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The 3 Tech Buzzwords That Could Trick Your Firm

With the recruitment world now powered by software, the search for solutions that actually do what they claim to do has become ever more complicated. From recruitment databases and applicant tracking systems (ATSs) to phones and document storage, recruiters have to navigate a buzzword barrage that can distract them from the main goal: finding IT systems that help a team be more productive and...

Hiring For Skills Instead of Credentials

It's upsetting to learn that just about two years ago, TechCrunch wrote an article about HireArt entitled, "Resumes are Bulls**t. HireArt is better." It's upsetting because that's the most perfect headline for any article about HireArt, and I'm jealous that TechCrunch beat me to the punch. That headline is perfect because it succinctly captures HireArt's unique essence —...

Optimal Ways to Find the "Perfect" Employee

With each passing year, it seems technology outdoes itself tenfold and overflows into more areas of our lives, changing the way we do a variety of tasks. This can be seen with everything from smartphones controlling home thermostats to companies being able to predict buying habits via Facebook activity. Human resources and talent acquisition solutions are no different, as the industry has evolved...

Glassdoor Promotes Workplace Transparency with OpenCompany Launch

Leading jobs and career community site, Glassdoor, reports that 78 percent of employees believe that information from those on the inside is influential when deciding where to work. So, in an effort to help employers become more transparent (and gain an advantage when recruiting top talent) Glassdoor recently launched its new OpenCompany program, which recognizes employers that "proactively...

The Japanese Customer Service Model—Can We Transplant Its Roots?

"Anshinkan"–customer reassurance, in the form of courteous, comprehensive and caring service—is the conspicuous solid trunk of the Japanese tree of widely acclaimed customer service that nonetheless has its critics. But hidden from the understanding of the average Japan tourist, shopper and casual foreign observer are its entangled roots that anchor and nourish the entire framework of a...

Mentoring Employee Motivation

Searches for employee motivation are the most common, generating over 8,000 searches per month. Every employee needs motivation. A clearly motivated employee will not only be more efficient but more innovative in their projects. Recognize the strengths of individuals to empower the team to be more independent. There are simple ways to motivate the corporate workforce. Let the Reins Go CEOs...

Why Don't the Majority of Women Negotiate Salary? [Interview]

Salary negotiation can be a sticky subject, but an important one. In fact, a George Mason University study found that individuals who negotiated their salaries during the hiring process increased their starting salaries by an average of $5,000. But even though negotiation can increase one's chances of higher compensation, a CareerBuilder survey revealed that 49 percent of job seekers do not...

CBIZ Small Business Employment Index Reports Increased Hiring after February Decline

Small-business hiring barometer CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) increased by 1.01 percent during March 2014 after decreasing .40 percent in February and 2.1 percent in January. The findings come after ADP's March survey of the private sector which estimated an addition of 191,000 jobs, below the forecasted 195,000. Though its February survey was revised upward from 139,000 to...

Can Small Firms Engage in Effective Employer Branding?

Most employers are beginning to understand the power of employer branding in attracting and retaining talent – in fact, strong employer branding is proving itself to be one of the most powerful talent acquisition tools going in this talent scarce environment, where top talent can often call the shots. There are also some juicy statistics flying around, which show just how influential employer...

4 Steps to Assessing Qualified Candidates

A bad hire can be costly—anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000. At least that's according to an infographic from the National Business Research Institute (NBRI). The infographic, "The cost of a Bad Hire in the Highest and Lowest Paid Position," researched the costly effects of bad hires for the highest and lowest paying jobs. It examined the following five main factors to help estimate the...

Three Things to Do About Your Employment Gap

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently released the results of a survey on resumés, cover letters, and interviews. It's a fairly easy and interesting read, and I recommend it. I'm bringing up the survey today because one statistic in particular kind of bothers me: when asked "what is the best way for candidates to handle gaps in employment on a resumé, 57 percent of...

End of March Sees Unexpected Rise in Claims for Unemployment Benefits

The number of American workers submitting unemployment claims for the week ending March 29 rose to a five-week high of 326,000, up 16,000. This spike comes after reaching a nearly six-month low of a revised 310,000 applications filed the prior week. Additional hiring may result as demand increases from the lull due to abnormally cold weather. Layoffs continue to remain low and economists expect...

