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Entelo Launches Diversity-focused Talent Search Tool

Entelo wants to help companies become more diverse. And to do so, the company recently launched, Entelo Diversity, a new diversity-focused talent search tool. The unique product assists recruiters with finding and hiring top talent from under-represented groups. It is now available as an additional module in Entelo's suite of recruiting tools. Entelo Diversity uses a proprietary algorithm...

Trainevision Offers New Television-series Styled Video Training Concept

Performance improvement company Trainevision has released its first product, Customer Service Intelligence, into the marketplace. Customer Service Intelligence is a video training concept that heavily relies on video-based learning designed to play like primetime television. The soon-to-be released product is a crime-scene dramedy in the vein of CSI or NCIS with additional genres, including...

Keeping Your Sense of Humor During the Job Search

There once was a frustrated jobseeker Whose outlook grew bleaker and bleaker. Try though he might No work was in sight And his courage daily grew weaker. There's nothing fun about looking for work. In fact, it can be discouraging, demoralizing, and downright depressing. The interviews that lead nowhere, writing (and proofreading!) countless cover letters, and the endless networking—it...

Is Stress Driving Talent Away From Your Firm?

Talent retention is set to take center stage this year in the talent war when you consider the findings of the Hay Group survey, which is forecasting record levels of employee turnover across the globe in 2014. The study revealed that following a period of being pretty flat, employee turnover has jumped 12.9 percent over the last two years and is expected to rise from 20.6 percent to 23.4 percent...

3 Lessons From the 2014 NFL Draft

It's spring! While you're sniffling from pollen and cleaning your homes, one of the most well-known recruiting ventures is taking place. The National Football League Draft is a three-day hiring affair and acceptance letters are given in front of the entire nation. It's a smorgasbord of emotion, thrills, disappointments and....recruiting lessons. Yep that's right, there is a whole lot...

YouAreHR.com to Help SMBs Control Hiring Processes through a Central Hub

A new service for handling the intake of job applications has launched for small and medium sized businesses. Called YouAreHR.com, the service offers pre-screening, applicant triaging, phone screen scheduling, and face-to-face interviews, while keeping all communications in one place. The online service simplifies the hiring process so that non-HR professionals can quickly identify, review, and...

DiversityInc Releases 2014 Top 50 Companies for Diversity

DiversityInc, an online magazine geared toward promoting news and resources about corporate diversity, recently announced the results of its 14th annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity rankings. More than 1,200 public and privately held companies competed for spots on this year's list. According to DiversityInc, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation jumped from sixth-place in 2013 to land at...

Be Careful of Your Online "Paper" Trail

I read a few stories about popular app, Snapchat, and how the company's practices has left it in a not-so-popular scenario. According to a story on CNN Money, the company recently settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission due to its deception of customers "on several levels." Here's some background: Snapchat is photo messaging app that allows users to "privately" send...

Why Demotions Should Not Be A Social Taboo

Demotions are a taboo subject in workplaces as they are often associated with failure, a fall from grace, a loss of dignity/respect and negative emotions. Generally, people who have been demoted have fallen foul of the Peter Principle which dictates that in hierarchical organizations, the ambitious rise and rise to the point of incompetence at which point they fail and typically crash out of the...

The Dehumanization of Online Recruiting

As he sat at the dinner table listening to his wife and kids talk about their days, John didn't really hear a word they were saying, as he couldn't keep his mind from wandering back to the big decision he had made earlier that afternoon. After years of complacency in his job and after years of dreaming about providing a better living for his family, he had finally done it. Despite his fears,...

Compassionate Networking: David Bradford's "Up Your Game"

About halfway through "Up Your Game: 6 Timeless Principles for Networking Your Way to the Top," author and current HireVue executive chairman David Bradford shares a brief anecdote that perfectly encapsulates the style and substance of the book overall: Relationships require nurturing. As one of the leading venture capitalists in the world told me, "David, the word 'networking'...

When It Makes More Sense to Hibernate than Work

Bears hibernate; but we don't. Maybe we should too. The bears have their reasons. Perhaps we should consider them and compare any we can think of for ourselves. So, here's a chain of reasoning that suggests why—allowing what might be accomplished with a bit of genetic engineering or other forms of human cleverness—we might, with a little effort, be able and want to biotechnologically...

