This week's recruiting news:
55 Percent of Hiring Professionals Plan to Increase Hiring in the First Half of 2014
According to a recent survey by Dice Holdings, Inc., leading provider of specialized websites for professional communities, the nation’s professional workforce is set to increase in the New Year as 55 percent of hiring managers and recruiters plan to hire more professionals in the first half of 2014 than they did in the second half of 2013.
Recruiting Is Marketing – 4 Lessons Your HR Team Can Learn From the Marketing Department
Today’s companies find themselves in one of the most challenging times to build sustainable and strong organizations. Between automation and software, it’s never been easier to start a company. But it’s the employees that ultimately make the company, and true talent in today’s marketplace is scarce and fickle. Finding and keeping those employees has become a company priority, which has demanded a shift in how recruiters approach their jobs.
Candidates Use 16 Different Sources During a Job Search
Regardless of whether they’re buying a house or sandwich, consumers today are arguably more savvy researchers than ever before and have access to an unprecedented amount of information and resources at their fingertips. This behavior pattern has transferred over to the way people search for jobs, as well.
What Do You Learn About a Candidate in a 10 Second Video Resume?
I hear the all the kids love Snapchat! OK, I’ve been hearing this for over a year now, but never really found any reason to write about the product. I even downloaded the App and tried it out. I still don’t seem to have a need.
5 Simple Fixes for the Toughest Recruiting Challenges
Unless you’re an in-house recruiter at Apple or Google — two highly sought-after places of employment that enjoy an endless stream of resumes — you probably struggle with the same recruiting issues most companies face. Particularly with a continued talent shortage, recruiting can sometimes feel like an uphill battle.
iRecruit Recruiter Training
Please join us on Friday, December 27th at 1pm for iRecruit Training. This month we'll focus on recruiters and hiring managers.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software
application that allows you to track and report on all of your job
applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour
on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Recruiting News RoundUp
This week's recruiting news:
How to Hire Awesome Employees
When recruiting for open positions, employers look for candidates with the skills, experience, and demeanor they believe will benefit their organizations. The qualifications for positions can vary widely among organizations and from job to job, but employers tend to look for reliable, hard-working people who they believe will impact their organizations positively and with consistent, high-quality work.
3 Things Millennials Want — And How You Can Deliver Them
Millennials: A generation that’s warped with stereotypes. But do you really know what they want? It’s easy to peg Millennials as selfish or ungrateful — a “me, me, me” generation of sorts. But if you want to get the most out of this segment of your workforce, you need to take the time to think about what they are really looking for in a career. Here’s a breakdown.
5 Interview Red Flags for Employers
From lies to lack of preparation, poor attitude, and insincerity, you can pick up on signs and collect evidence during an interview that the potential employee is not for you. If you know what you are looking for, employers can successfully spot these job interview red flags - before making a job offer to a prospective employee.
Company Career Sites Have Come a Long Way, Baby
Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin, through their CareerXroads firm, have analyzed company career pages for years, and they’ve generally been a tough crowd. So when Mehler and Crispin say things are getting better, that’s good news. And in their latest report, which I’ve embedded below, on the career pages of the Fortune 500 in the U.S., CareerXroads has at least some good news.
Nearly 2 in 5 Employers Have Jobs Open 4+ Months Due to a Skills Gap
If you paid attention to the latest jobs report, you’ll know that the U.S. added 204,000 jobs in October – 84,000 MORE than the 120,000 jobs economists were expecting. Even though there were some cheers heard the day this report came out, the employment landscape is far from a bed of roses.
Now You Can Create Subsections For Your LinkedIn Company Pages
LinkedIn introduces a new feature today that will be welcomed by businesses with multiple brands, locations, and product lines. Three years after launching company pages, LinkedIn has now made it possible to add multiple subsections to these pages.
Three Companies that “Get” Employer Branding
To make it quick: employer branding ultimately comes down to your employees’ job satisfaction. So to do it right, you have to treat your employees right. Here are three companies that have a compelling web footprint, which is important to recruit top talent. Learn what these companies are doing for their brand and how you can do the same.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
How to Hire Awesome Employees
When recruiting for open positions, employers look for candidates with the skills, experience, and demeanor they believe will benefit their organizations. The qualifications for positions can vary widely among organizations and from job to job, but employers tend to look for reliable, hard-working people who they believe will impact their organizations positively and with consistent, high-quality work.
3 Things Millennials Want — And How You Can Deliver Them
Millennials: A generation that’s warped with stereotypes. But do you really know what they want? It’s easy to peg Millennials as selfish or ungrateful — a “me, me, me” generation of sorts. But if you want to get the most out of this segment of your workforce, you need to take the time to think about what they are really looking for in a career. Here’s a breakdown.
5 Interview Red Flags for Employers
From lies to lack of preparation, poor attitude, and insincerity, you can pick up on signs and collect evidence during an interview that the potential employee is not for you. If you know what you are looking for, employers can successfully spot these job interview red flags - before making a job offer to a prospective employee.
Company Career Sites Have Come a Long Way, Baby
Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin, through their CareerXroads firm, have analyzed company career pages for years, and they’ve generally been a tough crowd. So when Mehler and Crispin say things are getting better, that’s good news. And in their latest report, which I’ve embedded below, on the career pages of the Fortune 500 in the U.S., CareerXroads has at least some good news.
Nearly 2 in 5 Employers Have Jobs Open 4+ Months Due to a Skills Gap
If you paid attention to the latest jobs report, you’ll know that the U.S. added 204,000 jobs in October – 84,000 MORE than the 120,000 jobs economists were expecting. Even though there were some cheers heard the day this report came out, the employment landscape is far from a bed of roses.
Now You Can Create Subsections For Your LinkedIn Company Pages
LinkedIn introduces a new feature today that will be welcomed by businesses with multiple brands, locations, and product lines. Three years after launching company pages, LinkedIn has now made it possible to add multiple subsections to these pages.
Three Companies that “Get” Employer Branding
To make it quick: employer branding ultimately comes down to your employees’ job satisfaction. So to do it right, you have to treat your employees right. Here are three companies that have a compelling web footprint, which is important to recruit top talent. Learn what these companies are doing for their brand and how you can do the same.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Recruiting News Weekly RoundUp
This week's recruiting news:
Addressing the Skills Gap: The 10 Best Takeaways from Close It 2013
“Talent is the only sustainable competitive edge we have. We need to create awareness around the skills needed and invest in communities,” said Mike Barriere, executive vice president of Human Resources and Environment, Health & Safety at Alcoa, during inaugural Close It Summit, held last week in Washington, D.C. The three-day event brought together hiring professionals from across the nation to discuss the challenges employers face in closing the skills gap and explore new ways to meet these challenges.
Facilitating Diversity in Your Workforce
For a lot of us, the term diversity usually makes us think exclusively of cultural diversity, but it means so much more than that. The idea of diversity in the workforce has come a long way since the advent of affirmative action laws, but there is so much more ground to cover. As we evolve to see diversity as more about individuals and less about quotas, race or creed, we can start to value the various perspectives that a diverse workforce can bring.
Confusion about Criminal-History Guidelines
Despite a whopping majority of HR executives believing their companies are compliant with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity's criminal-background guidelines, a recent survey suggests otherwise. The first annual Human Resources Compliance Survey by Brea, Calif.-based PeopleG2 asked 1,493 U.S.-based HR leaders at companies with 25,000 or more employees worldwide whether they believed their organizations were compliant with the EEOC guidelines issued last year. The vast majority (94 percent) said they were, yet 74 percent said they ask job applicants about criminal histories in the application process instead of later in the interviewing stage -- the latter a clear directive of the guidelines.
How to Host a Virtual Career Fair
Career Fairs are great for networking and collecting resumes. A traditional career fair attracts all kinds of people seeking employment. A Virtual Career Fair will help you target specific demographics for your recruitment marketing. The benefits include cost savings over a traditional career fair, and the ability to promote your company and employment branding more effectively, and on a more personal level without having to compete with 100 other businesses at the same time.
Reject Candidates - Right
Do you need a sample "thanks, but no thanks" letter? This is the letter that Human Resources people don't like to send. But, send it you must though even if it's painful, because no matter what, you can usually only select one candidate for your job.
