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3 New Ways to Dig Up Digital Dirt

Have you ever looked up a job candidate on Facebook, Twitter, or some other social media site? Well, this infographic says that two in five employers have stated that they use candidate's social media profiles to make hiring decisions. I'm a little shocked with that statistic, and to be honest I thought the data would represent more. I guess not everyone is a social media stalker... like me....

Are You Still Using Accounting Software for Your Hiring?

Everyone who has tried to grow a business knows that hiring the right people is probably the hardest part. You might expect that most companies use specialist tools to manage this important and often time-consuming task. But you'd be wrong. Companies have specialist tools for every important aspect of their business. They have Trello for project management, Hootsuite for social media,...

Reward vs. Punishment as Workplace Tools: You Think You Know How to Use Them?

A boss wants his employees to do better, and, ideally, their best. But, of course, sometimes they make mistakes. Should they be punished for these, in addition to or instead of rewarded for the times they get it right? Assume that the boss wants to "teach" the employee "a lesson". If an employee rewarded for doing a job right or well is compared with an employee punished for...

The Importance of ATS and Email Integration

Recruitment and communication go hand-in-hand. Whether it is communicating within the team or with candidates and clients, communication is at the core of every recruitment process. If you have found a way to resolve communication issues, then you have crossed half the hurdles hindering your recruitment process. How many times have organizations lost out on potential talent due to lack of...

Sourcing Tools: What Does the Industry Have to Offer?

It's pretty safe to say that, for most recruiters, sourcing can be a headache. And that sourcing headache often produces a range of mistakes when it comes to finding top talent. A big thank you to the Leadership Sponsor of this month's featured series. Check out TheLadders for help with your recruiting and sourcing. Recruiters struggle with resume parsing, basic/inadequate searches,...

The Hefty Price Tag of Poor Retention Efforts

Two of my very good friends both quit their jobs last week. My friend Carl (for the story's sake) works in the sales industry while my friend Lisa (also for this story's sake) is in personal fitness. Carl worked at his previous role for quite some time, and on the outside everything looked fine, He made decent money, genuinely enjoyed his work environment and colleagues and was...

3 Out of 4 Employees Steal from Employers

Martin Investigative Services, Inc. has a way for companies to save and increase revenue—by reducing employee theft. The firm, which has been in business for 30 years, says that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports around 75 percent of all employees steal from work in some way, half of them steal repeatedly, and one of every three business failures is the direct result of employee...

Job Openings Increase as Hiring Falls

Job openings increased at a slower-than-predicted pace in January as severe winter storms affected the labor market in the Midwest and eastern U.S. The number of open positions increased from 3.91 in January to 3.97 million as hiring fell and the number of Americans quitting their jobs declined. February payrolls beat out January after winter storms depressed hiring. "Hiring was delayed...

High Turnover: 4 Reasons It's Your Fault

Time. Training. Resources. Energy. These are all things you are wasting when you have a high staff turnover rate. Sometimes, employees aren't even fully trained before they decide to leave. Staff members learn what they can from your company, or all they can tolerate, then they pick up and leave. It can be disheartening to managers, colleagues and executives alike. As a recruiter or HR pro, it...

February Sees Slump in Confidence of US Employees, Still Up Over 2013

Randstad's most recent U.S. Employee Confidence Index has shown that U.S. workers have experienced a decline in optimism from January to February, but confidence is still up over the year. The Index dipped from 56.7 in January to 54.0 (a five month high), indicating that employees are less confident in their employers, job prospects, and the economy at large. However, more workers have...

Do You Always Hire the Best Candidate?

Let's say you have two excellent candidates for a role who are pretty much tied on all assessment criteria. Imagine Candidate A made $200,000 in sales last year and Candidate B made $400,000 in the same period. Which candidate would you choose? I am guessing that most of you would figure that candidate B was the best sales person and would give Candidate B the cigar on that basis. Right? Case...

The Breakthrough 3 of 2013

We've seen a lot of "breakthrough" HR technologies and tools in the last few years. Now that they have been picked through and put to the test, we are left with a handful that has proven to be effective and efficient enough to be truly embraced. Here are the ones that I know I will see doing great things in the future of HR and recruiting. 1. Talent Analytics Recruiters and HR...

