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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...

Korn Ferry Executive Survey: 70 Percent of Executive Ready to Promote Talent

Executive search firm, Korn Ferry, recently released its global executive survey, which revealed that 70 percent of executives feel their organization is either ready now or somewhat ready to promote its talent. The remaining 30 percent of organizational leaders reported that they do not feel their organization is ready to promote its talent. The survey of more than 100 senior-level executives...

Starbucks Innovates Employee Benefits with ASU Partnership

I recently came across some interesting news. It seems that Starbucks has partnered with Arizona State University (ASU)—and also my alma mater—to offer Starbucks employees the Starbucks College Achievement Plan (CAP), an initiative ASU deems "a powerful, first-of-its-kind program designed to provide thousands of Starbucks workers a chance to complete their degrees." How Does It...

TaskRabbit Moves Toward a Less Exploitative Model of On-Demand Labor

Depending on what sections of society you're aligned with, the notion of an on-demand workforce a la Gigwalk or Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is either the dawning of a glorious new day in the American workplace or the terrifying epitome of modern alienation and exploitation. For a lot of business owners, shareholders, technocrats, and diehard fans of the free market, the on-demand...

The Scout's Dilemma: How to Share Finds Without Spoiling Them

Announcing a great find, e.g., an unknown, but great start-up company that's hiring, or an unspoiled hamlet high in the Himalayas, has its rewards: —enhanced status and validation as a scout, messenger or pioneer —gratitude of others when the find can be shared without cost —synergy when what is discovered requires help, participation and cooperation from others (for example, upon...

In-house Recruiters: Your Role is Changing and I've Got Good News

It's 2020, and thanks to technology, the in-house recruiter has a very different role. When talking with our clients I sometimes get the impression they feel as though they are seen as little more than well-paid PAs. This is not to belittle what a good PA does (they are life savers), but what I mean is that the in-house recruiter seems to be seen as a 'go between' from agency to...

Consumer Confidence Near Record Highs in May

Confidence among U.S. consumers rose in May to the second-highest level since 2008 as Americans grew more upbeat about the economy and labor market. The Conference Board's index climbed to 83 from 81.7 a month earlier that was weaker than initially estimated. The reading matched the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 62 economists. Higher stock prices and home values are underpinning...

Aquent Gymnasium Offers Free One-Hour MOOC Courses with "Gym Shorts" Series

Marketing and creative staffing agency, Aquent, recently launched a new series of free, short-format courses as part of Aquent Gymnasium, the agency's "revolutionary MOOC (massive open online course) initiative aimed at closing the skills gap faced by creative organizations worldwide." The series of course is called "Gym Shorts," and it begins with three new courses targeting front-end...

Do Recruiters Place Too Much Emphasis on Degrees When Hiring?

Many of you will be familiar with the topic of talent wars and talent shortages as it is all the rage in industry press and talking circles. However, some of you may also be aware that there is a small but rising tide of commentators who question the concept of critical talent shortages and believe it is a construct created by employers who are becoming overly choosy and over specifying jobs, and...

Should Recruiters Adopt Text-only Communication Practices?

I was watching Good Morning America and Robin Roberts talked about how telephone service provider, Vonage, reported that the number of voicemails people left had decreased by 8 percent from October 2013 until this year. She and the other hosts talked about how uncommon it is nowadays for young people to leave voicemails. So much so that Roberts mentioned that there is even a school in New York...

What We Can Learn from 42Floors' "Recruiting Black Hole"

The "black hole": recruiting's all-too-apt slang title for application processes — usually driven by terrible ATSs — that send job seekers into the informational abyss. If that sounds dramatic, you've likely never experienced the black hole firsthand. Let me share an anecdote to illustrate how extreme (and miserable) the black hole can be: I spent last summer looking for jobs after...

Why Organizations Should Hire More Millennials

The millennial generation is represented by youngsters who were born between 1980 and early 2000s. They are characterized by digital expertize and a go-getter attitude. The professionals from this generation seek constant growth through constructive feedback regarding their performance and like working on a variety of projects, expecting to succeed in most. Confident and positive, millennials are...

