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Triangular Recruiting, the Illuminati, Social Media, Surveillance and the Metaphysics of Pinching Your Nose

If you pinch your nose, you will be able to understand what recruiting, the Illuminati, NSA surveillance, the dynamics of social media and the metaphysics of self have in common. Go ahead—pinch your nose. How many of you are participating? One? No. Three. There is you the pincher, i.e., the "subject" or "agent". Then there is you the pinched, i.e., the "object". Finally, there is you, the...

Zappos Is Revolutionizing Hiring — but Is It a Good Idea?

By now, you've heard about perennial talent mavericks Zappos's latest publicity stunt/hiring revolution (depending on how cynical you are): no more job postings! Instead, Zappos is focusing its efforts on cultivating a community of "Zappos Insiders". To quote senior HR manager Mike Bailen's post on ERE, "Zappos Insiders will have unique access to content, Google Hangouts, and...

Lulu Avenue's Melia Hord Talks "Mompreneurs" and Career Success (Interview)

Meet Melia Hord, a mother of two young boys who, like most working Americans, found herself frustrated trying to create work-life balance. "I struggled for many years balancing work life demands and hours with the "daycare shuffle" and actively participating in their upbringing," Hord explained during an interview with Recruiter.com. "I tormented myself with my inability to put my...

The Role of Consultants in Today's Recruitment Landscape

Historically, recruitment has been looked at as more of a selling function wherein recruiters are required to sell the job and the company to prospective candidates. However, with the advent of technology and internet and the growing war for talent, recruitment has become a much more complex process requiring a cohesive mix of process, planning, technology and resources to hire and retain the...

Near Me Offers Peer-to-Peer Marketplace Solution for Joining the Sharing Economy

The Near Me platform-as-a-service seeks to provide brand and entrepreneurs with the tools to create customizable peer-to-peer marketplaces sans the traditional costs and time. Near Me will provide predictive analytics, cooperative competitions, and aim to reshape e-commerce through the multiple marketplaces powered by the platform. Near Me provides customizable branding, payment solutions through...

Cornerstone OnDemand Launches Cornerstone Onboarding

Cornerstone OnDemand, a leading cloud-based talent management software solutions provider, has announced the release of Cornerstone Onboarding, with features to provide personalized experiences for new hires that decrease time to productivity, increase employee engagement of new hires, and provider a deeper understanding of company culture. Cornerstone Onboarding delivers a unified approach to...

The Link Between Customer Care and Employee Engagement

An impressive array of positive business outcomes are correlated to high employee engagement, not the least of which is improved customer care. It doesn't matter what economic climate you're in, customer care can make or break a company. Senior analyst at Forrester Research, Megan Burns said: "The experience that individuals have with a company and then what they hear from friends and...

40 Percent of Unemployed Americans are African Americans, Hispanics

More than 40 percent of unemployed workers in America are either African American or Hispanic, although these two groups make up less than 30 percent of the total workforce. This is the latest finding from the Professional Diversity Network's May 2014 Diversity Jobs Report. The Professional Diversity Network, which develops and operates online networks dedicated to serving diverse...

Should You Accept Talent Referrals From Poor Performers?

Using employee referrals when hiring is one of the most exciting things to happen to talent management in the last decade. Sure, many of you argue that word-of-mouth hiring has been around for a long time, but job referral networks used to be much more closed, elitist and secretive and worked to keep top jobs within a select group of cronies. Thanks to the arrival of social media and a greater...

Second-Handshake 'Smoke': Time to Change Your Business Greetings?

On top of all the psychological, cultural and sociological arguments I recently gave for importing Japanese-style bowing as a standard greeting or farewell, now there's a medical one: a May 20, 2014 CBS Denver-affiliate report, titled "Is Your Handshake as Dangerous as Smoking?", by Dr. Dave Hnida, citing a warning from UCLA researchers: "A commentary in the Journal of the American Medical...

You Can Acquire Skills: Hiring for Personality with Hironomy

"It came to life through a lot of frustration," Tamer Rafla says of Hironomy, the recruitment advertising startup of which he is co-founder and CEO. "I finished school, and I was looking for a job. Looking for jobs is a full-time job. You sit down at the computer, search for jobs, send your resumé out. I went through a lot of jobs. I applied to a lot of them, and quite often I never heard...

