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Is Twitter a Reliable Candidate Assessment Tool?

As we have written many times on here, the resume is dead. Well, it's not entirely dead as most employers still request resumes, but to think that resumes are the only device being relied upon to assess candidates would be naïve. Resumes are part of an application jigsaw comprised of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter feeds, Pinterest, and surveys show that most employers now use social...

Psychoanalytic Study Shows what Truly Leads to Workplace Happiness

Psychologists at Cangrade have completed a research study identifying the best predictors of job satisfaction and happiness in the workplace. Traditionally, money has been viewed as the primary driver of job satisfaction and employers have responded in kind by increasing compensation in order to improve performance. But the new study undermines this conventional assumption by finding money at the...

Sitting Can Kill You—But What about Standing or Lying Down (on the Job)?

Is it possible that, for the sake of our health, we should literally lie down on the job? If you can't or don't move around much at work, which is more likely to jeopardize your health or even kill you: sitting, standing or lying down? The answer really matters if you, like me, exclusively telecommute or are thinking about doing so. Given a Cisco Corporation report that by 2016, 43% of all...

Nearly 1 in 5 Workers May Retire within Five Years, Reports ADP

In a new report entitled "Age and Retirement Benchmarks: Key Analytics that Drive Human Capital Management," the ADP Research Institute has found that, assuming an average retirement age of 61, as many as 18 percent of U.S. workers may retire within the next years. Six industries were represented in the study including manufacturing, healthcare, education, public administration, hospitality,...

Badgeville Explains The Rise of Millennials [Infographic]

Did you know that there an estimated 76, 370, 030 millennials in the United States? At least that's the latest data from "The Rise of the Millennials: What Marketers and Managers Need to Know Today," a new infographic from leading gamification platform Badgeville. According to the infographic, at 27.4 percent, this Gen Y group (persons born 1981-2000) currently represents the largest...

Afform Your Future Success with Author Noah St. John [Interview]

As an avid reader of "classic" self-help literature— Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Wayne Dyer, Stephen Covey—Noah St. John said he soon discovered that "in order to change our lives, we have to change our beliefs." Growing up poor in a rich neighborhood, St. John said he questioned why even though he read these books for many years and attempted to apply their concepts, he still...

That Moment When They ask, "Do you have any questions for me?"

It's nearing the end of the interview and they ask the question, "Do you have any questions for me?" Your mind races. You either have some questions but don't want to seem arrogant or waste their time, or you completely forgot to research this interview basic that you knew was coming. If you as the candidate choose not to ask questions during the interview, you missed a great opportunity....

How to Spot a Great Speculative job Application

Many companies have built strong enough brands that they receive speculative applications all year round, even at times when they are not advertising jobs. These applications can often gather dust, because let's face it, when you are not currently recruiting, speculative applications often slip down the priority list, because they aren't really actionable at the time. But, on some occasions...

Employer On The GO Cloud-based Payroll Tech Released by Apex Payroll

Cloud-based payroll technology provider Apex Payroll has announced the release of a new online payroll and workforce management solution, Employer On The GO. Apex Go is a platform agnostic browser and online application allowing for the streamlining of payroll through a simple interface. The technology is targeted at payroll services business in specific and is a part of the larger suite of...

Back to Basics: How to Use Social Media for Its Intended Purpose, Connecting

Social media has come a long way in a short period of time. It used to be a convenient way to connect with like-minded individuals and professionals beyond the traditional networking activities. But it has transformed into something much different and it can become difficult to wade through the clamor of trivial updates, conversations, and video links in order to find an oasis of real...

'Possinessity': a Principle of Talent, Resource and Systems Co-Evolution

Everybody has heard, although not universally agreed, that "the ends justify the means". But what about "the ends create the means"?—On one interpretation, this is the idea that the same forces, variables or influences that create a goal also create whatever is required to attain it, i.e., create the means to that goal. Rephrased, this is the co-evolution of the necessity of one thing...

Spherion Survey: 52 Percent of Americans Plan to Give Co-Workers Gifts

According to a national holiday survey by Spherion, leading staffing company, 52 percent of American workers plan to give gifts to their co-workers. The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, also found that more than half (55%) of workers don't expect to receive anything in return. Survey results revealed that 36 percent of workers plan to give to peers at their level while 27 percent...

Do Graduates Outperform Non-Graduates at Work?

