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Always Tell Your Candidates Why They Didn't Get Hired

Looking for a job can be stressful, exciting and cumbersome. Having been in the recruitment industry for 18 years, with over nine years on the sales side, I've seen applicants make some pretty bad moves that reduce their hiring appeal. Bearer of Bad News The hardest thing for job seekers is waiting around for that email or phone call to see where you stand – that validation of knowing if...

The Open Talent Economy, Part One: What will Talent Look Like in the Near Future?

"Managing talent used to involve at least a few certainties," says Deloitte Consulting LLP's report on the open talent economy. But the open talent economy, a paradigm shift in the talent marketplace which is just starting to unfold, will change the way companies think about, source, and utilize talent. "The open talent economy is a new way of looking at how talent will be sourced for...

How to Never Regret a Hiring Decision Again

Can you believe this? Hiring managers admit that 20 percent of their employees shouldn't have even been hired in the first place. Ouch! So basically there's a one in five chance that your employer regrets you. Just kidding. But Seriously! Recruiters and hiring managers put time and consideration into each person they employ. Guess what? The average interview process has increased...

The How and Where of Effective Recruitment Advertising

Yair Riemer, vice president of Global Marketing at CareerArc Group, says that employers in 2014 are looking to leverage big data when it comes to recruitment advertising. The following are his thoughts: Gone are the days when a simple job posting will suffice for companies looking to recruit in highly competitive sectors like science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Specifically for...

KEDARit Introduces Supply Chain Logistic Solutions to Improve Operations

KEDAR Information Technologies has announced the release of Business Process management (BPM) KITS for freight forwarder and supply chain logistics companies to provide pre-defined solutions to enhance people skills, develop process excellence, and create lean enterprises. The KITS new tool provides structured methodologies for defining, re-engineering, and improving operational...

Employee Referrals: Latest Trends You Might Want to Consider

Employee referral programs have long been attributed with numerous benefits, which include speedy and quality hires and better performance and retention at lower costs than other recruiting sources. These known benefits have provided ample motivation to recruiting professionals to discover new ways of acquiring referrals. In the late 1990s when employee referral programs were nowhere in the...

How to Sell a "Bad" Job to Top Talent

Wouldn't it be nice if the positions we were marketing to candidates were always exciting job opportunities within great employer brands and successful businesses? Truth is, not every company is a Google, Apple, GE or a glaringly white-teethed success story. Many companies are just middle of the road, some may be loss making, many will have low morale, high turnover, disengaged employees, and...

How to Get a Bigger Hiring Budget

Seventy-four percent of HR professionals across the world believe that their organization should be adopting more innovative hiring and talent management processes, according to a recent FutureStep survey. It's clear that today's talent management executives believe that innovative hiring and talent management practices are key to winning the war for talent. What the study also revealed,...

Long-term Unemployed Unlikely to Find Work again, finds Princeton Study

A recent study by Princeton University authors Alan Krueger, Judd Kramer, and David Cho, published by the Brookings Institute, argues that the vast majority of the ranks of the long-term unemployed (out of work for at least six months) won't work again. The study's key finding was that only 11 percent of the long-term unemployed since the recession have found work. This statistic is in...

Need a Job? The Clean Energy Sector is Hiring

Regardless of whether you see yourself as an eco-enthusiast or are just looking to make ends meet, finding a job in the green energy sector has never been easier. The sector is quickly growing, with an estimated 80,000 new jobs added in 2013. Not only will you find a large number of green construction and manufacturing jobs, the industry needs skilled engineers, designers, teachers and more. No...

The History and Tactics of Job Supply and Demand: a Chicken-or-Egg Analysis

In the course of human history and evolution, which came or should come first: chicken-or-egg-like job-demand or job-supply? On the assumption that there is any correct and demonstrable answer—in particular cases, if not also in all, it can give your thinking about recruiting a shake, akin to the jolt biology got about 50 years ago, once it was understood that the egg had to come first . That...

SAP Acquires Contingent Workforce Management Leader Fieldglass

SAP has announced its intention to acquire Fieldglass, a leading technology provider of contingent labor and services. By adding Fieldglass' cloud-based vendor management system, SAP is better able to meet demand among employers to manage flexible workforces with quick on-boarding and engagement of both temporary and permanent staff. The acquisition allows SAP to deliver a management platform...