Future Track: Visual Communication Goes Mobil-er in 2024

In part I and part II of this futuristic blog trilogy, we envisioned the world of work in 2024, and ways evolving video interviewing technology could benefit both candidates and TA professionals in this very different employment environment. Extra layers of functionality in a video interviewing solution of the future could lead to smarter evaluation and greater certainty all around in hiring....

How Reliable Are Employment References?

Given the fact that references have proven to be the least reliable form of assessment by a long way, according to studies by Beardwell et al, 2004 and CIPD (2007), it's a wonder that any employer uses them. In fact, it's even surprising that 45 percent of employers use them when you consider they have 0.13 percent reliability, meaning that they effectively predict how likely a candidate is to...

HRDQ Publishes New Soft-skills Training Tool for Supervisors

HRDQ, a leading developer of experiential learning resources for soft-skills trainings, has announced the release of the fourth edition of its Supervisory Skills Questionnaire. The new supervisory training solution offers a new design and enhancements for learning support within global organizations. The new edition includes a full revised and full color facilitator guide, an updated Supervisory...

Nothing is Impossible: The Real-life Example of Dr. Maya Angelou

I'm sure at one point or another we've all heard these familiar phrases: You can be anything you want to be. Dream big. Nothing is impossible. With hard work, anyone can accomplish their goals. I know I've heard sayings like these over and over again. But, as I'm sure many of you know, it's not always easy to believe the common phrases on the road to your dreams. Although...

3 Ways Video Can Improve Your Recruiting Results

Did you know 80 percent of people online will watch a video, but only 20 percent will read content all the way through? That's why many hiring and recruiting professionals are turning to video job descriptions to attract and engage potential candidates. Labeled "the next big thing" by Dr. John Sullivan video job descriptions are spicing up the hiring process and improving recruiting...

Applications for Unemployment Benefits Hits Seven-year Low

Signs of the gaining of momentum for the economy continue as the fewest workers since 2007 filed for unemployment benefits and consumer prices rose at the highest rate in 10 months. Jobless claims dropped by 24,000 to 297,000 for the week ending May 10, beating projections by economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The consumer price index increased by 0.3 percent in April, the most since June 2013....

EveryoneOn and Apploi Partner to Increase Job Opportunities for "Unconnected" Americans

EveryoneOn, a national nonprofit promoting digital literacy, and Apploi, a New York City-based technology company, have teamed up to increase access to jobs opportunities to tens of millions of Americans across the country. The "groundbreaking partnership" will launch a series of initiatives in the coming months with a direct focus on the 47 million U.S. residents without computers or...

Staring at Our Belly Buttons: Cross-Cultural Recruiting with Erin Meyer

Recruiting is about perception: how does the company see the candidate? Does she come across as smart, analytical, and well-equipped to handle the job? The problem is that perception is not objective, especially not when people are perceiving one another across cultural boundaries. Just ask INSEAD professor Erin Meyer, whose new book "The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible...

Best-Selling Author Peter Block to Host Consulting Webinar Discussion

Designed Learning, home of Flawless Consulting, recently announced that Best-selling Author and Consultant, Peter Block, will host a webinar discussion from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT on June 26, 2014. Block will discuss what changes have occurred (and what haven't) in the consulting field since the publication of his book "Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used" 30 years ago....

When the Customer Trains the Staff: a Very Different Customer Service Model

I won't name the organization, or even the city—because I don't want anybody to get fired or to besmirch an entire city. Besides, the employee training lessons to be learned there are applicable everywhere. The key lesson the staff (and I) learned at the Japanese tourist information office I visited was that sometimes staff training has to be undertaken by the clientele—and not just in the...

Is Self-Employment Riskier Than the Traditional 9 to 5?

Getting a job as an employee in a company with organized health and retirement benefits is the default and safe position in the working world. Anything outside of the safe, steady, in-house job environment—be that contracting or self employment—is seen as high-risk, high-stakes poker. But, is this assumption still correct? Is self-employment riskier than the traditional 9 to 5? For...

Recruiting Assets: Is Your Career Site Optimized?

Career sites are the gateway to candidate applications. Join Our Team tabs plague corporate pages. Your career site can be your best recruitment asset, but only if it is optimized correctly. Mobile searching is consistently on the rise and SEO is getting more sophisticated. Here are four ways to turn the career site plague into a blessing: Go Mobile Tip: Redesign the career page so it is...

