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Creative Ways People Have Earned Their Dream Jobs

If you want something bad enough, they say you'll find any means possible to get it. This applies to job hunting just as much as anything else, and the people further down in this article are proof of that. In the modern job market, it takes more than a decent employment history or a nice CV to get noticed – and for many roles (where there are upwards of 200 applicants) you need to show...

55 Percent of Hiring Professionals Plan to Increase Hiring in the First Half of 2014

According to a recent survey by Dice Holdings, Inc., leading provider of specialized websites for professional communities, the nation's professional workforce is set to increase in the New Year as 55 percent of hiring managers and recruiters plan to hire more professionals in the first half of 2014 than they did in the second half of 2013. The planned increase in hiring is a jump of nine...

Fall in Applications for Unemployment Benefits Suggests Improving Job Market

The U.S. Labor Department has reported that unemployment benefits figures are near pre-recession levels as the number of people applying for benefits fell by 21,000 to 323,000 for the week ending November 16. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell for the third consecutive week to 338,500. First-time applications have fallen during five of the past six weeks, indicating fewer...

Why the Customer Isn't Always Right

I keep reading story after story about restaurant customers leaving mean, unnecessary comments in the place of tips. Let's recap a few from this year alone: In January 2013, Pastor Alois Bell wrote, "I give God 10% why do you get 18" on her Applebee's receipt. In September 2013, a 19-year-old Red Lobster waitress in Franklin, TN was distraught to find customers had left these...

MegaPath Unveils Risk Calculator for Estimating Likelihood of Data Breaches

MegaPath Corporation, a provider of a variety of hosted IT services, has announced the release of its Data Breach Risk Calculator, a tool for helping organizations understand the costs and likelihood of a data breach. Using a brief survey, the calculator provides benchmarks for assessing data-breach exposure. The new tool produces three analyses including overall data breach cost as a range...

When Should you Give new Hires a Trial Period?

Statistics tell us that 20 percent of new hires will fail in the first 45 days. Yet, although a large amount will fail, the majority will succeed. Knowing this, should you introduce a standard trial period on the basis that just a quarter of applicants are likely to fail, knowing that for top talent currently in secure employment, a trial period could represent a real deterrent for them, making...

So, About Those Bonuses...

For many of us, year-end bonuses are coming up. Rewards and incentives have shifted toward an "everyone gets a gold star" mentality. Many Gen Yers and Millennials have grown accustom to the idea that everyone gets the same rewards. Some schools are no longer giving grades, or making children run the mile because of those who fall behind. It seems like consistently showing up for work will...

Monster-GfK Survey Compares International Attitudes Toward Work

A joint survey carried out by Monster, Inc. and independent global market research firm GfK has revealed a gap in attitudes toward work in seven large economies: Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. The study found that U.S. workers are in the middle of the rankings, which were topped by Canadian workers who displayed the highest level of contentment of all surveyed...

Tech the Halls!

It's time to spread the focus of your HR technology, from the HR department to the entire company. Let employees know about the tools that are there specifically for them, and ensure that they know how to use them. Not everyone knows how to access the employee handbook via a self-service portal to learn how to access the employee handbook. See where I'm going with this? Self-service...

When are the High-Risk Times for Losing Talent?

When we think about the war for talent, our first thought often relates to the external candidate marketplace. But, as competition becomes fiercer, a new battleground for talent is emerging, i.e. within your own business. It's the in-house war for talent where employers fight to retain stars or re-energize fallen stars and prevent them from moving to the competition. Retaining or re-signing stars...

Double-Edged Openness: the Pros and Cons of 'Open' Personalities in the Workplace

A job applicant describes herself as "open". That's a good thing, right? Very positive associations: "open-minded", "receptive", "candid", "flexible". However, like just about everything else in life, "good openness" comes with its evil twin lurking in the shadows—in this case, "bad openness", much as "childlikeness" has its less adorable twin,...

BRiAlerts from Benefit Resource Provides Real-time Balance, Adjudication Alerts

Owners of a Benefit Resource pre-tax benefit account now have access to the newly released BRiAlerts, a feature that provides real-time balance, transaction, and adjudication alerts for participants of FSAs, HRAs, and commuter benefits accounts. Users can select from a variety of notifications to be received through email or by text message. Such notifications can include deposit alerts, which...

