The Hidden Value of Temporary Jobs
If you are one of the millions currently in the market for a job, your primary goal is probably a full-time, permanent position. But your single-minded pursuit may be eliminating a number of positive opportunities to be found in the realm of temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire positions. If you are seeking employment through a staffing agency, you may be confronted by employment...
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SilkRoad Survey: HR Departments Behind in Integrating Available Technology
Cloud-based HR solutions provider SilkRoad, in releasing its survey "Strategic HR: Integrating Data and Applications for Business Advantage," has found that most HR departments have only partially integrated their available technology for HR processes. Of the survey respondents, which included 380 HR professionals, 73 percent reported having "some level of HR integration," while...
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The Survival Guide to Hiring Friends
As an entrepreneur or small business leader, you are likely to find yourself in the position where you need to contemplate hiring a friend. It's understandable really; they are a known quantity, you know their skills and competencies, you like them, they are available and you don't have to spend valuable time and resources searching for a new hire in a very tight candidate market. So, what's the...
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Equifax Workforce Solutions Adds 3,000th Client
Equifax Workforce Solutions, a leading provider of human resource, data, analytics and verification services, recently announced its 3,000th employer client for The Work Number, the nation's premier employment and income data source. The client is leading specialty retailer of women's apparel, jewelry, and accessories Coldwater Creek, Inc. Using The Work Number service, Equifax Workforce...
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White Paper Shows Importance of Job Boards to Finding Talent
A white paper from eQuest entitled "Setting the Record Straight: Why You Can't Ignore Job Boards in Your Recruitment Marketing," has further cemented the idea that job advertising is critical when attracting quality candidates. The paper also gives an updated meaning of the term "job board" after speaking with a variety of HR industry experts. Job board activity is defined as any time...
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A Cornucopia of Keywords for Your Resume
The job search is never a good time to be at a loss for words – especially keywords. In these days of fierce job seeker competition and increasingly swamped hiring managers, choosing the wrong words make the difference between getting called for an interview and getting lost in the stack. Luckily, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Grammarly team has pulled together a cornucopia of...
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How Much Are 2,088 HR Managers Worth?—Less Than One Painting? [Part I]
A painting of what looks like a seated zombie or werewolf posing in mid-transformation at the rising of the moon may strike you as grotesque. Paying $142 million for it? Silly, if not obscene. That amount of money, the recent world record-setting winning bid for Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" at Christie's of London, could buy the annual services of 2,088 HR managers at...
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Are you Thankful for your Employees? [Interview]
Happy Thanksgiving from Recruiter.com! We appreciate all of our readers, partners and contributors and just want to offer a much deserved "Thank You" on this special day. Doesn't it feel good to be appreciated and to know that someone is thankful for all the work that you do? To be recognized and hear the phrases, "Thank you," or "Good Job" or "I appreciate...
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Talygen's Improved CRM Tool Streamlines Lead Generation and Follow-up
Business management automation specialist Talygen has announced the introduction of improvements to its cloud-based solution CRM aimed at sales people. Talygen's CRM module automates CRM tasks such as scheduling follow-ups and sending bulk emails. The module is designed to handle every part of lead generation and relationship building and allows users to create, update, and delete leads and...
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The New Professional Development: Who You Are, Not Where You're Going
No matter the source, most places you turn to for career advice point you in the same direction for achieving career success: set realistic short- and long-term goals; make an actionable plan to reach them; and continually work to develop your skill set and improve areas of weakness. And while this advice is solid and forward thinking, a new type of approach may reveal a lack of comprehensiveness...
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Recruiting Like Southwest
Yup, we're going to talk branding some more. While we don't all have the resources or expertise to build a brand like Southwest Airlines has, there are some great insights we can take away from what they're doing that got them where they're at. While a lot of recruiters are talking about the "War for Talent", Southwest has quality candidates knocking down its door. According to...
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Mid-year Workforce Talent Survey Finds Higher Job Confidence despite Lingering Challenges
According to Monster.com's mid-year Workforce Talent Survey, job seekers' confidence levels are relatively positive as over half of survey participants reported they are confident they can land a job within the next year. Just 15 percent said they lacked confidence in securing a job at all. Job seekers in the survey, all existing Monster customers, demonstrated a radical change in attitude...