The Problem With Putting “Do Not Hire” Notes in Personnel Files
If I ever handled a plaintiff’s case again, at deposition, I would be sure to take a page out of the playbook of Texas employment lawyer Mike Maslanka: Ask the manager who decided to fire the plaintiff whether he’s eligible for re-hire. An unprepared manager might blurt out, “Of course not; he’s suing us.” Say hello to a retaliation claim.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Addressing the Skills Gap: The 10 Best Takeaways from Close It 2013
“Talent is the only sustainable competitive edge we have. We need to create awareness around the skills needed and invest in communities,” said Mike Barriere, executive vice president of Human Resources and Environment, Health & Safety at Alcoa, during inaugural Close It Summit, held last week in Washington, D.C. The three-day event brought together hiring professionals from across the nation to discuss the challenges employers face in closing the skills gap and explore new ways to meet these challenges.
Facilitating Diversity in Your Workforce
For a lot of us, the term diversity usually makes us think exclusively of cultural diversity, but it means so much more than that. The idea of diversity in the workforce has come a long way since the advent of affirmative action laws, but there is so much more ground to cover. As we evolve to see diversity as more about individuals and less about quotas, race or creed, we can start to value the various perspectives that a diverse workforce can bring.
Confusion about Criminal-History Guidelines
Despite a whopping majority of HR executives believing their companies are compliant with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity's criminal-background guidelines, a recent survey suggests otherwise. The first annual Human Resources Compliance Survey by Brea, Calif.-based PeopleG2 asked 1,493 U.S.-based HR leaders at companies with 25,000 or more employees worldwide whether they believed their organizations were compliant with the EEOC guidelines issued last year. The vast majority (94 percent) said they were, yet 74 percent said they ask job applicants about criminal histories in the application process instead of later in the interviewing stage -- the latter a clear directive of the guidelines.
How to Host a Virtual Career Fair
Career Fairs are great for networking and collecting resumes. A traditional career fair attracts all kinds of people seeking employment. A Virtual Career Fair will help you target specific demographics for your recruitment marketing. The benefits include cost savings over a traditional career fair, and the ability to promote your company and employment branding more effectively, and on a more personal level without having to compete with 100 other businesses at the same time.
Reject Candidates - Right
Do you need a sample "thanks, but no thanks" letter? This is the letter that Human Resources people don't like to send. But, send it you must though even if it's painful, because no matter what, you can usually only select one candidate for your job.
The Problem With Putting “Do Not Hire” Notes in Personnel Files
If I ever handled a plaintiff’s case again, at deposition, I would be sure to take a page out of the playbook of Texas employment lawyer Mike Maslanka: Ask the manager who decided to fire the plaintiff whether he’s eligible for re-hire. An unprepared manager might blurt out, “Of course not; he’s suing us.” Say hello to a retaliation claim.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Recruiting News Weekly RoundUp
This week's recruiting news:
iRecruit Demo Schedule November
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for November 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Is this internal feedback on job candidates unprofessional?
I’m new to owning the hiring process at my company. Sometimes when I send hiring managers candidates, they reply with comments that I don’t think are appropriate or professional like “Nope,” or “Meh.”
Think Your Interview Process is Fair? Read This Letter
What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this one?
Dear Hiring Manager, Thank you so much for your interest in me for the position of Senior Technical Analyst for your company. Before we commence with the interview, you will need to do the following...
How a Convicted Murderer Prepares for a Job Interview
Recent Longreads Member Pick free for everyone. It’s a full chapter from Among Murderers: Life After Prison, by Sabine Heinlein. Heinlein is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer who spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in Harlem, where she met convicts who were preparing for the outside world.
5 Best Hires For Boosting Holiday Sales
The holidays are the busiest time of year for many companies. With Black Friday and Small Business Saturday coming up this month, companies are now hiring seasonal workers to handle the additional sales. Hiring the right type of workers for your business during the holiday season is critical for maximizing sales and having customers return in the new year.
5 Ways to Vet Job Candidates Online
The job application process has moved online. Now, nearly half of employers research candidates online. Eric Meyer, a partner in Dilworth Paxson LLP’s labor and employment department, recently addressed which online channels are most common for background searches on job candidates.
6 Must-Haves For Your Twitter Recruitment Strategy
Unless you’ve been living like the North Pond hermit (and if you have, you probably have no idea what twerking is, so more power to you), you’re well aware of the hype surrounding social media recruitment. But if you think that’s all social media recruitment is – hype – you might want to reconsider: Not only is social media as a recruitment strategy here to stay, it’s also quite effective.
4 Benefits of Effective Job Descriptions
Writing job descriptions may seem to be an onerous task, but if done well, there can be many benefits for your organization. “Unfortunately, not all hiring managers and companies value a well-developed job description. So, it’s critical to understand the rewards – along with the mitigating risks as they apply to federal, state and local laws – of an effective job description.” Mary Anne Kennedy told us in a recent BLR webinar.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
iRecruit Demo Schedule November
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for November 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Is this internal feedback on job candidates unprofessional?
I’m new to owning the hiring process at my company. Sometimes when I send hiring managers candidates, they reply with comments that I don’t think are appropriate or professional like “Nope,” or “Meh.”
Think Your Interview Process is Fair? Read This Letter
What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this one?
Dear Hiring Manager, Thank you so much for your interest in me for the position of Senior Technical Analyst for your company. Before we commence with the interview, you will need to do the following...
How a Convicted Murderer Prepares for a Job Interview
Recent Longreads Member Pick free for everyone. It’s a full chapter from Among Murderers: Life After Prison, by Sabine Heinlein. Heinlein is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer who spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in Harlem, where she met convicts who were preparing for the outside world.
5 Best Hires For Boosting Holiday Sales
The holidays are the busiest time of year for many companies. With Black Friday and Small Business Saturday coming up this month, companies are now hiring seasonal workers to handle the additional sales. Hiring the right type of workers for your business during the holiday season is critical for maximizing sales and having customers return in the new year.
5 Ways to Vet Job Candidates Online
The job application process has moved online. Now, nearly half of employers research candidates online. Eric Meyer, a partner in Dilworth Paxson LLP’s labor and employment department, recently addressed which online channels are most common for background searches on job candidates.
6 Must-Haves For Your Twitter Recruitment Strategy
Unless you’ve been living like the North Pond hermit (and if you have, you probably have no idea what twerking is, so more power to you), you’re well aware of the hype surrounding social media recruitment. But if you think that’s all social media recruitment is – hype – you might want to reconsider: Not only is social media as a recruitment strategy here to stay, it’s also quite effective.
4 Benefits of Effective Job Descriptions
Writing job descriptions may seem to be an onerous task, but if done well, there can be many benefits for your organization. “Unfortunately, not all hiring managers and companies value a well-developed job description. So, it’s critical to understand the rewards – along with the mitigating risks as they apply to federal, state and local laws – of an effective job description.” Mary Anne Kennedy told us in a recent BLR webinar.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am or 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Recruiting News Roundup
This week's top recruiting stories:
Out With the New, In With the Old
The original way headhunting (sourcing) worked was purely through networking. No Linkedin or other internet powered search tools, not even a job board per say. It was one executive calling a search firm that was seriously connected to fill their critical need.
Are Your Offers Getting Rejected? Here’s What To Do To Before the Sendout
I just had my third offer rejected since the beginning of the year. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. When I try to get feedback from the candidates they don’t respond, so I’m at a loss. I tried to pressure close my last deal and as a result it went south. I can’t afford for this to continue and I’m looking forward to your advice.
What A Brit Has to Say About American Recruiting Practices
A contentious statement I know but in 2011, as a British contingency recruiter opening up an office in New York City, I was amazed at how low a status the third party recruitment sector has in the US.
You’re Wasting Your Time With Reference Checks
You've probably all been there. You've found the perfect candidate to fill a vacancy or a new gig in your company. Their interview was great, their resumé impressive, their rapport with you and your team terrific. Seems a no-brainer, right? So you proceed to the next level in the way that everyone seems to—you ask for a list of references.
The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP
Neil Roseman is downright tired of hearing Silicon Valley companies say they “hire only the best and the brightest.” No matter how many times they say it, most still make decisions based on gut feel, basic credentials, GPAs, ivy league educations, flashy company names - even SAT scores. Roseman objects. As the former Technology VP for both Amazon and Zynga, he’s interviewed hundreds of people and believes every phase of the process needs to be meticulously designed to drill deep into skill sets, actual accomplishments, culture fit and leadership potential.
Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate
When they’re hiring, companies are looking to find out what candidates have really done — not what they’ve participated in or watched, but what they’ve done. At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga. “Even at the greatest companies,” he says in this illuminating piece from First Round Capital, “there’s a gap between those who get the most stuff done and those who don’t get much done...
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Out With the New, In With the Old
The original way headhunting (sourcing) worked was purely through networking. No Linkedin or other internet powered search tools, not even a job board per say. It was one executive calling a search firm that was seriously connected to fill their critical need.
