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Motor Mnemonics in Employee Performance Management

The Japanese motorman in the accompanying photo is doing something I had never seen anyone, anywhere perform on the job, save for baseball coaches and Popes, before I rode one of the single-coach local trains in Japan. In a very ritualized, highly structured short sequence of finger pointings, he rhythmically segued from one to another: As I recall, first to the left, then to a chart, then to...

Accenture Partners With KIPP to Offer 300+ Students Summer Internships

Management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture, recently announced that the business is collaborating with the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) network of public charter schools. The new partnership with KIPP will sponsor more than 300 internships this summer for KIPP high school students and alumni at nearly 175 companies and nonprofit organizations across the...

Inspirus i365 Launches Mobile-based Platform for Recognizing Employees

Inspirus, a provider of workforce recognition solutions, has launched a mobile points based platform, i365 mobile. The platform makes it easy for companies to recognize, engage and inspire employees anytime, anywhere. "More and more, companies are beginning to understand how important employee engagement programs are to the success and well-being of their corporate culture and bottom...

4 Steps to Social Recruiting Millennials & Gen Z

With an entirely new breed of professionals entering the workforce, typical job boards and commonly used professional networking sites like LinkedIn have to evolve. That means campus recruiters have to evolve with them. With more than 300 million unique profiles, LinkedIn is the most commonly used channel for social media recruiting. However, it is one of the only social networking sites in...

CareerBuilder: Social Media Posts More Frequently Affect Hiring Decisions

A new survey from CareerBuilder found that 51 percent of employers who research job candidates on social media said they've found content that caused them to not hire the candidate, up from 43 percent last year and 34 percent in 2012. Another 43 percent of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 39 percent last year and 36 percent in 2012. Additionally, 12...

Should Firms Buy Talent – Like In Pro-sports?

Most of you who follow professional team sports like football will be familiar with the concept of buying and selling sports star talent. Here, talent is a commodity that can be bought and sold, possessing a monetary value that can go up or down according to risk and opportunity. It's a bit different in the corporate world; there's simply no mechanism for you to walk up to a company to...

Running a Startup? Here's 6 Reasons why you Need a Virtual Assistant

Startups are everywhere—literally. According to an infographic by Mashable, there were 514,000 new business owners in 2012. And a 2013 Forbes article offered some very interesting facts about the rise and popularity of startups: -More than 50 percent of the current working population in the United States works in a small business -In 2013, there were almost 28 million small businesses in...

Cover Letter Generators: Useful or Dishonest?

I've never been bothered by the existence of resumé-writing services — you know, people who will critique your resumé (or even write the whole thing for you) for a fee. It seems, at first glance, like cheating — getting someone else to do your work for you! — but, think about it: a resumé is, at its base, a fairly objective thing. It's simply a factual history of your career. Resumé...

ZALP Launches Strategic Consulting Panel

Leading employee referral solutions provider, ZALP, recently announced its association with four renowned industry consultants as part of its Strategic Consulting Panel, a new initiative designed to give ZALP's clients a valuable experience before and after the implementation phase of the software. The Strategic Consulting Panel is the first wing of ZALP's Partner Program, which was...

When Sourcing Candidates, Don't Rely on Your Gut

It was one of those calls. We were talking with a client that'd purchased a Job Slot and Premium Search package with Beyond about a month prior and wasn't happy with the response. I began by taking the "seek to understand" approach and asked the client to explain their concerns. "Well", the VP of HR said. "We just don't feel like we're getting enough candidates." He went...

8 Tips for Summer Networking Success

The sun is out and the temperatures are rising: It's summer time! And although the summer brings BBQs, pool parties and "summer Fridays" in the office, there's one area, although often overlooked, that is also associated with this season—networking. When the weather is nice, the majority of us want to be outdoors, right? The folks at businesses and organizations are no different. And...

Character vs. Personality-Based Hiring: Is One a Smarter Customer-Service Hire?

Is one of these the smarter hire: a customer rep who will do a great job because (s)he, by dint of (psychological) personality or inclination, enjoys serving customers and clients, or one who does it from an unshakeable sense of duty at the core of his or her (moral) character? Or is there a) no difference, b) no possible generalization, c) no importance in deciding? If the answer to each of...

Is Your Firm Creating its own Personal Talent Shortage?

