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7 Tactics to Boost Your Brand's Appeal

There's a show airing on HGTV called Curb Appeal. It's about popular designers adding visual impact and value to enhance a home's curb appeal. The program demonstrates how the "pop" of a house increases its overall appeal and chance of selling. The value of curb appeal – the ability to elicit a "wow" with just one glance – is not exclusive to real estate. First impressions...

Why Do Employees Resign Following Their Vacation?

A recent study from monster.com shows that employees returning from holiday are a certifiable flight risk. In its poll of over 1,200 visitors to the site last year, Monster revealed that nearly 70 percent of respondents are more likely to look for another job upon returning from vacation. So, what is the reason for this post vacation turnover effect? Well, monster.com put it down to holidays...

The Do's and Don'ts of Networking (part 2)

In part one of this article we looked at Lou Adler's advice to job seekers to use the 20/20/60 job seeking strategy. This means job seekers spend 20 percent of the time "responding to job postings by going through the back door rather than applying through the front, another 20% ensuring your resume and LinkedIn profile are easy to find and worth reading, and the remaining 60% networking to...

ZALP to Offer Free Employee Referral Webinar

Research shows that employee referrals are the no.1 source of hire, and according to employee software provider ZALP, they have become one of the key contributors to an organization's recruiting arsenal. Yet, the company wants recruiters to examine what it really takes to ensure the success of their referral programs—employee participation. "It is universally accepted that the most...

Claims for Unemployment Benefits Fall for Week Ending June 14

Fewer Americans filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign of steady progress in the labor market. Jobless claims fell 6,000 to 312,000 in the week ended June 14, the Labor Department has reported. The total number of people collecting benefits decreased to the lowest level in almost seven years. Firings have been near pre-recession lows and companies are hiring as they...

Talent Rover Launches Scheduler for Managing Temp Placements

Talent Rover, provider of cloud-based software for managing staffing and recruitment workflow, has launched Scheduler, a new feature that allows staffing agencies to manage shift and per diem scheduling at scale. A replacement for the spreadsheets, whiteboards and post-it note systems used to manage scheduling temporary placements, Scheduler reduces hours of work into a simple web-based...

Should You Hire Overqualified Candidates?

In such a tight labor market, created by: a slow economy, mass redundancies and employers becoming increasingly selective, the number of suitable job opportunities is dwindling and, as a result, applicants are having to apply for jobs outside their comfort zone Specifically, more experienced and senior candidates are having to step down and apply for more junior roles, for which they are over...

Professional 'Kindishness': The Perils of Pseudo-Kindness

His patients' "rate your physician" online reviews are puzzlingly mixed, ranging from glowing to incensed. While some describe him as "kind", quite a disturbing number of others assess him as being some kind of monster, with allegations of terrifying temper outbursts, dangerously superficial diagnoses and misprescriptions, condescension and even formal sanctions for an improper relationship with...

Best, Worst Cities for Employee Satisfaction from Glassdoor

According to the second annual Employment Satisfaction Report Card by City (2014), which was released by Glassdoor, San Jose ranked first for the second consecutive year in a comparison of the 50 largest metropolitan areas by overall employee satisfaction, number of employers hiring, business outlook expectations and other criteria. San Francisco was ranked second in the survey. Both cities are...

Ongage Offers Built-in Integration to Leading Dynamic Job Listings

Ongage, a pioneering email deliverability marketplace connecting multiple email service providers and SMTP relays, announces a suite of built-in integrations to some of the world's leading job search engines: Indeed, Juju, Glassdoor and JobDiagnosis. One of the underpinnings of any job search process is email. Job seekers want to do their search via multiple channels and opportunities in...

Are You Held Back By These Interview Myths? (part 2)

Many job seekers take for granted certain interview myths and accept them as fact and these in turn can limit their interview performance and potentially hold back their careers. In the first part of this article we exposed and debunked five leading interview myths, and these were: 1. You can never be too early to an interview. 2. You should offer a vice-like handshake to your...

The Do's and Don'ts of Networking (part 1)

In his article, "Hire Economics: Why Applying to Jobs Is a Waste of Time," Lou Adler writes, "...job-seekers should only spend 20% of their time working the job boards and most of the rest of it networking. A lesson in hire economics helps explain why." He wrote that in his book, The Essential Guide for Hiring Getting Hired, he suggests that recruiters should employ a 20/20/60...

