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Let's Go, Mets Go: Recruiting Lessons to Help Find Your Rookie of the Year

Trained as a shortstop but drafted as a pitcher, the MLB's National League Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom is an example of recruiting done right: assessing talent to put your employees in the best position for personal and organizational success. Sometimes, you need to look deeper than the conventional scouting report to get it right. Most managers will agree that hiring is one of the most...

Could Your Seasonal Hires Use Some Training?

Black Friday -- the orgiastic start of the holiday-shopping season -- fast approaches, and companies are prepping in the usual way: high-volume seasonal hiring efforts. According to Forbes, Target is looking for 18,900 seasonal employees this year; Sears needs 9,200 temporary helpers, and Toys "R" Us wants to fill 8,600 positions -- and these are only initial listings, not necessarily the final...

Is a College Degree Really Required?

The hype over college education has reached its peak and is now on a downhill slide. Only 20 percent of students graduate in the standard four years, and fewer than half graduate in six. University enrollment rates have fallen – by 1.5 percent since 2012 – and subsequently so has the number of graduates. All of this suggests that companies must begin looking to employ talent other...

SuccessFactors Finds Leadership Gap is Now Wider Than Ever

A recent survey by SuccessFactors, an SAP company, found that 34 percent of executives say "a lack of adequate leadership is among the major impediments to achieving workforce goals." Another 42 percent say company growth plans are "slowed by lack of access to the right leadership." On the bright side, the majority of employees rate their leaders as doing an adequate job. When asked...

Are the Biggest Workplace Trends of 2014 Sustainable?

While many employers are concerned about the skills gap, a separate performance gap is also growing. In fact, workplace performance has gone down 6 percent since 2008, due largely to a decline in employee focus. Some employers have chosen to take unconventional measures to increase workplace productivity and re-engage their teams -- but are these measure sustainable? Here are some of the more...

Will Video Interviews of the Near Future Look Like This?

Video interviewing has without a doubt revolutionized the interview process, but it does have one obvious drawback: according to a study from the Degroote School of Business, video interviews have a dampening effect on candidate personalities. As a result, video interviewees are rated as less attractive, less likable, and less competent than face-to-face interviewees. While HD technology and...

Confirmation vs. Consistency: Whodunnits and The Role of 'Circumstantial Evidence' in Vetting Job Candidates

You have just submitted your hiring recommendation—to fill a top IT spot—to your manager, who throws you an unexpected curve with some weird spin and asks, "Does what you know about the candidate confirm he's the best choice, or is what you know merely consistent with that conclusion?" Your immediate, unspoken and (in your mind) natural reaction is "Huh?" To get past your "Huh?", you...

Why Do You Need an Employee Referral Program?

If you are plagued by recruiting issues and looking for a hiring solution that can generate the best results with the least possibility of failure at the lowest possible cost, then your best bet is to go with an employee referral program. In this day and age, when social networks have become so important in everyday life, employee referrals have assumed even greater significance, as they are...

Top 8 HR Trends and Action Points for 2015 (Part 2)

With the new year upon us and annual strategy and budget meetings getting underway, we thought it would be a good time to set out some key HR trends and action points for 2015. This should serve to provide HR executives with some of the material required to be able to stand their ground, engage in strategic debate, influence the annual planning process, and operate more like strategic business...

Workplace Bullying: It'll Cost You

There are numerous campaigns floating around the country to fight against bullying in school. This is an enormous problem in the school systems, but it doesn't stop upon graduation from high school. Incivility in the workplace isn't uncommon; it is common, however, for the unfriendly behavior to go unaddressed. PayScale published a whitepaper – Incivility Other Types of Workplace...

APA Survey Investigates How Employees Perceive Recognition

According to the results of the American Psychological Association's (APA) recent "Employee Recognition Survey," most employees know they are appreciated but would like to hear it more often. The survey found that 51 percent of working Americans feel that they are valued by their employers. Eighty-one percent of those same workers said their organization provides some type of...

Employee Monitoring: Finding a Balance Between Trust and Vigilance

Back in October, I wrote about one lawyer's terrible employee monitoring advice: suspect someone is faking sick? Try to catch them on social media! Such "gotcha!" tactics are intrusive and condescending: they pry into employees' private lives and suggest that employers view their workers as irresponsible children who should not be trusted. When you consider that the vast majority of...