Not a month passes by without another report illustrating the full extent of the global talent war. Employers are struggling to find talent in good time, and according to the Manpower Talent Shortage Survey 2014, 50 percent of employers say that talent shortages reduce their competitiveness and productivity and impact their ability to meet client needs. But, the most telling finding from the...

Indeed.com Acquires MoBolt Mobile Job App Technology Provider

Indeed.com has announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and assets of MoBolt, a leading provider of mobile job application technology. Indeed reports that nearly half of all job seekers are looking for and applying to jobs through a mobile device. With this acquisition, Indeed will enable employers to take advantage of accepting job applications through a mobile device, without any...

G2 Crowd Shares Best HR Management Suites Based on Professional Reviews

Based on more than 325 reviews from HR professionals, the inaugural Grid for HR Management Suite software, recently announced by business software review site G2 Crowd, ranks 11 products to help HR software buyers in their selections. The Grid, G2 Crowd's software recommendation engine, factors in customer satisfaction reported by users and vendor market presence determined from social and public...

Towers Watson Launches Analytical Platform for Employee Survey Data

Towers Watson, a global professional services company, has announced the launch of an integrated employee engagement survey platform. The new platform will allow managers, HR leaders and executives to identify deeper insights from their employee survey results and take action more quickly. "One of the primary attributes of this enhanced platform is that it saves organizations time while...

Best/Worst Paying Jobs for Education Professionals and Grads

The education sector includes a broad variety of occupations paying anywhere from just over $25,000 annually to well into the $100,000s. Relatively recent (May 2013) Occupational Employment and Wages data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) helps to determine the best and worst paying jobs in the Education, Training, and Library Occupations, plus education-related jobs in several...

Take the Interview Helps Streamline Process with Interview Management Platform

Take the Interview, recently announced details of its Interview Management Platform, a new, innovative tool that helps streamline the interview process. The new technology is designed to solve interviewing challenges while improving communication and collaboration between job candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. According to Take the Interview, the cutting-edge Interview Management...

Can Agile Working Fix a Broken Workplace?

With global employee disengagement levels riding at about 87 percent, it's probably fair to say that talent management teams are facing a bit of motivational crisis, which is leaving productivity and profit levels in a depressed state, relative to what would be achievable with a more engaged organization. But, this is not to say that talent management teams haven't tried to fix these problems;...

How Older Workers Can Stay RELEVANT

OK, so it's bad form to type in all capital letters because it makes it seem as if you are yelling. But RELEVANT in this case is an acronym that can help older workers feel more relevant in the job market. "As they retire, baby boomers need to stay true to their reputation for grand statements, and to mobilize their skill set in the business world," says Steve Kayser, author of "The...

The Power of an Internship

An interesting infographic was recently sent to my inbox. Created by WhoIsHostingThis, the "Do Interns Secretly Run the World's Largest Tech Companies?" infographic details how, unlike in past times, leading tech companies recognize interns as the future of their companies. The infographic begins supporting this claim by offering 16 examples of people who started out as interns and...

Casualizing the Labor Force: Tim Fung of Airtasker on Crowd Labor

Tim Fung, the co-founder and CEO of Australian crowd labor platform Airtasker, has what you might call the exemplar resumé of gen Y's multi-careerism. Fung has done finance; he was a talent agent with a celebrity management firm; he helped start Australian telecom service Amaysim — and these are just some of the highlights. It was during his stint at Amaysim that Fung and his coworker...

Kavaliro Launches New Company Website

Award-winning national professional services and staffing company, Kavaliro, recently launched its new company website. The new site combines Kavaliro's company culture with services offered by integrating new features, such as HTML5 video, location specific functionality, social media capabilities, simplified job navigation, and responsiveness. "Information technology is definitely on the...

Thinking About Quitting? Ask Yourself These 10 Questions First

While the economy is still suffering, many workers are doing more than their job merits, creating low morale. If you're reading this you're probably part of that population. While you may have survived the layoffs, you're working twice as hard for the same pay. If you're burned out working in your current position you may be thinking about quitting. You must weigh this option carefully before you...

