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CatchApp Remote Productivity App Helps Managers Track Progress of Team Members

Productivity app builder Hojoki has launched CatchApp in the North American Apple App Store to help business managers track everything their teams are working on. CatchApp delivers an overview of work when it is spread across different apps and multiple people. The app does this by automatically creating reports on the activity of recent teams in the form of a workplace newsfeed. Users can...

Do You Know What Your Employer Value Proposition Is?

"What's your employer value proposition?" Have you ever been asked this question at a conference yet failed to come up with an instant, convincing answer? When answering this question, do your listeners' eyes glaze over as you stumble around looking for a clear, substantive message, but actually deliver tired out cliches and shallow statements that impress no one, least of all yourself? I bet...

Happy No Year! Solace for the Jobless—from the 'Ghosts of New Year's Eve'

For anyone jobless on New Year's Eve, the Times Square countdown on TV probably looks like a Doomsday Clock vigil. Being jobless during Christmas is often tough and painful, but a jobless New Year's Eve can make it all seem so much worse. On top of the endless "silent night" of unanswered job applications there is the forced downsizing of holiday gifts for and dinners with loved ones...

Make Sure Your Brand has an Outstanding Customer Experience

The holiday season makes clear which brands produce a truly outstanding in-store customer experience. It's easy to claim to be customer friendly, but the stressful holiday period is the truest test. And for those that underperform, it offers pointers for improvement. My retail heroes of this year include Apple, Cinnabon and Pret A Manager. As one of the most profitable companies in America,...

UltiPro Fall 2013 Release Delivers Expanded Global HCM, User Experience Enhancement

Ultimate Software, a provider of cloud-based people management solutions, has announced several enhancements to its HCM solution in its UltiPro Fall 2013 release, including expansions in global HCM, global payroll integration, configurability, and a new user experience. The company has also announced UltiPro Managed Services that offer customers the option to allow UltiPro to handle select HR,...

Applications for Unemployment Benefits Experiences Largest Increase in Over a Year

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits surged by 68,000 for the week ending December 7, reaching a year high of 368,000. It is expected that the surge is due to adjustment difficulties after Thanksgiving but could signal troubling news if it continues. The U.S. Department of Labor has reported that the four-week average rose by 6,000 to reach 328,750, close to pre-recession levels...

Give Yourself a Break This Holiday Season...Your Health may Depend Upon It

I came across an extremely sad story today. Here's the headline: Young Woman Dies After Tweeting That She Worked 30 Hours Straight. Apparently Mita Duran, 24, was a copywriter at Young Rubicam, an ad agency in Indonesia. On Saturday Dec. 14 she tweeted, "30 hours of working and still going strooong." Another story explains that Duran "collapsed to the floor and slipped into a...

Value Edge Unleashes Cloud-based Competitive Intelligence Platform – Integrate Edge

International analytics firm Value Edge has announced the launch of the beta version of its cloud-based intelligence platform, Integrate Edge. The refined beta version provides firms with a tool to collect, store, and share competitive intelligence information. It additionally allows organizations to share in-house market insights within a single interface. "Marketing and Intelligence...

Is it Ever Right to cut an Interview Short?

As employers and recruiters, you will undoubtedly find yourself in the situation where quite early in the interview you realize the candidate is not right for the role – which means that the next 45 minutes of the interview are likely to be a waste of your time, the candidate's time and any other interviewer's time. So, what should you do? Cut the interview short, there and then, and thank...

Express Employment Professionals Launches Pay It Forward Holiday Hiring Drive

Express Employment Professionals, the nation's largest, privately held staffing company, has partnered with job seekers and local businesses to put 9,612 people to work this holiday season. The company's 172 Express offices across the U.S. and Canada implemented the Pay It Forward Holiday Hiring Drive, which will take place during various weeks this holiday season, to help match job seekers...

How to Tell if a Job Ad is a Scam

A gang of fraudsters were jailed recently after posting fake job adverts online. The gang used the ads to facilitate the delivery of computer viruses to the applicants that made copies of their bank details. The issue, sadly, isn't isolated as a spate of similar crimes have hit the news in months gone by. Whilst such incidents remain rare, vigilance is nevertheless recommended for those...

