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Study Shows Ineffective Benefits Communications Compromise Employee Engagement

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has released a study that shows a strong correlation between how an employee perceives the value of his or her benefits package and the experience of the benefits enrollment experience. Of those employees who received benefits communications along their preferred channels, 70 percent were very confident in their selections. Almost 60 percent of those...

4 Simple Networking Tips for Job Seekers

We all know the value of networking, especially when it comes to gaining employment. I have witnessed the power of networking in my own career, especially when it came to opening doors for me to meet the right people. For example, when looking for internships and jobs after college, a relative who previously worked at a major publishing company in New York passed along my resume to her former...

4 Tips for Interviewing Recent Graduates

Some job interview basics are universal when it comes to the recruitment process: Good —on time or slightly early, attentive eye contact Bad—late or very early, no eye contact or a laser stare Of course, if interviewers know those nuts-and-bolts level tactics, job seekers attending the interview probably know those basics too. This goes double for recent college graduates who come...

Recruiter.com Expands with New Office and Staff

Recruiter.com, a leading recruiting and career website, recently expanded in February of 2013, with a new office in Farmington, CT. The new office will house sales, management, and support staff. A new staff member was also added to the team. David Ranno joined Recruiter.com as an Account Executive. David has a background in sales and Internet marketing and is a CT native. Recruiter.com has...

Study: Managers not Open to Employee Ideas

Most senior executive and managers believe they are extremely open to the ideas and feedback of employees, but a new study from HR consulting firm Development Dimensions International (DDI) has shown otherwise. The study, Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Innovation, primarily focused on discovering ways for companies to become more agile and competitive in a dynamic marketplace, but also...

Should Recruiting Without Resumes be Policy?

We see a lot of discussion about whether in the face of social media profiles, resumes are actually dead, not dead, undead, dying, not dying anytime soon, or alive and kicking. It can depend on which sector you work in as to where exactly you stand on this debate as some businesses, professions and sectors are more social media profile engaged than others. Me, I stand somewhere between dead,...

Senior Execs from Major Companies, Universities Seek to Increase Women Workers in Tech & Computing

The National Center for Women Information Technology (NCWIT) just announced the newest participants of NCWIT Pacesetters, a fast-track program that seeks to increase the number of women in technology and computing. NCWIT Pacesetters is a two-year program where senior leaders from companies and universities publicly commit to increasing the number of women in the U.S. computing and technology...

JP Morgan to Cut 17,000 Jobs

According to a story from the Wall Street Journal, JPMorgan is cutting about 17,000 jobs over the next two years. Many of the cuts would come through attrition, but the bank will lay off workers as well, the article reported. The bank will cut around 4,000 consumer banking jobs, which equates to about 1.5 percent of its work force. It also plans to cut another 13,000 positions that will be made...

Ruckus Roundup: Marissa Mayer

I've written here about Marissa Mayer before, when she took the helm at Yahoo. And now with a broad reversal of Yahoo's telecommuting policies (communicated through the HR mouthpiece), Mayer has earned a spot again. "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home," reads the memo to employees from HR head Jackie Reses. "We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with...

"Mister Headhunter" Portal Wants to Change Salary Negotiations Forever

Robert Reyes, an Iraq War veteran wounded in action in 2004, has released a free portal he claims will make the process of salary negotiations beneficial to both employers and employees and more balanced to everyone involved. His tactic was to design a product that makes employers the responsible party for beginning salary talks first, instead of relying on resumes or other, more awkward,...

U.S. Manufacturing Experiencing Strong Growth

According to Travelers IndustryEdge survey, nearly 75 percent of manufacturing leaders reported having already expanded their product or service offerings over the past year or plan to in 2013. The survey encompassed the breadth of the manufacturing including surveying professionals who are general managers, directors, owners, and partners from metals, food, and plastics manufacturers. "All...

Capterra Identifies Top 20 CRM Software for 2013

Capterra, Inc. has released a new infographic showcasing the top 20 most popular CRM software of the year. The top three companies on the list were Salesforce, Sage, and SAP with the former two dominating in number of customers and the latter with a large lead in sheer number of users. The social presences of the top three were significant but more or less comparable to several of the other...

