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How to Scare Off a Potential Employer in 3 Easy Steps

In a survey of more than 2,000 bosses, 33 percent said they knew within the first 30 seconds whether they would hire someone. Your window to make a positive impression is tiny, and there seem to be dozens—if not hundreds—of ways to bomb an interview. Everyone who has been on the other side of the hiring desk has a few horror stories, including candidates who showed up hours late, brought a...

10 Things to Omit from Resumes

Plenty of advice exists on what should be included in your resume. But, there's not a huge amount of information out there on what you should exclude from your resume. So, here it is, a simple check-list that you apply to your resume as a final check, just before you click the send button. Using it could be the difference between the short-list and the rejection pile. 1.Your Photo This one...

March Sees Falling Unemployment in Vast Majority of U.S. Cities

Recently, the U.S. Labor Department reported that unemployment rates fell in 333 of the 373 largest metro areas in March, equating to almost 90 percent of large U.S. cities. But most of these declines are assumed to have occurred due to workers dropping out of the workforce rather than becoming employed. And while the unemployment rate fell from 7.7 percent to 7.6 percent in March, this was...

Office Parties Do's and Do NOTS

Tis the season! Starting with Halloween, straight to Thanksgiving and then on to Christmas, office party season is here. This is either your chance to shine, or an opportunity at a professional fail. While this is a chance to relax and have some fun with your colleagues, you cannot forget that they are in fact your colleagues. These aren't your friends and this isn't the corner bar. Do Not...

Big Biz and HR Applications of Halloween and Its Trick-or-Treat Dynamics

Can you imagine: Halloween "trick-or-treat"—a template for workplace relationship management and Wall Street big-bank dynamics? Yes. Halloween trick-or-treat dynamics and insights into them provide relationship and life lessons of use to HR managers, employers, employees and, some would say, for anybody wondering how the 2008 too-big-too-fail bank bailout happened. Yes, how the 2008 bank...

Berkshire Associates Whitepaper Highlights how to Break Bad HR Recruitment Habits

HR technology and HR consultancy firm Berkshire Associates has released its latest white paper, Breaking Bad Habits in HR Recruitment Practices; an outline of common negative recruitment habits and how to create a more effective hiring process and balanced workforce. As the recruitment process is a crucial part of hiring the best employees, and hence of maintaining the strength of an...

What's Hot in HR Technology?

HR technology is the topic of many a conversation, conference and blog post in the HR and recruiting world. As new technologies roll out at such a rapid pace, recruiters and HR professionals are all in what feels like an arms race. Each tech advance is topped by the latest and greatest. It can be hard to stay on top of it all. Hiring is no longer about that little black book and a gut feeling....

Showcasing your Skills for your Next Review

Most people fitting the classical definition of "overachiever" dislike the term as they see themselves in a completely different way. If you are an overachiever, you probably just like learning new things, challenging yourself to move beyond your current comfort zone, and demonstrating your skills to yourself and others. And while others may either be in awe or resentful of your abilities,...

4 Great Aspects of Working in Small Firms

It's a tough market for every one when it comes to finding talent. It doesn't matter whether you are big or small, but since larger corporations are big enough to look after themselves when it comes to talent attraction strategies, we, from time to time, like to focus articles on helping small firms in their hiring endeavors. One challenge that small employers often face is competing in the...

Tech Startup Announces Launch of Evolved Mobile App Development Platform

Startup company iGenApps is on the verge of releasing its next-gen app development platform that keeps pace with the growing smartphone user base and consequent increased demand for mobile application development. The application seeks to be a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative for businesses unable to afford the current average cost of app development, typically about $50,000. The platform is...

Survey: Majority of Criminal Background Checks Mishandled

According to a new survey, although most U.S. companies' human resources personnel believe criminal background checking is handled appropriately, data shows it's more likely that this part of the hiring process isn't being handled correctly. The survey, by consulting firm PeopleG2, polled nearly 1,500 HR executives who worked at firms of 25,000 employees or more. The results showed that...

Recruit Millennials with Facebook Ads—You Know You Want to!

An important part of blogging is keeping up with trends. When it comes to HR trends for 2013, millennials in the workplace, social recruiting, and mobile are about as hot as it gets. A blog post that incorporates all three topics simply cannot fail! So, without further adieu: Three tips for using Facebook Ads to recruit millennials. But wait! What about mobile? Well that's a very good question...

