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Wellness Programs, the Right Way

The goal with any wellness program is to facilitate a healthy work environment. This will increase engagement and lower healthcare costs. Wellness programs, which are thoughtfully implemented, do just this, but wellness programs that are pushy and intrusive, will do quite the opposite. The benefits of a successful wellness program are plentiful, including less down time due to illness, higher...

No One Reads My Emails :(

Do you ever send out carefully crafted emails packed full of useful information and wait for a reply that never comes? It can be extremely frustrating to feel like you're talking and no one is listening. Some company leaders like Phil Libin are actually trying to eradicate emailing from the everyday workflow. Most of us without communication robots roaming around the office don't have the...

Randstad: US Workers' Confidence Dropped During Government Shutdown

New data shows that, in October 2013, U.S. employees reported lower levels of confidence when it came to the economy and job market, with the Randstad U.S. Employee Confidence Index dipping 4.2 points to 51.5. This data, collected from October 8-10, reflects the attitudes and perceptions of employees during the government shutdown. The Randstad Employment Tracker, conducted online by Harris...

Your Professional Network and why it's Letting you Down

Okay, so your current job has worn out its welcome and you are on the market for a fresh, new position with higher career potential, better salary, the works. But the idea of polishing your resume and kick starting a weeks-long job search online is making you consider just sticking it out with your current occupation, no matter how unfulfilling the role. If only you could become immediately...

3 Steps to Prevent Unforced Hiring Errors

Sales talent discovery system Sales Genomix recently created an infographic, "Prevent Unforced Hiring Errors." And while the data and advice in the graphic are targeted toward sales professionals, in many ways, the information can be useful for all industries when it comes to the hiring process. Many different people (and businesses) have many different definitions of an "error" when...

Lumesse Addresses New-hire Productivity and Engagement with Accelerator

Talent management solutions provider Lumesse has announced Accelerator, a new package available on its TalentLink platform for onboarding, learning, and social strategies. Accelerator is designed to streamline onboarding and fast-track employee engagement strategies. The packages helps ensure engagement for new hires to avoid immediate turnover, increases a new hire's time to productivity,...

Glassdoor Updates iPhone App, New Job Feed Tool

Jobs and career community site Glassdoor recently released a new update for its Glassdoor iPhone® app. The app includes Job Feed, a mobile personalized job search tool, which automatically offers job seekers the most recent and relevant open jobs. Paired with employee-based workplace insights, Glassdoor says that "no other jobs app offers this level of insight into hiring companies' open...

Work Together to Get Out of the Office for the Holidays

There is so much going on this time of year. The holidays, football season, using up that unused vacation time and doesn't it seem like there will be family in town for the next two months solid? With all this extra stuff going on, who's going to run the office when the Chiefs go 9-0? There's tailgating to do, friends to see and a dozen different dips to make! It's a no-brainer that...

RiseSmart Offers New Employee-centric Career Management Solution

RiseSmart, a leading enterprise career management solutions provider, has announced the beta release of RiseSmart Compass, a cloud-based solution to drive high levels of engagement, retention, and performance through providing workers with a way to define their own career development path. RiseSmart Compass is focused on all employees within an organization and gives them the tools to forge their...

'Daylight Remittance Time': a Better Name for Our Time Tinkering

"A penny saved is a penny earned", the other big Ben—Ben Franklin—declared. He also declared a keen, somewhat satiric interest in a notion much like "daylight saving time"—in part because of another of his maxims: "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man, healthy, wealthy and wise", one of the earliest slogans championing what we now call "work-life...

8 Unusual Places to Advertise Your Job Vacancy (Part 1)

Now, we all know about the usual places to advertise jobs; that's on jobs boards, newspapers, radio, TV and social media. But, what we also know is that there's nothing new about these advertising locations, meaning that you are way behind the curve when using these mediums. So, perhaps it's time to "break out" a little and consider a pioneering approach to advertising, which involves...

Paychex Streamlines Workforce Management with New SaaS Platform

Paychex Inc. has announced a new SaaS platform combining technology and customer service providing HR administrators an alternative way to manage their workforces. The cloud-based platform gives access to payroll, time and attendance, HR, benefits, training, and performance management services with a single sign-in. Users can complete all payroll and HR functions themselves or give permission to...

