How to Make Your Business Interesting to Millennials
Enterprise Rent-A-Car hires more than 8,000 college graduates every year. That's an impressive total for a traditional, non-technology company. As many companies struggle to attract the attention of millennial workers -- those in their twenties and early thirties -- Enterprise has succeeded with a multi-pronged approach to getting young job seekers engaged with the company. An important piece...
Read MoreRejecting Candidates: How to Do It and Why It Matters
The candidate pipeline starts as a wide funnel. Slowly but surely, the pool narrows until, eventually, you reach the final point: your next hire. Notifying that one lucky applicant can be exciting, but how you treat the candidates who did not make the cut matters more than you might think. The way in which you notify candidates, the time it takes, and the medium you use can have rippling effects...
Read More'Management Happens on an Individual Level': Managing Millennials
Last summer, the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), the HEAD Foundation, and employer branding firm Universum teamed up to conduct what these groups call "the largest independent study ever conducted on millennials." Surveying more than 16,000 millennials from across the globe, the study delves into a variety of topics, including millennials' fears, hopes, beliefs, and desires. Over...
Read More6 Ways to Boost Your Pay After Being Refused a Raise
Most workers' salaries stagnated or declined during the recent recession. As if that weren't bad enough, the real kick in the teeth came several years after the recession ended: today's workers find themselves trapped in a low-wage economy. Low-wage workers in the U.S. earn just 46.75 percent of the salary of median workers in the country, making it one of the most severe low-wage economies in...
Read MoreThe Horror and the Glory of the Millennial
Depending on whom you talk to, millennials are either the shining beacons leading us to the next iteration of the American Dream or the telltale signs of a world going under; they're either more creative than previous generations, able to find fresh solutions to longstanding problems in their industries, or they are entitled narcissists who care only about themselves and will create further...
Read MoreGrassroots Recruiting: Leverage Technology, but Keep It Simple
Recruiting local hourly candidates is a lot like scouting for a college or professional sports team. Professional scouts build relationships with coaches, schools, and organizations. They spend a lot of time researching and visiting the places where they know they have a high likelihood of finding great talent. Grassroots recruiting is very similar to scouting. It takes feet on the...
Read MoreBoomer Talent: 4 Ways to Retain Them Longer
Recruiting, managing and retaining millennial employees (a.k.a.: Gen. Y) is all the rage nowadays, but smart companies are also putting effort into retaining their baby boomer talent. Research reveals that one boomer now hits retirement age every eight seconds in the United States. And although not all of them can retire due to their financial circumstances, enough of them can. Plus, a lot of...
Read MoreAsk Away: What Do Recruiters Need to Know About Social Media?
Welcome to Ask Away! Every Monday, we pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This Week's Question: Social recruiting is all the rage -- but what do recruiters really need to know about social media in order to be...
Read More5 Tips for Attracting Millennial Talent to Your Sales Team
Looking to bring some millennial blood to your sales team -- or keep your current roster of millennial salespeople engaged and productive? Then Carmela Krantz, vice president of talent and human resources at sales engagement platform ClearSlide, has some valuable information for you. Krantz was kind enough to share with us her top five tips for attracting and retaining millennial talent on...
Read MoreGrowing Up Digital: Redesigning Workplace Training for 'Generation Connected'
By 2020, "Generation Connected" or Gen. C, comprised of both millennials and Generation Z, will constitute the largest single group of consumers worldwide. The pervasiveness of Gen. C will also extend to the workforce, with millennials representing 46 percent of the entire U.S. workforce by 2020. Over the next five years, Gen. C's need for digital connection, collaboration, and...
Read More5 Qualities to Look for in a Remote Employee
These days, more and more companies are warming up to the idea of remote work. It's no longer a given that companies have central offices -- in fact, some teams operate 100 percent remotely. The company I work for, FormAssembly, employs talented people from all over the world. While some employees choose to work in our main office, others prefer working from home. But we're all able to...
Read MoreConnect With Millennials by Giving Them 'Something More'
Last summer, the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), the HEAD Foundation, and employer branding firm Universum teamed up to conduct what these groups call "the largest independent study ever conducted on millennials." Surveying more than 16,000 millennials from across the globe, the study delves into a variety of topics, including millennials' fears, hopes, beliefs, and desires. Over...
