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Free Food Perk Getting Stale? Try These Employee Perks That Go Beyond the Norm

It is unlikely that anyone would argue against getting free food at work, but if a company is relying solely on free food to motivate employees, it can start to get a little old. The best workplace perks are personal and show employees how much their employer values their work. Collected here are more than a dozen workplace perks that go beyond the norm in providing creative experiences that...

The New Rules for the 2015 Recruiter

2015 is almost upon us, and with it will come challenges to test the skills of even the most experienced recruiters. Nearly 80 percent of companies say their biggest talent acquisition challenge is a critical shortage of the skills they need to achieve corporate objectives, according to a new Aberdeen Group report. The new year calls for fresh thinking and an innovative approach to solving...

HR Startup Vocoli Offers Cloud-Based Venue for Getting Ideas to the Boss

Vocoli, in beta since 2013, has launched as a cloud-based platform accessible from any device. Vocoli allows customers to create an account for every employee, allowing them to log in and submit suggestions through one of two categories: operational efficiency or innovation. Once the idea is submitted, the employee is presented with some questions such as: "What is the problem as you see it?"...

Survey Finds Total Compensation for Execs Continues to Climb

The 2014 AESC BlueSteps Executive Compensation Report, released by the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), has shared that nearly half (44 percent) of executives at the CEO/President level experienced a rise in total compensation in the last fiscal year. Of those CEOs who experienced an increase in total compensation, 38 percent received +16 percent or higher growth in the last...

If Recruiters Only Knew: Lessons from the Answers American Employee Study

Earlier this month, Answers Corporation released the results of the first ever Answers American Employee Study, which surveyed 4,000 full-time American employees to find out what really drives satisfaction in the workplace. By and large, the results suggest that general employee satisfaction is lower than employers would like to see it. On a scale of 1-100, American employees rate their...

ZALP Launches ER-I Platform for Evaluating Employee Referral Processes

A leading employee referral software company, ZALP has launched its campaign ER-i – The Employee Referral Index, the largest global initiative on employee referrals. It enables organizations to benchmark employee referral program against industry leaders and other referral programs of successful organizations. The ER-i initiative began in 2013 to help organizations measure the performance of...

Preparing for 2015: Employee Referral Program Evaluation Checklist

An employee referral program is now widely accepted as an important and effective recruiting tool with the capacity to produce better quality hires at much lower costs. However, very few organizations have managed to truly gauge and appreciate the fact that employee referrals can also produce benefits beyond recruiting by reducing attrition and improving productivity. In fact, within recruiting...

Need Help with Your Job Search? Consider a Career Coach

"Some job searches are more complex than others," says Glenn Laumeister, founder and CEO of CoachMarket, an online marketplace where people can find and connect to career coaches. Laumeister offers an example: say you're a CMO at an ecommerce company and another ecommerce company wants to hire you. They'll pay you more and its a better environment. In that situation, it's pretty obvious...

How to Overcome Recruiter Cold Call Resistance

Let's face it: there aren't many people out there who love cold calling. Of course, there are the talented few with silver tongues who can talk their way past any secretary and right into the office of their target without breaking a sweat. Such cold call efficacy is not common: in fact, a study by Behavioural Science Research Press found that 80 percent of all new salespeople who fail...

American Legion Launches Career Platform for Veteran Employment

The American Legion, a sponsorship organization of U.S. war veterans, has launched a new web platform to help military veterans translate military skills to job skills, find employment, start businesses, and make successful transitions. Among the key features of The American Legion's Veteran Employment Center are: A Veteran Job Search tool, powered by Military.com, which helps veterans...

Monster Poll Finds One-Third of Employees Think Their Boss is 'Horrible'

A poll conducted by Monster reveals that more than one-third of workers consider their boss to be "horrible" (38 percent) and 54 percent of respondents gave their boss a negative rating. Only 17 percent of respondents gave their boss an "excellent" grade. To conduct the poll, Monster asked visitors to their site, "On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate your current or former boss?"...

IMD Unveils World Talent Ranking of Countries

IMD, a top-ranked global business school, has released its first annual World Talent Report. The report introduces the IMD World Talent Ranking based on the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. The report assesses a country's ability to develop, attract, and retain talent for companies based on three factors: Investment and development in local talent, reflecting investment in...

