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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...

ScheduleSoft Launches Next-gen Workforce Management SaaS, Workloud

ScheduleSoft, a leading provider of workforce management solutions, has announced the release of Workloud, a cloud-based SaaS workforce management product. Workloud enables organizations to control every aspect of workforce management and reducing the size and costs of IT. ScheduleSoft's demand-driven workforce scheduling has been expanded with Workloud and now covers time and attendance,...

LinkedIn Releases 2014 Talent Trends Report, 85 Percent of Workforce Open to Career Change

LinkedIn wants to help you uncover what's on the minds of those in the professional workforce. And to do so, the largest professional networking site recently released 2014 Talent Trends, its very first talent trends report revealing what's on the minds of professionals when it comes to jobs and career management. The report is based off of a survey of 18,000 full-time employed...

The Anatomy of A Job Board – What's Next?

The International Association of Employment Websites (IAEW) now boasts over 1200 members in a universe of more than 40,000 job boards at last count. In 1999, Monster.com's super bowl ads launched the explosion of the online job posting space and wrestled the help wanted business away from print newspapers. Since then many boards launched to compete in an industry that flourished. However,...

4 Reasons to Hire an Independent Contract Recruiter

Most people are going into business for themselves nowadays and the majority of companies are utilizing their services. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' most recent data shows that more than 14 million Americans are self-employed and 10.3 million workers are classified as independent contractors, which accounts for 7.4 percent of the workforce. And DeWitt, Ross Stevens law firm...

Increase Employee Engagement Today...No, Right Now!

The statistic is out and employee engagement is down. Like, 50 million disengaged American employees down. Studies (and common sense) have proven disengaged employees aren't as productive as their more satisfied colleagues. Similar to those of us who are hoping for a new, easy weight-loss miracle, companies are scrambling to find an answer to the abundance of unhappy employees. If you happen...

Are Millennial Workers Really That Different From the Rest?

There is a lot of coverage in the press about the transformation of workforce culture, resulting from the well documented generational shifts that are occurring in the workplace. As Baby Boomers retire, or at least step down into part-time/stewardship roles, their shoes are being filled by the maturing generation X. This is leaving a gap at the bottom for the arrival of the burgeoning millennial...

The Future of Recruitment Advertising: Why Your Job Ads Must Evolve

The technological trends of recent years have caused the recruitment industry to shift dramatically (and it's about time too!). It's a whole new world out there, and if traditional recruiters want to survive they will need to reinvent themselves and promote an entirely new suite of offerings to both their clients. Whether you believe that LinkedIn is eating the recruitment industry or that other...

Beta Launch of KROWSPACE Offers New Way to Connect People with Jobs

Startup KROWSPACE has announced the launch of its beta platform of the same name to pair traditional job searching with social networking elements. Sign up is simple, consisting of logging on and registering, and profiles and job postings are free for job providers. Employers then visit their individual Connections page to view applicants. Once an employer has found a suitable match, it can then...

How is Your Resolve Doing? Carbs and the Candidate Experience

It's still the start of the year, and resolutions are little more than dust in the wind for most of us. Of the 45 percent of Americans who made resolutions, 75 percent made it through the first week, and that number will drop to around 46 percent by June. Whether the vow was to cut carbs, or to improve business, the majority of us did not, or will not follow through. If getting better at...

Don't Add Your Tears to the Rain: a Job Stress Management Commandment

At work and in life, there's always something going wrong—often horribly wrong. Unfortunately, for many, that's ironically and exactly when their judgment or resolve about how to handle that kind of stress also goes horribly wrong—at the worst possible time. Chief among those wrong responses is to react in ways that compound and exacerbate the problem, rather than solve, defer, or...

Recruiting Workers for the Hospitality Industry

There's a coming shortage of workers in the United States as more baby boomers retire. It could have a strong impact in the hospitality industry when it comes to recruitment. Writing at HotelExecutive.com, Susan Tinnish, Dean, School of Hospitality Management, Kendall College in Chicago, Illinois, said, "The recent economic downturn has lulled many organizations into forgetting that the United...

