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Financial Services Industry Faces a Recruitment Crisis

A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) finds that financial services CEOs overwhelmingly feel there is a lack of talent available to hire. This lack could ultimately affect the long-term growth and success of businesses in the financial industry. The report, "A New Take on Talent," is based on a survey of 410 financial services CEOs across 62 countries and finds these CEOs challenged by...

How to Create a Culture of Health at Your Office

I've written quite a bit about employee health and workplace wellness initiatives in recent months, largely because I think they're quite important. Health matters in a very basic and human way -- i.e., healthy people live longer and live better -- but it also matters economically and professionally. That is to say that healthier employees correlate to better business outcomes. See, for...

The Problem With Complete Compliance in the Workplace

When you were hired for your current job, there's a good chance you went through compliance training, during which you were likely shown all the rules and regulations of your workplace, how to best follow them, and what happens when you break protocol. Understanding the rules of the workplace -- and how to work within them -- means bettering your understanding of where you work. It's...

4 Ways Listening to Music Boosts Your Career

Wouldn't it be nice if you could kick back and relax on the sofa, listen to your favorite music, and suddenly find that you've magically been promoted or found that dream job? Would that it were so! But of course, listening to music isn't going to make any magical career transformations happen. What listening to music can do, however, is improve your performance and productivity in...

To Improve Your Recruiting Efforts on College Campuses, Ask Yourself These 4 Questions

Walk into any job fair on any college campus in the U.S., and you'll likely find throngs of eager students searching for the careers of their dreams. (You'll probably also meet a number of gloomy undergrads shuffling through the crowd, burned-out on the "real world" already -- but that's a story for another time). The question, however, is whether the students at this particular job fair, at...

How to Help Candidates Stand Out During Video Interviews

Standing out and showing off one's best traits during a prerecorded video interview can be difficult. There are few questions to answer, limited time frames, and no chance for a back-and-forth exchange with interviewers. HR departments know that video and prerecorded technology is crucial to sorting through thousands of job applications and finding the right candidates....

Ask Away: How Do I Get a Job Referral From a Friend or Peer?

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new weekly column! Every Monday, we'll pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. Have a question on jobs data 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've all heard that employee referrals are a great source of...

4 Constructive Ways to Deal With Job Rejection

When preparing for the job hunt, most of the advice and support you receive focuses on the positive process of finding a job opportunity -- but very few people will tell you how to deal with rejection. This may be for good reason: if you heard too much about rejection before you even started applying to jobs, you may find it hard to muster up the enthusiasm and energy that a job hunt...

4 Ways to Audit Your Candidate Experience

Let's be honest: the hiring process is stressful for everyone involved. However, the candidate experience goes especially overlooked too often, and strong candidates are deterred by negative experiences during the hiring process. Positive candidate and new-hire experiences are essential, not only to attracting and retaining top talent, but also to a company's overall brand. According to...

How to Get the Most out of Your Performance Review

Do performance reviews suck? Not just in the sense that they often induce gut-level, God-I-hate-this fear and revulsion in the employees who anticipate them (and they often do), but in the sense that they don't really achieve much of anything. Research from GuideSpark says that, yeah, performance reviews are kind of a mess: 45 percent of employees feel they are a waste of time; 75 percent of...

How to Select the Best Recruiting Software for Your Company

The right recruiting software can help recruiters streamline the entire recruitment process into one easy-to-use system. By using a comprehensive recruitment system, recruiters can eliminate duplicate data entry, multiple-file management platforms, and siloed information trapped in email threads. Sounds pretty great, right? The catch is that finding the right system for your business is a...

Can Admitting Weaknesses at Interview Be a Sign of Strength?

Most of us have learned to believe that revealing weaknesses in an interview is a cardinal sin, but I think this may be an unhelpful -- or even actively harmful -- way to view the situation. Now, let's be clear from the outset: I am not urging candidates to walk into the interview room and treat their interviewer like a therapist, revealing their personal and operational weaknesses in a...