Kung Fu Control vs. Pacino Passion

From the perspective of a slice of toast, control, when it is needed, is like butter: with it, you've got a winning formula; without it, you're probably (only) toast. OK. So control is generally, even if not always, a good thing. This means there are two challenges in controlling control: Knowing which kind of control to try to exert in any given situation. Knowing when to...

How Employees Decide To Quit

Employee turnover is very much on the agenda this year. In fact, a report from OI partners has shown that 51 percent of employers surveyed in North America reported higher turnover compared to just 30 percent reporting higher turnover in 2012. Unsurprisingly, the report also found that 78 percent of employers are concerned about losing high potential talent, and in fact, retaining talent was...

Acrobat Outsourcing Releases First Mobile App for Performing Staffing Needs on the Go

Acrobat Outsourcing, a staffing organization specializing in hospitality and related industries, has announced a new application for iPhone to simplify the client staffing experience. The app makes data, email addresses, phone numbers, and other pieces available through a single, mobile interface. The mobile app also functions to improve the accuracy of billing procedures. The app allows users...

Job Hunt Like It's 1964

It's the final season for AMC's "Mad Men," which means Don Draper is going to be out of work (at least the actor Jon Hamm who portrays him). Being on the hit show may pay off for him, though, as there are job hunting tips from 1964 that still apply 50 years later. That advice comes from an unlikely source: Clark Howard, a nationally syndicated talk show host who specializes in consumer advice....

People Skills not Optional

While Americans continue the search for jobs, positions sit unfilled. How can nearly 11 million Americans be without work while 4 million jobs remain open? It can be agreed that there's a gap in qualified workers, but is it because there's no one to fill the position or are hiring managers looking at the wrong skills all together? Everyone has been a job seeker. Think back to the days of...

WANTED Analytics Releases New Graduate Candidate Data, Offers Insight into Future TalentSupply

WANTED Analytics, a leading real-time business intelligence provider for the talent marketplace, has announced the release of new graduate candidate supply data. The data offers insight into the potential supply of college students with relevant skills for any job in the U.S. Data is available at the national, state, and metro-area levels to aid employers in assessing talent availability having...

Why Older Workers Make the Best Hires for Temp and Part-Time Jobs

More and more employers are finding it cost effective to utilize boomers, seniors and even "retirees" on a part-time or project assignment basis. Temp firms have been using this resource in the employment market successfully for years. An older worker generally needs less training, has a better work ethic and will often take a temporary or project assignment for far less than the hourly...

Retail Goes Omnichannel in Hunt for Employees

Both recruiters and job seekers in the retail field need to embrace a new concept: omnichannel. It's the buzzword for seeking employment in the industry. The National Retail Foundation at its "Retails' BIG Blog" says, "Much as retailers are working to create a seamless shopping experience from store to computer to smartphone, retail recruiters are now using the full range of digital channels...

How To Future Proof Your Hiring Decisions

A recent survey by Hay Group suggests that a global talent exodus is occurring, with there having been a 12.9 percent increase in average employee turnover since 2012, and with average employee turnover expected to rise from 20.6 percent to 23.4 percent over the next five years. And recruiters simply cannot ignore this predicted dramatic reduction in new hire loyalty and need to react by...

Employee Encouragement vs. Acknowledgement: the Difference and Why It Matters So Much

"You are applauding yourselves."—Russian president, Vladimir Putin Look at these faces and applause. Do you see a celebration of someone's past or someone's future? Acknowledgement or encouragement? Both? Or is the applause about something completely different, perhaps veiled—like self-congratulation, or submission and acknowledgement of power gaps? Identifying what is being...

3 Important Qualities for the Future of Applicant Tracking Systems

Talent acquisition is not just a crucial component of your organization's hiring process, but its overall success as a business. And how you acquire talent ultimately influences the type of talent you bring on board—whether good or bad. For most firms, one of the biggest and most influential "hows" of the talent acquisition process is the applicant tracking system (ATS). It's...

NES Global Talent Report Highlights Challenges Women Face in Global Oil and Gas Industry

NES Global Talent recently released a new report detailing the key issues and challenges women face in the global oil and gas industry and highlighting possible solutions to tackle the gender gap. The report, "Attracting and Retaining Women in Oil and Gas Engineering – A Survey Examining the Gender Talent Gap", explains the various routes women are taking to find careers in oil and gas,...