Talent Sourcing Made Mobile with Work4 Recruitment Solution

For companies with their aim set at attracting an ever more mobile-savvy talent pool, Work4, the leading Facebook recruiting solution, has released a fully mobile version of its suite of social recruitment solutions. The mobile-optimized, multiscreen approach makes for a seamless recruitment experience that allows candidates to easily save jobs from mobile ads to apply later, upload resumes to...

How Going Back to Work Mirrors the Post-Christmas Return Line

Ah the day after Christmas; one of the most infamous days for store returns. Today is the day that parents flock to stores to return gifts that were broken upon unwrapping or that their kiddies didn't quite like (clothes too). Teens stand in line to exchange the "parents just don't understand" type of gifts while others wait to exchange it's-the-thought-that-counts gifts that they'd...

Journyx for MS Dynamics GP Enhances Time and Expense Tracking and More

Tracking and forecasting software provider Journyx has announced the launch of a solution for Microsoft Dynamics GP that speeds up time and expense tracking while providing a total enterprise package. The new tool, developed due to customer dissatisfaction with tracking in Dynamics GP, does more than simply make time tracking more efficient; it offers other customized features including: •...

What is the Ideal Work Week?

In a hotly contested candidate market, the most progressive employers are beginning to see that employee retention and/or revitalization is as important as making new hires. In many respects, it can be more important as studies show that internally promoted candidates are both cheaper and regularly outperform externally appointed candidates. One way to increase both employee retention (and...

Halogen Software Releases Two Modules to Assist in Workforce Building

Cloud-based talent management solutions provider Halogen Software has announced the 1:1 Exchange and Halogen Myers-Briggs modules for improving organizational communications, collaboration, and coaching. The 1:1 Exchange meeting module gives organization the capability to incorporate information from diverse sets of talent management processes into one-on-one sessions to boost performance. The...

6 Ways to see Through the Recruiter's Blind Spot

There are many conscious and unconscious biases that recruiters and hiring managers are susceptible too. Many of the more well known ones such as race, gender, age, and sexual orientation have been identified and prohibited by legislation. But, there are other more inconspicuous biases that are not widely known about, which reduce the quality of the hiring decision. One particular recruiter...

Microimage Launches Live Phase of Social Performance Management Platform

Leading HCM software solutions provider Microimage has launched the live phase of its social performance management platform, Workswiftly.com, after a successful global beta release. The cloud-based solution, hosted by Amazon EC2, helps business professionals revise performance management strategies while integrating the transformative social media technologies prevalent with the ever-growing...

Full Release of Zavanta SOP Software 6.0 Announced with Read/Verify Module

COMPROSE Inc. has announced the full release of Zavanta SOP software v. 6.0 including read/verify features. With the read/verify module, users can electronically complete the verification signoff process after reading a policy of standard operating procedure (SOP). Records then go directly to a database for easy reporting and tracking. "Read/verify is an important but often time-consuming...

The Most Expensive Piece of Paper you Own

Ah your degree, so much blood, sweat and Bartons went into obtaining that important documentation of your educational journey. Sleepless nights of studying and doubles at Applebee's finally got you to the degree promise land where jobs were to be plentiful and pay was to be high. Many of us got to the top of the mountain, only to find a lack of resources and opportunity. Our parents and...

Employers Advertise Most Job Openings in Over Five Years during October

The U.S. Labor Department has reported that job openings in October reached the highest level since March 2008, equating to an overall increase of 1 percent to 3.93 million. The number of workers quitting their jobs also rose by 2.5 percent to 2.39 million; the highest number since October 2008. More job openings and workers quitting both signal an improving job market as it indicates more people...

Merry Christmas: A Totally Free HR Software Toolkit for Small Firms

There will be a time in every startup's or small firm's life when it will need to dispense with the random HR data management system of excel spreadsheets, word documents, and other randomly associated files and actually invest in some HR systems and technologies to help streamline the people management processes. In fact, today's HR technologies not only streamline and automate much of the HR...

'Merry Un-Christmas!'—Useful Office Applications of an Alice-in-Wonderland Tactic

"Merry Un-Christmas!" sounds like a politically correct, safely sanitized "season's greeting", if taken against the backdrop of recent pundit and public bickering about what to wish others during this "holiday season". The debate is at times so contentious that uncivil Civil War battle lines seem to have been drawn between "Merry Xmas!" and "Merry Nix-mas!" camps. But...

