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Talk Social to Me: Recruiters Tell It Like It Is

Breaking news for recruiters: you should be using social media in your recruitment strategies! Okay, so the newsflash wasn't so newsworthy. It's true that social media can either make or break your hiring game, and it's even more true that every recruiter, hiring manager, and HR practitioner has heard about it at least a million different ways. With 78 percent of recruiters having hired...

Do You Always Come in Second Place at Job Interviews?

Do you always feel like you come in second place at interviews? It's not that you fail dramatically, but you find yourself in the position of first or even second reserve on repeated occasions. If this happens regularly, you may be more frustrated than you would be if were just rejected outright: you expend far more energy and effort, only to receive the same negative outcome. If you find...

SilkRoad Launches Talent App Exchange for Life Suite

SilkRoad, a leading global provider of cloud-based talent management solutions, has announced the launch of the SilkRoad Talent App Exchange this morning, the first of its kind cloud-based portal where pre-integrated partner applications can be selected to extend the functionality of a talent management suite. The Talent App Exchange allows customers to augment their SilkRoad talent management...

Saba Uses Big Data to Identify At-Risk Employees, Provide Intelligent Compensation Functions

Saba, a leader in cloud-based intelligent talent management, has announced Compensation@Work, a predictive solution for simplifying and personalizing the salary and incentive pay process. The Saba solution uses machine learning to surface many otherwise hidden indicators, or "signals" of the value, engagement and cost of your team members. "Compensation@Work sifts through dozens of...

Know the Major Differences between Private- and Public-Sector Companies

The primary difference between public- and private-sector jobs is that public-sector jobs are generally within a government agency, while private-sector jobs are those where employees work for non-governmental agencies. This includes jobs within individual businesses and other types of company organizations. Suppose you are looking for employment but are not sure whether you seek to work...

'Norders': The Job of a No-Orders, No-Border Guard in the Economies of the New World Norder

(A New World Norder future and fantasy) The year is 2024 and immigration control officer Zane Alvarez, a Northern Zone Norder Guard, is completing a routine migrant clearance: "Yes, Sir, you and your family are free to enter our zone to stay. Our norders are to allow you to do that. All that is required is that you come and that you will look for or try to create at least one job opportunity....

Study Finds Economic Confidence Gap in Midsized Businesses

A new study released by the ADP Research Institute reveals a gap in confidence for midsized businesses when it comes to the U.S. economy. The study shows that while only 15 percent of midsized businesses are confident that the U.S. economy will improve in the next 12 months, more than half, or 51 percent, expect they will see improvement in the industry in which they work. "Midsized...

Driving Success: Recruiting for Passion

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." – Pablo Picasso Resumes and online applications do wonders for delineating a skill set or two along with some quality training acquired at a candidate's last place of employment. Background checks validate...

HRsoft Announces Cloud-Based 'High Impact Talent Management System'

HRsoft, a leading talent management software company, has announced the release of its High Impact Talent Management System (HITMS), a complete suite of cloud-based software-as-service solutions designed to increase employee engagement and retention. The HITMS was built to transform the operating model of HR using the latest in HR processes, best practices, and technology. HITM creates an...

Building Company Culture with Office Art

"If you've ever been to Paris, or Rome, or any old European city, no matter where you stay, you walk out of your hotel room, you walk two steps, and you look up, and there's this art," says Jason Korman, CEO of Gapingvoid, which helps companies "transform businesses" through art. Draw on your own experiences in the Old World, or do a quick image search on Google, and you can confirm...

5 Ways to Breathe Life Back into Staff Meetings

While meetings may be important opportunities for managers and staff to communicate, it seems that companies often don't fully utilize them. A recent study by Meeting King found that around 40 percent of work time is spent in meetings, and around 25-50 percent of time is wasted, which means that, at worst, employees could be spending up to a day in ineffective meetings each week. What they...

Monster Wage Index Report Finds Large Pay Gap between Men and Women

Monster has released data regarding wage disparities among men and women in the United States and Europe. This Wage Index data shows that, despite popular assumptions, the gender gap in the workplace is not closing. Women continue to be better represented in the workforce, particularly in supervisory positions, yet those women are not receiving the same wages as their male colleagues. The data...

