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RPO Change Management: What to Expect in the First 120 Days

It's a fact that no recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) transition is perfect, yet people assume theirs will be. I've managed RPO transitions with many clients, and while change is always challenging, it helps to know that there is a predictable pattern to it -- a normalcy to the pain you will feel. Part of my work at Seven Step is to hold a full day "change management" meeting with...

MSI and Radius Announce Partnership to Streamline Global Operations

Radius, a leader in international business expansion software and services, and MSI, a global business solutions company and leading provider of global talent mobility solutions to corporations worldwide, have announced a strategic partnership to provide enhanced capabilities for organizations moving operations and employees domestically and around the globe. The agreement between MSI and...

Talk Like a Pirate (But Write Like a Professional)

Ahoy, mateys! Batten down the mizzenmasts, because it's that time of year again: International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th. While we here at Grammarly don't recommend writing your resume and cover letter in pirate-speak (although it would be a way to stand out from the other landlubbers), a lot of the language used in the corporate world can be just as difficult to understand as...

Robert McKee to Present Story-in-Business Seminar to Enhance Business Communication

Storyteller Robert McKee will present his STORY-in-BUSINESS Seminar in New York City on September 26, 2014. This one-day event will show business leaders how to create and use stories that persuade, inspire, and engage their customers and employees. At the STORY-in-BUSINESS Seminar, participants will learn how to combine emotion and logic to create compelling stories that capture the hearts...

Can Social Media Background Checks Be Trusted?

A 2014 Careerbuilder study shows that 43 percent of employers are using social media to background check candidates, and they forecast that up to 60 percent of you could be using social media to background check candidates this time next year. It's not hard to see the appeal of using social media in that it is free and easily accessible through the web, and employers can quickly get a snapshot...

How Unrealistic Job Descriptions Build a Phantom Workforce

Why are organizations and candidates having such a difficult time trying to find the right fit during the hiring process? Does it have to do with how candidates are interviewed? Or does it begin the moment organizations publish their job postings? Perhaps organizations and candidates are just not seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to credentials. Apparently, only 17 percent of job seekers have the...

How Hiring Managers Can Make — or Break — Your Onboarding process

"Onboarding matters," writes Dr. Talya Bauer in "Onboarding: The Critical Role of Hiring Managers," a white paper for SuccessFactors. It seems like an obvious enough statement: successfully bringing new employees into an organization is crucial for any company's continued success. Indeed, the Boston Consulting Group found that companies with well-managed onboarding processes have 2.5...

Paychex Releases Mobile Interface for ExpenseWire

Payroll solutions provider Paychex, Inc. has released a new mobile interface for ExpenseWire, its leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for expense management, offering clients on-the-go access to their expense management process. ExpenseWire's mobile interface provides clients with anytime, anywhere accessibility to review and analyze expense reports. From the interface,...

Will A Second Job Put Your Career at Risk or in Overdrive?

According to a recent study by the American Psychological Association, reported on Aol.com, 48 percent of women and 43 percent of men feel they are under paid, which is no surprise given the fact we are at the back end of the recession during which many employees have seen pay freezes or below inflation pay rises. In fact, according to Worldatwork the global average 2.2 percent pay hike that the...

How We Use Our Jobs to Create Our Clones: the Deep Psychology of 'Locus of Control'

Much of what follows is very, very speculative—actually a blend of pure personal speculation, hunches, established theories, working concepts and observation, but I think I have just quite unexpectedly discovered (or confirmed) and explained two surprising patterns of employment psychology. The first is that some people may be targeting or sticking with their chosen service careers because...

Gallup Finds Layoff Fears Abating as Economy Improves

After a year of heightened concern over job security, a new Gallup poll of American workers has found a steep drop off to the number with those fears. Gallup asked adults with jobs if they were worried about being laid off in the near future. Last year, 29 percent said yes. This year, the percentage fell to 19 percent. "This marks a return of worker confidence to the upper end of the range...

Skillsoft Agrees to Acquire SumTotal Systems

Skillsoft, a provider of technology-delivered learning solutions, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SumTotal Systems, LLC. The acquisition of SumTotal expands Skillsoft's solution portfolio and global reach. SumTotal provides next-generation human resources (HR) solutions to 3,500 customers and 49 million users worldwide. SumTotal's Talent Expansion solution...