Cybersecurity Issues Found to Force Rethinking of Risk Oversight by Corporate Boards

According to the newest What Directors Think survey released by NYSE Governance Services and executive search consulting firm Spencer Stuart, cybersecurity risk management experiences is a primary attribute being looked for as boards appoint new corporate directors. The study also found that 20 percent of directors lack confidence in their board's understanding of cybersecurity risks. Further,...

Applications for Unemployment Fall to Three-Month Low During Last Week in February

For the week ending March 1, fewer Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits indicating companies are maintaining staff levels despite the effects of colder than average weather. Claims fell by 26,000 to 323,000 for that week, the fewest since the end of November 2013. Falling numbers of job claims could signal improved hiring, which would increase consumer spending and improve consumer...

ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey Predicts Stable Hiring in Q2 2014

In ManpowerGroup's latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey hiring confidence is projected to continue increasing through the second quarter as U.S. employers report an adjusted Net Employment Outlook up 13 percent for the third consecutive quarter, the strongest since Q2 2008. Out of the survey of over 18,000 employers, 19 percent anticipate an increase in staff levels during Q2 2014 while...

What Recruiters Can Learn from Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates

Oh how recruiters love learning from the marketing world...let us count the ways. Recruiters are always interested in their application abandonment rates (or at least they should be). Much of this metric has to do with the software they're using, but like most processes, there is always room for improvement from several different angles. While software and systems are key, we can gain insights...

Apploi Launches Free Post-Your-Job Feature

Apploi, mobile technology that connects employers and job seekers, recently launched Post-Your-Job, a new feature that allows companies to post jobs to the Apploi network within seconds—and it's all free of charge. Within seconds of posting, Apploi says the job post becomes visible to all of its community members via their phones, tablets and Apploi's network of iPad kiosks deployed across...

5 Key Insights To Improve Your Hiring Process in 2014

In today's recruiting landscape, businesses have more choices than ever when it comes to talent acquisition and recruitment solutions. As employers and recruiters look to the most effective channels for sourcing the most qualified talent, it is important that they also assess their own internal hiring processes. To shed some light on this subject, Job.com and Beyond.com conducted a recent...

New Assessment Tool to Help Plan Sponsors Find and Resolve 401(k) Compliance Issues

OTB Strategic Consulting, Inc., in partnership with Akros Fiduciary Management, has announced the launch of The FIRE System, an online 401(k) self-assessment tool for employers, plan sponsors, and fiduciaries to find areas of non-compliance and identify solutions for correcting them. The FIRE System provides an independent review of fiduciary risk and compliance for traditional or safe harbor...

Why Recruiters Should not Ignore Job Hoppers

Long serving employees are becoming an endangered species in a modern world characterized by: lay-offs, mergers and acquisitions, instant dissolution of global businesses and an increasing dependence on global workers. Gone are the days when recruiters and employers could expect to have a pile of resumes containing job for lifers with uninterrupted tenures, (especially as research suggests...

College Recruiting: You're Probably Doing it Wrong

A new study shows you have probably been doing it wrong when it comes to recruiting college graduates. It turns out Millennials find jobs just like the rest of us: via friends. Sanjeev Agrawal, CEO and co-founder of Collegefeed, writing in the Harvard Business Review, says his site's poll of 15,000 Millennials - 60 percent still in college and 40 percent recent graduates – found that more...

Is Your Hiring Firm Wasting Sales Leads?

Most recruiting managers would have a hard time believing that sales leads in their business were being wasted and allowed to go cold. It's one thing to spoil a lead through limited business development skills, but entirely another thing to completely waste a lead by not picking up the phone. But, it happens, and more often than you think. Research by Insidesales.com, reported in an HBR white...

American Attitudes on Finding "Quality" Jobs Improves but Remains Low

A new Gallup poll on the perceptions of American workers and their prospects for finding a quality job has found that 27 percent feel that they could find a quality job if they searched for one. And while this is an improvement over severe lows over recent years, the number remains alarmingly low. "The fact that 70 percent of Americans continue to say it is not a good time to find a quality...

Rethink How You Recruit for Manufacturing Jobs

Contrary to popular misconception, in the last couple of years manufacturing jobs have increased in the United States. Now the challenge for recruiters is finding the able bodies to fill those positions. Michelle Benjamin, CEO and founder of Benjamin Enterprises and Pivot Partners, writing for the Industry Market Trends section of ThomasNet.com, says, "Gone are the days of manufacturing lines...

