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Highlight your Value through Personal Branding in your Cover Letter

The cover letter of a resume has lost some of its necessity in the modern job market despite that it can be the hook that draws a hiring manager (who typically spends an average of about 10 seconds looking at your resume) into saving your application for greater consideration. The cover letter is all about getting noticed and should showcase your strongest selling points, otherwise known as your...

5 Leading OnBoarding Technologies Explained

Chuck Ross, in an article on HR.com called "Employee Onboarding, An HR Technology Seeking a Definition," identified two main approaches to onboarding technology. These are transactional and acculturation. Transactional onboarding is very much based around automating the data transactions and processes that relate to a candidate as they take on a new role, e.g. tax forms, address forms, and...

4 Tips To Become an International Employer of Choice

What is an international employer of choice? Well, in today's world, it is about building an employer brand which makes your business attractive to the global employee market-place. This is not applicable to all businesses as many business strategies can be executed effectively using domestic talent and resources. Talent shortage But, as the Manpower 2012 talent shortage survey shows, many...

Job Search Tip: Choosing Between an Established Company and an Exciting Start Up

Each job you accept is an influential decision that affects your life style, standard of living, professional development, and other major aspects of your life for an indefinite period of time. For those reasons, it is understandable, and expected, that picking your next employer can be an anxiety-provoking, or even frightening, time of your life. Even ignoring the long-term ramifications of your...

Most Employers Won't Change Rewards Programs due to PPACA, but Nearly Half Will

As the health reform law marches toward full implementation over the next several years, a Towers Watson survey has found that almost half (45 percent) of U.S. employers are anticipating changes to their total rewards programs. But most do not foresee changes that affect most employees such as discontinuing healthcare coverage, transitioning full-time workers to part-time, or increasing reliance...

Citi/LinkedIn Survey Reveals Obstacles to Career Satisfaction and Success for Women

The Today's Professional Woman Report, a national survey conducted by Citi and LinkedIn, recently explored what women perceive to be their biggest obstacles to career advancement, success, and satisfaction. Even as the report found that the financial power of women is on the upswing, professional women still feel unsure of their control over their advancement opportunities and financial...

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler and a Lesson on Pursuing Goals

Last weekend I saw the award-winning movie "Fruitvale Station." For anyone not familiar, the film is about the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant's life, a 22-year-old black male who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer in the early morning of January 1, 2009. The director of the film is 27-year-old Ryan Coogler. After reading Coogler's story and how he came...

Recruiters Gain Automation, Control over Social Job Sharing with Work4's Solution

Facebook recruiting solution Work4 has announced the release of its new recruitment solution, Social Job Sharing Recruiter, intended to allow recruiters to automatically share jobs across social networks, promote hiring initiatives, engage the community of candidates, and espouse a branded recruiting message. Through automation, Work4 helps to streamline the jobs sharing process to make social...

Designing your Internship Program with the Future in Mind

Summer is coming, and along with it, the interns. They need you and you need them. Don't make this a missed opportunity. Interns are in it for the knowledge, the experience and ultimately, the chance for a full-time position. And companies are in it for the community outreach perks, the cheap labor and above all, the great sourcing opportunity. Design the Program with Purpose When you take...

Why your Employee Referral Program Needs to Go Mobile [Infographic]

We all know just how important employee referrals are to the recruitment process. But how can companies utilize the networks and connections of its remote and/or frequently traveling employees? Well, if certain employees are on-the-go, employers need to design an employee referral program that follows suit—a mobile program. A new infographic, compiled by social employee referral management...

Making Your Output Your Input: The Perfect Job

Some people, such as research scientists, engineers, farmers, Hollywood block-buster movie producers, teachers and Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling may be considered very lucky, because much, if not all, of the output of their jobs is the input for the next round. Why "lucky"? Well, when the output of one round of production becomes the input for the next, a very rewarding and stable...

Job Interviews: 3 Quick Tips for Being Likable

We hear a lot about how to act the part in job interviews. We're advised about what to wear, what questions to ask, how firmly to shake hands, when to arrive to the job site, how to follow up, and on and on. Each of these aspects of interviewing is important in its own right, but today I'd like to shift the attention to something I find very important but rarely talked about: How to be likable...