Labor Department Reports Jump in Payrolls as Unemployment Rate Falls

Job creation surged beyond expectations in June and the unemployment rate fell to an almost six-year low, underscoring the strength of a U.S. labor market that will help spur a rebound in growth. The addition of 288,000 jobs followed a 224,000 gain the prior month that was bigger than previously estimated, Labor Department figures showed. The number of long-term unemployed Americans fell to 3.1...

University Gates with Job Ads Instead of Ivy

As I read this sign posted on a campus gate wall, street-side in Nagasaki, I was taken aback by the fact that not only were internal detailed job postings displayed on the city street, but also that the precise numbers of staff to be hired and required qualifications for jobs in the respective departments within the Graduate School Department of Economics were listed. That seemed unusual,...

Three Data Synchronization Solutions for the BYOD Era

There is certainly an increase in companies adopting BYOD (Bring Your Own device) policies. According to IT research firm, Gartner, 73 percent of small-to-medium businesses supported BYOD policies in 2013. And the research firm predicts that this number will jump to a whopping 90 percent by the close of 2014. Yet, that isn't all that Gartner predicts when it comes to BYOD. According to the...

IBM Unveils Social Software for Breaking Down Collaboration Barriers

IBM has introduced a new cloud and on-premises social software to help clients better connect, collaborate and share information with key stakeholders inside and outside their organizations. The latest version of the IBM Connections platform features an open and fully integrated suite of social and real-time collaboration, analytics and content management tools, all securely delivered on any...

Is Passive Talent Better Than Active Job Seekers?

In the past, the dark art of head hunting was a skill reserved for a very select group of talented executive search agencies that had built up a powerful and unassailable network of clients and candidates. But, all this has changed now. Everyone is a potential headhunter, and everyone can be easily head hunted thanks to social media and the ease with which any one can research and contact...

The Conference Board Report: Online Labor Demand Rises in June After Flat First Half

Online advertised vacancies were up 155,900 to 5,060,100 in June, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine Data Series. The May Supply/Demand rate stands at 2 unemployed for each vacancy, with a total of 4.9 million more unemployed workers than the number of advertised vacancies. The number of unemployed was 9.8 million in May. "The June increase of 155,900 is positive news....

Lebron James and the Case of the Prodigal Employee

If you're a basketball fan (and even if you aren't), you've undoubtedly heard the news broadcasted—or shall I say published?—last week: Lebron James has decided to return "home" to the Cleveland Cavaliers. For anyone who doesn't know the back story, in 2010 after seven years with the Cavaliers (the first team James was drafted to right out of high school) James announced that...

Intuit Reports Fourth Consecutive Month of Small-business Growth

U.S. small business employment grew for the fourth consecutive month in June, adding 20,000 jobs. While the labor market continues to show signs of revival, small business employment remains 900,000 workers shy of the peak reached in March of 2007. These are among the findings of the monthly report Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes: • Small businesses have added 595,000 jobs...

Campus Recruiting More Important than Ever in Today's Business Climate

Just a generation ago, young people graduated from college and went on to a job that turned into a lifelong career. Loyalty was a given, and there was no need to switch companies; plenty of opportunity existed for moving up the corporate ladder while increasing salary and prestige. Fast forward to our current reality–the post-recession VUCA era, where we simply cannot expect stability and...

3 Steps to Spot a Team Player

A Businessweek study of office-based professionals revealed that 82 percent of them believed that they needed to collaborate and partner effectively through the course of the day to get their work done. Effective people collaborate in hallways, at desks, water-coolers, and flexible meetings spaces. Technically brilliant but self-isolating candidates may not cut the mustard or perform anywhere...

Equifax Workforce Solutions Helps Businesses Understand "Affordable Care"

With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under way, Equifax Workforce Solutions wants to help employers understand and calculate business costs of "affordable care." The leader in HR, payroll and tax management, compliance and workforce insights has used its data to create "The Affordable Care Act and the Hourly Workforce" infographic, which offers a snapshot of hiring, pay and turnover trends. The...

Recruiting 'Dominant' Types—a Guide [Part II]

Having demonstrated in Part I that "dominant" candidates should not be defined or selected primarily or exclusively in terms of their aggressiveness, capacity to intimidate, their nepotistic connections or success in "getting their way", the analysis continues here with exposure of the shortcoming of other concepts of dominance before offering a tentative formulation of a workable, even...

