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Randstad Survey Reveals Top 5 Ways Companies Can Help Advance Women

Randstad recently released its US Employee Engagement Index study where it asked more than 2,000 adults about the top ways their companies can best help women advance to leadership levels. The top five ways a company can help working women are: 1. Offer equal pay: women (49%) men (37%) 2. Have more women in leadership positions: women (34%) men (31%) 3. More family-friendly work...

When 'Evidence' of Professionalism Proves Nothing

You like the applicant a lot, but, inexplicably, your manager doesn't. Nothing you cite about the applicant impresses her—not the applicant's Harvard MBA, her glowing recommendations, strong track record, apparent fit with your corporate culture, pleasing manner and stylish, attractive appearance, eloquence in multiple-languages, international experience, well-articulated goals and...

List of Best Multinational Companies to Work for in 2013 Released

The third annual "World's Best Multinational Workplaces List" from research firm Great Place to Work has revealed its chosen 25 best places to work in 2013. Of the top 10 companies, four were technology firms as Google tops the list for the first time ever. Great Place to Work ranks top multinationals based on workplace culture with candidates located in nearly 50 countries. Rankings are...

New to Video? Top Tips to Conduct Successful Video Interviews

Many candidates quake at the prospect of a video interview, largely because it's an undiscovered "country" for them. Many people are camera shy and simply do not know how to make the most of themselves behind the camera, which is why there is plenty of advice out there on video interviewing etiquette for interviewees. But, much less advice exists for interviewers, and it's kind of taken for...

Vibe HCM from cfactor to Provide Personalized, Interactive HRMS

cfactor Inc., known for its socially-aware HR technologies, has launched its newest HCM suite providing a complete HR, talent management, and payroll solution, Vibe HCM. Partnered with PlatformOne, a leading provider of payroll and benefit-services delivery, Vibe HCM transforms HR service delivery in midsized and large organizations into a personalized and interactive employee experience. Vibe...

Goals are the New Tweets: How to use Social Goals for Your Company

When it comes to finding the best people for your organization, you need to be on the cutting edge of technology. So, it's no wonder employers and recruiters are often early adopters of new technology solutions. And, frankly, if you're not - you should be. Currently, 94 percent of recruiters are utilizing social media in order to find the best people. Six in 10 companies are using video...

ComPsych Report: Elevated Stress the Norm for Employees

The latest StressPulse report from ComPsych, the leading global provider of employee assistance programs (EAP) and EAP management services, finds that 62 percent of employees report elevated levels of stress including extreme fatigue or feeling out of control. About one-third reported having manageable, but constant stress. "The percentage of employees in the 'high' stress category has...

3 Ways to Prepare for an Interview

It is rarely easy to get a job, particularly if the position is in high demand—which it is likely that the position for which you are applying is or you wouldn't want it. If you want to truly stand out from the other applicants and demonstrate yourself as the most desirable candidate, you need to dedicate yourself to your preparation. Really impressing your prospective employer starts with...

Hiring Blog Receives Guest Blogging Program for All Related Contributors

Hireology has announced that it is expanding its Better Hiring Today blog to include a guest blogging program. "Better Hiring Today" focuses on hiring and interviewing information and is now accepting contributions from relevant writers. Writers can submit through the guest portal, which contains guidelines, FAQs, and tips for writing educational blog posts. "The launch of a guest blogging...

TheLadders Study Shows Popularity of Middle-Management Jobs Decreases,Technology Jobs Dominate

Job-matching service TheLadders recently announced its findings from a new study, which detailed how professional jobs have evolved over the past five years. Using information from its more than 6 million members and 60,000 employers, the company analyzed 1) key words and phrases that job seekers use to search for jobs and 2) a company's word usage in job postings. The results showed that...

Is Your Math Really as Bad as M.I.T., Harvard and Princeton Students'?

You've interviewed Joe and told him that the company is willing to pay him a salary plus fixed-amount expense account, that the total package is worth $70,000 and that the salary is $50,000 more than the expense account. How much is the expense account? $20,000—right? Apparently not, according to a recent study that reports 50% of Harvard, Princeton and MIT undergraduate students gave a...

