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Labor Day: Do you Have the Right to be Off this Holiday?

According to a recent Bloomberg BNA survey, although most (if not all) employers will give today —Labor Day—as a paid holiday, around 4 in 10 companies will require at least some employees to report to work today. The Holiday Practices Survey found that 39 percent of surveyed employers reported maintaining operations on Labor Day and requiring some employees to work on this holiday. At 63...

10 Ways to Find People

Before search engines the main way to find someone – when only in possession of their name – was to hire a private investigator. Of course, things have changed a little now; today you can simply use Google to locate and find a majority of the people you would like to find. But, every now and again, there are times when Google simply isn't enough and doesn't yield the returns you are...

Staffing & Recruitment with Allegis Group

Established in 1983, Allegis is the leading staffing company in the United States, managing the staffing and recruiting function for a wide variety of industries. With more than 8,000 staff members employed internally and more than 90,000 members of their contingent workforce, this booming firm employs both state of the art techniques as well as a diverse recruitment background in order to bring...

PayScale Index Shows Many Industries Saw Record Wages in 2012

With the release of its Q2 2012 PayScale Index, PayScale Inc. proved that wage growth is not always a slave to an uncertain economy and federal budget concerns. Wages for most regions, industries, and categories measured by the index were measured at six year highs and all wages experienced an annual growth. "While the headlines oftentimes go to the large-sized companies, The PayScale Index...

5 Real Tips To Hire a Virtual Team

With the arrival of increasingly sophisticated networking and collaborative technologies over the past decade, we have seen teams move from being centrally located to having members telecommuting from home for a day-or-two per week. But, this was only ever going to be a temporary situation as the rise of mobile computing technologies—tablets, smartphones and laptops—means that the virtual...

Job Search Tip Du Jour: Don't Share your Sob Story

We all have our own reasons why we need a new job during a job search, and, in an ideal world, we would all be saved from the perils of unemployment by employers in need of our individual skills and abilities. But one thing to remember when engaged in the job search and interview process—keep your personal sob story to yourself. Remember that the hiring process is much more about what an...

ZipRecruiter Eases Hiring Process with ZipResumes

There's a statistic that says hiring managers only look at resumes for an average of 5-7 seconds. Well, now the folks at job distribution service, ZipRecruiter, have created a new tool to help with this —ZipResumes. ZipResumes eases the hiring process making it simple and easy for hiring managers and recruiters when conducting a resume search by scanning through dozens of resumes and...

Are There Mathematically More Reasons to Keep—or to Quit—a Job?

Are there more potential (as opposed to real, current) reasons to leave a job than potential reasons to keep it? Or is it the other way around? You may think that is either an unanswerable question, that the answer is "no" or that it's a matter of specific circumstances, not in any way a theoretical mathematical question. After all, "it all depends"—right? But compare the question...

3 Easy Fixes for your Recruitment Process

I'm about to tell you something shocking: Great talent for your company doesn't grow on trees. Surprising, I know! Even with a tough employment market, finding candidates with the skills you need can be an uphill battle. According to a survey by Bersin Associates, more than 50 percent of business leaders considered talent shortage to be a major problem facing their company or industry....

5 Things that Absolutely Must be on Your Resume

When you are preparing to enter the job market, you must have one very powerful tool in your arsenal—a resume. Your resume is your representative in the market, the impression that many companies will get from you. This means it is crucial that you develop your resume to be the absolute best it can so that it is the most effective means of expressing yourself within the job market. To ensure...

Job Survey Finds Less Happiness, More Frustration for American Workers

A combined team from Yahoo! Finance and PARADE Magazine has released the Job Happiness Survey to determine how Americans feel about their jobs, corporate culture, careers, and future prospects. The survey uncovered several general key findings including that most Americans think they will not retire at age 65; most Americans would choose a different career if given the opportunity; and the...

Study Shows Continuing Education Increases Corporate Efficiency

A study conducted by The EvoLLLution online newspaper to examine the need for continuing education in the workforce has suggested that employee income and corporate productivity increase due to employer-sponsored continuing education program. The paper, entitled Lifelong Education and Labor Market Needs, found that 96 percent of employers reported an increase in job performance with continuing...