Read MoreIs Persistence an Underrated Quality in Sales Hires?
When hiring for salespeople, employers often overemphasize the "sexier" side of things when it comes to screening criteria, both literally and metaphorically speaking. Presentation, personal grooming, and attractiveness all play their part -- rightly or wrongly -- in determining the perceived credibility and likely effectiveness of a sales candidates. There will undoubtedly be a strong...
Read MoreHow Your Employer Brand Speaks to Candidates
Most of us aspire to social acceptance -- so much so that we tailor our personalities in order to be seen as 'likeable' by select audiences. We wear certain styles of clothing, speak a particular vernacular, and act in specific ways to fit in where we'd like to fit. Job seekers take similar approaches to their job opportunities: they want to be employed by companies where they fit,...
Read MoreWhat Can HR Do About the Drug Culture in Silicon Valley?
A key underlying trend in Silicon Valley workplaces -- one not usually displayed on the glossy front pages of industry magazines -- is the drug culture that permeates the ecosystem. According to an article on Inc., today's tech entrepreneurs and coders are using legal "brain enhancing" drugs with the goal of optimizing their bodies and minds to work 90-hour weeks. Known as nootropics, these...
Read MoreHow to Get Millennials' Attention
Workers who grew up in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s -- commonly known as "millennials" or "Generation Y" -- have different expectations for work and their employers than previous generations had. For instance, according to the Deloitte Millennial Survey, 92 percent of Millennials believe that business success should be measured by more than profit, and 70 percent plan to work independently at some...
Read MoreA Millennial's Guide to Maintaining Happiness in Their Career Choices
When was the last time you had a checkup? And I don't mean from your physician -- I mean a career success checkup. After all, only 30 percent of workers ever land their dream jobs. You might as well take a moment to figure out whether or not you're one of them (or could become one of them). Start With Your Life Plan Life plans are helpful guides for those looking toward their bright...
Read MoreWant to Attract Millennial Talent? First, Make Sure They Know Who You Are
As millennials rapidly file into the workforce -- they're already the largest generation in the U.S. labor pool, and more are on the way -- employers have to adjust. Millennials have a lot in common with their forebears, but, as Elizabeth James, regional vice president of sales at TempWorks points out, "They are a different generation." "If you're not appealing to them -- especially from...
Read MoreEverything I Know About My Job Search I Learned in Kindergarten
Being an adult isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe we're bitter because tax season just ended, but sometimes it seems like kids have it all figured out. They play all day, make friends as easily as saying hello, and get to eat Lunchables instead of salads. That's the life, right? While we can never turn back the clock -- and honestly, most of us wouldn't want to --there are a few...
Read MoreHow to Leverage the Power of Your Alumni Network
How do you get someone to like you immediately? That was the question I asked eminent psychologist Robert Cialdini in a blog interview. The secret? He says it's to find a commonality -- any commonality -- fast. It could be something as simple as the fact that you live in the same neighborhood, or you both like running. One particularly powerful bond is having an alumni connection, because your...
Read MoreAsk Away: What Is the Most Important Quality of a Great Recruiter?
Welcome to Ask Away! Every Monday, we pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This Week's Question: What makes a great recruiter? What kind of skills, personality traits, and abilities do they have? Let us know...
Read MoreTop 4 Mistakes Organizations Make in Corporate Training Programs
In recent times, training has become much more than a chance for employees to develop skills. In fact, track records of effective training and development have become the cornerstones of the most powerful and attractive employer brands. Research from PwC shows that 65 percent of millennials -- who will become the largest generation in the workforce this year -- cite training and development...
Read MoreAttracting Top Talent in a World of Short Attention Spans
Is it possible to quantify the information overload we live with in today's world? Here's a number that comes close: a study from USC's Marshall School of Business projects that this year, the average American will consume 15.5 hours of media each day. That's enough data delivered via T.V. viewing, video gaming, social media use, Internet surfing, and mobile messaging to fill nine DVDs....
Read MoreOpen-Door Management: How 'Short Conversations' Can Make Big Things Happen
"I think that the ways of doing business in the past are long gone, especially with social media and employer interaction," says Bill Peppler, managing partner at staffing firm Kavaliro. "You might as well embrace it and encourage the conversation. Be ahead of it instead of being reactive toward it." Peppler is commenting on a particularly interesting section of Kavaliro's 2015 Employee Outlook...