Getting Around those Four Nasty Words: "That's Not My Job"

Managers and co-workers cringe when they hear the words, "That's not my job". It's like hearing a bratty 3-year old say, "I don't wanna". There is going to come a time when a worker will be asked to do work outside of their normal set of tasks. That's just how business goes. Whether someone on the team is fired, has quit, they're on vacation or sick, there will be, on more than...

4 Bad Work Habits that can Lead to Termination

Many of the habits created at work could potentially lead to the risk of getting fired. Things as superficially minor as how you take a break from your work schedule can both ruin your professional reputation and undermine your efforts to impress the higher-ups. When even widespread habits, such as making personal calls or updating Facebook at work, can lead to the loss of a job, it is important...

Recruitment Slogans: How to Create Great Ones

Having had a slogan I created chosen as the theme for the upcoming 2014 Qingdao International Horticultural Exposition in China—a world expo expected to draw about 12,000,000 visitors—I got cocky recently and decided to have a whack at another ecologically-themed slogan, this time in the arena of GMOs. Just as my expo slogan, "From the earth, for the Earth" makes its point in a...

Peoplefluent Recruiting Mirror Launches to Redefine Hiring Outcomes for Organizations

HCM technology firm Peoplefluent has introduced a recruiting platform featuring new interactive experiences to change engagement and collaboration between job candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers. One of the first products in Peoplefluent's Mirror line, Recruiting Mirror features the company's flagship talent acquisition solution merged with social collaboration technologies and...

5 Key Recruiter Action Points Before 2014

LinkedIn has just released their 3rd Annual Recruiting Trends Survey ,which surveyed over 3,300 talent acquisition leaders in 19 countries to find out their views, thoughts and fears around hiring and budget trends and how to find quality hires. They analyzed this big data bundle and uncovered five key hiring trends that recruiters and strategic resourcing professionals all over the world should...

Is Your LinkedIn Collecting Dust?

LinkedIn has quickly become the most important professional networking tool at our disposal, but there are many of us who don't utilize it to its fullest potential. Only about half of LinkedIn users' profiles are complete and 42 percent of LinkedIn users regularly update their profile information. Most of us with outdated and rarely visited LinkedIn profiles will claim that it's too much...

Tying Your Shoes and Writing Your Resume

You've got six seconds to grab their eye. Six seconds is the average time a recruiter will scan a resume. You're entire professional career and chances at this position are wrapped up in that minuscule amount of time, so you better make an impression. Recently, The Ladders conducted a study on how recruiters scan resumes. Their eye movement, eye targets and timing were all studied over a...

Kronos' New Workforce Ready Suite Helps Boost Performance in SMBs

Kronos Inc., has announced the latest version of its Workforce Ready workforce management cloud suite which includes new applications for small and medium-sized businesses for minimizing compliance risks with labor laws, in addition to a number of interface enhancements. Workforce Ready now includes several new capabilities, compliance applications and enhancements: Extended global...

Montage Study Finds Most Job Seekers Say Skype Not Suitable for Video Interviews

A recently commissioned study by Montage, a video-interviewing solutions provider, has found that only 24 percent of job seekers who participated in a video interview using Skype found it easy to use. For those interviewees in the $75,000 to $149,000 income bracket, a mere 9 percent said that Skype was easy to use as an interviewing tool. "What these candidates experienced is something a...

Employers, How do you Handle Inappropriate Costumes?

Last week's "spooky" holiday wasn't just for the kiddies; plenty of adults decided to become daredevils and dress up in the most shocking costumes you can imagine. And while most adults tend to look for that uniqueness and "shock value," a few people took it overboard this year—one woman's "getup" even cost her a job. Meet Alicia Ann Lynch, a woman from Michigan who...

New Hires' Guide for the First Week at Work

To start things off, congrats on your new position. As a new hire on your first day on the job, you are full of expectations and apprehensions for what challenges your new workplace will bring. In order to quell some of that fear and apprehension, provided here is a selection of common new-hire mistakes and tips on how to avoid them and make a stellar first impression. While every workplace and...

Smiling Your Way to the Top

I won't tell you that a simple smile will nab you a Bentley and ensure that you have good looking kids, but there are some actual, proven benefits to rocking a smile wherever you go. There is real science behind this age-old trick of the trade, called facial coding. Negative facial expressions, like frowning, and positive facial expressions, like smiling, have been found to alter moods. The...

