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I hate resumes. I hate resumes. I hate resumes. I HATE resumes. Ostensibly, they're simple, no-nonsense things, short documents that highlight relevant work experience and skill sets. Plug in your work experience, responsibilities, special skills, maybe a couple references, and you're good to go. In reality, however, they're awful, needy, bafflingly amorphous sources of endless stress and...

Lexmark Launches Perceptive Cloud Share to Simplify Collaboration of Social Content

Lexmark's Perceptive Software announces the release of Perceptive Cloud Share, a lightweight, scalable and intuitive cloud solution that simplifies the sharing and collaboration of enterprise social content, including rich media. Built upon the Perceptive Evolution platform, Perceptive Cloud Share brings customers rich content management in the cloud, making rich media content available from...

The 4 Kinds of Professional Respect: Which Ones Have to Be Earned and Shown?

Rodney Dangerfield, gruff sputtering Las Vegas and Hollywood comic and legend, parlayed his catchphrase "I can't get no respect!" into a very likeable career persona. That comedic lament made him a spokesperson for everyone with the same complaint, but not always the same humorous give or take on it. Indeed, far too many among his "constituency" are deadly serious about respect—especially...

Five Rising Social Networking Sites — and How to Recruit on Them

Some call it "unbundling": the movement away from massive, multi-purpose social networks — like Facebook, where you can post pictures, comment on walls, and hold private conversations all on one platform — toward more singular-minded social media — like Instagram, where you can pretty much only share pictures. This movement has led to an influx of new social media platforms, as new...

Vendor Management System Success

A thoughtfully implemented and robust vendor management system (VMS) can completely optimize the disjointed and complicated process of the acquisition and management of a contingent workforce. A good VMS can result in significant cost savings through more efficient processes at every step of the contingent workforce supply chain. A special thank you goes out this month's Leadership Sponsor,...

The Brilliance of Boring Branding: Filling and Protecting Jobs with Dull Brand Icons

Every national government is an employer. Like every other big enterprises, nations are in the business of staying in business and in a big way. This requires the recruitment and retention of government employees and successful enterprise promotion and performance to protect both the jobs and the organization, including marketing of the national brand, through iconic branding as well as...

Should We 86 the 9 to 5?

It was 6:30 a.m. I knew because I could hear my dad barreling down the hallway and into my room. "The sun is barely up and it's already a great day," he would say to me in a booming voice. I certainly couldn't tell how happy the sun was after he flicked the light on in my room considering it was still considerably dark outside. In my teenage and hormone-fueled disposition, I would grunt...

Khorus Survey: CEOs Operating in "Hindsight Mode," Negatively Impacts Performance

According to a survey conducted by business management systems provider Khorus, CEOs are largely out of touch with day-to-day progress toward business goals in their organizations. The company polled 200 CEOs of organizations with 50 or more employees about their roles, challenges, processes and initiatives. "The results paint a bleak picture: CEOs are operating blindly much of the time,...

WANTED Technologies Expands Talent Supply/Demand data into Canada

WANTED Technologies, a leading supplier of big data analytics for the HCM marketplace, has announced the launch of its talent supply and demand products for Canada. WANTED provides insight into supply and demand for talent using a data warehouse of more than one billion records describing continuous hiring activity since 2005. Clients, which include corporate HR departments, staffing agencies,...

Are You Reluctant to Promote Staff?

What is the first thought that comes to your mind when a critical staff member suddenly leaves? Normally, it's call a recruiter/HR or anyone that can action a job posting and start searching for a replacement, right? It's a knee-jerk reaction, often born out of panic, but sometimes coming from a pure lack of imagination of doing anything else, and perhaps even a fear of promoting someone...

Work Market Launches WorkSend, Connecting Businesses with Freelancers

Work Market, the online solution helping companies find, manage and grow their freelance workforce, has announced the launch of WorkSend, the company's latest release for bringing best-in-class technology solutions for finding and managing on-demand, freelance workforces. "We are in the midst of a transformational moment as the number of freelance workers is expected be over 50 million by...

The Wrong Way to Make Your Resumé Stand Out

During my final year of undergrad, in the heat of senioritis, I took a class on theater appreciation (it actually ruled, but that's beside the point). The professor was a theater-industry veteran, a jovial old guy who wanted everyone to love plays and get an A. Classes generally consisted of him standing in front of the room and riffing for 90 minutes according to however the spirit moved him...

