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National Jobs Survey Finds Openings on the Rise in May

The June 2013 Employment Outlook from Simply Hired reports that job openings have experienced growth for the eleventh time within the past 13 months with a 3.2 percent over-the-month increase in May. The year-over-year increase between May 2012 and May 2013 was an impressive 38.4 percent as job competition also dropped from three unemployed persons to two for each job opening. Nearly 30 percent...

Customizable Interview Practice Solution Released by ThinkOptimal

With the release of OptimalInterview PRO, online career services provider ThinkOptimal has introduced the first enterprise-wise interview practice solution to be fully customizable with access to web-based coaching for a diverse range of career options. Career advisors and other professionals can use OptimalInterview PRO to record interview questions and coaching sessions in video or audio only...

Would you Hire Unattractive Candidates?

I applied and interviewed for a position at Victoria's Secret once. The original position was for "customer service associate," i.e. the store was looking for someone to fold clothes and setup displays early in the morning before all the customers arrived. After my second interview, one of the hiring managers told me he was actually going to put me at the register instead of the listed...

TaskUs Saves Internet Businesses 2 Million Hours of Work

Two 22-year-old men started a business in their parents' garage. Now, four years later, that company has help internet businesses save a massive 2 million hours of work. HR world meet TaskUs, the company that says it's your "secret weapon." The outsourcing company handles the daily "microtasks" that tend to distract businesses, giving their workers more time to focus on innovation and...

HR vs. Millennial Assessment Clash: The Elephant in the Room and the Tree in the Forest

At least one survey reveals that the average Millennial thinks (s)he is a great hiring prospect. According to another, the average HR professional seems to sharply disagree. How is it possible for HR assessments to widely and wildly diverge from Millennial self-assessments and how big is the assessment gap? According to a recent report about a Beyond.com survey, it's very big: "While 83...

How to Write a Job Description that Doesn't Suck

What does your company's job descriptions look like? Are they filled with hyperbole and trite sound bites like work-hard, play-harder? Do they focus more on lunch and snacks than the job itself? Too often, generic, lackluster descriptions fail to communicate some pretty cool opportunities. A job description is your critical first impression when recruiting, and if you lose them before they even...

What IT Doesn't Know CAN Hurt You

Those of you lucky enough to have a robust IT department will understand this headline best, as IT's presence and skill in a company can be both a blessing and a challenge. Especially when it comes to HR Technology. When it comes to video interviewing, here are the warning signs that the recruiting and talent acquisition leaders need to speak up, quickly: "We can build that for...

Unemployment Aid Applications Back on the Rise

While unemployment aid applications still hover at five-year lows, those seeking benefits for the week ending May 25 rose by 10,000 to reach a seasonally adjusted 354,000. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the weekly rise increased the four-week average by 6,750 to 347,250; the third consecutive increase. Weekly applications have fallen almost 7 percent since last November and were at a...

Workforce Acquisition Solution from Peoplefluent Supports Strategic Hiring

Social HCM technology company Peoplefluent has announced a unified version of its recruiting and workforce management solutions called Peoplefluent TalentUnity. TalentUnity is a combination of recruitment and contingent-sourcing workflows consolidated under just one interface. The integrated approach gives HR professionals, managers, and recruiters more complete and streamlined access to...

Hiring with Social: A Success Story

Talk about employer branding, social reach and just good, fun business rolled up into one fantastic Instagram sensation. It looks as though ePrize, a fun-loving tech company, is leading the way in getting employers on the social media wagon for the purposes of hiring. Yes, recruiters have been using social media to recruit for a few years now, but ePrize used it for actually hiring in an...

InternMatch Releases "The State of the Internship" Report

InternMatch, an online company offering a database of internships to help match students with companies, just released the findings from its "The State of the Internship" report. The report, which focuses on what students really care about, revealed that students are now working at internships much earlier in their academic careers than employers realize. A little over 17 percent of students...

Live Jobvite Roadshow Tour Kicks Off Next Week

Leading SaaS recruiting platform Jobvite is set to "take its expertise on the road" with its Recruiters Rock 2013 conference. The free, half-day conferences (with breakfast included) will offer packed recruiting and hiring best practices, tips and tricks on attracting top talent and "an easy, step-by-step breakdown" on improving social recruiting strategy. The events are designed to help...