The 4 Best Ways to Demotivate

Creating a motivational atmosphere and leadership isn't always about what to do; it can very often be about what to stop doing. Employees in 85 percent of companies, significantly lose morale after the first six months in a new company. If there are strong demotivational practices going on in the office, these must be targeted and changed before true motivation and engagement can take place....

Monster.com Survey Finds Employees Want More Recognition, Higher Compensation

The first installment of Monster.com's mid-year Workforce Talent Survey's has found that most employed professionals are proud of their company and its future. Over two-thirds of respondents reported feeling inspired to do their best work with similar numbers stating that they feel proud to work for their organization. However, most employed workers are still looking to "find...

The Talking Resume: Why it Pays to be Different

Businessweek recently had a great article on the creative tactics some millennials used to land jobs. Two examples really stood out to me: A "talking" resume Victor Petit sent hiring managers a traditional résumé with a large photo of him on the back. In place of the mouth there was QR code, which many currently use on résumés; clicking on it with a mobile device elicits further...

HR InTouch Brings Healthcare, Benefits Access to Mobile Devices

Cloud-based benefits software provider Benefitfocus, Inc. has released an app allowing employers to manage benefits in the cloud. HR InTouch Mobile, a native app for iOS and Android devices, gives employees access to all benefits information at any time. As an extension of the cloud-based HR InTouch employee portal, HR InTouch Mobile provides instant retrieval of coverage details including...

First Annual National Career Summit Features 30+ Job & Career Experts, Nov. 4-15

Why not kickoff the new month with some new and invaluable job and career advice? Riklan Resources, one of the nation's leading resume and career services companies, in partnership with SelfGrowth.com wants to help you do that and more during the first ever National Career Summit, Nov. 4-15. The Summit is a virtual online event that features more than 30 job and career experts—an opportunity...

Tis the Season to Hire the Best Seasonal Employees

In mid-October, far before the ghost and goblins of Halloween would descend, I walked into a store and saw full-out Christmas displays. As soon as the air gets chilly, you know the holiday season is right around the corner. Along with the holidays comes seasonal staffing, when organizations of all sizes need to take on additional help in order to get through the crazy winter season. This year,...

CareerBuilder Study Identifies Surviving Mid-wage Jobs, Locations

A study by CareerBuilder and EMSI, using research from the Federal Reserve, shows that mid-skill/mid-wage jobs have dropped from 25 percent of the workforce in 1985 to 15 percent today. However, the new research has found that there remain various fields that are growing and certain states that foster these positions. Mid-wage jobs are defined as those that pay between $13.84 and $21.13 per...

Can Your CEO-To-Worker Pay Ratio Hurt Your Employer Brand?

In the years running up to the recent global financial crisis, the executive psyche in certain sector, became consumed by greed, excessive risk taking and a loss of integrity—although at the time it looked like unbridled passion and success. Of course, when the economy and financial systems crashed, we all knew something was wrong and then the folly was discovered. Now, corrective measures...

How to Avoid Inevitable Job Scams

As the age of the Internet dawned and as the unemployment rate remains high, job scam artists have beefed up their repertoire of tools to draw in the desperate unemployed who would reduce their career aspirations to stuffing envelopes, mystery shopping, and assembling jewelry just to pay the bills. But most of these types of job offers aren't lucrative work-from-home opportunities but are...

Customizing your LinkedIn Headline for Professional Gain

Ask a blog writer what is the most difficult part of article creation and there's a good chance you'll hear "title." This is true thanks to the difficulty in conveying the larger premise of an article in just a handful of words. In the age of social media recruiting, and the dawn of LinkedIn as the most looked-to professional networking website of our time, that difficulty has migrated...

Want to Stand out from the Competition? Try Industry Certifications

Selecting qualified candidates to consider for hire often comes down to subtle vibes and impressions received by the hiring manager from each candidate. This is because resumes for top candidates often mirror each other in these regards as to make them somewhat indistinguishable. And while these items are obviously important, special industry certifications can be the significant detail that...

Can Small Employers Use HR Big Data?

I recently came across a report by SilkRoad which shows that despite the big reputation of HR Big Data, (recently best advertised by Google who abandoned their famous brain teasers interview questions due to big data revelations), only 19 percent of companies will use big data for HR and include it in their HR strategy for 2014. In many ways, it does not surprise me, as big data is more...