What Job Seekers Hate About Your Hiring Process

The phrase candidate experience isn't new, so the idea of considering an applicant's satisfaction throughout the hiring process shouldn't be either. It may be easy to allow the amount of interested candidates to create some level of mental comfort, but to "backburner" applicant happiness is a disservice to the team and company. While it may seem tasking to change up the process you're...

Survey Reveals Bad Habits of Office Computer Use, Consequences for IT Admin

Provider of remote control and online meetings software, TeamViewer®, recently released the findings of its IT Admin Behavioral Study. The survey of 300 IT administrators was designed to determine IT workers' experiences with some of the common behaviors of office workers and how this has affected both the IT admin and the company's bottom line. The survey revealed that a whopping 92 percent...

What Would You Do With Your Donald Sterling?

You don't have to be an NBA fan to have heard about its latest Scandal. This time the spectacle has shifted away from the players to management. Last week a recording leaked, which allegedly included Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, making "racially insensitive" remarks while talking with his girlfriend. I've listened to the recording (as I'm sure many have),...

How to Determine Cultural Fit in 90 Seconds

Can you possibly determine cultural fit in just over a minute? How fully can you trust your gut instinct when it comes to finding the right person? Truthfully, seasoned recruiters, hiring managers, and staffing pros may not need much more than 90 seconds to determine a candidate's viability. This is because your experience hiring great candidates has given you a well-developed gut instinct....

TalentKeepers Releases 10th Annual Report on Talent Management Practices

Onboarding tools and engagement survey provider TalentKeepers has announced the release of Workplace America: Employee Engagement and Retention Trends. This study of engagement involves more than 700 organizations representing small, medium, and large sized employers. Employee engagement was found to be a strategic priority for 83 percent of U.S. employers and 64 percent budget and allocate funds...

Top 4 Red Flags When Hiring Virtual Workers

Now, I am not here to debate whether you should or should not use virtual workers. For me that boat has sailed. Ten percent of the U.S. workforce work at home effectively in some capacity and millions of work dollars are completed every day by virtual workers, be that for Fortune 500 firms or the small businesses, which make up 99.7 percent of all employers in the U.S. It's a pretty similar...

You Should be a Project Manager: Can Neuroscience Help You Find the Right Career?

Not too long ago, I jokingly tweeted that every startup describes itself the same way: x company for y niche. Take a stroll through AngelList and you'll see what I mean: Crossfader is "Instagram for music"; Dealflicks is "Priceline for movie tickets"; and my personal favorite — though it only adheres to the spirit of my joke while discarding the strict form — is uBiome's "big...

Aquent Launches New jQuery Course

Marketing and creative staffing agency, Aquent, recently launched a new course as part of Aquent Gymnasium, its unique MOOC (massive open online course) initiative dedicated to offering training to close the skills gap faced by creative organizations worldwide. Aquent reports that more than 25,000 students have enrolled in Aquent Gymnasium since its launch in July 2013. With the new launch,...

ADP Reports 191,000 Jobs Added in March

ADP's report on private payrolls offers positive evidence that the job market is recovering from the winter storms as companies grew their payrolls in March by the highest amount in three months. An upwardly revised February gain of 178,000 jobs was followed by 191,000 in March after a median forecast of 195,000 new jobs. Companies continue to report improved confidence in demand as gains in...

Vistage Survey Finds More CEOs Plan to Hire this Year than at any Time Since 2007

The latest Vistage survey of CEO confidence has revealed that CEOs are optimistic about the economy and have set records in increased hiring in 2014. The first quarter survey found that 58 percent of participating CEOs plan to expand payrolls by the end of the year; the highest level since 2007. These firms also reported that the top issue being faced is finding, hiring, and training new staff,...

The Next Big Idea

I recently used a service that really caught my attention. It's called Uber; perhaps you've heard of it? An acquaintance told me about it one Saturday evening. A friend and I were planning to go out, and just 20 minutes before someone told him about this cab service that gave you a $20 credit for signing up. It sounded like a scam, but we looked it up anyway. My friend signed up,...

Why Humble Leaders Are More Effective

When you think of the classic leadership archetype we think of confident, forward, bold, forthright, outgoing, vocal, and even, perhaps, a touch of arrogance. Many of us are innately programmed to favor this kind of forthright leadership style when choosing leaders for our businesses, without questioning whether this is the right style of leadership. It's no surprise really, because usually when...

