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Millennial Managers: Why Age Shouldn't Mean Much When It Comes to Promotions

When we think of the term "millennials," we think about young kids graduating college and starting their lives. But the truth is, the oldest members of the millennial generation are in their mid-30s. They aren't just starting out. Many have been out of college for a decade or more already. They're leading teams, running divisions, sitting at boardroom tables, and in some cases, even running...

5 Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Our Careers

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: The transition from college to career can be a difficult one. In this special edition of Recruiter Q&A, we asked recent...

4 Things Pokémon Go Can Teach Us About Recruiting

If you have been anywhere near the Internet in the past couple of weeks, you've probably heard about Pokémon Go. It's an addictive little game based on a franchise that reached its heights in the late '90s and early 2000s – but thanks to Pokémon Go, that franchise is coming back in big ways. The game's interactive reality gets people out-and-about, searching for imaginary critters in...

Identifying Workplace Needs Before You Need Them: A Look Back at the 2016 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition

As I traveled home from this year's SHRM Annual Conference Exposition, I thought about one theme that arose consistently throughout: the casualization of the workplace and its effect on workplace culture. While casualization and flexible work arrangements (FWAs) have shown impressive results in recruitment and retention, they also pose challenges for HR professionals and organizations...

Take a Break and Let Technology Narrow Down That Candidate Pool for You

Are you tired of sorting through huge piles of resumes long after the work day is supposed to be done? Do you get stuck in the office sending out interview requests on the weekend, only to later find yourself pushing through to the ends of interviews with candidates whom you knew were wrong for the job from the moment you shook their hands? In the age of technology, it's no longer...

Would You Work for Free?

Last week, I had the good fortune of attending a work conference in Chicago. It wasn't your average work conference. The attendees wanted to be there. In fact, their companies didn't pay for them to go. They paid their own way. And they went to all of the workshops offered – even at the end, when everyone was tired. The conference is called Podcast Movement, and its purpose is to help...

Workplace Flexibility: To Make It Stick, You Need to Focus on Results

Back in 2008, the global tax services firm Ryan introduced the myRyan program, a relatively radical approach to workplace flexibility, especially for a firm as large and established as Ryan. Delta Emerson, president of global shared services at Ryan and one of Recruiter Today's top 10 company culture experts, played a critical role in bringing myRyan to life. She explains that the...

5 Ways for Job-Seeking Millennials to Clean Up Their Social Media Profiles Today

Graduation has come and gone. If you're like so many young people today who were unable to secure professional employment in the field of their choice before leaving college, you're likely still hunting for those ideal job postings, submitting applications, and going on as many interviews as possible. Resume in order? Check. Networking events attended? Check. Social media accounts cleaned...

Pursue an MBA or Join the Workforce? 5 Reasons Why Working for a Startup Might Be the Answer

When college graduates survey their futures, most face a tough decision: Should I jump into the workforce or continue my education? While no job can exactly simulate the grit it takes to pursue an MBA or the experience gained from the process, I'd argue that you can find similar opportunities for learning and growth inside the doors of a startup. Startups bring together unique sets of...

Extra! Extra! Read All About Me! Make your LinkedIn Professional Headline Work For You

The most valuable space on your LinkedIn page is the professional headline field just below your name, and the two biggest determinants of whether you will merit further review or will be passed over are what you choose to do with your photo and how you use the space after your name. Forget telling the world your job title. In this day of small entrepreneurs, digital startups, and...

6 Ways You Know It's Time to Go

For years I have said that the person who gets ahead isn't always the smartest or the one who works the hardest -- although those are great qualities to have. The person who gets ahead is the one who remains alert to opportunity. Sometimes those are internal to your organization. Sometimes they are external. Sometimes getting ahead means being the person who is willing to do things that...

The Benefits That Increase Employee Satisfaction

As the 2008 recession pounded the economy, many companies were forced to put their employees on the chopping block. There were layoffs, salary freezes, hiring freezes, and benefit cuts all over America. Here in 2016, the economy is mostly recovered, yet many companies continue to stand still in these areas out of fear that things may take a turn for the worse again. Employees are typically...

6 Tools to Boost Your Employer Brand

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question on jobs data 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 tech tools, websites, social media platforms, or other things does your company use to create, maintain,...

Google's New Emoji Aim for Gender and Ethnic Diversity

Last week, we covered the dearth of women in boardrooms and the uphill battle to reach gender parity. It's serendipitous, then, that Google announced today a new set of emojis it collaborated on with the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. The new emoji include 11 professional icons in both male and female options and a variety of skin tones, for a total of 100 new emoji. Google also announced...

Why Grads Should Consider Manufacturing Careers

For most members of the newly graduated class of 2016, the manufacturing sector likely ranks pretty low on their list of possible careers -- if it ranks at all. But while the competition might be stiff in many sectors that recent graduates are more likely to target, the manufacturing sector is suffering from an ever-increasing skills gap. Part of the reason why is that manufacturing jobs...