OrcaEyes to Offer "Intelligent" Analytic Modular Solutions for Optimized Talent Management

Human capital solutions provider OrcaEyes has announced the launching of a next-generation, "intelligent" modular solution to help organizations optimize talent management strategies. The 14 new modules add intelligence to specific management functions, such as recruiting, compensation, and EEO, to help derive more value from talent management tools. OrcaEyes' expanded platform performs...

Vault.com Releases Annual Consulting 50 Rankings

Vault.com recently released its annual Consulting 50 Rankings, which offers job seekers insight into firms that are: the best to work for; most prestigious, offer the best quality of life and have the strongest practice areas. The career management and job search resource site said the rankings suggest that "the consulting industry, as a whole, is experiencing a turnaround as the economy...

The Face of the new Workforce and the Growing Skills Gap

Here's a sobering statistic: Over nearly the next 20 years, there will be approximately 10,000 people turning 65 every single day and typically retiring soon after. As the aging Baby Boomer generation transitions out of the workforce there will be a predictable shortage of younger workers available to take on key jobs. Even as the U.S. unemployment rate temporarily stabilizes at around 8...

High Cost Named Top Barrier for Investment in Mobile Technology

A survey from the Enterprise Mobility Exchange has uncovered that the majority of employers who have been slow to invest in enterprise mobility have done so because of costs. According to the survey, 76 percent of enterprise mobility users noted cost as the most significant obstacle when looking to invest in new technology solutions. The primary driver behind mobility technology initiatives was...

CareerCast.com Lists Top 8 Useless Jobs

With a 7.4 percent unemployment rate, we all know just how important steady and stable jobs are nowadays. But as time passes on and Americans remain unemployed, should they turn to a "useless" job? CareerCast.com has created a list of the top eight useless jobs—that is the unfulfilling, most menial, obsolete and downright useless jobs in the working world. CareerCast.com also says the...

My Neighbors and Job Interviews: How and Why They Are So Very Different

The middle-aged tenant couple in the adjacent suite—my neighbors—whom I hear or see daily at only a bit more than a 10-foot pole's length are probably OK. But I'll never know, nor will they (regarding me), since few of my attempts at conversation with them upon moving in and in chance encounters over the nearly four months since I arrived here have gone beyond about 30 seconds and a...

Attracting Top Talent with an Enhanced Employer Brand

In today's increasingly challenging environment, high competition for top candidates makes finding the best talent harder than ever. While organizations spend countless hours, financial resources and effort on social media tactics and job distribution, one of the best long-term strategies is to enhance the company's employment brand. A strong employer brand differentiates the company from its...

4 Ways to Prepare for a Phone Interview

A phone interview is just as important as a face-to-face interview, so it is critical that you prepare for it with just as much dedication. There are many situations where the phone interview is the only interview, so don't think that you are going to get a second chance if you "mess up." Below are some guidelines for preparing for a phone interview: Location, Location, Location This...

New Dashboard Allows for Real-Time Tracking of Medicare Exchange Transitioning

The country's largest private medicare exchange operator, Extend Health, released BenefitView, a real-time interactive dashboard that allows employers to track the transition of retirees to private medicare plans. Employers are given access to up-to-date information on the progress of retirees who are selecting plans on the company's Medicare exchange. But beyond that, BenefitView also grants...

How to Woo, Seduce and Capture High Demand Talent (Part 2)

We recently wrote about the fact that most companies will at one point or another find themselves hiring for a high-demand role where they face candidates with plenty of other options on the table. I explained how in this environment employers needed to adapt from a purely acquisition based hiring model where you simply, point, click and hire the star of your choice to a solutions sales based...

Networking: Who You Know vs. Who You Haven't Met Yet

One of the first pieces of advice any career professional gives is that the quickest way to land a job is through networking. The conventional idea of job-search networking is that the more friends you have in high places the more doors will be opened for you, but that is just part of the story. A big part of networking is who you haven't actually met yet. In a sense, job searching is like...

Is your Arrogance Showing?

This is for all the bosses, executives, hiring managers, managers and supervisors—anyone in a position of authority. Is your arrogance showing, specifically in front of employees? I ask this after having an interesting discussion with my nana. She lives in a senior (ages 55+) apartment complex where one of the assistant managers at apartment complex "talks down" to seniors. She said the...