8 Effective Body Language Tips for an Interview

Ever met someone, shook hands and been greeted with a dead fish handshake? It leaves a lasting impression and can overshadow what a person has to say. That is why effective body language can be crucial in a job interview. As pointed out at the website Lifehack, the beauty of body language tips is they can be incorporated immediately. There's no need to take a class or even hire a beauty...

Should New Hires Start Working Before Their First Day?

Although still in use, the sink or swim approach to new hire management is rapidly going out of fashion as organizations find themselves time and time again having to pick through the ruins of a mismanaged good hire. With 22 percent of staff turnover allegedly occurring in the first 46 days of employment, according to the Wynhurst group, most organizations are now open to implementing some level...

Lucas Group Survey Shares Opinions of SMB Execs on Hot Political Topics

According to the latest survey from Lucas Group, a national recruitment firm specializing in search and placement services for strategic business functions, the three top hot-button topics for SMB leaders leading up to this fall's midterm election include immigration reform, health care and minimum wage. The report, SMB Job Generation Outlook, gathers opinions on the nation's most hotly...

Plants, Pets and Other Crazy Ways to Boost Productivity!

America is busy. The average American spends 10.3 years of their life at work with the average office employee spending 5 years sitting at a desk and 2 years in meetings. Recruiters have the difficult job of wearing multiple hats, meaning they need to make every minute on the clock count toward completing something. Calling applicants, speaking to clients, filling out paperwork, and nurturing...

Companies Can Reduce Recruitment Fill Times with Video Interviews

Since the financial crisis of 2007, economists have kept a steady eye on employment statistics in hopes that a positive trend would emerge. In some ways, the last year has given them more hope, as the unemployment rate fell below 6.5 percent for the first time since October 2008. Still, there are almost 10 million unemployed Americans who desperately need jobs to save their own economic...

Study finds Fear of Being Replaced, Poor Communication Prevents Taking Time Off

Fear of being replaced and work piling up coupled with a lack of employer support and communication is keeping Americans from using the time off they have earned, according to the new study, "Overwhelmed America: Why Don't We Use Our Paid Time Off?" conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications (GfK) for the U.S. Travel Association's Travel Effect initiative. The study found that...

PricewaterhouseCoopers Releases Report on the Future of Work into 2022

Researchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have released an imaginative report, entitled The Future of Work: A Journey to 2022, which endeavors to study where employers, employees and HR professionals think the work is headed over the next eight years. The report breaks out three types of emerging companies: big ones with lots of internal controls, dubbed "blue"; environmentally conscious...

Can Self-Awareness Help in Job Interviews?

You know how it feels when you land an interview for a job you really want. You've got butterflies in your stomach, you maybe didn't sleep much the night before, but you know adrenaline will get you through the day. Now picture getting into the room where you're waiting with a few other candidates. They're all great 'on paper' candidates, like yourself: similar levels of experience to you,...

Are You Using Content to Recruit Talent? Here's Why You Should

John Hall is the affable CEO of Influence Co., a company that provides "turnkey thought leadership solutions." Basically, when a company wants to be seen as an industry leader, Hall and his team help it position itself at the top of the heap. Recently, Hall wrote an interesting post for the Harvard Business Review Blog Network. The piece, "Your Content Strategy Is Also a Recruiting...

CloudPay Launches Enhanced Global Payroll Reporting Functionality

CloudPay, a pioneer of SaaS-based payroll automation for multinationals, has announced CloudPay Insights, an enhanced global payroll reporting solution. This capability gives organizations the ability to leverage big data to gain greater transparency into the real-time costs associated with their workforce by digging deep into their own comprehensive, multi-country payroll data. Major features...

5 Compelling Statistics About Recruiting Behavior

Trying to find talent is not an easy task, neither is understanding how recruiters think and operate. To be an effective recruiter you have to utilize various techniques to generate leads and build talent pools. Recruiting is no longer as simple as picking up a telephone and dialing numbers all day. It's an art form. Recruiting is not a cheap science trick. There are daily obstacles that...

Intrepid Learning Launches MOOC on Corporate MOOCs

Intrepid Learning has announced the launch of "MOOC on Corporate MOOCs," a MOOC course that concluded on July 7, 2014 but has been archived and available for access by interested parties. The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) addressed the business case for corporate MOOCs such as thought leadership and customer education at scale, talent acquisition, sales and partner enablement, leadership...