MassMutual, BlackRock Partnership Offers Custom Asset Allocation for Retirement Plans

MassMutual Retirement has teamed up with the BlackRock firm to introduce a customized, lower-cost alternative to managed accounts for defined contribution retirement plans. MassMutual Managed Allocations powered by BlackRock enables financial advisors to offer professionally managed asset allocation strategies to help achieve the diversification and customization that individual plan sponsors...

Most Employees Concerned Over Being Moved into Public Health Exchange

A new survey by The Morning Consult has found that two-thirds of those who responded are at least somewhat concerned their employer will move them onto a public exchange. Forty percent were either "extremely concerned" or "very concerned." One quarter were not at all worried. "Workers with employer-sponsored health plans largely have a negative view of what such a move would mean for...

The 3 Key Emotional Messages Interviewees Want To Hear

Research suggests that there is a serious candidate trust problem in the job marketplace. As a result of broken promises, pay freezes/cuts, layoffs, uncertainty and lack of job security during the recession, candidates have lost trust in their employers. The American Psychological Association survey shows that 1 in 4 workers don't trust their employers and only half believe that employers are up...

Vestrics Updates Workforce Optimization Software with Vestrics Uncover

Vestrics, a leading provider of workforce optimization software, has announced the release of Vestrics Uncover, a new software update including time-saving functionality that enables HR and LD departments to accomplish the work of a data analyst, without the added cost and time constraints. Vestrics Uncover improves human capital investments by providing the ability to quickly and...

Google is Great, but not for Recruiting

Small businesses have to do a lot more work function with a lot less money. So it's always a good bet to go with a software or office management option that will give you the most for your money. Google currently offers business solutions that are free (or close to it) to over 5 million organizations. And while having an email account connected to an online server, calendar, social media...

What, if Anything, Do Passive Candidates Owe Their Employers?

Everybody wants a passive candidate. I've written against this mentality in the past, but I'm a realist, and one blog post isn't going to change the hiring world. So the fact remains that people want passive candidates. Passive candidates are abundant, with some sources estimating that they make up as much as 79 percent of the workforce. According to the received wisdom, passive candidates...

3 Easy Ways to Simplify Your Resume

The first week of August is National Simplify Your Life Week. While you're cutting out the clutter in other areas of your life, take time to de-clutter your resume in three easy steps. There's a lot of conflicting advice out there about resumes. Some experts say an objective is necessary, while others urge job seekers to ditch it in favor of a summary. Debate rages on about the relative...

Kaya Systems Offers Virtual Assistant to Boost Back Office Staff of SMBs

Kaya Services, a virtual assistant company, has announced a two-hour trial of virtual assistant staffing to small and medium-sized businesses to demonstrate the benefits of using a virtual assistant company to complete many digitized tasks. Using a virtual assistant takes the process of using additional help to the next level. Employers do not need to designate space, office equipment, office...

Mettl Launches Online Certification Platform

Global online skills assessment company, Mettl, has announced the launch of its new online certification platform, providing a secure platform that enables companies to efficiently deliver online IT and other certification programs to candidates around the world. Mettl's new platform reduces the cost and time commitment of conducting certification exams compared to on-site manual proctoring....

Number of Job Openings Rises to Near Seven-year High

Job openings rose in May to the highest level in almost seven years, a sign the U.S labor market will help boost economic growth in the second half of this year. The number of positions waiting to be filled climbed by 171,000 to 4.64 million, the most since June 2007, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor. The number of unemployed job seekers per opening fell to the lowest level in six...

Get More Social with Your Recruiting

When it comes to recruiting, taking the social route has never been more important. In an industry where acquiring and retaining quality talent is a constant challenge, it's crucial that HR professionals strive to take recruitment processes to the next level by getting more social and more automated. It's no longer simply about posting on a job board, sending job invitations or tweeting about...

The Art of Putting (Just Enough) Effort into Your Cover Letters

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Cover Letter Tutor, an online tool that walks users through the process of writing cover letters. Shortly after that article went live, the creator of Cover Letter Tutor, Charles Clayton a 21-year-old electrical engineering student from Vancouver, reached out to me via email to thank me for mentioning the program. As it turns out, Cover Letter Tutor is the...