Adobe Partners with Workday, Integrates EchoSign

Adobe has announced a partnership with Workday to integrate Adobe EchoSign e-signature capabilities into Workday HCM, an end-to-end cloud system that enables organizations to make faster decisions and gain operational visibility. This integration will help modernize HR tasks and provide Workday customers with the security of e-signatures. Adobe EchoSign enables HR organizations to make key...

Junxure Announces Major Update to Junxure CRM Cloud Solution

Junxure, a leading CRM solutions provider for financial advisors, has announced major enhancements in its upcoming update to Junxure Cloud, a comprehensive, cloud-based CRM/office management solution for advisors. "We are proud to announce this latest release to Junxure Cloud, offering more of the integrations and features that help advisors use data in ways that maximize client service," said...

Paradoxes and Biases of Cost-Benefit Analysis

"Instead of weighing the costs and benefits of two opposite control strategies to determine which to adopt, we seem to be unable to specify these pluses and minuses independently of a presupposed, pre-existing commitment to one of the two strategies we are supposed to be evaluating." —M. Moffa, "Costs, Benefits and Applications of Psychological 'Locus of Control'" Undertaking and...

The Candidate Experience: You're Never Too Busy to Nurture

Recently, I spoke with an angry job seeker. Those who are searching for employment aren't always the most cheerful in this economy, but his complaints really struck a chord with me. When he was first contacted by a local staffing firm, he had high hopes. The recruiter was friendly, eager to interview, and happy to call every few days with updates. After two weeks, however, communication...

Top 8 HR Trends and Action Points For 2015 (Part 1)

As the end of 2014 approaches and employers begin to revise their strategies and reset their budgets, it's a good time for HR practitioners to look forward to 2015 -- to get a grasp on the key trends that will impact the HR profession in the coming year. In this modern, complex, volatile, and rapidly changing business environment, HR practitioners can no longer afford to sit in their...

WeDo Technologies Joins Microsoft in Worldwide Partnership

WeDo Technologies, a worldwide leader in Enterprise Business Assurance (EBA), Revenue Assurance (RA) and Fraud Management (FM) has signed a global partnership agreement with Microsoft to deliver WeDo Technologies' RAID software on Microsoft's public cloud platform, Microsoft Azure. With Microsoft and WeDo, large organizations and the public sector will be able to monitor performance, automate how...

Access Announces Release of Enterprise Forms Management Platform Formatta 8.9

Access has announced the release of Formatta 8.9, the latest version of its web-based, paperless enterprise forms management platform. The release includes web services autofill integration and managed URL features plus a forms workflow enhancement. Formatta technology enables organizations to: Design and create electronic versions of paper forms. Securely publish e-forms and manage...

October Sees Small Business Employment Growth

In its monthly Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes, Intuit Inc. has reported that: U.S. small businesses added 15,000 new jobs in October, making for more than 735,000 jobs added since March 2010. Small business employees saw a 0.08 percent increase in monthly compensation, with average monthly pay reaching $2,776, up $2 from September. Hourly employees worked an average of...

Get a Taste of Starting a Small Business — Without Starting a Small Business

According to the Small Business Skills Challenge -- a series of interactive assessments created by Builtvisible for Intuit -- I probably shouldn't try to start my own business -- not without significant practice, anyhow. The Small Business Skills Challenge is a fascinating app that uses hypothetical scenarios to test users' startup acumen, assessing their skills in time management,...

What Do Degrees Matter? One-Third of Graduates Hold Jobs Outside of Their Majors

Think of something that you regret. If you are like roughly one-third of American workers, one of your biggest regrets may be the major you chose in college. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 36 percent of college-educated workers wish they had majored in something different at school. Forty-seven percent said their first job after college was not related to their college major,...

Do You Need an HR Policy on Wearable Technology?

It's fair to say that there are quite a lot of trends and technologies for HR teams to get their heads around -- so many, in fact, that it can be hard to see the wood for the trees, particularly when you have a set of pressing, real world, and sometimes petty HR issues knocking at your door. That being said, you do need to look out the HR window from time to time, as those outside trends will...

CloudPay Launches CloudPay Control for Managing Global Payroll Processes

CloudPay, a cloud-based platform for integrated global payroll and payments, has announced the launch of CloudPay Control, an automated approach to managing and controlling the processes associated with global payroll and payments delivery. CloudPay Control encapsulates all steps of multi-country payroll workflow by automatically combining the global-, country- and customer-specific tasks of...