Are Your Offers Getting Rejected? Here’s What To Do To Before the Sendout
I just had my third offer rejected since the beginning of the year. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. When I try to get feedback from the candidates they don’t respond, so I’m at a loss. I tried to pressure close my last deal and as a result it went south. I can’t afford for this to continue and I’m looking forward to your advice.
What A Brit Has to Say About American Recruiting Practices
A contentious statement I know but in 2011, as a British contingency recruiter opening up an office in New York City, I was amazed at how low a status the third party recruitment sector has in the US.
You’re Wasting Your Time With Reference Checks
You've probably all been there. You've found the perfect candidate to fill a vacancy or a new gig in your company. Their interview was great, their resumé impressive, their rapport with you and your team terrific. Seems a no-brainer, right? So you proceed to the next level in the way that everyone seems to—you ask for a list of references.
The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP
Neil Roseman is downright tired of hearing Silicon Valley companies say they “hire only the best and the brightest.” No matter how many times they say it, most still make decisions based on gut feel, basic credentials, GPAs, ivy league educations, flashy company names - even SAT scores. Roseman objects. As the former Technology VP for both Amazon and Zynga, he’s interviewed hundreds of people and believes every phase of the process needs to be meticulously designed to drill deep into skill sets, actual accomplishments, culture fit and leadership potential.
Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate
When they’re hiring, companies are looking to find out what candidates have really done — not what they’ve participated in or watched, but what they’ve done. At least, that’s what Neil Roseman was looking for when he was Technology VP for Amazon and Zynga. “Even at the greatest companies,” he says in this illuminating piece from First Round Capital, “there’s a gap between those who get the most stuff done and those who don’t get much done...
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Recruiting News Roundup
This week's top recruiting stories:
Too Many Applicants, Too Little Time?
Some organizations are just lucky … they have a huge, Niagara-like, flow of applicants knocking at their front door. They hire teams of people to scan paper resumes. But any experienced recruiter knows resumes contain a considerable amount of fiction; bad applicants often have good resumes; and, good applicants often have bad ones. I’ve even heard of clever applicants seeding their electronic resumes with keywords printed in background font colors to hide them.
How to Hire – and Retain – Recent College Graduates
We have learned the hard way that many recent grads are not yet ready for the real world. To be honest, when I graduated, I don’t think I was either! Over the years we have had to interview a lot of recent grads to find those who are ready. We have found that there are some things you can look for – and other things you can avoid – in order to hire them successfully.
Do You Need a Résumé in the LinkedIn Era?
Now that LinkedIn has become the standard place to present your professional history and credentials — not to mention the fastest way to check somebody else's — the humble résumé has lost its once-hallowed position as the canonical version of your professional identity. Your LinkedIn profile should be the most-viewed and most current version of your professional life. That has many people asking: Do I even need an old-fashioned résumé anymore?
The Quick Guide to Being a Great Hiring Manager
Let’s face it — most of the hiring at the average company isn’t lead by HR. Sure, HR has an important hand in the pot, but ultimately it’s the hiring manager who does the bulk of the legwork. This is why hiring managers are more important than the CEO, and is why it’s vital that you prepare your non-expert hiring team for the pivotal task they’re about to take on.
Career Fair Tips for Employers
Career fairs can be great opportunities for businesses to find prospective employees, but these venues can quickly become quite hectic without proper preparation. Lack of screening, tons of resumes, and the chaos of the day can take a super productive idea and make it a hot mess. If you want to take advantage of career fairs without acquiring a giant headache, here are some tips to keep your search focused and successful.
CareerBuilder Lists Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2013
According to a survey of hiring managers by CareerBuilder, over one-third of respondents have positions that have remained vacant for at least 12 weeks. The jobs cited as most difficult to fill between 2010 and 2013 include:
Hiring Managers, Don’t Blow the Interview! How to Effectively Screen Potential Hires
Stellar employees are the foundation of any great company, but hiring those great employees isn’t always easy. The interview is the single most important aspect of any recruiting process, and it directly relates to future success and fit between a company and the candidate.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Too Many Applicants, Too Little Time?
Some organizations are just lucky … they have a huge, Niagara-like, flow of applicants knocking at their front door. They hire teams of people to scan paper resumes. But any experienced recruiter knows resumes contain a considerable amount of fiction; bad applicants often have good resumes; and, good applicants often have bad ones. I’ve even heard of clever applicants seeding their electronic resumes with keywords printed in background font colors to hide them.
How to Hire – and Retain – Recent College Graduates
We have learned the hard way that many recent grads are not yet ready for the real world. To be honest, when I graduated, I don’t think I was either! Over the years we have had to interview a lot of recent grads to find those who are ready. We have found that there are some things you can look for – and other things you can avoid – in order to hire them successfully.
Do You Need a Résumé in the LinkedIn Era?
Now that LinkedIn has become the standard place to present your professional history and credentials — not to mention the fastest way to check somebody else's — the humble résumé has lost its once-hallowed position as the canonical version of your professional identity. Your LinkedIn profile should be the most-viewed and most current version of your professional life. That has many people asking: Do I even need an old-fashioned résumé anymore?
The Quick Guide to Being a Great Hiring Manager
Let’s face it — most of the hiring at the average company isn’t lead by HR. Sure, HR has an important hand in the pot, but ultimately it’s the hiring manager who does the bulk of the legwork. This is why hiring managers are more important than the CEO, and is why it’s vital that you prepare your non-expert hiring team for the pivotal task they’re about to take on.
Career Fair Tips for Employers
Career fairs can be great opportunities for businesses to find prospective employees, but these venues can quickly become quite hectic without proper preparation. Lack of screening, tons of resumes, and the chaos of the day can take a super productive idea and make it a hot mess. If you want to take advantage of career fairs without acquiring a giant headache, here are some tips to keep your search focused and successful.
CareerBuilder Lists Hardest Jobs to Fill in 2013
According to a survey of hiring managers by CareerBuilder, over one-third of respondents have positions that have remained vacant for at least 12 weeks. The jobs cited as most difficult to fill between 2010 and 2013 include:
Hiring Managers, Don’t Blow the Interview! How to Effectively Screen Potential Hires
Stellar employees are the foundation of any great company, but hiring those great employees isn’t always easy. The interview is the single most important aspect of any recruiting process, and it directly relates to future success and fit between a company and the candidate.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Recruiting News Roundup
This week's top recruiting news from around the web:
CMS to Attend SHRM Annual Conference
CMS iRecruit will be attending the 2013 SHRM Annual Conference &
Exposition in Chicago June 16-19. We’re looking forward to seeing
Hillary Clinton, astronaut Mark Kelley and Gabby Giffords, and music
from Kelly Clarkson and more. We’ll be at Booth #1927 with our partner
Employee Based Systems (EBS).
5 Things To Include on a Company Career Site
Setting up an online career portal for your company website is challenging. Every day potential candidates are clicking on to your Careers page, and then clicking away because they don't see what they like. Keeping a visitor interested in your company career website is as simple as asking, if it were me, "What would I like to know before I apply?"
How to Find the Talent You Need and Keep It
Strategic human resource management is the key to finding the talent your company needs, but it’s also how you will ultimately retain that talent and improve your return on employee investment.
Make Your Culture Your Brand: Tips for More Competitive Recruiting
“Just because your company is a ‘Plain Jane’ doesn’t mean your recruitment function needs to be,” said Randall Birkwood, consultant and CEO at Ascendant Talent, during his session at the recent ERE Conference and Exposition, Beat the Big Brands at Hiring: Building a Winning Talent Acquisiton Department Against the Odds.
NPR Cranked Out This New Career Site in About a Month
From the department of quick turnarounds comes NPR’s new career site, one that Lars Schmidt had wanted to redo since he arrived two and a half years ago but ultimately took just a month.
Too Many Applicants? 5 Innovative Ways to Screen Out The Masses
Could the time spent on resume sifting (often inappropriate applications) be better used in other areas of the hiring process to improve quality and job satisfaction? If you do believe that you have an overly laborious resume sifting process, you might be interested in the five techniques that I have outlined below that you can use to more efficiently screen out the masses and free up time to focus on more value-added work.
