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The Peer 2 Peer Collaborative Recruiting Process—A study in disruptive outsourcing

One look at staffing industry research reveals a growing resurgence of Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) in large and mid-sized U.S. corporations. This trend has evolved from a new domestic and global economy that has corporations relentless in their pursuit of finding and retaining talent capable of meeting the demands of constant technological advances. The RPO concept was born in the...

3 Reasons to Hire Nervous Job Candidates

For many people, interviews are one of the most nerve racking things that they can do. It's not surprising when you think about it, since there is a lot at stake: the job of their dreams, the ability to make the next mortgage/rent check, regaining a lost sense of self esteem, etc. With so much being at stake, isn't it perfectly understandable that many candidates may succumb to nerves during...

HR Must Step Up Recruitment/Motivation Game to Keep Employees

Even if employees are otherwise happy with their job, over half of employees would consider leaving for another company if approached in an "innovative" way. New research from FutureStep, released in its Innovation Imperative report, indicates that 65 percent of employees who are satisfied with their job would jump ship if approached in with unique benefits from another firm. By...

SHRM Survey: PPACA Continues to Perplex Many HR Managers

With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) intentionally designed to reshape the world of benefits, many HR managers are finding it difficult to keep track of the laws numerous new rules though no impending disasters were found to be looming in a report from SHRM. However, the 2013 Employee Benefits Research Report has found that about 25 percent of respondents are having trouble...

Customizable Yearbook Tools Suite Commemorates Careers and Employee Successes

O.C. Tanner recently announced the release of Yearbook at SHRM 2013 and looks to provide personalized keepsakes and memorable experiences for employees celebrating success or career milestones. The Yearbook suite of tools integrates printed brochures, web technologies, and certificates to provide customized keepsakes, year-specific messaging, and other personalized comments from...

PPACA Simplified with SentricTime Attendance Management Solution

Sentric, Inc., a cloud-based workforce solutions provider, has announced the release of its turn-key, auditable time management solution supporting PPACA compliance. SentricTime is built upon the company's time and attendance solution SentricTLM, which minimizes administrative tasks to save HR staff time and effort. "SentricTime has two great benefits," said Jim Devaty, Time and Attendance...

Study: Increase in College Attendance Not Enough for Future Workforce Needs

A new report by the Lumina Foundation revealed that while more and more Americans are attending college, this increase is still not enough to meet the future skilled workforce needs. The report, A Stronger Nation through Higher Education, found that 38.7 percent of working-age Americans (ages 25-64) held a two- or four-year college degree in a .4 percent increase from 2010and a .6 percent...

How to Woo, Seduce and Capture High-Demand Talent

With Manpower's recent global talent shortage survey showing that 35 percent of employers around the world are still experiencing talent shortages, talent attraction remains right at the top of the corporate agenda for many firms. Of course, most of us know that the talent shortage issue is complicated, with some industries and professions such as finance, STEM and skilled trades people facing...

Micromanagers: 6 Reasons your Employees Don't Like You

I was talking to friend recently and she explained how although she enjoyed her job and was working in the field she desired, one aspect was a sore spot: her micro manager. Everyday her manager hovered over her shoulder, seeing what she was working on and ensuring she was doing work "correctly." This manager was constantly looking over her shoulder, critiquing this and that, and it was...

5 Ways to Produce Shareable Content for Brand Advocacy

In today's social and connected world, every organization wants a slew of brand advocates singing their praises on social media, spreading the word to their friends and family, and otherwise advocating on their behalf. Building a solid reputation is important to increase the longevity of your company, whether you're just starting out or have been a key industry player for years. But just how do...

Simply Hired Offers Self-Serve Advertising Solution for Job Listings

Simply Hired has announced the beta version of Simply Hired AdCenter, a self-service product allowing recruiters to easily advertise job listings on SimplyHired.com and its thousands of partner sites. The pay-per-click (PPC) job advertising solution lets employers reach relevant job candidates in a cost-effective and efficient way while maintaining full control of the management and optimization...

Economic Hardships Pushing Workers to Search for New Jobs

According to a recent global poll from Monster.com, more than half of participants said they're trying to switch careers because of national or global economic troubles. A third (33%) of all respondents reported they would maybe switch careers due to the global economic hardships while a mere 14 percent said their career was unaffected by the economy. "It's certainly wise to take broad...