Headhunters: What Jobseekers and Employers Should Know

The latest employment statistics tell that a chronic mismatch is occurring between employers and the candidate marketplace. At 4.6% percent, US unemployment rates remain high by historical standards, yet 52 percent of US employers are having severe hiring difficulties. This has led to a strangely competitive marketplace where both candidates and employers are struggling to meet their...

Aspex Solutions Announces HR Dashboard for AppliTrack Users

AppliTrack maker Aspex Solutions has announced the AppliTrack HR Dashboard, a customizable end user experience for the cloud-based K12 Talent Management Suite. The dashboard provides access to all recruiting, hiring, and talent management data present within the AppliTrack suite including recruiting, selection, and HR files. The dashboard is a free add-on component for new and existing AppliTrack...

Worldwide, HR Leaders not Measuring Quality of Hire vs. Impact on Bottom Line

The new benchmarking report, Hiring for Success: Improving Organizational Performance Through Better Quality Recruitment, from Hudson RPO and the HRO Today Institute, is providing an insightful look into how global human resource leaders are measuring the quality of hires and how those hiring practices are impacting their organization's bottom line. Commenting on the results of the survey,...

The 5 Don't's of Video Resumes

The video resume is quickly becoming the thing to do. Video resumes lend candidates a chance to show off their skills, get creative and most of all, stand out. They are the new dynamic and engaging medium to get your information in front of a hiring manager or recruiter. There are now whole websites dedicated to the creation, housing and sharing of video resumes. They are simple and fun to...

FirstChat Offers Online Customer Engagement for Enhanced Engagement Strategies

BPO services provider Firstsource has announced the release of a new webchat solution for enhanced customer engagement. The web-based FirstChat enables organizations to reduce the costs of customer engagement efforts while raising customer satisfaction levels through a better online experience. "We know that our clients want to reduce call volumes and encourage customers to self-serve,...

51 Percent of Nation's Workers Entrepreneurs

More than half (51%) of the nation's workers currently own or desire to own their own business, a recent University of Phoenix® survey reports. Of those who don't currently own their own business, 41 percent hope to do so in the future. The online survey of more than 1,600 workers showed that age plays a significant factor as 55 percent of workers in their 20s who don't currently own a...

4 Nifty Steps to Improving Your HR Skills

Step 1: Use your social like you mean it. You already use social media for recruiting purposes from employer branding to cultivating company culture. High five! You're doing your job, now be an innovator. Recruiters have mastered their presence on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but what about the rest of the world? What about the niche markets, and what about furthering your...

The World's Shortest Job Interview: a 'Catch 22' Formula

Curious about job interview efficiency and about how short short can be, I Googled "the world's shortest job interview" and found this: "Interviewer: What do you consider to be your greatest weakness? Applicant: Honesty. Interviewer: Honesty? I don't think of honesty as being a weakness. Applicant: I don't give a **** what you think." Nice irony and paradox. But our...

The Email Plague: Are You Writing Wisely?

In today's workplace, email has replaced the heretofore ubiquitous office memo as the primary form of inter- and intra-office communications. But so quickly do these modern message bearers collect in our inboxes that it is often the case that we hastily answer them in an attempt to juggle all of our other daily responsibilities. What is not often considered is how easy it is to transform a...

Amazon to Hire 7,000 Workers

Mega online retailer Amazon announced plans to hire 7,000 workers for the company's U.S. locations. CNN Money reported that, according to Amazon, most of the jobs will offer pay and benefits far above typical retail wages. According to the article, 5,000 of the positions are for warehouse jobs and will pay 30 percent more than jobs in traditional retail stores. These jobs are full-time...

Research Finds Housing Market Making Positive Impact on Job Creation in U.S.

It is easy to understand how more people working leads to a growing housing market, but research from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists (EMSI) have taken a look at how the housing recover has, in turn, affected employment. "Several industry segments closely tied to the housing sector have experienced encouraging job growth over the last 12 to 18 months as home prices and sales...