Networking: Still the Best Way to Get Hired

Ever since I started working in a recruiting office, I get questions such as, "What's the best way to get a job?" "How do I get into that industry?" or "Who should I contact about a position at your company?" The last thing anyone wants to hear is, "Apply online." Why? Because online you can easily become number 498. Networking is still the number one way to find a job. Many...

A Lesson in Workplace Discrimination [Part 2]

In part one of this article we talked about a shocking allegation turned lawsuit against OWN, megastar Oprah Winfrey's television network, that broke earlier this month. Carolyn Hommel, former senior director at the network, alleged that she was discriminated against after being fired just one month after giving birth. Dr. Cassi Fields of The Limited Exposure Theory Corporation sat down...

Career Websites vs. Talent Communities [INFOGRAPHIC]

Recruiting top talent is tough. Elusive passive candidates are hard to identify, it takes 43 days to find the right candidate for the role, and bad hires are extremely expensive. It's even tougher when your career website doesn't represent your company well. On average, only 1 out of 10 job seekers who visit your site will take the time to apply. The majority are turned away by a negative...

Why Not Rhyming Resumes and Rapped Interviews?

I don't consider myself an authority on pop music, or any music, even though ESPN broadcast my own pop songs (which I composed and performed, as instrumentalist, for the vocal duo "JeLL") on and off for a year (2005), as pump-up background to dry-as-felt pool tournaments. But, I've hated rap from the days when both it and I were much, much younger. I'm waiting, but, like Hell, it...

Modest Hiring Indicated by Jump in Unemployment Claims

Unemployment benefits claims rose by 20,000 last week raising the adjusted number to 362,000 indicating a slow but steadily improving job market. Meanwhile, the four-week average rose by 8,000 claims to 360,750, a six-week high. Even with the jump in claims, applications have trended downward having declined 7.5 percent over the past three months and hit a five-year low three weeks...

Top Social Tools for 2013

Most of you are used to seeing me write about social tools. But as I tool around the internet, signing up for betas and generally trying every new application and platform (the free ones) that I can, I realize that not everyone does that. Most people have actual, you know, jobs. So I wanted to give you a quick peek into the ones that worked for me and the ones that didn't. Keep in mind that I...

A Lesson in Workplace Discrimination [Part 1]

News of a shocking allegation turned lawsuit against OWN, megastar Oprah Winfrey's television network, broke earlier this month. The story goes: Carolyn Hommel, former senior director at OWN, filed a lawsuit claiming she was laid off from the network months after taking medical leave due to a pregnancy. While on medical leave, Hommel said the network hired a temporary worker who took...

Return on Education: MyEdu Connects College Students With Recruiters

If you're looking to add new staff to your company this year, look no further than MyEdu, an online resource helping students manage college, display their credentials, and find internships and jobs. With more than 1 million student members and more than 5 million unique students who visited the site in 2012, MyEdu is an ideal resource for employers to connect with and source talent early in a...

Paid to 'Do Nothing': The Art of Profitably Sitting Still

In economic hard times, when jobs are scarce and the search for one seems fruitless, at some point one may be tempted to give up and say, "There's nothing more I can do."But in economically hard-hit Ireland, Galway street illusionists like "Mr. Black" ( the stage name of the seated "statue", below) and his silently levitating saffron-robed neighbor (left) give that pessimistic thought a...

Workforce Analytics and Planning Trends for 2013

Visier's report, The State of Workforce Analytics and Planning: Practices, Preferences Plans, has shown that workforce analytics and workforce planning continue to be crucial to the strategies of many organizations. The results of the survey showed a clear need for further investment to improve the use of data to assist various HR functions so that critical decisions are made on statistical...

FSU Study Finds Employees Unsure of Workplace Expectations

A study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, Dr. Jim Moran, and Allison Batterton of Florida State University has found that most employees are not clear on their responsibilities at work. Less than 20 percent of survey respondents reported feeling confident in their workplace expectations. The remainder of the respondent pool ranged from a completed misunderstanding to mild uncertainty. Respondents...

Referrals, In-house Job Sites Found to Generate Most New Hires

According to SilkRoad's study on the effectiveness of recruitment marketing, and in confirmation of what many companies already know, the leading sources of new hires are referrals and a company's career site. Combined, the two sources generated 40 percent of all hiring made in 2012. The survey involved 1,054 companies ranging in size from 100 employees up to over 10,000. As in its...

