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Jobscience Announces Specialized Mobile Job Search Web App

Jobscience, a leading recruiting engagement software provider, has announced the availability of Mobile Job Search Web App, a unified extension of the Jobscience's staffing and recruiting tools that give users one administration to manage all recruitment marketing sites, from job portals to social media feeds. Jobscience has created a complete mobile experience that offers user-friendly...

First Jobs and Life Lessons (Pt. 2)

Part one of this article looked at the first four lessons from the Forbes article, "8 Lessons We Learned From Our First Jobs." The story shared many lessons from Next Avenue readers, a PBS website catering to America's 50+ population. The first four lessons included: 1. A bad first job can focus your career goals. 2. Start working early. 3. Low pay is better than no pay. 4....

Paychex Announces Payroll Card Solution for SMBs

Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, has announced the Skylight PayOptions Program, a payroll card program that allows employers to provide employees with a convenient alternative to traditional direct deposit and paper paychecks by directly depositing their wages onto the Skylight ONE...

To Be or Not To Be: The Complexities of Being Friends With Your Boss

In an age where social media has removed all barriers to communication and camaraderie is the most fundamental requirement for working in a team, is it possible to maintain just a "professional" relationship with your co-workers and seniors in the office? When you begin to laugh at your boss' jokes, accept invitations to his or her parties, go for a smoke together and befriend the person on...

You Have Just 9 Month's to Save Your New Hire

Most of us know that employee engagement levels are in a shocking state, with around 13 percent of employees being engaged in the workplace. It might seem logical to blame employers for this problem, but it's not all their fault as I believe recent economic factors have a part to play in the current low levels of employee engagement. But, if employers want to get the best from their employees,...

Joberate's J-Index to Measure Job-seeking Behavior to Predict Employee Attrition

Joberate has announced the launch of J-index, a real-time predictive analytic that measures the percentage of companies' employees considering new jobs outside of their current employer. Joberate J-index is a leading indicator of voluntary employee attrition, employee satisfaction and engagement, and is an integral predictive analytic of global employment sentiment. Currently J-index measures...

Accountemps Survey: Workplace Etiquette Affects Prospects until Reaching the Top

According to a new Accountemps survey, more than eight in 10 (85 percent) survey respondents said being courteous to coworkers has an impact on a person's career prospects. However, 70 percent of workers think people become less courteous as they climb the corporate ladder. Among the rank and file, open office spaces also may give rise to bad manners. When employees were asked to name the...

The Backpacker Recruiter: a Guide to Better Questions

Globetrotting may be interesting, but talking (about it) with other travelers while you are doing it all too often is not—at least not at the start. Even moonlit exchanges in exotic locations tend to be tediously formulaic —or non-existent, given the competing glow and mesmerizing enticements of attention-sucking, isolating smartphones. That, I believe, is one of the conclusions to be...

Court Young Workers by Recruiting Like a College

"There's a lot of data," Kirsten Fedderke says of the latest research from full-service marketing communications agency Lipman Hearne. "There really are a million ways you can dive into this." She's not kidding. Not too long ago, Lipman Hearne surveyed roughly 11,000 college-bound students about the ways they were researching prospective colleges and making decisions about where they would...

Win Over Your Audience (the Applicant)

This past weekend was the annual Video Music Award ceremony; the event where MTV brings together the artists who have impacted the pop music industry for the past few years. Though award ceremonies are not always the best place to get an accurate idea of what an artist deserves, the connection between what performers accomplish and the way a recruiter gets that perfect candidate are actually...

Skillsoft Publishes eBook for Evaluating Cloud-based Learning Solutions

Skillsoft has introduced a new resource, Cloud-Based Learning Solutions: Making the Right Choice for Your Enterprise, to help learning and development decision-makers fully understand cloud-based learning and how best to leverage it to achieve specific business goals. Including contributions from industry thought leaders, checklists, and case studies, the complimentary eBook is an...

Is This Hiring Manager Buying What You're Selling?

Though few of us may like to openly acknowledge it, the hiring process has more in common with a sales process than you might think. It's not particularly flattering to think of oneself, the interviewee, as a product and with you having to convince the employer/customer to buy the goods that you have on offer. But, there are so many similarities between getting hired and selling a product that...

