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How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Every CEO from Connecticut to California urges their team to "think innovatively," yet few companies go the extra step to offer specific programs that create cultures of creativity. Often, the burden of promoting innovation falls onto the human resources department, as if innovation were some kind of magical process that could be initiated via a seminar or two. Of course, that isn't the...

5 Career-Change Myths Exploded

While the job-for-life was once the "gold standard" of employment, few people who enter the workplace nowadays believe they will work with one employer for the rest of their lives. Indeed, it has been this way for a few years now. However, what's also beginning to slowly change is the expectation that a worker will have one career for their entire life. In today's world, it's possible you...

Why CEOs Should Own Employer Branding Efforts

Earlier this year, employer branding firm Universum released a four-part study, "2020 Outlook: the Future of Employer Branding." Based on a survey of more than 2000 HR professionals and CEOs from around the world, the study looks at where employer branding is today and how employer branding may evolve over the next five years. Over the next few weeks, we'll be exploring each piece in this...

3 Keys to Effective Branding in a Millennial World

Branding. We always hear about how important it is to attract the right customers, but what about attracting the right employees? With so many brands proliferating all over the Web -- and even being built of off social networks like Instagram -- we know by now that reaching the best recruits is more than a simple matter of colors or logos. Especially in our current times, branding is all about...

What Benefits Do Your Employees Want? [Infographic]

You may be paying your employees competitive wages, but if you're not also offering them competitive benefits packages, you're missing a crucial opportunity to engage and retain your workers. According to a new infographic from Namely, purveyors of a cloud-based HR, payroll, and benefits platform, "Today's top talent demands total when it comes to total compensation, and that includes...

5 Tips Job Seekers Should Follow During the Recruitment Process

The recruitment process is much like the sales process -- except you're the salesperson, and you're selling in the job market your most important product: yourself! When it's time to seriously start your job search, consider the following tips to ensure that you make the process as successful as it can be. 1. Quality Over Quantity When you're applying for jobs, it's easy to get...

10 Great Interview Techniques for Recruiters and Hiring Managers

This Week's Question: Interviews are supposed to separate the wheat from they chaff; they're supposed to identify the best candidates for the job. What techniques do you use to do just that? How do you ensure your job interviews really help you make the best decisions? "One thing I love to do is measure how intense a candidate is -- this is assuming they can do the job already. "I will...

Avoiding Unnecessary Repetition in Your Cover Letter

Is your cover letter a wasted opportunity? Too often, cover letters bring nothing new or relevant to the table. In fact, according to career expert J.T. O'Donnell, half of recruiters don't even read them! "When open a cover letter, if they skim it and see it's just a repetition of what is already in the resume, they skip reading it," O'Donnell warns. So how can you make sure your...

Medical Marijuana: How Does It Affect the Workplace?

April Arrasate is founder and chief operating officer of CuraLeaf, a medical marijuana facility in Connecticut. She will moderated a discussion on medical marijuana in the workplace at the 2015 CT Business Expo last week. We did a QA with her in advance of the forum to get her input on the topic. Recruiter.com: You are among the pioneers of medical marijuana in CT, with CuraLeaf being...

5 Thoughts That Crush Success

You'll hear that successful people think differently -- that they are somehow hard-wired for high performance. There's the notion that some entrepreneurs perfectly combine analytical and reasoning skills with optimism, creativity, problem solving and people skills. But successful people entertain the same kind of negative and self-limiting thoughts that everyone else has. What differs is...

Creating Ethical Workplaces in the Sharing Economy

From time to time, I am guilty of letting myself get swept up in the wave of excitement that the sharing economy seems to generate. For example, when I spoke to Fyre CEO Tim Arnold this past January, I initially went into the conversation looking for a fight. Arnold had posed himself as an ardent supporter of the sharing economy -- which he refers to as the "gig economy" -- whereas I was, at...

3 Industry Secrets That Could Rescue Your Employee Referral Program

Is your employee referral scheme letting you down? Did you start the program expecting big things, only to find that the scheme has failed to even remotely live up to your expectations? As you survey the wreckage of your failed referral scheme, you might ask yourself whether you should ditch your employee referral program (ERP) altogether. You may be frustrated, but abandoning your ERP would...