New App Celebrates National Small Business Week, Reveals Motivation Behind SMB Owners

To celebrate National Small Business Week (June 17 – 21), Deluxe Corp. is publishing a new social media-based app designed to help "unmask" small business owners by asking what motivated them to start their businesses. The new app called"7 Types of Small Business Owners" was inspired by Deluxe's recent research into the "DNA" of America's Small Business Owners, is available on...

The "Tripod" of Recruitment Video Effectiveness

We've been doing some thinking about how you can define the effectiveness of recruitment video. We've come up with three ways (quality of message, reach and impact action), which we have affectionately dubbed 'The Tripod' of Recruitment Video Effectiveness. Have a read. There are plenty of statistics on the power of video. It's 5.33 times more effective than text for...

3 Tips for Recruiting "Generation Next"

Millennials: The recent college graduates hungry to learn and eager to work hard. Forget the fact that this generation is known for wearing flip-flops and ear buds, craves praise, and is looking to launch their own billion dollar idea. What makes Millennials fantastic employees is their social media and web foresight, their passion to do something they love, and their determination. That's...

First-Time Job Seeker? Knock Em' Dead with Author Martin Yate

Bagger: one who bags groceries. Doesn't sound too appealing, does it? Well, at 15 and a half, this was my first job. That and rounding up stray shopping carts in below zero temperatures during the winter and sweltering heat in the summer. Talk about an "unforgettable" experience. But I'd worked hard for that position. After applying, I called the store's hiring manager every month...

Workplace Sexism in 20th-Century Japan —a Sociobiological Perspective

Just before the new millennium, a former college-faculty colleague and close friend, "Hana" (a pseudonym), then a 20-something-year-old Japanese stunner with brains to match, applied for a high-powered job with one of Japan's Top-10 corporations. Invited for an interview, she was utterly taken aback by a line of questioning that switched from her on-the-job productive potential to her...

Why your Company Needs to be on Instagram

And Pinterest, and using Vine and Storify. I know that wasn't a complete sentence, but hear me out. Social media is everywhere; everyone knows this. But do most people realize just how many exist besides the "big three"—Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter? Umm...like a gazillion (okay not that many). More and more companies are adopting social media practices, and this is for good...

The Top 5 Myths About Employee Referral Programs Debunked [INFOGRAPHIC]

Fact: Employee referrals can produce hires that are of higher quality. They're also known to stick around longer. However, even though many employers are aware of employee referral programs, they are still skeptical about the benefits. This infographic, compiled by social employee referral management platform Zao, counters this skepticism by debunking the five most common myths about referral...

Is Hiring a Big Data Scientist a Game Changing Strategy?

"Data Scientist, The Sexiest Job of the 21 Century"- Harvard Business Review "Two thirds of firms have appointed a chief data officer to lead analytics in the last 18 months"-Accenture "71% of firms plan to hire a Chief Data Scientist in the near future"-Accenture "We reckon demand for data scientists will be up 100% on last year"-Cititec via The Financial Times Now, I...

iCIMS, JobTarget Partner to Offer Automated and Enhanced Job Postings

With job boards accounting for 20 percent of all new hires and having become the destination of choice for active jobseekers, iCIMS and JobTarget have announced a recruitment solution using JobTarget's OneClick automated job posting process with iCIMS's talent acquisition solution iCIMS Recruit. Through the OneClick solutions, iCIMS users can utilize a fully automated job-posting process...

Using Beer for Employer Branding?

Recently I saw the new Third Shift beer commercial about a dozen times on Hulu. I thought it was very interesting that just about the entire commercial was directed toward building their employer brand. The commercial starts in the upbeat breakroom, moves on to team work in the brewery and then ends with the employees sharing a beer at the end of their shift. This seems to be a trending idea in...

Still Employed? 3 Ways to Avoid Blowing your Job Search

A good friend of mine had a mission: to find a new job. Sounds like most people, right? Well, he was employed at a Fortune 500 company, very close with his boss and other team members, and actually a big asset to his department—but culture wise, it just wasn't the right fit. Now do you see his previous dilemma? There he was at a job he's successful at and in a position where his team...

Too Many Applicants? 5 Innovative Ways to Screen Out The Masses

How much time does your company or recruiting team spend sifting through resumes? Is the amount of time and cost justifiable/acceptable? Could the time spent on resume sifting (often inappropriate applications) be better used in other areas of the hiring process to improve quality and job satisfaction? If you do believe that you have an overly laborious resume sifting process, you might...