Don't Allow Unhappiness to Hijack Your Career Path

Many people are unhappy with their jobs: perhaps their salary does not meet expectations, or they have not advanced as quickly as they would have liked, or they have wanted to leave but job prospects elsewhere have been slim. Faced with such situations, they may decide that the only solution is to start from scratch in an entirely new career. However, a mid-career switch can be very risky,...

The Candidate Experience: 4 Deadly Habits Worth Kicking

The candidate experience is probably one of the more malnourished and mistreated processes involved in recruiting and retaining talent -- but why? Yes, there are logical explanations: lack of organization, poor timing, and unmanaged expectations. And yet, we all have a common understanding of what hiring new talent means for our bottom line. While there some organizations and technologies...

Why Not Interview Jobs as Well as People?

Note: Caution—the following is fanciful satire and parody, but, like all satire, with a point, or two. Of course, recruiters solicit and vet jobs, much in the same way they solicit and vet resumes. It's smart and necessary to carefully screen both job seekers and jobs posted, and one of the powerful tools utilized in this process is the interview. So, why not interview jobs as well as job...

Repairing the 'Pitfalls' of a Manual Recruiting Process

According to business-software matchmakers Capterra, only 26 percent of employers use an ATS to manage their hiring process. That number is much lower than I expected. Despite the various flaws of ATSs and similar recruiting software solutions, more employers may want to adopt them: Capterra also reports that companies who do use recruiting software to manage relationships with candidates are 40...

ExactSource Releases Information on Recruiting, Retaining Millennials in Engineering

ExactSource, a leader in the delivery of talent management solutions and software to engineering firms, has announced the release of its presentation at the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) national Fall Conference in October. The conference, which is the second of two major conventions ACEC sponsors each year, took place October 22-25, 2014 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in...

Fight the Urge to Rant after a Layoff and Avoid Sabotaging Your Future

It might be tempting to rant to or lash out at the person who tells you that your job has just ended, but there are a number of good reasons to resist the temptation. First of all, remember that the person who delivered the bad news may simply be the messenger, not necessarily the person who decided to terminate you from the company. However, even if it is your boss who delivered the bad news...

5 Tips for Motivating a Low-Wage Workforce

Most economic commentators agree that the gap between the rich and the poor is growing. It has widened more in the recent recession because senior manager salaries continued to rise healthily while the average workers' salaries flatlined. As a result, CEOs earn 331 times as much as the average worker and 774 times as much as minimum-wage workers, according to AFL-CIO's Paywatch. This study...

Why You Need to Use Action Verbs on Your Resume

A quick Google search for "resume action verbs" brings up thousands of lists. But what are action verbs? And why are they so important? In terms of grammar, so-called "action" verbs are no different from any other verbs. English has "strong" (or irregular, as in get/got) and "weak" (or regular, as in walk/walked ) verbs like many other European languages. However, strong verbs...

CareerBuilder Shares Top Jobs for College and High School Grads for 2015

CareerBuilder partnered with Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI) to develop a list of top jobs for 2015 requiring either a high school diploma or college degree. The list is constituted by occupations where supply significantly outpaces demand indicated where companies are most needy for talent. "Job creation is gaining ground and job seekers are gaining leverage," said Matt Ferguson,...

Survey Shows Disconnect Among Virtual Workers Due to Lack of Communication

According to a new survey from Interact, 69 percent of American employees who work virtually feel that their level of engagement suffers due to a lack of communication from management. "Unhappy employees who are disconnected from their managers and the company cannot take ownership of the mission, goals or big picture, which is the minimum requirement for the kind of engagement that impacts...

New Research Equates High-Performance Onboarding with High Employee Engagement

A new research paper by Brandon Hall Group, sponsored by cfactor Works, Inc. has cited high-performance onboarding as a primary driver of employee engagement. The report examines real-world examples of organizations achieving engagement gains through effective onboarding solutions. According to the report, High-Performance Onboarding as a Driver of Employee Engagement, the 27 percent of...

What Personality Type Is Best Suited to Virtual Work?

Virtual and/or remote work is becoming central to most employers' resourcing and fulfillment strategies. In fact, many startup companies launch on a bedrock of virtual employees, and virtual employees now deliver a large proportion of the turnover of many larger firms, too. The debate around virtual work has evolved past making a business case for virtual working, or even discussing how fast...