7 Creative Ways To Make Your Resume Stand Out

Yesterday, in addition to the client emails, promotions, and social media requests, I got an email from a guy named David. As a lot of people do, David asked me to take a quick look over his resume. He assured me it was perfect, but he still wasn't getting job interviews. When I looked at his resume, it was immediately obvious what the problem was. His resume looked like everyone else's!...

7 Traits of Great Salespeople — and How to Spot Them During the Interview

Truly great talent is hard to come by. And, according to Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, when it comes to hiring salespeople, it is especially difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Burdett likens interviewing salespeople to "peeling an onion." "Salespeople are trained and wired to speak in a way they think their prospects —or the people sitting across the table...

How to Make Your Move From College to the Corporate World

After all of the hard work you've put in for the last four years while getting an education, there are few things in life more exciting than graduation. Trouble is, your hardest test is yet to come: making it in the real world. Some of you may have had an opportunity to experience the world of work through an internship, while others may be leaving college without this experience -- which may...

Why Employee Engagement Matters

An organization's workforce is the blood of the company, and an engaged workforce can create a competitive advantage. According to a report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 71 percent executives believe that "employee engagement as very important to achieving overall organizational success." But why is this the case? Why are so many people concerned with employee engagement?...

4 Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your Next Senior Leader

CEOs and senior leaders have special significance in your organization, and they can be the difference between failure and success. However, despite their seemingly exalted status, CEOs and senior leaders are not gods, and they should be subject to the same hiring assessments and due diligence as any other employee. Failure to do so could leave you in the embarrassing situation in which Yahoo and...

Become a Student for Life

This time of year always reminds me of when I was a student and the excitement I felt when finishing up another year of school. I was a good student; I loved school and that feeling that I had learned a lot. I also loved relaxing over the summer and looking forward to the possibilities of the new school year ahead. Once you graduate and become an "adult," as they say, life is never quite...

10 Tips for New College Grads

This Week's Question: Graduation season is upon us, and scores of young college grads are preparing to take their first steps into the working world. What's one piece of career advice you think every recent college grad should follow? "Do not give any weight whatsoever to the social construct of the career path. Follow your passion, do what you love, double down on your strengths, and forget...

Are Colleges Preparing Students for the Working World? [Infographic]

First things first: there's an argument to be made that looking at college as nothing more than a way to get a good job is the absolute wrong way to look at college; that education is a worthy end in and of itself, and that college is a time to become a richer, more experienced human being, not a richer, more experienced potential employee. But the fact remains that a significant portion --...

Employers Are Crowdsourcing Coding: Here's Why

Companies lacking the skills or manpower to complete coding projects usually onboard a new employee or contract a freelancer. However, there's a third, more cost-effective option for one-off projects: crowdsourcing. The strategy seems risky, because it relies on complete strangers, but it works well for nonprofits and enterprises alike. In the context of coding work, crowdsourcing involves...

How Informal Learning Can Enliven a Workplace

Traditionally, when employees needed to learn new skills, they took part in formal training sessions. Employees would dutifully sit for hours on end in cramped rooms, listening to instructors drone on and on about what they needed to know. Today, a number of innovative companies are actually building informal learning opportunities into their training strategies as a way to help...

How to Build a Workplace Culture That Attracts the Right Candidates

Our writer Kazim Ladimeji is a vocal advocate for the importance of hiring based on cultural fit rather than skill set. In fact, he's argued in favor of emphasizing cultural fit so many times that I don't feel any need to mount an argument of my own in this piece. Suffice it to say that I -- and many others -- are convinced that cultural fit matters in the hiring process. Cheryl Kerrigan,...

5 Tips on Dealing With a Hostile Interviewer

In recent times, the interview process has softened from a more hostile and interrogative style to a more gentrified and dignified approach. However, it would be naïve to think that hostile interviewers no longer exist. They do, and there's a chance you may one day come across one such interviewer. The hostile interviewer will not only ask tough questions, but also choose to ask those...

Why Out-of-State Candidates Are Good for Business

If you have an open position at your company and are looking to hire externally, you will likely receive applications from a lot of impressive and qualified candidates. While you may be inclined to place anyone from out of state in the "reject" pile, there are several reasons why you should reconsider. To be afraid of the relocation costs and hassles that may accompany hiring someone from out...