Potty Mouth: the Roots and Payoffs of Workplace and Other !#@!-Bombs

Four-letter expletives accidentally overheard or willfully overdone, deleted and undeleted, including F-bombs, once only thinkable—not utterable—in most public arenas, are now commonplace . Paralleling the decades-long mass erosion of civility and decorum, this explosion of obscenity makes the single F-bomb dropped in Beat-poet Alan Ginsberg's 1957 poem "Howl" now seem yawningly...

4 Steps to Successful Large-Scale Promotions

Mega-retailer Wal-Mart recently announced plans to promote more than 25,000 of its nearly 1.3 million U.S. workforce. According to a Yahoo! Finance article, the new promotions plan surfaced after the retailer received harsh criticism for how it compensates workers. It reads: The announcement comes just days after a Democratic lawmaker criticized the firm's executives as "welfare kings,"...

Unemployment Benefits Claims Hit 64-month Low

Not since January 2008 has the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid been lower than the 324,000 seasonally adjusted unemployment insurance claims filed during the week ending April 27. The fall is largely attributed to a drop in layoffs and possibly more hiring. According to the Labor Department, the number of weekly applications decreased to 18,000 as the four-week average dipped by...

Get Your Resume Seen: Optimize Your Resume for an ATS

Since our first typewriter resume, things have changed just a wee bit. We started off with a simple format and recipe for a great resume. Then, the bar was raised when we took a deeper look at how recruiters and hiring managers scan and digest the information in resumes. Next came professional resume writers, who were able to put the information from this eye-tracking technology to use in resumes...

Surviving Office Politics

Government Shutdowns. Higher Taxes. Healthcare. Left versus Right. If there is a single one of us out there who hasn't had enough politics for a lifetime, I'd pay to meet them! Over the last several years we have been inundated by increasingly polarized (and frustrating) politics. The last thing we need is to find ourselves running for office in an internal election at the workplace....

GlueWorks Launches Glue Talent Showcase for Job Seekers

Jobseekers now have a new option for presenting their individual talents and branding with the release of Glue Talent Showcase, a comprehensive suite of tools that helps employers quickly understand a candidate's value. The Showcase includes content galleries for resumes and cover letters, a First Impression Video, and a workplace competency assessment. A candidate's knowledge, skills, and...

A Salute to Towers Watson

Honestly, we like companies that stand the test of time. While we do get a few diamonds in the rough as far as startups are concerned, when it comes right down to it, there is nothing like a company that knows its business and has been doing what it does for decades. Enter Towers Watson, an incredible international firm that helps businesses of all sizes with benefits administration, risk and...

Older and Middle/High Income Earners Worried about Jobs and Benefits Security

In only its second monthly Harris Poll Jobs and Benefits Security Index, The Harris Poll found that American workers are becoming more apprehensive about their income and benefits security and overall employability; particularly middle-to-high income earners and older workers. However, individual concerns showed a dramatic shift among all workers between March and April. Key findings of the Index...

Economists Report: Businesses Not Hurt by Federal Budget Cuts

According to a National Association for Business Economics (NABE) survey, the combination of increased taxes and across-the-board budget cuts has had a minimal effect on American businesses and the economy during Q1 2013. The vast majority of respondents (93 percent) reported that the recent budget tightening had no effect on first-quarter employment and 95 percent said the political developments...

5 Steps to Create a Great Employer Branding Video

There are so many compelling and even irresistible reasons for businesses, both small and large, to develop employer branding videos, with the more adventurous perhaps even developing their own employer YouTube channel. With 4G being rolled out this year, smartphone usage approaching 50 percent, and 5-inch screens set to become the smart-phone standard, just about anybody who is anybody...

Benchmarking Survey Shows Increased Influence of HR with C-Suite Execs

XpertHR's HR Staffing, Costs, and Structure Benchmarks 2013 Report, a survey of over 150 companies employing more than 200,000 workers, has reported that the influence of HR with the C-suite has increased by better than 50 percent within the last two years. The drivers of this change in power were reported to be due to stronger HR leadership, more recognition by top-level executives, greater...

Simplified Employee Services Portal Introduced by iSuperSuite for SMEs

iSuperSuite has released a fully-automated employee self-service portal for small- and medium-sized enterprises called iSuperSuite HRIS Payroll. iSuperSuite HRIS Payroll is scalable and can compute varying wage rates and OT claims on a per-staffer basis for the day, hour, or month. It also calculates earnings for resigned employees down to the last working day, plus pro-rated income for new...

