot of ATSs are falling short. The importance of social media in recruiting is...

iMomentous Launches Career Site Mobility Platform Optimized for Mobile Devices

iMomentous has announced the launch of a mobile-optimized Career Site Mobility Platform that helps companies put their brand into the hands of their candidates with a device-agnostic mobile solution. The Career Site Mobility Platform gives talent acquisition leaders the ability to effectively engage and compete for talent on any Internet-connected device. Employers can create a fully-branded...

Candidate for Burnout? Steps to Avoid Pushing Yourself too Far

No matter how much you love your job, if you do too much of it, you're going to hate it. Part of the pride that comes from being a hard worker stems from demonstrating your stamina and your ability to manage unwieldy workloads. But the further you push yourself, the harder it gets to push. Eventually, no matter how much energy you may possess when entering your job, you are going to reach a...

The Importance of your "Phone Voice" in Business

With the prevalence (and casualness) of business emails it may at times seem that the relevancy of the phone (and its etiquette) are beginning to be called into question. However, regardless of who you are, the way you sound on the phone says a lot about you and the need for voice communication is not going anywhere any time soon. If you are trying to divine how a voice can make you feel, just...

Why Top Talent May not be What You're Actually Looking For

According to a Harvard business study, up to 80 percent of employee turnover is a direct cause of poor hiring decisions. Turnover costs big bucks, which is why retention is such a huge deal for employers. As such, finding the right candidate, not just any candidate, is the goal when it comes to hiring. This is why recruiters and employers make a big fuss over "top talent". "Finding Top Talent",...

International Monetary Fund Reports U.S. Economy Improving but Restrained

In its annual report on the U.S. economy, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that the economy has improved over one year ago but is restrained by spending cuts and tax increases. Improvement in sectors such as housing construction, along with improved household finances and steady hiring, has led to a more optimistic analysis than in 2012. However, the IMF is forecasting only a 1.9...

Is It OK to go With Gut Instinct When Hiring?

Now, the immediate and politically correct answer to this question is, "No, it's not alright to rely on gut instinct," particularly when you have many alternative methods available to you to more reliably assess the skills of candidates. For example, research from Beardwell and the CIPD tells us that the second least reliable form of candidate assessment is unstructured interviews/chats...

The Art of Selling 'Unsellable' Jobs and Art

Reflections on moving art gallery steel and dangerous Fukushima reactor rods _____________ "Art is anything you can't sell if you call it something else."—M. Moffa That has been my personal take—indeed, cynical mantra—on "art" for decades, inspired by encounters in pretentious galleries with a lot of overpriced, overrated modern junk, like the "Crouching Beast" steel-plate...

Why not Give this Employer Branding Scheme a Try?

When you hear the words "contest" and "giveaways" I assume most people don't immediately envision Corporate America. And why would they? Even if a contest or giveaway is associated with some sort of business, most of these schemes are found in specific settings, like retail, for example. But, contests and giveaways can be a beneficial marketing and employer branding tool for any...

Aerotek Reports Companies Lack Sufficient Time to Hire, Train, and Retain Employees

The Recruit and Retain Report from recruitment and staffing services provider Aerotek has found that about 60 percent of employees would leave their jobs for a competitive offer. And while the survey also revealed that sufficient employee development opportunities correlate to a higher probability that employees will stay, nearly one out of three employees receive no ongoing training in their...

Current Economy Breeds Fear in Most Work Adults over Job Security

A recent survey by University of Phoenix on American job security has found that the current economic climate has bred significant worry over job loss. Over 60 percent of working adults are concerned about losing their jobs with 20 percent considering the possibility at least once per week. Almost 10 percent think about it at least once per day. These fears also seem to tie in to lower...

Looking For A Job? You Should also be Doing This...

You've got your basic resume updating, job board checking and filling out dozens of online applications, but there are a few more things to consider. A successful and timely job search entails more than the basics. Gaps in employment, networking, new tech considerations and all around improvement of the job search will all play a part in finding the right position. Do something! While...

Academic Journal Reports Fittest Employees not Always the Happiest

Newly published research in the American Journal of Health Promotion has confirmed that two separate studies that looked at how employer-sponsored fitness centers helped make employees happier and healthier resulted in unintuitive results. While those employees who used the provided fitness centers the most did become the most healthy, a consistent improvement in mental health was not always...

