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Avoid the Scandal; Hire Ethical and Honest Employees

The news is out regarding Wells Fargo's recent fraud allegations, and the bank now faces $185 million in fines for opening unauthorized accounts – the largest penalty ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). According to the CFPB, Wells Fargo employees opened more than 2 million deposit and credit card accounts and transferred funds without consent from...

The Difference Between a 'Job' and a 'Passion' – and How to Find Your Passion

There are three general approaches to work: having a job, having a career, and having a passion. I presume that most of us are looking for passions that can also equate to well-paying careers/jobs. Does finding your passion have to mean finding a million-dollar job? Not necessarily. Your nightmare job could be another person's passion, and vice versa. Finding your passion is a matter...

Are Your Adlerian Needs Being Met at Work?

While Alfred Adler is most widely known for his birth-order theories, his work was founded on the basic belief that we all are searching for a sense of belonging and significance. Family dynamics aside, there is no place where these conscious or unconscious forces are as prevalent as in your place of employment. As you progress in your career within a certain organization, those feelings, at...

5 Ways to Speed Up Your Job Search

Your job search is not something you should rush. When you finally get a job, you want it to be one that will make you happy for as long as possible. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make that happen as quickly as you can without getting sloppy in the employment market. Whether you are thinking about leaving your job or you are currently unemployed, the shorter the...

How to win over the best millennial talent—and keep them around

I am a millennial, and I've discovered that makes me somewhat of an enigma to hiring managers across the globe. Companies need to hire people my age, but they seem to be struggling to figure us out. Millennials are "the consumers of the job market," according to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review. In less than ten years, they will make up 75% of the workforce. If you are a...

Brand Marketing Is to a Great Product What Employer Branding Is to a Great Culture

Having spent my career building brands and growing digital businesses for companies like Coca-Cola and Tribune Company, I know the importance of brand awareness and the lift it provides on your marketing efforts. You could have one of the most impressive products out there, but without marketing that builds awareness and forges an emotional connection with your target consumer long before...

How to Use Content to Build Your Personal Brand

We often talk a lot about content in the marketing world. Broadly defined, "content" means creating and sharing relevant information. It can range from business-related articles and blog posts to videos and podcasts. Content can paint a picture of a company, explain what it sells, create engagement, and do so much more. Many companies also use content to build their brands. Engaging...

Managing the Future of Your Career: Why Retirement Is Harder Than Ever

We are job-search campaign managers, which means we frequently work with senior leaders who are experts in wearing their public masks of confidence. But often, beneath those veneers is a profound despair. There are two variations of this despair: "My college roommate was able to retire at 64. I can't afford to retire. I feel like such a failure. What did I do wrong?" "I am looking...

Emotional Intelligence: Why Bother?

Recently, a client called and asked me to do a speaking engagement for a major insurance company on the topic of emotional intelligence (EQ). I explained that it takes a great deal of pain to convince people to accept input on the matter of emotional intelligence, and that they generally only do so if changing would create more of what they wanted from their careers. For example, if...

A Quick Guide to Giving Constructive Criticism at Work [Infographic]

Feedback is important in the workplace for a number of reasons, the most obvious among them being that your employees – and by extension, the overall organization – will never improve if they aren't aware of the ways in which they can improve. Another thing to note is that feedback is critical for employee engagement. Employees at all levels and of all age groups want to receive...

Your Employer Won't Always Be Loyal; Learn to Put Your Own Career First

Today, loyalty feels like a lost art. It's often hard to see where allegiances lie and who really has your back. Sadly, this is especially true in the workplace and in our careers. Over the years, I've noticed an interesting phenomenon. Even when we know things are going badly, many of us want to hang in there for the good of the company. In theory, it's good to be committed – but, in...

Thinking About Freelancing? Make Sure You Have What It Takes First [Infographic]

By some estimates, freelancers now make up about a third of the U.S. workforce. It's easier now than it ever has been to pay the bills as a self-employed worker, thanks to communications technologies that allow us do work wherever we are for whomever is paying. But that doesn't mean self-employment is the right path for everyone. As contributing writer Jason McDowell pointed out last...