CDO Numbers Continue Annual Trend of Doubling as Number Reaches 500 in 2013

New data from the CDO Club has revealed that the number of Chief Digital Officers doubled in 2013 with ranks rising to 500, continuing a trend of doubling each year. The organization predicts that the number of global CDOs will again double in 2014. CDO Club Founder David Mathison revealed a talent map that included the following statistics on CDOs in 2013: • Salaries for CDOs ranged from...

10 Ways to Cut Your Recruitment Costs (Part 2)

In part one of this article, we looked at the report, A Director's Guide: 10 tips to Cut Recruitment Costs, from software consultancy and developer, Access. Drawing on the findings of the CIPD's 2010 Annual Survey Report, the guide focused on the role of technology, specifically, how HR software can help recruitment professionals gain greater returns on their recruitment spend. A...

We Don't Have to Disrupt Everything

Have you ever read Albert Camus' The Stranger? Spoiler alert if you haven't: the protagonist, a semi-sociopathic man named Meursault, shoots and kills another person for no good reason, then he gets sentenced to death. On the surface, this has absolutely nothing to do with HR. But follow me here. I'm pretty sure I'm going somewhere. People often point to The Stranger as an example...

Tribridge AmplifyHR Extends Benefits of Cornerstone OnDemand

Technology services firm Tribridge has unveiled Tribridge AmplifyHR, a cloud-based technology solution that helps customers of Cornerstone OnDemand get more benefit out of their talent management investment through expansive levels of personalization and customization. The new technology allows users to tweak the interface, create custom reporting dashboards, and integrate third-party...

PMO Advisory Releases First Index to Quantify Ability to Achieve Business Objectives

Management consulting firm PMO Advisory has announced the release of the first index to quantify an organization's ability to achieve its business strategy, Business ExecutionIndex. As an organizational barometer, the Index reveals how well organizations are executing their business strategies. The Index is based on a number of major factors used to measure business execution quality against...

Choosing the Perfect Candidate: Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now?

You've searched and searched for the perfect candidate. Resumes and interviews narrowed the talent pool to the best candidates. The only problem: You have found the best qualities... in two people. You can only pick one, so how do you choose? Eighty percent of organization turnover is a result of poor hiring decisions. The candidates are perfect on paper and have the charisma of President John...

What Recent Grads Need to Know About Recruiters

For those of you who are graduating now and in the market for your first job, the professional recruiter might appear to be a mysterious entity that most of you are not quite sure what to think. Kinds of Recruitment There are three distinct types of recruiters/agencies that new grads need to be familiar with. These are the professional independent recruiter, the in-house recruiter, and...

TriNet Reports Three-quarters of Small Business Owners More Confident in Their Success

HR services provider TriNet has announced the results of its Small Business Confidence Survey which examines the perceptions of small business owners regarding their outlook on the success of their companies. According to the survey, 74 percent of respondents strongly or somewhat agree that their small businesses will experience revenue growth in 2014. Other key information found in the survey...

Can Staff Help Repair Your Damaged Employer Brand?

Employer brands have taken a bit of a battering over the past few years following the recession as employees have had to deal with the fallout of: redundancies, pay freezes and pay cuts, squeezed teams working long hours with insufficient resources, limited career opportunities due to stagnated growth, and so on. As a result, surveys such as this oft-cited Gallup survey tell us that 87 percent of...

New Enterprise App Center with Cornerstone Support Unveiled by Cornerstone OnDemand

Leading cloud-based talent management software solutions provider Cornerstone OnDemand has launched Cornerstone Marketplace as an online enterprise app center for the easy discovery, evaluation, and deployment of pre-packaged offerings integrated with the Cornerstone platform. The cloud-based ecosystem reduces the complexity of integrating apps into the company's talent management platform and...

VoiceCover Enables Job Seekers to Record Audio Cover Letters

When it comes to the job search, many experts will advise you to think outside the box. Well, the folks at VoiceCover have provided a way for you to do just that in the job market. VoiceCover is a unique service that allows users to give "voice" to their job applications—literally. Job seekers have the ability to introduce themselves and their qualifications via audio...

Explaining Statistical Disparities in Who Gets Hired for the Plum Hollywood Movie Roles

I am not a statistician, so maybe that's why I find it intriguing that observed statistical frequencies and percentages are what they are, rather than some other number, e.g., why, according to a recent report, exactly 71% of all protagonists in all 2013 Hollywood movies were male—nearly five times the percentage for females (15%), rather than, say, 57% or 90%; and 75% of them were likelier to...

Should LinkedIn Ditch Paid Subscriptions?

