Jobcentre Plus
About Jobcentre Plus Jobcentre is a government agency service which is run in Great Britain for working age people. The agency formed when Employment service, merged with the Benefits Agency, and was renamed as Jobcentre in April 2002. When Jobcentre was first introduced, it was a govrnment-run Labour Exchanges system, started by Winston Churchill an William Beveridge, who worked to make more...
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HRsmart Boasts 97.5% Client Retention Rate
Treat the customer right, and the customer will come back to you. In a recent press release, HRsmart - a leading provider of recruiting and talent management technology - announced an extremely healthy 97.5% client retention rate. The company cites a long-standing client relationship priority, as well as their recent SmartPass initiatives as reasons behind the positive...
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MSHA Out to Collect $240,000 in Fines
The Mine Safety and Health Administration is trying to collect nearly $240,000 in unpaid penalties, a recent MSHA news release stated. Two offending mines have failed to pay the necessary violation fees for numerous citations that infringed upon the health and safety of mine workers. As a division of the U.S. Department of Labor, the MSHA has sought legal action against the mines - one in Texas,...
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Employee Referral Program
Benefits of an Employee Referral Program An employee referral program encourages employees at a company to refer their business contacts and qualified friends for positions at their company. As part of the program, the company rewards current employees for referring a qualified candidate for a job. Some programs feature incentives like monetary compensation, but others use non-monetary...
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Google Plus Jobs (Google+)
Every time a social network comes along, someone figures out a way to turn it into a job board. Linkedin pretty much is already a job board in and of itself, Twitter has its TweetMyJobs, and Facebook has Branchout. It's also easy to think that Facebook itself will become a job board, but it hasn't happened yet. Enter Google Plus (Google+). What does this mean for jobs? Will people regularly...
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Compensation Analyst
Compensation Analyst Job Description In the recruiting industry, a compensation analyst is a specialist in employee compensation like salaries and benefits packages. These specialized human resources professionals are highly trained in labor costs, salary analysis and benefits structures. Compensation analysts use metrics and models to understand current salary trends and predict future...
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Technical Recruiter
What Is a Technical Recruiter? A technical recruiter is a recruiting professional who focused on identifying and recruiting talented technical candidates. Normally, these recruiters will work for tech companies, but they can recruit technical talent for any company. These specialized recruiters are experts in the entire recruiting process and can handle: Sourcing candidates ...
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How to Find People on Google Plus (Google+)
If Google Plus continues to experience the kind of incredible traction it has garnered over the past couple of weeks, it will quickly be a major network. If you are looking to find people or source candidates, it should offer a unique way to both search for and find profiles and then organize profiles with the Circles technology. To follow up with an article about recruiting with Google+, we...
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The PwC "3-Worlds" Forecast: The Future of HR
"Few business thinkers have proposed that the marketing or finance functions might cease to exist in their present forms, but some are starting to say this about HR."—Michael Rendell, Partner and leader of Human Resource Services PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Part 1 of a 3-part series on recent PwC HR and workplace forecasts. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) In its recently published...
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myStaffingPro Sales Take Off
The recruitment technology market is a niche one, but it is generally correlated with the broader recruiting and staffing industry. The success of recruiting software providers can indicate a healthy outlook from talent acquisition departments. Even more generally, it can suggest a positive trend for future hiring and employment. So it's a good sign for a lot of us when recruiting technology...
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Ouch! Nonfatal Injuries and Illnesses By Occupation
There were 1,238,490 cases of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses in 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That's a total incidence rate of 117 cases per every 10,000 workers. (The data looks at full time workers.) The 7 occupations graphed all had at least 20,000 cases of non fatal occupational injury or illness, ultimately requiring the employees to take time off...
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Sendouts Recruiting Software Redesign Wins Best in Class
Site redesigns are always a gamble. You risk alienating your customer base if everything doesn't turn out just right. Fortunately for Sendouts, one of the leading providers of recruiting software - they got it right, and won big. For their efforts into the Sendouts.com HTML 5 redesign, the company was awarded Best in Class by the Interactive Media Awards. The Interactive Media Awards...
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