How Well do you Treat your Job Applicants?

Most of us are familiar with the idea of candidate relationship management and that if candidates are not treated well during the hiring process, it can lead to all sorts of difficulties with your future talent attraction process. Specifically, candidates who feel mistreated during the hiring process are much less likely to apply again, which is a real shame if they are basically a good sort. The...

Top 10 Interview Questions

We read a lot of articles about stupid interview questions, over-the-top interview questions, crazy new interview practices and involving various social scores into the interview process. But what are some of the most common interview questions? For those of you just starting out or wanting to get back to the basics, here (in no particular order and barring the obvious "What's your name?"),...

Randstad Survey: Confidence Among Healthcare Workers Renewed

According to the fourth quarter findings from the Randstad Healthcare Employee Confidence Index, healthcare workers are more confident in nearly every area surveyed, including strength of the economy and availability of jobs. The survey of 299 physicians, healthcare administrators and other healthcare professionals also showed that American healthcare workers are much more likely to look for a...

Money, Power & Women: Elle Kaplan, a Different Face of Wall Street

She was young, fresh out of college, just moved to the big apple and had a dream —a financial dream that landed her in the middle of Wall Street. But in pursuit of her goals, Elle Kaplan discovered some unsettling truths: Where were the banks that respected their clients' needs more than their own? Where was transparency and honesty in business practices? Most important, why weren't...

ZipRecruiter: A Strong Addition to Any Recruitment Arsenal

ZipRecruiter.com has grown exponentially since its launch nearly three years ago—and for good reason. ZipRecruiter's job board distribution service provides exceptional visibility for recruiters, placing their job postings on approximately 30 leading job boards and social networks. "There are so many great jobs boards out there that it's difficult to keep up with them all,"...

Benchmark Survey Released on Corporate Recruitment

In its first annual corporate recruitment benchmark survey, The Novo Group has found that most companies lack both the time and resources for finding and hiring top talent. Two of the most pressing challenges for recruiters are the increasing number of passive candidates and a general lack of proactive sourcing. The survey found that 55 percent of the candidate pool is employed and not looking...

Scoring a Wink and an Interview

There is a lot of great advice available on how to charm potential employers during that nerve-wracking "first date" known as the interview, but the interview is not the most difficult part of the hiring process – scoring the interview is. Your cover letter and resume are similar to an online dating profile—they must be attractive enough to intrigue potential employers, and they must...

6 Ways to Organize your Job Search

I don't know many people who actually enjoy looking for a job (me included), but at some point in our lives, we all have to. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average unemployed person spends more than eight months looking for work. The economy and job market can affect this time-frame, increasing or decreasing it, but so can another important factor—being unorganized. The...

Can Dating Help you Professionally?

We all know the familiar saying, "It's not what you know, but who you know," and Social and Dating Coach Nick Sparks likes to add another important part to the old adage—it's also how much they like you. Sparks is the mastermind behind Sparks of Attraction, a company dedicated to helping people develop the necessary skills to find that "oh-so-special-someone." From an infographic...

The Friendish Workplace

It's very peculiar how describing someone as "friendly" to you usually means (s)he is not your friend. When a supervisor is understood to be friendly, that's normally taken and offered as code for "but not friends". To presume that you are friends with your boss (or even with a coworker) just because (s)he is friendly is, well, presumptuous. The new manager who, on day one,...

Top 3 Tips to Boost Your Mobile Recruiting Game

These days, it seems like everybody is going mobile. It's therefore crucial that your recruitment strategy follow suit. More mobile user adoption means a wider network of people – both potential candidates and current employees - who are now accessible via their mobile devices. Aim to be that company which engages them with a more current outreach approach, and get results. Organizations...

Retirement App Released by Insperity, Inc

HR solutions provider, Insperity, Inc. has announced the launch of its new retirement planning app offering fast and secure access to 401(k) account information. The application is free and currently available only to iOS users, though an Android version is close to release. "The new Insperity Retirement app for Apple and Android devices complements our recently enhanced online Retirement...

