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The 10 Most Exciting Trends for Women in 2014 [Pt. 1]

2014 is the "Year of the Woman." That's a pretty bold statement, but we have the data to back it up. And here to help us do that is one successful woman who has made quite a name for herself in the business world – Dr. Tracey Wilen. As a prominent thought leader on the impact of technology on society, work and careers; an author of 11 books; named 2012 Most Influential Woman in Bay...

Big Data Doesn't Make Sense for Headhunters

Headhunters are relying too much on big data when recruiting personnel and it's hampering their ability to find the best candidates for the job and keep them in their positions. That's the view of Nick Corcodilos, writing at PBS.org. Corcodilos, author of the website AsktheHeadunter.com, penned special advice for the Making Sense section of PBS' Newshour's website. He wrote, " America's...

Mistakes To Avoid in Hiring Real Estate Agents

It appears overthinking the qualifications for a real estate agent could be a major mistake in hiring. There are steps to take to avoid what Peter Gilbert calls a " cripplingly high failure rate when hiring new salespeople." Gilbert, writing at EvanCarmichael.com, a website devoted to helping entrepreneurs, says, "The barriers to entry in real estate are low and, regrettably, many new entrants...

Dear Recruiters: A Humbling Lesson from Kelly Blazek

Dear Recruiters, Hiring Managers and any other HR professional, I read a story today that truly disturbed me. According to news outlets, a job seeker (and recent graduate) by the name of Diana Mekota sent a LinkedIn request to Kelly Blazek, who reports say is the head of a well-known communications job bank in northeast Ohio. Below is Blazek's response: Poor Judgment on Your Job...

Why You Should Hire Candidates for EQ rather than IQ

Emotional intelligence (EQ) first hit the corporate scene in the mid 90s, as we entered the post industrial era, and corporates began looking for more gentile and sophisticated ways to relate to employees. EQ, as many of you know, is an indicator of a person's ability to manage their emotions effectively within the stresses and strains of life in order to remain effective in both their behavior...

5 Tips for Successful Change Management

Change is hard, change is constant, and change is how companies evolve. When you bring on an RPO firm, it requires change. The goal of change management is to make change minimally disruptive, so that people can focus on performance while change is implemented. What can you do to make change easier to manage? Here are five tips to help you navigate and manage change: 1. Develop a common...

Effective Employment Branding: 7 "Must Haves" for Job Descriptions

A bad hire can cost a company tons of wasted time and money—literally. In fact, a study by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) found that turnover could cost businesses up to five times a bad hire's annual salary. And with the Harvard Business Review pointing out that 80 percent of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions, now more than ever it's very important for employers...

Golden Rule of Recruiting: Treat Your Recruits Like Customers

The Golden Rule is, in summary, do unto others as you would have them do onto you. Yet, it seems to be missing from the recruitment practices of most HR departments, which leaves some experts shaking their heads. Writing at Weddles.com, Peter Weddles says: As any grade school child can tell us, that rule simply urges us to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. So, why are we...

4 Ways to Hire in a Hurry

Now this article might look like I am legislating bad hiring practices, but I am not; I realize that rushing anything, including hiring, usually ends up producing less than optimal results. However, I am just accepting the reality that many businesses face, especially small businesses, which is that many face emergencies where they lose critical talent suddenly and need to replace them...

Don't Tell Me to 'Unwind'!—How to Fight Clockwork Logic

It's certain that, at least once in your life, someone has told you to "let go" of your security-blanket and tightly-wound inhibitions. You're pestered to try a walk, a taste, a dance, an affair or a career on "the wild side", or at least to "unwind", "loosen up" or "chill". Often, when not also above all, you are expected to be excited or calmed by what seems to be...

LinkedIn: More than Your Average Social Media

Nearly 1 in 4 people in the world have some form of social media. This means that if you are using your social media accounts for professional purposes, they have to stand out. They need to be professional. The recruiter's most popular social media site is LinkedIn, leading the pack in leaps and bounds with 94 percent of them using the site to find candidates. Take a moment to think about who...

Aquent Receives Inavero's 2014 Best of Staffing® Award for 3rd Consecutive Year

Leading global staffing organization dedicated to marketing, creative, and digital professionals, Aquent, was recently named one of Inavero's 2014 Best of Staffing® Award winners. This is the company's third consecutive honor. Aquent, which specializes in providing Fortune 500 companies with in-demand digital creative talent, received top honors for "Best Client Service" and "Best Job...