Matrix Enhances Absence Management App with New Filing and Management Features

Matrix Absence Management, Inc., a leader in solutions to manage employee absence, productivity and related payments, has enhanced employee-level functionality to its mobile application. The technology allows employees to initiate absence claims and report intermittent time, as well as access leave information and correspondence, complete surveys and interact with their claims examiner remotely...

Let Employees Be the Voice of Your Company

Back in March, we reported on "Facebook Zero," a devastating blow dealt to brands on the social network. According to research from Social@Ogilvy, changes to Facebook's algorithm have dramatically decreased organic reach. Brand pages can only expect their content to reach about 6.15 percent of their fans on Facebook, and Social@Ogilvy predicts that number will "approach zero in the...

Office with a View: a Dim View of That Dream

You think that working in an office or other space with a great view is a not only a good idea, but also a great idea? Of course you do. But, is it really? To put the question more precisely, when could it ever be a bad idea? Paradise, or Paralyzed Eyes? The photo here shows the view from a very temporary recent workspace I occupied—a cheap rented beach bungalow on "Big La Laguna Bay"...

Should Management Ignore B Players?

Ever since the great Jack Welch came up with his vitality curve, which suggests that the top 20 percent of performers should be nurtured and encouraged and the bottom 10 percent should be fired, the average mid-ranking performer in an organization has fallen between the cracks and effectively been neglected and forgotten in terms of HR strategy. While the top performing A-Players are showered...

Should You Highlight Failures in Your Resume?

Does this sound like another barking mad subject for an article? I have to admit that when I first heard about the idea of a "failure resume" I was a little taken aback. I realize that personal development is all about acknowledging weaknesses but producing an autobiography of failure seemed to be taking it a little too far. But, when you consider the benign context that the failure resume...

NelsonHall Launches Self-service Market Forecasting Tool

NelsonHall, a global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has announced the launch of a new tool, the NelsonHall Self-service Forecasting Tool, to assist organizations in downloading market forecasts customized to their business requirements. This new tool is aimed at assisting executives in accessing the precise market size, growth, and vendor share information they require rapidly and...

Sales Horizons Launches Blended Sales Training Programs to Develop Sales Skills

Sales Horizons, a leading provider of sales training programs, has announced the launch of blended sales training programs to help companies develop their salespeople's sales skills. The new blended sales training consists of an online sales course containing the sales skills required to successfully win business, plus a sales simulation that applies the concepts introduced in the online...

How Twitter Analytics is a Social Recruiting Game Changer

Employers have reported that using social media to source candidates has improved candidate quality by 49 percent. The big three social networking sites used to source and attract talent are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn takes the lead at 93 percent of companies using it for recruiting purposes, followed by Facebook (66%) and Twitter (54%). However, is it Twitter's time to shine in...

"Groupcruitment": Group Interviews—Of, Not Just By, Recruiters

Why not routinely have applicants—even just one applicant—group-interview assembled competing recruiters (instead of or at least as often as vice versa)? Why limit a format as successful as group interviewing to only one form? Group interviews of job applicants are, of course, commonplace and, in some ways, efficient and effective—despite whatever unease they create among those forced...

M-Recruit Lab Provides All-inclusive Recruiting System for Employers and Applicants

Sands Technologies presents a disruptive recruitment and candidate sourcing tool into the market. M-Recruit enables businesses, colleges, and professionals to create, post, and screen candidates for recruiting in minutes. Unemployed candidates can sift through the tests or applications available in the M-Recruit Lab to find job openings. Candidates find out instantly how they compare to all other...

Aloe Blacc and Trepidation to Hire the Millennial Generation

As Baby Boomers enter retirement, hiring Millennials is unavoidable. They are the next generation of the workforce, despite any reputations they have acquired over the last decade. Knowledge can help prepare hiring managers and other business professionals deal with the change. The song "I'm the Man" by Aloe Blacc characterizes the young professional generation, and examining the lyrics can...

AbsenceSoft Simplifies Management of Accommodation Requests, ADA Process

AbsenceSoft, provider of leave management solutions, has announced the release of the latest AbsenceTracker feature, accommodations management. AbsenceTracker is a cloud based, secure, mobile friendly FMLA and leave management system that provides compliance support for ADA, FMLA and all state leave laws, workflow management and analytics. Building on AbsenceTracker's FMLA and leave of absence...

