Social Style and Grow Whitepaper Available For Free Download
A new whitepaper called, "SOCIAL STYLE AND GROW", is a downloadable free paper that observes some of the most popular workplace effectiveness programs and how behaviors and versatility perspectives of social style increase their impact. Coaches utilize SOCIAL STYLE and Versatility skills to gauge an individual's behavior style and when combined with the GROW model, coaching effectiveness...
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Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud-Based Social Performance Management Company Rypple
Revolutionary change is coming in regards to the way companies recruit and manage employees in the social world. Salesforce.com has already made great changes to the traditional Customer Relationship Management model and now plans on changing the traditional Performance Management model by purchasing Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management company that will be renamed to...
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Full-Cycle Talent Management System With HRToolbench
HR Technology Solutions (HRTS) has released HRToolbench®, a full-cycle talent management system that analyzes workforce skills and competencies and aligns them with an organization's business strategy. The software offers a personal job success profile for each employee, integrating the data across a management suite which includes candidate selection, performance management, 360 feedback,...
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OPENonline's SelectHire Customers Can Now Utilize Applicant Direct, a New and Efficient Applicant Entry System
For HR professionals that need extensive background checks, including drug screening and investigative services, OPENonline has released their newest service for SelectHire customers called Applicant Direct. The new service saves time and money as the system is user-friendly and candidates enter data instead of HR. Angela Bosworth, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of OPENonline,...
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Are We Raising Kids or Machines?
For someone not in the education industry (word used on purpose), I spend a lot of time thinking about education. Just like work issues, the constant and daily reality of school tends to hit you over the head until you just have to pay attention. The thing on my mind today is how much we force kids to record about their lives. Our schools today encourage and often require kids to monitor and...
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Study: Tangible Employee Rewards Should Be Integrated With Compensation
BI WORLDWIDE, which is a global business improvement company with offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, has published an article titled, "Keeping Up With the Jonses" – an examination of employee rewards that emphasizes the importance of using tangible (non-monetary) rewards to generate employee happiness. The key concept behind the article is...
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Is Workforce Development the Key to Reducing Unemployment?
If you understand basic addition and subtraction our unemployment rate should be less than 6%. There are over 13 Million Americans "looking for work" and over 3.4 Million jobs open. If those open positions could be filled by the people looking, we'd be down to under 10 Million unemployed workers or an unemployment rate of just under 6%. This doesn't account for the productivity...
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Old Legends of Resume Writing
For job seekers, there's nothing worse than getting bad resume advice - and the Internet has no shortage of misinformation circulating about resumes. There is actually so much old and outdated resume advice out there that it practically has its own mythology. Let's look at some of the old "truths" of resume writing that you've probably heard before, and see if they hold up to close...
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Poll, Don't Troll: LinkedIn Introduces Group Polling
Yesterday LinkedIn announced an important new feature for LinkedIn groups: polls. In groups where the moderator has polling turned on, members of groups can easily create user-friendly polls with multiple choice options. The new LinkedIn group polling feature promises to be an excellent new way to engage with other members of your LinkedIn groups. Users join LinkedIn groups for all kinds of...
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10 Career Blogs You Shouldn't be Missing
Looking to change careers? Do you need some advice on how to land that fabulous new job? A blog from an expert in careers can help you to find new ways to revamp your resume, find a new job, break into a new industry, wow a recruiter or anything else career related that you need to know. Finding and keeping the perfect job is a lot harder these days, so any edge that you can get on the jobs...
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How to Deal With the BBOC – Big Bully on Campus
If you thought that bullies were just for school yards, you would be wrong! Unfortunately, once those bullies grow up and get jobs in the real world they continue their bullying ways. If they work as "line" employees, it doesn't seriously affect the recruiting staff... but what if they get promoted to be a manager or make their way into the boardroom? Some companies promote these...
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Inside Out Recruiting: 7 Ways to Market Your Company as an Employer of Choice
The job of the recruiting department today has become somewhat of a business generalist role. They are measured in terms of typical recruiting metrics, but they really have to be astute in every facet of the business. Marketing is one of those skill sets that a progressive recruiting department must add to their list of skill sets. You're no longer just recruiting for the marketing...
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