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Waging War on Wages

There's a war on the horizon for corporate America. Not the kind with fighter jets and bullets, but the kind with dollars and cents. Workers are gaining more confidence in the workplace, and as a result, they are demanding better salary and benefits, according to the Emerging Workforce Study (EWS) from recruiting and staffing agency Spherion. The days where businesses held the upper hand...

How You're Scaring Away Great Talent

On a daily basis, recruiters hear stories about challenging interviews and horrible bosses. Recently, I met someone in line at the grocery store who told me about a marathon interview session he had just endured. He was sharp, had a great mix of work experience, and went to a good school. He was a top-notch candidate and could have his choice of job opportunities. Unfortunately,...

4 Unusual Ways to Land Your Dream Job

Getting a job offer has never been easier than it is today. Thanks to the Internet and other amazing technologies, you can turn the tables on your job search. Instead of being the one soliciting jobs, you can have companies begging to hire you. This requires a little creativity, though. To help inspire you, here are some of the most unusual ways people have landed their dream jobs: 1....

Job Searching? Keep Company Culture Top of Mind

When you're on the job hunt, you have to juggle an almost unimaginable number of factors while trying to find your perfect fit: skills, experience, location, benefits, pay ... the list goes on and on. One factor in particular that you should never overlook is cultural fit. Many job seekers look first at essentials like pay and benefits, but once you've found companies that meet your...

The Tricky Ethics of Diversity Recruiting

For recruiters, access to Piazza Careers, a platform that utilizes its student courseware as a recruiting mine for companies, starts at $50,000 per year. Piazza Careers also gives recruiters and employers the ability to narrow their search results down by "diversity" for substantially more. If a recruiter or employer chooses to go this route, they could easily end up shelling out...

Looking for Flexible Work in 2016? Try One of These 5 Job Categories:

Flexible work, remote positions, and telecommuting arrangements are proliferating across industries, but according to FlexJobs, five job categories in particular are experiencing particularly quick growth in terms of flex work: Government and Politics Engineering Project Management Communications Travel and Hospitality According to FlexJobs' analysis, each of these categories...

6 Strategies for Owning Your Millennial Reputation and Coming Out on Top

The court of public opinion hasn't often ruled in millennials' favor. Millennials are gossipy and entitled — or so the story goes. They lack ambition in their careers — despite being more educated than their older counterparts — and they are irresponsible with their money. These rumors have bruised young professionals' confidence and heightened disillusionment among employers...

Are You Addicted to Work? [Infographic]

Thanks in part to a booming tech industry composed largely of scrappy young startups making big things happen, entrepreneurs hold a privileged place in U.S. society. And while there's nothing wrong with a little healthy respect for people who have worked hard to chase their dreams and achieve there goals, there is a downside to all this pro-entrepreneur discourse: As more and more people try...

5 Ways to Create a Company Culture That Attracts Top Millennial Talent

All companies want to hire top talent. That's a given. But what many organizations struggle with is understanding just how to attract the best in the business. Some believe in the power of the foosball table to create a fun and relaxed work environment, while others think a standout benefits package is what new hires really want. While both are viable options that will likely attract...

Welcoming Your New Employees: Free Swag, the Buddy System, and More

Today is your new hire's first day on the job. You've taken all of the usual steps to get ready for them, and you think you've prepared enough. But are you welcoming your new employee in the best way possible? Thirty-three percent of employees begin looking for new employment within their first six months on the job. Get your employee engaged from day one, and you won't have to worry about...

TAtech Tip: Go Speed Dating for Talent

The statistics are jaw-dropping: According to a CareerBuilder survey, 60 percent of job seekers have abandoned an employer's application process because it was too complicated. A staggering 82 percent said there were simply too many steps involved for what is often a very low return on their investment of time and effort. In an era when employers are desperate to find and hire qualified...

Recruiter Top 10: Mobile Recruiting Tools

Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned. This Week: Top 10 Mobile Recruiting Tools At the risk...