.JOBS Domain now Features Improvement Employment Branding Opportunities

DirectEmployers Association, the HR consortium that oversees .JOBS Microsites, has announced new upgrades for fully branding and modifying the microsites. With .JOBS Flexible Template, Custom Homepage, and an interactive jobs map, employers can amplify their brands and display job opportunities by location. "When we enhance our products, we are always mindful of our main end-users, employers...

Commence Offers Enterprise CRM Solution to Mid-market

Commence Corporation is bringing its enterprise-level CRM solution to the middle market for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform combines cloud-based and desktop CRM with customer support and technological investments of an enterprise-caliber solution. Commence Version 5.5 supports internal chat with a follow system, integration with MS Word and Calendar, and click-to-dial...

Does Word-of-Mouth Hiring Harm Diversity?

Studies from the likes of Silkroad, Jobvite, CareersXRoads and the even the U.S. Department of Labor all tell us that employee referrals are the No. 1 source of hire, generally being more influential than the almighty jobs boards and career sites, the golden gateway to employment for the mass market job seeker. Research by Evolv has also shown that, during the first 200 days, referred workers...

Add Some Flexibility with the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance Pt. 2 [Interview]

In part one of this article we looked at the one thing workers want and need most: flexibility. In fact, data from MomsCorps.com shows that 73 percent of working adults agree that flexibility is "one of the most important factors they consider when looking for a new job or deciding what company to work for." San Francisco recently implemented the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance, giving...

100 Million Reasons to Hire for Character

Tony Hsieh, CEO at Zappos, once famously (and honorably) admitted that bad hires had cost his company "well over $100 million" in its first 11 years of existence. Let me repeat that: $100 million. Even for a company doing $1 billion in sales at the time, this was no drop in the bucket. But because Zappos has consistently been ranked as a top place to work (even prior to this admission), I...

Get On Board Already: Job Hopping Isn't Going Away

For many employers, there's nothing scarier than the prospect of hiring a job hopper. Conventional wisdom says job seekers who have job hopped in the past will continue in the future. But can ignoring job hoppers actually hurt your company? It's important to remember Millennial candidates are the most likely job seekers to hop from place-to-place. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,...

Bouncing Back from Common Career Obstacles

Mistakes made in your professional life can be difficult to overcome and impossible to erase. But the more adaptive you are given the circumstances, the better your can act immediately to make the best of the situation. The following are several common setbacks experienced in the workplace and the best way to take advantage of the aftermath. 1. Facing your life after being fired from your job,...

Insurance Guide for Recruitment Professionals

As a recruiter, you are trained to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a worker and decide whether or not they are suitable for a role which you have been assigned to fill. The vacant spot is something which you should take great professional care to evaluate and decide which of your contacts, if any, are best suited to taking the job. In doing this you have been trusted with the potential...

Social Recruiting for Beginners: 5 Points to Consider

Social recruiting is all about sourcing and recruiting candidates using social media platforms and recently has been very popular as a recruitment strategy in many organizations. It is a new initiative that has been adopted by many companies for proactively engaging with their target audience: talented individuals. So what does it take to set up a social recruiting strategy using social...

9 Things Employees Hate about Their Employer – but are Afraid to tell Them

The need to track employee engagement levels is pretty much a given and so is the approach to measuring employee engagement, which is to conduct some kind of anonymous survey using a browser-based survey tool. The problem with this approach in a small or medium sized company is that it's much harder to feel the sense of anonymity that you might feel in larger companies. Imagine the scene where...

Recruiting Index Finds Twitter to Dethrone LinkedIn as Top Social Recruiting Channel

The Social Recruiting Index from Gozaik, a social recruiting solutions provider, has uncovered a trend of businesses choosing to discover and engage talent through Twitter over competitors such as LinkedIn. The Index indicates that Twitter will outpace other social media channels in 2014 as a variety of industries flock to the provider. Highlights from the report, which were collected through a...

Number of Applications for Unemployment Benefits Reaches Pre-recession Level

Applications for jobless benefits have fallen to pre-recession levels as the number dropped by 9,000 to 336,000 last week. The four-week average, which is elevated due to the partial government shut down and backlogs being received from California, dropped by 9,250 to 348,250. Last week was the fourth consecutive week with falling numbers of applications. The decline in jobless claims suggests...