Match-Click Recruiting Platform Launches, Shifts From Traditional Job Descriptions to Engage Candidates

The recruitment field is constantly adding new technologies to improve the industry. Better sourcing tools, software to make interview scheduling more efficient, mobile platforms to connect with talent on-the-go: The industry, like most, has undoubtedly shifted to a technology-driven field. And now Marketing Executive, Maury Hanigan, has added yet another technology to improve how you recruit in...

Find Qualified Candidates, Wherever They Are

In this increasingly mobile world, the ideal candidate is on-the-go and interacting with a company's employer brand – and its competitors – at any given time and in any given place. Today's candidates want what they want, when and where they want it. And, most of them are using their mobile devices to get it. Candidates expect recruiting strategies to reach out to them where they are,...

Mama Knows Best: Remember These 6 Pro Tips?

Your candidate smiles and shakes your hand. All things you'd expect from someone who is happy to meet you. As soon as you sit down, however, they consistently look at their watch, the wall clock, their cell phone... Since 93 percent of communication is non-verbal, signs point to they aren't really that happy to meet you. It's important in the business world to have a clear understanding...

Zeroing in on Your Hard-to-Define Job Successes for Resume Writing and Beyond

Ever wish you could more easily identify those personal traits that make you a good employee, even when your job successes are less than obvious? To get started, ask yourself some simple probing questions to help turn your investigative eye toward the right topics. Appropriately searching questions could be similar to: How was your job performance superior to the way a generic, mediocre...

Monster Job Seeker Survey: Millennials Experience Most Burnout at Work

In its latest Monster Workforce Talent survey, Monster Worldwide has provided results detailing workplace frustrations and sentiments experienced by job seekers that are employed or unemployed and those seeking re-entry into the workforce. Job seekers responding to the survey are fairly confident and appear poised to explore new jobs and careers. The majority of job seekers are actively looking...

The People Want Corporate Social Responsibility. How Can We Meet Their Demands?

On my post about RevolutionHR's crowdfunding campaign for MaximusLife, a user by the wonderful pseudonym of "Medieval Recruiter" offered some interesting insights about employee engagement. "he idea of 'employee engagement' always struck me as a little annoying," they wrote. "Your employees often spend more time at work than they do with their families and loved ones. Just how much...

Tech Recruiting Requires an Urban Zip Code

Notorious bandit Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks famously said, "Because that's where the money is." Ask a start-up (or even established) tech company why they rent expensive urban office space and the answer will be, "Because that's where the workers are." Jim Dougherty, a longtime Boston entrepreneur who recently cofounded a health care startup, Madaket Inc., in Cambridge,...

Beyond Personality: What Makes a Leader, and Can You Become One?

In American business, we often talk about leaders as if they were archetypes instead of people: borderline mystical figures with certain innate, inborn qualities that make them somehow better than the average grunt. And, the thinking goes, if we can just figure out what qualities make up the leader, we can ape those traits and become leaders ourselves. The archetypal leader also comes with...

ManpowerGroup: HR Must Evolve to Take on Talent Shortages

ManpowerGroup has identified three distinct roles human resources (HR) leaders must play to ensure talent sustainability for their organizations in its new insights paper, "The Talent Shortage Continues: How the Ever Changing Role of HR Can Bridge the Gap." The global talent shortage is at a seven-year high as 36 percent of employers globally cannot fill open jobs. The paper explains that HR...

'I'm Like, Deep': Is This Annoying Speech Habit Actually a Talent Marker?

(A sequel to "I'm Like...Not Getting the Job?") Initially I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had heard in a long time: "Research has shown that people who compulsively inject 'like', 'you know' or 'I'm like' into whatever is left of their sentences are 'deep' thinkers." (That's a paraphrase of what a very bright, "like"-addicted Swedish graphics-design student said to me in her...

Work Satisfaction in the US Slowly Improving

A Conference Board study has sought feedback on job satisfaction and found less than half of Americans (47.7 percent) are satisfied with their jobs. The Conference Board noted that this is an improvement from the all-time low of 42.6 percent reported in 2010. However, there remains lots of room for improvement. "Job satisfaction remains historically low, extending a trend seen since the turn...