Back in February, SteamFeed ran a piece in favor of upgrading to LinkedIn's Premium accounts. The author's argument comes down to the fact that LinkedIn Premium accounts are worth the price because of the new features they unlock: More search filters! Making notes on profiles! InMail (which the free-riding plebs don't even get access to)! Etc.! These are all really great features,...

Payrolls Increase in 39 States in April as Unemployment Falls

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that payrolls jumped in 39 states and the District of Columbia in April and the unemployment rate fell in 43 states, indicating a strengthening labor market. Leading the nation in payroll increases was Texas with 64,100 new hires, followed by California with 56,100 more jobs. The unemployment rate rose in just two states. Labor market growth is...

Fierce Inc. Launches Feedback Training Module to Encourage Feedback Conversations

Leadership development and training company Fierce Inc., has launched the newest module of Fierce Feedback for providing consistent feedback for the benefit of the whole organization. Fierce Feedback enables organizations to develop skills that encourage feedback conversations. The outcome of continuous truthful feedback includes more honesty, strengthened coworker relationships, more highly...

10 Ways to Cut Your Recruitment Costs (Part 1)

Every HR professional knows how costly recruitment can be, but not every organization knows how to effectively contain these expenses. To help offer some guidance, Software consultancy and developer, Access, has released a report entitled, A Director's Guide: 10 tips to Cut Recruitment Costs. A special thank you goes out this month's Leadership Sponsors: Zoho and TheLadders. Please visit...

The Role of Recruiters in the Digital Era

In this knowledge era, where automation is in full swing and about to swallow all sorts of granular and administrative jobs, companies have started diverting focus from machines toward development of their people critical to the business functions and have named them Key Talent. While companies, on one hand, are investing in the learning and development of key talents, they are, at...

An Encouragement for Job Seekers

I recently ran across a story about a suicide job seeker. Unfortunately, I didn't even realize there was such a thing. The article explained how a 20-year-old job seeker, Martin Hadfield, killed himself after being unemployed for months after losing a gardening job. It reads: An inquest heard how despite being unemployed for months was too proud to accept state handouts. Just 24 hours...

Should Managers Fear Their Protégés?

Do your managers fear their protégés? What I mean by this is that surely there is an innate fear in all of us that the precocious, cocky/sassy young upstart we see in front of us will rise up; perhaps, this will be a little faster than we might like and he or she will replace us, leaving us out of a job and struggling to make the Lexus payments. It's easy to react to this with a high-minded...

MyCrowd Connects 10 Million Freelancers to Customers

MyCrowd, the world's first and largest crowd aggregator connecting customers to a myriad of freelance talent, recently announced its formal launch, including the addition of Asana and BaseCamp software integrations into its platform. The innovative company helps connect customers with a crowd of 10 million talented freelancers from the rapidly growing and increasing popular freelance market...

5 Types of People You Shouldn't Hire

There are certain kinds of people that just won't mesh in the professional world. Those who aren't serious about their job search stand out... and not in a good way. Although it is bad for the hopeful candidates, it makes the talent search a lot easier for the recruiter. Little things help recruiting specialists weed out the bad apples. Candidates who don't pay attention to detail or...

The 'Power of Predictive': Saba's Quest to See into the Future

"Often, when I'm seeing customers or prospects ... I'll say to them, 'I can show you a system today that knows more about any of your people than any system you have within your organization," Amar Dhaliwal, Saba's chief evangelist, tells me. His tone is almost conspiratorial. You can imagine him looking over his shoulder and leaning across a desk to heighten the tension, as if about...

Survey: Employees Prefer Help Line and In-person Reports over Whistleblower Route

According to the recent survey Helpline Calls and Incident Reports conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), businesses benefit from encouraging employees to report wrongdoing. Employees are more likely to come forward through both helplines and directly to management or compliance over going the whistleblower route....

How To Hire a Diamond In The Rough

In a world of talent shortages where employers struggle to attract and retain the talent they need, recruiters are looking for new and innovative approaches to locate talent, such as social media, employee referrals and sophisticated employer of choice strategies. But, these approaches, while effective, can still mean some employers come up short in the race for talent. These are usually...

The Tricky Psychology of Job 'Disincentive Incentives'

An employee management system is only as good as its rewards are effective. So what kind of employee performance and productivity can you expect when the incentives you provide are, unbeknownst to, you also disincentives? Incentives that are disincentives? How can that happen? Easily and almost always unintentionally—since nullifying the incentives one offers makes no sense as a...