How to Manage Depression in the Workplace

Every year, depression costs U.S. employers billions -- $100 billion to be exact, according to a survey from Employers Health Coalition, Inc. That's a large chunk of change, and employers will keep losing it until they start to do something about depression in the workplace. In general, depression is a serious societal problem, and it's one we don't often acknowledge. Of the 40...

6 Ways the Great Recession Changed Hiring

With the world economy starting to mend in the wake of the Great Recession -- for the most part -- it's probably now worth taking stock of some of the impacts this recession had on the hiring landscape. Are there any long-lasting legacies changes that recruiters, employers, and job seekers should be aware of? Below, I outline several things that have changed in the hiring and labor markets...

Confessions of a Boomerang Employee: What Led Me Back Home

Leaving Shutterstock was a hard decision for me in 2012, but at the time it felt like the right one. It turned out, however, that returning to Shutterstock 18 months later was an even better decision. I originally came aboard to launch and develop the Shutterstock affiliate program. During my two years with the company, I turned that project into a revenue generator. My key accomplishment was...

How to Close Your Cover Letter

Love is in the air, but is it in your cover letter? After you've written a couple of paragraphs about your work experience, skills, and enthusiasm for the job and company, it's time to wrap things up. We've written about email sign-offs, but closing your cover letter comes with its own set of rules. Here are Grammarly's best tips for signing off a letter to a potential employer. Say...

How to Sell Your Job Ad with Video

Job descriptions can be a hassle. You know the kind of person you want at your company and what you want them to do. You have a picture in your mind's eye, and it's perfect. But when you sit down to write out the responsibilities, requirements, and qualifications for the job, something happens: suddenly, the job ad you've written doesn't feel like a proper representation of the job...

Everyone Is an Acquired Taste

When it comes to a good glass of wine, not everyone likes the same levels of dryness or sweetness. It takes time, trial, and error to find your perfect wine. Similarly, it can take the same sort of time, trial, and error to find your dream candidate. Without an ATS, this struggle can be even harder. You are left to find the perfect combination of dry and sweet -- functional and cultural fit...

How to Limit the Damage of Arriving Late to an Interview

This article really should be kept in a bottle labelled "Break Glass Only in the Event of a Crisis," because the reality is that no interviewee should make such a basic error. When it comes to interviews, you are not trying to meet up with someone at some obscure coordinates in the middle of the Sahara: you are meeting up in a fully mapped out and perfectly navigable urban area. This doesn't...

Don't Just Onboard, Reinforce: HR's Role in Cutting Ramp-Up Time for New Sales Hires

"Can you imagine hiring a engineer who couldn't code or contribute anything to development for six months?" asks Christopher Faust, CMO of sales-execution software provider Qvidian. The answer is probably "Absolutely not," unless your approach to hiring is highly unorthodox. And yet, when hiring sales team members, organizations routinely expect that their new hires will contribute...

Building a Better Funnel: Screening Applicants With 360Candidate

The hiring process, as it has been said before, is a bit like a funnel. In the initial stages, scores of candidates enter through the funnel's wide mouth as the company collects resumes. The funnel grows narrower as fewer and fewer candidates make it through the rounds of qualification assessments, interviews, background checks, and so on, until, finally, the company is left with (hopefully)...

Ask Away: Why Should I Work for a Startup? [Part 2]

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new weekly column! Every Monday, we pose an employment-related question to a group of experts and share their answers. This week, we had an overwhelming number of responses, so we decided to add a second installment. 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...

Reshoring: Plenty of Reasons Why Manufacturing is Coming Home

What was once just a glimmer of hope on the manufacturing jobs horizon has, in recent years, begun to sparkle, as the "reshoring" of jobs back to the U.S. has gathered momentum. Now there is clear and growing evidence of a trend toward reversing the loss of manufacturing and its associated jobs through the previously relentless outsourcing of jobs to China, India and...

Get Your Onboarding Together, Reap the Engagement Benefits

How effective is your onboarding? Chances are that the answer is a resounding "meh": 40 percent of organizations say their onboarding is either not at all effective or only slightly so, 33 percent say it's moderately effective, and only 27 percent say it's very effective. This lack of effectiveness is doubly troubling when we consider that onboarding is one of the most important aspects...