TextRecruit Streamlines Mobile Recruiting with Text Messaging

Though not a new concept, TextRecruit is seeking to change mobile texting with job seekers and candidates without going through a personal or company cell phone plane, which don't allow specialty functionality to employers such as tracking, reporting, data storage, or remaining compliant. Startup TextRecruit seeks to create a central location for recruiting teams to send, manage and track...

Salary Bumps Forecast for US Workers in 2015

Workers in the United States can look forward to a modest bump in pay next year. Median base salaries will rise by 3 percent across all main employee categories and most industries, according to research by Hay Group and WorldatWork. This increase is below pre-recession levels. After factoring in annualized consumer price index growth at 2.1 percent, the resulting base pay movement for 2015 is...

Survey: 1 in 4 Employers Say Recent Grads Unprepared for Entry-level Work

Did you know that almost 1 in 4 employers say recent college graduates are unprepared for entry-level positions? Or that 37 percent of employers find it difficult or very difficult to find qualified candidates? Although 44 percent of students report feeling well prepared or very prepared for landing entry-level positions, just 18 percent of employers agree with them? This is the latest data...

What it Takes to Succeed with Remote Workers

More than enough has been said about how technology is changing the world of work. And how organizations should change with the times. Of course, the focal point of all this is to better the way we work. But within all this chatter comes an understanding that change and adaption to it, cannot grow and flourish unless we embrace it. Now, within this giant notion of enhancing the way we work there...

Does Wearing a Suit Increase Productivity?

You'd think that in this day and age with a hoodie-wearing billionaire CEO surfing the waves of corporate boardrooms, that there might be a softening of the assertion that only suit-wearing executives deserve success. But, apart from a little spike in casual dress acceptance in 2007, acceptance of casual dress in the workplace has declined. Since 2002, 53 percent of employers have allowed casual...

Fixing a Bad Hire: a Case Study

In March, Mozilla made what seemed like a good call at the time and named Brendan Eich its new CEO. Shortly thereafter, a small scandal erupted: dating site OKCupid asked users to boycott Mozilla's Firefox browser; developers pulled their apps from the Firefox marketplace; and some Mozilla employees publicly called for Eich to resign. To be fair, Mozilla made a mistake in selecting Eich to...

New Compensation Management Solution Offered by Ultimate Software

Ultimate Software, a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, has announced new enhancements to UltiPro, the company's HCM solution, for the UltiPro Spring 2014 update, including a new compensation management product. UltiPro's new Compensation Management solution enables managers to navigate through the process of allocating pay and rewards to their people, with new, more...

Birthday Damage Control for Older Workers

There are two kinds of damage inflicted by birthdays when you're older: self-inflicted and other-inflicted. They both warrant damage control, irrespective of how the birthday and age issues arise. Some spooky number may have simply clicked into place on your clock, or some inquisitive colleague has asked you your sign as a segue to your birthday and from there to your age. Worse, you may...

Can Good HR Boost Share Value?

Now we all know that HR departments has been struggling to get a seat in the boardroom for many years now and some have achieved greater success than others. Yes, a few have made it into the boardroom; others may be in but be granted standing room only, and others may simply have their ear to the door. The general consensus is that in order to excel, modern HR leaders need to speak a more...

Good.Co Launches First Mobile App for iOS Devices

Self-discovery engine and social network, Good.Co, is helping employees everywhere "decode workplace happiness" with its recent launch of the company's first mobile app, which is available for iOS. After a successful beta web app with more than 100K users, this new all-mobile Good.Co app provides users with more quizzes and assessments, helping them uncover the many different layers of...

OfficeClip Products Available Now on Amazon Web Services Marketplace

The OfficeClip suite, consisting of the Contact Management / CRM, Employee Timekeeping and Issue Tracking modules, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in AWS Marketplace with hourly and yearly subscriptions. OfficeClip Suite provides small businesses with the ability to manage customers, employees, and projects with one suite of applications. The OfficeClip solution, provided under...

Castle Rock Innovations's Retirement Analytics Platform Connects Providers to Data

The AXIS Platform from Castle Rock Innovations is connecting the industry with its centralized data aggregation engine to simplify and automate the process of disclosing retirement plan fees, compensation, and services to plan fiduciaries. AXIS is connected to over 70 record keeping firms and provides a centralized data aggregation, compliance management and distribution solution for the...