Hiring Tech Trends that will Change Everything in 2014

2014 will be a pivotal year for the recruitment industry, and Recruiter.com has asked some of the field's leading experts to tell you why. Read on to discover the innovative technologies and trends today's recruiting professionals say will change the game of recruitment this year and beyond: The Future of Staffing Software - Art Papas, CEO Founder of Bullhorn 2014 is the year that...

Social Recruiting: 3 Trends Making it the Status Quo

Allyson Willoughby, SVP of People at Glassdoor, believes that as social media becomes an increasingly important tool for business in general, the field of social recruiting continues to evolve. She explains that companies looking to stay ahead of the war for talent and those hoping to keep their social recruiting skills sharp should pay attention to the following three emerging trends. The...

She Blinded Me With Science

There is a real science, a developed methodology, in posting content to the internet. The problem is that it varies with every audience. You have to gauge your own audience because it is really not going to be the same as anyone else's. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest all have some type of "analytics" or "insights" tab. Use them. They will help you learn when your audience is...

The 3-Strike Interview Rule

"Say more — two more sentences." — Columbia University literature professor, in response to upstart student-poet Alan Ginsberg's first remark, in class in the 2013 movie Kill Your Darlings If you want to appear knowledgeable or otherwise prepared in a job interview and not embarrass yourself, try to know at least three different facts about anything that you claim to have knowledge...

Finding a New Job on the Sly

It's just possible you're only at the stage of thinking about a new job, which is probably how you landed on this site. Even if you're just thinking about – and not actively pursuing – a new job, there are things you can do to get started on the sly for your career change. Priscilla Claman, writing at The Harvard Business Review, says, "Looking for a job can be discouraging and...

6 Ways to Shine a Light on Your Company Culture

There is no doubting the idea that great company culture attracts top talent. Just look at employer brand super powers like Google, Apple, GE, etc., where job seekers apply to their business not just because they have seen a job vacancy, but often on the pure basis that they want to be part of the great company culture. But, it's not enough to just build a great culture you need to communicate...

CareerBliss Shares List of Happiest/Unhappiest Jobs in 2014

CareerBliss's annual list of happiest and unhappiest jobs has been released, analyzing more than 25,000 company reviews indicating where employees find the most happiness. The highest- ranked positions in this jobs report were largely technology based with sales and security officers topping the list of least happy occupations. CareerBliss's happiest jobs of 2014 include, in descending...

Sourcing Tips From the Pros

Who doesn't need a little sourcing advice every now and then? And the only thing that can make great sourcing tips even better is who they come from—and in today's case, we're going to hear from the pros. A big thank you to the Leadership Sponsor of this month's featured series. Check out TheLadders for help with your recruiting and sourcing. If you desire to enhance your sourcing...

How to Work With a "Glasshole"

It's Tuesday morning, and you have a full day of meetings and interviews ahead of you. You walk into the lobby to greet your next interviewee and welcome him into your office. As you open the door to the lobby, you see the candidate grab his briefcase and turn to head your way. You extend your hand and begin to introduce yourself when you notice something is a little different about him. He's...

5 Ways the Web Has Changed Recruiting, and How to Keep Up

2014 marks the 25th birthday of the worldwide web. Both recruiting and job seeking have moved from paper to digital and it seems every year new technologies arise that change the way recruiting is done. Here are the big trends that have shaped the web and how they are evolving the way recruiting is done a quarter century later: 1. ATS. As the bellwhether tool for efficiency in recruiting, many...

Real Time Performance Analysis App Gives Performance Snapshot in Minutes

Brick River Technologies has announced the release of an automated data collection tool for gathering and analyzing key performance metrics in a matter of minutes. Known as TrendSend, the new tool is email and web-based and gathers performance metrics, generates trend reports, and offers a knowledge-sharing platform. Collected data are up to the minute to facilitate the creation of solutions with...

Will Identified Supplant LinkedIn for Recruiting?

Identified has billed itself as the replacement for LinkedIn when it comes to recruiting with claims of more than 1 billion profiles. But as one commenter points out, do these profiles include your neighbor's dog? According to its website, "Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Identified pioneered SYMAN (Systematic Mass Normalization), a proprietary technology that collects,...

