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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...

Glassdoor: 9 in 10 Job Seekers to use Mobile Job Search During Next Year

If you want to win the war for talent, you'll have to keep up with job seekers. And just how can employers do this? By going mobile in the employment market. Did you know that 9 in 10 (89%) job seekers say they will use their mobile device during their job search in the next 12 months? At least that's the latest data from Glassdoor's State of Mobile Job Search Survey. The number of job...

Is the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Endorsement a Smart Move by Microsoft?

I was listening to Pandora when one of those "must have" ads interrupted my experience. Usually I tune out during this part, but to my surprise, this particular ad caught my attention. Apparently, pop/hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are set to perform at a Microsoft store opening in Atlanta, Ga. This caught my attention 1) because I used to live in the city and was familiar with the...

Rate of Uninsured Americans Reaches Five-year Low

Since its inception, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has reduced the percentage of adults without health insurance to its lowest level since 2008. The number of adults without health insurance, at 15.6 percent during Q1 2014, fell to 13.4 percent in April, as reported by Gallup who attributed the reduction to the PPACA. Approximately 8 million Americans have signed up for...

Can We Stop Whining about Millennials?

Maybe you've heard the story of Diana Mekota (which our online editor wrote about when the incident first happened). If not, a quick recap: the 26-year-old Mekota was moving to Cleveland, and she needed a job. So she reached out to Kelly Blazek, who ran the Cleveland Job Bank listserv, which compiles job openings in the Cleveland area. Blazek was indignant that Mekota tried to connect with...

The Leadership Tools that We Don't Talk About

A recent Dale Carnegie study revealed that 71 percent of employees are not fully engaged. We all know that a change has to take place, and we all know that it has to start with leadership. Employee engagement experts, including myself, talk about the fundamentals of employee engagement like: rewards and recognition, updating performance reviews and transparency; but what about the unsung benefits...

CSI Infographic Details Evolution of Computer and Networking Industry

May 3,2014, was National Computer Education Day and to keep the education going the IT experts at Computer Systems Institute released a new infographic, "An Ever-expanding Network: The Evolution of the Computer and the Networking Industry." And just what does the infographic teach us about the evolution of technology and computers ? Well: PC Use: Then and now As most already know,...

Should I Include Salary Details In My Job Advert?

This may seem like a mundane question to be asking, and I guess many of you will see this as a simple question requiring a simple, binary yes-or-no answer. Well, it's far from that as the way in which this question is answered and how you present or don't present pay scales in your job adverts can have far reaching effects on your ability to attract and retain talent. In truth, it seems that...

PI Worldwide Launches Three New Technology-driven Talent Solutions

PI Worldwide, the developer of the Predictive Index Management Workshop Program, has announced the release of three additional talent solutions as part of its program update. The program and new technology solutions give clients access to a combination of workforce analytics data, knowledge, technology, and expertise. Insights gained from the program help clients improve talent development,...

Simply Hired Forum Reveals how Emerging Tech Impacts Recruiters, Candidates

The recently held Innovation in Recruitment Forum by Simply Hired illuminated areas where technology is disrupting traditional recruiting practices and reshaping the relationship between candidates and prospective employers. Key themes of the event included: • Mobile, which accounts for more than 30 percent of traffic on Simply Hired, was found to be replacing laptops for Millennials who...

How to Combat Employee Burnout

After completing a bachelor's degree everyone looks for that perfect job. Sometimes even a little eager to take work home because the position is just that perfect. After a few years constantly staying engaged at work is exhausting. Management positions with emails, phone calls, meetings, small talk at the water cooler... by the end of the day nothing sounds better than sitting at home....

Avoid Criminals and Duds When Recruiting Bookkeepers

Hiring a bookkeeper seems like it should be an uncomplicated process but there are legal concerns (and other issues) to keep in mind. It's not as simple as an addition and subtraction test. The Free Enterprise blog at FindLaw.com says there are five questions to consider "to avoid hiring a criminal or a dud." It shares the story of a Florida bookkeeper who was arrested after being accused of...

