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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...

NelsonHall Launches Vendor Assessment Tool for HR Outsourcing

NelsonHall, a leading global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has launched a new tool to assist buy-side HR executives and Strategic Sourcing Managers in assessing vendor capability in Multi-Process HR Outsourcing (MPHRO). The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for Multi-Process HR Outsourcing is now available to NelsonHall clients, and is also available for a period...

U Interview Me App for iPhone Allows Employers to use Video Interviews on their Phones

Custom Innovations LLC has announced the launch of U Interview Me, an app for the iPhone that enables employers to interview candidates over video. Employers can invite candidates to interview but also offers candidates the ability to request an interview. Typical job-posting services put all the difficult tasks on the employer and charge them for it. Custom Innovations charges a $1 service...

The Tough Challenge of Being an HR Behaviorist

"Hi, you feel fine; how do I feel?"—Punchline to a behaviorist joke Behaviorism, rising to prominence in the early 1900s through its popularization by John B. Watson, Harvard psychologist, building on the animal conditioning experiments of Ivan Pavlov and then later, by B.F. Skinner, also at Harvard, was supposed to make personnel management scientific. No unprovable guesses about...

Study: Workers Only Spend Half the Necessary Time With Boss

A new study,"Optimal Hours with the Boss," from Leadership IQ has revealed that most workers only spend half the time they should be spending with their boss. Employees who spend optimal time—6 hours per week—interacting with their direct supervisor/manager are 29 percent more inspired, 30 percent more engaged, 16 percent more innovative and 15 percent more intrinsically motivated than...

What Makes a Good Recruiter?

Is it a secret sauce? One part confidence, two parts networking, a dash of strategy - shaken and then stirred? Are there a select group of people who are destined to be a success in the recruitment profession? Or is it measurable, quantifiable and learnable? For me it's a bit of both. Certain traits are helpful - this is the case in any industry, but recruitment is changing, it's...

Would you Hire a Candidate with Video Gaming Skills?

Recruiters, be honest please: What would be the first thought that comes to your mind if, when scanning a candidate's "Skills section" of his/her resume, you read, "Video gaming expertise and skills, especially with World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto"? Would you A) laugh at the idea of someone actually including "gaming" as a skill B) still consider this person's resume for...

Should You Quit a Job Without an Exit Strategy?

We know that most of you are disengaged in your work, (about 87% of you to be precise according to Gallup); one in four of you don't trust your employers (indicates this AMA study); and, most important, two-thirds of you experienced some kind of pay cut during the recession. This means that many of today's employees have had their patience tested for too long and are now operating on the edge...

Economy Grows Much Faster than Projections, Hitting 4 Percent During Q2 2014

Gains in consumer spending and business investment helped the U.S. economy rebound more than forecast in the second quarter following a slump in the prior three months that was smaller than previously estimated, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gross domestic product rose at a 4 percent annualized rate, the most since the third quarter of 2013, after shrinking 2.1 percent from...

Outski Launches 401(play) Plan to Promote Work-Life Balance

Outski has developed an addition to an employer's benefits package, or health and wellness program, called 401(play). The 401(play) plan promotes a healthy work-life balance while providing an effective way for employees to use their earned vacation time. In order to take advantage of the program, employees specify the amount of each paycheck to be put into their Vacation Savings...

Vaultize Integrates Enterprise Mobility Management into its File Sharing Platform

Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) leader Vaultize has announced the launch of the new incarnation of its file sharing and anywhere access platform with integrated Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) features with an enhanced, mobile-centric approach to the user experience. Vaultize is the first EFSS vendor to fully integrate EMM into a single offering, giving enterprises complete control...

What New Hires Need from Your Onboarding

My aunt has been working in the social services field for many, many years now. She recently moved to a new state and landed a new job. Although it's in the same field (social work) it requires many different responsibilities. I was interested when she began telling me about the weeklong intensive training she and other new hires were currently undergoing. They were being trained for 8 hours...

How To Warm Call Your Way Into a Job

Studies show that employees are increasingly getting jobs via referrals, recommendations and word-of-mouth and less so via job boards. Employee referrals are the most effective way to find a job opportunity at the moment. But, before you go rushing out to networking events and social media job forums, save a small, special thought for the art of cold calling, which has the potential to be one of...

Small and Midsized Businesses Set to Grow Amidst Talent Acquisition Problems

According to the quarterly SMB Job Generation Outlook by Lucas group, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) plan to hire more employees over the next year, a positive sign of the U.S. economy's continuing economic recovery. At the same time, these companies are encountering increasing difficulty in finding and hiring qualified professional candidates to fill key business roles. "SMBs play...

All Demand, No Supply: the Vanishing Human Providers

Imagine a world in which worker demand for jobs increasingly and vastly exceeds employer supply, as robots get the jobs, or one in which the human demand for communication and information dwarfs face-to-face, unmediated, direct human supply of it. Now also imagine, apart from employment, information and communications, that the human demand for entertainment is met, not by interaction with...