Seek Job Seekers Where the Job Seekers Seek You

The search for the ever-elusive perfect candidate in the job market continues ... And just how many articles on finding the perfect candidate are there, anyway? Silkroad took a new tack, asking: where are the job seekers looking? That's a good point: how can recruiters possibly find candidates if they aren't searching in the right places? Craigslist, LinkedIn, Indeed, CareerBuilder,...

Boxwood Launches CareerWire for the Associations Community

Boxwood Career Solutions, a leading provider of career center and career-related services to the association community, has announced the launch of CareerWire, a monthly eNewsletter focused on employment and hiring trends specific to each association. Integrated with the career center, CareerWire also includes a feed of job openings to drive traffic to an association's career center. CareerWire...

Social Recruiting: from Postings to Results

When it comes to social recruiting, if you're not seeing a steady stream of quality candidates, than your organization is likely falling behind. With more than a billion users on Facebook and 200 million on LinkedIn, social recruiting is one aspect of a multi-channel recruiting strategy that you can't afford to overlook. To deliver true value, social recruiting is about more than just having...

Recruiting: 'You Can't Do That With a Robot'

"I just want to be on the phone and get people to go to work and make everybody happier — and make more money," Tim Arnold, cofounder and CEO of Fyre, says of his days as a full-desk recruiter at a staffing firm in Orlando. Unfortunately for Arnold -- and many other recruiters -- the job is rarely this smooth. "The problem is all the little things that get in the way when you're...

Did 'Jersey Shore' Win the Civil War and Is Brad Pitt the Vice President of the United States?: Diagnostic Questions for Job Interviews

I didn't want to believe what I had just seen and heard: about a dozen Texas Tech University evidently native-born American students unable to answer any of the following questions during a recent on-campus interview, titled "Politically Challenged" conducted by a new on-campus student organization, Poli Tech: Who won the Civil War? Who did we gain our independence from? When did we...

Right CareerExpo Virtual Hiring Events Held Weekly for Target Industries/Geographies

Right Management's CareerExpo virtual hiring platform provides real-time interactions between employers looking to hire and large numbers of skilled job seekers. Right CareerExpo is available through Right Management's outplacement solutions and gives employers no-cost access to skilled candidates across geographies, industries and skill sets. "Right CareerExpo gives employers a free,...

Labor Demands Leads to Better Than Expected Fall in Jobless Claims

Fewer Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign persistent demand is fueling gains in the labor market. First-time jobless claims dropped 10,000 to a three-week low of 278,000 in the week ended Nov. 1, as reported by the U.S. Labor Department. The median forecast of 50 economists surveyed called for 285,000. The four-week moving average, a...

BitPay's Bitcoin Payroll Now Available through Zuman and Incoin

BitPay, a global leader in bitcoin payment processing, has announced that two payroll service providers, Zuman and Incoin, are now using its payroll API to enable employees to receive any portion of their wages in bitcoin. Zuman is a cloud-based HR solution that handles payroll, benefits, and talent management for high growth companies. "Offering employees choices through payment...

Google Has a New Secret Recruiting Tool

Willie Sutton, a famous bank robber, was asked once why he robbed banks. He said, "Because that's where the money is." Google, which has more money than any bank on earth, is using a variation of this theme to recruit programmers to work there. It's actually a fairly devious plan that only Google could devise. People who search for a specific programming language are invited to...

Are the Working Generations Really That Different After All?

We read a lot about the fact that we have four -- and will soon have five -- generations working alongside each other in the workplace. Next year or perhaps the year after -- depending on where your generational boundaries lie -- the first batch of fresh-faced, digitally-enabled, generation-Z specimens will join the corporate rat race, standing alongside generation Y, generation X, early boomers...

Don't Let Biases Derail Your Hiring Process

"If you are human, you are biased," proclaims "Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives," the latest book from Howard J. Ross, founder and chief learning officer of Cook Ross, Inc. Perhaps such a statement makes you feel bad: Me? Biased? Really? No way! Fear not: being biased doesn't make you a bad person. "We've developed a way of looking at bias...

Movember: Moustaches, Company Culture, and the Candidate Experience

What do involved job seekers, rich company culture, and the month of November have in common? They all want amazing mustaches. In the 11th year of its existence, Movember has seen a large growth in participation. Movember is the global movement where men commit to donning facial hair in an effort to raise awareness about prostate cancer and men's mental health. The movement started in...