10 Stress-Reducing Productivity Boosters You Must Try Today

According to research, stress has a huge impact on your performance at work. Highly stressed employees have 50 percent higher presenteeism rates, and they also take more sick days than their less stressed counterparts: 4.6 per year compared to 2.6. Don't want to be one of the unproductive? Try one of these 10 ways to lower your stress – for your sake and the sake of your...

Hiring Stories: What to Expect When You Enter the Workforce

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: In this special edition of Recruiter Q&A, we asked some recent grads to share some stories from their very first job...

3 Ways to Attract and Retain Millennials

As more and more millennials enter their careers, they bring with them a new set of values, skills, and perceptions of what makes an ideal work environment. According to research from IO Sustainability and Babson College, millennials will comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. For employers, attracting these young minds is one thing, but retaining them is another, more difficult...

Internships Aren't the Only Way to Gain Valuable Skills – Restaurant Experience Might Be Even Better

You know the usual path: college, internship, entry-level gig. Many recruiters and hiring managers today won't even give an entry-level candidate's resume a second look if they haven't done an internship. But is this really the right move? It's possible that those sans-internship candidates gained valuable practical skills in their previous employments – skills that can more than make...

Training Might Be the Best Way to Keep Your Employees Engaged

Increased rates of job hopping and decreased rates of employee engagement pose significant challenges to employers in today's day and age, but there may be a way to combat both of these problems at once: relevant training and development. According to a survey conducted by learning management system (LMS) provider Bridge, training ranks highest on many employees' workplace wish lists...

How Do You Spend Your Paycheck? [Infographic]

Woo-hoo! It's payday! But how do you spend all that money? Does your salary go straight out the door, do you have a bit of loose change to spend, or do you save as much as you possibly can? It's likely that first option, according to a new infographic from UK payday loans provider Wizzcash. The company polled nearly 1,000 people in the UK to find out about their monthly spending and...

Not Getting the Recognition You Deserve? Jump Ship

Many employees feel unappreciated at work. They feel their successes go unrecognized or that they are routinely overlooked for promotions and raises. It can be overwhelming, disappointing, and demotivating, to say the least. If you find yourself in this situation, what can you do about it? First, take an honest look at your performance. If you have a tendency to come in late or to miss...

6 Priceless Lessons Entrepreneurs Learned From Their Earliest Jobs

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: What job did you have early in your career that taught you the most? What were the important lessons that you learned? The...

Do You Volunteer? Make Sure to Flaunt It on Your Resume

Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community – and, as it turns out, a great way to land yourself a job. That's according to Deloitte's 2016 Volunteer Impact Survey, which found that 82 percent of hiring influencers – that is, people who directly influence either hiring decisions or the people making the hiring decisions at their companies – are likely to choose...

Classrooms or Computers: What Do Workers Value More as a Source of Professional Training?

The UK's recent economic success has certainly been due in part to the country's ability to attract individuals with highly specific competencies, qualities, experience, knowledge, and ideas. But even the most skilled of employees need support – and that's where training and development come in. British organizations that have experienced growth over the last two years are...

How to Give Your Employees the Balance They Crave

Some of your employees will crave balance above all else. Those employees recognize the importance of balancing their work lives and their personal lives. They prefer to work for organizations that make work-life balance an attainable goal by supporting both the business and personal success of their employees. How to Identify Employees Who Value Balance There are a few...

3 Ways to Sell Yourself in Your Executive Resume

I see it all the time: high-level, super-talented executives earning six-figure salaries, leading large organizations, and making major financial impacts with mediocre (at best) resumes. Sigh. It doesn't have to be this way. Your resume should be just as impressive as your actual career. After all, it is a representation of your professional life. Mediocre resumes happen to the best...

Why Your Candidate Experience Matters – and 7 Ways to Immediately Improve It

Hiring managers are busy – we get it. Your focus shifts from day to day. That incredibly qualified candidate you interviewed yesterday may be the furthest thing from your mind today. But that candidate is actively thinking about the meeting and wondering when a decision might be made – hopefully in their favor. As a hiring manager, you're used to calling the shots and having your team...

