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4 Work Arrangements That Challenge the 9-5

The standard workweek is falling apart. Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) are on the rise, and the traditional 9-5 routine is being challenged by generations who want (millennials) and need (gen. X) more flextime. Forty-five percent of millennials tend to choose work flexibility over pay; many are going the freelance route to facilitate this. If your company is looking to attract millennial...

Are You Truly Giving Candidates a Great Experience?

Candidate experience matters: a bad one can damage a company's brand and profit margins alike. In 2012, CareerBuilder reported that 78 percent of candidates who had a bad experience with an employer would share that experience with friends and family; 32 percent of candidates would be less likely to purchase products from companies that gave them poor candidate experiences. But if you spend...

Exploring Employee Referral Programs: Big Talent Pool, Short Timeframe

When it comes to sourcing candidates, a solid employee referral program (ERP) is one of the most effective places to start. Jobvite discovered that implementing a strong employee referral program in its recruiting process increased employee satisfaction; it also found that 46 percent of employees hired via referral stay for more than a year, 45 percent stay beyond two years, and 47 percent stay...

What's the Ideal Format For a Job Advertisement? [Study]

Do you know if your job descriptions are optimized? Are they designed to maximize readability and (qualified) candidate engagement in the job market? Job advertisements are usually a bit of a gamble, aren't they? Usually, you write a job description, add all the required sections, spruce it up with some lively language, and then hope for the best. Now, however, we have insight into designing...

Could a Need to Tailor Your Resume Be a Sign of an Unsuitable Job?

I'd like to turn the resume-tailoring paradigm on its head a little. We all know that employers are turned off by generic resumes that don't appear to be specific to the company or post to which a candidate is applying. Employers see these resumes as signs that a candidate has put no thought into their application. This is why it has pretty much become required practice for job seekers...

How to Trap a Workplace 'Black Knight' Who's Out to Get You

In my recent article, "When and Why the Good Guy Quits the Company First", I described and analyzed the traps that workplace good-guy "White Knights" can fall into in the midst of a conflict with a malicious colleague or coworker. Those traps include ones set by the "Black Knight" adversary and those of the good guy's own making—the "good guy" being the much more ethical, reasonable,...

Practice What You Preach: Spreading Workplace Wellness Through Insurance Firms

Stress, as many of us know, can be a real monster. Among the havocs that stress can wreak on a body are headaches, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and heart disease, to name only a few. According to the American Institute of Stress, work is the No. 1 cause of stress for American adults: 80 percent of workers report feeling stress on the job, and 65 percent of workers say...

Modern 'Subsistence Wages': Worse Than Marx and Engels Would Have Imagined?

When we hear talk about "subsistence wages", the first associations that are likely to come to mind are "exploitative" wages and practices in Victorian England mines and sweat shops of the sort Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels railed against a century and a half ago (despite reported huge gains in industrial worker income and living standards). Or maybe you imagine the wages of indigent migrant...

Why Limiting Your Options Can Make You a Better Worker

Removing ourselves from boring routines is among the biggest trends in the workforce. As the millennial workforce pushes to end the regular nine-to-five grind, companies are responding by becoming more and more open to the idea of breaking old work-world routines. The flex-schedule mindset is also growing: the number of companies offering customized work arrangements went from 11 percent in...

Could a 4-Day Workweek Make Your Firm More Attractive to Talent?

Just when you thought it might be safe to go back into the talent market: this CareerBuilder/Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. study suggests that talent shortages are set to persist into 2015 and beyond, especially in IT, healthcare, and marketing, where the average monthly gap between job postings and hires is between 15,000-20,000 per position. You're going to have to further...

Ask Away: Do MBAs Really Matter?

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: Do MBAs (and similar business-oriented degrees) really matter? "Running several...

Whistle While You Work: the Benefits of Listening to Music at the Office

History has shown us that people have used work songs to boost their motivation and aid productivity for centuries. We may have replaced these simple folks songs with personalized Internet playlists, but the impact remains the same. "Melodious sounds help encourage the release of dopamine in the reward area of the brain," Dr. Amit Sood, a physician at the Mayo Clinic, told the New York...