Use Non-Employee Referrals for Hiring Success

It's a common practice to have employees be rewarded for referrals to help in the recruitment process. But what about non-employees – should you reward their referrals as well? You should in the view of John Sullivan, a noted human resources expert from the Silicon Valley. He calls it an emerging trend and one that should be embraced because it "expands the number of individuals who are...

The Benefits of Hiring Temporary Workers During Tax Season

Tax season is upon us; now is the time for reviewing incomes and expenses, filing papers, logging into TurboTax or making a trip over to HR Block. But this busy season isn't just a time where employees are rushing to file by April 15; employers are feeling the pressure of this tax season too. One surefire way companies can help lighten the load this time of year is to hire temporary...

5 Things You Need to Know About the Gamification of HR [Part 2]

In part 1 of this article, I discussed the benefits of incorporating Gamification—the practice of borrowing motivational techniques from games and applying them to the enterprise—into the HR process. I outlined two of the five rules for what and what not to do when it comes to this endeavor. The first two rules were incremental progress and reputational units. Continue reading for the...

Using Internal Recruiters to Select the Best Candidates

Given today's economic climate, no one should be surprised that more businesses are utilizing internal recruiters along with the Internet to expedite the search and hiring process and avoid retaining search firms that often require paying pricey first-year hire's compensation and certain administrative fees including consultant travel. An additional fact of life that most companies also...

Survey: Healthcare Top IT Industry for Job Growth in 2014

According to a recent survey from DiscoverOrg, leading sales and marketing intelligence tool, healthcare ranked as the top IT industry for job growth in 2014. Three-quarters of respondents said healthcare would see the largest growth in IT jobs, while 52 percent said software development and 27 percent said banking/financial services. Other key survey findings of the staffing report...

5 Things You Need to Know About the Gamification of HR [Part 1]

Today's nomadic workforce changes jobs frequently. Onboarding new employees quickly and keeping them engaged is critical. Workers that aren't adequately integrated are less likely to produce and more likely to leave. Yet, even as the need for retention methods grows, so do the challenges: today's jobs are sophisticated and today's employees, impatient. A new arsenal of techniques is...

Take Control of Your Finances with Finance Expert Holly Perez

Americans love to spend—and it's usually more than they can afford. With just two months into the New Year, many people are still working to recover from their bad spending habits over the holidays. Proper financial management is no easy task, and many people quickly become overwhelmed and frustrated when attempting to manage their money. So, to help, Recruiter.com sat down with Intuit's...

3 Ways to Prepare a Convincing Video Resume

As we move into a social and virtual 2014, it may be time for you to embrace or at least be open to the subject of a video resume as a means of enhancing your job application, and setting yourself apart from the competition. Of course, video resumes do not come without risks; that is, it could mean that you open yourself up to discrimination earlier in the hiring process, or you may simply...

The Risks of Doing Professional Favors

Professionals who do favors know it's nice to do one—but also know that it's not always smart. The smartest also know when it is or isn't smart to do one. To stay smart or become smarter, you should ask yourself the following questions before granting a candidate, colleague, employer, applicant or client any given request for a favor—especially repeat favors: 1. Will doing the favor...

Are You Recruiting for Data Analytics Correctly?

According to predictions by the International Data Corporation, openings for skilled business analysts will experience a 7.2 percent annual growth worldwide over the next five years. Are you prepared to recruit these positions correctly? A report by the professional services firm Deloitte indicates probably not. It says, "Companies are struggling at almost every level of analytics recruiting...

LinkedIn Opens Publishing Platform to Members

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, wants to ensure that the time users spend on the social network will make them better at their jobs. The company recently opened its publishing platform to its members, which allows them to share their expertise and build their professional brand by posting original long-form content. "When a member publishes a post on LinkedIn, this...

Are These New Discrimination Bills For Real?

Very recently the Arizona Senate voted to approve legislation that would expand religious freedom. Well that sounds nice doesn't it? Religious freedom: that's what this country was built on! Well this seems to be the crafty way to state the intentions of the bill. The bill would prevent the state from taking legal action against people or businesses that refuse services to people based on...