Little Love Lost: Startups on Recruiting Through LinkedIn

"LinkedIn makes people look good on paper, but not in real life." -Karan Gupta, cofounder and CEO of Mammoth Time and time again, employers and startups run into this problem. A candidate seems great online, well qualified with applicable work experience. They boast about their language skills and have racked up dozens of endorsements. But how often does this translate into a good...

Attracting Millennial Candidates With Live Video

Unless your company offers in-person, all-access tours of your office to potential new recruits, nothing can beat video for getting across your employer brand promise. Video brings to life things like corporate culture, employee experience, and the work environment better than any job description or advertisement could ever hope to. And as we know, today's hard-to-please millennials place...

4 Ways to Screen Out Bad Hires

According to Gallup, employers hire the wrong people for management positions 82 percent of the time – and that's just managers. Imagine how often they hire the wrong people for every other role, too. And there's no guarantee that these bad hires are leaving any time soon. From leadership roles to entry-level positions, there are plenty of bad hires who are still employed. What's more...

The Insider's Guide to Passive Candidates

Did you know that passive candidates – those who are currently employed but open to hearing from recruiters – account for nearly 85 percent of the global workforce? Or that, for many recruiters, this group is the "Holy Grail" or candidates? Recruitment specialists Armstrong Appointments recently released an infographic that shares some interesting facts and figures about these...

Your Guide to Making Difficult Decision at Work and at Home

Who among has hasn't been paralyzed by decision before? Even something as simple as choosing where to eat on your lunch break can turn into a morass of multiple choice. And when the stakes are higher than gustatory satisfaction? Decisions can wrack us with agony, anxiety, and a slew of other counterproductive, highly stressful emotions. Have you ever found yourself almost sick with...

10 Resume Tips to Help You Get the Job

When your resume is in need of a major overhaul, the hardest part is often figuring out where to begin. That's why I took the opportunity to draw on my experience as a resume expert and create this list of 10 tips to help you get started. If you want your resume to land in the job market spotlight, these should be your primary concerns when writing it: 1. Keep It Relevant to the Job...

Build a Corporate Culture for All Ages

We live in a unique time. It's getting more and more difficult to predict trends in the labor force. We have Generation Z at one end of the spectrum, the youngest of which are just starting to graduate college and enter the job market (depending on where the generational line is drawn). On the other end, we have the 65-to-74 and 75-and-older demographics, which are expected to grow...

How to Scare Off Candidates With Recruiting Technology

Recruiters are getting mixed messages from job seekers. A 2016 Jobvite survey found that 74 percent of employees are open to new jobs. However, the 2016 Global Recruiting Trends report from LinkedIn found that 46 percent of recruiters are having trouble finding candidates in the labor market. If so many people are willing to think about new employment opportunities, why can't recruiters...

10 Tips to Make Networking a Breeze

Everywhere you look, somebody's talking about networking – how great it is, why you need to do it, how you should do it, etc. There are books about it, blogs about it, articles about it (psst – you're reading one). It's all over the place. Why? Because it works! If you're new to networking, I have some great news for you: It's actually very easy. We make it hard for ourselves...

Why You Should Give New Graduates a Second Look

Many of us remember playing second fiddle to our parents' jobs when we were growing up. In American culture, the balance between employment and personal life has long been tilted in the direction of the job, but societal standards are starting to shift. The days of employees being forced to prioritize their jobs over their personal lives may be slowly coming to an end. Millennials just aren't...

8 Ways to Keep Your Workplace Fresh and Your Employees Productive

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you'd like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter QA! Today's Question: When employees get bored, they grow disengaged. When they grow disengaged, their productivity takes a hit. Sometimes, they...

Where Does Religion Fit Into the Interview Process?

