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August Small Business Employment Unchanged, Only Construction Sees Revenue Growth

Intuit's monthly Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes have found that U.S. small business employment ever so slightly dropped in August and revenues declined 0.18 percent in July. Only the construction sector showed an increase of 0.3 percent. The declines come even as employees experienced an increase in both average compensation and hours worked. Among other findings, the study...

Be the Best Quitter You Can Be!

Breaking up is hard to do, and so is quitting. Some people dread quitting to the point that they'll stick around in a job that they hate, just to avoid that 20-minute conversation. Others look at quitting as some sort of betrayal or failure. The fact remains that sometimes (most times) it just has to be done. Unless you're still slingin' cokes at the skating rink, odds are you've had to...

CareerBuilder and EMSI Release Map Revealing Growth of Top U.S. Industries

A partnership between CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI) has resulted in the production of an interactive map using big data to identify the key industries driving job growth in the 100 most populated metro areas in the U.S. The map provides the 10 most important industries for each metro area offering insights into economic forces, emerging sectors, and other...

Being Prepared for Interview Day

After you have done all of your preparation before your interview, it is time for the actual day to come. You are not done preparing yet, however. What you do before you walk into the interview office will be critical to how your interview goes. So, make sure that you give yourself ample time to be ready so you can put your best foot forward and maximize your brief time to leave an...

Salary Equity: Justifying the Staggering Incomes of Superstars

Critics and the other envious resent the staggering salaries and perks superstar athletes, CEOs, actors, politicians and other entertainers command. Somehow, being paid hundreds of millions of dollars to kick or throw a ball, to pretend not to be yourself in front of a camera, to get a multi-million-dollar retirement package and frequently to paid such vast sums merely for distracting the public...

Recruiting Trends Conference 2013 Set for Las Vegas, Keynote Speakers Announced

It's that time of year again! The 2013 Recruiting Trends Conference is heading to Las Vegas this year—and the folks at Recruiting Trends, a leading resource for the employee recruitment industry, want you there. The event, offering a wide range of learning opportunities for recruiters, sourcers, talent acquisition managers and other HR and recruiting professionals, will take place at...

ADP Survey Shows Businesses Add 176,000 Jobs in August

According to payroll company ADP's economic survey, American businesses—both public and private—added 176,000 jobs in August, shy of the numbers posted in June and July. The company reported that professional and business-services firms added 50,000 jobs, manufacturers added 5,000 jobs, and construction firms added 4,000 jobs. ADP figures frequently differ from those released by the U.S....

Can Your Company's "Look Policy" Lead to Lawsuits?

Remember when you were in high school and everyone "cool" wore Abercrombie Fitch (AF)? (Well, maybe it's just the younger generations). Well, the retailer has landed itself in some "religious" trouble—trouble that's costing it thousands of dollars. Apparently, on Sept. 20, the clothing company agreed to pay two Muslim women a combined $71,000 after it allegedly fired...

HR Gamification: Alive, but not Kicking

Just in case you hadn't heard about it, HR Gamification involves the use of game design to attract talent and/or encourage employees and candidates to learn new skills, change or improve behavior or become more innovative and productive. Players are given a goal, and they gain points as they move towards that goal, having to obey rules along the way, with there being a prize for the winner. It...

5 Ways to Work Less While Achieving More

We all want more time to do what we want and would likely give some spare body parts for a solution that would help to minimize work while accomplishing necessary tasks. But while there is no single perfect solution to this conundrum, several strategies exist that can help you reach the place where you are doing less while accomplishing more. The following strategies will not revolutionize your...

Can we Learn about Branding from the UK?

All aboard the Jobs Bus! Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently, in the UK, the Daily Mirror and Fish4Jobs have teamed up to produce the Jobs Bus, a bus travelling all across the country promoting and educating on everything job-related. The site says: What is the Jobs Bus? The Jobs Bus can offer support, encouragement and inspiration for people at every stage of their working life, from...

CyFIR Enterprise Digital Forensic Suite Launches for Corporate Security Professionals

CyTech Services, a specialist in digital forensics investigations and incident response services, has announced its new enterprise-level digital forensics platform, CyFIR Enterprise. The new tool provides a safe method for viewing the file systems of remote computers to collect evidence for criminal or civil legal proceedings. Investigators can also view and analyze programs being run in the...