ActionComplete Announced Third Generation of GTD Toolkit for Android

Originally released in 2009, the ActionComplete GTD Toolkit is now in its third iteration and is specifically designed around the Android platform to take advantage of its modern and stable interface. ActionComplete is a streamlined task-management system that assists users in organizing their tasks, assignments, errands, and other to-do lists. The focal point of ActionComplete 3 for Android is...

Winners of 2013 In-house Recruitment Awards for Excellence Revealed

In November, the In-house Recruiter Online Network (IRON) announced the finalists for the 2013 In-house Recruitment Awards for Excellence. The awards are hosted by IRON, an exclusive networking group for UK in-house recruiters, internal recruiters and HR professionals, and aim to "recognise the increasing achievements of UK in-house recruitment teams and the individuals that form...

Evernote Launches Business App on Salesforce1 AppExchange

Evernote has announced the launch of Evernote Business on the Salesforce1 AppExchange. The release allows businesses to create content-rich customer and lead records for virtually any smartphone, tablet or PC. Salesforce customers can also link to custom objects using Evernote. Evernote Business is immediately available for deployment. "The Salesforce1 platform has allowed us to quickly...

If you Want to Succeed in this Job Market, You've got to Sell Yourself

In this day and age, knowing all the ins and outs of the latest technology is a good way to get hired. But just being tech savvy is not enough. Here are three things that you can do to make sure you stand out from the crowd when seeking employment and growing your career. Personal Branding Who are you? What do you stand for? Many people who are actively seeking jobs do not know the answers...

Is Your CEO "Untouchable"?

Suppose the CEO of your company is on his or her way to a meeting. You admire the CEO, and having never even spoken to him or her, you build up the courage to ask the head honcho to take a picture with you. Surprisingly, the CEO complies, and you two snap a "Kodak moment" together. You're on cloud nine as you leave the office. Yet, when you return in the morning, a...

Is Your Remote Workforce Disengaged?

Even though remote working is becoming a way of life for many businesses and workers, remote worker engagement strategies are still in their earliest more functional stages. It seems that many employers are still geared toward a co-located model with the remote workforce as an afterthought. We, of course, know this has led to problems of employee engagement in the remote workforce versus the...

What Do You Mean, "Trust Me!"?

You've almost certainly heard and have probably said it: "Trust me!" But are others saying or hearing what you think it means? Rolls Royce declares, "Trusted to deliver excellence". Then there was Crisco: "Cooks who know trust Crisco." But, can you, as a company, recruiter, employee or as just you make the same claim—and is it enough, just to be trusted? After all,...

CareerCloud Releases Top 10 States for Hidden Job Leads

CareerCloud's free service, Hidden Jobs App, that tracks new hiring initiatives across the U.S. and Canada recently released its 3rd annual list of states with the most hidden job leads. Every day the site collects and organizes news articles, blog posts and press releases, which specifically mention companies that have announced new plans to hire. According to CareerCloud, most of these...

What TV Boss are You?

Very often, management is in the unique position to rarely get feedback or constructive criticism. It has been my experience that either no one tells management what they really think, or management tends to deflect opinions like a brand new iPhone in the glistening sun. Managers don't exactly send out surveys or collect comment cards. While soliciting opinions and feedback from your team is...

HireRight and nowHIRE Enter Partnership to Provide Talent Acquisition Solution

HireRight, a leading provider of on-demand employment background checks, drug and health screenings, and electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions, has entered into a strategic partnership with applicant tracking system nowHIRE.com to improve talent acquisition efficiency and employment-screening compliance. The end-to-end integrated solution offers recruiting, sourcing, employment screening,...

Spark Hire Launches Personal Introductions for One-Way Video Interviews

Video-powered hiring network and video interviewing company Spark Hire has launched its Custom Welcome Video feature for One-Way Interview, the company's solution for video recording candidate responses to an employer's interview questions. The Custom Welcome Video enables employers to record a video via webcam or embed a pre-recorded YouTube video into One-Way Interview. The video then...

Job Hunting? Know Your Rights

Running around Manhattan going from one job interview to another, Charlie was left red faced having to explain why there were gaps between employment in his resume. "It's not easy trying to find a job in this city you know!" is what Charlie wanted to say. Scrambling for a more appropriate response, Charlie said, "I unfortunately have gaps in my employment due to the current economic...