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DrivenBI Announces Release of SRK onto Salesforce.com's AppExchange
DrivenBi's SRK, which simplifies data merging by linking data to specific business actions, has been released on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. SRK enables businesses to connect with customers, employees, and partners by merging, analyzing, and presenting data Salesforce and non-Salesforce reports while offering sharable report snapshots on a real-time dynamic dashboard. SRK also grants users...
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BYOD – Where IT and HR Collide or Converge
IT and HR Policy have tended to collide or converge in three main areas to date: data protection, internet and email usage policy, and PC usage policy. What this means is that in order to deliver suitable organizational governance in these areas, both HR and IT should be involved in the development of the policy. As many of you will be aware, a new HR and IT policy area is emerging and that is...
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Watching Out For the Bullies: Workplace 'Family' vs. Techno-Surveillance
Which provides better surveillance: eyes, or cameras? If you are being bullied at work, a workplace group of eyes can work for you, against you, or make no difference at all. You just have to hope that at least it's not a work gang or conspiracy that's targeting you. The same is true for families: The bigger the family, the bigger the odds that there's someone in it who wants to bully...
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Survey: Two-Fifths of Businesses Require Employees to Work Thanksgiving Day
According to Bloomberg BNA's 2013 Thanksgiving Holiday Practices Survey, even though more than seven out of 10 employers have scheduled paid days off for both Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, nearly two-fifths of all businesses will require at least some employees to work this Thanksgiving. "Even for the 97 percent of employers who designate Thanksgiving as a paid day off, a...
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Applications for Unemployment Benefits Fall, though Data Remains Distorted
With applications data distorted for the second straight week due to backlogged claims from California and Nevada, the official report from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that applications for unemployment benefits fell by 15,000 to 358,000 last week. The government shutdown is known to have contributed to the number of applicants. The four-week average rose by 11,750 to 335,500. Over the...
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Improving the Daily Grind by Marching to a Different Rhythm
Whether returning to work from an extended period of unemployment, from a long, relaxing vacation, or even just the weekend, you don't have to return to the same old grind that you have become accustomed to over time. The secret is to develop a better work rhythm that improves your motivation plus boosts your health and productivity. As you head back to work, follow these tips to find a better...
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Nexonia Integrates with Xero's Cloud-based Small Biz Accounting Software
Nexonia, a provider of web and mobile expense report and timesheets solutions, is integrating its Nexonia Expenses solution with Xero's online accounting software to create a more intuitive expense management solution for small businesses. Xero is cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and small business advisors. With the new integration, the expense report solution from Nexonia...
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PI Worldwide Introduces Data-driven System for Improving Influencing Skills
PI Worldwide has announced the release of its Influencing Skills system, a science-driven offering for optimizing performance from the individual level up to entire organizations. The new tool is part of the company's Skill Suite and specifically helps organizations measure and improve key influencing skills of all employees. Influencing Skills is available as a stand-alone product or combined...
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Mobile App from EmLogis Offers Employee Scheduling and Communication Tools
The new EmLogis Mobile application from EmLogis, a provider of SaaS-based scheduling and workforce management solutions, offers a set of scheduling and work management capabilities for employees that increase workforce and employee satisfaction. The app is designed for complex scheduling environments with compliance requirements similar to those in industries such as healthcare and public...
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NABR Announces 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in 2013
Attracting top talent is crucial for the success of any business, and to do so, companies have to be the best of the best. To help job seekers find the best places to work, the National Association For Business Resources recently released the "101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For" in 2013. The NABR "identified numerous best HR practices and provided benchmarking for companies that...
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Why We're Thankful for Receptionists, Burned Candidates and Street Meat
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, we here at Infusive Solutions (a specialized IT staffing firm in New York City) put our heads together to come up with a list of things for which we're thankful. When we first started putting our heads together, there was a lot of generic mush—our clients' and candidates' continued support; folks promptly returning voicemails; the ability to help...
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6 Tips for Taking Over a Team that Resents You
Whether you are an agency recruiter or corporate recruiter you'll have an interest in not only hiring the best talent, but hiring talent that stays the course. An especially high-risk period for new hire failure is within the first two months as revealed by research from the Wynhurst Group, which shows that 22 percent of staff turnover occurs within the first 45 days of employment. One...