Article Releases Studio 13′ Update, Improves e-Learning Industry Standard

Developer of award-winning e-learning software, Articulate, recently released Articulate Studio '13 Update 2. The product update helps the company further improve the market-leading suite for rapid authoring of courses, quizzes, and other e-learning content. Through its Articulate Presenter '13, Articulate Quizmaker '13, Articulate Engage '13, and Articulate Replay offerings, the...

If Your Company Were a Basketball Team...

In honor of March Madness, I'm going to attempt to relate business to basketball. More specifically, let's talk about how different team roles come together to establish a company culture! Play along with me here because I'm not (at all) in to sports, but my YMCA basketball days in the fourth grade have thoroughly prepared me to make this analogy. My free throws were all net; therefore, I...

Fewer than Expected Jobs Added to Economy in February

Companies hired workers at a slower pace than projected for February 2012, indicating businesses are waiting for pickup in demand before turning to ramping up headcounts. After being revised to 127,000 jobs in January, February's numbers reflect an increase of 139,000 jobs and contributes to the weakest two-month period since August and September 2012. Bloomberg-surveyed economists generated a...

6 Personality Traits Every Small Firm Should Have

Small firms aren't just the engine of the economy; they are the engines of most economies. In the U.S., small firms make up more than 99.7 percent of all employers and employ about 50 percent of all private sector workers. Yet, many small firms are too small or under-resourced to justify an HR person and will be doing DIY talent management, which is why we like to focus many of our guidance...

PGi Survey finds Telecommuting Reduces Stress While Increasing Worker Productivity

Even as several high-profile companies have banned telecommuting, the phenomenon continues to grow, and a survey from PGi indicates that this is a good thing. The survey, which focused on U.S. based customers and knowledge workers, found that telecommuters experienced decreased stress (82 percent of respondents), higher morale (80 percent), improved productivity (70 percent), and reduced...

IOR Launches New Professional Certificate for In-house Recruiting

UK-based Institute of Recruiters (IOR) has launched its new professional certificate in in-house recruiting. The Level-3 qualification is regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), delivered entirely online and provides recruiters with the practical knowledge and skills needed to perform all the responsibilities of an internal recruitment professional. The...

Tweet, Tweet! Changing the Face of Your Social Recruiting

Twitter isn't just for the young'uns anymore. Forty-nine percent of Twitter-using job seekers are college graduates. Corporate giants like Google and Disney have hopped on the Twitter train. The world of employer brand is dramatically changing. As the evolution of organizations follow the trends of technological advances, their recruitment programs progress with them. These companies are only...

Creative Ways to Recruit New Talent

FP7, an ad agency in Dubai, used a creative way to recruit new creative talent that it boasts eliminated agency fees yet left some wondering at the expense of it all. From Adweek.com comes the story that FP7 took "a novel approach to avoid hefty headhunter fees. The shop placed cellphones inside die-cut, faux ad industry books and mailed the volumes to creatives it wished to hire. " You...

Why Beards Are Back and Their Sociobiological Impact on Job Interviews

"...if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you; you would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President."—October 15, 1860 letter to Senator Abraham Lincoln, from Grace Bedell, age 11 The primeval beard is back. At least it's back...

Glassdoor Reveals Inside Scoop on Recruiting Software Engineers [Infographic]

Software engineers are some of the toughest jobs to fill. At least that's what a new infographic from jobs and career community site Glassdoor, "How to Recruit Software Engineers," says. So to help employers understand how to better recruit this talent, Glassdoor surveyed more than 1,400 software engineers to gather insights on how soon software engineers plan to look for a new job, the...

