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Claims for Unemployment Benefits Take Unexpected Dive

American companies may be experiencing a rising confidence in outlook for demand as applications for unemployment benefits saw an unexpected decline during the week ending March 22. Applications reached an almost four-month low decreasing by 10,000 to 311,000. The median forecast by economists pegged the number at 323,000 unemployment claims. Additionally, the four-week average of applications...

LinkedIn Teaches How to Scale the "Red Carpet" in Talent Acquisition

On April 10, I virtually attended a customer event hosted by LinkedIn's Talent Solutions, "ConnectIn San Francisco: Insights Into the Future of Talent Acquisition." The live-streamed event included a roster of keynote speakers who touched on everything from the latest trends in talent acquisition to the combined power of data and relationships. I was especially intrigued by what Daniel...

Triangulation of Conflict: the Smart Way to Deal with Problem People

Conflict with "problem people" has a virtually universal theme and direction: It almost always appears to be headed for a "zero-sum" outcome. The boss is bent on unreasonably squeezing more work out of you. You`re determined to stand your ground, and not let it cave in under you. You`re braced for a "winner-take-all" fight, come hellfire or firing on the spot. Or, perhaps you`re like my...

Tim Vincent's "Nail That Interview" Turns the Hiring Process Upside Down

Tim Vincent, CEO of Rembrandt Consultants, ends his newest book, "Nail That Interview" with one of the strangest pieces of advice anyone has ever given to a job seeker about the long and arduous process of landing a new position: "Hold tight and enjoy the ride." Personally, I've never once thought of the job hunt as a "ride," much less one to "enjoy." At best, though, I...

March Payrolls Rise 192,000 as Unemployment Holds Steady

Employers in the U.S. boosted payrolls in March by 192,000 as the unemployment rate held at 6.7 percent. The median forecast of economists projected a 200,000 gain in jobs. Private employment rose above the pre-recession peak for the first time. Employment through January and February were revised upward indicating the winter weather had less of an impact as previously thought. These revisions...

SmashFly Partners with HireVue for Enhanced Total Recruitment Marketing

SmashFly Technologies, a leading provider of recruitment marketing technology and analytics, has announced a partnership with digital recruiting and talent interaction firm HireVue, Inc. The partnership will combine the power of the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Platform with HireVue's Talent Interaction Platform. With SmashFly's platform, organizations have access to every solution needed...

Silence Is Golden When It Comes to Rejection

To tell or not to tell? That is the question with some legal and HR experts disagreeing whether it is kinder to tell an applicant why they were rejected for a job or smarter never to communicate with the person once the decision has been made. Writing at FindLaw.com, Attorney Aditi Mukherji says human resources people should not follow up on the issue of rejection because correspondence on the...

How to Get the Most Out Of Working with a Staffing Firm

In a volatile and competitive job market, job security can be elusive. Statistics show that many job seekers take as long as seven months to find a new job. After a job loss, many professionals simply don't know how to job search. They rely on common venues, such as online or print classified ads and job boards. However, the masses look there, too, and your resume will often be one of hundreds...

How to Create a Job Out of Thin Air

Research shows that one of the main reasons that employees leave companies is due to lack of career progression. But, this situation can be like being stuck between a rock and a hard place, as the job market remains tough, meaning new opportunities may not be easy to come by if you do try to leave. So, what do you do? Sulk and become disengaged in a dead end career or bang your head against...

LinkedIn Unveils 3 Product Updates, Taking "Work" Out of Talent Acquisition and Retention

If you want to get something done, you've got to work. And that's definitely true when it comes to hiring. These were the words of Parker Barrile, LinkedIn's VP of Product, during the company's "ConnectIn San Francisco: Insights Into the Future of Talent Acquisition." During the live-streamed session on April 10, 2014, Barrile explained how LinkedIn was unveiling three product...

Welcome to the Age of Work/Life Integration

According to Reppler, 91 percent of employers use social media during the recruitment process, so it's probably safe to say that social recruiting is no longer a trend — it's a fact of life. But now that social media sites are staples of both personal and professional lives, people are changing they ways they use these platforms. Technology is blurring the lines between work lives and home...

Recruiting Technology Trends Report for 2014

Recruiter.com's new 2014 Recruiting Technology Trends Report is available today for free, with no registration required to download. We've more than tripled the information from last year - it's 92 pages long and it's still completely free for our readers. Note: Some users of Firefox may not see the text of the large report when viewing it the browser. Simply save the report to your desktop...

