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10 Interview Questions to Reveal the Company Behind the Mask (Part 1)

Did you know that the main reason that employees fail at a business is not a lack of technical skills, but an inability to adapt to or operate within the prevailing company culture. A survey from Leadership IQ, which I reported on last year, found that just 11 percent of new hires failed due to incompetence; the other 89 percent failed due to a lack of appropriate temperament, motivation,...

The Problem with Non-Compete Agreements in a Freelance World

Fast-food joint Jimmy John's makes all of its employees sign a non-compete agreement, which seems kind of silly. What trade secrets, exactly, are low-level sandwich makers privy to? Ingredients, maybe? Any sufficiently experienced home chef can crack that case (e.g., my favorite Jimmy John's sandwich is just a bunch of vegetables -- which I can buy anywhere -- on some bread -- which I can also...

Unify Index Finds Large Number of Employees Would Choose Flex Work Over Pay Raise

Unify, a leading communications software and services firm, has published a new index in its New Way to Work volume that revealed that more than 43 percent of employees surveyed would prefer flex work over a pay raise. The findings pointed to the rise of legal actions or "Right to Request" laws around the world that are giving employees the right to request flex work. This trend, and an improved...

Talentoday Announces Career Guidance Platform for Enterprise

Talentoday, a psychometric, social and data-driven career guidance solution, has announced the launch of enterprise platform Talentoday Manager for using data and personal insights in career guidance in a manner designed to surpass the Myers-Briggs Indicator Assessment. Registering for Talentoday for Everyone allows individuals to explore their personality and discover their assets with...

Simply Hired Reports Shows Growth in Job Openings in September

Simply Hired has released its October 2014 U.S. Employment Outlook report, which finds that nationwide job openings grew 1.18 percent month-over-month in September 2014. This follows nationwide increases of 4.52 percent and 1.74 percent for August 2014 and July 2014, respectively. "The Simply Hired Employment Outlook report shows ongoing robust growth in the U.S. employment market," said...

Will Your New Hire Survive the Matrix?

If you are sitting at work reading this with your hard-line, direct-report manager sitting across the room from you and your soft-dotted-line, functional area manager behind you, while on the phone to one of your three loose-dotted-line country heads, then the matrix has you. This does not mean you are about to receive a call from a mystical prophet named Morpheus, nor does it mean that you soon...

Take Your Recruiting Game to the Next Level!

Learn how Zoho Recruit can help maximize your recruiting potential November 6-7 at Zoholics Finance HR in Pleasanton, California. Zoho Recruit is a one-stop recruitment software and applicant tracking system that helps recruiters efficiently post jobs, manage candidates, clients, contacts and schedule interviews. Sign up for Zoholics Finance HR today and take advantage of the...

Globoforce's New Offering Reinvents Service Awards with Crowdsourced Recognition, Video Capability

Globoforce, a leading provider of social recognition solutions, has announced the launch of Service Timelines, a new approach to years-of-service programs. Service Timelines reinvents these programs through personalized stories and videos from employees' closest colleagues. This delivers a personal anniversary experience that reminds employees of all of the ways they have inspired others at...

Small Business Employment Shows Steady Increase in September

In the most recent issue of Intuit's monthly Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes, small businesses experienced increased growth in employment in September. Highlights from the report include: Small businesses added 10,000 new jobs in September, making for more than 715,000 jobs added since March 2010. Hourly small business employees saw a 0.1 percent decrease in monthly...

SHRM Predicts Hiring to Reach Four-Year High in October

A survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that 45 percent of manufacturing executives and 41 percent of service industry executives who responded to the hiring survey said they will be staffing up this month. The increases represent a 3.5 percent hike for manufacturers and a 3.4 percent rise for the service sector, compared to October 2013. That would boost hiring...

Turn Performance Reviews into a Time of Productive Self-Appraisal

"Performance reviews are the highlight of my year!" said no one ever. Annual reviews make most of us uncomfortable, as we wonder whether we will be evaluated fairly. The entire process seems vague, subjective, and frequently intimidating. Fortunately, you can greatly reduce your performance-appraisal anxiety. Before your next formal evaluation, take the initiative to do your own...

Have You Been Left to Sink or Swim in Your New Job?