HR Software Company Overview: Dovetail Software

Running a business is like walking a tightrope. You're only one missed step away from either losing a client or losing a staff member. Every single year, many a management team or human resources department rolls the dice in determining which they are more willing to lose, albeit with abysmal results. The truth is that you don't need to worry about chasing away clients or running off...

7 Reasons to Hire Underqualified Staff

Would your business consider hiring an underqualified candidate? Would you leave a position empty, and sacrifice output, even though there were enthusiastic, bright but underqualified candidates on the table? Would you relax the job requirements for a position a little in order to allow an underqualified candidate into a role? In view of the current talent starved climate, it's becoming more...

Career Excellence Model for TR Pros Launched by WorldatWork

As a direct consequence of its WorldatWork 2012 Total Rewards Professionals' Career Census, WorldatWork has introduced an all new career excellence model for Total Rewards professionals. Surveying 2,300 HR professionals from around the world specialized in compensation, benefits, and world-life, the census identified a list of primary differentiators of top total rewards performers; those...

TargetRecruit Integrates Timesheet/Expense Management with Major Accounting Apps

Web-based applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM TargetRecruit has announced a proprietary plug-in that will allow staffing and recruitment companies to integrate their timesheet and expense management processes with top accounting applications. The plug-in enables users to streamline, operate, and manage the recruitment process, including financial operations, from a central, cloud-based...

Unemployment Claims Continue to Rollercoaster as Numbers Jump Again

Unemployment insurance was sought by 16,000 additional workers during the week of March 17; down for the second consecutive week. The longer-term layoff trend, however, remained consistent with an improving job market. Applications rose to 357,000 for the week ending March 23, up from 341,000 one week earlier. The four-week average also rose 2,250 to 343,000. The labor market continues to be...

5 Hiring Practices to Knock Off

There is always room for improvement in hiring practices. With new hiring metrics, stats, tools and information pulling us in different directions, it's hard to know what exactly we should be doing and how. Everyone will tell you what you should be doing to step up your hiring game and nail down the perfect fit, but how about what you should stop doing to get that best end result? Having...

Survey: Companies Waste Nearly 900 Hours Per Year Producing HR Reports

According to new global research launched by SuccessFactors, an SAP Company, organizations are wasting, on average, 17 hours per week producing HR reports; that is almost 900 hours per year. The report revealed that more time is being devoted to delivering reports back to the organization as respondents reported increased demand for workforce metrics (72%) in the last five years. The survey of...

Mid-April Unemployment Benefits Apps Rise Again

Though the number of workers seeking unemployment insurance rose slightly for the week ending April 13 (up 4,000), the U.S. Labor Department reports that the applications report still suggests solid hiring and that March's unemployment spike was temporary. While the seasonally adjusted number of benefits recipients sat at 352,000 last week, the four-week average rose a mere 2,750 to 361,250....

Workers Shouldn't be Punished for Personal Social Media Activity: A Valid Claim?

Back in August, I wrote a story about a law school graduate who was struggling to find work. Brian Zulberti sent a ton of emails to law firms that included a photo of himself "in a T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, showing off his sculpted arms." The instance caused him to become somewhat of an internet sensation on what not to do when looking for a job. A law blog took things a step...

Streamline your Workday with Saba

Wondering what's the most effective way to teach your staff about social networking? What about a better and more effective way to not only manage the talent that you have, but your workforce and future workforces in your organization? When it comes down to brass tacks, there are an infinitude of companies that provide services that are intended to help you streamline your workday and...

Create a Competitive Edge through Branding, Relationship Building, and Growth

No matter your occupation, in order to be successful in your career you need to remain cognizant of the business landscape where you are entrenched. Staying ignorant of your surroundings leads only to being left behind, so it is important to continually assess where you are and how you can recreate your competitive edge over your professional peers. In your trek to remain competitive and gain...

When Candidates Attack

We've all heard the horror stories and the jokes. So many people out there 'hate' recruiters. Clients bemoan the need for us. Candidates (not all) can lack any respect or appreciation for the role. Worse yet, friends and family still don't quite get what you do. But you know what? It's a tough profession. And while candidates and clients might take the opportunity to knock us given half a...