3 Questions Leaders Should ask About Their Employees

It used to be that employees showed up to work and quietly punched out a full day without making much noise. Of course, workplace dynamics were much simpler then. Today's working professionals know there is a constant demand for them to perform at a high level, to innovate, and to be all they can be. Interestingly enough, this pressure is being thrown right back at leadership. And why is this?...

Unemployment Benefits Claims Reach Eight-year Low

Fewer Americans filed applications for unemployment insurance benefits over the past month than at any time in more than eight years, signaling employers are hanging on to workers as demand improves. The four-week average of jobless claims, considered a less volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 297,250, the lowest since April 2006, from 300,750 the prior week. Claims in the...

Don't Build Your Future on For-Profit College Degrees

A new report shows there is little, if any, added value to obtain a for-profit college degree. Workers looking to advance their careers through education might be better off sticking to non-profit public higher education outlets. That's the finding of a working paper from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. (Fortunately it's blessed with the acronym...

New Entelo Technology Lets Recruiters Know which Employees will most likely Quit

Entelo today announced the availability of More Likely to Move, a technology to allow talent acquisition professionals to be alerted when passive candidates are on the verge of changing companies. 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...

Seriously, Why Are You Still Doing Credit Checks on Candidates?

After a lengthy search, you've finally found them in the employment market: the perfect candidate to fill that opening. They're completely qualified for the role. They fit well with the company culture. They're passionate and ready to work for you. Every reference offered glowing feedback. The background check came back crystal clear. There's just one thing left to do before officially making...

3 Adventurous Reasons to Exercise at Work

Probably many of us spend our days sitting down all day long, with hardly ever enough time to focus on taking care of our personal well-being. There are all kinds of reasons as to why there's not enough time to take care of ourselves. Some people spend long hours at the office, then a long commute home, which can crush the kind of motivation you need to work up a sweat at your local gym. Other...

Is the Cover Letter Dying or Being Reborn?

Is the cover letter dead or slowly dying in the face of exciting social media alternatives? Or is it alive and kicking? The industry is a little schizophrenic on this issue, as although surveys show that 90 percent of cover letters are ignored, many companies still ask for cover letters but the number is reducing. According to this 2014 SHRM study, just 33 percent of companies with under 500...

Ascentis Acquires Starfield, Adds New Talent Management Functionality

Ascentis Corporation, a market leader in easy-to-use human resources software, online payroll services, and HCM solutions, has announced the acquisition of Starfield, a leading provider of talent management software solutions. The acquisition introduces several new products to the Ascentis HCM suite of solutions including learning management, performance management, succession planning, 360°...

Report: Women, Millennials Directly Tied to Business Success

Management consultant Development Dimensions International (DDI) and The Conference Board have released a new report, The Global Leadership Forecast (GLF) 2014 | 2015, Ready-Now Leaders: Meeting Tomorrow's Business Challenges, where they discovered that companies with higher percentages of women in leadership roles perform better. The new research also shows a connection between the percentage...

HireVue Announces Data-driven Candidate Recommendation Engine

HireVue, a leading digital-recruiting and talent-interaction provider, has announced the first predictive candidate and interviewer recommendation engine, HireVue Insights. Insights enables companies to use the power of big data to identify top candidates and best interviewers based on interaction, hiring and performance attributes. The engine helps organizations optimize their hiring model and...

Simply Hired Reveals New Partner Solutions for Premium Websites

Simply Hired has unveiled its new Partner Solutions for premium web sites. The enhanced offering introduces new capabilities to give partners a turnkey solution to enable job search and discovery on their digital properties. The offering is fully customizable to integrate with any site's look and feel, and can be quickly implemented to drive audience engagement and incremental...

Can Unemployed Jobseekers Complain When They Have a Liberal Arts Degree?

A recruiting expert recently shared a meme with me (please view at the bottom of this article). It has a photo of (I assume) a student with the words: Complains there are no jobs for college grads...majors in 12th Century English poetry. At first, I found this meme distasteful; after all, I am the proud, full-time employed holder of a liberal arts degree and definitely support pursuing this...

When Bad Writing Happens to Good Resumes

August 18th is Bad Poetry Day, a celebration (if you can call it that) of terrible verse. While we can all have a laugh over bad writing, it's not so funny when it turns up in your resume or cover letter. Often, bad writing is a result of trying too hard to impress. When you're looking for work—especially if it's been a while since your last interview—you're usually very keen to...

Apploi Job Tools Provide Real-time Data on the Needs of Local Employers

Apploi's tools for jobseekers uses real-time data about local employer needs to show jobseekers where the greatest job demand is geographically and by sector, as well as personalized recommendations about what education and training is needed for those positions, primarily focused on jobs in the retail, services, leisure, entertainment, and hospitality industries. In addition, jobseekers are...

BrainSell Announces Outlook Integration for Enhanced SugarCRM

Business-solutions company BrainSell has announced the release of BrainLink, a SugarCRM plugin for Outlook. BrainLink provides bi-directional syncing of emails, contacts and meetings, and offers a side panel that shows real-time information from Sugar within the Outlook interface. Sugar users using Outlook can do much of their CRM work from within their email client including: viewing, editing...

Could Making Salaries Public Boost Morale in Your Firm?