If you look around HR-related sites, you'll see plenty of commentary on the topic of onboarding, which is the effective induction, orientation, and integration of new hires into an organization. Companies like to formally onboard staff because studies show that staff members who have been onboarded perform about 11.3 percent better than those who have not. Similar studies show that onboarded...

What Can Staffing Agencies Teach In-House Recruiters?

According to Oxford Economics' Workforce 2020 report, more and more businesses are turning to the contingent workforce to meet their needs: 41 percent of the survey's participants said that their companies were increasingly using contingent workers, and 83 percent of executive respondents said they were finding new ways of using contingent workers and independent contractors in their...

An Evangelical Employment Model: Working for Employer Punishments Instead of Employee Rewards

It is the weirdest employment arrangement I'm aware of. My friend "Jebediah" (that being his preferred pseudonym), 50ish, has been working alone as a resident onsite independent building contractor at a remote logging road acreage in the Canadian wilderness, operating heavy equipment, pouring concrete, installing plumbing, laying foundations and building huge structures for almost five years...

How to Build Your Brand Online with the Best Approach for your Business

Most people check out a business online before actually buying something from that business or before developing a relationship with that business. This research is essential and provides information that may not be obtainable otherwise. What a customer learns from online research gives a good understanding of a business's brand. This is critical to the success of the relationship between...

Should Cultural Fit Be About More Than Just Liking the Same Movies?

Everyone is getting on the cultural fit bandwagon these days. A study published in the American Sociological Review (reported on businessweek.com) highlights the direction in which contemporary cultural-fit hiring is going, and I am wondering if it may be going a little off-piste. The study from Northwestern University shows that hiring decisions are now being made in a manner, "more closely...

Newest Oracle HCM Cloud Offers a Unified Experience for Increased Engagement

Oracle has announced its latest Human Capital Management Cloud, Release 9, which delivers a simplified HCM cloud experience for employees and managers, including a next-generation user experience for casual users across the entire hire-to-retire process. Oracle has also introduced Work Life solutions to reach and engage millennials, complete with mobile functionality and new integrations to unify...

M-Recruit Global Job Board Connects Unemployed Grads with Millions of Jobs

Sands Technologies, has announced the launch of a new Global Job Search function within the company's M-Recruit Global Job Board Tool. The tool, currently in beta release, is used by recruiters and HR managers to find the right job candidates through a series of tests to determine the best fit. Programming and technology students can leverage M-Recruit's Job Search algorithm to bridge the gap...

Cornerstone OnDemand Enhances Recruiting Solution to Strengthen Candidate Experience

Cornerstone OnDemand, a leader in cloud-based talent management software solutions, has announced the introduction of enhancements to Cornerstone Recruiting, the company's product designed to enrich the hiring experience for recruiters and candidates. Recent enhancements to Cornerstone Recruiting include: Enhanced user interface: Hiring teams can manage applicants with greater ease using...

The Unexpected Benefits of Workplace Pain

I supported myself through college with a string of maintenance jobs: for the county, for a grammar school, and for my university, among others. To anyone who has never worked maintenance, let me say this: it's a tough job. You put in eight hours of backbreaking labor per day (more when you're not the summer help) with little rest, aside from a scant half hour for lunch. I painted whole...

Is the 9-to-5 Regime Obsolete?

One of the most significant changes to the corporate environment since the industrial revolution is the somewhat irresistible move towards flexible working. There is increasing pressure from both employees and innovative employers to blow the restrictive Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5, year-round work regime completely out of the water. If you are still wedded to a 9-to-5 dogma in your business, it's...

Job Security No More: Think Career Security when Looking to Beat the Job Market

In an unpredictable economy, uncertainty makes it extraordinarily difficult for employers to know what kinds of talent they'll need in the short- and long-terms. As a result, even if they promise their workers job security, they typically can't deliver. However, for many employees, the end of job security can be a good thing. Job security used to be something only employers could provide, and...

Let Your Hand Do the Talking: Transform Your Handshake into a Personal Statement

Handshakes are a longstanding and accepted tradition in the business world, and numerous studies have shown that handshake etiquette plays a role in making a good first impression. In fact, favorable first impressions are tightly linked with the features of a "quality" handshake: strength, vigor, duration, eye contact, and completeness of grip. It is the only contact between two people that...