Productivity/Revenue Losses Result of Skills Gap in World's Top Economies

According to a global CareerBuilder survey from November 2012, which included over 6,000 hiring managers and HR professionals from the top 10 global economies, the expanding gap between the number of skilled jobs and workers to fill those positions continues to drag down employers (and economies) across the world. Many employers from the world's biggest economies reported that extended job...

Using Social Media for Recruitment (Infographic)

Did you know that 92 percent of companies use social media for recruiting? Or that 45 percent of Fortune 500 companies include links to social media on their career page sections? At least this is the latest data from the infographic "Social Media for Recruitment" by global employment site Staff.com. The infographic provides a range of information on this latest trend in recruiting, from...

Partnership: M-Files and CBIZ to Add Document Management to Service Offerings

On-premise and hybrid ECM solutions provider M-Files Inc. has announced a partnership with accounting provider CBIZ in order to expand the service options available to CBIZ customers by adding document management capabilities for accounting, employee benefits, and medical management clients. As a member of the M-Files Partner Program, CBIZ will now sell and service M-Files solutions that...

How Recruiters can use Blogging to Attract Talent

The link between blogging and attracting talent may not seem immediately obvious to employers and recruiters. I mean, when you need talent now, tomorrow or next month, what good will blogging do? How can turning pen to paper (or fingertip to keyboard) and penning many passages of lyrical beauty help your business solve today's talent attraction problems? Candidates are hungry for industry and...

Should you Quit Your Job for Sports Games?

The question asked in this article's title is not only for sports games, but can be for any other extracurricular activity or hobby. Should you quit your job to attend the Olympics? Or to hear your favorite author speak because he/she is coming to town and you just couldn't get off? Or to attend the presidential inauguration? Anything that you're passionate about and a once-in-a-lifetime...

10 Easy Ways to Attract Better Candidates with a Killer Job Ad

The job market is 'hotting' up. Okay, so it hasn't quite reached the molten levels of seven years ago, but make no mistake, we're through the worst of it. And as an employer, you're increasingly going to have to impress a candidate to get him/her to apply. You want great people; write a great job ad. Here's how: 1. Any job advert must have 3 sections About your company About...

Research Finds Growing Number of College Grads Now Underemployed in the U.S.

The Accenture 2013 College Graduate Employment Survey, conducted by consulting firm Accenture, has found that employers are not availing themselves of the capabilities of recent college grads. According to the new research, 41 percent of workers graduating from college within the last two years report being underemployed and accepting jobs outside of their field of study. Almost two-thirds of...

Self-Sabotage: Do you Really Want to get Ahead?

There are literally thousands of pages of career research in academic journals and on the Internet for intrepid souls looking to find the best information available for being successful in their careers. But it seems the one thing many people are afraid of in today's workplace is that very success. Even with access to the most comprehensive and complete career advice in history, there are still...

Are "Hobbies and Interests" the Most Crucial Part of a Resume?

A recent study by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management published in the American Psychological Review has made some fascinating findings about hiring for cultural fit. The study confirmed what most of us have probably suspected for some time: Employers are hiring people who are not only competent, but who are also culturally similar to existing employees in terms of leisure...

10 "Spookiest" Aspects of the Job Search

Just in time for Halloween, CareerCast.com recently compiled a list of the 10 most spooky jobs job seekers may want to avoid. From working with the deceased to interacting with strange bugs and animals all day, the following 10 are jobs most unemployed Americans don't have at the top of their "apply to" lists: Arachnologist/Entomologist Coroner Diver Forensic Scientist...

Why Your Candidates Hate You

So over the years I have heard countless candidates, clients and even random people at parties knock recruiters. I've heard anecdotes from candidates on how they received job leads from recruiters and then contacted the company themselves. I've heard clients bemoan the need to partner with recruiters. I've even heard some people who have received jobs through a recruiter and then blocked them...

Getting Creditors to Hire Their Debtors—a Job Creation Model

Frankie, a gifted accountant, crushed by gambling debts, borrows heavily from a Mafia loan shark, can't make even the 50% monthly interest payments, and is about to get his knees cracked like a piñata with a hefty, Louisville Slugger pinewood bat. But Frankie and the Family get creative: Frankie cuts a deal—He does the Mob's books for an "entry-level" salary and pays back his debt...