Necessary Traits for Leadership Identified by Strategic Leadership Resources

A team at Strategic Leadership Resources has identified the traits it has deemed necessary for candidates wishing to successfully develop leadership strength. "At the heart of every successful business—or organization like the church—are leaders who've not only mastered their chosen field of endeavor, but have developed the management/communications skills necessary to truly inspire a...

CyberCoders Updates Website for Mobile

Recruiting firm CyberCoders has unveiled a redesigned website offering improved functionality and mobility to cater to users of smartphones and other mobile devices. The mobile website allows users access to the latest skill-matching capabilities and integrated LinkedIn features to assist in simplifying the job application process. The importance of mobile recruiting has been in focus as of late,...

Pay-For-Performance Service Released for Laid-Off Employees

JobEscrow, Inc. has launched a new escrow system that holds resume-linked hiring rewards of laid-off employees. The service, JobEscrow, is billed as the recruiting industry's first pay-for-performance outplacement service for laid-off employees and gives employers "outplacement insurance" in helping laid-off workers get hired. The service lets employers deposit a reward of at least $500 in...

Unemployment Apps Resume Downward Movement

The number of unemployment aid seekers dropped by 27,000 during the week ending February 9 resuming a slow decline in applications over the past several weeks. The Department of Labor reported that weekly applications dropped to 341,000; a three week low. The four-week average rose slightly to 352,500 coming off the previous week's five-year low of 351,000. The four-week average has also fallen...

Should You Tell Coworkers How Much You Make?

Before considering whether you should tell coworkers (who ask) how much you make, you have to consider whether you legally can. In a January 31, 2013 online report, CBS Washington, D.C. reported that, under current legislation, namely, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, employers can sue or otherwise punish employees who share salary information. On the other hand, it has been claimed (by a number...

How to Spot Resume Fraud

Even though things seem to be slowly improving, our job market is—to put it mildly—not good. Many job seekers have been scrounging and scraping and clawing around for work for far longer than normal, and that kind of desperation sometimes makes people engage in behaviors they likely wouldn't consider in better times. For recruiters, this means paying even more attention to resumes so...

Are These 5 Big Hiring Mistakes Costing You Money?

Just how cost-effective and time-saving is your hiring process? These common mistakes can set companies back thousands (or millions!) of dollars every year. Worst of all, big mistakes in your hiring process mean you're probably missing out on the talent you desperately need in your organization. In fact, a recent survey from ACT Bridge found that 56 percent of U.S. employers don't even...

Golden Bull in a China Shop: The Godlike New Boss Who Has to Change Everything

Why does the new manager, owner or C.E.O. decide to "fix" things that aren't broken—to "clean house" or take a "fresh" approach to everything? Just because (s)he's the new boss doesn't automatically mean that everything else has to be new too—new policies, new rules, new subordinate staff assignments, new mission, new doorknobs, new coffee, etc. Yet, with the new...

Get Social: Cultivating an Intelligent Workplace [Part 2]

We all know that the success of any company depends on the productivity of its workers. And productive workers need to be led by people who understand the who, what, when, where and how-to of customer demand. Entering from stage left —intelligence. Along with an intelligent management team, productive workers also need leaders who are, well...people. No one wants to report to a robotic,...

Fire These Troublesome Staffing Clients

In any service business, there will be clients that make your days joyful and productive and clients that are a continual drain on your time, money and energy. Whether you're a server with "regulars" that think a $2 tip will cut it or a creative director dealing with clients like these (click, it's good), you have to know when to cut these clients loose. The same goes for running a successful...

DeskAlerts Launches Video-Recording Add-on for Employee Communication Tool

Only a few days after updating its employee communication tool with RSS functionality, DeskAlerts has announced the addition of an in-message video recording tool that will allow internal communications to contain video and audio content. Utilizing existing webcams, the new feature allows multimedia content to be created and disseminated quickly. Each multimedia message can be sent to specific...

Hiring: How to Find that "Special Someone" [infographic]

Love is in the air, or at least it is for those "special someones" this Valentine's Day. As many people prepare to go on romantic dates, there are quite a few people who abhor this sweetheart-candies-and-Hershey's-chocolate-kisses-filled day. But, before you brush off all that romanticism, wait a moment —there may be a thing or two you can learn from this holiday. An infographic from...