Simply Hired's Employment Outlook Shows Increase in Openings in July 2014

Simply Hired today released its August 2014 U.S. Employment Outlook report, which finds that nationwide job openings grew 1.74 percent month-over-month in July 2014. Nearly all of the largest U.S. metros (23 out of 25) experienced an increase in job openings over this period. Three-quarters of all industries (14 out of 18) also posted gains, led by technology (7.72 percent), hospitality (7.31...

Staffing.org Releases Research Review for Recruiters Looking for Best Staffing Research

Staffing.org, a leading staffing research company, has released the Q2 Edition of its newest product, the Quarterly Research Review, to help recruiters sort through the best research from more than 125 major sources. This new product is intended to help recruiting executives easily access the critical information they need for benchmarking, proposal writing and strategizing. The Q2 Edition...

First Jobs and Life Lessons (Pt. 1)

Forbes.com recently published an interesting article, "8 Lessons We Learned From Our First Jobs," where it shared the many different things people learned from their very first jobs. The story offered insight from Next Avenue readers, a PBS website catering to America's 50+ population. As I read the many things people have learned from their first jobs, I realized that, although younger...

Career Development Creates Engaged Employees — but Only if They Know about It

I've written about this in the past, but a new eBook on employee engagement and retention by HR-tech company iCIMS proves this particular conversation isn't over: the American workforce really wants career development and training opportunities. "Typically, it's one of the top things that candidates and employees care about," says Susan Vitale, chief marketing officer of iCIMS. "While some...

'Activity Based Working': Problems with Not Having an Assigned Workspace

"Activity Based Working" is being introduced into the workplace as an alternative to working in a traditional assigned individual workspace—the familiar kind of personal workspace that each employee can or must call his or her own. Instead of having a partitioned monk's cubicle, a sprawling private office with a name-plated door, a desk with a photo of the kids and at least one drawer for...

Mygooi Launches Mobile App Development Platform for SMBs and Others

Mygooi has announced it is launching gooiDevelopment to create mobile apps for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). With Agile development techniques, Mygooi will go effectively from specifications to Android or iOS applications, meeting the mobile needs of the SMB market sector. Initial topics will include safety reporting. "We have project managers and business analysts based in the...

Emailing Candidates? Do This Before Hitting Send

The spunky 25-year old with wing-tipped glasses and vintage oxfords shows off the open, collaborative and clean workspace to the potential candidate. The reclaimed wood shelving and white-board coffee tables accent the exposed industrial ceiling. The message is: "We are proud of our eclectic company culture; work hard, play hard." Well done, you have created a home away from home for...

IBM Offers Analytics and Workforce Science to Improve Organizational Performance

IBM has announced new cloud-based solutions and a Talent and Change consulting practice to enable organizations to use analytics and workforce science to identify top talent, deepen employee engagement and manage transformational change to provide differentiated client experiences. The new offerings are delivered through IBM's Smarter Workforce initiative and help clients apply behavioral...

Robert Half Survey Finds Employers Value Skills, Experience Over Degrees

A new survey by Robert Half Technology reveals that when employers are recruiting in the job market, they seek graduates who have real-world experience and not solely degrees. Nearly three-fourths, or 71 percent, of chief information officers (CIOs) who took the survey said they prioritize skills and experience over college degrees when making hiring decisions. An additional 12 percent said they...

Mercer Compensation Report Shows Pay Raises Continue Gradual Growth

The latest Mercer compensation report found that the average pay raise expected to be doled out in 2015 will be 3 percent, up from 2.7 percent in 2012. For top performers, the average raise will be slightly higher than the 4.8 percent that group received in 2014. Top performers' pay hikes this year were above the 2.6 percent granted to "average" performers and the 0.1 percent given to...

8 Tough Interview Questions From Candidates Answered (Part 2)

With around 40 percent of employers finding it difficult to find critical talent, it's pretty clear that many employers will be hiring from a candidate's market. This means that top talent will be in demand and can afford to be quite choosey about who they join. They will be assessing your organization to see if you're the right fit, just as much as you'll be assessing them. Many of...

Working Poor is to Oxymoron, American Dream is to Intangible?

Every day I receive Google alerts about topics relating to jobs, HR and recruitment. My "jobs" alert brought a very tragic news story today. It was about Maria Fernandes, a New Jersey resident who was found dead in her vehicle Aug. 25, 2014. According to the story, Fernandes worked four jobs, including shifts at two different Dunkin Donuts. The story said Fernandes frequently pulled...

