Student Recruiting Firm Stays on the Fast Track
Student recruiting? That's right. Very much like how recruiters and private employers compete for top employee talent, colleges and universities vie for top students. Enter TargetX - whose longstanding efforts have been aimed at increasing student recruitment and building student recruiting technology. They were recently ranked again as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S....
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Talent Management Provider TEDS Releases Powerful New Dashboards
TEDS - a provider of comprehensive enterprise-wide talent management solutions, recently announced new functionality for a number of their talent life-cycle modules. Their flagship talent acquisition and staffing module, Job Vision, is host to many of the new and updated features. "In economic downturns, productivity becomes even more critical to profitability – and sometimes, even...
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How to Combine Your Job Seeking Strategies
Job hunting 101: If you think a proactive job search involves applying to a couple of job board postings each day - think again. You might as well be doing yard work if you expect to see results with a strategy like that. Finding a job isn't easy - but it doesn't have to be hard either. If you work smarter and not harder, you could find a new job in a matter of weeks. What this article...
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Employment Law
What Recruiters Need to Know About Employment Law Employment law encompasses all the government regulations regarding the rights of workers and employees. Basic labor laws include child labor laws, minimum wage, paid time, certain types of leave, workplace health and safety, hiring and firing regulations, as well as anti-discrimination and harassment laws. There are also certain laws for...
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Featured Review of COMPAS Recruiting Software
Some of you may have heard of COMPAS already, but for those of you who haven't, you should check them out. Unlike many recruiting technology and ATS startups, the management came up through the ranks as real recruiting practitioners. This group of recruiting business owners in the Silicon Valley came together and formed a recruiting software company called COMPAS Technology. They're a...
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Reporting an Underperforming Colleague: Cloak and Dagger or Better For Business?
Et tu, Brute? A recent workplace poll by Monster Worldwide revealed that only 27 percent of workers would report a friend to the boss if they felt the team's performance was compromised by their friend's performance. A more devious 4 percent of workers said they would tell their boss about the underperforming colleague if they thought it would help them get ahead, while an overwhelming 58...
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3 Tips to Take Control of the Phone Interview
The telephone interview is usually the first step in any interview process. Hiring managers use the call as a screening tool to see if you're a quality candidate. If you make a great first impression during the short round of questions, you'll most likely be selected (among other applicants) for further screening. These candidates are then drawn into a pool of potential hires that the company...
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Five New Nursing Job Boards Launch
Emap, a B2B multi-platform media group, recently launched five new nursing job boards aimed at recruiters and job seekers in the healthcare and nursing industries. Led by flagship site NursingTimesJobs.com, the new networks will provide recruiters access to 291,795 nursing practitioners. The new sites utilize the latest in job board technology and seek to become the go-to resource for healthcare...
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Lumesse Talent Acquisition Chosen By Edenred
Lumesse, a global provider of solutions to HR and talent acquisition departments, has recently announced that Edenred - the leader in prepaid business solutions, will be implementing Lumesse Talent Acquisition as part of their global recruitment strategy. Based out of France, Edenred is known for their Ticket Restaurant employee benefit program and their substantial list of participating clients....
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Dealing with Homepagelessness
Maurice Johnson, 55, currently homeless and living in a Boston municipal shelter, has been unemployed since November. But that may change soon, because he is a rising media star. He may not have a home, but he does have a "home page" of sorts—at LinkedIn, where he has posted a resume that mentions two degrees, from Dartmouth and Purdue and experience as a "Senior Research Engineer at...
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HR Best Practices
Human resources professionals find, hire and retain the best talent in the right positions within companies, and recruiters and other HR professionals can follow these HR best practices to keep their candidates and new hires happy and productive. HR best practices keep both clients and employees happy. Innovative Recruiting Strategies Strong HR practices begin with the recruitment...
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Extended Mass Layoffs Tapering Off
There were only 1,624 mass layoff events in the private non-farm sector during the second quarter of 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported. (A mass layoff is defined by the B.L.S. as any event in which 50 or more individuals have filed initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits against a single employer during a consecutive 5-week period.) The most recent mass layoff...
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