A Look into Outsourcing Benefits

Benefits administration can be a tasking ordeal for any HR department. From the first point of contact, simply sending in revisions to current benefit plans, adding dependents and removing features can eat into your productivity. What you might not know is that not only does keeping your benefits administration in house take up time and precious resources, but it also affects your total cost...

Beware of the Recruiter's Blind Spot

We've all heard about the driver's blind spot, which hides potential hazards on the road, but do you know that recruiter's have a scientifically proven blind spot that occurs during the interview and assessment process. This blind spot can lead to an inferior or even poor hiring decision. So, what is this blind spot? Well, according to Francesca Gino, researcher at Harvard Business School,...

Talygen Releases Project Management Tool to Simplify Tracking and Collaboration

Talygen, a leading business management automation firm, is now offering a project management tool that helps managers and team members more easily organize, track, and implement projects. The web-based project management software makes the processes of planning, organization, tracking, collaboration, and billing more efficient thanks to a list of features including: • The ability to manage...

Simply Hired Makes Mobile Job Seeking Faster and More Relevant with New Mobile Experience

Simply Hired has announced a revamped and enhanced mobile experience for candidates and recruiters at its mobile job-search site. The new functionality on offer makes connecting candidates and employers quicker while ensuring applicants find only the most relevant job postings within their search parameters. The site allows users to benefit from the convenience of mobile search while also being...

Consumer Confidence Falls as Job Outlook Remains Weak

New York-based The Conference Board, a private research group, has reported that American consumer confidence in the economy dipped in September as short-term doubts about hiring and salary increases rose. The group's consumer confidence index fell from 81.8 in August to 79.7 in September; a healthy confidence level is one of 90 or more. And while still at recent record highs, consumer...

The $1 Unlimited Job Creation Program—a Mathematical Satire with Serious Implications

National unemployment can be wiped out with just $1. Massive quantitative easing is not necessary to stimulate any economy or to create hundreds of thousands, millions of jobs. The way to do this is as simple as spending $1. Let's say that President Obama or Ben Bernanke—actually anyone at all—steps into a shop and buys something for $1 and, in addition, informs the recipient that the $1...

Should Recruiters Take Online Degrees Seriously?

As a result of increasing economic hardship, growing technological empowerment, dynamic lifestyles and the increasing emphasis on knowledge accreditation and credentials, we have seen a surge in demand and provision of online university degrees. Many students see online degrees as a practical and more affordable way to get a degree, and hence employers will increasingly be seeing graduates coming...

Unemployment Gap Between Wealthiest, Poorest at Decade High

According to a survey conducted at Northeastern University, the employment rates between the highest- and lowest-income families have diverged more this year than ever before. For families earning less than $20,000 per year, the unemployment rate has risen to 21 percent, almost as high as the U.S. national average during the doldrums of the Great Depression. Households with income exceeding...

Why Aren't North Pole Elf Jobs Automated Yet?—A Serious Enquiry into Our Work Archetypes

Just-in-time "drone-deer" delivery, fully robotic toy-assembly lines; mammoth Chinese Foxconn-scale Apple production plants, supply chain management software, outsourcing of jobs to elves in India or Laos, direct OEM-based customer care and completely unionized workforce. These are but a few of the forms of modernization that could be introduced into "Santa's workshop"—which,...

Can Applicants Fake Personality Tests?

Like it or loathe it, cultural fit-based hiring is all the rage at the moment. This is illustrated by an eye opening study of professional services firms by the Kellogg School of Management, which revealed that today's bosses are choosing employees who they feel have a good personality fit, e.g. who they feel they can be friends with, and this is proving to be more important than the candidate's...

Biggest Recruitment Challenges Identified by Jibe Talent Acquisition Survey

Recruiting technology solutions provider Jibe, Inc. has released its Jibe Talent Acquisition survey of over 100 in-house recruiting professionals. The survey identifies the obstacles faced by recruiters as they investment more in technology solutions and seek improved data and analytics. The survey showed that many of the technology solutions adopted by recruiters has actually hindered success as...

How Philosophy Helps Focus Your Time

What does philosophy have to do with being an entrepreneur? And more specifically, what does it have to do with time management? Isn't it all a bit esoteric, ethereal and wishy washy? I wonder if you think it's interesting to study but not something you can practice or make use of in your daily life or work. I used to think like that. And then I read Alain de Botton's "Consolations of...