Two-Thirds of Employers Not Very Satisfied with Employee Participation in Voluntary Benefits

Despite employee benefit satisfaction reaching a record-high 50 percent in 2013, only 36 percent of employers are very satisfied with employee participation in voluntary benefits, according to findings released today from MetLife's 12th Annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study (EBTS). The disconnect between employees' positive views on benefits and their enrollment actions highlights the...

What Do You Want in a Mentor?

The millennials want mentoring. We know this much. Rose Ernst and Tara Wyborny of the Genesis10 G10 Associates Program spoke with us about the issue at length last week. Generations relations expert Lisa Orrell touched on the same issues a week earlier. So the expert consensus is there: young talent desires training, especially in the form of personal mentoring. This generational urge for...

Are You Making This Fatal Content Marketing Mistake?

I bet you've been thinking about content marketing in your talent acquisition strategy lately. How could you not be? It surrounds the industry like kids on a birthday cake. Whether you've just launched a content marketing program, or are thinking about how much it might take to get started, it's on everyone's mind. But there is a mistake a lot of companies make, and I would wager that...

Millennial Narcissism: A Gift or a Curse?

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Millennials are narcissistic and all about "me." And while many have made this claim based on their assumptions and/or experiences with Gen Y, a 2013 TIME article threw in some scientific research. According to the National Institutes of Health, the article says, people in their 20s have three times as high Narcissistic...

The State of Your Resume

When was the last time you updated your resume? Most people wait until they're looking for a job to brush off their resume. Instead, start thinking of your resume as a living document, kind of like the U.S. Constitution, that should be regularly reviewed and revised. While the basic information will stay the same—where you went to college, for example—the overall focus may shift as...

Are You Held Back By These Interview Myths? (part 1)

Interviews are such a crucial part of our career progression processes, perhaps the most crucial along with resume preparation and actual job performance. It's therefore no surprise that there is such extensive and microscopic analysis of interview protocols and etiquette. Equally, there is an unshakeable thirst for information from the candidate, but amongst all this advice and information, some...

LinkedIn Releases Job Search App for US iOS Users

The world's largest professional network, LinkedIn, has some exciting news. The company recently released its Job Search app for iOS, making it even easier for LinkedIn members to find, research and apply for jobs on LinkedIn. According to LinkedIn's Daniel Ayele, the LinkedIn Job Search App is "a dedicated Jobs experience that gives our members all the tools they need to find and land...

Outsourcing Your Own Job?

Companies do it all the time. Perform a Google search for "outsourcing," and an advertisement for freelance marketplace/content mill oDesk pops at the top of the page: "Outsource to freelancers." During Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential bid, many a pundit brought up his private equity firm's history of investing in companies that outsourced American jobs. According to a 2006 estimate...

Securian Study Reveals Competitive Pricing Biggest Factor in Group Life Insurance

According to a survey of large employers by Securian Financial Group's Group Insurance unit, competitive pricing is highest among employers' considerations for choosing a group life insurer. This, according to the survey, holds true for the consultants and benefits brokers who market group life to employers. "We found that hassle-free administration is more important now among employee...

The 'Cramatorium' Office Experience: Teleworking from a Tokyo Capsule Hotel

Although it resembles a crematorium, it's really what can be called a "cramatorium"—a capsule hotel featuring the kind of coffin-sized single-occupancy unit into which I had to cram myself and my writing for about $25 per night during the Tokyo leg of my current extended Asia road trip. A beehive of shuffling slippered blue-robed all-male traffic to and from the units to the...

Employees: Don't Forget You're a Walking Representation

Last week I went to an eye appointment at one of those franchise optical retailers. At that time of morning, it was only me (the customer) and about five employees. The optometrist left me alone to try on a pair of contact lenses, and while she did, an unfortunate event took place—one that put a damper on my overall customer experience. The eye doctor walked into the store's front room and...

4 Useful Tools Every Recruiter Needs

The world of recruiting has never been more digital and social than it is today, with 94 percent of recruiters turning to social media for their recruitment efforts, according to a Jobvite survey. Even locating talent can make any recruiter's head spin and be a logistical nightmare to sort and screen when online job postings can receive 200 applications within seconds of being posted. Can...

Should You Lie About Your Salary During Interview?

With many workers still struggling in the tough, post-recessionary economic conditions, many candidates will use the new job offer scenario as an opportunity to boost their salary. And with many candidates perhaps feeling dissatisfied with the low pay climate, some are taking the more aggressive and ethically dubious option of lying about their former salary to secure a higher job offer for a new...