Is It Time To Let Computers Assess Candidates?

Gamification has definitely arrived in the world of recruiting, but it is far from established and has not really found its place. The idea that we can use tactical video games to attract and assess talent is a powerful one, even if implementation remains a little sketchy. It's not surprising really, as gamification entrepreneurs are true pioneers; they are at the frontier. There are very few...

What's So Bad About Bowing to Customers, Clients, Guests and the Boss? —A Cross-Cultural Analysis

President Obama has taken shots across his bow—in both senses of "bow" for bowing to foreign dignitaries and to at least one machine. Instead of being commended for displaying cultural sensitivity and adaptability by bowing to Middle Eastern oil sheiks; former President of China, Hu Jin Tao; the Emperor of Japan, and, most recently, for bowing to a Japanese robot that was trundled over to...

Semi-Finalists Announced for 2014 Recruiting Service Innovation Awards (the ReSIs) Awards

The International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS) recently announced the semi-finalists for the 2014 Recruiting Service Innovation Awards (the ReSIs). According to the IAEWS, the "awards are the first accolade to recognize ground-breaking sourcing and recruiting products and services that help employers achieve recruiting excellence by optimizing the capabilities and performance of...

PayScale Reveals CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio, Examines Human Capital Workplace Issues

PayScale, Inc. has announced the findings of its report "CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios: How many worker salaries does it take to add up to a CEO?" The report reveals overall median pay for workers at the 100 highest-grossing publicly traded companies in the U.S., plus the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay. The report also provides the percentage of respondents reporting high job satisfaction and job...

HR.com Launches Mobile App for Continuous Individual Improvement

HR.com, the largest social network for HR professionals, has released a personal excellence app that uses personalized content, coaching, and daily lessons to encourage employees to become more focused on their wellbeing. The app focuses on seven areas including physical wellbeing, service, financial, professional, mental stimulation, character, and social in addition to five learning modalities...

Newton Releases First Completely Mobile Applicant Tracking System

Newton has released a completely mobile version of its top-rated applicant tracking system, allowing recruiting and human resource professionals as well as hiring managers and executives to engage in their hiring process from any smartphone, tablet and browser. San Francisco, CA May, 19 2014 Newton, a leading provider of applicant tracking systems and hiring software for small and...

Tiny Rebellion Brings Creativity to Hiring Process with #TakeMyJob Campaign

If you want to hire creative talent who can offer your business innovative ideas, you have to look for those creative and innovative qualities. And according to Tiny Rebellion, a Santa Monica, Calif. based independent advertising agency, that search begins with you. The self-proclaimed "troublemakers, rabble-rousers, fearless agents of positive change" who make up the agency believe that...

ID Federation Launches Tool for Access to Multiple Carrier Sites

Industry coalition ID Federation has introduced a software tool for accessing multiple insurance websites with a single sign-on. Dubbed SignOn Once, the tool allows staff to use a single login to access multiple carrier business partners for quoting, submission, and account management, among other transactions. Using token technology to authenticate each user, the new tool provides greater...

What Can HR Learn From the Self-Employed?

Lots actually. With employee turnover and talent shortages at record highs, employee engagement at all time lows, talent management professionals are in a spin; they are navel gazing, soul searching, early adopting, innovating, lagging, ignoring, desperately trying to find the secrets to attracting, retaining and engaging talent. We attend conferences, forums, brain storming sessions, yet some of...

Future Track: Power to the People in 2024 (Part II)

According to WANTED Analytics, online postings for bitcoin-related jobs grew nearly 500 percent in the past year. Who knew 10 years ago there would even be jobs in digital currency? The future is full of positions most of us have never heard of, like parabolic expert or microbial balancer. Technology is driving changes in employment, and it's likely to do the same for the hiring process. In the...