3 Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations

No matter what size or type of business you run, chances are, you're overwhelmed with incoming files – both paper and electronic documents. It generally starts slowly – an email here, a receipt there, incoming invoices and customer correspondence, and before you know it, you've got a mountain of paper and no way to find the documents you need. There's a better way. Document...

Look to the Cookie, Elaine! Diversity in the Workplace

In a particularly great episode of Seinfeld, Jerry tells Elaine that people should look to the black and white cookie to find racial harmony. "If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved." Ah, if embracing diversity were that easy. Racism is just one of the many "isms" that leaders fostering diversity in the workplace have to combat. An EIU report,...

SuccessFactors Launches Presentations to Automate and Improve Quality of Talent Review Process

Are you tired of spending countless hours collecting and building accurate data for talent review meetings? Well, the folks at SuccessFactors, leading provider of cloud-based human capital management software, want to help you save time—and money. The SAP Company recently created SuccessFactors Presentations, a new way to help quickly deliver more accurate and engaging presentations. HR...

Glassdoor Releases 25 Highest Rated Companies Hiring Interns in 2014

Glassdoor recently released its annual report of the 25 Highest Rated Companies Hiring Interns in 2014, and guess who took the no. 1 spot this year? You may be ready to deem Google the best, as the company has held the top honor for the past two years, but another mega-brand took the crown this year—Facebook. Based entirely on intern feedback over the past year, the report details which...

Drop These Words from Your Résumé (And Replace Them with Better Ones)

Hiring managers spend an average of six seconds scanning your résumé, and according to a 2012 study by The Ladders that tracked eye movement, the middle section on the far left of the page gets the most eyeball time. Based on these movement patterns, the best strategy is to use a clean, minimal layout with plenty of white space and bullet points beginning with strong action words. Take...

5 Steps to Successfully Recruit Technical Candidates

Oh the hiring process. Filled with resume parsing, call backs, interview scheduling and salary negotiations. And though the process can often times become overwhelming for recruiters and hiring managers, some are facing an even greater challenge before pushing a candidate through their company's intake process—actually sourcing the right candidates. According to the 2013 Talent Shortage...

Should Employers Fear Glassdoor Reviews?

Glassdoor, if you didn't already know, is that crowdsourcing review site that uses feedback from employees and interviewees of your company to rate your business in areas such: as salaries, employee satisfaction, career opportunities, culture and values, work-life balance and CEO approval. A bad review (or even a good review) on Glassdoor, or a similar site such as Career Bliss, will impact your...

Zen and the Art of Recruiting—the Fivefold Way of the Job Master

You may think that the story of the quest, question and answer that follows is as flaky as New Age granola, but there are profound lessons for recruiters in it—especially lessons for recruiters as teachers, guides and advisers. The Quest The story is more legend than history, but the way it is told, a young 18th-century adventurer, as full of questions as zest for life, embarked...

#SocialRecruiting and the Hashtag

The hashtag has quickly become a powerful tool in social media, and therefore social recruiting. If you're feeling like you're the last person on earth who doesn't know what a hashtag is, or how to use it, you're not; there are at least nine of you. I kid. Jobvite's 2012 Social Recruiting Survey revealed that 71 percent of survey respondents consider themselves to possess only moderate...

What if Recruiters Take the Rorschach Inkblot Test?

Seepage of unconscious desires, passions, insecurities and fears into recruiting interactions is not supposed to happen. Job roles, rituals, rites and rules of decorum, predictability and reliability are expected to prevail, save for the token moments of casualness or playfulness these allow, require or eventually cause as essential venting. However, recruiters, despite the suits, ties, smart...

What To Do When A Superstar Leaves

You may not need to look any further than your own front door to confirm what many industries surveys are saying at the moment, which is that voluntary employee turnover is currently high as a result of ambitious employees striving to move up the career ladder. This is affecting businesses of all shapes and sizes, but the truth is that some of the voluntary turnover will be welcome turnover,...

LinkedIn Takes Recruiters Into the Hearts and Minds of Professionals [Infographic]

Valentine's Day may be over, but LinkedIn still wants to help recruiters steal a candidate's heart. That's why its Talent Solutions has created a new infographic, "Inside the Hearts and Minds of Professionals Everywhere: Top Career Motivators," to give recruiters an inside look at the mindsets of today's top talent. Based on its Talent Trends Survey of more than 18,000...