Federal Reserve Report Shows Skilled Worker Shortages Push Pay Higher

Reports from the Federal Reserve show that a shortage of skilled workers in a variety of trades are appearing across the U.S., putting upward pressure on pay. Employers are having to pay more to attract workers in construction and manufacturing in several parts of the U.S. In parts of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic region, and the Northern Plains states, transportation workers are seeing somewhat...

National League of Cities Reveals Cities Hiring the Most Since 2008

More cities are hiring than at any time since the Great Recession as the reviving economy and rising property taxes allow higher spending for a second straight year, according to a report released by the National League of Cities. Additionally, one-third of cities and towns expanded their workforces this year, compared with reductions in 18 percent. This is the first year since 2008 that job...

Take the Skills of a Sales Professional into the Job Hunt

Many job seekers tend to withhold their accomplishments in the name of modesty. Who wants to hire a braggart, after all? But a vital component of landing a job is self-confidence. Self-confidence sells and shows potential employers how you shine amongst a glut of me-too candidates. With that in mind, consider these job hunting tips from sales professionals before jumping into the fray of the...

The Reverse Turing Test: Try Convincing a Panel of Robots That You Are One of Them

One day, you (or your children) will have to convince a panel of robots—perhaps a team of robot recruiters (i.e., recruiters who are robots, in contradistinction to human recruiters who recruit robots) that you are a robot. The first time a human has to pass that test will mark the implementation of the "reverse Turing test"—a test of a human's ability to pass itself off as a robot purely on...

How to Be the Big Recruiter on Campus

The US News and World Report recently released its list of the best colleges in the country. College is a stimulating place of discovery and opportunity that can have an immense impact on the rest of one's life. A campus career fair can be a stepping stone into a realized future for students and recruiters. Students learn how important these fairs are, but are recruiters maximizing their...

5 Great Questions to Ask in a Video Interview

Video interviews are a great way to introduce flexible, efficient, and low-cost interviewing components to your hiring process. However, video interviews do have one major failing: there is a clear dampening effect on a candidate's personality when they are viewed via video. Candidates viewed through video come across as less likable, less attractive, and less competent than candidates...

SHRM Study Finds Flex Work is Becoming Mainstream

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released a survey that shows that flexible work arrangements have become mainstream and appear to be both successful and growing. Key findings uncovered in the report include: Most flexible work arrangements are successful with 73 to 92 percent of HR professionals reporting that they were somewhat or very successful. HR professionals...

In Praise of Thinkers (Not Doers)

It starts with a really terrible picture spreading like a bad cold around LinkedIn. This picture, in particular. Like most viral content, it's oversimplified, didactic, and supposedly funny. It taps into the zeitgeist, gaining strength (and shares) by simply "confirming" the things people already believe to be true. It, more than any other viral picture in recent memory, bothers me to no...

Start Your Next Job Search with This List of the Most Underrated Jobs of 2014

Great job opportunities are out there for those inclined to seek them out. As with many aspects of a successful career, finding a great job can be a matter of simply knowing where to look. The most underrated jobs span a variety of different disciplines, but they all share common features. One feature is evidence of high growth potential. For instance, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...

DOL Data Show Job Openings in August at 13-year High

Job openings in the climbed to a 13-year high in August as employers gained confidence about the outlook for demand in the world's biggest economy. The number of positions waiting to be filled rose to 4.84 million in August, the most since January 2001, from a revised 4.61 million the prior month, the Labor Department has reported. Hiring and firings cooled, while fewer people quit their...

Are Exit Interviews Really Worthwhile?

I realize that I may be treading on dangerous ground here by questioning one of the Holy Grails of HR -- i.e., the exit interview -- but it's a question that needs to be asked. Why? Because exit interviews are nonnegotiable in many HR departments, yet many and employers and employees doubt the necessity and/or efficacy of these interviews. The continued existence of exit interviews in many...

IQNavigator Launches Virtual Innovation Labs

IQNavigator, a leading provider of non-employee workforce management, has launched IQN Labs, a virtual innovation lab that provides a forum for creative, collaborative, data-driven innovation. IQN Labs empowers procurement, supply chain and HR professionals, and executives to move to evidence-based practices and machine-intelligence supported action that improve contractor hiring and SOW...