Know the Difference between hiring a Rock Star and a Ninja
You may have seen job titles (and descriptions) from companies seeking to hire Rock Star, Jedis, Gurus and Ninjas for key positions within their organization. A quick search on Indeed.com reveals there are 4,719 positions that list "Rock Star" in the job title, and 735 Ninjas.
iRecruit Webinar Dates June 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for June 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
CMS to Attend SHRM Annual Conference
CMS iRecruit will be attending the 2013 SHRM Annual Conference &
Exposition in Chicago June 16-19. We’re looking forward to seeing
Hillary Clinton, astronaut Mark Kelley and Gabby Giffords, and music
from Kelly Clarkson and more. We’ll be at Booth #1927 with our partner
Employee Based Systems (EBS).5 Things To Include on a Company Career Site
Setting up an online career portal for your company website is challenging. Every day potential candidates are clicking on to your Careers page, and then clicking away because they don't see what they like. Keeping a visitor interested in your company career website is as simple as asking, if it were me, "What would I like to know before I apply?"
How to Find the Talent You Need and Keep It
Strategic human resource management is the key to finding the talent your company needs, but it’s also how you will ultimately retain that talent and improve your return on employee investment.
Make Your Culture Your Brand: Tips for More Competitive Recruiting
“Just because your company is a ‘Plain Jane’ doesn’t mean your recruitment function needs to be,” said Randall Birkwood, consultant and CEO at Ascendant Talent, during his session at the recent ERE Conference and Exposition, Beat the Big Brands at Hiring: Building a Winning Talent Acquisiton Department Against the Odds.
NPR Cranked Out This New Career Site in About a Month
From the department of quick turnarounds comes NPR’s new career site, one that Lars Schmidt had wanted to redo since he arrived two and a half years ago but ultimately took just a month.
Too Many Applicants? 5 Innovative Ways to Screen Out The Masses
Could the time spent on resume sifting (often inappropriate applications) be better used in other areas of the hiring process to improve quality and job satisfaction? If you do believe that you have an overly laborious resume sifting process, you might be interested in the five techniques that I have outlined below that you can use to more efficiently screen out the masses and free up time to focus on more value-added work.
Know the Difference between hiring a Rock Star and a NinjaYou may have seen job titles (and descriptions) from companies seeking to hire Rock Star, Jedis, Gurus and Ninjas for key positions within their organization. A quick search on Indeed.com reveals there are 4,719 positions that list "Rock Star" in the job title, and 735 Ninjas.
iRecruit Webinar Dates June 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for June 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Know the Difference between hiring a Rock Star and a Ninja
 Hiring Ninjas |
 Hiring Rock Stars |
While Gurus and Jedi primarily appear to be listed in IT and programming fields, Rock Stars and Ninjas span many different roles and types of jobs. So what’s the difference, and why would you want to hire a rock star or a ninja for your organization?
Rock Stars
- Shine and enjoy the spotlight
- Works well as part of a team
- Frequently seek attention
- Require constant feedback
- Don’t respond well to negative feedback
- Excellent presentation skills
- Deliver superior service
- Quietly complete their work
- Do not require attention
- Works well as part of a team
- Works better solo
- Get things done without making a fuss
- Proactive in their positions
About iRecruit
iRecruit can help you hire your rock stars, ninjas, jedis and gurus. Track, and manage all of your candidates in a single secure database.
iRecruit provides you with a career portal linked to your website that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Related: Six Things You Need in Every Job Description
Friday, May 31, 2013
Recruiting News Round Up
This week's top recruiting news from around the web:
The 4 Kinds of Candidates You Shouldn’t Hire This Summer
As employers rely on summer hires more than ever, over the next few months recruiters and other hiring professionals face mounting pressure to enlist the best new workers for their teams.
How Investing In Your Employees Raises Company Stock Value
Have you ever wondered if executives or investors really understand the value of the people in the company? Do you ever wonder if the “powers that be” truly understand that if you invest in employees, the company will actually do better? The quick answer is that the CFO and Wall Street sometimes get it, but for those employers that don’t quite yet get it, read on to learn how investing in your employees can help drive up your company stock price.
7 Habits of Highly Successful Hiring Managers
Kermit the Frog thinks being green is hard, he should try being a hiring manager (amirite???). Faced with the challenge of finding qualified candidates in a labor market where the demand often outweighs the supply, hiring managers don’t have it easy these days.
Majority of New Hires Say Job Is Not What They Expected
Six in 10 American workers say they’ve found aspects of a new job different from what they expected, indicating they may have felt misled during the interview process.
When it Comes to Recruiting Innovation, Candidate Experience is Top of Mind
I was asked to chair this week’s Recruiting Innovation Summit, put on by my former employer ERE Media. At it, we explored some of the leading edge ideas from people who are as passionate about making recruiting better as I am. It was also the first time I ever emceed an event. That experience is probably another post altogether.
iRecruit Webinar Dates June 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for June 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
The 4 Kinds of Candidates You Shouldn’t Hire This Summer
As employers rely on summer hires more than ever, over the next few months recruiters and other hiring professionals face mounting pressure to enlist the best new workers for their teams.
How Investing In Your Employees Raises Company Stock Value
Have you ever wondered if executives or investors really understand the value of the people in the company? Do you ever wonder if the “powers that be” truly understand that if you invest in employees, the company will actually do better? The quick answer is that the CFO and Wall Street sometimes get it, but for those employers that don’t quite yet get it, read on to learn how investing in your employees can help drive up your company stock price.
7 Habits of Highly Successful Hiring Managers
Kermit the Frog thinks being green is hard, he should try being a hiring manager (amirite???). Faced with the challenge of finding qualified candidates in a labor market where the demand often outweighs the supply, hiring managers don’t have it easy these days.
Majority of New Hires Say Job Is Not What They Expected
Six in 10 American workers say they’ve found aspects of a new job different from what they expected, indicating they may have felt misled during the interview process.
When it Comes to Recruiting Innovation, Candidate Experience is Top of Mind
I was asked to chair this week’s Recruiting Innovation Summit, put on by my former employer ERE Media. At it, we explored some of the leading edge ideas from people who are as passionate about making recruiting better as I am. It was also the first time I ever emceed an event. That experience is probably another post altogether.
iRecruit Webinar Dates June 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for June 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking and recruitment process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Tips for Hiring Summer Interns
Get Ready to Hire Interns
In iRecruit set up a new application form just for your
intern candidates so that you can ask specific questions relating to the
internship.
Set up your new intern job listing in iRecruit. Be as
specific as possible in your job description. What department will the intern
be in? What can they expect to be doing for you? What type of skills do they
need to have? Is the internship paid or unpaid? What are the expected hours?
And how long is the duration of the internship?
Set up two template emails -
one for interns who are not selected, and one for interns not selected after interview.
Interviewing Interns
H2M's Gina Iacobacci shares some tips on interviewing interns:
- Ask the same questions for all interviews. This is great for comparison in order to see which candidate is the right fit for your company as well as to use as guidance for the hiring managers when they are making their decision.
- Make the candidate feel comfortable! Make some friendly conversation before jumping into the questions you are going to ask. I cannot stress this enough. For most candidates coming in for an interview, it may be their first professional interview relating to their desired career. They are going to be nervous! Make them feel at home. If you do that, they are sure to open up and you will be able to get all the information you need in order to properly assess them for the role.
- Find out what their future goals are in order to see if these will be in line with what your company is looking for and supports.
- Briefly share some of the benefits that full time employees receive. They may not be eligible to receive them, but it is good to let them know how much you do value your employees.
- Some candidates may not have any internship experience. If not, be prepared to relate any behavioral type questions related to a group project they have done in school or at another job they may have had in the past in order to get the information you will need.
- Share Successes. If you have any success stories about past interns, make sure to share them! For instance, at H2M, our current CEO who stepped up this year interned here about 25 years ago. I love to tell any intern that story because it really showcases that we are an organization that strongly believes in professional development.
- Be honest about where you are in the decision making process, let them know where they stand, and let them know when they can expect to hear from you regarding a decision.
- Leave the door wide open for questioning. They need to feel like they can come to you whenever they need assistance. Make sure to let them know that they can follow up with any questions they may have.
Some things to keep in mind:
- Interns are not just free labor.
- Set goals and expectations of behavior, dress code, hours etc.
- Don’t just send on coffee runs to Dunkin' or Starbucks. Give your interns real life projects and hands on experience.
- At the end of the internship period, don't forget to thank your interns.
Continue to improve your internship program by asking for
feedback after the intern has returned to college. Keep it simple using
iRecruit forms, or GoogleDocs to create a simple form that will let you collect
feedback, and provide you with an instant report.
Related Links:
Internship seekers should prepare for common interview
questions like “What are your strengths,” or “What are your weaknesses,” but
they can also expect less conventional queries.