Millennials are Actually Hardworking and Successful—and Here's the Proof

My family had an interesting discussion during the holiday break. No, it wasn't about football, turkey or 'Black Thursday' shopping; we somehow ventured into the topic of millennials—most "affectionately" referred to by my family members as "your generation." Now, keep in my mind, at the ages of 29 going on 30, my two cousins I "debated" with on the subject actually fall...

Real Business Solutions Announced Release of Payroll Mate 2014 for Small Businesses

Real Business Solutions has announced the release of its small-business payroll software that makes adding employees to payroll simple and inexpensive. The $99 package supports the payrolls for up to 10 companies, employing up to 75 employees apiece, for one year. Payroll Mate integrates with accounting applications including QuickBooks, Peachtree, Sage 50, Sage 100, Intuit Quicken, Microsoft...

Landing a Job in the International Job Market

So you've decided to look beyond the borders of your mother country to look for an exciting new job in some exotic locale. But how do you go about finding a job overseas and ensure that you will be satisfied enough to justify the expense and effort? The first and easiest answer to this question is simple: narrow your list down. With all of the talk about a shrinking planet you may be tempted to...

A Holiday Lesson to Boost Engagement

Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas and the New Year are fast approaching. In general, employees are usually upbeat around this time of year. But remember in college when students would catch "spring fever" toward the end of the spring semester and kind of "zone out" when it came to classes and studying? Well, the same can hold true for workers around this upcoming holiday...

The Ideal Weekly Marketing Schedule for Recruiters

Recruiting within a busy recruitment agency or in-house HR department can at times be manic, and even crazy, as teams work to meet the often panicked, multifarious and competing demands of their client bases and internal teams. Most of them need top talent yesterday; many have unrealistic expectations. All this pressure can leave many sourcing teams in a spin, unable to see the wood for the trees...

LinkedIn Launches Talent Updates for Recruiters to Engage Company Followers

According to LinkedIn, 70 percent of people who follow a company on LinkedIn are interested in jobs at that organization. To help reach these passive candidates, the social networking site launched Talent Updates, a new feature within its LinkedIn Recruiter software that gives recruiters the opportunity to turn Company Page followers into quality candidates. Interested followers of a company...

How to Give Employees the Big Picture

A huge part of facilitating engagement, cohesion and motivation in any workforce is by giving workers context to their work. Assigning tasks to a worker without giving them insight as to how their work affects others, and the organization as a whole, is a missed opportunity to engage them as a conscious part of the success of the business. Fully communicating expectations means making sure...

Persona Releases New Tool for Cleaning Up Social Media Profiles of Job Seekers

Business startup Persona has released a new social media reputation tool for removing inappropriate posts and images from social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Persona notifies users via SMS when it identifies problems posts for quick removal. The service constantly monitors social media networks and allow users to delete flagged content directly from alert...

U.S. Department of Labor Reports Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.2 Percent

Nearly 150,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September, indicating a scale back in hiring during the lead up to the recently-ended government shutdown. But the rate was still high enough to see the unemployment rate nudged down from 7.3 percent in August to 7.2 percent. The U.S. Labor Department was forced to delay the release of the September jobs report by over two weeks due to the...

How to Become More Intriguing and Influential at Work

Becoming influential and compelling at work doesn't so much have to deal with one's looks. For instance, when a Steve Balmer or Jack Welch enter a room (neither known for being particularly handsome), their aura quickly makes them the most attractive people in the space. Once they speak, people realize that it's not the nice tie they are wearing, nor is it the expensive suit, but rather...

NetSuite Acquires TribeHR, Creates First Combined Cloud ERP/HCM Suite for SMBs

Cloud-based financials/ERP provider NetSuite has announced that an agreement has been reached for it to acquire TribeHR, a provider of HCM solutions. The merger will lead to the creation of the first ERP and HCM single-cloud solution for SMBs that provides the ability to run core business functions and manage employees with a social HR software solution. TribeHR was recently a member of the...

Turn your Small Business Role into Big Career Advancement

In business, everything starts small. Small businesses are the motor of the American economy and growing companies offer a wealth of opportunities to enterprising employees. Working at a small company offers multiple resume-enhancing experiences with an unending supply of tasks to tackle. But the draw that small businesses have to young workers eager to grow their careers is an inherent drawback...