How To Hire Team Players

A Leadership IQ study shows that one of the main reasons that new hires fail is not down to technical incompetency, which accounts for just 11 percent of failures, but due to a failure in attitude, which actually accounts for 89 percent of failures. What was interesting was that nearly half of the failings were linked to a lack of teamwork; that is 26 percent of new hires failed due to not being...

Socio-Ecological Alternatives to WorkplaceTeamwork and Competition

It is a well-worn, but sacred mantra of business that the workplace—and survival and success in it, as in a jungle—crucially depends and runs on "cooperation" and/or "competition". But the reflections that follow suggest that the roles of teamwork and competition may be seriously overstated and overrated, even if only with respect to how many of us really spend the bulk of our time at work...

Is our Love of Passive Candidates Perpetuating the Skills Gap?

There is a "skills gap," and it is the reason unemployment is still so high today. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. The term "skills gap" refers to a strange phenomenon. As of last month, 10.5 million Americans were unemployed. Simultaneously, employers were looking to fill 4.0 million job openings. The math seems shady at best: how can there be more than twice as many available...

How to Outperform Your Place on the Organization Chart

Recently Zappos announced its move toward becoming a holacratic organization, one where traditional job titles and the roles of hierarchical management are irrelevant. While Zappos and other headline-grabbing companies attempt to innovate their way beyond the status quo, the vast majority of us still work in traditional cultures where power and influence are governed by titles, organization...

Is Your Job Seeking Strategy Behind the Times?

It's easy to think that a cutting-edge job search strategy is about applying for jobs using the latest technologies like social media, mobile applications, online job boards, video resumes/interviews etc. But a cutting-edge approach to the job search is about more than just technology; it's also about adopting bleeding edge job seeking practices that are proven to increase your chance of getting...

BrightMove Releases "Fastest Search Engine" for Sourcing Top Talent

On-demand recruiting software provider BrightMove has announced the release of the self-proclaimed fastest search engine in the recruiting software industry. The engine combines BrightMove's sourcing capabilities with a powerful search engine enabling more efficient identification of the right talent for the right job. Key attributes of the BrightMove search engine experience include: •...

How to Recruit and Retain Software Engineers

Hiring top talent is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But hiring top engineers is like looking for a needle in a haystack against hundreds of magnets. Everyone is trying hard to bring in top software engineers, and the challenge isn't over when they agree to join your company. Keeping software engineers engaged and loyal to your company is an art form. To help, Glassdoor recently...

Three Rules for Attracting and Hiring Great Candidates

The Rule of Three means different things to different parts of society whether it be writing, wiccan rituals or computer programming but in recruiting it can mean hiring with just a little extra effort the best people possible for the job because odds are strong they don't know about your opening. "As I talk to the world's leading recruiters and the best talent leaders, it's clear that...

Applicant Tracking Systems Can Make a Recruiter's Life Much Easier!

Having the right applicant tracking system is very crucial issue for any organization, since it can save recruiters time and money and help them find the appropriate candidates quicker. Social media recruiting is one of the strongest trends in the market today and a good way to show it is to look back at the days when a resume alone got applicants to the interview. Well, you can defiantly say...

Does Your Company Encourage Binge Working?

NBC recently reported on the tragic case of Mita Diran, the 24 year old copywriter who dropped dead toward the end of a debilitating 30-hour straight shift, just prior to Christmas shut-down. They also highlighted two other cases in the same year of employees dropping dead after similar cases of overworking, which is now being termed "binge working." The first was Li Yuan from Olgivy and Mather...

How Recruiters Can Go from Good to Great

Recruiters struggling with the demands of their job might find more success and satisfaction by focusing on this tenet: recruiting is both an art and a science. That simple belief could bolster their job performance and move them from good to great at what they do. Dani Monroe, author of Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce, asks in an article for Monster.com, "Are you...

Employees May be Leaving the Job They Love

Life is too short to hate your job. That's what we were all told growing up and as a Millennial, we were programmed to believe we must love what we do in order to excel. Unfortunately, 60 percent of millennials are quitting the jobs they thought were the ones of their dreams. Even more, many are leaving their positions within the first three years or less. That turnover is costing companies...