HireRight Adds New Mobile Solutions for Remote Recruiters, Applicants

HireRight, a leader in global employment screening, drug/health testing, and I-9 and E-Verify solutions, has released two mobile solutions for responding to hiring opportunities in the mobile sphere. HireRight Screening Manager Touch and HireRight Applicant Center Touch provide applicants and recruiters to tools to manage background screening in order to speed up time-to-hire, increase...

SumTotal Delivers First Context-Aware User Experience for HR

SumTotal Systems, an independent provider of HR solutions, has announced the release of its Talent Expansion Suite, a context-aware HR solution that delivers personalized talent, learning, and workforce management information and actions. The release is delivered through a touch-screen optimized user interface that extends SumTotal's HR solutions and elixHR platform. The Talent Expansion Suite...

The Core of Successful Careers

While things such as a well-written resume, strong recommendations and a college degree will assist you in becoming a success, it is truly the intangibles which make or break a career. Even though you can't put your wisdom, positive outlook on life and business or your perceived people skills on your cover letter without coming across as over-generalized, they are the core of your successful...

Are you Asking these Illegal Interview Questions? Probably.

The whole point of the interview is to gain as much knowledge about the candidate as possible. Although recruiters and hiring managers are well versed (or they should be) on the matter of legalities during an interview, it can be easy to slip over into illegal territory without even realizing it. Even if you have been asking these questions for years, it may be that one interviewee who interprets...

Behind Every Great Leader

They say behind every great man is a great woman, and I'll make the assumption that behind every great business leader is a great assistant. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article about the "power" of assistants (specifically executive assistants): The schedulers, gatekeepers and caretakers of the corporate world are rarely seen, but they have a profound effect on the daily...

The Challenge of PhD Interviews and Relationships: Lessons from a Fireplace

Because I was once in a PhD program and have retained many of the associated interests, standards and personal traits, well-intentioned, but I believe misguided, friends have always suggested that what I absolutely need more than anything is a girlfriend with a PhD —you know, for "intellectual stimulation" and values alignment. Yes, it's easy to imagine that being paired off with someone...

IRON Announces Finalists for In-house Recruitment Awards 2013

Stemming from the success of its inaugural awards, the In-house Recruiter Online Network (IRON) recently announced the finalists for the 2013 In-house Recruitment Awards for Excellence. The awards are hosted by IRON, an exclusive networking group for UK in-house recruiters, internal recruiters and HR professionals. The annual awards aim to "recognise the increasing achievements of UK in-house...

Insperity Updates TimeStar Attendance Tracking Software to Version 8

Insperity, Inc., a provider of HR and business performance solutions, has announced the release of Insperity TimeStar 8.0, the company's flagship time and attendance tracking software solution. TimeStar 8.0 assists companies in Affordable Care Act compliance through proactive collection, analysis, and management of employee attendance and labor data in real time. "Insperity makes it a...

Why it Matters to be the "Cool Kid" at Work

While there are significant differences between the popularity gained in high school as opposed to that of the workplace, there are also several similarities in the way others react to popularity, as shown in the many research studies done on the subject throughout the past decade. Most studies have shown that popular children are viewed as better performers and are much more likely to easily...

Identified Launches Identified Recruit, Database of 1 Billion Job Candidates

Big data and analytics company Identified recently announced that it has created the largest source of searchable, professional profiles available—1 billion candidates. This massive database is now available through the company's lead product, Identified Recruit. Although compared to LinkedIn, the company says its new tool's professional information is not limited by its user base....

"Right Shoes" Extremely Important to Hiring Managers, Only Half of Candidates Wear Them

According to a survey from premium men's footwear provider Allen Edmonds, just half of young male professionals "wear the right shoes" to interviews and may suffer the consequences of making a poor impression. The survey of over 1,000 professionals, both male and female, revealed some interesting tidbits on the workplace shoe-wearing habits of the younger generations. Young men, in...

Top 10 Recruiter Horror Stories

I'm sure most recruiters have had their share of "horror" when it comes to the hiring process. Sifting through a ton of resumes, the hassle of scheduling interviews, stressing out about meeting deadlines and producing a quality hire. Though most job seekers may think working with recruiters can be scary, a great deal of recruiters know that "spooky" feeling can be mutual. So, in...