Would You Work for Free to Land Your Dream Job?

Sometimes, the job you were sold on doesn't live up to the hype. Before I started writing for a living, I was a teacher. I landed my first full-time teaching job at an inner-city school in New England, and when I got the phone call telling me I had officially landed the gig, I was absolutely ecstatic. Sure, it was an underfunded and understaffed school on the cusp of "turnaround" status, but...

Is the Problem the Employee — or You?

A friend of mine just became the director of a small healthcare facility. She reports to an area director, who reports to a state director, who reports to a regional director, who reports to some V.P. of Look How Important I Am. Seriously, this is the Chain of Command. My friend, Joan, has a 25-year employee on her team -- a 25-year problem employee. The employee backstabs and undermines...

3 Steps for Hiring Your Way Out of a Skills Gap

A talent shortage is plaguing businesses across various industries – and the larger the company, the greater the problem. A recent survey from InformationWeek found that 88 percent of respondents at companies with more than 1,000 employees face a skills shortage, compared to 73 percent of respondents at smaller firms. There are many potential solutions that HR and procurement teams can...

Your Office Environment May Be Hurting Your Business [Infographic]

Did you know the temperature of your office can affect employee productivity? (Apparently, employees work best at about 22° C/ 71° F). What about the fact that certain computer monitors are correlated with decreases in typing accuracy? (We're looking at you, cathode ray tube monitors.) Don't confuse this for fear-mongering. We're not trying to scare you. We don't want you looking at every...

Why Yoga Is Good for Your Company: Jason Garner's Surprising Business Advice

Jason Garner was once the CEO of Global Music at Live Nation. On the back cover of his new book, ...And I Breathed: My Journey From a Life of Matter to a Life That Matters, he looks more "handsome Yoga teacher" than "corporate bigwig." That's because Garner gave up his spot at the head of the rat race when the tragic death of his mother caused him to take a step back and reconsider his...

Why You Didn't Hear Back From the Company on That Job Application

If you're in job search mode, it's common to feel like things are beyond your control -- particularly if you're applying for a role at a large company. We've all been there: you find a role online, spend several hours carefully crafting a resume and cover letter, enter your info meticulously into a company's applicant tracking system, hit submit, and can't shake the feeling that...

How to Face a Personal Career Crisis and Come Out Smiling

It's hard to know when -- or if -- a midlife crisis will hit you. These days, research suggests that midlife crises are no longer confined to our forties: they are happening in our thirties and even in our twenties, in the form of a quarterlife crisis. Typically, if you do face a midlife crisis, it will take the form of a career-identity crisis. You may lose your sense of purpose in life...

6 Branding Tips for Job Seekers

Maybe you are still in school, or maybe you just graduated, but unless you're Taylor Swift, LeBron James, or Barack Obama, you probably don't think of yourself as a brand. In my experience, though, the most successful people do create and, in fact, become brands. Their brands are based on the experiences they promise and the values they live by and share. The chances are good that you, too,...

10 Questions to Ask When Negotiating Your Starting Salary

It would be naïve to think that an employer will automatically offer you the best possible salary as their first offer. Sure, sometimes a fortunate candidate may find themselves with a salary offer they can't refuse, but this is a rare thing. Studies show that most employers will leave some bargaining room in their initial salary offers, as they fully expect you to ask for more. If you don't...

10 Things Every Job Seeker Should Know About the Recruiting Process

This Week's Question: Job seekers and recruiters: they work together constantly in the employment market, but do they truly understand each other? Let's give job seekers better insight into the recruiting process. Share one thing you wish every job seeker knew about the world of recruiting! " the art of follow-up. "Don't disappear: stay in front of recruiters with professional follow-up...

Your Long-Term Recruitment Strategy Needs to Be Marketing Led

Recruiting is a difficult skill to get right proactively. All too often, employers find themselves recruiting on a reactive basis. In essence, they discover they have a need to fulfill right then and there, and so they search for someone to solve this need. By this point it's too late, and every day that goes by with the role unfilled equates to lost productivity and output. In an ideal...