Red Flags: Knowing the Time to Leave your Job

Changing jobs (or careers) is never a stress-free endeavor but occasionally becomes necessary due to economic conditions or other circumstances that make you question why your professional life is in the doldrums. If you find yourself in this type of situation, it is time to do everything in your power to avoid leaving your current job, but if you have tried your best and are still unhappy, it is...

Labor Department: Unemployment Applications Sink to 6-year Low

The U.S. Labor Department has reported that the number of Americans who have applied for benefits over the past month has reached a six-year low, concurrently indicating a decline in layoffs. The average number of people applying for benefits over the past four weeks fell by 6,250 to 335,500, the lowest since November 2007. Weekly applications for unemployment benefits actually increased by...

How to Hire Underqualified Staff with Superstar Potential

Do you have lots of open positions because you can't find staff with the right qualifications and experience? Have you thought about hiring someone who is underqualified but who has the potential to grow into a superstar? If you are not the type of employer who hires for potential and attitude –but while at the same time is struggling to fill posts –it could be an opportune moment to...

Permanent Hiring Steady, Temp Hiring Growing During Latter Half of 2013

CareerBuilder's mid-year 2013 forecast reports that U.S. workers should expect stable employment throughout the rest of 2013 as permanent hiring will keep pace with 2012 while contract and temporary hiring should experience an upswing of up to 10 percent. "Companies are adding more employees to keep pace with demand for their products and services, but they're not rushing into a full-scale...

Tracker I-9 Updates for Full Compliance with New Form

Tracker Corp. specializes in delivering hiring compliance solutions for large organizations and has recently announced full compliance of its electronic I-9 and E-Verify product with the newly revised Form I-9 published by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Tracker I-9 now automatically presents the newly added fields along with the software's standard tools tips. The in-product...

Mistakes to Avoid When Writing your Business Plan

Odds are you already know this, but after you've celebrated your arrival at a great business idea it's time to write a winning business plan. A business plan basically formalizes your business goals, why it is reasonably believable that they can be obtained, and how you plan on reaching them. Unfortunately, knowing what a business plan is doesn't necessarily prepare you to design and create...

The Micromanager's Guide to Recovery

If you find that you regularly require others to use the same methods you choose to solve problems—even if other solutions are equally effective—or if you spend as much time following up on the work of others as you do on your own tasks, you may be a micromanager. While ensuring that the details of a project are consistent and correct is an honorable endeavor, micromanagers are often...

What Most Employers Expect you to Know as a New Employee

Once the afterglow of the job offer has passed and you've dived into your position at your new employer, you may be shocked at how much information an employer is going to assume you already possess. Even the employers with effective orientation programs, most expect employees to already understand multiple points regarding topics such as benefits, corporate policy, confidentiality and...

Do Successful People Really do These 5 Things?

I recently read an article called, "5 Things Successful People do in the Evening." Quite interesting. We're always seeing "five and seven steps to xyz" aimed to help us better our personal and professional lives. And while all this type of content can be considered a "good read," some career advice should be adhered to while other advice should be taken with a grain of...

Putting Big Data in the Driver's Seat (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I talked about the difference between a paper map and a GPS system. Both will get you where you need to go, but one is cumbersome and time-consuming to use, while the other guides you turn by turn to your destination with significantly less effort on your part. Used effectively, Big Data is the GPS system of the recruiting process. Now that you have such a...

HR.com and RealMatch Launch Social and Mobile Career Platform

HR social networking giant HR.com has announced a partnership with RealMatch to provide a hiring solution for HR professionals to search for jobs and the employers looking to hire them. HR.com is launching its HR Careers job board built on the RealMatch performance-based recruitment advertising solution. "Prior to partnering with RealMatch, our career center offered incredible opportunities...

Entelo Introduces Solution for Leveraging Previous Applicants in Recruitment Process

Entelo has announced the launching of Entelo Inside, a solution that allows employers to delve into the pool of previously-applied job seekers as a source of potential candidates. To this end, Entelo Inside uses Entelo's real-time social data, advanced search technology, and predictive analytics to ensure information maintained in a company's ATS and CRM systems remain updated. Entelo Inside...