5 Mistakes Founders, Early Employees, and Internal Recruiters Make When Hiring

We've noticed a pattern of mistakes being made by founders, internal recruiters, and early employees at technology companies. Here are the five most common: 1. Spending Money on Well-Known Job Boards When recruiting for a new position, many start by reaching out to their networks. But after that well has dried up, you might start to explore posting a job on LinkedIn, Indeed,...

A Case for Cover Letters

Between updating your resume and searching for open positions, the job hunt can be both a daunting and time-consuming endeavor. You may be tempted to skip the cover letter -- or even worse, send a templated cover letter -- it's imperative that you take full advantage of the unique opportunity to share your story. Below are just a few reasons why cover letters are critical to securing a...

Ignite Your Job Search for the Rest of 2016

Because it is a job seeker's market, every job is temporary -- at least millennials seem to think so. Last year's Jobvite study agrees with them. You might hate the job search, but this is the time to do it! According to the 2015 job preparedness study from the DeVry University Career Advisory Board, the job seekers who succeed in their searches today are those who target specific...

Recruiter Top 10: Non-Traditional Ways to Meet Your Next Hire

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 Non-Traditional Ways to Source...

Not Dungeons & Dragons: Four Reasons Recruiters Should Hire a Denial Diplomat

Fair or not, the problem is this: Recruiters and applicants are not speaking the same language. Recruiters are bombarded with resumes to such an extent that they can hardly breathe; 1300-1500 hundred resumes a month is considered a light load. There isn't time to tell every candidate, many of whom had good intentions but did not read the job description closely enough, that they didn't get the...

Keep Your Employees Happy, and Your Customers Will Be Happy, Too [Infographic]

There's a good chance that both your employees and your customers are unhappy. For employees, a lack of mobility and flexibility leaves 66 percent of them feeling disengaged. For consumers, one of the biggest problems is that they expect businesses to be aware of their histories as customers – but few businesses are. The good news in all this is that you can kill two birds with one...

4 HR Trends Blowing Up Talent Acquisition, Part 4: Online Staffing Engages Contingent Workers

Read part one of the series here, part two here, and part three here. Online staffing companies are leveraging technology to disrupt the traditional staffing model. Unlike staffing firms, these companies deliver talent through marketplace transactions. These Web-based platforms let individuals buy and sell various services and provide those individuals with features that enable online...

New Grads: 6 Ways to Start Your Career Off Right, According to the Experts

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: We recently shared some advice from recent grads about starting a career after graduation. Today, we decided to get another...

How to Write a Great Cover Letter, Necessary or Not

Are cover letters actually necessary? Applicants don't know. Recruiters don't care. And hiring managers? Well, they seem to be divided on the issue. But let's assume for a moment that you should, for any position to which you are applying, include a cover letter. If that letter is read by your future boss, what should it say? For starters, it shouldn't look anything like these...

Is Today Your Independence Day?

The makeup of the American workforce is shifting. The traditional stability of the nine-to-five corporate desk job is slowly being replaced by the freedom and flexibility of self-employment. Independent workers in the United States number more than 40 million, according to the 6th Annual MBO Partners "State of Independence" study. Even though the number of full-time independents has decreased...

Take Those Vacation Days: It's Good for You and Your Employer [Infographic]

We have a vacation problem here in the U.S. By some estimates, about 40 percent of us don't take all our vacation time every year. Generally, it's because we're worried about what will happen while we're away from the office. Will the department fall to pieces in my absence? Will an insurmountable pile of tasks accrue on my desk? Will my boss decide I'm not a team player because I flew to...

Whatever You Do, Don't Quit

Your boss doesn't appreciate you. Your coworkers are rude. You're underpaid and you get no respect. The last thing you want to do is spend one more day at that awful place you call "work." You've had enough for too long, and you're finally ready to make a decision. Quitting seems like a great option. It makes perfect sense. Quitting will give you more time to look for a new job. Every...

Women in the Boardroom: Lots of Talk, but Little Action

We've covered why ethnic and gender diversity are important for business success, and so have most other media outlets, especially in the wake of Silicon Valley's much publicized "diversity problem." And yet, in spite of all these tough conversations, the status quo persists, especially in the boardroom and especially when it comes to gender diversity (or, rather, the lack thereof)....

The Power of Neuroscience and Motivation in Recruiting

Compensation isn't the leading career motivator it was once thought to be. Neuroscience has proven time and time again that success in the workplace is often driven by a collection of internal aspirations and desires, rather than financial gain. By leveraging this expanding field of research, recruiters can get into the minds of talented candidates and grasp what they need to succeed in a...

4 Surprisingly Effective Techniques to Help You Recruit Leaders

The retained executive search model is broken. It is costly, can leave voids in your organization for months, and all too often produces no results at all. While retained search has been the go-to recruiting model for decades, it's time for executives at hiring companies to break out of the box. That may take a little self-reflection. Consider why you are using a search firm. Is it...

7 Brilliant Interview Questions Used by the Pros

The perfect candidate is elusive – possibly even a total fiction – but that doesn't stop us from trying to find them – which is probably why 95 percent of companies make hiring mistakes every year that cost them tens of thousands of dollars. According to research from Brandon Hall Group, 69 percent of companies believe a flawed interview process has the biggest impact on the...