Survey: Failure to Retain High-performance Employees Grooms Leaders of Competition

Member-based advisory company CEB has stated that over two-thirds of companies fail to identify their employees with the most potential, which threatens long-term performance goals. Failure to retain high-potential (HiPo) employees drives these future leaders to competing organizations who will invest in their development. In order to keep top talent, companies must re-evaluate their retention...

When Workplace Rewards Backfire

You may be one of those who believe that rewards always work better than punishment. Before strongly siding with the rewards school of thought, consider the following powerful objections to or at least limitations on rewards-based performance schemes, while not leaping to the conclusion that therefore punishment schemes are any better. 1. Satiation effect: This, as I see it and on...

Facebook Zero: Marketing Your Employer Brand in the New Social Media Landscape

Earlier this month, Social@Ogilvy released the study, "Facebook Zero: Considering Life After the Demise of Organic Reach." The somewhat apocalyptically titled paper begins with a fittingly bleak prediction: "Organic reach of the content brands publish in Facebook is destined to hit zero. It's only a matter of time." Social@Ogilvy has christened the post-organic reach social network,...

Job or Career? Work Success Hinges on Worker Mindset

Employers and employees are equally responsible for maintaining a culture of job satisfaction and happiness in the workplace. Some of the most common strategies for employers include creating a line of dialogue and a sense of transparency between management and employees, incorporating work/life balance into workers' schedules and enhancing workplace culture through team-building exercises....

Clear Company Offers Roadmap for Transparent Companies

Does your company desire greater employee performance? Well, the folks at ClearCompany, the first talent alignment platform that bridges the gap between talent management and business strategy, says you'll need to become more transparent. And to help you accomplish this, ClearCompany has developed a new infographic, "A Roadmap to Greater Company Transparency." Are you ready to begin...

Video Recruiting: What You Need to Know

Leading innovative video interview software provider, VidCruiter, says that there used to be a day and age when video recruiting was looked down upon. Rather than use this strategy, HR professionals continually met face-to-face with job applicants. However, this has changed as of late with more and more companies altering their approach, subsequently saving time and money along the way. And...

Even Experienced Interviewers Make These Mistakes

Interviewing is the golden gateway into your organization and your interviewers make up the crucial checkpoint where top talent is identified, wooed and hopefully hired into your company. Of course, mistakes are made in the hiring process and good talent is unknowingly turned away while weaker candidates are unwittingly hired under the guise of promise and excellence, only to crash out of the...

5 Reasons Your Mobile Recruiting Efforts Are Failing

Your company and clients may have invested in mobile- enabled websites to bolster recruiting in the labor market but it could be money out the window if you are waiting for the job seekers to come to you. There are five reasons your mobile recruiting might be failing. According to Kes Thygesen, co-founder and head of product, for RolePoint, a social recruitment software company, " ......

PeopleLinx Expands Social Marketing Platform to Include Twitter

PeopleLinx's scalable social marketing and training solutions have now been integrated with Twitter to allow employees to manage profiles, networks, and content sharing on it and dominant B2B social network giant LinkedIn. "Most companies have corporate Twitter accounts for marketing or customer service. Now they want to take Twitter to the next level by empowering their employees," said...

Enrollment Currently Open for Virtuali's Go!, International Immersion Program for Emerging Leaders

Virtuali, a New York City based start-up focused on developing the next generation of business leaders, is taking strides to stay true to its mission. The company recently launched Go!, an international leadership development program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed to prepare emerging leaders to be successful in an increasingly virtual and international business environment. Go! objects to...

Employers – Not Just Job Hunters – Need Good Online Profiles

By now it's old news that job seekers should make sure they have a clean online profile lest their employment chances be diminished. However, job seekers expect the same thing from employers. A bad online reputation is strongly going to harm a company's appeal to future employees, according to a study by Spherion Staffing Services. The company surveyed 225 human resource managers and 2,035...

Are You Being Underpaid?

Did you negotiate the starting salary for your present job? The odds are that if you didn't you are being underpaid, as a CareerBuilder survey shows that most employers shoot low with their initial offer and expect to negotiate during job offer discussions. Also, a study by George Mason University shows that those who do negotiate effectively manage to increase their salaries by an average of...