Attitudes Toward Diversity Positive in C-suite but Actions Lag Behind

Nearly all of surveyed executives (96 percent) participating in an inaugural survey by the Korn/Ferry Institute think that diversity and inclusion in the workforce can improve employee engagement and business performance. But the survey also found that actions to actually promote inclusion are lacking. Almost three-quarters of polled executives reported working for organizations with diversity...

Add Some Flexibility with the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance Pt.1 [Interview]

What begins with the letter "F" and is the desire of most employees during the workday? This helps workers smile, cuts down on stress and makes for a much more positive work experience. Say it with me: Workers just want to have fun flexibility. In fact, data from MomsCorps.com shows that 73 percent of working adults agree that flexibility is "one of the most important factors they...

Surviving the Adjustment Period of a New Manager

Managing is a tough job, especially for those leading a team for the first time. New managers infrequently receive any guidance at first and often cannot turn to their underlings since he or she is the one supposedly in charge and who has all of the answers. And while having a clueless manager is frustrating for the staff, it is equally difficult to the adjusting manager. In order to best...

Putting your Best Foot Forward on your Resume

So if you've been following us for quite some time, then you will already be aware of the fact that you should never use a functional resume and always stick with the chronological-style resume. The question becomes, what is the best way to present the facts to an employer that will set you apart from your competition? There is no one answer to this question, as recruiters differ and so do...

The Best Career Options for Extroverted job Seekers

Finding a fulfilling career involves far more than simply matching your qualifications to a job description. It is also about finding a job that matches your personality. Extroverts gain a lot of their workplace energy from the interactions they have with their coworkers and customers. Socializing is an extroverts fuel for assessing and tackling challenges in the most efficient and creative way....

How to Run a Hostile Interview [Part II]

3. Straw Man: Undaunted, O'Leary then tried another tactic. —"So, you don't want to see any attempts to stop foods from being destroyed by insects...?" —"Should we not try these things to help those who are dying —or are you against that too?" —"To say there's no merit to having science try and make foods better and yields better...sounds a little extreme"...

Gravity App Creates Engaging, Social Referral Programs for SMBs

Newton Software, provider of SMB applicant tracking system Newton, has unveiled Gravity, a mobile, social employee referral app for small- and medium-sized businesses. Gravity is fully integrated into the Newton ATS allowing employees to share jobs to social networks while remaining engaged through monthly contests for referral vouching. Gravity is a free upgrade for Newton users and is...

Industry Vet Extols Virtues of Trust as Employee-Performance Booster

In an article in Employee Benefits magazine, insurance industry veteran Gary Taffet, who works with Reliance Insurance Group, explains that employee performance and well being rests primarily in a sense of trust. According to Taffet, employees and their employers cannot work together optimally without mutual trust. And that trust is further broken down into basic qualities that can be...

Are You Ready for Generation Z?

The Key Characteristics of Generation Z and how they'll impact talent management We have generation X, we have generation Y, so why not have generation Z? Well, that's exactly what is happening; thought leading marketers have identified the next generation of consumers that will soon be hitting the marketplace. There doesn't seem to be an agreement on the exact dates of the post-millennial Gen...

Confessions of a Recruiter

Have you ever heard of a recruiter tell-all? Neither have I (at least in book form), but I recently came across an interesting article where an ex recruiter "spills the beans" on the industry. And I don't mean he simply "reveals" all the other a-day-in-the-life-of-a-recruiter type of insights; he's really candid about the ins-and-outs of the recruitment industry and recruiting...

Top Three Mistakes Common to all Job Seekers

One: Lack of Preparedness The number one mistake I find in job seekers across the board is a lack of preparedness. This can manifest as having a mediocre resume or cover letter; showing up to an interview unprepared; or preparing too little or not at all for interviews. An astounding number of job seekers go into an interview knowing next to nothing about the company they're interviewing...

Kira Talent Uses Video to Streamline Recruitment Process

Video interviews have exploded in the recruitment world, and often, only large companies are able to incorporate this new screening tool. But with the help of Kira Talent, the easy to-use online video interview screening platform, small companies with small budgets can now effectively adopt video into their hiring processes. With packages all less than $20 per applicant, Kira Talent offers...

Hone Your Writing Skills During Your Job Search

Writing skills aren't just for journalism or advertising careers. Communication transcends career fields, as it is essential for all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs. "Of the so-called soft skills needed for success in the workplace, communication skills are particularly critical," writes Rebecca R. Hastings for the Society of Human Resource Management. If you're changing...