4 More Ways to Remote Control Your Difficult Boss

Because everyone seemed to enjoy my last article on dealing with difficult bosses, I've decided to share four more ways to remote control a manager who's making your work life unbearable. I'm not saying you'll have your boss dancing like a puppet, but these tactics can definitely help you manage upward more effectively. 1. Deliver on Your Promises One of the best ways to capture your...

Crafting a Must-See Social Media Profile

Ninety-two percent of companies peruse job seekers' social media profiles when recruiting. If you're looking for work in pretty much any field, you no longer have an excuse for avoiding Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+: if you want a job, you should be on social media. You need to do more than just show up on the Web, of course: you need to maintain your social media...

The Horney Motion Model for Personnel and Personality Assessment

Besides being colorfully imaginative, the concept image on the left displays the essence of a well-known, easy-to-grasp, yet insightful psychoanalytic "motion" model of psychological relationships and interactions that has useful applications in both personal and personnel assessment. One figure is moving away from the other two, which, on one interpretation, are themselves moving toward or...

Can Your Personality Determine Your Career Path? [Infographic]

One of the most well-known personality assessments available, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has long been a staple of the business world. Companies use the MBTI to screen candidates, onboard new hires, and develop their employees. A lot of controversy surrounds this particular test: our own Michael Moffa took it to task back in 2011, and last year, CPP, Inc., the exclusive publisher...

The 8 Most Annoying Workplace Buzzwords

Buzzwords have always been big in the world of business. Some of these buzzwords are useful and even necessary, but many more are simply empty fluff that we should avoid as much as possible. With that in mind, here is a list of some of the most annoying buzzwords (and "buzzphrases") currently in popular use: 1. "Think Outside the Box" This term is used to describe unconventional ways...

How to Hire an Ethical Hacker

Just to be perfectly clear: we are not talking about hiring hackers to engage in unethical or illegal activity; this article looks at the process of hiring hackers who can engage in ethical and legal hacking assignments. Think of an ethical hacker as "a computer or network expert who systematically attempts to penetrate a computer system or network on behalf of it's owners for the purpose...

Don't Get Creative With Your Resume

For various reasons, folks like to abandon reason and get creative with their resumes. They might think it will fool hiring managers about their age or work history, or maybe they believe their gimmicks will get them around recruiting software. Well, guess what? It's not going to work. It's time to stop fooling around with your resume and stick to the tried and true. U.S. News ...

ServiceRocket Acquires LearnDot to Expand Mobile, Self-Paced Training Solutions

ServiceRocket, a provider of training, utilization and support technology and services designed to maximize Customer Success, announced it has acquired assets of Matygo Educational Incorporated, including the Learndot customer education platform, broadening its SaaS-based training and content offerings to include simple, on-demand user training. "We want to be the best way people learn...

Kronos SaaShr, Along With Partners, Provides Workforce Management Video Series

Kronos SaaShr, Inc. has launched a new video series, Trends in Workforce Management, aimed at educating the SMB market with insights on workforce management trends from expert thought leaders in its partner community. Trends in Workforce Management videos provide insight from several solution provider thought leaders on specific topics that affect SMBs and their workforce management practices....

Why and How to Fit Exercise Into the Workday

Many of us have that voice in our head nagging us to exercise. The obesity rate among American adults hovers around 35 percent (obesity here defined as having a body mass index of 30 or higher). Being overweight is unhealthy, but it also costs the U.S. workforce quite a bit of cash -- about $8 billion per year in lost productivity, in fact. Being fit is healthier for us and lets us work better,...

TalentGuard Releases Version 7 of Integrated Talent Management Suite

TalentGuard, a leading provider of talent management software solutions for engaging and retaining employees, has announced the release of version 7.0 of its Integrated Talent Management Suite. "Our integrated Talent Management Suite will significantly streamline an organization's adoption of talent management solutions, decreasing time-to-value from months or even years with other...

When the Workplace 'Need for Speed' Has Nothing to Do With Saving Time

At times during the whirl of a work day, we've all felt the need to hurry, or that we are being rushed or that somehow we just want it all to go faster. The usual reasons are impatience; boredom; a time, resource, goal constraint and/or simply because "Time is money." But there are other reasons and causes—influences that can make the need for speed, even in the office, experienced much...

Do You Know How to Clone Your Superstars?