Connect6° Launches PeopleDiscovery, Helps Users View and Connect with People Online

Connect6 recently launched PeopleDiscovery, a free browser extension that allows a user to easily view and connect with people he or she discovers online. The new Chrome browser extension dynamically displays rich, publicly available information about a person, including a picture, title, skills summary, links to social profiles, a connection path and contact information. "Connect6 opens...

Electronic Commerce, Inc. Releases Mobile App for Employee Self Service

Electronic Commerce, Inc. (ECI), a SaaS provider of unified, web-based Human Capital Management (HCM) applications, announced product enhancements to its Empower Mobile Applications for Employee Self Service. The new user interface (UI) and user-friendly features enable access to information from tablet or smartphone when logged into the Empower Self Service platform. Empower Mobile delivers...

Hiring Women Can Help the Bottom Line

By no means should this be taken to suggest gender discrimination, but if the choice comes down to a woman vs. a man – pick the woman. It's going to save your company money. That's the findings of a study published by the Anita Borg Institute in California. It proclaims, "A wealth of research over the last decade has proven that companies benefit when they actively recruit, develop, and...

Economy Contracts for the First Time in Three Years during Q1 2014

The economy in the U.S. contracted for the first time in three years from January through March as companies added to inventories at a slower pace and slowed investment. The U.S. Commerce Department reports that gross domestic product fell at a 1 percent annualized rate in the first quarter, a larger decline than projected, after a previously reported 0.1 percent gain. The last time the economy...

Are Cover Letters Worth the Paper They Are Written On?

Although many employers still ask applicants for cover letters, studies show that employers are paying them much less attention than they used to. It seems that they don't add as much value to the hiring process as in previous years. For example, a 2009 study of 2,000 hiring managers by reCareered found that 90 percent of them ignored cover letters and 97 percent of them made their selection...

When It Comes to Social Networking, Your Customer Is Always Right

"There's one thing I write about," New York Times bestselling author Martin Yate tells me. Yate is a man who has worn and still wears innumerable hats: he's been a headhunter and a corporate recruiter; he's trained managers; he was in the nascent Silicon Valley scene in the 1970s; and, of course, he's written 17 books over the course of his 30+ year career as a business renaissance...

TargetRecruit Adds New Back-end Office Features to its CRM-based ATS

TargetRecruit, a solutions provider of CRM-based applicant tracking system (ATS) to the recruiting and staffing industry has added back-end office features to provide integrated solutions for front and back offices. The core of new features that distinguishes TargetRecruit from standard integrated ATSs is the functionality it brings as a one-stop-destination for all recruiting solutions and much...

How To Use EQ To Hire Superstars

Most good hiring teams make use of appropriate hiring metrics to help them manage team performance and service levels. Cost to hire and time to hire have been popular metrics in this time-pressurized, talent-starved climate we are operating in. However, a study from Future Step last year revealed that hiring metrics are now becoming more sophisticated and focused on factors, such as performance...

GreenJobInterview Offers Redesigned Mobile Hiring App for iOS and Android

Virtual interviewing solutions provider GreenJobInterview has launched a new mobile app, called GreenJob One-Way, that is now available in the app stores for iOS and Android devices. The app's interface provides a simple, intuitive user experience and users should see almost no difference when switching from a desktop to a mobile device. "Candidate experience is crucial, not only to us,...

Anti-Recruitment: Identifying Bad Hires and Offer Rejectors

When it comes to assessing candidates, much emphasis is placed on finding the candidate who exhibits all the right skills, gets along with the team, and is at a stage in his or her career where a move to your organization makes sense. But even in a case where a candidate checks all the boxes, he or she may not be the right fit. As a recruiter, you must be vigilant enough to suss out which...

