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Temporary Staffing and Permanent Placement Firm Everstaff Expands in Midwest

Everstaff - a nationwide temporary staffing and permanent recruitment and placement firm, has recently expanded its horizons with a new branch opening in Dublin, Ohio. The move allows Everstaff to better serve the Columbus metropolitan area. "The expansion in the Columbus area is a very exciting opportunity for us. We are encouraged by the demand we see for our quality staffing services as we...

Recruitment Technology Provider Updates their Talent Aquisition Suite

Known for their leading recruitment technology solutions, General Information Services (GIS) has recently launched an array of updates for their Pangea Talent Acquisition Suite. The updates include additional dashboard functionality as well as the launch of new software integration with Broadbean's highly acclaimed job distribution and social recruiting platform. The strategic partnership allows...

Recruitment Advertising Agency Enhances Social Recruiting Application

Leading job distribution and social recruiting provider Broadbean recently announced their partnership with Net Natives - the UK's leading recruitment advertising agency specializing in social recruiting and Facebook marketing. The partnership enhances the functionality of the Broadbean social recruiting application by providing recruiters with increased range and presentation tools to attract...

Student Recruiting Firm Stays on the Fast Track

Student recruiting? That's right. Very much like how recruiters and private employers compete for top employee talent, colleges and universities vie for top students. Enter TargetX - whose longstanding efforts have been aimed at increasing student recruitment and building student recruiting technology. They were recently ranked again as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S....

Talent Management Provider TEDS Releases Powerful New Dashboards

TEDS - a provider of comprehensive enterprise-wide talent management solutions, recently announced new functionality for a number of their talent life-cycle modules. Their flagship talent acquisition and staffing module, Job Vision, is host to many of the new and updated features. "In economic downturns, productivity becomes even more critical to profitability – and sometimes, even...

How to Combine Your Job Seeking Strategies

Job hunting 101: If you think a proactive job search involves applying to a couple of job board postings each day - think again. You might as well be doing yard work if you expect to see results with a strategy like that. Finding a job isn't easy - but it doesn't have to be hard either. If you work smarter and not harder, you could find a new job in a matter of weeks. What this article...

Employment Law

What Recruiters Need to Know About Employment Law Employment law encompasses all the government regulations regarding the rights of workers and employees. Basic labor laws include child labor laws, minimum wage, paid time, certain types of leave, workplace health and safety, hiring and firing regulations, as well as anti-discrimination and harassment laws. There are also certain laws for...

Featured Review of COMPAS Recruiting Software

Some of you may have heard of COMPAS already, but for those of you who haven't, you should check them out. Unlike many recruiting technology and ATS startups, the management came up through the ranks as real recruiting practitioners. This group of recruiting business owners in the Silicon Valley came together and formed a recruiting software company called COMPAS Technology. They're a...

Reporting an Underperforming Colleague: Cloak and Dagger or Better For Business?

Et tu, Brute? A recent workplace poll by Monster Worldwide revealed that only 27 percent of workers would report a friend to the boss if they felt the team's performance was compromised by their friend's performance. A more devious 4 percent of workers said they would tell their boss about the underperforming colleague if they thought it would help them get ahead, while an overwhelming 58...

3 Tips to Take Control of the Phone Interview

The telephone interview is usually the first step in any interview process. Hiring managers use the call as a screening tool to see if you're a quality candidate. If you make a great first impression during the short round of questions, you'll most likely be selected (among other applicants) for further screening. These candidates are then drawn into a pool of potential hires that the company...

Five New Nursing Job Boards Launch

Emap, a B2B multi-platform media group, recently launched five new nursing job boards aimed at recruiters and job seekers in the healthcare and nursing industries. Led by flagship site NursingTimesJobs.com, the new networks will provide recruiters access to 291,795 nursing practitioners. The new sites utilize the latest in job board technology and seek to become the go-to resource for healthcare...

Lumesse Talent Acquisition Chosen By Edenred

Lumesse, a global provider of solutions to HR and talent acquisition departments, has recently announced that Edenred - the leader in prepaid business solutions, will be implementing Lumesse Talent Acquisition as part of their global recruitment strategy. Based out of France, Edenred is known for their Ticket Restaurant employee benefit program and their substantial list of participating clients....