Social Media and Sourcing: Why Facebook Can Help You

When it comes to sourcing, it's very important for recruiters to understand where to find the best candidates. This often means knowing 1) what type of candidates you're looking for and 2) their job search habits. For example, if you're looking to hire millennial talent, as most companies are, you'll need to understand where this group of workers thrive: social media. And...

Should These Traditional Resume Red Flags Be Retired?

The idea of a talent shortage is undeniable according to employers and analysts. Kelly Services reports that 61 percent of employers are struggling to hire staff in 2014, and the Manpower Talent Shortage report shows that 35 percent of employers are struggling to find talent. But, despite this hard data, there are constant rumblings and grumblings around the topic of talent shortages, which...

How Not To 'Age Out' of IT Employment

There's a sense that one can be too old to be hired for an IT job but some experts refute that. Instead, what happens is people don't keep their skills up to date, regardless of age, and don't get hired for that reason. In an article at CIO.com, author, career search expert and consultant Rick Gillis says, "It's about being able to demonstrate your accomplishments. Most IT firms want to know...

5 Ways e-HR will Transform Your Department in 2014

In its report "Transforming HR Through Technology," the Society of Human Resource Professionals (SHRM) says that in many organizations today, "employees now see the face of HR as a portal rather than a person." SHRM calls this shift "e-HR," or the transformation of HR service delivery using web-based technology. And boy haven't we witnessed how the implementation of HR technology...

5 Indicators You've Outgrown Skype as Your Video Interviewing Tool

So you've introduced Skype interviews into your organization and now you're feeling like the hero who's grabbed a tiger by the tail. Like you, many of Skype's 250 million monthly users are HR professionals who try Skype as a way to test video technology with their hiring process. But when the concept of video interviewing catches on, using a consumer-level video product quickly...

What Depression-Era Movies Can Teach Recruiters about Hiring Hooks

Want to hook and sell candidates on the job you're dangling? Then, watch block-buster 1930s Depression-era movies, such as "Grapes of Wrath", "Public Enemy" or "Top Hat" for how-to tips. No, the valuable lessons won't be about selling "escapism" or about how to capitalize on people's economic fears and despair. More instructive than those approaches and hooks are other...

How To Avoid Key Job Interview Blunders

How soon do you have to make a good impression during an interview? One survey claims it is less than five minutes. At the best, you have 15 minutes to make a strong impression before being blackballed by the employer. The website Careers.com said it surveyed 2,201 hiring managers and human resource professionals across industries and company sizes to determine those results. The top most...

Using a "Commitment Device" for Professional Development

Do you have the guilty feeling that you should be reading more books, networking with successful peers, or attending webinars and workshops to keep your professional focus tight...while the truth is that there is just no time or energy for it? You are not alone in the struggle with this immovable contradiction. When it comes to great business books to boost your knowledge, a major cause of...

5 Reasons Your Job Interviews Aren't Working

There is nothing more frustrating than having devoted time to a hiring, onboarding and integration process only for a new hire to crash out of the organization prematurely, perhaps in six to nine months after joining. The direct, indirect and lost opportunity costs can be disconcerting with one study by the NBRI suggesting that the average bad hire cost can be around $25,000 for low paying jobs...

Randstad to Offer Webinar on Contingent Talent, March 11, 2014

The number of self-employed workers is on the rise and now, more than ever, businesses need to understand the benefits of utilizing contingent workers. And to help companies do this, Global Talent Leader Randstad Sourceright is offering a free webinar to demonstrate how companies are addressing the increase of independent contractors and temporary talent in the workforce. Who: Emily...

The ABC's of Abandoned Wages: What Payroll Professionals Need to Know

Like an abandoned building becomes a city's responsibility, abandoned wages become a payroll department's responsibility, too. If payroll professionals don't follow their state's laws – and the state laws where employees live – the company could face tedious audits and hefty fines. Read on for an explanation of what abandoned wages are, how they occur and what to do if your payroll...