Read More5 Tips on Cultivating Your Talent Pipeline
"People are a company's most valuable asset," as the saying goes. So, why don't companies invest more time in creating pools of quality, experienced candidates? Businesses can be incredibly reactive when it comes to finding the right talent. They'll often wait until there is an immediate hiring need before beginning the search for a replacement, instead of being proactive and creating a...
Read More5 Tips to Prepare for the Looming Leadership Brain Drain
Around 4 million baby boomers retire in the U.S. every year, and this is starting to leave a gap in the management layers at the top of organizations, largely because there is an insufficient amount of talent rising through the ranks to replace the boomers who leave the workforce. H.R. and recruiting teams are now beginning to feel the effects of this retirement-induced leadership talent...
Read MoreWhat Do Millennials Fear?
Last summer, the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), the HEAD Foundation, and employer branding firm Universum teamed up to conduct what these groups call "the largest independent study ever conducted on millennials." Surveying more than 16,000 millennials from across the globe, the study delves into a variety of topics, including millennials' fears, hopes, beliefs, and...
Read More4 Long-Tail Keyword Tools You Need to Know About
You've heard it before: the Internet is the best way to reach the largest audience possible. When you're a new or relatively new HR tech company, ranking higher in Google search results feels impossible because you're competing against companies that have been online for ages. In June 2013, Chitika found that the No. 1 search result in Google's search rankings earned 33 percent of...
Read MoreBeware the 'Baby Boomer Brain Drain' [Infographic]
In most instances, "brain drain" refers to when highly skilled and talented workers emigrate from their home countries to work in other nations. However, according to an infographic created by MBA@UNC, an online MBA program from the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, the U.S. economy is facing a slightly different form of brain drain today: baby boomers aren't...
Read MoreHow Introverts Can Successfully Network
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose! I am a speaker, author, and expert in time and project management. I help busy professionals and entrepreneurs create effective systems so that they can comfortably delegate to others, be more profitable, and have time to enjoy life --even if they don't have time to learn new technology or train their staff. I have a knack for turning big ideas into on-time...
Read MoreExpecting a Bad Reference From Your Former Employer?
We often associate "bad references" with "being fired," but job seekers may fear bad references from former employers for a number of reasons: perhaps the job seeker had a poor relationship with their manager, or perhaps they left the company under less-than-ideal circumstances. There are two sides to every story, but references are categorically one-sided: a job seeker's potential new...
Read MoreWhy Hiring for a Cultural Fit Is Important
As a recruiter, you have plenty of things to take into consideration when looking for a hire. Previous employment, leadership positions, skills, and extracurricular activities are important. But ... how do you know if a potential hire can be a good fit within the company? Hiring for a cultural fit is extremely hard to do off a couple of interviews. Although it may be time-consuming, taking...
Read MoreIt Seems We've All Misunderstood the Millennials [Infographic]
Last summer, the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), the HEAD Foundation, and employer branding firm Universum teamed up to conduct what these groups call "the largest independent study ever conducted on millennials." Surveying more than 16,000 millennials from across the globe, the study delves into a variety of topics, including millennials' fears, hopes, beliefs, and desires. Over...
Read MoreIs Skill or Motivation the Biggest Predictor of Job Success?
One of the most common hiring quandaries in which recruiters may find themselves is whether to choose raw, outright talent or motivation. Rather than being able to neatly choose between two candidates with similar levels of talent and motivation, recruiters often have to decide between a candidate with higher skill and lower motivation and a candidate with lower skill but incredibly high...
Read MoreText Messaging Comes to the World of Job Boards
We don't normally write about company partnerships, because they're rarely newsworthy for anyone but the companies involved and their clients. Here's one, however, that I think merits some discussion because it brings with it a vision of what recruiting communications may look like in the near future. Centralized texting platform TextRecruit and job board Beyond.com have announced a...
Read MoreShould You Allow Your Employees to Moonlight?
With the U.S. leading the way in low-wage work and the lowest wages for low-wage work, the conditions are absolutely right for a boom in moonlighting as more and more workers take second jobs in order to supplement the low pay of their primary jobs. Studies suggest that about 5 percent of the U.S. workforce hold more than one job, so many employers should find themselves facing the question of...