Dealing with Homepagelessness

Maurice Johnson, 55, currently homeless and living in a Boston municipal shelter, has been unemployed since November. But that may change soon, because he is a rising media star. He may not have a home, but he does have a "home page" of sorts—at LinkedIn, where he has posted a resume that mentions two degrees, from Dartmouth and Purdue and experience as a "Senior Research Engineer at...

HR Best Practices

Human resources professionals find, hire and retain the best talent in the right positions within companies, and recruiters and other HR professionals can follow these HR best practices to keep their candidates and new hires happy and productive. HR best practices keep both clients and employees happy. Innovative Recruiting Strategies Strong HR practices begin with the recruitment...

Extended Mass Layoffs Tapering Off

There were only 1,624 mass layoff events in the private non-farm sector during the second quarter of 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported. (A mass layoff is defined by the B.L.S. as any event in which 50 or more individuals have filed initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits against a single employer during a consecutive 5-week period.) The most recent mass layoff...

HRCarbon Launches Corporate Sustainability Recruitment Practice

HR Carbon launches Corporate Sustainability Recruitment Practice. The HRCarbon Sustainability Resources Management (SRM) service is aimed at the c-Level (CFO, CSO, COO, etc.) and executive/senior managers who are attempting to recruit the best Corporate Sustainability talent from the very limited pool of Sustainability Practitioners that exist. Most Fortune 500 firms, many private corporations...

Leading Staffing Firm Chosen by Franchise Research

Spherion Staffing - a leading recruiting and staffing provider, was recently recognized as a world-class franchisor for the fifth year in a row by the Franchise Research Institute, an organization that strives to study and promote high standards of excellence throughout the franchise industry. Through the use of FranSurvey - the Franchise Research Institute's comprehensive and confidential...

42 Percent of Workers Live Check to Check

A new survey released by CareerBuilder - a major job board and global leader in human capital solutions, suggests that the number of workers living check to check has returned to pre-recession levels. 42 percent of workers say they usually or always live paycheck to paycheck, an slight improvement over the 2010 data that suggested 43 percent of workers had the same trouble. The new figures are...

More Organizations Moving Away From Legacy HR Systems

A recent survey by SumTotal Systems - a global leader in human capital management solutions, has found that a majority of business organizations are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their traditional legacy HR systems and/or ERP-based systems and are switching to new cloud-based talent management solutions. Their findings indicate that the typical global organization favors moving toward a...

5 Obvious Interview Mistakes

When it comes to the art of interviewing - there's no end to the number of rules to remember. There are interview tips and tricks on nearly every aspect of the process. With a head full of interview strategies, it's easy to forget about the basics - the professional and social nuances we take for granted because they're so simple. In trying to think of all the right things to do, we often forget...

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

If you've been in the recruitment field for more than a year or two (or say, just these past two years) you've probably had some experience with, (shudder) corporate motivation. You know, threats, bullying, wailing, and gnashing of teeth...the usual. But understanding and motivating recruiters is a complex job; in fact people who aren't Recruiters just don't (and won't) get it. ...

Workforce Planning

Defining Workforce Planning Broadly speaking, workforce planning is the creation, formulation, and execution of strategy pertaining to the optimization of organizational talent. Workforce planning encompasses talent acquisition, recruitment, development, retention, optimization, learning programs, and talent demand forecasting. Workforce management and planning is often housed inside the...

Technology Consulting Firm CIBER Introduces Lawson Talent Management for Client

Known for their global information technology consulting services, CIBER has recently finished implementing a new Lawson Talent Management Solution for their client company Apache, one of the world's leading independent oil and gas companies. With nearly 4500 employees and operations in the United States, Canada, Egypt, Australia, the North Sea and Argentina, Apache was looking for a talent...

Resume Parser

Recruiters are often inundated with resumes - 90% of which are unqualified for any positions for which they are recruiting. Recruiters at both corporate departments and recruitment agencies experience this pain. Resume overload is exaggerated by a difficult economy and a high unemployment rate. Although some applicant tracking systems support direct input of resumes from corporate career...