TalentReef's JobApp Receives Upgrade with Social CRM, End-to-End Collaboration

The newest JobApp product aimed at recruiting Millennials has been deployed, enabled by the company's Social-Mobile Recruiting Start-Up Program. JobApp enhanced the product platform within its core data set of millions of current job seekers looking to engage with potential employers via their smartphone to bring this new product to market. The company has introduced a differentiated Social...

Colorism in Recruitment Focus of Study

There's an ongoing trend of black on black discrimination in recruitment called colorism. The authors of a study on the topic say it can be avoided with a simple personality assessment. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology recently released a study on colorism, which refers to people who experience discrimination based on their skin tone—a process known as colorism....

Is Your Career the Best Factor to Determine Self-Worth?

The University of Phoenix School of Business recently reported the results of a survey showing that almost half (47 percent) of working adults in the U.S. gain equal or greater feelings of self-worth from their jobs and careers as they do from their personal lives. The survey of more than 1,000 working adults in the U.S. also shows that even though we're still in tough economic times and have a...

Refresh Your Cover Letter This Summer

Summer is a slow season. The long, hot days are better suited to playing outdoors or lounging by the pool than hunting for work. Unfortunately, for the un- and underemployed, there's no such thing as summer vacation. Instead of letting your job search languish in the dog days of summer, roll up your sleeves, grab an ice-cold beverage, and give your cover letter a tune-up. Here are four areas...

Job Openings up More Than 10 Percent In June 2014, Reports Simply Hired

Simply Hired has released its July 2014 Employment Outlook report showing that nationwide job openings increased 10.6 percent month-over-month and 34.7 percent year-over-year in June 2014. This is the single largest monthly increase posted in 2014, and includes gains in 17 out of 18 industries and 21 out of 23 occupation categories. "Our July Employment Outlook report shows very solid growth...

Infographic Offers Survival Guide for First Day in Office

With an estimated 1,606,000 new graduates now searching and applying for job opportunities in the UK, and with employment levels on the rise once again, we can expect offices everywhere to inherit a couple of eager-eyed additions to their teams fairly soon. That first day at any new job can be daunting, but it doesn't need to be a stressful experience. Preparation is key, and Office furniture...

Why it Pays to be Pushy at Work

Does it seem to you that the people who appear to be pushier and less accommodating at work tend to get the better terms and conditions and are paid more? And, that the more accommodating employees tend to be paid less? Do nice guys really finish last or is this a myth? There's no question that some degree of pushiness, and rejection of what is offered, is beneficial as the working world is...

How the Rise of Privacy in Social Media Will Change the Way We Think About Employees

Social media has by and large been a boon to recruiters and HR professionals. Once upon a time, employers had fairly scant information about the candidates they came across. Resumés reported professional highlights, and employers could glean some small insights into a candidate's personality via interviews and behavioral assessments. If you were lucky, a professional reference might offer some...

4 Interview Questions to Identify Top Performing Salespeople

A great salesperson has a unique combination of skills—a combination that is difficult to find and just as difficult to interview for. They have to balance persuasion with likability, relationship quality with quantity, and your company's reputation with the need to make the sale. And this is just the beginning. So how do you screen for qualities like these? The answer is: very carefully....

Recruiting 'Dominant' Types—a Guide [Part I]

"Dominant" has a nice powerful ring to it—and conjures up images of a jut-jawed Marine colonel's command and control, a billionaire's influence, a pit bull's aggressiveness, Gandhi's charisma and an unyielding "Braveheart" will. It also tends to conjure up the idea that if you hire someone who is dominant, he will dominate others and thereby help your organization achieve...

PPACA Not Helping SMB Owners Receive Improved or More Affordable Benefits

Newtek Business Services, Inc. has announced the findings of its monthly SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey. A key finding from the June survey is that 51 percent of business owners say their company has not received healthcare that is both better and more affordable under the Affordable Care Act. Additionally, 55 percent of business owners say they are unsatisfied with (34 percent) or unsure...

Career Cloud Launches Twitter Job Search Engine, Jobcritters.com

We've all undoubtedly heard of job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and Indeed. And with social networks like LinkedIn getting in on the action, it was only a matter of time before others followed suit. Well, the folks from Career Cloud have created a way to simplify and improve the job search and job posting process on Twitter. The company recently released Jobcritters.com, a new...