If you look at statistics on the predictive reliability of the hiring process, you'll find that the hiring process is, on average, about 50-60 percent reliable, if executed well. The point is that hiring is a bit of a gamble, and many would say that a 50 percent chance of success is unacceptable. Most employers should realize that, given the frailty of the hiring process and the hostile...

HSBC Finds Retirement not a Priority for Majority of Americans

A majority of working-age Americans admit they are not prioritizing retirement planning and place greater importance on more immediate financial concerns, potentially resulting in financial hardship in the long-term, according to new research out from HSBC. The global study finds that for 81 percent of working-age Americans, saving for retirement is not their main priority, even as 76 percent...

Want to Retain Your Employees? First, Meet Their Impossible Demands

Let's start with some healthy alarmism: there's a good chance that a significant portion of your employees want to leave. Sorry. This is according to research from talent management software providers Saba and market-research firm Harris Interactive, Inc., which found that roughly one-third of employed adults in the U.S. are looking to leave their jobs in the next seven months. Other jobs data...

SilkRoad Launches Next-Gen HRMS

SilkRoad, a leading global provider of cloud-based talent management solutions, has announced the release of its next generation Human Resources Management System (HRMS). SilkRoad HRMS is a way for companies to manage their employee data with the added benefit of easily integrating with payroll, time off, and benefits systems as well as the rest of the SilkRoad Life Suite of talent management...

Top 10 Predictions for Employee Referrals in 2015

2014 saw employee referral programs gain a lot of momentum as organizations tried to hire the best talent in the employment market without spending too much on recruiting. The biggest recruiting challenge for 2014 was gaining access to the pool of passive candidates, and this is where employee referral programs came in particularly handy. 2014 was also the year that social media finally entered...

IQNavigator and Visier Partner to Provide Enterprise Workforce Visibility

IQNavigator, the leading provider of non-employee workforce management solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Visier, a leader in workforce intelligence. Through the partnership the companies will deliver insights in the complete, extended workforce. IQNavigator and Visier are provided an integrated approach that combines non-employee (or contingent) labor data from...

4 Ways to Make the Most of Your References

Has it ever happened to you: you get called out of the blue for a job reference? There's nothing worse than getting caught flat-footed trying to come up with something positive to say about a person. That doesn't mean you can't-- it just means you're likely to draw a blank when put on the spot, and that could hurt a person's chances of getting hired. But it's not your fault. The...

Ramco Systems Delivers SMS-Based Employee Self-Service

Ramco Systems, a cloud-based HR and talent management solution with multi-country payroll, has announced the launch of SMS-based Employee Self-Service (ESS). Designed and developed as part of Ramco's Mobility offerings, this new feature helps ESS users of Ramco HCM to apply leave, raise queries, and perform transactions, all via a text message. Organizations can use the feature to send...

Kronos and Axsium Group Launch Solution to Optimize Store Productivity With Big Data

Kronos Incorporated and Axsium Group have launched a retail store performance plug-in to add simplicity and effectiveness to global corporate, store, and field managers through automated, guided decision-making. Powered by the Kronos Workforce Analytics application, the new plug-in uncovers gaps in important areas that impact customer and employee satisfaction, helping create optimized schedules...

Constructive Criticism 101: How to Give It Without Seeming 'Critical'

When criticized -- no matter how constructive the criticism is intended to be -- most people become defensive. To minimize defensiveness and maximize effectiveness, it is helpful to approach constructive criticism as a full communication. Full and complete communication leaves no room for misinterpretation. Keys to Giving Constructive Criticism: Before addressing the issue you intend to...

How to Empower Introverts in the Workplace

The idea that extroverts alone should lead the workforce is slowly fading away. Susan Cain's book Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and a wealth of research about how introverts do best in the workplace are actively reversing the myth that introverts are not as valuable to an organization as extroverts. Both types of people are equally capable of being great...

What if a Candidate Has No Social Media Footprint?

Everyone has a social media profile of some kind, right? Actually, no: as of September 2013, 73 percent of online adults were using social networking sites, which means that a significantly large portion of adults (27 percent) are off the Web's radar. What if one of these anti-social media adults becomes one of your candidates? Does it matter if they don't have a social media...

Deltek Announces Acumen 6.0 With New Capabilities, Insight Into Project Achievability

Deltek, a leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses, has announced the release of Deltek Acumen 6.0, a solution for delivering insight into schedule quality and project accuracy. The new features and integrations deliver visibility into project achievability, enabling consistent project success. The Deltek Acumen product suite offers...