Don't Let Weather Mess Up Your Job Interview

This has been a particularly harsh winter and it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time soon. However, weather problems can persist all year so it's best to be prepared so weather doesn't mess up your job interview. At TheLadders.com, Amanda Augustine writes that you should: Make Contact Quickly Prepare for Other Interview Methods Take Advantage of the Time As soon as you hear...

What Do the Top 3 Career Websites Have in Common?

Career sites are a huge opportunity to attract talent. In fact, 85percent of job seekers rely on career sites to apply to, and learn about potential employers. A survey of almost 1,600 U.S. students and graduates tested 119 of the top career sites. This 2013 Online Talent Communication Study concluded that: -Ernst Young -Bertelsmann -GEICO Were the top three career...

Chess and Poker vs. 'Win-Win' Job Interview Strategies

Is a job interview more like chess, or poker? Or should it be played or seen as like neither—and more like a cooperative exercise in "getting to know each other" with "win-win" for both sides as the goal? How can you tell how your interview is being or should be played? The way you see or play the interview will alter not only your perceptions, moves, disclosures and...

iCIMS Releases First eBook Offering Insight into Mind of Today's Job Seeker

iCIMS, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions, recently introduced an eBook created to provide dynamic data insights on both employers and job seekers. Insight into the Mind of Today's Job Seeker is the first in a quarterly series of research eBooks that offers readers both perspectives on today's talent marketplace. The new eBook is current...

The 10 Most Exciting Trends for Women in 2014 [Pt. 2]

In the first part of this article we talked about how 2014 is the "Year of the Woman," and with the help of prominent thought leader, speaker and accomplished author Dr. Tracey Wilen, we listed five of 10 exciting trends for women this year. They were: Women "sharks" on the rise (increase of women-owned businesses); Women in the driver's seat (more female CEOs); Young firms...

Can Gamification Turbo Boost Hiring?

There is a new sheriff in town when it comes to motivating hiring teams, and it's called gamification. Gamification is the process by which you use game mechanics to help motivate individuals and help teams perform. You set goals, display performance on league tables, give out badges and reward and recognize winners. Gamification, as you may all know, has been around for some time, but it's...

Spring Clean Your Resume

When was the last time you updated your resume? Even if you're not actively looking for a job, it's a good idea to keep your resume fresh. Here are four ways to give your resume a modern makeover. Cut the Clutter. If you listed every job you've ever had—including that three-month stint as a barista in college or the temp job you worked 15 years ago—it's time to ditch the irrelevant...

Kavaliro Whitepaper Explains How ACA Affects Businesses

Staffing services provider Kavaliro wants to help your company prepare for the fast-approaching Affordable Care Act. And to do so, it recently released updates to its whitepaper, "The New Definition of a Full-time Employee Under the Affordable Care Act and What It Means to Your Business." We've all read news stories and have heard the buzz surrounding employers and healthcare, but...

5 Tips on How to Get the Most Out of Your Recruiter

When looking for a new job or a change in your career, you have the choice to use a professional recruiter or not. There are a number of career advice websites that have in some ways taken the place of the recruiters these days. So what can a recruiter do for you? I am not talking about a personnel agency but rather professional executive recruiters. What is the difference you ask? Most...

Your SAT Scores Can Haunt Your Job Search

Are you prepared to discuss your SAT scores from high school at your next job interview? Apparently you should be because top companies are asking about them, regardless of how old you are. According to a Wall Street Journal article, "Proving the adage that all of life is like high school, plenty of employers still care about a job candidate's SAT score. Consulting firms such as Bain Co....

Content is King in Recruitment Marketing

As recruitment and marketing start to share the responsibility of attracting talent and brand strategy, we've started to see more and more traditional marketing tactics in everyday recruiting. There is a reason that marketers, on average, spend over a quarter of their marketing budget on content marketing. Social media sites and blogs reach 80 percent of all U.S. internet users and account for...