Infographic Lists 15 Highest Paid CEOs

The Occupy movement spread rather quickly across the U.S., riling up millions of Americans who deemed themselves the "99 percent." Everyone knows income inequality continues to be a major issue in the country, but the data is pretty mind-blowing. Bolt Insurance has created a new infographic detailing salaries of the 15 highest-paid CEOs, which might be interesting to those interested in...

Should Our Professional Ethics Ever Change?

The notion that there are different kinds of ethics—professional, general business, religious, scientific, artistic, family, environmental, etc.—seems obvious, yet somehow odd. On the one hand, these preoccupations and occupations are in so many ways so different from each other that it seems sensible to create different guidelines for different domains. Surely, the ethical issues and...

Infographic Cooks Up Steps to Culinary Success

It's probably one of the most common questions asked around the world: What do you want to be when you grow up? And a lot of people spend most of their lives trying to answer this. We're offered a plethora of information on "common" occupations. Want to be a doctor? Go to medical school. Want to be a lawyer? Go to law school. Teacher, dentist, firefighter, policeman: most...

Survey: 88 Percent of Cloud Users Witness Cost Savings

According to a study from open cloud company Rackspace Hosting, 88 percent of cloud users said their usage points to cost savings. Another 56 percent of those surveyed agree that cloud computing has helped them boost profits. Of the 88 percent of participants who said using the cloud is helping save money, 62 percent are reinvesting these savings back into the business to do things like...

Maximum's Social Recruitment Monitor Reveals Effects of US Companies' Social Media Recruiting Programs

According to the Social Recruitment Monitor™, Northrop Grumman and Taco Bell's social recruitment programs are the most effective in generating likes/follows, engagement and community interaction with and by their audiences. The monitor is the first-ever fact-based and objective online benchmark tool for monitoring and measuring the effectiveness of global employers' social media...

Recent Grad? Learn How to Land a Job with CSI's Suzana Simic

Graduation season is in the air. Tassles are being turned, photos proudly taken with degrees in hand, and masses of former students are breathing that we-finally-made-it sigh of relief. And while many graduates may think the work is finally over, for a great deal, the work has just begun. Research continues to tell us about the unfortunate plight of recent graduates—underemployed or...

ZipRecruiter Introduces Advanced User Roles Feature

Having a variety of roles in a company is important to its success. Everyone can't be the "the boss" because who else would fill all the other crucial roles? Likewise, it wouldn't work to try to have a business free of management because the delegation of tasks and priorities may become confusing (or non-existent, which is problematic). Roles are important and each worker understanding...

The 8 Qualities of the Ideal 2013 Job Candidate

Our current climate is characterized by: radical change, new technologies, a multi-generational workplace, globalization and the rise of the BRIC economies, which have all led to extraordinary levels of competition in the consumer, commercial and candidate marketplace. These forces are placing significant and varied demands on workers and professionals, and to thrive, survive, and deliver...

Bring it On Class of 2013!

Forging a career path for the Class of 2013 won't be easy, but it is certainly doable if you are willing to bring it on and showcase what you have to offer the world. The first step comes from articulating what you want in your professional life. Say it out loud; write it down, and then start to own your aspirations by telling others. Before you know it, people will surface who can help you on...

Resume Writing 101

I came across a young woman the other day who was in search of resume advice. She'd graduated from college four years ago, worked in sales for multiple years only to discover that her true passion was communications. Now, she's looking to enter the marketing/communications field, but she's running into a problem: She doesn't have any experience. This woman needed help crafting her...

New Company Skillmeter Helps Recruiters Customize Hiring Process

When it comes to recruiting top talent, employers are looking for the cream of the crop. You want the best, the candidate with the best qualities, skills and abilities. Uniqueness is extremely important when sourcing talent, because no company desires to hire anyone who is just like everyone else. Yet, if employers don't want standard employees, why use standard means to recruit? You're...

Employer Branding on a Shoestring

Employer branding is a complex subject. More than 40 percent of companies indicated that employer branding is a "must have" in their talent acquisition strategies. But for many, it's a non-sequitur because the assumption is that to build a great brand, you need a lot of money. In fact, 71 percent of employees say obtaining an adequate budget is their no. 1 challenge in managing an employer...