The Incredible Shrinking Employee Life Cycle

"I just think that the half-life of talent in an organization is just getting smaller and smaller, and that's a fact, and we have to learn from that," says Amar Dhaliwal, chief evangelist at HR-tech company Saba. "I think that we have to find a way to be able to deal with this compressed life cycle of talent in an organization." Dhaliwal -- with whom I've spoken in the past -- is talking...

Can Where I Choose to Sit Affect my Professional Success?

Undoubtedly, we've all heard the massive amounts of advice out there when it comes to interviewing. Research the company before the interview; wear this and don't wear that; be sure to ask questions at the end of the interview. With so many different tips and tricks, sometimes it can be overwhelming trying to master the "perfect" formula and approach for interviewing success. We all...

MOVE Guides Announces Talent Mobility Cloud Solution for Global Mobility

MOVE Guides has announced the Talent Mobility Cloud, the first ever cloud-based application for the global-relocation and talent-management industry. The Talent Mobility Cloud is a HR technology that brings together companies and vendors to support all types of mobile employees: new hire transitions, employee relocations and assignments. The application comes with global vendor and payment...

What Recruiters Can Learn from the #IceBucketChallenge

This summer, a special ice bucket challenge was issued. It began in a little old American city, called Boston. Since then, it has become one of the most powerful and successful social media campaigns of 2014. By now, if you haven't seen someone performing the #icebucketchallenge on Facebook or Twitter then you should checkout the ALS Association website and learn what the non-profit...

Stress one of top Reasons US Workers Quit, Randstad Study

Stress is one the biggest reasons U.S. employees quit their jobs. At least that's the latest finding from the Randstad Engagement study. Randstad surveyed more than 2,000 American workers about the most likely reasons they would leave their current position. When asked to select up to three out of 10 possible factors that might push an employee to leave their job —including excessive...

HERO and Mercer Unveil Next-gen Scorecard Reflecting Wellness Best Practices

HERO and Mercer have announced the availability of the next generation of the HERO Employee Health Management Best Practices Scorecard. The HERO Scorecard, available free of charge, allows employers to evaluate their employee health management efforts and to benchmark their program and outcomes against companies of similar sizes and industries. "Over the last five years, the wellness...

8 Tough Interview Questions from Candidates Answered (Part 1)

When we think of tough interview questions most of us tend to think of the archetypal hard-nosed interviewer, pressurizing a quivering candidate with a bank of too-hot-to-handle interview questions. But, we often disregard the fact that top talent is itself increasingly looking to assess employers to see if the employer suits the requirements of the candidate. One way interviewing really is a...

TimeForge Releases Bluetooth Beacon for Staff Tracking, Asset Management

TimeForge, provider of leading online labor management software products, has released a new staff tracking and asset management tool called PlaceForge. PlaceForge uses small low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) beacons and small networked receivers to track staff or any important asset. PlaceForge turns this data into reports that managers can use to see where their staff and other key assets are and have...

Four Ways to Help Your Boss Be Better

Rare is the worker who has never had a bad boss. Almost everyone has encountered at least one in their career, and pop culture abounds with examples, from the affably incompetent (Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott) to the downright tyrannical (Miranda Priestly of The Devil Wears Prada). Rare, too, is the boss who has never made a mistake — the boss who, for all intents and purposes, is not a...

(Im)Permeable National Borders as Job Creation Tools

Without getting into politics—at least not initially, let's consider the job-creation implications of two diametrically opposite immigration policies of two hypothetical and neighboring large countries we can call "US" and "THEM", reserving "OTHER" for all other nations and their peoples. US and THEM are at comparable and, relative to average OTHER nations, at the highest stages of economic,...

4 Things to Consider Before you Resign

A new friend of mine came to me over the weekend in a panic. She'd been interviewing for a new job and was "unofficially" offered the position. I say unofficially because, as of that date, she had yet to receive an offer letter. My friend and the hiring manager had previously discussed a start date. And after a few weeks passed without receiving an official letter and confirmation of the...

Facebook Ads for Recruiting

Social recruiting is nothing new – it's become a staple in the majority of recruiters' toolboxes. But if you want to find and attract the qualified candidates you need as fast as possible, you may want to make sure that Facebook Ads are part of your social recruiting strategy. With over 2.2 billion users and growing, Facebook represents roughly one third of Earth's entire population,...