The Why and How of Building an Online Portfolio

Forbes gave an interesting stat on the candidate selection process: Fifty-six percent of all hiring managers are more impressed by a candidate's personal website than any other personal branding tool; yet, only a mere 7 percent of job seekers have a personal website. We're always looking to answer that one question when searching for employment: How do I stand out from the competition?...

Is Your Resume Missing an Executive Summary?

As hiring managers receive more and more applicants for fewer positions, it's more important than ever to capture their interest within the first five seconds of reading your resume. The space at the very top of the page is crucial, so put your best foot forward with a dynamic executive summary. Objective vs. Summary Trends in resume writing change over time. Objectives used to be the...

Psst, Your Pay is Showing

Social media has been the gateway to the over-sharing of personal information in the workplace. It starts with a adding a few friends from work, and before you know it, your boss has seen you in a bikini taking shots at a tiki bar in Mexico. It's a slippery slope my friends, and it doesn't just end with social media. As globalization sweeps the...well globe, our world gets a little smaller,...

5 Ways Peer Interviewing Can Boost Hiring – and How to do It

Interviews are the golden gateway into your organization; the crucial filter that separates the mediocre from the excellent. It can mean the difference between a good and great organization. This is why interviews are usually the preserve of recruiters and hiring managers, and it could seem a somewhat radical scenario where the hiring process was in fact turned over to peers, that is, the team...

Engagement Proven to Boost Bottom Line in New Report

Quantum Workplace's 21 Employee Turnover Insights report has delivered data proving that the level of employee engagement in an organization is a direct predictor of employee turnover. The report found that employees that are hostile or actively disengaged are almost four times as likely to leave as engaged employees. Part of the importance of the report's findings is that previous studies...

CareerCloud.com Helps Ease Unemployment through Social Referrals

A new service from social recruiting company CareerCloud.com is set to address the national unemployment problem and the talent gap by allowing job seekers to see where their Facebook friends and LinkedIn connects work, simplifying the referral process. Personal referrals are extremely important as proven by recent studies finding that job candidates are three to four times more likely to be...

5 Starting Salaries Comparison

Are you tired of people asking you what you plan on doing when you grow up? While you might not be certain of what direction your life is taking you in, the statistics on college education are not pretty. In fact, with only half of college graduates working for profit in their line of work, you need to be more certain than ever of where you want to be long-term. We've compiled a list of...

Be on your Best Behavior for this Interview

We're living in a day and age when good jobs are harder than ever to come by. That's why it's so important that we equip ourselves with the basic skills needed to really shine when it comes to job interviews. After all, turning in a glowing resume is really only half the battle. The rest of the picture your potential future employers are looking to form about you is directly tied to how you...

Study Compares Emergent vs. Traditional Companies, Employees Weigh In

According to the Emerging Workforce Study by leading staffing company Spherion, only 13 percent of workers believe their company has put in more retention efforts compared to previous years. The study of 225 human resource managers and more than 2,000 working adults showed that workers believe their employers are more focused on recruitment efforts. Using findings from the recent study,...

Saba's Cloud-based TM Platform Gets Augmented with Machine Learning

Saba's next-generation cloud solution is now receiving machine learning technology for its open, standards-based talent management platform. The company is also continuing to enhance end-user engagement and other features such as its social, mobile, and core learning functionality. The platform incorporates enterprise social networking technology and big data with machine learning for better...

Relias Learning Launches Learning Management System with Enhanced User Experience

Relias Learning has announced the launch of Relias Learning Management System (RLMS), a new platform with enhanced reporting features and an improved user experience. Former iterations of the Learning Management System (Essential Learning, Silverchair Learning Systems, and Care2Learn) are replaced by the new training product in order to ensure all users are on the same unified platform. RLMS is...

Corporate Wellness Entails More than Sun Chips in the Vending Machine

Any time a company makes an investment in its employees, you can be sure that those resources will come back to the advancement of the organization in a bigger way. Companies are getting pretty good at paying attention to this corporate wellness thing. Teams and offices are gathering together in weight-loss competitions, companies are offering healthier options in vending machines and cafeterias,...

Study Finds Working Women Lessen Pressure on Pre-retirement Social Security Income

A study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, entitled How Does Women Working Affect Social Security Replacement Rates?, has determined that the rise of women in the workplace has placed downward pressure on the amount of pre-retirement income required from Social Security. The study found that the amount of such income replaced by Social Security is dependent on the labor...