Lost (and Found) in Translation: How to Gather Reference Feedback Across the Globe

Most reports for HR trends list "the globalization of talent" as one of the leading trends for the coming years. This presents recruiters with the challenge of assessing candidates in another country. Reference-checking is hard enough when done locally—how can recruiters gather feedback from references in another time zone and for whom English is a second language? Technology can now come...

Updated TM Solution Enables Strategic Planning, Employee Engagement from Peoplefluent

HCM technology firm Peoplefluent has announced a new updates to its core social HCM platform Peoplefluent Talent Management. Not only has the TM solution become more tightly integrated with Peoplefluent Learning Management, the Workforce Communications solution has also received an overhaul with new features that improve the delivery of rich benefits and policy content to managers and employees....

Trends in Mobile Use for Job Seekers [infographic]

Raise your hand if you couldn't go one day without your phone. I imagine the majority of people who read this will raise their hands (or at least think about it). Why? Because, let's face it, most people cannot function without their mobile devices. We use our phones and tablets for just about everything: alarm clocks, timers, calendars, directions, shopping, searching the web, watching...

SurePayroll CEO to Educate Small-business Owners on First Hire Process

With the help of its CEO, Michael Alter, online payroll provider SurePayroll plans to help small-business owners get a better understanding of when and how to make their first hire. Alter, plans to host a First Hire TweetChat on June 5, 2013, where entrepreneurs will have the chance to ask him questions about hiring their first employees. The CEO will offer insights on: Â recognizing...

Hiring Veterans: A Business Strategy that Delivers Results

Hiring veterans goes beyond patriotism. It's a solid business strategy built on leveraging proven results by some of the brightest talent possessing the top skills today's employers crave - critical thinking, problem solving professionalism, work ethic, leadership, oral communications, teamwork (SHRM Survey 2013). Nearly 70 percent of SHRM'S 2012 poll respondents said their organization...

The State of Employer Branding Today

At the Universum Employer Branding Conference in New York, executives from all over the world gathered to discuss every aspect of employer branding: What defines a good one, which companies are exhibiting best practices and how perceptions are changing over the years. In her keynote, Universum President of the Americas, Melissa Murray Bailey, said, "Employer branding is such a new concept for...

Does Your Company Stifle or Nurture Ambition?

Research tells us that candidates are more ambitious and self determining than they have ever been. In 2001, research from PwC showed that around 20 percent of staff were leaving primarily due to lack of career development. But, by 2008 this figure had grown to 32 percent, according to a survey from Gallup. And remarkably, in 2012, Randstad's Employment Survey showed that a massive 86 percent of...

Survey: Importance of Benefits to Financial Security

In its newest annual survey of working Americans, financial protection benefits provider Unum has found that a growing number of employees are feeling financially insecure, as over 40 percent are choosing to postpone retirement. An additional 50 percent lack confidence that their savings will cover future expenses for potential occurrences such as illness, injury, or other circumstances of lost...

Employee-Manager Relationships: Know When to Say No

It happens to the best of us on the job every so often. Our boss or a higher up asks us to do something that calls for going the extra mile or making a sacrifice. Often it's something that doesn't really come alongside any additional reward or pay off beyond staying in the boss's good graces. Saying no is going to be frowned upon, which puts the employee in a difficult position. Even so,...

Modern Job-Hunting: a Not so Perfect Game of 'Perfect Information'

A recently held Philadelphia job fair for ex-offenders got canceled when its doors opened and it became clear that the 3,000-strong crowd of job hunters was about to overwhelm the venue and plunge the fair into chaos. Only then did it become obvious that the turnout estimate based on the previous year's attendance figure—1,000 job chasers—was wildly off. A key contributing cause of...

10 Warning Signs To Look For During Intern Interviews

It's become all too common for companies to fall into the trap of carelessly bringing on interns. They're only temporary, right? Wrong. Your interns may only be with you for a semester, but a well-developed internship program can act as an effective talent pipeline for future full-time employees. In fact, each year, more employers are choosing to hire specifically from their internship...

How to Become a Social Media Marketing Specialist [Infographic]

Did you know there are more than 200 social networks with a combined total of users reaching into the billions? That's the latest data from Schools.com's infographic "How to Become a Social Media Marketing Specialist." And with numbers like that, who wouldn't be interested in seeing what this career field has to offer? The infographic first explains some of the things a social media...

