Did Linkedin Kill the Cover Letter?
Not quite. By now you've probably heard about the new, "Apply with Linkedin Button." It allows job seekers to use their Linkedin profile as a de facto resume when applying for jobs online. So what about all those long nights you spent crafting the perfect resume, the hours you poured into learning complete cover letter etiquette? Don't worry, you're still going to need those...
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Top Talent More Mobile Than Ever
According to a recent survey by Right Management, three out of four organizations lost high performance employees last year. While it's typically expected that top talent will move around - exercising their leverage and shopping around for the best offers - recent data suggests that the trend of lower retention is taking off to a whole new level. The Right Management survey asked more than 268...
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The "Age-Bomb": The Trajectory to Your Office
Submerged in, if not subscribing to what critics would describe as our out-of-control(-)youth cult(ure), we can be forgiven for taking it for granted, even though we should not. But that absolution does not also absolve us from making an effort to understand how the youth culture (and its flip side, ageism) has become such a dominant cultural and economic force —a pervasive influence...
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Staffing Software Vendor Bond Merges 3 Divisions
Bond International Software - a global leader in staffing and recruitment software, recently announced that it will be reorganizing its three U.S. operating divisions. Bond Adapt, Bond eEmpACT, and Bond VCG will be combined into a single entity operating under the flagship Bond International Software name. In a recent press release, Steve Russell, Group Chief Executive of Bond International...
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The Apply with Linkedin Button Arrives
When we last wrote about the new Linkedin button for applying to jobs, it was really just a rumor. Now, it's here. But even when it was just a rumor, people were busy theorizing and making predictions about Linkedin's new service. Recruiter.com: Apply with Linkedin Button: "Linkedin could become a web standard instead of a website." Mashable: Linkedin to Launch Job Application Button:...
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The Age-Bomb: Screening Out the Fallout
What is it that makes the hiring issue of age an issue at all, an "Age-Bomb" with a time fuse and propensity to detonate at some point, even if only in the minds—rather than in the actual screening—of older job hunters, especially when officially and legally it is not supposed to exist at all? Why, like a Cold War H-bomb, does the Age-Bomb make so many older job applicants...
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Mass Layoffs Down For June
New filings for unemployment insurance benefits dropped off during the month of June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The overall decrease was miniscule, but suggested a small degree of economic progress. Seasonally adjusted, employers took 1,532 mass layoff actions involving 143,444 workers. Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers let go by a single employer. "The number of...
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A Beginner's Guide for Applicant Tracking Systems
Are you a hiring professional working in a small or mid-sized business? When your organization announces, "We're hiring again," are your paralyzed with the fear of being buried under stacks of resumes? The process of reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, and hiring/on-boarding is time-consuming. When searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack, keeping organized should should be...
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In Defence Of The Social Media Resume
Resumes are inherently boring. There's nothing very exciting about facts and figures or the number of years you spent diving for golf balls in luxury golf-course water traps. Well, maybe that last one's interesting. (Also a totally real profession.) But the hard truth is that most of us look dull on paper. Most of us are just another name, another job title, another piece of paper....
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Recruitment Advertising Firm CKR Interactive Wins Competition
CKR Interactive - a recruitment advertising agency, just won a national website redesign competition hosted by the National Association of Health Care Recruiters (N.A.H.C.R.) The N.A.H.C.R. serves more than 800 hospital and health system members and works to promote the expertise and influence of health care recruiters. The competition was aimed at increasing the value and effectiveness of...
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Free Recruiting Website Builder from ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter, a job distribution service for posting jobs to multiple job boards, has launched a new recruiting website builder. The new product, named ZipSites, allows recruiters to quickly build recruiting websites using an easy template system. The website has the core functionality that a recruiter needs, including descriptive areas for company information, contact forms, and a way to post...
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Hulu For Sale?
It looks like the popular online television site, Hulu - may be up for grabs. While nothing is set in stone, speculation rages across the tech world as to who potential buyers might be. While no formal bids have been cast, an unidentified source has already made an unsolicited bid for the TV website. Bloomberg reports that while potential buyers remain unknown, possible buyers include Yahoo...
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