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The Evolution of China's Talent in the Technology Sector

In the early 1980s, China was a huge unexplored market for investment. Many well-known multinational technology companies such as HP, IBM, and Motorola entered as pioneers into the Chinese market to reap the benefits of China's exponential growth. At the time, these large multinational companies hired experienced leaders from the four "Asian Tigers" (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South...

4 Tips on Prepping for a Video Interview

In 2012, OfficeTeam asked 500 HR managers about their use of video technology in the interviewing process. Fifty-three percent of respondents said they use video "very often" in the interviewing process, and a further 10 percent said they use video "somewhat often." As video interviewing becomes more and more prevalent, interviewees must learn to adapt to this new method of interviewing....

12 Tips for College Grads on the Job Search

We all know that the job market coming out of college is tough. We also know someone who has had to move back in with their parents because they couldn't get a job after college, right? You've probably seen the statistic from the Associated Press that 53.6 percent of college graduates under 25 are underemployed or unemployed. But this doesn't have to be you! If roughly 47 percent of...

Our Careers Are No Longer Linear — and Our Hiring Processes Are Stuck in the Past

Greg Moran, CEO of candidate screening company Chequed.com, says that he and many of the members of his age group -- slightly older than the millennials -- tended to view the application process the same way one might view buying a house. "It was long, it was painful, and thankfully, you didn't have to do it a lot," Moran jokes. "When you were in that process, you knew it wasn't going to...

What Can the Advertising Industry Teach Employers About Hiring Millennials?

With the millennials now in their biological primes (18-35 years old) and steadily gaining more corporate, financial, and political power, marketers have begun investing increasingly large amounts of money in efforts to engage and ultimately win over this enigmatic generation. Of course, we recruiters, too, must now focus on attracting millennials, albeit in a slightly different...

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...

Rejecting 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...

'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...

6 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...

The 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...

Grassroots 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...

Boomer 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...

Ask 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...

5 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...

Growing 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...

5 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...

Connect 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...

Is 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...

How 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,...

What 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...

How 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...

A 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...

Want 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...

Everything 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...

How 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...

Ask 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...

Top 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...

Attracting 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....

Open-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...

5 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...

5 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...

What 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...

4 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...

Beware 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...

How 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...

Expecting 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...

Why 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...

It 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...

Is 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...

Text 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...

Should 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...

Ask 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...

Is 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...

4 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...

How 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...

Not 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...

How 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,...

5 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...