Game On! Using Rewards and Gamification to Crowdsource Hires

Finding the right candidates for your organization can be tricky. No matter what method you use, from job boards to career fairs, you may never receive the kinds of hires you're looking for. Frustrating, right? However, don't get discouraged just yet! Methods like crowdsourcing -- recently written about by Kevin Wheeler -- typically bring in better results. But when you incorporate rewards...

International Powers in Digital Recruitment [infographic]

Despite persistent slow economic growth, the U.S. continues to be ranked as one of the top global markets for digital recruitment. Entitled Digital Recruitment: The Hottest Markets in 2020, Broadbean Technology's study uses factors such as GDP growth potential, earnings trends, and social and mobile Internet usage to compare select global markets and how each will shape recruiting over the next...

Is the Virtual Workforce Trend Harming Communication Skills?

I saw a story on CNN last week about how more and more Americans are turning to freelance work. The story explained how 17 million Americans no longer work for companies and this number could jump to 23 million in the next few years. Studies predict that by 2020, more than 40 percent of our nation's workforce—or 60 million people—will be freelancers, contractors and temporary workers....

InternMatch Raises $4 Million to Expand Intern-Employer Matching Platforms

InternMatch just announced a new $4 million Series A round of funding led by Artis Ventures and Subtraction Capital, and included new investments from previous investors 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Rudy Gadre and others. The online internship service said it plans to use the funding to expand its team, build the marketplace, and invest in developing data-powered technology. "InternMatch...

The Beauty Bias: Digging up Some of Its Deepest Roots

Most disco hustlers, the Hooters franchise, DarwinDating.com and BeautifulPeople.com (dating and employment recruitment portals, respectively, for beautiful people only), banks, airlines, upscale retailers, fitness centers, TV news networks, frat boys, sorority sisters and some HR managers are in-your-face frank or at least very obvious in revealing their pronounced beauty biases. Others...

Risks and Rewards of Rehiring Former Employees

With many economies starting to rebound, downsized companies are returning to the candidate market only to be greeted by critical skill talent shortages. This creates problems as employers need to tool up with top talent to help fuel their growth. Of course, many companies are looking to develop training strategies so they can take on underqualified staff and groom them into superstars. While...

Unemployment Rate Up in May after Job-figures Revision

Despite the steady pace at which U.S. employers continue to hire, the U.S. Department of Labor has reported that the unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percent in May to 7.6 percent. The economy added 175,000 jobs last month compared to April's 149,000 jobs, a gain that was revised down from 165,000. The Dow Jones industrial average was also up 82 points minutes before the most recent jobs report...

Wonderlic Releases Automated Reference Check Solution

Admissions and assessment test publisher Wonderlic has announced the launch of a single-score competency-based automated reference checker to give hiring managers more information about a candidate in less time in an easy-to-understand format. With Wonderlic Automated Reference Check, employers can rate candidates with references, in as many as 12 competencies, with a single, integrated...

Should you Hire a Recruiter?

According to the newly released 2012 General Social Survey, more Americans feel confident in finding a new job, if necessary. Yet, we still hear a lot these days about how difficult it is to find good, solid employment if you're a job seeker; or how a lot of workers (especially recent graduates) are underemployed. However, it can certainly be just as difficult on the other side of the fence....

ZipRecruiter Adds Enterprise Plan for Larger Businesses

Online job distribution service ZipRecruiter is expanding its services with its new Enterprise Plan. The plan offers a variety of options to meet the recruitment needs or larger businesses. Under the enterprise option, users have access to a range of features, including: Unlimited job posts per month Ability to search 5,000 resumes per month Receive unlimited candidates per job...

A One-Minute IQ Test for Job Applicants?

Wouldn't it be fantastic to be able to test job-applicant IQ in 30 seconds—even if only vaguely, or very specifically? Show the applicant this 1 minute-10 second "Motion Quotient" video created by University of Rochester researchers; ask a couple of questions. Ta-da!—done! You'll know with some degree of likelihood whether the candidate is "highly intelligent". Or will you? (At...

Thinking Outside the Box to Land Your Next Job

In the job search process, landing an interview is one of the most important indicators of a job seeker's success. An invitation to interview typically means that a job seeker was able to cut through the "noise" of other cover letters and resumes – and stand out to a potential employer in a compelling way. By now, most of us understand that today's employment market is highly...