Why your B2B Company Needs Social Media

How businesses use social media has spread to just about every corner of marketing. Social media is used to target an audience, forge a two-way dialogue with customers and gather feedback. Business to business companies (B2B), however, have been a little slow on the draw. Business to business has relied on face-to-face interactions for a long time. Personal communications have always been what...

Oracle Exec thinks Mobile BI on Verge of Mass Adoption

Despite the wide availability of mobile-based business intelligence (BI) tools in the market, the issues involved in deployment of such technology and the small number of "serious" users of the tech has hindered the uptake of the platform, according to the Program Director of EPM and BI at Oracle, Scott Tunbridge. The so-called "serious users," or those handful of executives who use...

'We're Interested' Really Means What?—9 Kinds of Interest You Need to Distinguish

When a job candidate or an HR recruiter says, "I'm interested", "We're interested", etc., in the job, in you or in your application, can he mean more than one thing? You think not? Guess again. Just as "You are interesting" and "I am interested in you" differ dramatically , "We're interested" can mean quite disparate things—and cause confusion, bad decisions and...

Infographic Details Occupations that Boost Well-Being

Nowadays, almost every worker desires work-life balance. Having a balanced work and home life helps employees be more engaged, which increases productivity. But what does it really mean to have work-life balance and how do you achieve this? Citytowninfo.com has created an infographic, "Happy, Healthy Jobs: Occupations the Boost Well-Being," to help answer these questions and...

GP Strategies Shines new Light on Employee Engagement

GP Strategies, provider of performance improvement solutions, has released an updated version of its study, Employee Engagement Research Report: Beyond the Numbers: A Practical Approach for Individuals, Managements and Executives, indicating that engaged employees produce superior performance results for their employers. The performance boost was achieved thanks to the active involvement and...

BYOD Programs Present Radical Shift in Enterprise Client Computing

According to Gartner, Inc., the increasing popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs is the most radical change in client computing since the introduction of the PC. The company goes on to state that even if a company chooses not to allow such a program, every business needs to clarify its position regarding the issue. The BYOD strategy is an alternative to traditional data access and...

The Career Change Survival Kit

As most of you will know, the job for life concept has all but evaporated, and in fact, most millennials have probably never even heard of it. Research suggests that the average worker may hold an average of 11.4 jobs during their life. But, it's not just jobs that people will change more often, increasingly more and more people are changing careers more often too. This is perhaps as a result of...

Picture Books and Employer Branding

I've spent my fair share of time in the talent management software industry. A large part of this business is focused on building the employer brand. Quick and efficient hiring processes are the foundation of a positive employer brand and with good reason. People cherish their time, and it is all too often wasted by inefficient processes and software that isn't suited for the company or the...

Mobile Employee Self-Service App Lets Employees Clock In Anywhere

Attendance on Demand, an employee time and attendance service, has announced Employee Self Service (ESS) Mobile, an adaptive mobile technology and employee notification application. ESS Mobile adapts each employee's home screen to what he or she needs to do and how that employee works. Notifications appear only when an employee needs to take an action involving missed punches, time card...

Recruiters, Here's Why Job Seekers Dislike You

Well, it's not really you, but more of your actions when it comes to the hiring process. I came across an article in the "Money Careers" section of USnews.com entitled, "10 Things Job Seekers Hate about Recruiters," and then I wondered, "Are they justified to feel this way?" Check out the really only eight (not 10 like the title said) areas that cause job seekers to "hate"...

Most Job Seekers Feel Economy Forces Workers to Take Extreme Measures for Jobs

In a recent survey by FindEmployment, an online global recruitment platform, over one-third of respondents said they felt that the economy is driving job seekers to be more creative in how they market themselves to employers. Just over 10 percent of survey respondents reported that job seekers who use more extreme tactics in order to stand out among candidates are desperate for any jobs. Another...

July Sees Rates of Unemployment Rise As Fewer States Add Jobs

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, most states experienced a rise in unemployment rates in July and fewer states added jobs indicating a loss of momentum in the national job market. The Labor Department reports that 28 states and the District of Columbia had increases in unemployment rates while 8 states had decreases and 14 states saw no change. July had the lowest number of states...