Are Candidates Skeptical About Your Business?

With so many businesses operating in survival mode during the recent recession, management standards and quality may have suffered, mistakes were probably made, and many fortunes may have suffered as a result. Many staff have been overworked, overlooked and forgotten also, leading to a tarnishing of many employer brands. We are perhaps seeing the fallout reflected in employee attitudes, as...

The Maids Offers 3 Simple Tips to Select Your Next Hire

Undoubtedly you've seen this company's yellow car with the blue letters driving around somewhere; I actually just saw one in my neighborhood yesterday. It is "the only franchised residential cleaning service to clean for health, combining environmentally preferable cleaning supplies and state-of-the-art equipment with a methodical process to maintain the healthiest living environment...

iCIMS Partners with Cumming Corp. to Offer Free Job Seeker Webinar

iCIMS, Inc., leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions, has teamed up with the Cumming Corporation to present an educational webcast, "Behind the Hiring Curtain: Transparency in the Hiring Process." The free webcast will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PDT. "The ultimate goal of our...

TriNet SMBeat Report Highlights Pay Gap between Men and Women

TriNet, a leading cloud-based provider of HR services, has announced the findings of its July 2014 issue of TriNet SMBeat, which features an analysis of specific gender trends in salaries and workforce composition across different industries in the United States. The report highlights that during the first quarter of 2014, women on average earned 83 cents for every dollar a man earned. The...

BlueFinHR Expands Cloud-based HCM Portal with New Modules for Automation

BlueFinHR, a provider of automated recruiting, applicant tracking, and HR management solutions, has announced the addition of new services and an expansion of existing services into one integrated, cloud-based Human Capital Management portal. BlueFinHR's HCM solution provides access to applications that help reduce costs, comply with regulations, improve business processes, and grow and...

5 Best Practices for Employee Referral Programs

Ever wondered how some organizations are able to achieve a 60-70 percent hire rate through employee referrals while your organization is still lagging at a measly 25 percent or even less hiring through referral programs? The reason may lie in the practices being adopted by these organizations that signify a quantum leap in the effectiveness of the referral program. For instance who would have...

What Can Recruiters Learn From a Candidate's Epic Failures?

While interviews often include the odd question about candidate weaknesses and failures, the typical interview focuses on success and achievements. The direction and purpose of interviews is usually around a candidate's accomplishments, which means that candidates may merely flirt with the topics of problems and issues. They will talk a bit about setbacks and shortcomings, but few will spill...

InternQueen Lauren Berger Releases New Book Helping Young Workers Prepare for "Real World"

Lauren Berger had 15 internships while in college—and she still failed at her first "real" job. Now she's using her experience to help give other workers the book she wish she'd had right out of college. Welcome to the Real World: Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career is Berger's new novel that serves as a handbook for those who are...

Vaultize Announces Google Drive Connector for Enterprise File Sharing

Vaultize, a leader in Enterprise File Sync Share (EFSS), has announced the beta release of its anywhere access connector for Google DriveTM for Work. Combined with built-in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities, Vaultize enables enterprise users to uniformly access, edit, and share corporate data across Google Drive, file servers,...

The Benefits of Selective Networking

We've all heard about the power of networking...over and over again. But, let's be honest, sometimes we wonder, does networking really work? The saying, "It's not what you know, but who you know," doesn't apply to everyone. Some people land jobs in a company solely based off their resumes and skills sets, while others—although qualified—are passed over for an individual who...

Jobvite: Facebook is Preferred Workforce Network, but LinkedIn is Tops for High Mobility Job Seekers

Jobvite has announced the results of the Job Seeker Nation: Mobility in the Workforce Study examining the defining characteristics that set job seekers apart in the labor market and how this impacts the methods and tools they use to seek career opportunities. Notable findings include: Technology contributes to increased demand for highly skilled workers. These job seekers have the...

Haggling Over Your Daily Wage: the Purest Free-Market Salary Scheme?

The idea occurred to me after a hit on the head. As I was walking back to my suite at my budget beachfront Mindoro, Philippines hotel (on the last phase of my latest long "road trip"), a big leafy branch from a very tall, massive tree being pruned way at the top and next to the bar plummeted onto my head, broke my cheap sunglasses (shown here)—which play a pivotal role in this story—and...