15 Reasons Your Job Search Will Self-Destruct Today

How you go about your job search says a lot about who you are as a professional. We can argue about how closely related our personal and professional personas are, but at the end of the day, I can assure you most companies and hiring managers pay careful attention to how you act during a job search, and this plays a huge role in their decision to hire you (or not). Unfortunately, your...

6 Organization Hacks for Handling a Busy Schedule

If you – like so many other people – have a day job, a side hustle, and 50 other things on your plate, it is essential to be organized and on top of things. As someone who is always busy, I've come up with six organization hacks to help me handle my packed schedule, and I want to share them with you. Everyone is different, and because of that, some of these tips may be beneficial...

7 Tips to Help You Strengthen Your Employer Brand

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: How does your company craft and spread its awesome employer brand? 1. Always Treat Candidates Well I...

Stop Making Huge Hiring Mistakes – Learn How to Use Pre-Hire Assessments the Right Way

Last month, we published a list of our top 10 pre-hire personality and behavioral assessments. In that list, we included the EQ-i 2.0, an emotional intelligence assessment that was recommended to us by workplace psychologist Christine Allen, Ph.D., who is also the vice president of Insight Business Works and president of the New York Psychological Association's Division of Organizational,...

5 Signs You Need a New Career

Do you dread Mondays? Feel like Fridays can't come soon enough? It's normal to have a bad day at work from time to time, but if you hate your job week after week, that's a sign it's time for a change. But how do you determine whether you need a new job or an entirely new career? If you're on the fence about taking a new direction in your professional life, here are five questions to ask...

Think Your MBA Will Get You Hired? Think Again!

I've seen it so many times: When the going gets tough, people resort to the traditional means of adding more credentials and qualifications to their resumes. Before you do it, too, you need to seriously ask yourself why. Is this just your way of trying to look more attractive to hiring managers, or is it for you – because you want to do this? There is a difference, and if you want to...

Deloitte Millennial Study: Winning Over the Next Generation of Leaders

Deloitte just completed its fifth millennial study, this one focusing on values and ambitions, drivers of job satisfaction, and increasing presence of millennials on senior leadership teams. The study was conducted in 29 countries, consisted of more than 4,000 interviews, and involved 7,500+ millennials. One of the most troubling findings is that many millennials essentially already have...

Being a Good Boss Isn't Easy – But This Flowchart Should Help [Infographic]

When you're the boss, the whole team's success is your responsibility, and its failures are (at least partially) your fault. That may sound like a lot for one person to shoulder, but that's the simple fact of the matter. Great leaders drive their teams to victory, and bad leaders can cause their workers to toil away futilely. But the question is – which one are you? Are you a good...

Why Some People Fail and Others Succeed

Article by Jim Rohn If we have a sincere desire for progress, then we are compelled to find every possible means to implement all that we know and feel. We must find ways to demonstrate on the outside all of the value that we possess on the inside. Otherwise, our values will remain unappreciated and our talents unrewarded. Why some people fail and others succeed can be baffling....

What People Want at Work in 2016

If you thought that your workers were tackling big tasks, hitting their deadlines at the office, and generally happy commuting into work, think again. According to a new survey from FlexJobs, the biggest thing that employees want at work in 2016 can be summed up in one word: flex. What People Want at Work in 2016 The FlexJobs Fifth Annual Super Survey takes a good look at the world of...

How to Write Job Posts That Attract the Best Job Seekers

On your mark, get set, go! You feel like Usain Bolt running the 100-meter relay in Rio. The two-weeks-notice baton has been passed to you, and you're off on the search for a new hire. The job post is out, but it's not yielding the top talent you were hoping for. Maybe the problem is that your posts don't appeal to the prospects you're hoping to attract in the job market. Here are...

Smart Cities: The Next Talent Frontier

Google Maps is more than just a convenient app. It's a powerful example of the dramatic changes society has recently undergone. Not long ago, the digital world and the "real" world were separate entities. Sure, they communicated, but they weren't inextricably intertwined like they are now. If you wanted directions, you had to print out the MapQuest itinerary (remember MapQuest?) ahead of...