Randstad: Men and Women Differ on How they Choose Employers

Randstad US's recent employer branding survey has confirmed that while salary and benefits are at the top of the list for both men and women when it comes to picking an employer, other differences exist in how both groups define the attractiveness of an organization. "How a company is perceived as an employer impacts what types of candidates it will attract," said Lisa Crawford, senior vice...

Facilitating Diversity in Your Workforce

For a lot of us, the term diversity usually makes us think exclusively of cultural diversity, but it means so much more than that. The idea of diversity in the workforce has come a long way since the advent of affirmative action laws, but there is so much more ground to cover. As we evolve to see diversity as more about individuals and less about quotas, race or creed, we can start to value the...

SHRM Survey: 90-94 Percent of HR Pros See Benefits of Paid Vacation

According to a new survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 90-94 percent of HR professionals believe that improved wellness, morale, performance and productivity are all benefits of employees taking paid vacation. The Vacation Benefits and Their Impact on the Workplace survey, done in collaboration with the U.S. Travel Association, also found that more than two-thirds of...

Productivity Diagnostic Tool Released to Gauge Email Overload

RepriseMail has announced the availability of its Free Email Overload Diagnostic tool that allows Microsoft Outlook users to determine the impact email overload has on worker productivity. The new tool helps executives understand the nature of their overloading problem in order to identify a true email problem or email-management inefficiencies. RepriseMail diagnosis email overload through...

How to Run a Hostile Interview [Part I]

What do you do if you find yourself in a job interview as hostile as this CBC interview with an eighth-grader kid activist? Answer: Learn from that kid. Although that was a media interview, it revealed traps, abuses and counter-moves that have precise parallels in and lessons for hostile job interviews—to be explored, analyzed and applied in detail below and in Part II, as preventive or...

Survey Reveals Evolving Opinions about Virtual Interviewing Technology

GreenJobInterview's survey of U.S. employers has found that nearly one-third plan to increase the number of virtual interviews they use as part of recruiting efforts. Additionally, 47 percent of respondents reported that their organizations have already conducted virtual job interviews (not teleconferences) while 45 percent said their organizations have not. About 65 percent of employers who...

Do Your Employees Even Like You?

This may sound like a weird question, but hear me out. We often hear about employee performance reviews and offer tips and advice on how workers can impress their managers. But do we ever think about the shoe being on the other foot? A friend recently told me about her supervisor's poor employee reviews. Apparently, every year this company has a manger's and/or supervisor's team reviews...

Youth, Unskilled Workers Bear Brunt as Global Unemployment Stays High

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the world's advanced economies will continue to see rising numbers of unemployed people even as overall economic conditions improve. In the recent OECD Employment Outlook 2013 report, the unemployment rate for countries using the euro is predicted to rise from 12.2 percent to 12.3 percent by the end of 2014. Some...

Four Reasons You Can't Find a Job—and What You Can Do About It

I have been helping people find jobs since 1973, and have personally interviewed more than 26,000 job seekers on every professional level. What I've learned is that, for many, success remains elusive because they aren't going about it in the right way—or with enough persistence. They are so focused on landing the job that they stumble during one, if not all, of the many important steps it...

What are the Most Reliable Candidate Assessment Tools?

Many of us in the trade may have been surprised to hear the announcement from Google SVP of People, Laszlo Block, that their famous brainteaser questions, such as, "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? " or "How many gas stations are there in Manhattan?" are in fact a waste of time. Yes, it seems that Google did its own exhaustive "big data'" analysis and found that these...

How to Deal with Workplace Annoyances

The workplace is renowned as a venue for any number of annoyances—overly chatty coworkers, refrigerator bandits, endless meetings. Here are a few ways to handle several common workplace issues to make your work environment better. First up, workplace food thieves. It's always great to have an office kitchen so you don't have to spend the time and money going out to eat every day, but it...

Logi-Serve, Jobvite Announce Partnership to Offer Online Recruiting, Assessment Solutions

Jobvite and Logi-Serve have announced a partnership that will allow the two companies to offer innovative online recruiting and assessment solutions. Through the partnership, the Jobvite recruiting platform will integrate Logi-Serve's online assessment tool into its workflow. Thus, Jobvite customers will have the capability to identify and assess candidates automatically. "We're proud to...