What Are Your Occupational Hazards—and Not Just the Health and Safety Risks?

Some occupational hazards are obvious—especially many health and safety hazards. Others are subtler, easily unnoticed, perhaps until it is too late—especially the psychological, social, moral and cultural ones. Although your own job may not have any obvious health and safety hazards associated with it, how sure are you that there are not any other kinds of hazards? Any list of job...

Create a Globally Diverse Workforce with SAP Chief Diversity Officer Anka Wittenberg [Interview]

When you hear the word "diversity" most often you think about race, especially when it comes to the workplace. But Anka Wittenberg, chief diversity and inclusion officer at SAP, is here to teach us how race is just one of the many aspects of all that diversity entails. A diverse workforce includes gender, and age, and most importantly, a foundation built upon culture. Diversity has many...

Assessment Machine Determines Training Needs, Identifies Process Control Skill Levels

Scientific Management Techniques, Inc. has unveiled a Process Control Assessment Program as an addition to its hands-on manufacturing skills assessment solutions. These assessment machines replicate real-world conditions in industry and can be used during the hiring process to measure an applicant's performance in hard skills necessary for operating and troubleshooting modern manufacturing...

The Luck of the Job Seeker

"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish." – Roman poet, Ovid Although St. Patrick's Day has come and gone, that does not mean success is intangible. Instead of waiting for good luck to find you in your job search, seek it out. Stumbling upon a four-leaf clover is considered good luck, but you can greatly...

Does Data Drive Good Hiring?

To data or not to data? That is the question when it comes to determining if potential hires would make good employees. The arguments seem to favor it but at least one expert is wondering about its true effectiveness. SHL, a subsidiary of CEB that specializes in talent measurement, is an enthusiastic backer of the concept. Its 2013 Business Outcomes Study Report supports the use of data when...

Should I Stay or Should I Go...Now?

The numbers behind employee engagement are looking grim. Organizations that have a fully engaged workforce are in the very small minority, yet most leaders are well aware of the vast improvements to the bottom line that an engaged workforce can make. What organizations believe they are saving by neglecting to implement engagement and retention strategies is inevitably costing them in loss of...

5 Ways to Find Your Pot O' Gold When Job Hunting

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The National Retail Federation's St. Patrick's Day consumer survey estimates that around 133 million people will celebrate today, with 77 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds participating in festivities and 90 percent of that age group wearing the color green. The NRF also predicts that spending for this year's holiday will be around $4.8 billion. A day filled with...

Will This Self-employed Candidate Make A Terrible Employee?

As a recruiter or employer, one of the biggest curve ball resumes that you are likely to receive in the current climate is from a business owner or self-employed person who has decided to move back into an in-house role. On the face, they can appear to be an entrepreneurial, independent and self motivated candidate, but there are often question marks around self-employed applicants based...

WPEO Recognizes Outstanding Women Business Owners and Corporations

The Women Presidents' Educational Organization (WPEO) not only creates increased access to business opportunities for women business enterprises (WBEs), the organization also celebrates how the WBEs maximize these ventures. During its Annual Awards Breakfast on March 7, 2014, the nonprofit recognized outstanding achievements on behalf of women's business enterprises, corporations and...

'How to Get a Job'—an Example of How and Why Obvious Advice Works

"New is always bad. Never not be afraid!" ... "I get it, Dad! I will never do anything new or different!"—The Croods You want to get a job? Then take these steps: 1. Look for a job 2. Find a job 3. Evaluate the job 4. Apply for at least one job 5. Try to get an interview for at least one job 6. Evaluate and accept a job offer or go back to #1 Sounds familiar—even obvious, or...

Do Counter Offers Really Work?

With the Hay Group predicting that worldwide employee turnover levels are to surge, staff retention has thrust its way to the top of the agenda. It's no surprise that we are seeing a rise in counter offers in many sectors as employers scramble to retain talent. For example, a recent Robert Half Legal survey charted sharp increases in "willingness to counter offer" and a recent survey by...

Be Early in Your Mobile Job Hunt

The early bird gets the worm – and maybe the job, too, if they're using a smart phone for their job hunt. More job hunters are using mobile platforms in the morning to find work. According to the website MediaBistro.com, "... more job seekers are looking for new opportunities on mobile devices than a desktop. Plus, mobile users are 34 percent more likely to go onto their site between 6 and...