12 Leadership Books to Add to Your Reading List

Article by YPO. No matter your business, leadership style, or level of experience, there is a book out there that will inspire you, make you think differently, and help stir change where it's needed. We asked members of Young Presidents' Organization for their top book recommendations and received everything from autobiographies and how-tos to ancient scriptures and rap-lyric...

6 Ways to Hire That Busy Entrepreneurs Love

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's your favorite way to hire? The answers below are provided by members of FounderSociety, an invitation-only...

What Happened to Your Employee Referral Program? 4 Ways the Right Tech Can Spice It Up:

More companies are looking to hire more and more people, which is good news for job seekers. A 2015 iCIMS study found that 85 percent of the 107 HR professionals surveyed expected hiring to increase or stay the same at their companies in the coming years. But are employers using the best available methods to meet their growing needs? Fortunately, many companies have gotten savvy and...

The State of Employer Branding in 2016: More Important Than Ever, But Far From Perfected

In June, Universum released Employer Branding Now, a wide-ranging report that surveys the state of employer branding in 2016. Over the course of the next few months, we'll be diving into the report in depth to explore some of the conclusions it draws and the prescriptions it issues. Today, we start with a general overview of the report's findings. Part two is available here. Part three is...

Lessons from HR Pro Jose Benitez Cong

Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of sipping coffee with Jose Benitez Cong, former head of talent at Nest and chief recruiter for Apple's first iPod and iPhone engineering teams. Note that I didn't say that I had coffee with Jose Benitez Cong, a Warriors fan who loves Maseratis and Silver Oak wine, even though that would all be true. While our interests help describe us, for many avid...

TAtech Tip: Target Career Activists, Not Job Seekers

There is no such thing as a "passive job seeker." At best, such individuals are "prospective new hires," and even that term understates the significant differences between the average candidate and these currently employed top performers. Finding a more accurate term with which to describe these elusive uber-candidates is more than an exercise in semantics. Top talent see themselves...

Decrease Health Care Hiring Costs With a Vendor-Neutral Managed Services Provider

Recent reforms to the American health care system have lead to an influx of patients for many hospitals and care centers across the country. Unfortunately, many of these health care organizations are simultaneously feeling the sting of decreased reimbursements from value-based health care, expensive migrations to new technologies, and shrinking staffs. The costs associated with providing...

4 Budget-Friendly Ways to Motivate Your Team

It's one of the more depressing business statistics: Only about a third of employees say they are engaged at work. The other 70 percent aren't too happy with their jobs, with 52 percent feeling "blah" and 18 percent downright hating their current positions. We all know what this means for employee productivity and the organizational bottom line. Employers are aware of the problem, but...

The Top 10 Employee Referral Software Solutions

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 Employee Referral Software...

6 Easy Ways to Reward and Motivate Employees

You see it almost everywhere you go: Cashiers rolling their eyes at customers, or coworkers gathered in the grocery store aisle or break room gossiping and complaining about their bosses. This is a worldwide phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll, only 13 percent of the world's employees are engaged at work. The other 87 percent (!) are watching the clocks and waiting to collect...

The Future of AI in HR

Everywhere you turn today, someone is making a wild claim about artificial intelligence. If you aren't deeply technical, you may struggle to separate fact from fiction. Is AI going to make us all more productive, or will it take all our jobs? In what areas will AI most affect human resources in the near term and in the long term? My goal in the next few paragraphs is to provide you with a...

Bad Timing Will Cost You Good Employees

Employers are looking for the best ways to retain new employees – an important goal considering how easy it is for employees to jump ship for new opportunities in today's economy. However, it can be difficult for many employers to discern between times when they should try to retain an employee and times when they should let the employee go because they just aren't working out. Some of...

6 Indications You Need to Hire More Team Members

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 should a startup scale its hiring? How do you know it's time to bring on more team members? The answers below are...

Could You Just Text Me That Info?

When the world moves on, savvy companies have to move with it. In today's business environment, everyone has a cell phone in their pocket. Most people use them for email, quick Web searches, and a dozen other functions in their daily lives. So why shouldn't recruiters use the convenience of that technology while in-processing new employees? Solutions in the marketplace now allow recruiters...

3 Areas Where Your Communication Skills Matter the Most

One story I tell in my workshops is about how a former customer of mine improved communications between two warring departments. He told me that these groups were almost literally at war with each other and just couldn't play well together. He further explained that he would call members of the groups together and make them talk to each other. "I also observed their body language and...

Why It's Sometimes a Good Idea to Break Your Career Rules

Life lessons seem hard to grasp at first, but so obvious once you get them. I recently spoke with a former client who completely transformed his career. He went from working at a university in administration to working in corporate strategy at a Fortune 500 company. I asked him, "Looking back, how have you changed the most in the last few years?" He said something I wasn't expecting: "I...

Why Diversity Recruiting Leads to Company Growth

Think diversity recruiting is all style and no substance? Think again. According to numerous studies, more diverse workforces lead to more profitable, thriving organizations. McKinsey Company reports that women account for a quarter of U.S. GDP, which suggests that a diversified workforce that allows more people to participate in labor leads to economic growth in general. On the...