Spark Hire Explains How to Hire the Perfect Grad [Infographic]

According to a new infographic from Spark Hire, approximately 1,606,000 students will graduate with bachelor's degrees in 2014. And with the massive influx of new talent, employers will want to ensure that they find the right fit. Why? Well, the infographic, "How to Hire the Perfect Grad," explains that 94 percent of executives believe a distinct organizational culture is essential to...

A 12-step Manual for Constructing Talent Pipelines (part 1)

According to ManpowerGroup's 2013 Talent Shortage Survey, talent shortages affect more than one in three businesses globally. The survey polled 38,618 employers across 42 countries and territories, and more than one in three reported difficulty filling positions due to a lack of suitable candidates. A special thank you goes out this month's Leadership Sponsors: Zoho and TheLadders. Please...

The Worst Imaginable Job

It sounds like a recruiter's, job applicant's, employee's, workplace inspector's or HR manager's question and nightmare: "What is the worst imaginable job?" But, it's more than that: It's also a philosophical, even theological question in the same league as the question "Is there anything imaginably worse than evil?" or "Can the non-existence of God be imagined, if God is...

Don't Know When to Pay Your Interns? You May Be in Trouble

Internships are an undeniably popular topic in the media these days. Setting aside whether or not the concept itself is ethical, companies with internship programs need to pay careful attention to the recent crop of internship-related lawsuits and learn from them. Legally speaking, the internship is a more complicated category than you might think, and misclassifying employees as unpaid interns...

Should You Start Crowdsourcing Talent?

The race to secure top talent is leading employers to try and adopt all kinds of new and innovative hiring practices. We already know that companies like Google have set the benchmark with new and innovative hiring practices. Zappos has decided to differentiate itself from the innovative employers, (now being regarded as one of the more innovative innovative employers), by doing things like...

Glassdoor: 64 Percent of Healthcare Pros to Look for Job Next Year

According to a new infographic from Glassdoor, there are currently more than 17 million healthcare professionals in the U.S., and 64 percent of them plan to look for a new job in the next year. And if employers hope to attract these job seekers, they'll need to know the how and what of recruiting workers in the health industry. Glassdoor's infographic, "How to Recruit Healthcare...

Did Santa Clara University's "Fake" Job Ad Save Job Seekers the Hassle of Applying?

I came across a story on Yahoo! about an interesting job posting from Santa Clara University. The job ad was seeking a Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer in English for the academic year 2014-2015. The requirements advertised in the job market are what caused a considerable uproar from the job seeking world. The ad said: The successful applicant will have at least 25 books on topics ranging from...

ManpowerGroup Reveals 10 Hardest Jobs to Fill as Global Talent Shortage Worsens

ManpowerGroup has released the company's ninth annual Talent Shortage Survey results, revealing global employers continue to suffer from talent shortages. ManpowerGroup's survey represents more than 37,000 employers in 42 countries and territories and found that 36 percent of global employers are having difficulty finding candidates with the right skills to fill open positions. "Talent...

Are Your Superstitions Hurting Your Job Hunt?

We all have them. Whether it's throwing salt over your shoulder, knocking on wood, or wearing your lucky pair of socks, everyone has a superstition or two. Job seekers, frustrated by the seemingly arbitrary and endless job search, often turn to superstitions and pre-interview rituals as a way to cope with the stress of the job search. Common job seeker superstitions include lucky ties, socks,...

Research from Great Rated! Reveals Top Workplaces for Millennials

As reported by company-review organization Get Rated! some companies are much better for Millennials than others. The new report "Ten Great Workplaces for Millennials," based on the testimonials of Millennial employees rating their workplaces, the engineering firm Intuitive Research and Technology and homebuilder David Weekley Homes top out the list of best workplaces for the younger...

Meeting the Demands of Millennial Talent

Not too long ago, I asked, somewhat rhetorically, if we could stop whining about millennials. It's pretty clear that I think the correct answer is "yes, we can, and we should," but that doesn't mean we need to stop talking about millennials. Instead, I think a topical shift is in order: rather than bemoan how different millennials are from past generations, we need to start a new...