How To Hire Rockstar Interns (Slideshare)
Your business is small. Too small to have a fancy
internship program or connections with universities. You may even be located in
a town far removed from a school that has a major that fits your business. You
should consider hiring a summer intern anyway. An intern can bring fresh ideas
at low cost. Plus, you get the opportunity to help someone else learn how to be
a great employee.
To Hire an Intern or Not? (Careerbuilder)
With the ever increasing demand for the highest quality
candidates, finding the best is like finding a needle in a haystack for many
small businesses. One solution is very simple: hire an intern.
The Basics Of Hiring Interns For Your Startup (Founders Network)
Hiring interns is a great milestone for a young company
and the use of interns is on the rise. What is also on the rise, however,
is the number of small businesses and startups getting audited for
misclassifying interns as independent contractors or unpaid interns when
they should have been classified as paid employees.
Tips from Michigan State University.
If you’re like a lot of employers, you’re deep into the
process of trying to find those potentially stellar summer interns. Here are
tips on finding the best ones — and risks you’ll need to look out for.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows any size company to track and report on job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows any size company to track and report on job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Recruiting News Round Up
This week's top recruiting news from around the web:
The Latest Corporate Mania: Snagging 'Passive' Job Candidates
It’s funny how the business world follows fads, no different from the colorful Silly Bands my 10-year-old was so crazy about a year ago or the Bro Tanks that hipster-wannabe high school boys are sporting, now that the weather is cooperating. Business fads, in my experience, are motivated by the same currents that drive consumer fads: the urge to try something new, a hope to differentiate oneself (or one’s department, division or company), and, conversely, the desire to keep up with the crowd.
Spring Cleaning Your Applicant Tracking Software
The first day of Spring always puts me in mind of spring cleaning, being an orderly person who loves lists, I like to look ahead be cleaning out the clutter.
Are You Punishing Perfectly Good Job Candidates?
Back when I had just finished my master's degree and I was on the "real" job market for the very first time I landed an interview with a law firm. Midway through the interview, as they explained the details of the job, I blurted out: "Doesn't that get really boring?"
The Real Story Behind Six of Today’s Biggest Recruiting Myths
Is your organization ready to compete in this new era of talent management, or are you being held back by outdated or erroneous beliefs about what it takes to hire the right people? CareerBuilder recently partnered with the Human Capital Institute to uncover common misconceptions around both job seeker behavior and the ways in which employers attract and hire top performers, based on a 44-item survey of 358 HR professionals nationwide and follow-up interviews.
Things to Ask in an Interview That Candidates Won’t Ask Themselves
Job interviews have become a pretty predictable experience — the standard questions are delivered, and at the end of the ordeal, it’s general procedure to open up the floor to see if the interviewee has any of their own questions on their mind. Typically, they’ll bring up a few: When will you have made your decision by? What is your company’s culture like? What can I expect on a daily basis?
More than Half of Employers Plan to Hire Recent College Grads in 2013
Good news for 2013′s college grads: They’re entering a stronger job market than they would have right after the Great Recession began. This year’s hiring is holding steady from 2012: More than half (53 percent) of U.S. employers plan to hire recent college graduates in 2013, on par with 2012′s 54 percent and up significantly from 46 percent in 2011 and 44 percent in 2010.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
The Latest Corporate Mania: Snagging 'Passive' Job Candidates
It’s funny how the business world follows fads, no different from the colorful Silly Bands my 10-year-old was so crazy about a year ago or the Bro Tanks that hipster-wannabe high school boys are sporting, now that the weather is cooperating. Business fads, in my experience, are motivated by the same currents that drive consumer fads: the urge to try something new, a hope to differentiate oneself (or one’s department, division or company), and, conversely, the desire to keep up with the crowd.
Spring Cleaning Your Applicant Tracking Software
The first day of Spring always puts me in mind of spring cleaning, being an orderly person who loves lists, I like to look ahead be cleaning out the clutter.
Are You Punishing Perfectly Good Job Candidates?
Back when I had just finished my master's degree and I was on the "real" job market for the very first time I landed an interview with a law firm. Midway through the interview, as they explained the details of the job, I blurted out: "Doesn't that get really boring?"
The Real Story Behind Six of Today’s Biggest Recruiting Myths
Is your organization ready to compete in this new era of talent management, or are you being held back by outdated or erroneous beliefs about what it takes to hire the right people? CareerBuilder recently partnered with the Human Capital Institute to uncover common misconceptions around both job seeker behavior and the ways in which employers attract and hire top performers, based on a 44-item survey of 358 HR professionals nationwide and follow-up interviews.
Things to Ask in an Interview That Candidates Won’t Ask Themselves
Job interviews have become a pretty predictable experience — the standard questions are delivered, and at the end of the ordeal, it’s general procedure to open up the floor to see if the interviewee has any of their own questions on their mind. Typically, they’ll bring up a few: When will you have made your decision by? What is your company’s culture like? What can I expect on a daily basis?
More than Half of Employers Plan to Hire Recent College Grads in 2013
Good news for 2013′s college grads: They’re entering a stronger job market than they would have right after the Great Recession began. This year’s hiring is holding steady from 2012: More than half (53 percent) of U.S. employers plan to hire recent college graduates in 2013, on par with 2012′s 54 percent and up significantly from 46 percent in 2011 and 44 percent in 2010.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week employers are holding out for perfection in hiring, 5 recruiting skills you need, how to pick the best candidate and more...
I’ll Say It Again: We Need to Get Rid of Resumes and Job Descriptions
As some of you may know, I think the continued use of traditional, skills-infested job descriptions prevents companies from hiring the best talent available. By default, they wind up hiring the best person who applies. That’s the same reason I’m against the indiscriminate use of assessment tests. While these tests are good confirming indicators of on-the-job performance, they’re poor predictors of it (square the correlation coefficient to get a sense of any test’s predictive value).
With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection
American employers have a variety of job vacancies, piles of cash and countless well-qualified candidates. But despite a slowly improving economy, many companies remain reluctant to actually hire, stringing job applicants along for weeks or months before they make a decision. If they ever do.
Don’t Forget These 5 Recruiting Skills in the Social Recruiting Fervor
Recruiting, as many of us know it, has undergone a transformation in the last few years. In fact, there are recruiters coming in to the workforce now who only source within LinkedIn Recruiter, or who’ve never had to keep a physical (read: paper) file on a candidate.
Candidate Experience: Can You Keep Them Out of the “Black Hole?”
A couple of months ago I shared some data from an Aberdeen Group report about benchmarking quality of hire best practices. It’s a great benchmark list of outcomes. But how about the inputs? More specifically, in terms of quality of hire, how about benchmarking the quality of the candidate experience? Call me crazy, but it seems to me that a higher quality candidate experience translates into a higher quality of hire.
You Have Identified the Candidates. How Do You Pick the Right One?
In my last two posts, I talked about the process we use at H.Bloom to run a recruiting campaign: defining the role, targeting the right profile of candidates, building a list of potential candidates and presenting them with a persuasive pitch. This process is meant to yield viable candidates for a position. But what happens then? Once you have interested candidates, how do you figure out which one is the right one for your team? The answer depends on two things: The person’s fit for the role. And the person’s fit for the team.
iRecruit Webinar Dates March 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
iRecruit Training - Application Forms
Please join us on Friday, March 29th at 1pm for iRecruit Training. This month we'll focus on the Application Forms and how to customize. You'll learn: How to add/change questions,
How to add multiple options for questions, How to build a custom application form, How to use pre-screening questions, And more... Click here to register today or call 1-800-517-9099, training is free to all customers.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
I’ll Say It Again: We Need to Get Rid of Resumes and Job Descriptions
As some of you may know, I think the continued use of traditional, skills-infested job descriptions prevents companies from hiring the best talent available. By default, they wind up hiring the best person who applies. That’s the same reason I’m against the indiscriminate use of assessment tests. While these tests are good confirming indicators of on-the-job performance, they’re poor predictors of it (square the correlation coefficient to get a sense of any test’s predictive value).
With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection
American employers have a variety of job vacancies, piles of cash and countless well-qualified candidates. But despite a slowly improving economy, many companies remain reluctant to actually hire, stringing job applicants along for weeks or months before they make a decision. If they ever do.
Don’t Forget These 5 Recruiting Skills in the Social Recruiting Fervor
Recruiting, as many of us know it, has undergone a transformation in the last few years. In fact, there are recruiters coming in to the workforce now who only source within LinkedIn Recruiter, or who’ve never had to keep a physical (read: paper) file on a candidate.
Candidate Experience: Can You Keep Them Out of the “Black Hole?”