Giving a Voice to the People with a Crowdfunded HR Tech Campaign

In a 2014 survey, Deloitte found that 78 percent of business leaders believe that employee engagement and retention are "urgent or important." It should be no surprise that the majority of business leaders feel this way: last year, a Gallup study revealed that 70 percent of U.S. workers are either "not engaged" or "actively disengaged." Gallup went on to say that disengaged employees...

What Can You Uncover in a 6 Second Resume Scan?

I know the answer you are thinking: not much at all, unless of course you are an applicant tracking system with powerful keyword searching functionality. However, believe it or not, a study from theladders.com has confirmed that far from needing 4 or 5 minutes to scan a resume (which many of the recruiter test subjects estimated), recruiters were actually spending just 6 seconds to make the...

LinkedIn Releases North America's Most InDemand Employers: 2014

LinkedIn has 109 million American and Canadian members, and it wants to offer employer brand information to benefit every one of them. To do so, the largest professional networking site has analyzed interactions between American and Canadian members and companies to compile a list of the most sought after businesses by these two types of users. The North American users spoke, and LinkedIn has...

'Drownsizing': When Downsizing Triggers Staff Desertions That May Sink the Ship

Rats deserting a sinking ship are unfairly likened to a captain who does the same thing before the passengers and crew get to abandon ship. It's an especially unfair comparison and aspersion cast on rats when the captain appears to be scuttling the ship himself—since abandonment of a ship that is willfully being sunk by the captain to whom you are expected to be loyal is Darwinian "natural...

Obscure Business Cards

In an age of de-materialisation and digital communications, one might think the business card is surplus to requirements. This is careless – the card still serves the same purpose it always did - as a simple memory aid, or as a genuinely handy reminder of your contact details. Remember that you're not just dishing out your phone number and email address any more; a modern card can also...

What Millennials and Employers Can Do to Prepare Young Talent for the Workplace

"Overall, we see a lot of negative press about millennials, this perception that they have no drive, and they're not going to be able to contribute anything, and management is going to have to spend massive amounts of time with them because they're so needy and they need all this feedback," says Rose Ernst, the national director of Genesis10's G10 Associates Program. "We're trying...

G2 Crowd Releases Top 8 Recruiting Software Products

Business software review site, G2 Crowd, recently released its inaugural Grid for Recruiting Software, which ranked eight products to help HR software buyers in their selections. The rankings are based off reviews from more than 140 HR professionals as well as The Grid, G2 Crowd's software recommendation engine, which factors in customer satisfaction reported by users and vendor market presence...

Can You Take Hiring to Its Next Stage of Evolution?

The Big data debate in HR has been raging for some time now. Vendors and commentators rave about the power and transformational potential of big data to move hiring from darkness into the light. Many of the more progressive and well-funded companies are on board, but the majority are still consigned to reading about Big data in trade magazines – seeing it as arcane, newfangled and superfluous...

The Art of Timing Your Critical Disclosures

At some point in the interview, you have to tell the candidate that the job requires an annual 3-month summer posting in Mogadishu, Somalia, and in a suffocating clown suit to boot. In an opposite situation, you're pretty sure that at some point you have to tell the graphic design company interviewing you for a designer job that you are colorblind. The two critical crossroads in the...

Should You Ever "Stick It Out" When You Hate Your Job?

In Recruiter.com's advice section, a few users have weighed in on the question, "How do you know when it is time to quit a job?" When you look at all the different opinions of different users, you notice a common theme: "When your job makes you unhappy, it's time to leave." This unhappiness can manifest itself in multiple ways: stress; anxiety; anger; depression. But whatever your...

5 Questions for Spotting the Candidate with the Best Presentation Skills

Do you need a supervisor or manager who can get business ideas and strategies across to employees? Are you looking for marketing and sales professionals who can forward your company brand to potential clients? Is your company scouting the job market for a trainer who can transfer knowledge and skills to new hires? If you are in any of these situations, it can be very revealing to candidates to...

10 Signs a Star Employee Might Potentially Leave

The war for talent is not just about finding new talent; it's about retaining star talent and reinvigorating fallen stars so they don't leave. In fact, holding onto a superstar or reinvigorating a superstar can be equivalent to making an external superstar signing. Actually, in many respects it can be better, as a HBS study of Star Investment Analysts revealed that when these analysts switched...