Think Like a Manager to Help Improve your Career

We have all thought at one time or another, and sometimes it is even somewhat true, that the management team at the reigns of our organization really has no idea of what's going on in the company. In fact, the structure of a conventional organization almost ensures that those at the top are at least partly disconnected from the issues and needs of those on the ground; and if the people that...

What to do Before Quitting a new Job

While both employers and job seekers alike are looking for respective applicants and occupations that are the best "fit," sometimes initial impressions are just flat out wrong. What do you do if you're a month into your new job and already dreading the routine? While you may have genuinely made a bad job decision, there are several things to consider before walking away for good and ways to...

Benefits: Different Strokes for Different Folks

Retaining star employees is vital to the success of any company. Keeping turnover low saves time, money, improves workplace morale and does wonders for your employer brand. Every employee is different, as is what motivates him or her. Knowing what your employees value is the key to keeping them satisfied, and can be the key to retaining them for years to come. The more tailored you can...

7 Reasons Recruiting and Hiring Interns Doesn't Have to Break the Bank

Is your internship program on a strict budget? No problem. Recruiting and hiring talented students and recent graduates for your internship program doesn't require shelling out the big bucks. That's right—you don't need to make a "greatest place to work" list or tout any off-the-wall perks. What talented potential candidates really want is an educational, immersive, hands-on...

MobileIron Reports Trust Gap between Employers, Employees in the BYOD World

As Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) becomes standard business practice, employees and employers are suffering an ever growing disconnect between what is, and is not, private information on mobile devices. The MobileIron Trust Gap Survey has found that 84 percent of respondents own the smartphones they use for work purposes, along with 82 percent of tablet users. Regarding privacy, 41 percent of...

Plan your Career in 5 Steps

There once was a time when a career path was basically spread out in front of every worker from the day he/she started working. This path was largely out of the person's control and didn't have a lot to do with what the worker wanted out of his/her career, but more to do with what the company wanted out of the individual's career. Now more than ever, people are given responsibility and control...

MAXIMUMS Social Recruitment Monitor Offers Social Recruiting Effectiveness Tips

The growing ubiquity of social recruiting is creating a demand for effective use of social networks as recruitment tools. And companies not utilizing social media experience more difficulty filling open positions than those with effective social recruiting strategies. The problem of measuring the effectiveness of a social recruitment campaign is based on inconsistent benchmarking and the sheer...

Unemployment Aid Apps Fall on Steady Job Gains

Claims for unemployment benefits fell by 24,000 for the week ending July 13, sinking to an adjusted 334,000 and raising confidence that job gains should remain steady. Applications are at their lowest level in 10 weeks though some of that decline could be the result of seasonal factors. But the four-week average also fell by 5,250 to 351,000, a favorable trend. July can be a particularly...

What Does a Candidate's Social Media Profile Reveal about their Personality?

Although resumes are not dead in the water, their importance in the hiring process is diminishing as recruiters can get the same information (and much more) simply by searching a candidate's social profile. Research from Jobvite shows that 92 percent of U.S. recruiters are using social media to find and screen talent, which shows how much recruiters are supplementing resume information with...

7 Ways to Feel Content when Ending the Workday

Reaching a state of contentment doesn't come in a big, momentous wave of happiness but is a matter of making small adjustments in your life that help you feel better at the end of each day. Don't settle for feeling physically and mentally beaten down at the close of your work day. Commit to making a list of minor changes in your life to help you feel better about yourself when the work day is...

5 Workforce Management Theories

There are several powerful and dynamic forces that are disrupting organizations and driving them to be constantly finding new and more effective ways to manage their work-forces—not just to gain competitive advantage but, in some cases, to simply stay afloat. You can probably guess what forces I am referring to: global competition, aging population, global talent wars, demand for flexible...

How to Handle Office Criticism

Life is full of criticism, be it from yourself or others, and the workplace is no different. While most criticism from your employer is intended to help you improve your productivity, it is sometimes difficult to swallow without feeling defensive or even insulted. But being able to accept criticism for what it is and using it for self-improvement is a testament to your character—even more so...