4 Tried and True Resume Tips

Resume advice typically comes in one of two fashions. There's the flashy, trendy advice that comes and goes with the latest gimmick - and there's the classic, no nonsense advice that never goes out of style. This article is about the latter: honest advice that gives you the kind of resume hiring managers and recruiters want to see, and the tried and true resume tips that just plain...

Kelly Services Chalks up Strong Quarter

Kelly Services, a leader in temporary workforce and staffing solutions, recently announced their second quarter financial results ended June 30, 2011. The results confirmed a surge in quarterly profit for the staffing, consulting, and outsourcing giant. Revenue for the second quarter of 2011 totaled $1.4 billion, marking a 16 percent increase compared to the second quarter in 2010. Earnings...

4 Work-Life Balance Tips To Keep Your Stress In Check

The daily grind can be overwhelming. Modern work is never-ending and at any moment you feel like you might run screaming from your office building. We've all been there - that's why it's so important to unwind at the end of the day. Here's some tips to help you make the most of your down time and keep balance in your life. Don't take your work home with you: Constantly checking your email...

Ten Video Interview Technology Companies

Put on your game face. If you haven't already started some kind of video interviewing practice in your recruiting department, chances are you will soon. Hopefully, your game face doesn't look like our friend to the right. Some "trends" are more like guesses or even science fiction. Agency recruiters never went away, the same ol' job boards still have all of the job search traffic, and...

How IT Recruiting Firm AVID Utilizes Social Recruitment Technology

AVID Technical Resources - a leading Information Technology contract and direct hire recruiting firm, recently announced their support and use of Jobmagic, a comprehensive social recruitment platform. AVID will be using Jobmagic as its go-to resource for posting jobs and attracting talent. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, AVID specializes in staffing for applications development and...

Global Tech Firm Moves into Talent Management Software

The big boys are coming to talent technology. Infosys, the $6 billion dollar global provider of technology, consulting and outsourcing services, recently unveiled their latest offering - TalentEdge, a new talent management software platform. The cloud-based solution promises to addresses the entire hire-to-retire HR life-cycle and is aimed at reducing operational costs and...

Choosing a Recruiter: How to tell the Good from the Bad

Recruiters often get a bad rap. 9 out of 10 times you hear a friend or family member recounting some grisly horror story about how recruiters are all heartless monsters - chasing after commissions and kicking innocent candidates aside on a whim. Most likely, the storyteller was one of the hapless candidates once upon a time. But let's be honest here. There are a lot of bad recruiters out...

Who are the Largest Outplacement and Recruiting Firms?

Right Management - a division of ManpowerGroup, was recently ranked the largest outplacement firm in the United Sates, based on new report and rankings by Staffing Industry Analysts. Using 2010 revenues, Staffing Industry Experts estimated Right Management's market share of U.S. outplacement revenues to be at 37 percent, with Lee Hecht Harrison at 16 percent and Drake Beam Morin coming in third...

Executive Search Software Vendor Crosses Client Milestone

Dillistone, one of the leading providers of executive search software and recruitment technology, recently announced the 50th order of their latest offering, FileFinder 10. Released March of this year, Filefinder 10 is the latest generation of Dillistone's executive search recruiting software. The FileFinder software is made by Dillistone Group Plc, which is one of the few "pure play" publicly...

Beating Job Search Depression

As anyone will tell you, looking for a job feels like a full-time job. It's easy to get depressed after an unsuccessful day of job searching because it feels like all your effort has gone unnoticed. There may not be any tangible results for you to appreciate. You might start to question whether you've been wasting your time. Before you know it, your fruitless days of searching have turned into...

Take Pride in What You Do

On Recruiter.com, we'll often discuss all of the fun positives of working as a professional recruiter. We talk about the flexibility, fast-pace and great opportunity. We joke about the off-time, the compensation and the competition. A lot of other times we discuss the negatives...the difficult clients, kooky candidates and all around frustrations of recruiting. But there's something that...

LinkedIn Sees Significant Second Quarter Growth

LinkedIn, the social media giant that brings business professionals together, recently announced their second quarter financial results ended June 30, 2011. Revenue for the second quarter was at $121.0 million, an overall increase of 120% compared to $54.9 million posted for the second quarter of 2010. Net income for the second quarter rose to $4.5 million, compared to $4.3 million for the...