Partnership between PeopleClues and HireVue Identifies Best Fit Candidates

A partnership between PeopleClues and HireVue is helping companies to identify best job and company fits using both digital interaction technology from HireVue to screen interested candidates and PeopleClues pre-hire assessments. PeopleClues assessments, which are integrated into the job application, easily identify which applicants are best for positions based on personality, attitude and...

Fighting Back Against the Office Jerk while Keeping your Dignity Intact

Regardless of how great and supportive (most) of your coworkers are, there will almost always be someone that makes your work life less than ideal. This individual seems to be looking for opportunities to impress the boss and spends an inordinate amount of time speaking just to hear themselves talk. While they can be mean and condescending to people beneath them, they are sweet angels and the...

Melita Group Launches Suite of Turnkey HR, Benefits, and Payroll Service Packages

Melita Group, a leading benefits and HR services company, has announced an expansion of its services portfolio with three new turnkey service packages: BenefitsComplete, HRComplete, and HRStrategy. The new suite of products will help small and mid-sized businesses manage their HR, benefits, and payroll functions while enabling HR to become a strategic force driving business growth. Melita...

Five Strange and Awesome Company Perks

First things first: I think it's great that Apple and Facebook are going to start covering egg freezing for female employees, a medical procedure that most employers do not pay for. Egg freezing, once an experimental technology, has become a fairly stable procedure that gives women more control over their reproductive lives – and, by extension, over their lives in general. That being said,...

Out of Sync? Build a Better Relationship with your Hiring Managers

According to a recent snapshot of the recruiting industry by WANTED Analytics, the escalating demand for technical recruiters exceeds the current supply. My guess is most of these IT and engineering recruitment specialists are engaged with the giants of the IT and manufacturing sectors, e.g., Apple, Amazon, GE. If you're recruiting for a large employer in another sector, you may...

Most Job Seekers Prefer Facebook to Other Social Media Alternatives

According to a small group study by ManpowerGroup, nearly twice as many job candidates said they depended primarily upon Facebook rather than LinkedIn when researching companies that had job openings they were interested in. Facebook outpaced all other major forms of social media as a research tool, including Google+ and Twitter. But when asked about interviewing preferences, nearly...

Findly Offers Mobile Apply Solution for Applicant Tracking Systems

Findly, a leading on-demand talent company, has announced the release of CX Apply, a mobile apply solution that enables companies to provide an improved candidate experience on their existing applicant tracking system (ATS). Implemented in one day, the technology gives employers the power to deliver a completely mobile apply process. Newly introduced features of CX Apply include: Quick...

Do You Have Hiring Duties but No Hiring Experience? (Part 2)

In this article, we look at the plight of the office manager, FD, or even IT manager in a small business who, for whatever reason, has taken on the mantle of recruiter without any formal recruiting training or experience. Now, I realize that these people are all competent business professionals, but I still feel they may be able to benefit from some tips and advice on hiring. In the first part of...

An Unreliable Professional Insanity Test

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."— falsely attributed to Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin You're familiar with the oft-invoked maxim "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." It's trotted out and trumpeted by concerned friends or colleagues when you stick with a sales pitch that never...

Why Hang Stuff on Your Office Walls?—Some Surprising Analytical Perspectives

I normally don't hang, post, paste, pin, plaster or paint anything decorative (except basic paint) on my office or home walls. In my office, a few things dangle from wall pegs, but just for ease of utilitarian access to them. I'm not at all puzzled by why others do hang stuff on their walls, because I can explain it—in a number of very different ways, drawing upon various psychological,...

Gild Uses Predictive Analytics to Determine when Candidates will Change Jobs

Gild, a company that finds, engages, and evaluates technical talent with data and intelligence, has announced the release of Spotlight, a predictive analytics engine running on patented algorithms. As an add-on feature of Gild's flagship product, Gild Source, Spotlight uses predictive analytics to determine whether a developer is actively looking for a job. The new product gives recruiters...

Do You Have Hiring Duties but No Hiring Experience? (Part 1)

While all medium- and small-sized businesses will have dedicated HR and hiring staff members, small businesses tend to run a little differently. In these environments, dedicated HR people are unlikely. You might have an HR consultant knocking around for a few hours a week, or a consultant on the end of the phone line, but HR in these small environments is often carried out by people with limited...