Race for the Top Tech Talent

Attracting tech talent isn't the hard part, recruiting them is. Highly skilled candidates are diamonds in the rough. Sixty-nine percent of tech companies see shortages in the tech talent pool. They aren't just short one man or two, 25 percent see the deficiency as significant. In an increasingly technological world, companies must keep up with advances in technology. That means they need to...

Hyperkinesis: an Under-Utilized Interview Tool

It works in TV and Internet advertising, in virtually all sports, in the performing arts (including slapstick comedy, vaudeville and ballet), in daycare centers, in beauty contests, on night club dance floors and, generally speaking, in almost all domains of life. Hyperactivity—or more precisely in this context, "hyperkinesis", which, although generally nuanced as pejoratively as...

Is Salary Transparency a Good Idea?

According to Glassdoor, the median salary for a writer in the U.S. is $50,000. I make nowhere near that amount. Not that I'm bitter about it, or feel that I should be making that much. I'm pretty new to the game, and the "writer" category is a big one. If we break it down into subsets, we see a wide, wide range of average salaries: reporters make about $43,650 on average, whereas...

blur Group Finds Long-term Relationships with Service Providers Leads to Stale Ideas

New research from technology firm blur Group has found that about half of procurement decision makers believe that there are superior service providers than their current partners, and 46 percent of companies think that they engage with the same partners for too long. Companies are looking for innovative approaches to supplementing business knowledge but 65 percent of procurement decision makers...

F.A.I.T.H. Resources Extends Industry Expertise and Market Presence Via Recent Merger

F.A.I.T.H. Resources, a recruitment and interim staffing firm that prides itself on values and integrity with specializations in Finance, Accounting, Information Technology and Human Resources, recently announced a merger with Advantage Placements, a recruitment firm in Irvine, Calif. The merger, according to F.A.I.T.H. Resources, will create a full service firm, boasting an experienced team that...

6 Ways to #Fail at Social Recruiting

We've all seen the studies and blog posts –almost all recruiters are using some sort of social media in their recruiting efforts. Each source and study is slightly different, but the number that Reppler has reported at 91 percent seems to be right around what everyone else is revealing in their studies. Social recruiting is a relatively new tool, and there isn't exactly a playbook for...

How College Graduates' Expectations and Attitudes Affect the Recruitment Process

It's that time of year again—graduation season. And with the influx of new grads ready to enter the job market, now more than ever is the opportune time for employers to prepare themselves to attract younger workers. But how can they do this? Well, global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture, is here to help. The company recently released its...

"Everybody Has Worth": HireVue's David Bradford on Networking and His New Book

David Bradford, executive chairman of HireVue, took a meeting with an out-of-work sales rep about 10 years ago. Struggling to find employment, the sales rep asked Bradford if he could take him out to lunch and pick his brain for opportunities. "I'm thinking to myself, first and foremost, 'Hey, I've got a million things to do,'" says Bradford. "But, I recognized that, in all parts...

Adoption, Benefits and Challenges of Video-enabled Talent Acquisition

As the war for talent rages—both globally and virtually—now more than ever is the opportune time for recruiters to adopt innovative strategies to successfully attract, recruit and retain qualified candidates. And according to a new whitepaper from Recruiting Trends, many companies are integrating a unique approach into their recruitment processes to accomplish these goals— video-enabled...

Coping with Destroyed Work Files

All it took was an untimely jiggle of a loose power cord—ironically and totally destructive only because I was, as a precaution, in the process of saving my just-completed dazzling article just before allowing someone to access his Facebook page on my computer. In an instant, I learned the hard way that a power disconnect during a file save will turn a rhapsody of eureka insights,...

Inspiring Top Performance

Leadership is more than a title. Long believed to be a purely innate characteristic, it has grown from that. People have the ability to learn aspects of leadership. Most organizations offer, or at least sponsor, classes to improve management skills. Leadership comes with the trust and respect of employees. Leaders don't just hail from positions of power. Team members often possess frontrunner...