EventBoard Unveils Cloud-Based Meeting Room Management Software

EventBoard has announced the launch of EventBoard for Enterprise, a cloud-based software platform designed to bring meeting room scheduling into the mobile realm while providing enterprise tools and analytics. EventBoard's room scheduling software runs on existing iOS devices, such as iPad and iPad mini, allowing them to function as interactive display screens. By mounting these...

Unemployment Rate Sinks to Six-Year Low

A surge in hiring has pushed unemployment to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September as the U.S. labor market showed renewed strength. Following a payroll increase of 180,000 jobs, September's gain of 248,000 jobs was bigger than previously estimated, according to a Labor Department report. Revisions boosted the job count by 69,000 over the previous two months. The jobless rate fell from 6.1...

Inova Payroll Launches Automated Onboarding Solution

Inova Payroll, a provider of outsourced payroll and human resources solutions, has announced the launch of a fully-automated employee onboarding solution. Designed to reduce new hire processing time, Inova Payroll's onboarding solution centers around an all-inclusive employee interview. This online and multilingual process guides new hires through a series of questions to determine form...

The Santa Claus Drone: Fine for Your Kids, So Why Not the Office?

"He knows when you're sleeping; he knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake."—Lyrics, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (The Temptations) Warning children over the generations that they have been and are under constant, moment-to-moment, year-round surveillance by Santa Claus seems to have been perfectly fine with their...

Company Culture: Much More Complicated Than You Think

Among the strangest bits of research I've come across has to be Good.co's recent analysis of the personalities of Google and Apple engineers. The "self-discovery platform" compared the team cultures of each company's engineers and found that Google's engineers are somehow both 18.6 percent more competitive and 5.8 percent more collaborative than Apple's, whereas Apple's team is 10.5 percent...

6 Ways to Use Technology to Recruit Across Generations

When it comes to recruiting, candidates from different generations are used to different practices. On one end of the generational spectrum, we have baby boomers, who believe a strong resume and cover letter will land them a phone interview. On the other end, we have the up-and-coming generation Z, who will probably be checking Twitter every few seconds to see if the companies they follow...

Globoforce Finds Peer Relationships in the Workplace Create More Engaged, Productive Employees

In a recent report released by Globoforce, a leading provider of social recognition solutions, U.S. workers say that peer relationships are critical to job happiness, commitment, and creating more memorable milestone experiences. The Fall 2014 Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker examines the current attitudes and perspectives of U.S. employees about work friendships, and how those peer...

8 Excerpts from the Employee Handbook of the Future (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, we discussed the many forces acting on the corporate world that would transform and shape HR practices over the next 10-20 years. We then showed how the employee handbooks of the future would need to change to reflect the new working environment and explored four excerpts from the employee handbook of the future. These were: Unlimited leave...

ADP Data Show Six Consecutive Months of Job Gains Above 200,000

Private-sector hiring picked up slightly in September, marking the sixth consecutive month of job gains above-200,000, according to the September 2014 ADP National Employment Report, a sign of strong and steady growth. Last month, private-sector employers added 213,000 jobs, up from 202,000 in August. During the quarter that ended in August, the economy gained an average of 207,000 jobs per...

Most Businesses Show Support for Increases in State Minimum Wages

The majority of employers are in favor of raising state minimum wages, according to a survey by Careerbuilder, which found that two-thirds of them were in favor of doing so. CareerBuilder's poll of 2,188 HR professionals found the top reasons why employers want an increase in state minimum wages: It can improve the standard of living: 74 percent It can have a positive effect on...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Respect the Rights of Job Seekers and Find Recruiting Success

If you're in the recruiting industry, you know that success is dependent upon building strong relationships with a network of talent. There is much involved in finding and attracting top performers who are the right fit for the positions you have to fill, but above all else, the ability to build trust is key. It doesn't take long for word to get out about a recruiter who is dishonest or...

ADP Research Shows Persistent Disconnect Between HR and Employees

ADP, a global provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, has shared findings from new ADP Research Institute studies on the relationships between human resources (HR) departments and employees. The studies found a persistent disconnect between HR and the workforce regardless of company size or location. The disconnection was also found to extend to senior leadership, who also appear...

Beyond.com Launches SmartMatch, Offering Job Openings Based on Engagement

Beyond has announced the launch of a new technology designed to match job seekers to available positions using an algorithm that learns from user habits. Called SmartMatch, the technology changes as a person engages with Beyond, learning from their activity and scanning millions of job opportunities to find other similar positions. "SmartMatch works with you, sifting through options like a...