6 Things Hiring Managers Never Want to See on a Resume

As providers of professional career services, we at ResumeSpice know what hiring managers, human resources departments, and recruiting professionals do – and don't – want to see on candidates' resumes. Especially in today's competitive job market, it's important to keep your resume in the running by avoiding a few critical, but unfortunately common, mistakes. Here are six things...

3 Ways to Hire and Retain the Best Employees

Everywhere you look, employers are complaining about their inability to find qualified applicants for critical positions. But the whole situation is rather ironic: There are 10+ million workers who can't find jobs, but employers report they can't find employees. The key to understanding this shortage is the word "qualified." When employers say they can't find "qualified" applicants, they...

Stop Calling Yourself an 'Entrepreneur' – and Other Resume Keyword Tips From a 'Resume Psychologist'

Dirk Spencer – a recruiter and author whose insights have appeared in numerous articles on our site and others – is serious about resume keywords. He's so serious he runs a free class on them, and he recently turned that class into a book, Resume Keywords Decoded and Demystified: Hack the Resume Black Hole. Spencer has every reason to be concerned about resume keywords. In fact, job...

Be the Company People Leave Their Jobs For

These days, it seems almost impossible to keep employees on staff for longer than a few years. According to A Snapshot of Competition for Talent in the U.S., a research report from software-as-a-service provider iCIMS, more than half of all full-time employees are willing to dump their employers for the gig economy, and 63 percent of full-time employees are actively looking for new jobs....

4 Ways to Close the Healthcare Skills Gap

According to a survey from PwC, 58 percent of CEOs worldwide fear that a persistent skills gap could hinder their organizations' abilities to grow. Within the healthcare industry in particular, the skills gap hinders not only company growth objectives, but also an organization's ability to render superior patient care. Furthermore, this gap shows no sign of narrowing soon, thanks in part...

TAtech Tip: Add Employee Reflections to Employee Referrals

When executed well, employee referral programs leverage the social media and other contacts of an organization's workers to connect with high-caliber passive prospects. In most cases, however, the resulting outreach is narrowcast to the specific subset of individuals appropriate for a particular opening. While this approach does often generate applicants, it significantly underutilizes...

Being the Boss: Why So Many Leaders Fail

Nothing is more flattering than a promotion. When the executives choose you to be a leader, it sends a powerful message about your skills and knowledge. But if a promotion is proof that a person knows what they're doing at work, why is it so hard for so many employees to make the move from individual contributor to leader successfully? Leaders and Managers Need Soft Skills – But...

'Don't Ever Turn Up to Work Without Makeup Again': Terrible Comments From Terrible Bosses

It sounds like something out of The Office: A clueless boss makes wildly inappropriate comments to his employees without even a shred of self-awareness. But while the newest line of greeting cards from U.K.-based company Christmas Connections may have been inspired by David Brent, the notoriously bad boss in the original U.K. version of The Office, they're all straight out of real...

How to Properly Vet Applicants Who Have Gig Experience

When recruiters and hiring managers review a candidate's work history, they can typically get a pretty good idea of what the applicant is capable of just by analyzing their previous jobs. However, with nearly 16 percent of the U.S. workforce currently employed in the series of remote, freelance, temporary, and contract positions that collectively comprise "the gig economy," many resumes...

Make Your Employer Brand Go Viral by Adding a Little Music

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Katz maintains a YouTube channel full of pitch-perfect cover songs on which he sings and plays every single note. He's not exactly the type of person you'd expect to see profiled on a site dedicated to recruiting and HR. But Katz has found a way to breathe new life into employer branding and recruiting campaigns through music, as in...

5 Traits That Would Make this CEO Hire You

I have spent a lot of time sifting through resumes and online profiles in search of the perfect people to join my company. As the owner of three online businesses, I manage a team of 29 staff – 24 of whom are remote employees based all over the world. Since I opened up my company to remote hires, my pool of applicants has grown exponentially. This has not only given me access to the world's...

7 Go-To Interview Questions for Savvy Entrepreneurs

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What is your favorite interview question to ask potential hires, and why? The answers below are provided by members of...