5 Things About Resumes YOU Should Know

Job-hunting is a daunting task. Some employers require a headshot and some need an online application. Some simply don't list any requirements. One thing that always stays the same is a resume. A good resume can get applicants through the door; a bad one can send them back on the hunt. A job seeker will only spend 49.7 seconds looking at a job posting if it is not a match for them. If...

What's So Great about 'Intrinsic Motivation' on the Job?

Does your career satisfaction depend on rewards controlled by others? Or are they in some sense "intrinsic" to your work, like the transcendent pleasures Mozart presumably experienced as inseparable from the jotted, hummed or fingered flow of notes that elevated his spirits, if not always his material fortunes? Does it matter which they are or to what degree your rewards are one or the other,...

'Why Should They Choose You?' Author and Headhunter Tim Vincent on Landing Great Talent

A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Tim Vincent's "Nail That Interview." If you've read the review, you'll know that I enjoyed the book, because it wasn't more of the same tired career advice you can find just about anywhere. Instead, Vincent's book takes a thoroughly original approach to job hunting, one that challenges how both jobseekers and hiring authorities traditionally...

Going Beyond the Basics When Assessing Candidates

Candidate assessment isn't always the easiest aspect of the hiring process. A lot hinges on "getting it right" when it comes to filtering out the best candidates. In fact, an infographic by Fast Company, "The Staggering Cost of a Bad Hire, And How to Avoid One," details just how detrimental hiring the wrong candidates can be to a company's bottom line... and pocket. The...

What Recruiters Need When it Comes to Personal Branding

Social media, Googling and the likes are one of the first places that a recruiter can attempt to gather background on a potential employee. What an individual volunteers in public (and the web) are fair game and a great resource for better understanding who the next hire should be. Likewise, your applicants are going to the same places to gather similar information. It's easy to market...

Should You Fire Yourself – and Hire a Replacement?

Of course, no employee of seeming sound mind is going to walk into their manager's office and say, "I think you should fire me and replace me with somebody better", which is why this article is focused on founders/CEOs of small firms, a growing breed in this modern, entrepreneurial age. But, this may still seem like a strange question to be asking, even among this elite executive grouping....

How to Get an Edge Over Other Job Seekers

Even after 40 years of being in the placement and recruitment business, I am continually amazed by how lackadaisical job seekers can be, content to call a few friends and acquaintances and maybe email a handful of resumes each day. Successful job seekers are much more proactive. They pick up the phone and call the manager of the department that they want to apply to, present themselves as a...

In-house Recruitment Awards 2014 Now Open for Entry

It's that time of year again. After receiving an incredible amount of interest, and with the success of 2013, entries are officially open for the In-house Recruitment Awards (IHRA) 2014. In-house recruiters from all industry sectors are encouraged to enter this free competition. Hosted by the In-house Recruiter Online Network (IRON), the IHRA celebrate the achievements of in-house...

Rawstream Offers Cloud-based Web Filtering Solution for SMBs

Web-filtering company Rawstream has announced the launch of its next generation productivity software for small and medium sized businesses. The new workplace management software offers owners a high degree of visibility and enables them to keep abreast of every online action within their business. Rawstream gives businesses the ability to share apps like Dropbox and Google Drive and give...

What Job Seekers Need to Know About Background Checks

If you've ever applied for a job, and I'd venture to say that is 99.99 percent of the folks visiting this site, then you're familiar with this part of the hiring process—the background check. Sometimes it's simply signing your name to consent that the potential employer will pull XYZ files; other times it's completing drug or other tests before moving forward in the hiring...

The Good Thing about a Difficult Instagram

Ad Age wants us to know how hard it is to be a brand on Instagram. And they're right. It's hard: Instagram has yet to launch any publishing APIs (though, it does have an API for surfacing and curating content), which means that posting to an Instagram account is strictly manual. No matter how large an organization is, the only way they can share media via Instagram is through a single...

Human Capital Institute Reports Mobile Recruiting Efforts Falling Short

A presentation by Human Capital Institute (HCI) CEO Carl Rhodes and Oracle Vice President Lesley Hoare at the Human Capital Summit and Expo 2014 revealed that employers are falling far short of meeting the mobile technology expectations of job candidates. The reasons for this include lack of money, inadequate staffing, poor technology, lack of training, and a lack of support from IT departments....