Truth in the Office: How to Build the Nest

Each day in the office there are dozens of opportunities and even reasons to lie. Sometimes it is the easy way out; sometimes it's a way to squeeze around responsibility. Whatever the reason, lying almost always ends up facilitating bad or untimely work. Once management has set the precedence that lying is acceptable, or the norm, it's game over from there on. Management is in charge of...

Mentoring Schemes: Key Benefit in Today's Climate

As many of you may be aware, we are, for the first time in history, experiencing a workplace that has four generations working alongside each other: millennials, generation X, baby boomers and silents. This multi-generational environment creates real challenges to benefits package designers and employer branding specialists as they seek to define and develop a business offering that attracts...

Do We Really 'Exchange' Our Labor for Anything? Guess Again!

Every voluntary trade involves giving up one thing for another that seems worth more. A kid trades a baseball card for a Green Hornet power ring. You give me an income; I give you my labor. That means that the Green Hornet power ring and my salary are more important to the kid and to me, respectively, than his baseball card and my labor are to us. Hence, these trades, like every other...

ManpowerGroup White Paper Advises on Best Practices in Recruitment Process Outsourcing

In ManpowerGroup's newly released white paper, "What You Should Look for in an RPO," the company advises that organizations outsource or transfer at least a portion of their recruitment processes to third-party recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers. Such a shift is becoming vital due to the ever-present skills shortage and talent mismatching. "Today, companies face the...

Insperity Offers Insights on Business Confidence in New Survey

HR and business performance solutions provider Insperity, Inc. has announced the release of the results of its Business Confidence client survey giving insights into current and near-term plans of small-and-medium sized businesses. Data was collected from nearly 5,000 business executives who were quizzed on their confidence and concerns with the economy and how it will shape their business plans...

Is Discrimination "at Work" in your Workplace?

You see the resume and have mixed feelings about the candidate. However, since you have a very short list of applicants, shortlisting isn't really an option and you call the three prospects for a one-on-one interview. Do you allow your judgment to be impaired by appearance? Let me clarify here that I'm not talking about looks alone. I'm including physical details such as height,...

The New Global Hiring Mindset for 2021

The world is set to see some dramatic changes in the geography, distribution and demand and supply of talent. For example, according to research by Oxford Economics in their new paper Global Talent 2021: How The New Geography Will Transform Human Resource Strategy, they chart some quite dramatic shifts in the demand and supply of talent. For example: 9 out of 10 of the developed territories,...

Here's Why you Might Want to Follow this Recruiter's Example

Recently, a very interesting thing happened on Reddit—something any company can look to as an example. An executive recruiter submitted a post to the site's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) section and received an overwhelming response. Here's what he posted: I am an Executive Recruiter with over ten years of experience in the industry. Prior to that I spent a decade in two other industries...

Government Posts Smaller Budget Deficit Over-the-Year

The U.S. government has reported a smaller budget deficit compared to August 2012 and is on track to shrink to its lowest level in five years. The August 2013 deficit was $147.9 billion, bringing the annual budget gap to $755 billion; 35 percent lower than at the same time last year. The Congressional Budget Office projects a budget surplus for September, lowering the deficit to $642 billion, the...

Glassdoor Releases 2013 Talent Warrior Awards, Top 10 Leaders in Social Recruiting

Jobs and career community site Glassdoor recently revealed the winners of its first-ever Glassdoor Talent Warrior Awards, a list recognizing the 10 most innovative social recruiters. The awards honor recruiting and HR industry leaders for excellence in social recruiting in the areas of hiring and promoting their company's employment brand. How were winners selected? Winners were...

Removing Office Idiocy from Job Interviews

For many office idiots, conducting a job interview is an opportunity to demonstrate a shocking lack of understanding of even the most basic aspects of pre-employment screening. These are the cadres of screeners who fail to prepare for the interview, ask personal and arguably illegal questions, become easily sidetracked, and ignore what the candidate says. Fortunately, there are well-documented...