SmartRecruiters Launches Assessment Center

SmartRecruiters, the hiring platform, recently introduced its Assessment Center, a launch that is, the company says, yet another step in its mission "to make hiring easy." The Assessment Center is designed to help employers easily qualify a candidate's behaviors, skills and references, resulting in smarter hiring decisions. The Assessment Center offers SmartRecruiters' 40,000+...

Tips for Branding your Company Site

Building an employer brand and cultivating your company culture are two tasks hot on the minds of recruiters worldwide. It wasn't too long ago that none of us even had company websites. Some smaller, older businesses struggled with the new technology to even get a useable site up and running, and now that's not enough. The first place candidates are going to go to learn more about a company...

High-Touch Relationships Even More Crucial in the Age of Blogs and Tweets

In this era of social media, both job seekers and employers may wonder if traditional recruiting is still relevant. Since resources such as LinkedIn and Facebook can quickly find a significant amount of contacts, job applicants and employers may question if a search firm can provide added value. The volume of resumes delivered, however, only tells part of the story; the added quality of resumes...

Solutions in Social Recruiting: Improving Candidate Identification Strategies

The challenges in our industry are clear. The recruiting industry must quickly look toward social recruiting techniques to improve results and revenues. In this article, I'll review the challenges we face as recruiters – all thanks to data and "improved" technology – and offer solutions for moving our respective careers, employers, and the careers of those whom we recruit...

Want a Corporate Recruiting Major? You're out of Luck at Most Colleges and Universities

The staffing industry is a lucrative business that generates billions of dollars annually, with recruiters and account executives playing a crucial role in its success. These professionals need to have a diverse range of skills and knowledge to excel in their roles, and yet, surprisingly, the field of corporate recruiting is not offered as a standalone area of study at the collegiate...

6 Warning Signs of Pointless Internships

I recently met a young woman who is trying to break into the PR field. Not having any background in PR, she looked up local PR firms, contacted each one and finally landed an "internship." I use the word internship lightly. For the past 6 weeks this woman has done some work, but nothing substantial. The firm is small with just a few employees, the majority of whom work remotely. This...

Randstad Employer Branding Survey Highlights Keys to Optimize Employer Brand

According to new research from Randstad, the top three factors job candidates look at when choosing a new employer are 1) competitive salary and benefits 2) long-term job security and 3) pleasant work atmosphere. The research comes from Randstad's Employer Branding survey, which is is based on perceived attractiveness of companies from 7,000 students. "Every company has an employer...

5 Reasons A Company Culture Brand Will Improve Recruitment

Too often, HR managers and employers think the golden ticket for reeling in the best job candidates is to craft a great employer brand. An employer brand is important, sure -- it focuses on crafting a reputation for your organization as one that creates great products or services. But increasingly, companies that want to stand out are taking a more wholesome approach -- creating a culture...

National Jobs Survey Finds Openings on the Rise in May

The June 2013 Employment Outlook from Simply Hired reports that job openings have experienced growth for the eleventh time within the past 13 months with a 3.2 percent over-the-month increase in May. The year-over-year increase between May 2012 and May 2013 was an impressive 38.4 percent as job competition also dropped from three unemployed persons to two for each job opening. Nearly 30 percent...

Customizable Interview Practice Solution Released by ThinkOptimal

With the release of OptimalInterview PRO, online career services provider ThinkOptimal has introduced the first enterprise-wise interview practice solution to be fully customizable with access to web-based coaching for a diverse range of career options. Career advisors and other professionals can use OptimalInterview PRO to record interview questions and coaching sessions in video or audio only...

Would you Hire Unattractive Candidates?

I applied and interviewed for a position at Victoria's Secret once. The original position was for "customer service associate," i.e. the store was looking for someone to fold clothes and setup displays early in the morning before all the customers arrived. After my second interview, one of the hiring managers told me he was actually going to put me at the register instead of the listed...

TaskUs Saves Internet Businesses 2 Million Hours of Work

Two 22-year-old men started a business in their parents' garage. Now, four years later, that company has help internet businesses save a massive 2 million hours of work. HR world meet TaskUs, the company that says it's your "secret weapon." The outsourcing company handles the daily "microtasks" that tend to distract businesses, giving their workers more time to focus on innovation and...