LinkedIn Launches Inspiration Index, Reveals Most Inspired Professionals

Last month (July 23), LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, launched its Inspiration Index designed to discover what the most inspired professionals do for a living. To date, more than 100,000 professionals have contributed to the index by answering one simple question: "How often do you feel inspired by your work?" The index measures responses on a scale of 0 (never...

Why I do NOT Care about your Job Hopping

Job hopping has gotten a PR overhaul and it's a good thing, too. I recently watched Kris Dunn and Laurie Ruettimann present about the "9 Faces of HR" at a SHRM event in Illinois. It was an interesting and eye opening presentation and one of the things that stuck out specifically was that both presenters, both under the age of 40, were in the top third of the grid (really the top spot since one of...

Hiring for Culture Fit: A Success Guide

Recruiting practices in the job market are becoming increasingly dominated by the idea of "cultural fit" and that this quality is a key determinant of how well a candidate will perform within the business. There is research to back this up in the form of a study by Leadership IQ, which revealed that 46 percent of new hires fail within 18 months and that 89 percent of these new hires fail not...

Does a Worker's Personal Life Affect your Brand?

Or could it? And should you, as an employer, even be monitoring the outside-of-work lives of your employees? I ask this because of an interesting AP story I recently read about a U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee who has been put on paid leave for running a racist website. The article explains: The Homeland Security Department says an employee who runs a racist website...

HireClix Identifies Most Popular Job Search Tools

HireClix's survey of job seekers and their preferences when it comes to the tools and technology they use during job searches has revealed that the vast majority (94 percent) still primarily rely on their desktop/laptop to search for work. These were the survey findings although job searches on mobile devices continue to increase with 64 percent of respondents saying that they use their...

Unemployment Benefits Falls to Lowest Number since 2007

The U.S. Labor Department's most recent report on unemployment benefits has found that the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell by 15,000 for the week ending August 10, reaching 320,000. This number is the lowest since October 2007 and is a further sign of shrinking layoffs and steady job growth. The four-week average fell by 4,000 to 332,000, the lowest since November 2007 and the...

Plan for Me Private Exchange Solution Offers Enhanced Cost Control and Administration

HealthPartners has announced the launch of Plan for Me, a new private exchange solution for keeping costs under control while providing additional choices and ease-of-use during open enrollment. Plan for Me supports many prepackaged plans, such as defined contribution and performance network options, with the option for employers to offer custom plans. For members, Plan for Me offers automated...

Steps to Hire a Speaker to Create Motivation and Build Workplace Culture

I know of nothing else that can ruin a company faster than a bad mood. Challenge me to turn around the fortunes of a company in the middle of the worst recession in history or at the height of a PR nightmare and I'll take you up on the bet — if I know that my first order of business is work on changing the mood of the company itself. Why? Simple. Mood is everything. Mood makes a...

ZipRecruiter: Apply with Monster Button Produces "Jaw Dropping" Results

Back in March, Recruiter.com reported that online distribution service ZipRecruiter added a new "Apply with Monster" button, allowing users to apply for jobs using their Monster accounts. ZipRecruiter was the first job board to add this feature, already having apply with LinkedIn and Indeed options. So, five months later, was the new addition worth it? The folks at ZipRecruiter—and the...

More Than Just Casual Friday

Workers are demanding more fun in the workplace. A Hawaiian shirt day just isn't cutting the mustard any more. A Badgeville infographic informs readers that a mere 10 percent of employees look forward to going to work every day and a surprising 90 percent said that they find a fun work environment to be extremely motivating. So, we have a large number of employees who aren't engaged, and a...

3 Signs your Talent Community is Delivering

Talent communities, like many of the other social media phenomena, exploded on to the scene a few years back and promised to set the recruitment world alight. Now, they didn't quite do that, and, for now at least, talent communities are continuing to generate a lot of noise, but I feel they are still in search of their true voice in the talent management process. Don't get me wrong, I have...

Turning Job Rejection into Opportunity

Sometimes it seems that the whole point of a job search is to score the coveted interview. It is a common misconception that once you perform well at the interviewing stage you are a shoe in for the job. But this is far from always the case. You could be just one on a long list of qualified candidates, and one of them could sell themselves in just the right way to earn the job offer. So what do...