A couple of months ago I shared some data from an Aberdeen Group report about benchmarking quality of hire best practices. It’s a great benchmark list of outcomes. But how about the inputs? More specifically, in terms of quality of hire, how about benchmarking the quality of the candidate experience? Call me crazy, but it seems to me that a higher quality candidate experience translates into a higher quality of hire.
You Have Identified the Candidates. How Do You Pick the Right One?
In my last two posts, I talked about the process we use at H.Bloom to run a recruiting campaign: defining the role, targeting the right profile of candidates, building a list of potential candidates and presenting them with a persuasive pitch. This process is meant to yield viable candidates for a position. But what happens then? Once you have interested candidates, how do you figure out which one is the right one for your team? The answer depends on two things: The person’s fit for the role. And the person’s fit for the team.
iRecruit Webinar Dates March 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database. We have weekly webinar demos scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (US). Or contact us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a webinar at your convenience.
iRecruit Training - Application Forms
Please join us on Friday, March 29th at 1pm for iRecruit Training. This month we'll focus on the Application Forms and how to customize. You'll learn: How to add/change questions,
How to add multiple options for questions, How to build a custom application form, How to use pre-screening questions, And more... Click here to register today or call 1-800-517-9099, training is free to all customers.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week a checklist for hiring, how your job ads may be driving away talent, the rock stars of social media recruiting and more...
Meet the rock-star brands of social recruiting
We’ve all seen how social media can engage customers and employees, but many companies forget about job-seekers, who now conduct most of their job searches online. Innovative brands are reaching out to candidates on social media. Sites created to let friends communicate are being used by clever recruiters to communicate their employer brand to active and passive candidates.
Your Job Ads Are Driving Away Talent
I read job ads in my spare time. People send me especially ridiculous ones just to make me laugh. The other day I read one that began promisingly enough with, "If you're ready to work hard on a top-drawer team of hard-chargers, keep reading" and then went on to list twenty-two tedious, "Essential Job Qualifications" that could only serve to eliminate any actual top-drawer candidates who bothered to apply. After the hard-charger opening, that job ad fell right back into the usual territory ("are you good enough for us?") without bothering to give the reader any good reason to consider the available job worth his or her time or interest.
A Checklist for Success in Hiring Employees
Want to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your process for hiring, whether it's your first employee or one of many employees that you are hiring. This checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts. This hiring checklist communicates both the recruiting and the hiring process and progress in recruiting to the hiring manager.
Do You Acknowledge Job Applicants?
Why is it that the majority of companies no longer acknowledge the receipt of one's cover letter and resume? Nor do companies acknowledge the fulfillment of their position. In a culture where people complain about the lack of common courtesy, it seems that corporations and businesses are completely disregarding common courtesy. Is it no longer considered standard business policy to at least send an email response of some sort?
Talent Acquisition: The Eyesore of HR?
After working in a number of talent acquisition groups over the course of my career, I have often reflected on the many comments and sentiments that have been shared with me about the function. My belief has been and always will be that talent acquisition is the only function within HR that can destroy the business and HR.
Honest Job Descriptions
NPR's Planet Money asked listeners to tweet their #honestjobdescription last week. Some of the responses have been really entertaining.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Meet the rock-star brands of social recruiting
We’ve all seen how social media can engage customers and employees, but many companies forget about job-seekers, who now conduct most of their job searches online. Innovative brands are reaching out to candidates on social media. Sites created to let friends communicate are being used by clever recruiters to communicate their employer brand to active and passive candidates.
Your Job Ads Are Driving Away Talent
I read job ads in my spare time. People send me especially ridiculous ones just to make me laugh. The other day I read one that began promisingly enough with, "If you're ready to work hard on a top-drawer team of hard-chargers, keep reading" and then went on to list twenty-two tedious, "Essential Job Qualifications" that could only serve to eliminate any actual top-drawer candidates who bothered to apply. After the hard-charger opening, that job ad fell right back into the usual territory ("are you good enough for us?") without bothering to give the reader any good reason to consider the available job worth his or her time or interest.
A Checklist for Success in Hiring Employees
Want to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your process for hiring, whether it's your first employee or one of many employees that you are hiring. This checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts. This hiring checklist communicates both the recruiting and the hiring process and progress in recruiting to the hiring manager.
Do You Acknowledge Job Applicants?
Why is it that the majority of companies no longer acknowledge the receipt of one's cover letter and resume? Nor do companies acknowledge the fulfillment of their position. In a culture where people complain about the lack of common courtesy, it seems that corporations and businesses are completely disregarding common courtesy. Is it no longer considered standard business policy to at least send an email response of some sort?
Talent Acquisition: The Eyesore of HR?
After working in a number of talent acquisition groups over the course of my career, I have often reflected on the many comments and sentiments that have been shared with me about the function. My belief has been and always will be that talent acquisition is the only function within HR that can destroy the business and HR.
Honest Job Descriptions
NPR's Planet Money asked listeners to tweet their #honestjobdescription last week. Some of the responses have been really entertaining.
iRecruit Webinar Dates February 2013
Announcing the iRecruit webinar presentation schedule for February 2013. Learn how to take control of your applicant tracking process, and manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a web-based applicant tracking software designed to provide any size of business a cost effective, affordable and simple way to handle their recruiting process online. iRecruit provides you with your own career center that will allow your applicants to select the position they are interested in, and apply online through your website!
Weekly demos, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm Eastern Time (Register Today), or call us at 1-800-517-9099 to schedule a demo at your convenience.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week how to minimize hiring mistakes, what we wish candidates knew, talent management from the CEO's perspective and more ... this week's top recruiting stories
from around the web.
9 Things You Wish Job Candidates Knew
Sure, you'll consider their qualifications. But admit it: This is what you're really looking for during interviews. Job candidates say a lot during an interview. As the interviewer, so do you. But there's a lot you wish you could say to job candidates well before the interview ever takes place:
7 Ways to Minimize Perception-driven Hiring Mistakes
If you like someone when you first meet, you maximize their positives and minimize their negatives. If you don’t like someone, you maximize their weaknesses, and minimize their positives. Now consider how many great candidates didn’t get the jobs they deserve because someone on the hiring team made a superficial judgment in the first minute, and then spent the rest of the interview seeking evidence to prove it.
What’s Working in Recruiting 2012? Let’s Find Out! (survey)
It’s a new world of recruiting in 2012, and every employer needs to stay ahead of the curve. Who's doing what in the real world of recruiting?
4 Great Talent Management Takeaways from the Inc. 500 CEO Survey
Do you ever wish you could pick the brains of America’s most successful startup CEOs, just to see what’s rattling around in there? Do you wish you could ask them how they grew their companies or how they manage their employee selection process?
“Veterans Have an Unmatched Global Awareness”: CEO Discusses the Virtues of Military Recruitment
Dedicated to the progress of its clients, consultants and the community, Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd recently increased its efforts to match military veterans with the employers upon leaving their service. In the following Q&A, CEO John Mehrmann discusses how the IT and Engineering professionals services provider has enhanced its military veteran recruitment efforts to bring more diversity and a broader range of skills to clients – thereby following through on its mission to empower clients, consultants and the community.
iRecruit webinar dates in October
Learn how to take control of your recruiting and applicant tracking process. Manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
9 Things You Wish Job Candidates Knew
Sure, you'll consider their qualifications. But admit it: This is what you're really looking for during interviews. Job candidates say a lot during an interview. As the interviewer, so do you. But there's a lot you wish you could say to job candidates well before the interview ever takes place:
7 Ways to Minimize Perception-driven Hiring Mistakes
If you like someone when you first meet, you maximize their positives and minimize their negatives. If you don’t like someone, you maximize their weaknesses, and minimize their positives. Now consider how many great candidates didn’t get the jobs they deserve because someone on the hiring team made a superficial judgment in the first minute, and then spent the rest of the interview seeking evidence to prove it.
What’s Working in Recruiting 2012? Let’s Find Out! (survey)
It’s a new world of recruiting in 2012, and every employer needs to stay ahead of the curve. Who's doing what in the real world of recruiting?
4 Great Talent Management Takeaways from the Inc. 500 CEO Survey
Do you ever wish you could pick the brains of America’s most successful startup CEOs, just to see what’s rattling around in there? Do you wish you could ask them how they grew their companies or how they manage their employee selection process?