Should Unemployment Benefits Come with a Job Search Requirement?

I recently ran across an interesting story about what the Abbott Government—the federal executive Government of Australia—is doing with its work-for-the-dole program. The story, "Job seekers to be forced to search for 40 jobs a month as Abbott government toughens obligations for unemployed," is about just that. Beginning July 1, 2015, Australian job seekers will be required to look for...

Role of Employee Referrals – Industry Perspective

The growth of any organization depends on the quality of its people and this holds true across industries and verticals. People form the core of any organization making acquisition of good quality talent one of the most challenging tasks faced by any organization big or small. This is one big reason why employee referrals have rapidly gained in popularity and usage. Employee referrals provide...

White House Economic Advisors Warn Shrinking Labor Force Hurting Economy

A new report by the White House's Council of Economic Advisors states that the declining number of people in the U.S. who are part of the labor force is a drag on the economy and the government should enact policies that will boost the number of workers, including reworking immigration laws. "In the long run, the growth rate of the labor force underpins the growth rate of employment,...

5 Easy Ways to Boost Job Advert Effectiveness

It may be a stretch to suggest that there are any more secrets left when it comes to writing job adverts, but just 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. I have no doubt that some of the issues come...

Vocoli Introduces Digital Suggestion Box to Increase Employee Innovation, Engagement

Innovation management platform, Vocoli, has announced the general availability of its digital suggestion box. Vocoli is a place where employees and customers have a platform to provide suggestions that can improve an organization. Vocoli's workflow encourages stakeholder buy-in and research combined with open collaboration, social innovation, crowdsourcing and gamification. "Innovations come...

Infographic from Badgeville Shows the Effects of Gamification on Business Travelers

Badgeville, a top cloud-based gamification technology firm, has announced the release of an infographic encompassing recent industry research covering motivating workplace behaviors, including corporate travel. Statistics show that gamification aids business travelers by positively motivating employees to complete actions that improve their travel experience. The infographic reveals how...

FantasySalesTeam Updates Gamification Platform, Allows Entire Company to "Get in the Game"

Is your business having a sales contest and wants to get your C-suite in on the action? Well, the folks at FantasySalesTeam may have just what you need. The award-winning sales gamification provider recently updated its online platform with a new Fans feature, allowing your entire team—from the CEO down to the sales rep—to get into the game. How It Works The game players (sales reps)...

"Interviewing Should Be a Privilege": Can Big Data Discover Your Company's Best Interviewers?

When we think about the hiring process, we're often concerned with the candidates first and foremost: who among them is the best? But what if we started thinking about our hiring managers and recruiters, our HR departments and our interviewers — what if we started thinking about the people who were reviewing candidates to fill the open position: who among them is the best at hiring? Mark...

Convergence Launches New Alt Asset Management Product Suite and New Website

Convergence, an information and advisory services provider, announced its 2014 product update. Convergence captures, normalizes, and enriches all registered investment advisors' form ADV, brochure and supplemental schedule information filed with the SEC. This core data is updated daily and supplemented with public domain intelligence relevant to the RIA. Convergence's database contains a...

Small Businesses Unconvinced of the Dangers of Cyber Attacks

According to a study by Kaspersky Labs, small businesses are unconvinced of the dangers posed by cyber-attacks and unprepared to combat them, despite an increasingly reliance on the mobile devices that often offer an easy entry point into organizations for cyber criminals. The study further suggests that one-third of small businesses wouldn't know what to do if they suffered a security breach,...

Through the Looking Glass(door)

If you're like most HR executives, logging into Glassdoor can be like one of those vanity mirrors with the bright lights: even the tiniest imperfection is magnified beyond belief, leaving you gasping in horror at what you see. Many of these executives who read the entries on Glassdoor are shocked to find that those reviews completely contradict how they think their employment brand is...

Most Employees Would Continue Working after Winning Lottery, finds CareerBuilder

More than one-half (51 percent) of workers said they would continue working, even if they won the lottery or otherwise didn't need to support themselves financially, according to a CareerBuilder study. Thirty percent of all workers say they would keep their current job. The most common reasons for staying on the job are: • I would be bored if I didn't work (77 percent); • Work gives...