Should We Be Fighting Against Work/Life Integration?

About a month ago, I published an interview with Dan Schawbel, managing partner of the "Gen-Y research and management consulting firm" Millenial Branding. In that interview, Schawbel spoke at length about what he calls "work/life integration," which is pretty much the opposite of work/life balance. According to Schawbel, work/life integration is the wave of the future, and work/life...

ZALP to Host Free Employee Referral Evaluation Webinar May 15, 2014

When was the last time your business evaluated its employee referral program? If it's been awhile, do not fret; employee referral software provider, ZALP, has just what you need. In association with ere.net, ZALP will host a FREE webinar to help businesses evaluate their employee referral programs to help employers make the most of their referral programs. Speakers: Kevin Walters and...

CIOs See Communication as Most Challenging Aspect of Managing Remote Workers

In a new Robert Half Technology survey, 30 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) said communication (a lack of face time) is the greatest hurdle for managing remote workforces. An equal 22 percent voted both productivity (how work gets done) and technology (user access to information) challenges as other factors of high concern. The random sample for the survey came from U.S. companies...

Future Track: Insights into Hiring in 2024

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality. If you think that's an overstatement, consider the range of HR technologies currently influencing hiring that were in their infancy or non-existent just 10 years ago. Video interviewing falls into that group: More than half of HR departments now use some form of video to conduct interviews.1 With the incredible rate of change in HR...

Should Employers Ditch the Second Interview?

Most employers follow the standard paradigm of one, maybe two, and sometimes three interviews to find their ideal job candidate. This approach is never questioned and is pretty much the standard pathway that companies follow. Yet, multiple-interview approach should be questioned, because while it allows employers to perform a more detailed and exhaustive level of assessment, there is a drawback...

Authenticity; or, People Are Weird, and That's Okay

I'm not exactly sure what was going on at the 2014 Oklahoma HR State Conference Expo yesterday, but I do know that it resulted in a lot of tweets about "being authentic" and "letting your freak flag fly." Not that authenticity in the workplace is anything new: look at the sheer number of people writing about it. And, putting aside my postmodernist misgivings about whether or...

How to Stop Competitors from Poaching Your Talent

The poaching of a key member of staff can be very damaging for your business, and it's no surprise that companies take steps to stop or combat it. But, what can you do really? Well, one recent innovative approach that has allegedly been adopted in Silicon Valley is a reciprocal anti-poaching agreement between competitor companies, meaning that they all agree to not poach each other's staff....

Hiring Trends Survey Reveals Employer Attitudes on Resume Lies, Social Media, Others

A new report from EmployeeScreenIQ, The Unvarnished Truth: 2014 Top Trends in Employment Background Checks, examines how companies manage employment screening and practices regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) guidance. The report finds that employers rely on background checks to protect themselves, their workforces, and their...

So When You Aren't Succeeding, It's Always Because You Are Either Trying Too Hard or Not Hard Enough?

How many times has some well-intentioned friend, family member, partner or coworker told you, when you complain about a lack of success or even just slow progress, that "You're trying too hard" or "You're not trying hard enough"? It seems it's almost always one or the other, no matter what kind of success you're shooting for—dating, creating a good impression in a job interview, snagging a...

The What and How of Calculating Recruitment Costs

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2013 Recruiting Benchmark Survey Report, the average cost-per-hire for college recruiting during the 2012-13 recruiting season was $3,639. The report found that the average number of days from interview to offer was 24.7, and the average number of days from offer to acceptance was 13.5. A special thank you goes out this...

10 Best and Worst Cities for Starting a Career

With college graduations beginning en masse in the next few weeks, many soon-to-be graduates are pondering the question of where life will take them–at least their professional lives. A study just out suggests the 10 best and worst cities in the U.S. for starting their careers. Some may surprise you. The study by WalletHub, a financial advice website, says, "While Americans in their 20s are...

Maximpact Deals Invites New Registrants from Impact and Sustainability Sectors to List Projects

Impact-investing network, Maximpact, has invited new registrants in the impact and sustainability sectors to list projects using its global reaching, deal-listing portal. The company says that each free (and commission free) listing directly connects users with partners and potential funders worldwide. The platform builds bridges between diverse parts of the impact investing sector to...