HR Software Provider OCI Sees Increased Demand for Leave Management

Options Choices, Inc (OCI) - a provider of data integration and software services that focus on HR, employee benefits, risk management, and IT programs - recently announced their growing client base for their LeaveXpert platform. Launched in 2010, LeaveXpert delivers a total leave and absence management solution for Human Resources departments. "Over the past several years, OCI...

Good News on Unemployment while Dow Drops Almost 500

Today (8/8/2011) has been a terrible day for stocks; the Dow is down almost 500 points as of 2:22 EST. Are we headed into another financial disaster or recession? With all the doom and gloom, it's good to hear some good news on the hiring front, even if it is a modest improvement. The unemployment rate dipped slightly in July to 9.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in a recent...

ATS Vendor Newton Software Improves Recruitment Workflow

Newton Software - a provider of SaaS based applicant tracking systems, recently announced the launch of their new and improved job requisition approval manager. The new feature allows streamlined functionality in the creation and implementation of online job requisition approvals. Recruitment workflow and process engineering that includes automated job requisition approval is typically...

How to Gain and Retain Recruiting Clients in a Crisis Economy

It's impossible to avoid the dire news these days. No matter where you turn the story is the crashing economy, the panicked sell-offs on Wall Street and bleak unemployment rates. What's a recruiter to do? As agency recruiters, we make our living off of companies hiring talent, growing and improving. But it's not time to panic yet. Here are some tips on retaining your current recruiting...

Talent Management Company Halogen Partners with PDS

PDS - a leading provider of HR, benefits, payroll and recruiting systems, recently announced their partnership with talent management solution provider Halogen Software. Through their combined efforts, PDS will now be able to offer a truly comprehensive performance management solution to their clients. "Our focus is on HR, payroll, benefits, and recruiting solutions," said George Brady, vice...

Already Have a Job? Your Next Job is a-Callin'

Question: If you're already happily employed, why would you be looking for another job? Answer: You should always be thinking one step ahead. Just because you have a great job now doesn't mean it's time to throw out your resume and kick your feet up on the desk. You never know what might come around the corner. Maybe the company goes under, maybe you're fired or laid off, maybe your friend...

Hiring Pessimists

"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."—John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author and presidential economic adviser Imagine you are considering two comparable job candidates, one who seems, on the basis of his or her remarks and in general, to be quite the optimist, while the other, quite the pessimist. Other things being equal, which would you favor...

Veterans Receive Grants for Jobs Training

The Department of Labor recently announced the distribution of 23 grants that will provide homeless veterans with job training resources. The grants have a combined value of $5,436,148, and are distributed on behalf of the department's Veterans' Employment and Training Service as part of the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP). The recipients of the awards include state and local...

U.S. Metros See Job Growth

While U.S. job market growth has exceeded expectations for July, a look back over the past year reveals a bumpy road for many metropolitan areas. Although fears that our economy will dip into a second recession have mostly subsided, unemployment continues to plague certain areas. There is progress, however. A number of metropolitan areas across the U.S. have seen substantial job market growth...

Gen Y Myths Debunked

The Kenexa High Performance Institute - a division of parent company Kenexa, recently made public their research on the work habits of millennials - also known as Generation Y (those born between 1982 and 2003). Their findings, released in a white paper entitled "Attitude? What Attitude?" largely dismissed the sensationalist claims of the public media which often suggest, rather dubiously, that...

3 Myths about Staffing Agencies

There's a lot of misinformation surrounding staffing agencies. Often times, people don't fully understand what staffing and recruitment firms can do for them so they assume they'll be better off trying to find a job on their own. Months later they're still struggling to find work. Still, myths and false claims abound and continue to plague the recruiting and staffing industry. This article aims...

LinkedIn Rocks, Dow Rolls, 117,000 New Jobs

LinkedIn's recent IPO and lofty valuation have made many speculators posit that the stock is overvalued. Others declared a "new bubble" in "Web 2" companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Groupon. While yesterday the Dow suffered its worst loss in the past few years, LinkedIn surprised investors with better than expected earnings. On their first quarterly results reported since going public,...