“Veterans Have an Unmatched Global Awareness”: CEO Discusses the Virtues of Military Recruitment
Dedicated to the progress of its clients, consultants and the community, Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd recently increased its efforts to match military veterans with the employers upon leaving their service. In the following Q&A, CEO John Mehrmann discusses how the IT and Engineering professionals services provider has enhanced its military veteran recruitment efforts to bring more diversity and a broader range of skills to clients – thereby following through on its mission to empower clients, consultants and the community.
iRecruit webinar dates in October
Learn how to take control of your recruiting and applicant tracking process. Manage your applicants in a centralized, secure, cloud-based database.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week find out which HR function ranks No. 1, the latest interview trends, how to check a candidate's social media presence, how to navigate LinkedIn and more ... this week's top recruiting stories from around the web.
Texas hospital's hiring rule on obesity prompts legal questions (Video)
KUSA - A Texas company recently made headlines when it announced it would not hire overweight workers. Do employees have protections from weight discrimination? We looked at this issue with Denver labor law attorney Kim Ryan on 9NEWS 6AM.
News Flash: Recruiting Has the Highest Business Impact of any HR Function
Within most corporate HR functions, the atmosphere is simply too politically charged to even consider raising this powerful question:“Which HR function ranks No. 1 with the highest impact on two critical business success measures — revenue growth and profit margins?” Well, the data is in, and we now definitively know that the answer is … recruiting is the most impactful HR function!
10 Steps for Navigating LinkedIn Profiles
What we know already: LinkedIn is one of the biggest online resource pools for recruiting quality staff. It allows employers and recruiters to sift through a high number of potential hires and find the best and most qualified people for the jobs available.
Are in-person interviews on their way out?
A meteoric rise in video interviewing might be a sign of things to come on the hiring landscape. Six in 10 (63%) HR pros say their company “somewhat often” or “very often” conducts interviews via video. Compare that to the paltry 14% who answered the same just one year ago.
Social media: Be Careful Out There
For companies that want to learn more about their job candidates' online activity without risking a lawsuit, using a third party to filter this information can be an effective method. But even when using a third party, experts warn, legal landmines remain afoot.
Are Job Ads Going Too Far?
While it's illegal for employers to discriminate against job candidates based on their citizenship status, experts say some companies are targeting foreign candidates for IT jobs over their American counterparts.
8 Rules for Internal Hiring
Want to know the truth about the hiring process? Most companies hire from within. While not at all surprising, this tidbit of information is not only valuable to the millions of job seekers, but to recruiters and hiring managers as well. According to Career XRoads' annual Sources of Hire survey, out of the 200 companies and firms polled in 2011, internal movement and promotion accounted for 41 percent of their hiring.
Bridging the Gap Between Candidates and Recruiters
It’s no secret that companies today are struggling to find talent with the skills they need– despite the amount of available candidates. While many experts blame a lack of skills on the worker side, recent research indicates that the difference between how employers and candidates think and behave is contributing to the problem. In other words, there is a fundamental gap between how recruiters search for candidates and how candidates search for jobs. And this gap is causing a lot of missed opportunities for both recruiters and job candidates. To be more specific, I have outlined five key areas where the disconnect between recruiters and candidates is most seen:
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Texas hospital's hiring rule on obesity prompts legal questions (Video)
KUSA - A Texas company recently made headlines when it announced it would not hire overweight workers. Do employees have protections from weight discrimination? We looked at this issue with Denver labor law attorney Kim Ryan on 9NEWS 6AM.
News Flash: Recruiting Has the Highest Business Impact of any HR Function
Within most corporate HR functions, the atmosphere is simply too politically charged to even consider raising this powerful question:“Which HR function ranks No. 1 with the highest impact on two critical business success measures — revenue growth and profit margins?” Well, the data is in, and we now definitively know that the answer is … recruiting is the most impactful HR function!
10 Steps for Navigating LinkedIn Profiles
What we know already: LinkedIn is one of the biggest online resource pools for recruiting quality staff. It allows employers and recruiters to sift through a high number of potential hires and find the best and most qualified people for the jobs available.
Are in-person interviews on their way out?
A meteoric rise in video interviewing might be a sign of things to come on the hiring landscape. Six in 10 (63%) HR pros say their company “somewhat often” or “very often” conducts interviews via video. Compare that to the paltry 14% who answered the same just one year ago.
Social media: Be Careful Out There
For companies that want to learn more about their job candidates' online activity without risking a lawsuit, using a third party to filter this information can be an effective method. But even when using a third party, experts warn, legal landmines remain afoot.
Are Job Ads Going Too Far?
While it's illegal for employers to discriminate against job candidates based on their citizenship status, experts say some companies are targeting foreign candidates for IT jobs over their American counterparts.
8 Rules for Internal Hiring
Want to know the truth about the hiring process? Most companies hire from within. While not at all surprising, this tidbit of information is not only valuable to the millions of job seekers, but to recruiters and hiring managers as well. According to Career XRoads' annual Sources of Hire survey, out of the 200 companies and firms polled in 2011, internal movement and promotion accounted for 41 percent of their hiring.
Bridging the Gap Between Candidates and Recruiters
It’s no secret that companies today are struggling to find talent with the skills they need– despite the amount of available candidates. While many experts blame a lack of skills on the worker side, recent research indicates that the difference between how employers and candidates think and behave is contributing to the problem. In other words, there is a fundamental gap between how recruiters search for candidates and how candidates search for jobs. And this gap is causing a lot of missed opportunities for both recruiters and job candidates. To be more specific, I have outlined five key areas where the disconnect between recruiters and candidates is most seen:
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week find out how to source from Twitter, how to interview person's with disabilities, and how to catch lying job seekers....
this week's top recruiting stories from around the web.
Do you hire for passion?
Passion for work Next time you interview a job candidate or consider who on your team gets a new assignment, look for signs of passion for the work. Without it, no amount of talent will yield great performance.
How To Catch Lying Job Seekers
Half -- yes, half -- of all job applicants lie on their resumes. How do you figure out who's telling the truth? The chances are about 50-50 that your newest hire wasn’t completely honest on his or her resume.
Industry trends report: job postings slip in July
Indeed Industry Employment Trends show fewer job postings in July by U.S. employers across all major industries tracked. This report follows declines in June for six of the 12 major industries tracked.
The Single Most Important Recruiting Technique Since My 1-Question Interview
After 30 years of recruiting outstanding senior staff, mid-level managers, and company executives, I can now state unequivocally that the single most important step in the passive candidate recruiting process is the 30-minute exploratory interview.
Hiring 101 Part 9 - Interviewing People with Disabilities
In this video, HR Daily Advisor Editor Stephen Bruce talks about the special rules for interviewing people with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act has spelled out rather strict guidelines for interviews, which you should follow carefully.
Temporary Workers: Employ with Caution
The use of temporary talent has risen as the economy has fallen, but organizations need to be aware of the perils of the "joint-employer agreement" among other HR pitfalls.
How to Source Talent on Twitter
"Why Should I Source on Twitter?" Well, you might not realize that: Twitter now has over 250 Million Users, it's growing by 500,000 new users every day, and that its users send more than 350 million tweets each day! Twitter is a platform where users publish Tweets, 140 character-long messages, to broadcast to a network of followers about what they are currently doing and interested in.
How to Select Remote Employees
We know that telecommuting is a growing phenomenon; in fact Forrester Research has predicted that by 2016, about half the workforce may be telecommuting or at least occasionally telecommuting, that is working from home between one and four days a week. This move towards telecommuting will bring benefits to both employers and employees, for example surveys show that employees can ...
The Myth of the Passive Candidate
“We need to get rid of the words ‘active’ versus ‘passive’. They just aren’t relevant words in the job search landscape anymore,’’ says Kassandra Barnes, Research and Content Manager at CareerBuilder. Barnes is referring to the findings of CareerBuilder’s recently released 2012 Candidate Behavior Study, a collaboration with Inavero highlighting the behaviors and perceptions of today’s job candidates.
California On Brink of New “Can’t Ask” Social Media Password Law
California is about to become the third state to prohibit employers from asking employees or job seekers for access to their social media postings. Without dissent, the California Senate this week approved AB1844, the privacy measure. It now requires an Assembly vote and Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature before it takes effect. The Assembly vote is likely this week and is almost perfunctory, since it has already once passed there without dissent.
The Job Market is So Bad for College Graduates that Companies are Bending Over Backwards to Hire Them
This headline makes absolutely no sense, but please don't shoot the messenger just yet. If you're confused about what's really going in with regards to Generation Y/Millennials in the workforce, turn off the news and stop reading the papers. The media is more confused than you are. Either that, or they're purposely trying to confuse you to force you to buy more papers to get unconfused.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Do you hire for passion?
Passion for work Next time you interview a job candidate or consider who on your team gets a new assignment, look for signs of passion for the work. Without it, no amount of talent will yield great performance.