First, You Need a Direction: Allison Rimm on Joy, Productivity, and Task Maps

Author and strategic planning expert Allison Rimm worked at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for 16 years. While there, she took on a variety of roles, including a stint as the senior vice president of strategic planning and information management. But job titles can only account for Rimm's official responsibilities at MGH. Informally, Rimm found herself serving as a career counselor,...

Millennial Hiring: The Importance of Understanding Your Changing Workforce

Millennials are getting a bad rap. You read about these newcomers being "entitled" and even "lazy," but in my observation these labels are plain wrong. In actuality, we're witnessing the prior generation having a real challenge adapting to the work style of this incoming labor pool. More and more companies are realizing that in order to thrive, they must cater to this new generation...

CareerCast: The Top 10 Best Jobs for 2014

CareerCast.com has released its lists of Top 10 best and worst jobs for 2014, relying on factors such as wages, degree of difficulty, availability of jobs, and upward mobility. The top 10 best job opportunities in 2014, in descending order, include: • Mathematician: with a median annual salary of $101,360 and a projected job growth of 23 percent by 2022, mathematicians rank among the most...

This is Not the Job I Applied For

I had an interesting conversation this weekend about being "duped" in the workplace. A new friend was explaining the trouble she was experiencing at her job. Back in November 2013, she accepted a role for what she believed would be a marketing position. Yet, after accepting the position and moving out of state, my friend soon realized that her manager's requests drastically differed from...

Are You Serious About Measuring Employee Retention?

Employee retention may not be the most exciting topic in the world, especially not when paraded alongside its more glamorous counterpart of hiring. It seems that the excitement of finding, selecting and closing on an exciting new hire, who is going to reshape your organization, seems to trump the act of revitalizing and rejuvenating a fallen star back into an effective employee. This is ironic...

Hiring America TV Show Returns for Second Season, Highlights Veterans' Job & Career Direction

The first-ever national television program dedicated to jobs and career direction for returning U.S. military veterans has returned for second season. Hiring America, the highly successful syndicated television show, is currently being broadcasted on the global "Pentagon Channel" and 35+ local market television stations in major U.S. cities (many of which have high concentrations of military...

We Can't Explain Away the Pay Gap, but Changing Corporate Culture Might Help

The people of Top Management Degrees seem to have taken issue with the oft-cited statistic that women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. Why else would they give us the ideologically motivated infographic, "Why Women Don't Make Less Than Men"? Look at that title. It doesn't even pretend to be impartial — the infographic isn't out to explore the gender gap, but to...

FanHub Releases First Collaborative, Social Media-Inspired CRM

Fanhub recently launched its social media-inspired CRM. The new, collaborative CRM was built by small business owners for other small businesses, and mirroring social media, it introduces follows, comments, @mentions and notifications into sales, support and case management. The company says the new tool finally provides "a cloud-based CRM that fits the fast-paced, all-hands-on-deck approach...

Blunt Branding: Marketing Your Company Like It Really Is

The "Cramming School" sign on the Nagasaki building was as refreshing as it was surprising, given that directness, especially to the point of being blunt, is not a Japanese trait in any context—business or personal. There is, in this school's branding, none of the soft and vexing ambiguity, vagueness and euphemisms for which the Japanese and their language are...

Top 5 Reasons Your Job Adverts Are Drawing a Blank

There's nothing more frustrating as a hiring manager or corporate recruiter when you post a job advert and draw a complete blank or at best have a very limp response in terms of job applicants. What makes things doubly worse is that the more pressed you are for resources and the more time pressurized you are the more likely your ad is to fail, which is just when you need it to work. Why? Because...

Is the Summer Season Good for Job Seeking [Interview]

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employer (NACE), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects 1,606,000 students will graduate in the college Class of 2014 with bachelor's degrees. The NACE also reports that its Job Outlook 2014 survey revealed that employers expect to hire around 7.8 percent more graduates from the Class of 2014 than they hired from the...

7 Ways to Give Better Performance Reviews

Performance reviews; it's a scary phrase for employees. What about the managers and bosses who give them? It is just as nerve wracking for them because they hold the future to employees' careers. Before entering the board room to prepare for the dreaded performance review, take a minute. Be honest with employees. Sugarcoating the truth never helps anyone, and it won't solve any performance...