Optis Launches ADAInteract End-to-End Accommodation Solution

Optis, a leading provider of people data services and cloud software solutions, has announced the launch of an end-to-end accommodation solution, ADAInteract. ADAInteract is designed to assist Human Resource teams manage all aspects of an employee accommodation and accommodation requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008...

Put Away the Peanut Butter: a Capitalist Approach to Compensation

According to Hemanth Puttaswamy, chief technology officer at HR-tech company Saba, the traditional approach to employee compensation is "socialistic and reactive," and it basically amounts to people using Excel spreadsheets to distribute money across different jobs and different locations. Some call this the "peanut butter approach" -- spreading compensation money evenly across the company the...

Minimum Wage to Increase in Four More States

Voters in four states given the opportunity to increase their minimum wages did so, with all passing easily. In the past two election years, voters in 17 states supported minimum wage increases. Alaskan voters were the strongest supporters, as a measure to raise the minimum in two steps, to $9.75 by 2016, was approved by nearly 70 percent of the voters. In Arkansas, 65 percent of voters gave...

Interaction Associates Report Finds Most Employees Do Not Trust Their Boss

Interaction Associates has released its annual workplace trust research, "Building Workplace Trust 2014/15,"and found that more than half of the people surveyed give their organization low marks for trust and effective leadership. Additionally, a quarter of those surveyed say they trust their boss less this year than in 2013. More than half of those surveyed gave their organization...

Recroup Releases Platform for Job Promotion with Banner Ads

Recroup has released its new job ad platform with which companies can reach talent anywhere on the web. Recroup allow recruiters to generate a banner ad from their regular job posting and display it all over the web. According to Recroup, nearly 70 percent of candidates never register on a job board. People go to sites where they consume and share information. This is one reason that jobs on...

Succeed in Your Career with One Crucial Skill: Listening

Your ability to listen is the most critical talent you'll need to succeed in your career. However, very few of us listen properly. In fact, most of us don't know how to listen intelligently, systematically, and purposefully. Think about your most recent conversations at work. If you remember what you said better than what you heard, you've probably developed some bad listening habits. Instead...

Hire a Student-Athlete and Win Big

Controversies at colleges like the University of North Carolina have made big headlines recently. For nearly two decades, classes were conducted that students did not have to show up for; however, they would still receive artificially inflated grades. More than 3,000 students -- over half of them athletes -- were enrolled in what is being called a "shadow curriculum." Cover-up situations...

Should We Cut the Word 'Multitasker' from Job Descriptions?

Multitasking is a word and action that many take for granted in the modern business world. It's a staple of the modern, white-collar, knowledge-worker's job description, and will be music to the ears of any time-pressured hiring manager, operating in a fast-moving, chaotic department. However, the phrase multitasking really shouldn't be taken for granted or bandied around quite so...

The Workplace Clash Between Problem Solvers and Critical Thinkers: a Battle Between Too Much and Too Little?

A close read of some recent thinking about critical thinking reveals a lack of consensus about what it is, how and why it matters, and whether it, as some employers and academics characterize it, amounts to or includes problem solving as the or a core skill. To that debate and discussion should be added the implicit question "When is there too much on-the-job and personal critical thinking or...

Tips for Breaking into the Travel Business

The travel industry is dying, right? That's why we all make jokes about travel agents disappearing, right? The industry may be changing, but it certainly isn't dying: employment in the travel industry hit an all-time high in October, reaching 8.027 million jobs overall. In fact, the travel industry has been thriving since we started to climb out of Great Recession, creating jobs 40 percent...

Job Search Tips for Veterans

Veterans face unique challenges when searching for civilian jobs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans experience higher than average unemployment rates. Despite this, there are steps you can take to help you succeed in your job search. Make a Plan The first step is exploring the resources that are available to you and forming a strategy. Don't...

Can Wearable Technology Increase Employee Performance?

It seems like it was only yesterday that futuristic prototypes of smartwatches and smartglasses were being shown off at future tech conferences. Today, what we have before us is a wearable tech revolution. Smartglasses, smartwatches, and smart health gadgets have hit the street with a bang: it's already being $1 billion market and is expected to explode into a $508 billion market in just three...