4 Ways Mobile Mends Flawed Interview Practices

Mobile recruitment is on the rise, with 79 percent of recruiters following at least one mobile-related recruiting best practice, up from 68 percent in 2011. Considering it takes an average of 24.5 working days to fill an open position, it's no wonder hiring managers are turning to mobile to help streamline processes. Here are some ways mobile technology is helping mend flawed interview...

The Dark Side of the 'Freelance Revolution'

A few days ago, I spoke with a man who runs a chauffeuring service. Unsurprisingly, the conversation turned to Uber, ride-sharing apps in general, and their affect on the transportation industry in general. "In two or three years, there will be no more employee chauffeurs," he said, somewhat grimly. "Everyone is moving to the Uber model; every driver will be an independent...

iSolved Mobile Provides On-the-Go Employee Clock In

Infinisource, a leading SaaS-based human capital management technology solutions firm, has announced the new iSolved Mobile app which lets employees clock into the iSolved platform from anywhere with their smart phones. Users can clock in individually, or crew leaders can clock in an entire group of their employees. iSolved Mobile combines time, payroll and other support functions into a...

Your Recruitment Standards: Good, or Merely Stable?

"Stable" sounds nice. Stable prices, nuclear reactors, jobs, bridges, marriages, societies, personalities and character, governments, tables, chairs and heartbeats are all good things—or so it seems. But that doesn't mean that any of them are the best they can be—or not requiring or benefiting from any improvement. Indeed, in the worst case scenario, each of them can be stable, yet...

Education Platform, Filtered, Launches Full Personalized Business Suite

Filtered, an online education platform, has launched 12 new courses in business disciplines to expand upon its existing portfolio of Microsoft Office training solutions. The courses are powered by a proprietary adaptive algorithm. Filtered personalizes learning material to close the gap between current skills and knowledge and where a user need to be. Through the use of self-assessment,...

Why You Should Background Check Your Interviewer – and How to Do It.

Most candidates become nervous at the thought of a background check. It feels slightly uncomfortable to have an employer rifle through your history. We would all rather it didn't happen. So, why not console yourself a little by turning the tables and doing a nice, detailed background check on your interviewer/hiring manager? Of course, background checking your hiring manager can do more...

Top Recruiting Myths Uncovered

Companies can take anywhere from a single week to multiple months to fill a position, and unfortunately, after a new hire, companies are sometimes dissatisfied with their selection. Those dissatisfied are left to review a potential fault in their process or consider a new approach; however, many companies have not discovered that a recruiter may be the best solution to their hiring...

Gear Stream Brings Social and Performance Science Tools to Enterprise Scale

Gear Stream Inc., a leading business-agility and digital-innovation firm, has announced the launch of Surge, a toolset for enterprise companies and startups to retain agility as they grow. The Surge platform provides performance management tools and enables business, IT, and operations teams to collaborate at improved speed, efficiency, and agility. The Surge platform equips leaders and...

5 Ways to Spot a Great Developer in an Interview

According to online staffing site Dice.com, IT professionals are as in demand now as they were before the Great Recession, and there's a significant shortage of mobile developers. Meanwhile, as the mobile sector grows and demand rises, recruiters are increasingly competing for a shrinking pool of talented developers. This means it's more important now than ever before to hire the right...

Most Companies to Hire Tech Jobs in 2015, but U.S. Unsure of Its Innovation

Fifty-one percent of U.S. companies will hire technology professionals in 2015, and the proportion of tech professionals employed on a full-time, permanent basis has risen to 70 percent in 2014, according to the third annual Harvey Nash Technology Survey: Disruptors Disrupted – the New Tech Flux. The report reveals that innovation remains an unclear goal, despite acceleration of...

Payroll Mate Releases SB Payroll Software with QuickBooks, Sage 50 Compatibility

Real Business Solutions has released the 2015 version of its small business payroll software, Payroll Mate. Some of the new features in the new release is easier import and export functionality and tighter integration with accounting packages including Intuit QuickBooks, Sage 50, Sage DacEasy, Intuit Quicken and more. Payroll Mate software allows small business owners process payroll in-house...

The 'Zero Moment of Truth' Comes to Recruiting

Once upon a time, the folks at Procter Gamble coined the term "first moment of truth" to refer to the 3-7 seconds it takes consumers to decide whether or not they'll buy a certain product. PG posited that this "first moment of truth" occurs when consumers come across a product on the shelf. They consider it quickly and, if their attention is adequately captured, they'll buy. Then...