Why Retailers Are Turning to Supplemental Workforces

Despite a disappointing Black Friday, last year's holiday shopping season wasn't all bad news. In fact, staffing and recruitment solutions provider Corporate Resource Services, Inc., (CRS) says the season was "more boom than bust" overall. Reports from the National Retail Federation suggest that CRS is correct: holiday sales rose 4 percent in 2014 to $616.1 billion. Alongside rising sales,...

When and Why the Good Guy Quits the Company First

Gathering company storm clouds churned up by a staff conflict are about to blow somebody away and out of the corporate picture. One of the two antagonists is a "good guy"—ethical, responsible, reasonable and pretty much blameless. The other is the start-up's Hound from Hell: deceitful, manipulative, dishonest, unreasonable and pretty much to blame for the mess he's trying to pin on the...

4 Ways to Remote Control Your Difficult Boss

More weight has been thrown behind the old adage that we don't leave companies, we leave bosses: this recent study of 4,500 Danish public-sector workers shows it's not excessive workload or pressure that cause employee depression; rather, it's the environment, particularly the feeling that one is being treated unfairly by their managers. With most of the workforce currently disengaged at work,...

XpertHR Identifies Most Challenging Concerns in Employment Issues for 2015

A new XpertHR report reveals that workplace challenges in 2015 can cause lots of uncertainty and unforeseen costs for employers. Numerous new laws have been passed at the federal, state and local levels recently that will challenge employers, have a significant impact on the workplace, and increase the risk that an employer will be subject to a lawsuit, civil fines, or criminal penalties. One...

Hire.Bid Auction Marketplace Goes Live, Connecting Moonlighting Professional With Clients

D.C.-based HireBid LLC has announced the launch of the Hire.Bid marketplace. Hire.Bid connects lawyers, consultants, and other professionals with clients through an auction marketplace environment. Hire.Bid is targeted towards business, technical, and legal professionals based in Washington, D.C. and throughout the U.S. who want to earn extra income on the side on nights and weekends. Hire.Bid...

CRS Advanced Technology Launces SubFinder Elite Absence Management Software

CRS Advanced Technology has announced the launch of their latest software upgrade, SubFinder elite. SubFinder elite Version 1 offers over 200 new features including a completely web based application for all users, user-specific dashboard, a completely redesigned report engine, and advanced scheduling capabilities to assist in the management of block and rolling schedules. The new upgrade also...

How to Recruit the New Generation of Top Sales Talent

Do you believe you understand millennials? Well, forget what you think you know about young talent and prepare to recruit the next wave of sales professionals: Generation Z. A recent report from Millennial Branding found that Gen. Z is more entrepreneurial than its millennial predecessors. Among those surveyed, 17 percent of Gen. Z respondents said they want to start their own business,...

Handle Your Performance Review Like a Pro

No matter how well you think you're doing, there's always the possibility that your supervisor will see things differently and call you out for your actions -- or inaction -- come performance review time. Luckily, there are steps you can take before, during, and after your evaluation to boost your career. You may even start to look forward to reviews in the future! First, get on the...

Forget Rec Rooms: the 3 Pillars of Real Company Culture

Let's play a word association game: when I say "company culture," what words come to mind? If you're like a lot of newbies in the talent world, you might be thinking "beanbag chairs," "happy hour," "free food," or "massage tables" (if you're especially indulgent). But if you're like Emmanuel Tahar, CEO and cofounder of research firm Cognolink, a few other, less sexy terms come to mind:...

CBIZ Small Business Employment Index Shows Positive Hiring in December

The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) increased by 1.22 percent during December 2014. This follows a decrease of -1.04 percent during the month of November and marks the first positive gain in the SBEI since the reading for the period of August 2014. "Small business owners appeared extremely optimistic according to the November NFIB report, which pinned its gains to business...

Land a Job More Easily With These 6 Courses

If you are still in college, it doesn't hurt to take a few electives that can boost your job prospects after graduation. And if you are already done with school, furthering your education is a great way to get noticed when you're looking to take the next step in your career. Here are six stand-alone courses that can boost your chances of getting a job: 1. Professional...