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Balancing the Push-and-Pull of the Networking Game
Most any experienced job seeker (and careerist) understands that networking is a critical component in any successful job search. A quality network of contacts can point you to otherwise hidden opportunities, introduce you to influential decision-makers, and give strong recommendations to boost your perceived value as a candidate. This is old news. But how strongly should you pursue a potential...
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New Year's Resolutions that Land you the Best Candidates
This year, I'm making a resolution about my New Year's resolutions at work: They will be small in number, and they will be data-driven. I'm going for targeted changes, backed by some evidence they will work. For talent acquisition professionals who have committed to treating their job candidates to a great experience this year, Montage has some data to share that will make your resolution...
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Simply Hired Reports on November Employment Outlook
With the release of the November 2013 U.S. Employment Outlook report, Simply Hired has found that nationwide job openings have decreased by 0.4 percent from October, though job openings were up last month by 33.4 percent over the year. "Simply Hired's data from October shows a slight dip in job openings compared to last month, but still very positive growth year-over-year," said James...
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What Does Your Social Media say About You?
That's the question Seattle-based startup Persona poses—and for job seekers, it's a very good one to ask. Persona helps job seekers "clean up" their social profiles by constantly monitoring one's social network accounts for "inappropriate" content. The company monitors Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts and deletes text posts, comments, links, hashtags, and likes—all...
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Voom Program Arises to Take on the Negative Effects of the Sedentary Workplace
Chiropractor-founded, workplace-wellness and activity developer The Movement has announced the release of Voom, a desktop and mobile wellness platform for engaging employees, throughout the workday, in stretching and strengthening exercises. Through the platform, employees participate in brief "micro-moves" videos throughout the day that helps them avoid the ailments common with continual...
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Study finds Job Performance most Heavily Impacted by Workplace Stress Levels
According to a study released by the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), job performance is most affected by workplace stress which outranked financial worries or domestic problems on the self-reported ratings survey. Participants reported how often they were not careful at work, accomplished less than their coworkers, and got no work completed at all. The IBI study showed that ratings for each...
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4 Ad-Retargeting Tools to Boost Your Careers Site Effectiveness
In the first part of this article we introduced the topic of ad-retargeting and its potential use in hiring. Ad-retargeting has been around in the general advertising industry for some time now, but we identified that it was beginning to make an impression in the recruiting arena. So, how does it work? If you haven't managed to read that article, we can give you a brief introduction to...
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Gaining Respect and Authority as a Younger Manager
Managing people is a challenge no matter the size of your team or how well you relate to its members, but perhaps one of the most difficult situations a younger manager may find him or herself in is one in which subordinates are 10 or more years older. As human beings, we naturally tend to prejudge the people around us in order plan our behavior at the individual and group levels and may make...
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Career Paths Aren't Always Straight and Narrow, and that's Okay!
Many job counselors and coaches present the ideal career path as one that leads from A to B to C; you're an intern, then an assistant, then a specialist, then a manager, etc. However, especially during the first few years of your career, you should be less concerned with crafting a step-by-step resume and more on being exposed to a variety of industries and experiences. Doing so can lead to an...
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Add Flexibility to your Job Search with Google
Searching for a job can be an exhausting process of research, resume and interview preparation, and employer follow-up. But for the tech-savvy job seeker, Google offers a bevy of services to help manage your job search and plan your strategy. Your first step is to eliminate all of those distractions on your current Google profile by wiping the slate clean and creating an account for the solitary...
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To Intern or Not To Intern?
Being an intern is grueling. If you are contemplating getting slightly hit by cars in the morning just to get your boss an: extra hot, grande, non-fat, half-caf, no foam soy latte on his desk ready for his arrival, you are an intern. If you are on a first-name basis with the courier and have his number on speed dial, you are an intern. If you have been called the wrong name for a month or longer...
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What's the Right Company Culture for Your Business?
We write a lot about company culture on this blog, which is not surprising really in these gentler and more discerning times where employees need much more than a crack of the whip, a pay packet and Taylorist work methodologies to be engaged. Today, companies are have to build positive cultures to attract, motivate and retain talent. But, it would be folly to think that building a positive...