How the "Old School" Approach Still Helps Your Job Search

Recently, I was on a flight and noticed something very interesting. Sitting in the dreaded middle seat (don't you just hate those?), I noticed that the woman who sat diagonally in front of me was reading a novel, an eBook. And just an aisle and a few seats away, another woman also had her head poked into a book, but this one was a hard copy. As I watched both women turning the pages of their...

TriNet SMBeat Provides Look at Employment Growth for Specific Job Titles

Cloud-based HR services provider TriNet has announced the findings of its March TriNet SMBeat, which takes a deep look at employment growth for job titles across industries and geographies for the five-year period between January 2009 and March 2014. The employment report found that jobs in sales and marketing have experienced the greatest average growth since 2009 with a 25 percent annualized...

Confirmit Horizons v.18 SaaS Innovates for Smarter Decisions Making, Faster Reactions

SaaS vendor Confirmit has announced the release of Version 18 of its Confirmit Horizons solution for customer experience, employee engagement, and market research. Innovations introduced in the new release enable organizations to maximize the value of all data sources and obtain richer insights for smarter decision making and faster reactions to changing business needs. Horizons Version 18 also...

The Art of Interviewing – When NOT to Elaborate in Answering a Question

From my experience dealing with hundreds of candidates and interviews, foot in mouth disease is one of the most common problems in employment interviews. It's a condition that too many well qualified applicants suffer from, and as a result, they lose their chance to secure that desired position. All too often they talk too much at the wrong time and talk too little at the right time. The...

3 Essential Stages of a Good Candidate Feedback Process

As overworked recruiters and hiring managers, there seems to be plenty of pressing reasons to not provide feedback to every unsuccessful job candidate that comes through the door. For example, it's an administrative burden and/or there may be legal issues and reprisals, especially if feedback is bad. The whole topic of providing candidate feedback can feel like ankle biting. But, with the...

Does Recruiting Talent for Abstract Thinking Mean Hiring Fuzzy Memory?

Lots of good jobs require a talent for abstract thinking. Besides the obvious ones, such as pure math, theoretical physicist or philosophy prof, there are the less ethereal, more down-to-earth practical and applied professions of systems analyst, structural architect, meteorologist, logistics and supply chain analysts, and strategic planner—including battlefield generals. But does that talent...

Five Uncommon Recruiting Tactics to Land Great Talent

Recruiters, you play a difficult and complicated game. While you're doing your best to identify and hire the strongest candidates you can, you also have to compete with the other recruiters who have their eyes on the same people you do. And that's not all. In a lot of ways, recruiters also have to compete with the candidates themselves. See, recruiters are in the market for people, and...

Why We Should Stop Hiring Clones of Ourselves

Most dating sites and relationship psychologists will tell you that people have a natural tendency to romance or make friends with people who are similar to themselves in terms of outlook or approach. While this may work well in relationships, this process of bonding with people who are similar to ourselves has accidentally spilled over into the hiring process – without much justification....

Glassdoor Unveils 2014's Highest Rated CEOs

Glassdoor, career and community site, recently released its list of the highest rated CEOs of large companies in 2014. This year, the findings recognized the leadership of 50 CEOs who run large companies (1,000 or more employees) and 25 CEOs leading small mid-sized companies (fewer than 1,000 employees). So, what CEOs do employees approve of most? Top 10 Highest Rated CEOs of Large...

Springfield Resources Launches Free Work Sampling App

Springfield Resources has announced the launch of a new, free work sampling app for iPhone and iPad, ISampler. As a work sampling tool, ISampler is designed to significantly reduce the time spent compared to manual work sampling methods. The mobile technology provides the following functionality for iPhones: • Random phone ringing to alert user to record activities without the need for...

The Recruitment Industry and Globalization: Who Will Win?

The recruitment industry is undergoing an intense period of globalization driven by the needs of domestic clients. When recruitment firms are highly successful in the U.S., their multinational clients increasingly ask if they can recruit in the South America, Asia-Pacific or the EU regions. Big recruitment firms no longer have a monopoly on internationalization—powered by technology,...

The Informational Interview Is Dead

Is the informational interview dead? One expert suggests it may be. In an article entitled, "8 New Ways to Look for a Job," Marty Nemko, a former contributing editor for careers at U.S. News, says, "Stop asking for informational interviews. People are sick of being asked. Replace that by being a savvy Googler and searcher of LinkedIn groups." Nemko, writing at the Aol.com jobs site, seems...