The Evolving Job Search

The process of how we find a job has changed drastically over the last 10 to 15 years as there's been a significant shift from paper to digital information. Job seekers no longer study the newspaper in the hopes of finding a job description that suits them, instead they will browse job ads digitally and submit their CVs online. The same can be said for recruiters; software filters out...

Ask Away: Why Should I Work for a Startup? [Part 1]

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new 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: Why should anyone work for a startup instead of an established business or...

Looking for Work in More Than One Language

It's no secret that speaking a second language is a good thing. Maria Konnikova, writing for The New Yorker, claims that "the words that we have at our disposal affect what we see -- and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger world." This bigger world includes increased opportunities for employment. In a...

4 Negative Personal Traits That Can Produce Positive Performance

Many of the personal traits that we think of as negative are not inherently negative, but negative in certain situations only. This means that, with an appropriate shift in perspective and situation, a seemingly negative trait can produce positive performance. Being able to turn negative traits into positive performance is both empowering for the person involved and incredibly enabling for...

Valentine's Day Cards and HR Best Screening Practices: an Unexpected Mathematical Equivalence

A Valentine's Day card appears on your desk, in your email inbox or in your home mail box. What you may not realize is that what you experience from that point on is virtually identical with or equivalent to some of the key stages of recruitment screening. I intend to show that these recruitment stages, in turn, and the sending and receipt of a Valentine card, are governed by principles of...

The Dos and Don'ts of Employee Distractions

What do we make of the word "distraction" nowadays? Employers generally used to accept as fact the belief that they should prevent employees from ever being distracted. Organizations took a cue from the old fast-food industry adage, "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean" -- that is, they saw not working as time wasted. Now, however, we're told that distractions...

Your Employees Are Probably Baffled by Your Health Care Plans [Infographic]

Maybe baffled is a strong word, but the fact remains: American employees care deeply about the quality of their health care, but they don't know as much about their insurance plans as they'd like to. This is according to a new survey from online HR software provider BambooHR, which found that, while 66 percent of employees say health care benefits influence how they feel about their job, 63...

Creating a Cool Employee Handbook That Staff Will Actually Read

Few would disagree that the typical employee handbook is perhaps the dullest document in the corporate library, even less interesting than the company accident book. But perhaps we being too hard on the humble handbook. It's just a reference manual, after all, and with its faithful index and numbered pages it does that job perfectly well, doesn't it? Maybe not: a study from...

5 Tips to Help You Descend the Corporate Ladder Gracefully

Perhaps you've been soaring in the corporate heavens for a few years now, and maybe you're starting to find that things don't look so great from 30,000 feet up anymore. Perhaps you flew a little too close to the sun? Maybe you are tired, you no longer enjoy the work, or you are out of your depth? Maybe you just want out: you want to dial it down a bit, take an easier, more engaging job, and get...

Hiring for Tomorrow, Instead of Today: a Look at Challenge-Based Recruiting

Joanna Weidenmiller, CEO of candidate assessment purveyors 1-Page, is not the first person to point out that 2015 will be the "Year of the Candidate" -- the war for talent's been escalating for a while now, and Jobscience CEO Ted Elliott told us in December that 2015 would be a year in which demand for employees increases as the supply of candidates decreases (not that he was the first to...

'Non-Cooperative': a Dangerous HR Buzzword?

Police, the military, private security services, and the latest, super-agile Google/Boston Dynamics spooky mini-tank-like robo-dogs have, as part of the specification of their present or future mandates and tasks, guidelines on how to deal with "non-cooperative" individuals or the capacity and potential (if not also the authorization) to do precisely that. It is reported that, in some...

The Surprisingly High Value of Company Perks [Infographic]

Depending on whom you ask, company perks are either an invaluable piece of both talent acquisition and retention strategies, or they're a nice bonus -- definitely good to have, but not as important as, say, salary, or office culture, or great management. I myself have dealt with plenty of irate readers in the comments on posts I've written about perks. Some have told me I was crazy to imply that...