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Here's Why You're Losing Job Candidates
Candidates aren't too thrilled with the hiring process nowadays. Let's look at a few stats, shall we? According to a Talent Q study, just 45 percent of college graduates reported being satisfied with their recruitment experience, while 11 percent claimed their experiences were "so negative that they would be unlikely to use the prospective employer's...
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Study: Non-cash Incentives Use for Employees and Customers on the Rise
An Incentive Federation survey, conducted with partner Aspect Market Intelligence, has found that 74 percent of U.S. businesses have used non-cash incentives, including travel, merchandise, and gift cards, to the tune of $76.9 billion per year. Half of the non-cash incentives market is driven by small businesses with annual revenues of $10 million or less. This year, U.S. businesses have spent...
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Survey: Most Americans Prefer Male Bosses
According to a recent Gallup survey, if they had a choice, more Americans would prefer a male boss over a female boss. Gallup's annual Work and Education survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed that if given a choice in leadership, Americans would choose a male over a female 35 percent to 23 percent. The study also showed that four in 10 would have no preference when it came to their boss'...
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How do you Solve a Problem Like Dwayne Bowe?
Here in Nebraska we don't have a pro football team, so many of us cheer for our neighbors, the Kansas City Chiefs (particularly this year). Having the best season since many of us can remember, it was a big deal when starting wide receiver Dwayne Bowe got arrested the week before the Chiefs' toughest game of the season against the Denver Broncos. The Chiefs were the last undefeated team...
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Glip's Platform Makes Collaboration More Productive through Focus on Conversation
Tech startup Glip's conversation platform puts conversation at the center of collaboration to help teams become more productive while they communicate. The Glip platform supports natural workflows while remaining focused on keeping members connected to maximize creativity. Glip's consolidates all forms of interactions including: face-to-face conversations, conference calls, chats, instant...
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eQuest Expands Data Sets to Better Predict Success of Online Job Adverts
Among other enhancements to its systems, eQuest has announced the expansion of its available Internet data for improved evaluation and prediction of successful online job ads. eQuest said that it has been capturing candidate search behavior across career and social media sites for the past year with an emphasis on the most attractive types of advertising content. Focuses on the study include how...
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Turning your Internship into a Shiny New Job
Finding a job right out of college is hard enough when you lack practical work experience, so why not make it easier on yourself by pursuing an internship in a field of your choice? Often, college interns find that they enjoyed their internship so much while they were in school that they want to step right into a full-time job after graduation. Unfortunately, it's up to the powers that be when...
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The 'Accusational': a Workplace Counterpart to the Confessional
Satire alert: Yes, the following is partly satirical. "Confession is good for the soul" is fervently proclaimed by both those urging and those offering up confessions, irrespective of venue—e.g., church, police station, in a manager's office, or in the kitchen with a suspicious wife dangling a lipstick-smeared tie. In fact, that has been the implication of recent articles about...
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When Candidates Do Backgrounds Checks
Recruiters are all up in social profiles, scoping out LinkedIn and calling former employers, but two can play that game. More and more candidates are doing background checks on companies that they are interested in, and for good reason. Not only do candidates do research in order to wow an interviewer; they need to ensure that this company is a good match for them. Here's what candidates are...
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Engage More of the Workforce More of the Time with Employee Segmentation
With the rise of HR Big data, a focus on analytics in HR coupled to the rise of social media marketing, it's high time for HR to bite the bullet and accept that a large part of its role is around branding and marketing. Of course, this doesn't mean that the C-Suite and the existing marketing powers that be will necessarily roll out the red carpet to HR marketers, as HR is probably still a...
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Don't be Afraid to Negotiate
My good friend is actively applying for a job, but she recently admitted to me that she's encountering one problem—salary requirements. Specifically, the problem is that the job ad requests applicants to list their salary requirements, and my friend doesn't know what number to put down. What's her dilemma? Well, she said she didn't want to put too high of a number for fear the job...
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JobDiva Users Gain Mobile-Alert Capabilities with Free JobDiva App
JobDiva took the opportunity at Staffing World 2013 to announce new mobile-alert capabilities for its front-to-back office solution for staffing organizations. JobDiva users can now receive instant notifications of changes in the Job Requisition lifecycle through push notifications sent to a mobile device. This ensures that recruiters are always making decisions based on the latest information...
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