The Importance of Mobile Recruiting [infographic]

Job seekers want you to go mobile - a reported 77% of job seekers use mobile job search apps. Does your company offer job seekers an easy and friendly way for them to apply to your jobs using their mobile device? If you don't, you may be missing out on a huge volume of potential applicants. HireRabbit, a company that makes it easy for employers to build a career site for mobile and social...

Recruiting Global Leaders

With the threat and opportunity that is posed by globalization and the rise of emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, India and China, businesses, both small and large and from every corner of the globe, are beginning to deploy resources to (and hire from) every corner of the world. For many employers, the talent game has gone global. This means employers and recruiters are having to develop...

Not so "Best" Best Practices in Recruiting

In the recruiting world, there has always been this focus on creating consistent practices and streamlining the process. This is a natural tendency, as it generates efficiency, organization and promotes best practices. But are they really the best? HR and all that comes with it is evolving, and fast. New technologies and tools are flying past our heads, and they're hard to catch when you're...

4 Easy Ways a Routine Presentation Can Kill your Career

You have heard the old saying from Yogi Berra, "When you see the fork in the road, take it." There's a corporate take on Yogi's words: "When you see an opportunity, take it." And don't squander the chance to shine. Here's an example: Daryl was just informed he must step in for his boss to present the quarterly update at a senior staff meeting. He's not worried. He does it...

8 Secret Sins of the Office

Last week I was watching ABC's 20/20 and they featured an interesting topic: Secret sins of the office. What's a secret sin, though? Apparently, it's a "no no" while at work; some action (or actions) done in the office environment/on the clock that could quickly lead to your unemployment. I was immediately intrigued. The pointers were backed by Cynthia Shapiro, a former HR executive...

Google, Qualcomm Top List for the Best Business Outlook

"Do you believe your company's business outlook will get better, stay the same, or worsen in the next six months?" This is the question Glassdoor recently asked in a company review survey where employees voluntarily and anonymously shared their perspective on what it's like to work at their company. The reviews are in and now Glassdoor presents the Top 10 Companies with the Best...

iCIMS Upgrades Talent Acquisition Suit with Latest Onboarding Solution

iCIMS, provider of SaaS talent acquisition software solutions, has announced the release of its upgraded Onboard product to help improve employment brand showcasing and company culture while minimizing paperwork and streamlining task management. "Our new and improved Onboard product is something we are incredibly proud of and are excited to bring to the market," said iCIMS Chief Technical...

7-Piece Tech Toolkit for Recruiters in 2013

In recent years, we have seen sweeping changes in the employer-candidate dynamic as the relationship has moved from walk-in job shop, to print, to online, to social media and to mobile. During this time, the process has moved from technophobic to technological and now to techno-social, which means that to engage effectively, the modern recruiter needs to be an early adopting, innovating...

4 Things to Do Before You Even Start Looking

Job seekers, you have an ever-increasing amount of information at your fingertips, dozens of job boards to search, big social data to wade through, and most of you don't even know where to begin. Just diving in without a deliberate direction for a job search can really limit you. Jumping from site to site, and disorganized networking won't get you too far. Â Before the search begins,...

Why Millennials are Driving the Need for Video Interviewing

Millennials (AKA Generation Y born between 1980 and 2000) believe workers possessing the ability to come up with cutting-edge ideas is critical for future business growth. Why is this nugget, uncovered by a Deloitte-Touche Tohmatsu study, important? Because, Millennials are our next generation of business leaders. Moreover, by 2025, Millennials will make up 75 percent of the workforce according...

Study: 6 in 10 Employees Report Actual Job Different From Expectations

According to a recent survey from Glassdoor, 6 in 10 (61%) employees reported that they've found aspects of a new job to be different than expectations set during the hiring process. The survey of more than 2,000 workers also showed that more men (65%) than women (56%) found various aspects of a new job to be different than expected post-hiring process. For the employees who reported finding...

3 Overlooked Areas to Promote Company Culture

Don't underestimate the value of your company's culture. It's a bold statement, but one that's sure to keep your business attracting the brightest, top talent if heeded. I wrote a story awhile back on a Millennial who, after a few years, left a Fortune 500 company for a business where he actually fit into the culture. Today, months later, he couldn't be happier with his decision. And...