Convincing Your Boss: We Need Video Interviewing

As a recruiting professional, you know all the levers to push and pull to improve hiring metrics and achieve a more candidate-centric hiring process. You've likely encountered stories about video interviewing and its effectiveness, and perhaps you want to implement video interviewing in your company. However, in enterprise organizations, it's not always easy to introduce change, even if...

10 Tips on Turning Your Firm's Dirty Dozen Into Superstars

Controversial as it may be, forced ranking exists. It is a management approach wherein employees are ranked according to three performance categories: the top-performing 20 percent, the average-performing 70 percent, and the lowest-performing 10 percent. In its worst form, forced ranking is a ruthlessly Darwinian approach: the bottom 10 percent, a metaphorical dirty dozen, is quickly discarded...

Conducting International Business? Check This Out First:

Culture is a tricky thing. It can be hard enough to do business in your country, let alone to strike deals across international borders, where whole new minefields of unspoken assumptions, pregnant gestures, and deeply held beliefs await. Last May, I spoke with author and INSEAD professor Erin Meyer about the challenges of cross-cultural recruiting, but working with people from other cultures in...

5 Common Interview Questions That We Should Retire

Maybe they have been superseded by better alternatives, or maybe they serve no purpose, or maybe they have become so cliché that everyone knows the right answer, but whatever the case, some interview questions just need to be retired. Here are five of the most common questions we should get rid of: 1. "How Would You Deal With..." Hypothetical questions that ask the candidate to...

Training Your Replacement Who Got You Terminated: 'Terminator' Time-Travel Logic?

Being forced to train your job replacement who got you terminated can understandably make you, as the booted employee, feel as though you've been sucked into the vortex of the bizarre and paradoxical time-travel loop in the Arnold Schwarzenegger "Terminator" series. It would not be at all surprising if some of the furious and confused Southern California Edison IT workers recently forced to...

Ask Away: Should You Ever Date a Coworker?

Welcome to Ask Away, Recruiter.com's new 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: Is it ever okay to date a coworker? "About 14 years ago, I met my wife at...

3 Steps to a Dream Employee Appraisal Process That Makes Staff Soar

The performance appraisal process, that stalwart of modern performance management practice, now finds itself on shaky ground -- but why? Two separate studies from Cornerstone OnDemand and Globoforce show that just over half of employers feel that appraisal feedback is not fair or accurate, and Globoforce found that people who think appraisals are inaccurate are twice as likely to leave their...

The Use and Misuse of Your Unconscious Psychological Assessment Tools

Among the most important tools you bring to and use on your job are ones you may be unaware of having and using—especially when your job requires you to assess others, their skills and their tools. These unrecognized tools are "unconscious"—not in the way a carpenter's steel hammer is unconscious, but in the Freudian sense that even if you are fully or dimly aware of their existence, your...

What to Do When Favorites Get All the Promotions

We may find it hard to believe that favoritism still exists in our "more enlightened" age of equal opportunities and transparent internal job markets -- but yes, favoritism is real, and it does happen. We're not just talking about superficial forms of favoritism, where some people are allowed to sit with the boss at lunchtime, either: we're talking about the kind of career-corrupting favoritism...

5 Interview Questions You Might Want to Practice

Do you practice potential questions before you sit down for a job interview? One author suggests you might want to -- and even details what the answers should be. Peter K. Studner is author of Super Job Search IV: The Complete Manual for Job Seekers Career Changers, which was published last month. Studner says, "I never saw a resume -- and only a resume --get a job. That's why you...

'Fit-Friendly Worksite' Tips for Promoting Employee Health

Recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) named First Green Bank -- a bank that "promote positive environmental and social responsibility while operating as a traditional community bank" -- a "fit-friendly worksite."According to the AHA, this designation is reserved for "employers who go above and beyond when it comes to their employees' health." Looking at the workforce wellness...

How to Clean Up Your Social Media Footprint

As you all probably already know, social media profiling went mainstream a while ago. Everyone does it: recruiters, your friends, your enemies, and even your government. Most of this profiling and surveillance probably won't affect you too much, but the social media research performed by recruiters and hiring managers will probably have a material impact on your career. Figures...