Silicon Valley Bank Reveals Financing and Hiring Trends within Global Innovation Economy

According to the 2014 Innovation Economy Outlook study, almost 80 percent of executives in the global innovation sector (e.g. software, hardware, cleantech, and healthcare) plan to grow their workforces in 2014. However, more than 90 percent report challenges in finding the talent they need in order to do so. In addition to the high rate of job creation, the study also uncovered widespread...

Why Company Career Ladders Should Be Abolished

The talent war has been raging for some time now as employers have been struggling to find talent to fill critical posts. Manpower reports that, globally, 35 percent of employers are struggling to hire for key roles and in the U.S. this figure sits at 39 percent. But with the news from Hay Group that staff turnover levels are set to surge over the next four years, talent management teams face a...

Texting Your Candidates: Is TextRecruit the New Way to Reach Out?

"Effectively, email is broken," said Erik Kostelnik, co-founder and CEO of TextRecruit. Kostelnik isn't alone in worrying about diminishing response rates to recruiting emails: people have been fretting about it for years. How else, then, can recruiters quickly and easily reach out to candidates, especially when jobseekers are increasingly going mobile? According to LinkedIn Talent...

Spring 2014 Talemetry Update Brings Better Insight into Job-related Recruiting Activities

The release of the spring 2014 enhancement of Talemetry's cloud-based talent generation software sees the addition of new team dashboards providing real-time insights for managers into recruitment activities related to filling open jobs. The dashboards build on previous releases, which have enhanced the software's analytic capabilities for providing visual insight into source-to-hire by job....

Will All Workers Need a Degree To Land a Job in 2020?

With education costs rising dramatically in the UK recently and already being high and rising in the U.S., many of the more financially challenged will be seriously considering whether it is possible to not only land a job but have a successful career without having a degree. Of course, there are many massively successful business people who don't have degrees such as: Bill Gates, the late...

Unhappy on the Job? Here's What You Can Do

Nearly one in five Americans report that they are dissatisfied with their job. At least that's the data according to recent research by Rasmussen College. More than half of the 2,000 U.S. adults surveyed between February 2014 and March 2014 reported that they don't have significant growth opportunities in their current positions. The survey also revealed that nearly two-thirds of...

The Riddle of the Applicant Tracking System

The Sphinx asked Oedipus, "What has four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?" The answer is a man. He crawls, then he walks, and finally uses a cane. Try putting it into human resources and recruiting terms: What required manual filing, only allowed recruiters to post to job boards, and now automates the application process? Applicant tracking systems. Originally, the...

ConnectEDU Releases 2014 Top 25 Best Places to Work for Recent Grads

Did you know that millennials will account for 46 percent of the workforce by 2020? And with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projecting that 1,606,000 students will graduate in the college Class of 2014 with bachelor's degrees, it's pretty clear to see why investing in millennial talent is important. To help give employers an insight into what appeals to millennial...

The Open Talent Economy, Part Two: Why Is This Happening, and What Should We Do?

In part one of our feature on the open talent economy, we explored what the open talent economy looks like and when we should expect to see it. In part two, we talk about why the talent marketplace is changing and how recruiters will have to adapt. Deloitte Consulting LLP predicts that the shift from the traditional "closed" talent marketplace to an open talent economy is only a matter of...

Repopulating Japan's Workforce: Through Increased Immigration?

With a total of 40 million immigrants—the highest number in the world—and 2.5 times the total population of Japan, the U.S. annually grants naturalized citizenship to approximately 42 times as many people as Japan does. So, given its steady, apparently inexorable population decline, why isn't Japan creating naturalized citizens the way the U.S. does, to replace the babies that its people...

How to Incentivize Your Employee Engagement Program

How prepared are you, your company and your talent to drive performance in the face of impending change? This is a question posed in Aon Hewitt's 2014 Trends in Global Employee Engagement report. The report talks about how macroeconomics, technological acceleration, social change and demographic shifts are currently affecting the global workforce and how, to keep up with a business's bottom...