It may seem outlandish to even ask the question but the idea of open pay (publishing all salaries) is not as far out a concept as you might think. Yes, when Buffer, an innovative fresh, young company made headlines with its open pay policy last year, it would have been tempting to just dismiss this as a marginal venture, not fit for mainstream consumption. This is why I was surprised by the...

Working While Sick

Over the weekend I somehow caught a cold (at least that's what I self-diagnosed). I'm talking sore, scratchy throat, ear pain and pressure, runny nose—you get my drift. I was hoping Monday morning would bring relief, after all, Monday means back to work and like so many other people, I can't afford to be sick. Yet, I awoke Monday feeling worse than the day before. Summertime colds...

EmployeeScreenIQ Partners with Newton to Integrate Paperless Background Checks

EmployeeScreenIQ, a global provider of employee background screening services, and Newton, developer of a leading applicant tracking system (ATS) for small and medium-sized employers, have partnered to provide customers with fully integrated, paperless employment background checks. Designed to save time on repetitive tasks, increase productivity and promote security, the Newton applicant...

The Dilemma of (Not) Hiring a Potential Archrival: an Examination of Group vs. Aggregate Screening Dynamics

You're in a very small start-up venture that's aiming to grow fast. For now, it's just you and the boss in a modest office with a phone, a computer and two not-yet-dead rubber plants. But soon you'll be interviewing candidates with your skill set, job description and ambitions, not because you can't do your job without additional staff, the way Brinks guards have to work in pairs as a unit,...

Bankrate Survey: More than One-third of Americans Lack Retirement Savings

More than one third of all Americans (36%) have not saved money for retirement, according to a new Bankrate.com RATE report. According to results, at 69 percent, of 18-29 year-olds made up the largest group that has not saved any money for retirement; followed by 33 percent of 30-49 year-olds; 26 percent of 50-64 year-olds and 14 percent of people 65 and older. On the other end, the report...

Employers, Job Seekers, and Everyone in Between: Here's What You Need to Know About References

Ray Bixler, CEO of SkillSurvey, believes that references are "more important than ever." "Think about the ability of a job applicant to prepare for an interview," Bixler says. Today's job seekers are experts in selling themselves. They turn to books and online classes to become better interviewees. They have services to write cover letters and resumes for them. They use lists of interview...

Should Employees Publicly Support Social Issues?

The story of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old male who was fatally shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. has flooded news outlets over the past few days. If you are unfamiliar with the story, reports are still unclear about every detail of the incident, but media outlets are saying that sometime early afternoon last Saturday, Brown and his friend were walking when an...

Employee Satisfaction with Workplace, Benefits at Six-year Low

An online survey conducted on behalf of insurance provider Unum has found that employers are increasingly unhappy with their workplaces and benefits packages, with satisfaction levels reaching six-year lows. Key findings from the survey include: • Less than one-half (49 percent) of U.S. workers rate their employer as an excellent or very good place to work. • Forty-seven percent of...

ELI Launches Product to Teach Leaders "Profitable Behaviors"

Employment Learning Innovations (ELI) a workplace learning company, has announced the launch of a learning solution Civil Treatment for Leaders (CTL). Aimed toward business leaders at every stage in their careers, CTL helps leaders and their organizations develop more productive and profitable workplace cultures, in part, by training leaders to welcome and act on the concerns their employees are...

5 Major Hiring Myths Debunked

Even amongst the gold mine of enlightening information and research that is being disseminated amongst modern hiring professionals and managers, certain hiring myths still persist. These are myths that can hold organizations back, clouding their judgment and making it harder for them to make good hiring decisions. This is why I thought now would be a good time to identify and debunk five of the...

Passion Fruit

I remember getting home from what was my very last day of work from an old job, flopping onto the couch, and sitting there in complete silence for the better part of an hour. Later, on the phone, I would suffer under tidal waves of advice from friends and family who meant well but weren't helping. "That wasn't what you'd planned on doing for very long any way. It was only a stepping stone...

Pairin Inc. Technology Selected as Measurement Tool for Life/Work Skills Initiative

Talent Science Company, Pairin, Inc., recently announced that it was selected by education consortium Project: BeReady as the tool of measurement for its initiative. The Project: BeReady initiative, which was aims to ensure secondary education students acquire 21st Century life and work skills, plans to develop the first validated measurement of attitudes, motivations and proficiencies predictive...

Incentives to Confuse a Boring Job with One That Isn't Interesting

You probably brushed your teeth this morning. Was it boring? No. It just wasn't interesting or exciting. That should be obvious. There was no sense of irritation, impatience, frustration, fatigue, pressure, tension or any other experience of stress that is associated with boredom (unless you were behind schedule, in which case panic was doubtlessly more likely than boredom). Brushing in itself...

Muslims Face Discrimination in Hiring

Etiquette experts suggest two things polite people never do is discuss politics and religion. Studies by the University of Connecticut emphasize not discussing religion when it comes to job applications in New England and the South. According to a Hartford Courant article, "If you're trying to get a job, it may be better not to disclose your religious preferences, especially if you're Muslim....