Six Changes Coming to the Workforce

No one knows for sure what the future holds. However, we can make some educated cases about what the workforce will look like in the next 10-20 years. Change is coming to the workforce -- in fact, change is already here, and has been developing for the past few years. Where does your company stand? Take a look at these statistics. You might be surprised at what is in store. 1. By the...

Uninsured Rate Stagnates at Six-year Low

The steeply declining percentage of Americans without health insurance plateaued in the second quarter of 2014, but the rate continues to be the lowest ever recorded by Gallup. In the first quarter of the year, Gallup found that 13.4 percent of U.S. adults had no health insurance. That was down from the 18 percent high in 2013 recorded by Gallup. In this year's second quarter, however, the rate...

ADP Launches Cloud-Based Marketplace with Access to Value-Added Services for HCM

ADP, a leading global provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, has announced a new cloud-based marketplace designed to help employers manage an ecosystem of complementary enterprise applications. The ADP Marketplace enables companies to discover applications from ADP as well as trusted providers from a single location. Through the launch of the ADP Marketplace, ADP gives...

10 Interview Questions to Reveal the Company Behind the Mask (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, we highlighted studies which show that new hires usually fail because of a cultural mismatch between employee and employer, and we outlined five great interview questions to reveal the corporate culture behind the mask, so employees could really get a feel for a company's culture before joining. In this the second part of this article, we'll discuss five...

Catching Lies on Candidates' Resumes

According to Fortune, more and more people are lying in their resumes. Drawing from research conducted by CareerBuilder, Fortune reports that 58 percent of hiring managers have seen "exaggerations or outright fabrications" on resumes, and a third of hiring managers agree that candidates have been lying more often since the Great Recession (that thing ruined everything, didn't it?) Couple the...

Think You're a Pretty Good Boss? Check Your Abrasiveness Factor Here

Working for an abrasive boss can be tough, but what if you're the executive everyone loves to hate? Your career may have advanced nicely to this point due to your talent and expertise, but unless you modify your harsh personality, it's unlikely that top management will continue to reward you. The first step is to recognize that you've got a problem. Even if they recognize their faults, bosses...

Newton Announces Cloud Apply and ZenApp for Flexible Job Apps from Any Device

Newton, leading provider of applicant tracking systems and recruiting software for small and medium-sized businesses, has announced the release of Cloud Apply and ZenApp solutions for providing job seekers with user-friendly careers websites. The new tools provide job applicants with the ability to apply to jobs using resumes stored in cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Once resumes...

Cielo Unveils Talent Intelligence Search Engine with Detailed View of Labor Market

Cielo, a leading global talent acquisition and management partner, has officially announced the launch of its Talent Intelligence Search Engine, which provides a holistic view of the labor market at a detailed level. "We are committed to delivering innovative technologies and solutions that help our clients rise above the increasingly competitive market for skilled labor. Talent Intelligence...

Job Hoppers Found to Make Biggest Wage Gains

An ADP Research Institute analysis of workforce data finds that wages are going up and directly contributing to a more vital U.S. economy. Those who job-hop are making the greatest gains in wages. Small-business employees are experiencing higher wage hikes than those who work for large corporations. "Since the beginning of 2013, job holders' wages have become the primary contributor to...

How to Get Reliable Information from Reference Checks

Employment references have the lowest predictive validity of all the major forms of candidate assessment -- e.g., structured interviews, testing, work samples -- according to studies from Beardwell at al. in 2004 and CIPD in 2007. Yet, at the time of the studies, over half of employers relied on references. This percentage is likely to have increased since then, because social media has made...

Cut These Words and Phrases from Your Resume

Finding a job is hard work. Although the economy is slowly recovering, competition is still fierce, and hiring managers often receive hundreds of applications for a single position. It may be tempting to try to stand out by sounding as professional and intelligent as possible, but you may end up sabotaging yourself with corporate buzzwords. In his famous essay "Politics and the English...

Magical Mountains, Magical Job Candidates — Do They Really Deserve Our Awe?

How often does a recruiter have a "wow!" epiphany about a job candidate—an inexplicable impression so strong that nothing more than the briefest glimpse of the candidate or his resume, like a glimpse of a soaring mountain peak, is required to form and justify it? That's a "magical mountain moment"—an immediate (positive) impression that is intuitive, intense, in accord with...