How to Create a Professional Resume

The resume that you offer prospective employers is not just a record of your educational and employment history, interests, accolades, and talents. This document is a crucial first impression that will be made to those people that you hope will hire you. This means that if you are not presenting a polished, effective professional resume, you can't expect to get very far in the hiring process....

Use Infographics to Make Your Job Ads go Viral

Thanks to the emergence of social media, recruitment and HR are becoming much more like marketing everyday; the lines between marketing and HR are blurring in the areas of employer branding and social media marketing. So, expect there to be a bit of a land grab over the next few years as HR and marketers divide up the employer branding and social media marketing pie. But, HR should not roll...

TalentQuest, Intellum Partner to Create an Integrated Platform for Talent and Learning Management

Two industry-leading companies, TalentQuest and Intellum, have announced a joint venture to integrate Intellum's Exceed LMS with TalentQuest's talent management software suite. Exceed will be offered as TQ Learning within TalentQuest's TQ Suite of software modules. TQ Learning will bolster current offerings that already include assessments, performance management, goals, compensation,...

I Mustache You a Question About Your No Fun Workplace

As No Shave November comes to a close, I mustache you a question. How fun is your workplace? Last year, the average workweek for Americans was 46 hours. That is a whole lot of time in the office; it should be a place that workers want to be (or at least like being). Another question –Did you know that happiness in the workplace is taking a nosedive, year after year? In 2008, employee...

First of 10 Mobile Employment Apps Launched by The Job Search Solution

The Job Search Solution, an online job search process, has announced the first of 10 Job Search Solution apps, currently available for free in iTunes, and soon to be released for Android, Windows, Blackberry, and web browsers. The tutorial apps help job seekers manage the job search process to alleviate some of the stress related to finding employment. "With 23 million Americans struggling...

Windward MongoDB Easier to Report On, Connect to Big Data with AutoTag 12.5

Reporting and document-generation software developer Windward has announced new tools that improve the reporting experience with MongoDB. Clients with big data stored in MongoDB databases can use AutoTag 12.5 to receive more insight into the information. Companies insert their MongoDB data into templates designed in MS Office with the new MongoDB Wizard, simplifying data selection with a...

How Much Are 2,088 HR Managers Worth?—Less Than One Painting? [Part II]

What's wrong with spending $142 million on a painting that, to me, doesn't look much different from mine shown here ? As reported in Part I, that's what the recent world record-setting winning bid for Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" at Christie's of London fetched. If the argument that the $142 million could have done a lot of "good" as charity isn't...

The Hidden Value of Temporary Jobs

If you are one of the millions currently in the market for a job, your primary goal is probably a full-time, permanent position. But your single-minded pursuit may be eliminating a number of positive opportunities to be found in the realm of temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire positions. If you are seeking employment through a staffing agency, you may be confronted by employment...

SilkRoad Survey: HR Departments Behind in Integrating Available Technology

Cloud-based HR solutions provider SilkRoad, in releasing its survey "Strategic HR: Integrating Data and Applications for Business Advantage," has found that most HR departments have only partially integrated their available technology for HR processes. Of the survey respondents, which included 380 HR professionals, 73 percent reported having "some level of HR integration," while...

The Survival Guide to Hiring Friends

As an entrepreneur or small business leader, you are likely to find yourself in the position where you need to contemplate hiring a friend. It's understandable really; they are a known quantity, you know their skills and competencies, you like them, they are available and you don't have to spend valuable time and resources searching for a new hire in a very tight candidate market. So, what's the...

Equifax Workforce Solutions Adds 3,000th Client

Equifax Workforce Solutions, a leading provider of human resource, data, analytics and verification services, recently announced its 3,000th employer client for The Work Number, the nation's premier employment and income data source. The client is leading specialty retailer of women's apparel, jewelry, and accessories Coldwater Creek, Inc. Using The Work Number service, Equifax Workforce...

White Paper Shows Importance of Job Boards to Finding Talent

A white paper from eQuest entitled "Setting the Record Straight: Why You Can't Ignore Job Boards in Your Recruitment Marketing," has further cemented the idea that job advertising is critical when attracting quality candidates. The paper also gives an updated meaning of the term "job board" after speaking with a variety of HR industry experts. Job board activity is defined as any time...