Should You Pay Your Staff to Quit?

Do you remember back in 2007 when Zappos announced that it was going to start paying its employees $1,000 to quit on their 90 day anniversary? Yes, for those that missed it the first time round, I repeat, they payed them to quit. This is, of course, quite a radical talent management strategy, as they could have simply ended up with a perpetually empty office, but there was certainly method in...

Infographic Maps Out Routes to Better Internships

Creating a great internship program is a journey—all you have to do is map out your options. At least that's what the folks at InternMatch, an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers, say. The company has created an infographic, "The Map to Better Internships," detailing how businesses can map out their "paths" to successful internship programs. So,...

CBIZ Small Business Index Shows Job Growth in May

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index for May showed a significant gain in number of jobs increases ( 1.91 percent), an impressive jump following April's increase of .43 percent. However, the May jobs survey from ADP reported private sector growth at only 135,000 jobs, well below the forecasted 167,000 new jobs. Philip Noftsinger, business unit president for CBIZ Payroll Services...

4 Facebook Job Seeker Fails

We hear it everywhere: networking is the number one way to find a job. Forty-one percent of respondents in a Right Management survey said that they landed a job through networking. Today, networking doesn't mean what it used to. The first thing that comes to just about anyone's mind when the term "networking" is thrown out is Facebook. While LinkedIn is the world's leading professional...

When your Dream Job becomes a Nightmare

When we go into a job search, we often have an idea of the job that would be a "perfect match—our dream job. You know the one. It's in an exciting industry, at a high-profile company, with a swanky title that makes all other offers pale in comparison. But what if once you get the job, and all of the perks that go with, you realize your dream job is the job from hell? At that point it may be...

The 10 Personalities in 2-Person Interactions

Whenever you interact with another person, whether in an interview, at a picnic, in a marriage ceremony or in any other interaction, there are almost always 10 people participating. These are the person 1. you really are 2. you think you are 3. you think the other person is 4. you want the other person to think you are 5. you want the other person to think he is 6. the other person really...

contentCrawler 2.1 Reporting Software Automates Reporting and Eases Administration

Enterprise productivity software provider DocsCorp has announced the release of contentCrawler 2.1, the recently updated version of its integrated analysis, processing and reporting software that makes content fully searchable. contentCrawler provides an end-to-end solution that examines image-based documents and converts them to searchable PDFs. The newest update also includes usability and...

Report Argues How Social Media, Big Data are Pushing Recruiters Out

According to a report released by The Conference Board, social recruiting has become the recruitment option of choice for human capital and talent management professionals, especially as talent remains in short supply. In the study, "A Brave New World: Recruiting Talent in a Digital Age," executives from 11 multinational corporations, including Campbell Soup Company, Cisco Systems, and...

5 Key Ingredients of a Top Recruiter (Interview)

What recruiter doesn't want to be the best? To not only be at the top of his/her game, but at the top of the entire recruitment industry? A range of information and advice exist, attempting to help recruiters discover the "how to" on what it takes to be great. And now, even a reality show has set out to uncover this ultimate recruiting star. Last month, I wrote an article about a hit...

8 Unusual Places to Advertise Your Job Vacancy (Part 2)

The competition for talent is such that if you want to be a serious player in the war for talent you need a combination of brute force marketing through traditional channels and a mix of some creative, out-of-the box marketing techniques to reach your desired audience. In the first part of this article, we looked at four unusual places to advertise your jobs, which were: On people's...

3 New Ways to Reach Gen Y Candidates

Generation Y: A group of professionals who act differently, think differently, and perform differently. Reports indicate that by 2025, Generation Y will make up roughly 75 percent of the workforce. Are you ready? While current recruitment methods may help you to find great workers, how long before these methods run dry? The clock is ticking: You've got 13 years until Millennials become the...

Mid-sized Employers: Slowed Healthcare Reform Would Improve Economic Forecasts

A study from Deloitte Development L.L.C. reports that a growing number of mid-sized employers feel that holding off on healthcare reform would help improve their economic forecasts for 2013. The study found that 40 percent of employers shared this sentiment, a significant expansion from the 33 percent reporting the same in 2012 and 23 percent in 2011. "Rolling back health care reform ranked...