Not a day goes by without hearing about the subject of talent wars and the plight of employers struggling to fill mission critical skills with appropriately skilled talent. While most of the advice on this topic is focused on building more effective talent management processes to attract talent, there is less commentary on whether employers should be stepping outside of the box and rethinking...

The Recruiters Wish List for Christmas

What is on your wish-list for Christmas? If you're passionate about recruitment in the ERP sector and keen to take your career up a notch in 2014, then these might be some of the hot ticket items on your wish-list. Win new PSLs Every recruiter will aim to get onto their best client's preferred supplier list (PSL). It's an ideal situation for the recruiter in terms of regular work. It's also...

Are Job Candidates Also Fans of Your Company? Part 2

In part 1 of this article, we looked at some common areas where employers often miss the mark for creating a positive candidate experience. Taken from HireVue's white paper, "Turn Candidates into Fans, Whether or Not They Get the Job: Taking Advantage of Four Key Hiring Moments," these key areas include: Job descriptions Sourcing strategies Candidate friendly career...

Workers Working Longer Each Week Compared to 2008, finds Right Management Survey

A poll conducted by Right Management, a division of ManpowerGroup, has found that employees are working longer hours than they were five years ago, with two-thirds of workers spending "a great deal" longer at work. As workloads, work hours, and budget tightening continue to drive disengagement among employees, successful engagement strategies are becoming recognized as a primary source of...

Adoption of PaaS, Cloud Inadequate for Modern Workforce, says Study

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for DCM provider Eccentex Corp. has released the results of its survey on the adoption and need of mobile, cloud, and PaaS technologies. The survey found that modern workers need these technologies to work remotely but the provided tools are inadequate to the task. The vast majority of respondents (84 percent) agreed that they need to work remotely, but 70 percent...

New Indicators Suggest Job Market May be on the Upswing

With the number of people seeking unemployment benefits sinking to a six-year low; layoffs being few and far between; small businesses expecting to hire at near pre-recession number; and service companies adding jobs at a six-month high, the job market appears to be indicating that it could be strengthening. These recently developments have lead some economists to predict a healthy job market in...

Avoiding Common Communication Errors in the Workplace

There are two types of personality traits that are the roots for the most egregious and common communication blunders in the work place: excessive aggressiveness and passivity. Having an aggressive communication style does not necessarily imply belligerence or hostility, but can also refer to people with a forceful and controlling conversational technique. Aggressive communicators frequently...

Loyalty: Can Your Boss Demand It? Ask the Swans and the Samurai!

Should or can an employer or—in much rarer cases—an employee demand loyalty? But exactly what is this vaunted "loyalty" that is being demanded, expected or even merely hoped for in employer-employee and company-customer relationships? Loyalty is a funny thing: Once you offer it, by definition you can't retract it, if it's accepted—because then, of course, it wasn't loyalty in...

10 Interview Errors that Can Scare off Top Talent (Part 2)

In the first part of this article, we talked about how important it is to not take candidates for granted as top talent will have alternatives if your organization doesn't appear to match up. The interview process is a two-way street. This is why it is important that you operate a highly promotional interview process and avoid the common pitfalls and mistakes that can turn off top candidates. The...

Joint Marketing Agreement Gives Pros Access to Leading Diversity Sourcing Solutions

Peoplefluent and Professional Diversity Network (PDN) have announced a joint marketing relationship to establish a platform for diversity professionals. The platform provides professionals with compliant candidate sourcing solutions to drive a more diverse, and higher performance, workforce. Peoplefluent's Workforce Compliance and Diversity solutions suite and PDN's rich recruitment network...

National Manufacturing Grows at Fastest Pace in 2.5 Years

The Institute for Supply Manager (ISM) has reported that its manufacturing index (an indication of American manufacturing activity), measured a growth rate not seen in two and a half years. Growth has accelerated thanks to increased production, more hiring, and a rise in orders. The Index rose from 56.4 in October (already the highest since April 2011) to 57.3 in November. Any measurement above...

Over One-quarter of Americans Willing to Relocate for Better Health Insurance

According to a recently released report from Bankrate.com, over one quarter of Americans are willing to move to another state or county in order to find better and/or cheaper health insurance. Overall, 28 percent of Americans would move for the reason of better insurance, with 9 percent stating that it would be a major reason and 19 percent listing it as a minor reason. The willingness to...

