5 Red Flags to Avoid on Your Resume
How important is your resume? Some say VERY important. Others aren't so sure. Your resume may not make or break you, but it will get you through the door and in front of a hiring manager. But before that can even happen, there's a cold-hearted automated gatekeeper lurking out of sight who holds all the keys. This is a cautionary tale... Of Robots and Resumes Too dramatic? Every...
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Five Trends in Project Management Jobs
Project Management as a professional career has certainly matured. While once delegated to a function within other jobs, project management is now a distinct career itself. The profession owes a lot to PMI, the professional certification and member organization that formalized a lot of the disciplines of successful project management. The growth of standards and certifications fueled the...
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Labor Cost
Labor cost is the overall costs to a company associated with one employee, including wages, benefits, taxes and insurance. Recruiters and human resources managers have to take labor costs into account in every aspect of their jobs. How much the department or hiring manager can pay for an employee will inform everything from the job description, the job title, the way the job is marketed to...
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Weekly Wages on the Rise
It's good to be big, right? All of the 10 largest U.S. counties have shown an increase in average weekly wages over the past year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. But those numbers can be misleading. Often times an average wage increase mean that lower-paying positions have been eliminated, leaving higher-paying positions behind to scale-up the new average. So have things gotten better?...
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Raging Fans: Dealing with Difficult Recruiting Clients
Everyone has had that dreadful call...you know the one. The one with a client calling you irate that they haven't received enough perfect candidates. Or maybe the call from an angry client who discovered (after the 3rd interview no less) that the candidate isn't the one for them. Oh how you've wasted their precious time. Or my personal favorite; the angry client who insists that your...
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KellyOCG Leaders Take Action
In response to the increased demand for outsourcing over the last few years, 25 top leaders from Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group will participate in a Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) Master Course. The course, offered by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, should provide new insights and help Kelly leaders take on the challenges of a booming...
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Doing Well vs. Doing Good
"The young man from tough streets of Compton, CA has set a great example after winning $40,000 in a free-throw shooting contest at his former high school. Well done, Allen Guei. Well done."—Editorial comment at theblaze.com after Guei, an Ivory Coast immigrant and high school basketball player, who had already won a full college scholarship, gave all of his winnings to seven other...
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Deferred Compensation
Deferred Compensation refers to payment to an employee that allows the employee to defer income to the future. Usually set up for tax purposes, many large employers have such programs as a benefit to their senior executives and highly paid employees. Most plans for deferred income are administrated by a third party financial firm, much like a 401K plan. Employees participating in the programs...
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Agency Recruiters: Things to Consider Before You Jump
Recruiting or Headhunting. Whatever you call it, it's a big, booming business with the possibility of an even bigger payday. And in that wide world of recruiting, there are plenty of opportunities, a thousand different pay structures and a lot of competitors. But while we're experts in other peoples' careers, choosing a new path can be as daunting for us as it is for anyone. If...
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Applicants
Generally speaking, when we refer to applicants, it means people who apply to job postings at companies or recruitment agencies. It is the initial step in the recruitment process and the term does not confer any status or level of qualification. You might hear either a corporate recruiter or agency recruiter say, "We received 56 applicants to our job post, but none were qualified. So we have no...
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Facebook Fights Back
Looks like it's getting serious. The Facebook vs. Google battle is heating up as the Mark Zuckerberg giant blocks a popular Google Chrome extension that allows for easy contact info exporting. The "Facebook Friend Exporter," was a tool that enabled users to gather their friends info into a file or directly into their Gmail account. It seems Facebook is attempting to hinder (or...
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Unemployment Rates Improve
Jobs are slowly coming back it seems. U.S. metropolitan unemployment rates were lower this May, as compared to a year earlier, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to their data, 274 of the 372 areas reported lower figures. When compared against the U.S. unemployment rate of 8.7%, 214 areas experienced improved employment. Overall, Bismarck, North Dakota, has the lowest...
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