A Guide to Staying Calm and Rational When Seized with 'Cost Angst'

Thinking about the costs of your decisions can drive you crazy or at least make you miserable. Depending on which form or calculation of cost (and resultant remorse) is "chosen", that angst (including retrospective regret or anticipatory anxiety) may be smart—or not. This observation holds in all domains of life—irrespective of whether it's the pending or past decision to hire or not...

Transitioning from Contracted Freelance Work to a Full-Time Employee

Becoming a full-time employee after a career of freelance contract work is frequently difficult due to the stigma employers place on such candidates, considering them to be flight risks. Just as common is the notion that freelancers are loners who lack the personality and social skills to work in a collaborative environment. Additionally, some companies have a hard time interpreting the...

Jobstore.com Enables Job Discovery through Facebook Friends

Jobstore.com has announced the launch of Jobstore.com, a website that eschews algorithms for the process of matching job seekers with more relevant jobs through their Facebook friends. Integration with Facebook in the job market helps Jobstore come closer to the services provided by LinkedIn. "We've already received fantastic feedback from job seekers who are finding jobs they otherwise would...

4 Retro Job Hunt Tactics That May Now Be Innnovative

There is no doubt that social media, Web, and mobile technologies are the weapons of choice for the modern job seeker. These modern-day, technology-based job search techniques have now flooded the market. While they were once the bleeding edge, these approaches may now border on the mundane and run-of-the-mill, simply because everyone is now using them. I mean, how much ingenuity does it really...

More Than One in Ten Americans Exploring or Seeking New Jobs, Survey Finds

Joberate, a digital information service that measures and quantifies job seeking behaviors of the global workforce, has released a recently conducted analysis of U.S. job seeking behavior. The survey of data showed that 12.1 percent of full-time working Americans are exploring or actively seeking new employment opportunities, up from 8.2 percent over the last 90 days. Nearly 5 percent of U.S....

The Hartford Finds Mid-Sized Businesses to Grow in 2015

According to The Hartford's 2014 Midsize Business Monitor, midsized businesses are well-positioned to be a driving force of the economy in 2015. A majority of midsized business owners are optimistic about the economy and plan to make key investments to drive growth for their companies. The survey found that 66 percent of midsized business owners and C-level executives are optimistic that...

Happy Holidays – You're Hired?

Could it be possible that the holiday season is a good time to be job hunting? Some experts think so. Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half International, told FoxBusiness.com, "Yes, some of the hiring slows down, but there is a fair amount of hiring now and through the end of the year." Hiring is especially good this time of year because most people don't actively...

'One Size Fits One': Why You Should Tailor Your Recruiting Efforts

It's easy to get swept away in all the great new recruiting technology we have at our fingertips these days: video interviews, highly advanced ATSs, Boolean social media search engines, etc., etc. But according to ManpowerGroup's 2014 Candidate Preference Survey, talent acquisition professionals would do well to keep their strategies grounded in the human: 9 in 10 candidates prefer more...

GeoTargeting Collegiate Recruiting Software Targets Field of Study, Degree Level

GeoTargeting by Mytasca provides recruiters the capability of finding a precise type of college student down to detail such as zip code, field of study, college degree level, and other key search criteria. Doing a zip code search with the Mytasca database offers data including: number of mile radius away from the company, area of discipline, and degree by school, and immediately provides a list...

How Employers Can Prepare For The Freelance Work Revolution

We live in an age where great businesses can be born and die overnight, in a manner of speaking. This is why modern businesses and corporations must be flexible, adaptable, and responsive: so they can handle any problem or exploit any opportunity that comes their way. One way that organizations are starting to build adaptability is by moving from a fixed-labor model to a contingent-labor model,...

Hireology Updates Hiring Solution with Enhanced Phone Screen Guides

Hireology, a leading provider of employee hiring and selection management technology, has announced the launch of its newly updated phone screen solution, designed to aid employers in making data-based decisions about which candidates to interview in person. The enhanced phone screen guides provide a script and guided questions to ensure hiring managers ask the right questions to make smarter...

Advice for the 'Baby' in the Office: How to Deal with Being the Youngest in the Workplace

Many graduates face being the youngest and least experienced individuals in the office. They go from being the seniors in university to being the "babies" in the office. This can be either a challenging or smooth transition, largely depending on how the graduate looks at it. It is advised to approach being the baby of the office as a learning period in which you are allowed room for mistakes,...