Can a Millennial Manage a Baby Boomer?

As a result of aging populations, extended working into old age and delayed retirements, we are living in an unprecedented era with four generations of employees working side by side. These are: Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Veterans. What we are also seeing is the rise of the young entrepreneur, which is basically millennials and early generation X starting up their own...

Three Ways to Stay Competitive in the War for Talent

There are multiple factors that indicate the war for talent is once again heating up. The recovering economy is bolstering people's ability to refocus on employer choice and career advancement. Retiring baby boomers are driving gaps in key talent markets – particularly in the health care and finance fields. The move toward re-shoring/on-shoring in manufacturing is exacting a demand for highly...

Learning From This Week's Social Media Disasters

Corporate blunders don't just decrease the value of company shares. Especially when social media is involved. An inappropriate post can send the organization into a public relations and recruiting storm. For example, US Airways' pornographic Tweet or one that could lead to legal distress like Duane Reade's post. It has the potential to ruin a company's reputation in both the corporate and...

Is $5k Enough Money to Quit Your Job?

I came across a few news stories about Amazon's recent "Pay to Quit" program where it's offering workers from the company's fulfillment centers money to quit. And we're not just talking a few dollars, but a couple thousand. According to a CNBC.com article: Amazon said this week that it has started a program called Pay to Quit, in which it offers workers at its fulfillment centers...

The Pitfalls and Power of Comparisons: When We Should [Not] Compare Jobs, Candidates or Anything Else

Recruiting or job hunting, like just about everything else in life, is impossible without comparisons—comparing one thing or person to or with another, usually in order to choose or decide something. Yet, there are those, including many who are not Zen disciples, who insist that comparisons are corruptions. Who would believe that and why? Among them are Taoism founder, Lao Tzu:...

Job Task Analysis Capability and FIPS Compatibility Added to Questionmark OnDemand

The Questionmark OnDemand SaaS assessment management platform has added new features to enable job task analysis assessments. The new 2014 version of the platform includes a Job Task Analysis (JTA) question type for identifying essential tasks of jobs and the skills and abilities necessary to succeed at them. Each JTA summary report provides the percentage and number of participants that have...

Using Technology to Bring the 'Human Touch' Back to Recruiting

We talk glowingly of "disruption" and "innovation," but maybe that constant, fawning chatter is a way of distracting ourselves from the reality that technology makes us anxious. Last year, NPR asked "Will a Computer Decide Whether You Get Your Next Job?" before going on to explain exactly why that might happen — to no one's surprise, the writer suggests we can blame (or thank,...

New NICE Performance Management Solution Adds Gamification Capabilities

NICE Systems has announced the release of the new NICE Performance Management solution to boost employee engagement through gamification capabilities. The new release expands on the gamification tools introduced into the solution last year and improving on the most common colored icons and charts used in most market offerings. Gamification is a recent development in ways of addressing the problem...

Pinocchio and the Pencil Pushers

Integrity is a quality managers and corporate leaders need to have. But in reality, 35.4 percent of company leadership tells at least one white lie per day. PER DAY!! Surprisingly enough, managers aren't lying to their employees, but to their supervisors. Which means, if you manage a team, you might be on the receiving end of these lies. It's even more disappointing that employees...

5 Ways to Leverage Big Data for Career Success

Big Data is all the buzz right now; so much so that even the Obama administration is investing $200 million in big data research projects. In the Harvard Magazine article, "Why 'Big Data' Is a Big Deal," the author notes that Weatherhead University Professor Gary King believes there is currently a Big Data revolution. "But it is not the quantity of data that is revolutionary,"...

Staples Releases Survey Celebrating National Administrative Professionals' Day

Happy National Administrative Professionals' Day! With more than one-third of businesses planning to celebrate this honor (April 23), Staples has released the findings of its third-annual survey of non-admin and admin workers. And according to the results, 61 percent of administrative professionals are happier than their bosses (18 percent). Also, for the second year in a row, a majority of...

Let Video Interviewing Supercharge Your Next Hiring Spree

Companies that are growing quickly, or hope to, sometimes go on public hiring sprees to generate interest and bring them some extra media attention. This speeds up the recruitment process, helping a business quickly interview and hire candidates. If you're preparing for your next hiring spree to quickly fill out your ranks, first consider the example of a few big names that have recently been...