Mobile Job Searching: an App for Your Emjoyment

Most of the population has a smartphone. One in every five people to be exact. So many apps to download, everything from the news to games and everything in between. Dating apps like Tinder don't have much room in the corporate professional world. Unless it is an app that uses Tinder's concept in helping job seekers find employment... or Emjoyment. Emjoyment, a San Francisco-based company,...

CareerBuilder Buys Broadbean to Offer Faster, More Cost-effective Talent Acquisition

CareerBuilder has announced the acquisition of Broadbean, a leading job distribution, candidate sourcing, and big data analytics company. The purchase enables CareerBuilder to bring new recruitment technologies to global markets. With a presence in over 60 global markets, CareerBuilder specializes in talent management software and deep labor market intelligence while operating the largest online...

Five Super Useful Free Online Resources for Recruiters and HR Professionals

It's impossible for anyone to know everything. Which is why we're presenting you with this list of five super useful free online resources for recruiters, HR professionals, and pretty much anyone else who deals with talent in any capacity (which is almost everyone, when you think about it). You may know about some of these already; others may be brand new to you. Whatever the case, the...

Hireology Publishes eBook on Building Your Own Job Descriptions

Hireology has announced the release of its newest eBook, "Building Your Own Job Descriptions Kit," continuing information about writing job descriptions for startups, small businesses, enterprise companies, and nonprofits. The eBook provides step-by-step instructions for writing a job description for specific jobs, providing examples and templates for each type. Specifically, the publication...

Millennial Unemployment: Why Parents are not the Issue

CNCB recently published a story entitled, "Why millennials can't find jobs," where the author discusses the viewpoints of Dan Schawbel, Millennial Branding founder. According to the story, Schawbel believes that, "millennials rely too much on their parents for career support instead of seeking other mentors." The story explains: According to his findings, 37 percent of young job...

Do You Unwittingly Discriminate in Your Job Postings?

A new study finds that some job postings are unwittingly discriminatory against women because their wording discourages them from even applying for the openings. That could be, in part, responsible for the paucity of top female executives. The Technical University of Munich has issued the results of a study that claim women do not apply to "male-sounding" job postings. It turns out the...

BambooHR Survey: 76 Percent of New Hires Say Training is Key to Success

BambooHR, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of online HR software for small and medium businesses, recently released the results of its nationwide survey. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. employees revealed the key components of an effective onboarding program, as discovered by the preferences of new employees. And what did new hires say was the most important aspect of the onboarding...

Getting Your Boss to Invest in Innovative Hiring Practices

Most of you will know the importance of hiring top performers and so will your bosses, but when push comes to shove, time and time again, the hiring budget can lose out to other budgets in the race for funding. It seems like many businesses pay lip service and talk-the-talk about doing everything to find top talent but fail to walk-the-walk when it comes to stumping up hard cash to pay for your...

How Recruiters Find Top Talent on LinkedIn

In order to get the most out of your LinkedIn profile you need to understand how recruiters and HR professionals are using the social network to find new employees. Recruiters want to see that you are committed to your industry, and they verify this by seeing that you keep your profile updated, that you use the social features, that you post or share content that is industry-relevant, follow...

Big-Bank 'Dead Peasant' Employee Insurance Bets: a Secret Money Machine

Does your neighbor hold a secret life insurance policy that pays off if you die? Can't answer that if it's a secret—right? How about your employer? Well, if you work for JP Morgan Chase or some of the other big banks, your life may be insured against (i.e., for) your death without your consent or even your knowledge. Surprised? Even more seemingly bizarre is that the bank may hold such...

TalentGuard's Talent Management Suite Connects Co-workers for Real-time Feedback

Enterprise 2.0 cloud-based talent management software provider TalentGuard is bringing social collaboration to talent management with its Predictive People Development suite. The suite now enables employees to connect with co-workers to provide real-time feedback and recognition. TalentGuard facilitates simple social feedback across all talent management programs to improve engagement and...

What Recruiters can Learn from Mozilla's Mistake

It was only a matter of time: yesterday, April 3, 2014, Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Since naming Eich CEO less than two weeks ago, Mozilla has been mired in trouble: OKCupid urged users to boycott the Firefox browser, and three board members resigned for what may or may not have been Eich-related issues. What caused the turmoil and eventually lead to Eich's...