Giving and Getting the Bad Job-News: Should It Be First or Last? [Part 2]

3. Why does anybody want the good news first, knowing that the bad is sure to follow and maybe sour the mood? When the good news is simply a seesaw offset and not specifically damage repair or a product of a short attention span, things get a tad more complicated. This is because in this scenario, a key question for any given individual is this: Which carries the greater psychological...

Recruiting, Retaining and Inspiring Today's Multi-generational Workforce [Part 2]

In part 1 of this article we discussed how, for the first time in history, four generations are now working alongside one another: Traditionalists (Born 1925-1945), Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964), Gen X (Born 1965-1979) and Gen Y (Born 1980-2000). And using the recent Accounting Principals whitepaper "Generation Optimization: Strategies for Recruiting, Retaining and Inspiring a...

Dust Off Outdated Hiring Practices and Throw Them Away

Mad Men, the popular AMC series, returns later this year for its seventh season about the advertising business in the 1960s. The show has had a major impact as it takes viewers back to the days of three-martini lunches and smoking in offices. One HR expert, though, wants to make sure companies no longer embrace some of the personnel practices one might find by watching the show. Liz Ryan, in a...

Stay Safe While Job Hunting: Job Scam Warning Signs

In 2014, there's a lot more to job hunting than simply spell-checking your resume and proofreading your cover letter. Not only does job hunting in the current economy require effort and perseverance, it also requires a certain amount of wariness. The many challenges of today's economic climate include the unfortunate abundance of scammers aiming to take advantage of individuals who are...

Should Staff Wages Be Made Public?

It's the question that has been on nobody's lips until recently: Should an individual's salary be made public? Of course, we'd all like to know what our bosses and friends make, but equally we might not want the world and their dog to know exactly what we make. That's why it's been pretty much a non-issue until recently. In general, salaries are not made public and that's the way it is. And every...

Transforming HR From Cost Center To Profit Center

One of the things that first struck me when I moved from in-house HR and Recruitment to the consulting side was how great I felt about being a revenue generator, creator and producer. I was happy to not simply be a cost center or a 'drain' on resources, which in my opinion, is the unflattering and inaccurate description of the in-house HR function. A competent HR and recruitment function is...

How to Make Remote Working Work

According to the 2013 State of American Workplace Report, remote workers are more engaged in their work than those who work on site. Telecommuting has become a trend in America's workforce with more people requiring flexible work schedules. Gallup Study Highlights: 39 percent of employees surveyed have worked remotely 32 percent of remote workers are engaged in their...

Recruiting, Retaining and Inspiring Today's Multi-Generational Workforce [Part 1]

Today's multi-generational workforce is a pretty big topic as of late. And by multi-generational we mean that, for the first time in history, four generations are now working alongside one another. Those include: -Traditionalists (Born 1925-1945) -Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964) -Gen X (Born 1965-1979) -Gen Y (Born 1980-2000) And Gen Z is also about to make its debut into...

1st Annual Recruiting Service Innovation Awards (ReSIs) to Recognize Innovators & Game Changers in Recruitment Optimization

The 1st Annual Recruiting Service Innovation Awards (the ReSIs) will be presented on June 25, 2014, following the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference Expo in Orlando, Florida. The ReSIs, sponsored by Boxwood Technology and Simply Hired, are the first accolade to recognize ground-breaking sourcing and recruiting products and services that help employers...

Weird Ideas That May Get You Noticed But Not Hired

In college I had a friend whose roommate had his resume printed up on a paper grocery bag along with the message, "I so want to work for you that I would brown bag it every day." At the time I thought it was clever but it only garnered him one interview – with a grocery chain. Weird self-promotional items may get you noticed but they're not going to get you hired. Consider this example from...

Is It Time to Develop an Employee Off-boarding Strategy?

As the talent war intensifies, talent management teams are responding by creating excellence at every stage of the employee life cycle in order to up their game. While attraction and engagement used to be the main imperatives, onboarding is now being recognized as a key stage of the employee lifecycle. Research by Execunet and others has shown both an increase in usage of onboarding strategies...

GC Incentives Offers New Incentives Management Solution with IncentCore

IncentCore, a new solution from GC Incentives (a division of GiftCertificates.com), is an on-demand recognition and rewards solution that reinforces core organizational values and helps achieve a positive ROI. IncentCore offers various customizable levels to suit the needs of any sized business and can be integrated into any type of program including spot awards, employee engagement, wellness,...