Read MoreAsk Away: What Do I Need to Know About Networking?
Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's weekly column! Every Monday, we'll pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This Week's Question: We all know that networking is an important part of building a successful career...
Read MoreIs Social Learning Better Than Formal Training? [Infographic]
Employees want learning and development opportunities. In fact, 8 out of 10 employees will leave an organization "if they don't receive the right training to perform their job effectively," according to a new infographic compiled by enterprise peer-to-peer learning platform showd.me And while employees want learning and development opportunities, formal training programs may not be the...
Read More4 Tips to Raise the Performance Bar in Your Business
You've most likely heard that the majority of the modern workforce is disengaged: Gallup reports that only a meager 13 percent of the workforce is engaged. There is a very good chance, then, that disengagement is currently harming your business and leading to suboptimal performance. Given this fact, it would seem that addressing engagement issues could be a key to boosting your business's...
Read MoreHow to 'Consciously Uncouple' From Bad Hires
There is no such thing as a perfect new hire: nearly all new hires are unfinished products that need some degree of grooming and refining. However, some new hires may simply be irredeemable; these new hires should probably be dismissed. This can create huge problems for employers, because in many countries, it can be very complicated and expensive to dismiss employees. There is also...
Read MoreNot Just For Millennials: 4 Reasons Why Baby Boomers Should Think About Telecommuting
The baby boomers are coming of age -- retirement age, that is: roughly 10,000 of them retire every day. But not every baby boomer hits 65 and decides it's time to bow out of the workforce. Some baby boomers -- 10 percent of them -- don't want to retire at all. They'd rather stay busy. Meanwhile, 21 percent of baby boomers simply plan to work "as long as possible." Other baby boomers simply...
Read MoreHow to Implement a Powerful Employee Recognition Program
Employee recognition is more than just a way to stroke egos: it helps the success of your company as a whole. According to a report from Aberdeen Group, 37 percent of "Best-In-Class companies" say social recognition tools boost collaboration, recognition, and individual performance, and they act as a key driver of employee engagement. Do you have an employee recognition program? If not,...
Read More5 Tips to Ace the Job Interview Before Setting Foot in the Room
While it's important to give a good account of yourself during the interview, your chances of success will depend largely on actions you take before the actual interview. With the right preparation and political maneuvering, you can nail the interview long before you even set foot in the interview room. Of course, these tactics won't guarantee you a job -- but they will definitely give you a...
Read MoreStarting a New Job? 3 Ways to Make the Most of It
Job seekers, allow me to ask a question: how many of you think of the job hunt as a one-sided wooing process, one in which you need to convince a given company that you are in, fact, the best person for the job? My sympathies are with you: for a very long time, that's how I thought about the job hunt, too. But it's not entirely accurate. To a certain extent, yes, job seekers must do some...
Read More4 Employer Branding Strategies With Amazing Benefits
Employer branding is a hot topic. As the economy continues to rebound, job seekers have access to a wider range of opportunities in the employment market. It's much less of a "buyer's market" for employers, and there is an increasing need to actually compete for talent. The effort to highlight desirable qualities of a job and company does more than simply attract attention...
Read More4 Fantastic Practices to Consider Before Your Next Interview
It's 2 A.M., and you've finally settled into a cozy dream world after hours of tossing and turning. It's the night before your big interview with a potential employer! "NOOOO!" Just a few hours later, you jolt awake in a cold sweat. You had a nightmare that you grabbed your interviewer's hand for a firm, business-like handshake and forgot your own name! Interviewing can be...
Read MoreMillennial Falcon: Why Gen. Y is the Han Solo of the Workforce
"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? She's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. She's fast enough for you, old man. What's the cargo?" - Han Solo, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Harrison Ford's Han Solo will forever be frozen in cinema's carbonite hall of fame as one of the greatest movie characters this galaxy has ever known. With his walking carpet of a...
Read MoreAsk Away: Does College Matter Anymore?
Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's weekly column! Every Monday (we know -- today is Tuesday. But usually, we post Ask Away on Mondays), we'll pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question about the job market you'd like to ask the experts? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in next week's Ask Away! This...
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