BOA Merrill Lynch Study Reveals Increase of Employers Helping Workers with Retirement

According to the findings of Bank of America Merrill Lynch's latest Workplace Benefits Report, one-third (32 %) of HR professionals have increased the time they spend on educating employees about workplace benefits and how they factor into workers' financial security and overall wellness. The nationwide survey of more than 1,000 companies also revealed that a whopping 73 percent of HR...

Are Job Candidates Also Fans of Your Company? Part 1

HireVue recently produced an interesting white paper entitled, "Turn Candidates into Fans, Whether or Not They Get the Job: Taking Advantage of Four Key Hiring Moments." In the paper, authors Chip Luman and Ben Martinez explain the four areas where employers most often miss the mark when it comes to the candidate experience—key areas that leave a lasting impression on candidates, whether...

5 Signs you Need to Hire A Recruiter

As a start-up or small business, where cash flow and cash control is critical, you need to keep one eye on the money at all times—even while sleeping. One way that entrepreneurs control costs is by being a jack of all trades, but there comes a point where it will be more cost effective and efficient to hire in specialists, such as recruiters, accountants, book-keepers, and IT support, to...

Quitting Gracefully

Quitting a job is never as fun as it seems like it will be. Despite fantasies of a dramatic exit where you verbally scorn everyone who you feel has wronged you, in most cases leaving a job is a lot more stressful and difficult than it can seem. The trick, everyone knows they need to know but no one seems exactly how to do, is to leave gracefully. Burning bridges is always the worst option, but...

Now THAT'S an Embrace of Technology!

In HR and recruiting we embrace technology to make our processes more efficient and effective. We also use technology to reach out to people, put the company culture on display and establish a brand. Well, this is where we can take a page from WestJet's book. They did a phenomenal job of using technology to humanize their brand and well...rock. Watch this short video (maybe not at work,...

Accenture Digital to Accelerate Business Growth through Digital Transformation

Global management consultancy firm Accenture has launched Accenture Digital, a growth platform integrated into a company's digital assets, software, and services across digital marketing, mobility, and analytics. Accenture Digital provides business and technology services, such as development of digital strategies, implementing digital technologies, and running digital processes on behalf of...

Successful People who Weren't Afraid to Ask

It is often pride which prevents us from asking questions; a fear that our questions will be met with critical judgments or derogatory and dismissive attitudes. Reaching out to ask a question, emailing your boss with a query or raising your hand in class are actions that are overflowing with thought, second-thoughts and a deep sense of trepidation. Yet it is the most successful individuals in...

10 Interview Errors that Can Scare off Top Talent (Part 1)

It's easy to think that as an employer interviewing a bank of candidates, you hold all the aces; in reality, that is unlikely to be the case. Because while you will always be able to hire 'a warm body' as the expression goes, the best candidates will have a career plan and other options and will be weighing your business up to see if it is the best option for them at the current time. They'll be...

2014: The Year of iPads and Coffee Shops

Can you believe Christmas Day is next week? Which means that the new year of 2014 is fast approaching. For most, the holiday season will mean preparing for guests, last minute gift shopping and securing travel plans. But for the HR and recruitment worlds, the dawning of a new year signifies one thing—preparation. Each New Year brings new trends, ideas, and innovations. And most importantly,...

Randstad: Employee Confidence on the Upswing after Government Shutdown

The confidence of American employees in the workplace has rebounded after its decline following the government shut down, reports the Randstad Employee Index. The Index, which measures employees' outlook on jobs, the economy, and career prospects, jumped three percentage points in November to reach 54.5 percent. Confidence also rose in the economy and the job market. "The government shutdown...

More than Half of Workers Don't Trust Their Boss, Seek New Jobs in 2014

According to a new survey by social media-based recruitment specialists staffbay.com, more than 87 percent of workers plan to look for a new job in 2014, and more than half of them reported that this is because they don't trust their current boss. The survey of 15,000 job seekers found that 87.2 percent of respondents said they wanted to leave their current positions. When asked "Why?"...

Instant Workforce Visualization from Peoplefluent Delivers Data-Driven Decision Intel

Social HCM technology company Peoplefluent has announced OrgPublisher 11.2 for delivering advanced turnkey workforce visualization reports and cross-browser publishing enhancements for clients across the globe. OrgPublisher provides reporting on metrics, such as head counts and span of control, for advanced organizational planning and socializing reports. "With a fluent ease, Peoplefluent's...