Is the Hiring Process Built on Lies?

In early May, we published a piece entitled "10 Ways We Could Improve the Hiring Process." Shortly after the post went live, I received an email from Shaharris Beh, founder of HackerNest, "an international nonprofit focused on building supportive 'Silicon Valley'-type tech communities everywhere." The subject line read, "What REALLY needs to change in hiring!" Obviously, you can't ignore a...

The Evolution of Job Interviews: From B.C. to 2015 and Beyond [Infographic]

Was the humble job interview ever really all that humble? A new infographic from Spark Hire that loosely traces the history of the job interview suggests the answer is "No, not really." Starting with the pre-job days of our Cro-Magnon "caveman" ancestors and running all the way to the eventual rise of holographic interviews, Spark Hire's infographic hits some interesting notes about the job...

Top 3 Mistakes Interviewees Should Not Make

Humans are not perfect. We all make mistakes. This is why it is vital for candidates to acknowledge that errors will occur during an interview; trying to achieve a totally error free interview is both futile and counterproductive. If you are hyper-focused on a flawless delivery, you'll be over stressed, unnecessarily nervy, and needlessly high-strung. The errorless interview is an impossible...

How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program

Mentoring can be a powerful tool for retaining and nurturing great employees, encouraging internal promotions, and creating a more inclusive work environment. A quarter of U.S. companies now offer peer-mentoring programs, according to a Corporate Executive Board survey. That's a pretty dramatic increase from 2007, when only 4-5 percent of companies reported having peer-mentoring programs....

Recruit Like a Marketing Professional

When it comes to branding, your company's marketing team is on one side of the coin. The members of the team have advanced sales, marketing, and promotional skills and know how to position your company's product in a way that excites and engages your potential customers. Your HR/recruiting department is on the other side of the branding coin. Your marketing department already positions...

4 Signs You Are Ready to Quit Your Job and Go It Alone

The workplace is broken. It was once a guaranteed escape from poverty and a place where you could preserve and restore your self-respect, your senses of worth and of value. But with employee engagement levels at record lows and low-wage pay policies dominating the employment landscape, many traditional workplaces are becoming mere refuges from the economic cold, rather than places employees...

5 Career-Boosting Things to Do Before Breakfast

Many of us probably don't think much about our early morning activity. We just get up and do what we have always done. But if we've never thought about it in great detail, we can't be sure that our morning routines are optimized to enable our peak productivity during the workday. We may have picked up some bad habits that actively inhibit our performance during the day, or we may just be...

Millennials, Myths, and Making Money

Millennials aren't the new workforce, they are the workforce, according to Pew Research Center. According to Forbes, millennials today have over $200 billion in annual purchasing power, which makes them major players in the economic future of the country at both ends of the buyer-seller spectrum. Now that this highly connected, technology-infused generation accounts for the majority of...

7 Big Recruiter Mistakes

This Week's Question: Nobody's perfect -- but at least we can learn something from our mistakes. What's the biggest mistake you've ever seen a recruiter make (even if that recruiter were you!), and what did you learn from it? "I believe the biggest mistake a recruiter can make is putting the candidate ill at ease. Interviewing is already stressful for most people, so if you add to that...

The Top 5 Workplace Challenges Today

What's getting your organization down these days? Do employees seem bored and uninterested in their work? Is retaining top talent proving to be a pain? Are lines of communication painfully circuitous -- do they seem to have been snipped outright? According to Axero Solutions, best known for creating the enterprise social networking software Communifire, there's a good chance your...

How to Heighten Your Negotiation Skills

The late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once illustrated his approach to negotiation via a story about building up the British naval fleets in preparation for war: "The Admiralty had demanded six ships; the economists offered four; and we finally compromised on eight." It's a great anecdote, but it isn't, in fact, a great example of the art of successful negotiation. That's...

Is Your Company's Outdated Workspace Deterring Talent?

Innovative, employee-centered workspaces have until recently been associated with frivolous spending, pampered big-city executives, and/or the IT geniuses at Google H.Q. and other trendy corporate campuses in Silicon Valley. The rest of us have had to look on with envy, settling with the simple, conservative post-industrial office layout that has prevailed for decades. However, our...