4 Ways to Connect Giving and Engagement at Work

I am completely on board with a couple of recent business trends in corporate America-corporate philanthropy and employee engagement. Now how about we put those two things together. Philanthropy and engagement can work together in some pretty great ways. Not only can organizations give back to their community, they can offer valuable benefits to their employees at the same time. Corporate...

Amazing Salary Stretching: a Minimalist's Guide to Working in Japan

I couldn't believe it: Japan is supposed to be hideously expensive , yet the Mini Mini and ABC real estate offices of these two well-known Japanese chain operations I visited here have real apartments that rent for as little as about $270 a month (¥ 27,000) on a standard 2-year lease—perfect for a working budget-conscious expat with minimalist tastes. Unthinkable at Home That rent,...

6 Key Considerations Before Choosing a Staffing Firm Franchise

In our previous article, "Should I Join a Hiring Franchise or Start my Own Hiring Firm?" we discussed whether an aspiring hiring agency owner should go it alone or buy into a successful, pre-existing hiring franchise. In this follow-up article we look at the top things to consider if you have made the decision to buy into a staffing firm franchise and are now assessing the options available to...

Newton Releases Completely Mobile Version of its Applicant Tracking System

Newton, a provider of applicant tracking systems (ATS) and hiring solutions for small and medium sized businesses, has announced the release of a responsive version of its platform, usable on any smartphone, tablet, and Internet browser. Newton utilizes web technologies, such as HTML5, and is completely optimized for mobile use. The mobile version is offered as a free upgrade to existing...

TheLadders Survey finds One-third of Job Seekers Want to Relocate

A study on job relocation conducted by career network, TheLadders, has found that 35 percent of nationwide job seekers are looking for jobs outside of their local area. Jobs data were collected from the company's more than six million member database and were used to determine where people most often moved to work in a better economic climate. Job seekers from smaller designated market areas...

Don't Underestimate the Power of an Online Review

Let me repeat that: Don't underestimate the power of a review—particularly a company review that's posted online and its affect on your employer brand. I have a great example: When I relocated to a new state, I scoured the web to find a reputable auto repair shop. I've had quite a few bad experiences with auto shops in the past, and being in a new city where I didn't know anyone...

Learning to Thrive in a Global Talent Shortage

On May 30, workforce solutions firm ManpowerGroup released the results of its ninth annual Talent Shortage Survey. The organization gathered information from more than 37,000 employers across 42 countries and territories to bring us the somewhat sobering results. While the global and U.S. talent shortages aren't absolutely dire, the ManpowerGroup found that the gap between employer demand and...

Are You Still Hiring Yesterday's Sales People?

Your next sales hire will be one of the most crucial hires that you make this year. However, there have been recent and quite systemic changes to the sales process that have may have perhaps crept under the radar—changes that should now start to inform the sales hiring strategy of your business, if they haven't already. For example, most of you will have realized that the door-to-door...

3 Steps to Candidate-Focused Recruitment

Allow me to introduce you to Jane. Jane is a college graduate who currently has a job (in her degree field), but she's also been actively applying for new roles for the past few months. Jane has spent hours sifting through job boards, tailoring her resume and cover letter, and taking required pre-screen assessments. Most of the time, Jane doesn't hear back about her applications, yet...

Chequed.com Launches Tech for Accessing a Larger Candidate Pipeline

Cloud-based predictive talent selection technology provider, Chequed.com, has announced the release of a new technology to give employers access to larger talent pools containing difficult-to-find candidates who are ready to make a career change. ChequedAttract is built on a proprietary platform that integrates behavioral science with software for enabling data-driven assessments of job...

Most Employees Think Gamification and Recognition Do Not Mix

The 2014 Globoforce Workforce Mood Tracker, from social recognition solutions provider Globoforce, has found that as new technologies change the workplace, most U.S workers (70 percent) do not believe that gamification is a positive addition to recognition programs. Other findings from the report include: • 62 percent of respondents said recognition becomes less meaningful if points are...