Ultimate Software Announces New Compensation Management Solution

Ultimate Software, a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, has announced enhancements to its HCM solution, UltiPro, including a new compensation management product. UltiPro's new Compensation Management solution, now available to all customers, enables managers to navigate through the process of allocating pay and rewards to their people with new, more flexible capabilities to...

Mobile Health ROI Calculator Reveals Savings from Vaccinating Employees

Mobile Health's new flu vaccination ROI calculator estimates the savings that businesses might expect when vaccinating their employees using Mobile Health's flu shot solutions. The tool demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of vaccination, requiring only three parameters in order to determine an estimated savings. Savings are calculated for both the Flu Shot Express program and on-site flu...

Will Paying Staff More Lead to Bigger Profits?

We are seeing some extreme tactics to help win the current talent war, such as: poaching, tacit anti-poaching agreements between competitor companies, counter offers, exploding job offers, job title inflation—you name it, and employers are trying it. Stopping short of imprisoning employees in the building, employers are trying just about anything to find and keep talent. And while many of...

Society of Women Engineers Releases new eBook, Offers Advice to Modern Women Engineers

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) recently released an eBook, Be that Engineer: Inspiration and Insight from Accomplished Women Engineers. The new eBook is a collection of stories and advice offered from SWE's Corporate Partnership Council (CPC), a group of 30 women leaders from various backgrounds who have worked in numerous engineering fields. The SWE says the personal histories of each...

Consumer Confidence Up to Near Seven-year Highs

Confidence among U.S. consumers soared in July to the highest level in almost seven years as Americans grew more upbeat about the labor market and the outlook for the economy. The Conference Board's index rose to 90.9, the highest since October 2007, from a revised 86.4 in June, according to the research group. The gauge exceeded the most optimistic forecast in a Bloomberg survey in which the...

It's Time: Let's 'Ban the Box'

Earlier this month, my home state of New Jersey decided to "Ban the Box": Gov. Chris Christie signed the Opportunity to Compete Act into law on August 11. When the law takes effect in March of 2015, it will make it illegal for employers with 15 or more employees to ask job candidates about their criminal histories on initial applications. Employers will still be allowed to run background...

5 Easy Ways to Boost Job ad Response Rate Today

A quick scan of job adverts on job boards and careers sites shows that many employers are missing a trick (well, several tricks) when writing their job descriptions. These job descriptions are not that well optimized to attract talent and/or attract the qualified talent. I have no doubt that some of the issues come from ignorance but many of the issues stem from time-pressurized employers just...

Employers Have Retention Challenges Amidst Rising Job Mobility, finds Towers Watson

The ongoing economic recovery has employers increasing hiring activity, but they're having trouble landing current and future top talent. And even as they struggle to bring on new talent, many are losing their best performers, often to competitors. The Towers Watson Global Workforce Study found that employers tend to be behind the curve in understanding what talented job seekers, and...

Should Companies Pay Employees to Leave?

How many of us have ever wished that we could voluntarily leave our job? But once the truth sinks in, most of us don't, because our responsibilities outweigh our wants. This is usually the case for most of our daily occurrences, but for some organizations, they boldly encourage the discouraged to leave. Believe it or not, it only takes a little cash incentive to give these people a little nudge...

Entelo Launches More Likely to Move, Alerts Sent When Candidates Plan to Leave Jobs

Entelo recently announced the immediate availability of More Likely to Move™, a technology that alerts talent acquisition professionals when passive candidates are about to change employers. The new feature is part of Entelo's platform that leverages big data, predictive analytics, and social signals to help recruiting organizations find, qualify and engage with in-demand talent. More...

Looking out for Number One

My sister has been working at a new job for the past month. But, recently, she was contacted to interview for another position she had applied for before landing her current role. This position paid more and related to her ultimate career goals much better. In her eyes, it was a much better deal. So, even though she'd only been on the job for one month, she quit and accepted the other...

Transforming Traditional Recruiting with Predictive Technology

The old way of finding, obtaining and hiring prospective candidates has become antiquated and inefficient for HR departments. With talent wars becoming increasingly competitive, HR must look to adopt transformative technologies that rely on data-driven analytics and insights to identify and attract candidates who have the most potential to be good cultural fits and evolve into competent loyal...