How Recruiters, Armed with MOOCs, Can Solve the Skills Gap

The "skills gap" is a funny thing. On the one hand, data seems to show that in the top 100 urban areas in the United States, 43 percent of jobs require a bachelor's degree while only 32 percent of adults over 25 have one. Likewise, you can read that half the jobs today didn't exist 25 years ago and that, even with unemployment stubbornly high, 49 percent of companies still struggle to...

6 Top Ways Job Candidates Fail

The job-hunting process is a minefield filled with potential pitfalls. One employment agency has quantified where job seekers are most likely to implode with the interview being the worst area. A new study of chief financial officers by Accountemps finds "the job interview is where candidates make the most mistakes, up 11 percentage points from a similar ... survey. Another 19 percent of...

Research and Markets Offers 2014 Recruitment Advertising Outlook

International research firm Research and Markets has announced the release of its "2014 Recruitment Advertising Outlook: The Long Gray Line" report investigating online advertising categories. Advertising and marketing spend by employers in 2013 hit $16 billion for finding candidates for open positions. Most of that went to online media making recruitment the number one online advertising...

Top 4 Global Human Capital Trends 2014

It goes without saying that talent management teams needs to be aware of the key industry trends, that is, if they are to make effective HR interventions and decisions which are in tune with the needs of their business and the marketplace. Of course, there are quite a lot of "critical" talent management surveys doing the rounds at this time of year and you can't read all of them and also do...

Don't Make this Job Seeker's Mistake

I saw a disturbing headline when Googling "job seeker" recently. The story, courtesy of The Huffington Post, was called, "Job Seeker Sends Out Resume, Attaches Photo Of P-nis." Yeah, I too was pretty shocked when I first saw the headline. The story goes: Texas Workforce Solutions in Dallas received a job application by email Friday morning from a man who also attached a picture of...

"Undercover Candidate" Brings Tears, Promotions and Firings

Just for a moment pretend you're a big time TV executive. You have mega-power, blindingly-white teeth, and all the perks. I'm here to pitch you a new reality TV series. In a nutshell, this show will be a cross between "Undercover Boss" and the Candidate Experience Awards. It's called "Undercover Candidate," and like a peanut butter cup, it melds the best of both: Undercover Boss:...

How to Avoid Hiring Category 5 Hurricane Employees

In case you hadn't guessed it, hurricane employees (a term coined in a recent Wharton piece) are not a good thing; they are what you might describe as the bad apple in the team, or they could be the 'poison leader' at the head of the team. They might be described as: negative, toxic, narcissistic, parasitic, psychopathic and so on. The thing that they all have in common is no matter what level of...

Future Jobots: Metal Friend, or Mortal Foe?

In light of research that suggests robots will replace 50% of all human jobs in "the next decade of two", it is natural to ask whether they will, in the long run and in general, become our metal friends or (im)mortal foe. "Jobot": Friend, or Foe? Robots or "jobots" (job robots) may become our mortal enemy—in both senses of "mortal": 1.alive and susceptible to...

Jemstep and America's Best 401k Partner to Offer Online Investment Advice

Online investment advisor, Jemstep, has partnered with America's Best 401k, provider of innovative 401k plan solutions for medium and small sized businesses, to offer online investment advice as part of America's Best 401k plan offering. Through America¹s Best 401k, workers will have access to Jemstep's step-by-step investing guidance to select the asset allocation and funds that are...

Former CEOs Face Job Hunt Challenges Too

Some CEOs may make hundreds of times the median salary of their employees but that doesn't mean when they're let go their job hunt is any easier. They can struggle just like ordinary workers (but granted with much more resources). According to a Wall Street Journal article, " ... interviews with chief executives and recruiters indicate that, in many ways, the miseries of everyone's job hunt...

Temkin Group Launches Campaign to Increase Empathy within Organizations

Temkin Group has announced its Amplify Empathy Challenge to help organizations raise the level of empathy for their customers. People can share their ideas and best practices as Temkin Group's new Amplify Empathy website with the opportunity to win a $500 Amazon gift card. Five different individuals submitting the best ideas for customer engagement will receive awards with winners to be...

Four April Fools Pranks Not to Play at the Office (And Two You Can)

Jim and Dwight's prank war on The Office was hilarious, but playing their practical jokes in real life can backfire horribly. Here are four infamous pranks that you should avoid when it comes to April Fools' Day (and in general). At London's City Hall, cheeky employees sent their vacationing coworker an emergency deadline dated April 1st. They assumed he'd notice the date and get the...