Attraction vs. Repulsion: 'Big Bang' Physics for Recruiters

What are the two absolutely indispensable, primary forces any universe and recruiting need in order to exist? As for the cosmos, one favored scientific-philosophical answer is "attraction and repulsion". As for recruiting, well, read on. Kant Say for Sure? The 18th-century German giant of philosophy, Immanuel Kant, devoted a whole book to proving that what we all know about...

PeopleStrategy Launches Next-gen PeopleStrategy eHCM Solution

HCM solutions provider PeopleStrategy, Inc. has announced the launching of its new enterprise-class SaaS HCM suite, PeopleStrategy eHCM, at the HR Technology Conference Exposition in Las Vegas on October 7 to 9. PeopleStrategy eHCM simplifies core HR and payroll tasks while automating talent acquisition, benefits administration, time and labor, and talent management functions. Additionally,...

WageWorks Releases 2013 Digital Open Enrollment Kit for Employers

WageWorks, provider of consumer-directed benefits (CDBs), has announced the release of its digital 2013 Open Enrollment kit. The kit is designed to prepare employers for the open enrollment season from October 1 to December 15 and when coverage plans begin on January 1, 2014. Open Enrollment challenges HR professionals, with the launch of the new health exchanges, to find the most effective ways...

How Introverts can Adapt to an Extroverted Workplace

It is hard to deny that most of the advice out there about being successful in your professional and personal life is geared toward extroverts, and that's perfectly fine for those with boundless social energy. Indeed, most workplaces are designed around an ideal extroverted employee with open floor plans, mandatory team-based projects, and active idea exchanges. But many people find it hard to...

5 Smart Management Tips

So, you have fired your independent contractor today. Of course, the competition for your business dollars is always on and if you're not satisfied with the performance of an employee or contractor, you have every right to find another—in a professional and legal way, of course. Your employees and contractors are the biggest factors in your success (or failure) as a company or business. It...

Turning a Slow Work Day into a Time for "Extra" Productivity

So, you've made it through the crush of the busy season where your multi-tasking and time management skills were regularly pushed to the limit with new challenges flying at you multiple times per day. But what do you do now that everything has slowed to a snail's pace? What if you have hours, or even days, of otherwise free time on your hands? Discounting things like Facebooking and shopping...

3 Steps to Quit Your Job

Usually when a person decides he or she is going to quit a job, it's not an overnight decision. Oftentimes, it is the product of years of frustration and disillusionment that leads him or her down the path toward unemployment. By the end, every little thing will annoy the worker to the point of anger and resentment, and the thought of just walking out is almost too much to bear. So, how does a...

Watch Out for Interview Meta-Messages!

In an interview, your responses to or about your own responses can make or break the deal, or at least change the odds. Proudly describing a career accomplishment, only to back off by saying, "Actually, it was no big deal" is an example of what can be called a "meta-level response" to, or a "meta-level message" about, your own message—hereafter, "meta-message". Your Messages...

If I Could Save Time at the Water Cooler....

Have you ever left work and asked yourself, "Did I even get anything done today?" Even workers who save Candy Crush and Hay Day for their personal time can't escape the fact that the office is riddled with time wasters. According to this pretty rad infographic from Atlassian, these are the main culprits of time wasted at work: Inefficient communication processes, namely email. Time...

RecruiterBox Offers "Recruiting by the Numbers" Infographic

Attention, all recruiters! Are you always searching for the most recent and helpful data when it comes to the recruiting industry? Want to stay ahead of the curve and be in the know? Well, the folks at RecruiterBox, provider of online recruiter and resume management software, have come up with a way to help you do just that. The company recently released an infographic, "Recruiting by the...

Are You Already Planning for Retirement?

While the baby-boomer generation dreamed of building a home with a farm-able backyard for themselves, Generations X and Y look at retirement in a different way. One thing we are capable of doing is building that little home (apartment without the backyard) for ourselves while we're still working. And of course, most of us also have some kind of vehicle. That said, how do you plan your...

Determining Who Goes in a RIF

Those three little words—reduction in force —represent a pretty taboo subject in HR. Even more hush, hush is the topic of how to choose who goes. In the business of outplacement we're here to take the stigma out of this particular topic. Reductions in force are part of business. Although we're on a decent upswing from the recession, RIFs are still a common occurrence across the nation....