Dear Santa: A Job Seeker's Wish List

Dear Santa, And by "Santa" we mean hiring managers, HR personnel and even recruiters. In the spirit of Christmas, we job seekers have decided to make our own wish lists. All we want for Christmas is for all of you to... Acknowledge our application(s) Hiring managers, don't all of you understand that we spend hours perfecting our resumes and cover letters for each position we...

Business Performance Improvement Stymied by Low Passion, Finds Deloitte

Deloitte's Unlocking Passion of the Explorer survey revealed that not only do organizations need to hire workers with passion for their jobs in order to improve performance, but that just 11 percent of workers possess those attributes necessary for reaching accelerated learning and performance improvement. Deloitte reports that return on investments (ROI) in the U.S. have been declining for...

Elasticity of Demand as Hiring, Negotiation and Management Tool

Shopping for anything in a supermarket, you are likely to buy more or more often when the stuff is discounted and less when the price rises. How much more or less, if any, is a measure of what economists call "price elasticity of demand". What's interesting about the concept and psychology underlying supermarket price elasticity of demand are, as will be explained, its implications for...

How to Monitor and Control your Online Reputation

If you're not satisfied with the results of an online search of your name, odds are that a potential employer won't be either. Fortunately, with the rise of social media, a growing selection of tools is available to help monitor and control the information that is published about you on the Internet. With the Internet, anyone can say anything about anyone on forums, websites, or blogs. Entire...

Double the Branding, Double the Fun: Managing Multiple Personal Brands

Personal branding is all about creating and communicating your professional image to reflect your personality, skills, and expertise. It's the way you insightfully express to the world what you know and how you use what you know to create value. But sometimes a single person requires two completely different brands due to the needs of disparate professional identities. This is common for...

Think Like a Millionaire in Less than 5 Minutes Per Day

Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? While most workers only "dream" of this type of success, best-selling author and performance expert Noah St. John has a step-by-step approach to help people make this—and other life goals—a reality. Through his The Book of AFFORMATIONS, St. John offers readers insights and steps to use the process of AFFORMATIONS, empowering questions that change...

HarQen Offers new Video Interview Apps for iOS and Android

Recruitment technology company HarQen has announced the release of interview apps for its Voice Advantage interviewing tool that extend the tool's functionality to mobile devices running iOS or Android. The apps are designed to complement the web-based platform for creating the ideal candidate experience. HarQen estimates that 40 percent of candidates interview during non-traditional business...

How to Make a Dream New Hire Experience

Having bagged your dream candidate, it's important that employers make sure that the new hire does not have a nightmare experience after he or she joins the company, which has been shown to happen in many cases and is evidenced by the findings of a study by The Wynhurst Group. It showed that 22 percent of staff turnover occurs within the first 45 days, which suggests that the new hire,...

Job Search Tips for the Holidays

The holidays can be an especially challenging time to search for a job. From November to January, you'll have to deal with vacationing managers, closed offices, and other hassles. However, that's no reason to put your job search on ice until after the new year. In fact, the holidays can be a great time to find a new job. According to David Schepp of AOL Jobs, surveys have shown that 69...

Universum Global Reveals Most Attractive Employers of 2013

Universum Global, a global organization focused on the field of employer branding, has released a list of companies it identifies as having a competitive edge due to reputation. The rankings were formulated using the opinions of nearly 200,000 business and engineering students from top universities located in the world's 12 largest economies: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,...

Applications for Unemployment Benefits Rise Again

Seekers of unemployment benefits rose by 15,000 for the week ending September 14, reaching 309,000, but reporting delays have distorted data for the second consecutive week. The four week average dipped to 314,750, down 7,000, to a nearly six-year low. Applications data was severely skewed beginning in the week ending September 7 as both California and Nevada were unable to report data due to...

Avoiding an HR Nightmare: How to Handle new Technology and Create Confidence

Companies large and small recognize that the pace of IT development is astounding. They also recognize how hard it is to keep up with it and the dilemmas it creates. Every new device or piece of software seems to be a double-edged sword. Employees can now bring a tablet to work that in some cases is more powerful than a desktop computer was 10 years ago. They can take it to a coffee shop, use...

Responsibility and Social Media in the Workplace

Being productive at work is a wonderful feeling. It inspires confidence in your abilities and work ethic and leads to less stress during your recreation time. But what happens when your use of social media disrupts that productivity leaving you wondering how the workday got away from you? Development of corporate policy regarding social media is still in its infancy with some companies...