Veterans Often Overlooked In Employers' Talent Search
New research by RightManagement, the talent and career management experts within ManpowerGroup, suggests that many employers largely disregard the unique skills and experiences of military veterans when considering a candidate for a position. This unfortunate oversight leads to missed opportunities in acquiring top talent. "Employers sometimes think military experience is narrow or not...
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Talent Management Releases PerformancePAM Enhanced Goals
Leading the way in talent and performance management systems, PerformancePAM has recently launched its newest 7.5 version, which will provide users with advanced goal management, appointment setting, employee journals, budget entry screen, and visual analytics. PerformancePAM encourages employee development and allows for improved performance in the workplace. According to Elizabeth Berlin,...
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Are Your Job Applicants Hiding Something? New Webinar Assists Employers In Uncovering the Truth
EmployeeScreenIQ, a leading global provider of background screening services, has recently announced a new educational webinar that gives employers the upper hand in conducting background checks on their job applicants. Entitled, "Your Applicants Have Something to Hide: Why You're Not Finding It," the free web event is open to all and has been pre-approved by the HR Certification Institute...
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Vantage+ Communications Center Released by Valiant
Serving predominantly the Security, Parking, Hospitality, and Government sector, Valiant leads the way in providing workforce management software solutions to enhance real time remote workforce management. Introducing its new Vantage+ Communications Center, Valiant now offers tools that will help businesses run more efficiently. The new features add to previous generations of software with VOIP...
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Webinar Offers Lessons in Inspiring Employee Engagement, Retaining Top Talent
Juice, known for their training and development services designed to increase employee engagement and productivity, has recently announced an upcoming webinar focused on inspiring employee engagement. Entitled, "How to Measure Results in the Feelings Economy," the event will educate participants on the benefits of effective internal communication, and reveal how proper dialogue can increase...
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Pump Up Your Recruiters, Pump Up Your Results
If you talk to employees across a variety of industries and fields you'll probably hear a common theme. Employees today are feeling overworked, underpaid, unrecognized, and unsure how long they can keep doing what they're doing. Everyone is doing more with less, being expected to produce unprecedented results, and often workers know that if they left their job today they would have a hard...
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Beyond Recruiting Metrics: Building Relationships
"All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust." -Bob Burg Many recruiting professionals now use dozens of transactional and quantitative metrics to measure their placements. With the growing popularity of applicant tracking ssystems, it's easier than ever before for organizations to collect data on placements and...
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10 Twitter Career Personalities to Follow
Twitter is one of the most used social networking sites in America and is growing in popularity all over the word. Savvy tweeters are using this social networking site to do more than just post about what they had for breakfast; many offer relevant and interesting advice on a range of topics, including jobs and careers. Useful ideas about careers and job searching can be found posted by many...
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WorkSimple Uses Social Network Streaming to Help Employees Manage Goals
Known for making employee goals social and performance results-driven, WorkSimple has now made performance communication part of the stream by adding Agile Goals and Activity Stream. Just as social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter have live feeds that stream information and feedback, WorkSimple has a live stream to share goals and feedback in the workplace allowing employees to give...
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Making the Leap From Corporate Recruiting to Agency Recruiting
"All great changes are preceded by chaos." -Deepak Chopra So, you want to leave your comfortable corporate recruiting job for the bright lights of agency recruiting? Many recruiting professionals have experience working both sides of the recruiting fence, but navigating away from an in-house role to a position with an agency as a freewheeling headhunter takes careful planning and a...
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Five Signs That Your Talent May be Headed Out the Door
Highly skilled engaged employees are invaluable to an organization's bottom line. With the costs to hire and train new workers soaring through the roof, it's important for businesses to retain valued employees. Unfortunately, many managers fail to recognize the classic signs of an unhappy employee preparing to make an exit, before it's too late. A young hotel worker in Providence, Rhode...
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Wage vs. ROUE: Tax, Trust Fund and Benefits Impacts of Not Hiring the Unemployed
UNEMPLOYMENT DENIED/Image: Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise The recently proposed American Jobs Act (the "AJA") contains provisions designed to prohibit, prevent and punish what it characterizes as discrimination against the unemployed whose applications are rejected when the applicant is unemployed. Further characterizing the refusal to hire the unemployed solely because...
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