How Can Young Managers Gain the Respect of Older Employees?

Today's constantly changing business environment makes it impossible to lead a company completely by yourself. Keeping a company on track during times of change requires all employees to develop leadership skills. If you find that, early in your career, you have leveraged your leadership skills and performance into a management position, you will probably be working with people older than you....

Is Money the Only Way to Reward Staff?

With global business in the middle of an employee engagement crisis -- according to Gallup, a pathetic 13 percent of employees are actually engaged at work -- HR teams are struggling to find new ways to attract, engage, and retain staff. When the going gets tough in hiring and retention, many employers are tempted to go back to basics and focus on engaging and retaining employees through...

'You Have a Culture Whether You Want One or Not': Aligning Business Strategy and Workplace Culture

According to research from talent-focused consulting firm Korn Ferry, 72 percent of executives "feel culture is extremely important to organizational performance." These executives have good reason to feel this way: in the early 1990s, researchers John Kotter and James Heskett found that companies with "performance-enhancing cultures" saw an average of 682 percent growth in revenue and 901...

How Much Office and Personal Space Do You Want?—Motives and Causes of Spatial Preferences

In a previous article, "Work Space and Office Creativity: Does Size Really Count?", I argued that, contrary to research suggesting the size of a workplace space directly correlates with creative performance, it may count less as an influence on creativity than the quality of the space, including whether its boundaries and partitions create a sense of isolation or suffocation, privacy or...

Social Media Screening: a Candidate's Perspective

Is it really possible that our social media profiles affect what hiring managers and recruiters think of us? Can our online social behavior provide strong indicators of the type of worker we'll be? Perhaps it can, or perhaps it's all just speculation. Whatever the case, it's frightening to think that hiring managers and recruiters make such judgement calls when they hardly know anything...

Mindflash Survey: Lack of Corporate Training the Biggest Driver of Skills Gap

In a new online survey (infographic) of over 2,000 U.S. adults, conducted for online business training software provider Mindflash, both employed and unemployed Americans believe that employers' lack of willingness to train new employees is the leading reason why many Americans are unemployed and job opportunities are sitting unfilled for longer periods; the skills gap. Almost one-third (31...

How to Beat an Interviewer to the Hard-to-Answer Questions

No matter their professional experience, educational accolades, or computer skills, no person's resume is a spotless record. Whether it's an unexplained gap in your work history, a firing from a recent job, or a period of "job hopping," we all have a professional Achilles heel: a weakness that future employers may try to exploit during a job interview. Thankfully, according to Pierre...

Randstad Finds Employees are Stressed to the Point of Quitting

A survey by Randstad Engagement offers proof that stress is growing among workers despite the improving economy. The survey also validated earlier data that indicated women suffer more from workplace stress than do men. Randstad found that workplace stress trails only to inadequate pay and lack of career opportunities as a factor in quitting a job. Further, 27 percent of women survey cited...

8 Excerpts From the Employee Handbook of the Future (Part 1)

We know that the business world is currently being subjected to large transformational forces: globalization, technological revolution, mass customization of products and services, and increasing self-determinism among workers. As a result, the work-place is going to need to change to accommodate these forces. Some of the more progressive organizations are making the first steps to building...

Claims for Unemployment Benefits Increases Unexpectedly

According to a Labor Department release, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose, during the week ending September 6, to a two-month high, interrupting a steady decrease to the lowest level since before the 2008 recession. Jobless claims increased by 11,000 to 315,000 in the same week, which included the Labor Day holiday. It was the highest reading since June...

Eliminating Filler Words to Boost your Image and Improve Confidence

During interviews, filler words, such as "like" or "um," can sabotage your position as a competent professional by undermining your words and making you appear anxious and less confident. During a job interview, fillers work against you, lessening the impact of everything you say. By making a conscious effort to cut such words from your everyday speech patterns, you can reduce the chances that...

HireRight Releases Background Check Benchmark Report Revealing Risks and Trends

A new survey from HireRight focused on employment screening in higher education found that 77 percent of higher education industry respondents reported screening had exposed a person who lied on a resume. HireRight, a leading provider of global employment screening, drug and health testing, and employment eligibility solutions, has released its first Employment Background Checks in Education, a...