Job Boards Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You

In a recent blog post, Jeff Dickey-Chasins — otherwise known as "The Job Board Doctor" — posed a simple question: "What is a job board, exactly?" If you're wondering why a man who makes his living as a job board consultant would ask that question, take a minute to consider the current status of the job board, which is mired in a muck of competing opinions. Job boards are dying,...

Leveraging LinkedIn in Your 20s, 30s, 40s and Beyond

Regardless of where you are in your career, you'll be more successful if you master the three fundamental LinkedIn skills: Creating a compelling profile, building relevant connections, and engaging your network with valuable content. How you use those skills will vary over the course of your career. Here's a roadmap. Breaking into the workforce (20's) As a recent college grad,...

How to Lead 3 Difficult Workplace Personalities

It is hard to be a part of a team; it is even harder to lead a team. When a leader creates a team, an alpha male, Type-A personality–or a perfectionist–always surfaces. This person becomes the leader of the group because of the dominant personality. Strong personality types accompanied by high performance or perfectionist tendencies are malevolent combinations. These employees work hard,...

3 Proven Strategies To Get a Higher Starting Salary

Nice guys (and girls) finish last in salary negotiations Whether you are an employee negotiating with a new prospective employer or a recruiter advising a candidate on their negotiation strategy with a prospective employer, you'll want to be aware of the most effective salary negotiation techniques. Of course, many of you will be making use of the layperson's advice, which is available on the...

Cinco de Mayo Office Style

Ah Cinco de Mayo—the fifth of May. Today's holiday is to commemorate the May 1862 battle when Mexico defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla. And many in the U.S. and around the world will celebrate this day with margaritas, Mexican-inspired dishes...and of course, parties. Shouldn't your office partake in the festivities? To help make this holiday fun and lively, I scoured the...

Customer Service at Nagasaki's Ground Zero: the Challenge of Selling Sorrow

The three JTB (Japan Tourist Bureau) professional tour guides and the security guard I spoke with at the Nagasaki Genshi Bakudan Chushin Chi—Nagasaki's atomic bombing hypocenter monument, i.e., ground zero—had the same perspective about doing their jobs. They said that, although there is inevitable sadness for visitors, guides and other support staff alike at the site of the world's second...

Entelo Diversity Isn't Racist — It's Just the Opposite

Entelo is a pretty interesting recruitment tool: it aggregates and analyzes data from a variety of social networking platforms to create a searchable database of over 20 million tech-industry candidates. Entelo's search capabilities include some pretty nuanced filters, too: aside from the standard job-title and location screening, users can also search according to criteria like years of...

Do You Have a Culturally Adaptable Interview Style?

As globalization begins to characterize the modern business world, the requirements for professionals operating in this new internationalized business world begin to change. It's no surprise then that research from the British Council in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and Ipsos Public Affairs shows that employers are beginning to value inter-cultural skills as highly as experience and...

Have You Hired a Linguist Who Doesn't Want to Communicate?

You've hired someone with superb second-language capabilities—even third or fourth, and are sure that this will fill an important gap in your organization's resource base, whether it be a translation, interpretation, marketing, editing or customer and client direct communication hole to be plugged or otherwise value to be added. Unfortunately, there may be a potentially hideous irony in...

Is Your Hiring Sexist? Here's How to Attract Female Engineers

You can blog all you want about Purple Squirrels, Rock Stars, and Coding Ninjas. Sure, when it comes to STEM positions, recruiters are pushed to the brink. But one of the rarest and frustratingly hard-to-land hires is the female engineer. The hunt for talented software engineers is a crowded and never-ending one, even before taking into consideration more slippery aspects of hiring, like the need...

Equifax Workforce Solutions: More than 48M Job Separations in 2013

In 2013, 48, 160, 423 job separations took place, and 39.9 percent of those employees had been at their job for less than six months. This is the recent data from leading HR services company, Equifax Workforce Solutions, and its latest infographic, "Employee Turnover Trends in 2013" According to Equifax, this resource is available to help employers understand actual – not self-reported...

Facebook Algorithm Change: What You Need to Know

This month the (still) number one social media platform, Facebook, launched yet another News Feed update. If you've been a Facebook user for any bit of time, you have probably heard the annoyance and praises of a newsfeed change. This time, the website boasts a sleek design similar to that of the mobile app with pictures as the central focus. Unfortunately, along with this update, Facebook...