A reader contacted me today with an important question for consideration: When is it appropriate to wear clothing, jewelry, or other items associated with your religion to an interview or to work? This reader was concerned about being judged in the office for her religious affiliation. This is a very tricky and personal question, and it's a very individual choice. I often think of a...

3 Key Business Outcomes to Expect From Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) sounds like the promised land of talent acquisition, with its ability to improve efficiency, streamline recruitment, and enable you to hire higher-quality talent. But like all business investments, it needs to be directly tied to measurable outcomes for it to be right for your organization. It's not enough to go RPO just for the sake of creating a better...

Invest in Employees and They'll Invest in You

Giving raises and high-quality benefits packages to workers can get expensive. Every executive knows this. Many corporations have locked into annual raises of 1 or 2 percent to save a buck. Others have cut corners by forcing employees onto high-deductible insurance plans, reducing company contributions to retirement accounts, or cancelling profit-sharing and bonuses. But here's the...

How to Write a Resignation Letter

Flight attendants exiting in grand style down the emergency slide, employees quitting with videos that go viral or via rants on social media – surely you yourself have dreamt up your own a creative way to throw in the towel. But that's why we have a little something called "impulse control." While these devil-may-care methods of moving on are certainly gutsy, the glory is sure to fade...

10 Insider Lessons No One in the Business World Will Teach You

It took me years to comprehend why people functioned so differently in the corporate world from the way I functioned – or expected them to function. On the one hand, my clarity of thought, determination, ambitiousness, and creativity helped me excel in my career because these traits were highly valued in the competitive business culture; on the other hand, I found that when it came to...

5 Things You Forgot to Include in Your LinkedIn Profile

More and more companies are turning to LinkedIn to find the perfect candidates. In fact, 93 percent of hiring managers search this professional social network for potential hires, according to MarketWatch. This means your LinkedIn profile is an important piece of real estate, regardless of whether you're searching for a job right at the moment. To make the most of this opportunity,...

The Pattern People Follow to Find Great Jobs

I recently gave a talk to a small class of coders in Phoenix on the subject of finding a great job. In this post, I'll share the content of the talk. But first, a bit of a backstory on why I was asked to speak on this particular subject. Almost 10 years ago, I grabbed a couple of friends and an R.V. and hit the road to interview 300+ people about their career paths. I was just...

Stay Curious: How to Make Sure Everyone Gets Along at Work

When we talk about people in terms of personality types, the big two categories are introvert and extrovert. However, according to more than a few studies, our common belief that everyone can be sorted into one of these two boxes is a flawed one. In reality, there are very few "pure extroverts" or "pure introverts." Erin Wortham, people engagement manager at people development...

The Value of Listening to Employee Feedback

In every relationship, we all want to feel valued. We all want to feel useful. We want to feel understood, acknowledged, and included. This is true even in the workplace. When a company starts to think about where it will be in five or ten years, reaching out to employees for their input goes a long way toward making them feel all of those things. Finding ways to engage with employees...

TAtech Tip: Engage in Re-Recruitment

Winston Churchill once opined, "To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often." That may now be the mantra of top talent, as it has become increasingly common for them to change their minds and go elsewhere after accepting an offer. How can you protect yourself from this new recruiting plague of now-you-have-them, now-you-don't? Engage in re-recruitment. During...

Why HR Is Important – Even for Startups

HR is relevant and necessary – even for startups. Many startup owners assume they don't have to worry about HR functions until later on, when they've grown – but that's simply not true. When it's difficult to manage the paperwork and compliance forms, even something as (seemingly) simple as recruiting and hiring becomes a burden. While Red Branch Media has never surpassed the...

Get That Recruiter-Hiring Manager Chemistry Going

We all know chemistry is essential for a good relationship, right? So imagine how great it would be if hiring managers could find their perfect recruiters on an eHarmony-type site. Or if recruiters could pick the hiring managers they work with based on personality matches. In reality, the recruiting/hiring manager match is more like an arranged marriage in most companies: two strangers...