ZipRecruiter Introduces ZipSites – Beautiful and Easy to Set-up Free Recruiter Websites
Another Truly Easy to Use Solution from ZipRecruiter A lot of technology companies talk about "easy" in their marketing, but usually that means "easy once you're trained." Not ZipRecruiter. These guys have a knack for producing products that you sit down in front of and just know how to use. To date they've launched job posting distribution and a searchable resume database....
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SmartSearch Upgrades Green Recruiting Capabilities
Green recruiting initiatives are one part of a larger trend toward locating the "green" or "sustainability" efforts from inside the Human Resources function. Sustainability and carbon management efforts have recently attracted the attention of recruiting technology vendors, as well as general HR carbon management consulting firms such as HR Carbon. Advancing the green recruiting trend,...
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Hidden Jobs: How Recruiters Can Help
They say that 80% of all available open jobs go unadvertised. If you're applying through job boards or company websites or even flipping through newspapers - you might only be hitting 20% of all open positions. How can this be? Most companies don't have the time or advertising budget to broadcast all their hiring needs. Other organizations prefer to keep thing confidential and you'd never even...
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myJoblinx Announces Facebook Recruitment Solution
myJoblinx - a Facebook recruitment application that leverages the power of social media to connect recruiters with top talent, recently previewed their namesake product to the public at the Northern California Human Resources Association's staffing and talent management conference. While the social recruiting solution has garnered vigorously positive reviews from its select audience of beta...
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Searching for the Causes of Future Work
(Part 3 of a 3-part series on recent PwC HR and workplace forecasts. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) The employment forecasts contained in the PwC report "Managing Tomorrow's People: The Future of Work to 2010" analyzed in two of my recent articles critically depend on a descriptive-explanatory paradigm that identifies "individualism" ("individualistic"), "collectivism"...
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How to Negotiate a Higher Salary
You're in a job interview. Not just any job interview - the best interview of your life.You're nervous and excited and everything's going perfectly. The interviewer fawns over your credentials. From the sound of it - you're a rock star, an astronaut, a Hollywood movie star...of talent! Then it's time to talk compensation and salary. "It's a tough economy out there," the interviewer says,...
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Arguments for Not Hiring the Unemployed: The Logic of Lions?
Imagine an economy with virtually full unemployment— nearly 100%, say, during the worst depression imaginable. The then incumbent president goes on air to rally the will and stir the hopes of the American people and says, "We have nothing to fear but fear of the unemployed." Deliciously ambiguous, that remark seems to precisely and accurately encapsulate and address 1. The current...
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Monster Reports Solid Quarter
Monster Worldwide - parent company of the popular job board website Monster.com, recently reported their Second Quarter 2011 financial results. On the heels of their new search and analytics platform, Monster announced substantial earnings despite a sluggish economy. Quarterly revenue increased by 25% to $270 Million, up from $215 million in the second quarter of 2010. Bookings increased by...
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Colleague Recruitment Software Boasts Full Functionality With Saber
Colleague Recruitment Software - a leading provider of integrated software solutions for the recruitment industry, is now boasting complete integration with Saber, a premier provider of recruitment analytics and performance software. "This is fantastic news for our customers," said Will Minns, Managing Director of Colleague Software. "Saber will allow recruitment consultancies to further...
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Study Finds Personality Assessments Improve Entry Level Hiring
A recent study by Hogan Assessment Systems found that personality assessments lead to improved hiring and increased employee performance in high turnover positions. Their research suggests that candidates who are screened through the Hogan Advantage Report are more likely to succeed at their job if they measure strongly for certain skills and criteria. The Hogan Advantage Report is based off ...
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Employee Assessment Company Vangent Integrates with Taleo
Vangent - a leading provider of pre-employment risk assessments, revealed in a recent press release that its Risk and Talent Management tools are now integrated with Taleo Business Edition. The partnerships enables Vangent to provide a number of assessment and risk management resources to Taleo Business Edition customers. "For many years, Taleo and Vangent have been leaders in the talent...
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Monster and Indeed: Clash of the Jobs Titans?
On July 27,2011, Michael Glenn on his blog "Glennlist" suggested that Monster.com has blocked Indeed.com from indexing its jobs. Is it true? There has been no official word from either company (that we know of) about the change. However, a few quick searches for Monster jobs on Indeed seem to show that they are not indexed. Note: this could be a technical error or a small quirk. As of...
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