How to Employ and Cope with 'Surplus' Humans

What shall be done with "Homo Surplus"—economically and ecologically "useless" people? Or is that an unhelpful, perhaps dangerous misconception, or an avoidable development that smart and humanistic policies can prevent or address? Setting aside my cautions about the misconceptions associated with the concept of "surplus humans" presented in Part I, "'Surplus'...

Turning Off the Career "Should Haves" to Manage Career Regret

Career stagnation, second guessing, and playing the career-comparisons game are the seeds of job discontent, decreased self-esteem, and career regret; especially as the year is beginning its inevitable winding down, job boards are filling up with new jobs, and your friends and professional acquaintances may be moving on to bigger and better careers or going back to school. If you aren't...

Survey Reports Veterans not Maximizing Military Skills in Civilan Jobs

A new national survey from the University of Phoenix suggests that military personnel leaving the service may end up underutilizing their skills when transitioning to civilian careers. Even though 90 percent of current active-duty service members anticipate using their skills learned in the service in a civilian job, less than one-third of past service members reported using a great deal or a lot...

Portfolio Careers: A ticket out of Unemployment?

As most of you are beginning to realize, the job for life no longer exists; it has been replaced with the rising tide of lay-offs and multifarious restructures, which have blighted the corporate landscape for the last few decades. As a result, average tenures have been nose diving, and rather than a job for life, recent surveys show that employees can expect a job for about 4.6 years. But,...

inspectiTRAC Suite Expanded with New Features to Manager Module

Russell Associates' mobile inspection, audit, and observation system, inspectiTRAC, has received expanded functionality to its Manager portion to provide further tools for companies to reduce the costs of inspections, audits, and observations. Cost reductions occur thanks to a reduction in employee inspection data and transfer time and increased data accuracy. The tablet-based software is also...

As Employee Engagement Improves Priorities Shift, finds Modern Survey

Human capital measurement firm Modern Survey has released its Fall 2013 Employee Engagement Survey, which found that employee engagement is improving. "Engagement," for the purposes of the survey, is defined as "the degree to which employees are psychologically invested in the organization and motivated to contribute to its success." Engagement was up 3 percent compared to results from...

Guess What? Recruiter-Talk is Clichéd Too

For four straight years, professional networking site LinkedIn has analyzed the language commonly used in its members' profiles. And it creates a list of the top 10 overused buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles. 2013's list included: 1. Responsible 2. Strategic 3. Creative 4. Effective 5. Patient 6. Expert 7. Organizational 8. Driven 9. Innovative 10....

5 Tips to Brand Your Company as a Flexible Workplace

If you're like most companies, you have some sort of flexible work arrangement in place. It may be formal or informal, but your employees probably telecommute from time to time; work flexible hours to fit in doctors appointments; or maybe work extra hours during the week so they can take Fridays off. Over 60 percent of employers offer some kind of flexibility and the most frequently offered...

Frequently Used Training and E-Learning Not Effective, Reports Survey

In 2011 and 2013, both traditional training courses and E-Learning were the most used career development methods, but they both ranked low in effectiveness. This information comes from a comparative survey conducted by Insala to uncover trends around the usage and effectiveness of career development methods. Significant trends discovered in the survey include: • The use of traditional...

Which is Worse: Professional Schadenfreude or 'Freudenschade'?

Finding joy in the misfortune and failures of others is, alas, such a common human proclivity that it has a name: "schadenfreude"—imported into English from German, without the standard German capitalization, as a compound of "hurt/damage/loss" and "joy". Its negative tone and image notwithstanding, is it possible that there is some hidden wisdom in or acceptable rationale for...

Easing into a new Role While Battling Coworker Resentment

Getting a promotion or landing a new job is always a confidence and morale booster, but what do you do when your arrival is received with faux enthusiasm, at best? While you may be psyched and eager to take on the responsibilities of your new role, your coworkers may be experiencing resentment or uncertainty toward the change. It may be that they were comfortable with your predecessor and just...

Layoffs Continue to Fall as Jobless Claims Drop Again

Jobless claims fell once again for the week ending November 23 as the number of people seeking such benefits dropped by 10,000 to an adjusted 316,000. The four-week average also declined by 7,500 to 331,750 as reported by the Labor Department. Both measurements have returned to pre-recession levels. Layoffs have also fallen during six of the past seven weeks. There has been a broad trend of...