How Video Is Transforming the Recruitment Process for Job Seekers, Recruiters, and Employers

Did you know that videos lead to a 200-300 percent increase in click-through rates for emails? Or that adding video to a landing page increases conversion by 80 percent? At Premier Staffing, we wanted to test these metrics and see if video could help us drive engagement with prospective job seekers and hiring managers, so we began using the custom video app OneMob. We've found that...

'Hey Boss, Can I Work at Home Today?': Why the Answer Should Be 'Yes'

As technology advances, more workers than ever before are working remotely. There has been a 103 percent increase in companies that use remote work since 2005, according to Global Workplace Analytics. Additionally, 38 percent of workers in management, business, and financial operations occupations, as well as 35 percent of those employed in professional and related occupations, did some or...

Learn to Use Strong Language at Work

Have you ever noticed that some people command respect when speaking while others don't? It all comes down to the power of strong language. Strong language is the difference between telling your boss that you need the day off and asking if it would be possible to take the day off. While it's never okay to disrespect your superiors, it is important to take charge and act on what you...

Keeping Butts in Office Chairs in the Age of Job Hopping

Business media outlets are ripe with stories about millennials and how they can't sit still for more than two years at a job. But the truth of the matter is the trend isn't limited to the millennials. In fact, 63 percent of full-time employees are looking for a new job, according to A Snapshot of Competition for Talent in the U.S., a new research report from iCIMS. The breakdown provided...

How to Prepare Your Personal Brand for a Job Search

You've likely seen the term "personal branding" in blogs and articles as you've been preparing for your job search, but you may not be entirely certain what it means. Personal branding is how a candidate packages their skills, background, experience, and public persona in order to market themselves to potential employers. A strong personal brand image could mean landing the job of your...

Background Screening for the On-Demand Economy: What Every Freelancer Needs to Know

Background checks are a common component of the standard employment process. These days, if you want to get a traditional full-time job, you should expect to submit an application and resume, go through a phone interview, nail an in-person interview or two, and submit to a background check. At the same time , our concept of what a job or career can be has begun to shift. No longer is...

How Did Corporate Jargon Grow Out of Control – and How Do We Stop It?

I've often asked myself why so many of us in the corporate world feel compelled to talk about getting our ducks in a row, building straw dogs, or making sure we're all singing from the same song sheet for our elevator speeches. How did this start? Who is responsible for the blatant proliferation of jargon throughout the corporate world to the point where it is acceptable in an interview to...

Network Now for Less Work Later: Why It's Time to Start Building Talent Communities

One of the most important things that recruiters can do in the job market is maintain valuable networks. Social media websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter can be great places to source candidates for these networks, but many recruiters aren't going far enough. Instead of just spamming the Internet with jobs and hoping somebody qualified bites, what if you had an interested...

How to Become a Product Manager at Reebok: Andi Archer's Story

Reebok is one of the world's leading fitness brands. Have you ever wondered what it is like to work there? I spoke with Andi Archer, a product manager at Reebok, about her career journey at the brand's headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts. Bruce Harpham: What did you study in college? Andi Archer: I studied design at the Rhode Island School of Design and started at Reebok shortly...

10 Little Things Successful People Do Differently

Article by Casey Imafidon Successful people think differently, act differently, and distinguish themselves from unsuccessful people by taking a distinctive path toward their goals. Successful people all have similar traits and similar behavior patterns. The truth is that you can be successful, too, if you learn what other successful people do. And no, that doesn't mean you have to...

Go for the Gold in Your Workplace With This Advice From a Team USA Athlete

This past August, 27.5 million viewers tuned in across America to watch Olympic athletes go for the gold. Team America didn't disappoint, winning 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze medals for their country, leaving fans feeling proud and patriotic. The Olympics and other professional sporting events aren't just for entertainment. There are lessons to be learned from watching these athletes...

5 Simple Resume Tricks to Get You More Interviews

Whether you're in the middle of a job hunt or planning to start one soon, there are a few resume changes you should make if you want to immediately stand out and get more interviews. Read through the steps below and use this as a checklist to make sure your resume is doing as much as possible to help you get hired! 1. Simplify the Formatting The average corporate job receives around...