The Employer's Guide to Intern Compensation (Infographic)

With school back in session, millions of college students will be seeking fall and/or year-long internships to enhance their resumes. As an employer, a major question you have to answer when deciding whether or not to add an intern (or internship program) is: to pay or not to pay? Well, the folks at InternMatch, an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers, have...

6 Strategies to Help Raise Productivity During a Hiring Freeze

This is the second part of the article: 4 Strategies To Maintain Productivity During a Hiring Freeze. In that first article we looked at the fact that even though US companies had experienced hiring freezes and slow growth in new jobs, they still managed to increase profitability and productivity during the period. In that first article we acknowledge the possible loss of morale that can be...

What Panera CEO Ron Shaich Can Teach Us About Financial Management

A recent story from Yahoo! Finance talks about how Panera Bread's CEO Ron Shaich is attempting to feed himself on $4.50 a day—to promote awareness (for himself and others) on what's it's like living on food stamps. The article said that the average person on food stamps receives $4.50 per day in assistance, as reported by The New York Times. Shaich, who is blogging about his...

Declining a Job Offer: an Investigative Reporter Model

Declining a job is like investigating and reporting a story for a newspaper: In both cases, it is absolutely essential to get the who, what, why, how, where and when right. If, for any reason, it becomes necessary or desirable to pass up a job offer, it is important to do it the right way, the reporter way—to make sure that 1. the right person is informed (the "who"). 2. declining...

My Colleague, My Competition

Chances are that if you are an Agency Recruiter (or Account Manager) you are walking into an office every day with stiff competitors. Look around while you pour that cup of coffee. See that guy over there? Yep, he's working to beat you. That woman over there printing resumes? You know she's working to beat you. And what about that guy staring at you? Yep, he's planning your...

Tips for a Successful Second Interview

While some hiring managers only require one interview, other positions will require that you participate in a second interview after successfully passing through the first. This second interview will be a deeper exploration of you as a person and as a potential member of the company. Though you feel that getting a second interview means that the position is a "sure thing," this interview is...

Hyper-Employment: 'Job Hogging' as Hyper-Inflationary Underemployment

During his September 16, 2013 broadcast, The Daily Show's sharp-as-a-tack host Jon Stewart threw former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich a curve ball and jolted the studio audience into a burst of laughter when he facetiously suggested that one factor contributing to unemployment is "job hogging": "Some of these poor people, they have two or three jobs. Aren't they job...

4 Reasons to use Video Interviewing in your Hiring Process

Research from Office Team in late 2012, of over 500 companies with 20 or more staff, found that 63 percent of surveyed hiring managers said they were now often conducting interviews by video, a 14 percent increase from the previous year. If the growth trend in video interviewing continues, we could expect the percentage of companies conducting video interviews to reach 70 percent. So, if you...

(Don't Fear) The Networker

Net-work-ing : a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest. No matter how gregarious you may be in social situations lacking professional pressures, the prospect of networking can transform even the most outgoing of social butterflies into shrinking violets. You know the symptoms: Your voice gets quiet, your body language...

The Return on Talent Management Systems

Companies are switching up their talent management software in droves. Industry leaders don't try to keep up; they set the standard, and the new standard is better TMS. The talent management software industry is booming because it has proven to be a sound investment. What makes a sound investment? You guessed it –a return. According to a recent Forbes article on the ROI of talent...

Negotiating Salary During the Hiring Process

Let's be honest. You are trying to get a great career because you need to earn money to live. Of course, there are exceptions to this—some people don't need money but work because they are passionate about it, and others are willing to accept a low salary for a job that they love. Yet, for the most part, your potential salary will be an important part of the consideration process of...

Recruiters and the Excuses We've Never Heard Before

As I write this note to all the candidates out there, I would like you to realize a couple of things. One, I just had two interviewees pull a no show with a new client this morning. And two, calling 10 minutes before an interview does not qualify as cancelling with appropriate notice. In any case, I wanted to provide a quick rundown of excuses that any Recruiter who has been working for, oh say,...

4 Mobile Apps to Help Your Job Hunt

For many years, online market researchers have divided their research web panel audiences up into two main universes—that is at work and at home—as a way to model and understand the different ways that people behave when surfing during the office and at home. Clearly, people are likely to view , well, "different" sites at home than they might ordinarily view at work, and might buy different...