How To Catch Lying Job Seekers
Half -- yes, half -- of all job applicants lie on their resumes. How do you figure out who's telling the truth? The chances are about 50-50 that your newest hire wasn’t completely honest on his or her resume.
Industry trends report: job postings slip in July
Indeed Industry Employment Trends show fewer job postings in July by U.S. employers across all major industries tracked. This report follows declines in June for six of the 12 major industries tracked.
The Single Most Important Recruiting Technique Since My 1-Question Interview
After 30 years of recruiting outstanding senior staff, mid-level managers, and company executives, I can now state unequivocally that the single most important step in the passive candidate recruiting process is the 30-minute exploratory interview.
Hiring 101 Part 9 - Interviewing People with Disabilities
In this video, HR Daily Advisor Editor Stephen Bruce talks about the special rules for interviewing people with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act has spelled out rather strict guidelines for interviews, which you should follow carefully.
Temporary Workers: Employ with Caution
The use of temporary talent has risen as the economy has fallen, but organizations need to be aware of the perils of the "joint-employer agreement" among other HR pitfalls.
How to Source Talent on Twitter
"Why Should I Source on Twitter?" Well, you might not realize that: Twitter now has over 250 Million Users, it's growing by 500,000 new users every day, and that its users send more than 350 million tweets each day! Twitter is a platform where users publish Tweets, 140 character-long messages, to broadcast to a network of followers about what they are currently doing and interested in.
How to Select Remote Employees
We know that telecommuting is a growing phenomenon; in fact Forrester Research has predicted that by 2016, about half the workforce may be telecommuting or at least occasionally telecommuting, that is working from home between one and four days a week. This move towards telecommuting will bring benefits to both employers and employees, for example surveys show that employees can ...
The Myth of the Passive Candidate
“We need to get rid of the words ‘active’ versus ‘passive’. They just aren’t relevant words in the job search landscape anymore,’’ says Kassandra Barnes, Research and Content Manager at CareerBuilder. Barnes is referring to the findings of CareerBuilder’s recently released 2012 Candidate Behavior Study, a collaboration with Inavero highlighting the behaviors and perceptions of today’s job candidates.
California On Brink of New “Can’t Ask” Social Media Password Law
California is about to become the third state to prohibit employers from asking employees or job seekers for access to their social media postings. Without dissent, the California Senate this week approved AB1844, the privacy measure. It now requires an Assembly vote and Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature before it takes effect. The Assembly vote is likely this week and is almost perfunctory, since it has already once passed there without dissent.
The Job Market is So Bad for College Graduates that Companies are Bending Over Backwards to Hire Them
This headline makes absolutely no sense, but please don't shoot the messenger just yet. If you're confused about what's really going in with regards to Generation Y/Millennials in the workforce, turn off the news and stop reading the papers. The media is more confused than you are. Either that, or they're purposely trying to confuse you to force you to buy more papers to get unconfused.
Looking for more? Check out last week's Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories From Around The Web, or follow @cmsirecruit on Twitter for regular updates.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Recruiting Roundup: This Week's Top Recruiting Stories from Around The Web
Recruiting Roundup: This week find out why the toughest interviews yield the best candidates and what to do when your great hire goes bad... this week's top recruiting stories from around the web.
25 toughest companies for job interviewees
If you're applying for a job at any of these outfits, bring your "A" game. Sounds daunting but, say most candidates and employees in a new survey, tough is good.
The pros and cons of hiring former employees
A couple decades ago if an employee voluntarily resigned and left the company they would seldom be given an opportunity to rejoin the organization. They would be considered disloyal by many members of management. Many job counselors would often recommend against rejoining because of the possibility of being the first to be let go in times of cut backs. But today companies have realized that boomerang employees are a good bet.
Forget Interviews; Hire Anyone
Interviews are a poor indicator of success. Why not abandon this expensive, old-fashioned practice and just hire the next person who walks in the door?
WOTC and Hiring Veterans
Are you planning on hiring veterans in 2012? Learn about a new tax law change that affects employers who hire veterans in 2011 and 2012 with this IRS video.
English Major Discovers There’s Plenty of Competition at $13 An Hour
If Garrison Keillor were to catch wind of what Eric Auld did, he’d have him drummed out of P.O.E.M.
The job seeking, 26-year-old Massachusetts part-time teacher phonied up a job ad to see what his competition was like. He posted it on Craigslist and sat back to await the responses.
Exciting Job Titles Can Be Powerful Recruiting and Retention Tools
It’s pure genius. The approach that I call “Compelling Job Titling” involves giving a job a compelling title, and because it costs virtually nothing, it may have the highest ROI of any single recruiting and retention tool.
Have you ever hired someone with a bad reference?
I’ve never been overly enthusiastic about references when I don’t know the person providing the reference. Because if I call random stranger and say, “Was Jane a good employee?” and he says, “No. She was a horrible psychopath.” How do I know whether it was Jane who was the horrible psychopath or the person with whom I am speaking?
What To Do When Good Hires Go Bad
Research from Leadership IQ tells us that 46% of new hires will fail within the first 18 months. The research shows that many of these failures were overlooked during the interview process, which brings the topic of new hire failures right up to the door of the HR and recruitment professional.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows any size company to track and report on job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
25 toughest companies for job interviewees
If you're applying for a job at any of these outfits, bring your "A" game. Sounds daunting but, say most candidates and employees in a new survey, tough is good.
The pros and cons of hiring former employees
A couple decades ago if an employee voluntarily resigned and left the company they would seldom be given an opportunity to rejoin the organization. They would be considered disloyal by many members of management. Many job counselors would often recommend against rejoining because of the possibility of being the first to be let go in times of cut backs. But today companies have realized that boomerang employees are a good bet.
Forget Interviews; Hire Anyone
Interviews are a poor indicator of success. Why not abandon this expensive, old-fashioned practice and just hire the next person who walks in the door?
WOTC and Hiring Veterans
Are you planning on hiring veterans in 2012? Learn about a new tax law change that affects employers who hire veterans in 2011 and 2012 with this IRS video.
English Major Discovers There’s Plenty of Competition at $13 An Hour
If Garrison Keillor were to catch wind of what Eric Auld did, he’d have him drummed out of P.O.E.M.
The job seeking, 26-year-old Massachusetts part-time teacher phonied up a job ad to see what his competition was like. He posted it on Craigslist and sat back to await the responses.
Exciting Job Titles Can Be Powerful Recruiting and Retention Tools
It’s pure genius. The approach that I call “Compelling Job Titling” involves giving a job a compelling title, and because it costs virtually nothing, it may have the highest ROI of any single recruiting and retention tool.
Have you ever hired someone with a bad reference?
I’ve never been overly enthusiastic about references when I don’t know the person providing the reference. Because if I call random stranger and say, “Was Jane a good employee?” and he says, “No. She was a horrible psychopath.” How do I know whether it was Jane who was the horrible psychopath or the person with whom I am speaking?
What To Do When Good Hires Go Bad
Research from Leadership IQ tells us that 46% of new hires will fail within the first 18 months. The research shows that many of these failures were overlooked during the interview process, which brings the topic of new hire failures right up to the door of the HR and recruitment professional.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows any size company to track and report on job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Massachusetts Staffing Bill Enacted
After almost a year of political wrangling, on Monday the Massachusetts state senate passed HB 4304 (PDF), which requires staffing firms doing business in the state to send temporary employees written notice of each assignment's wage rate, the starting and end times of the assignment, and the expected duration of the assignment, among other things. The bill also prohibits staffing firms from charging temporary employees for certain items and services and prohibits fraudulent conduct. The bill now goes to Gov. Deval Patrick, who is expected to sign it, and the law will take effect Jan. 31, 2013.
The American Staffing Association and the Massachusetts Staffing Association, an ASA-affiliated chapter, along with lobbyists Roger Donoghue and Tara O'Donnell of Donoghue, Barrett & Singal PC, engaged in prolonged advocacy efforts that resulted in "professional" employees, secretaries, and administrative assistants being exempted from the notice requirements.
Full Story Available via American Staffing Association (08/02/12) Stephen Dwyer
The American Staffing Association and the Massachusetts Staffing Association, an ASA-affiliated chapter, along with lobbyists Roger Donoghue and Tara O'Donnell of Donoghue, Barrett & Singal PC, engaged in prolonged advocacy efforts that resulted in "professional" employees, secretaries, and administrative assistants being exempted from the notice requirements.
Full Story Available via American Staffing Association (08/02/12) Stephen Dwyer
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Top iRecruit Posts in 2011
Happy New Year! Please find below our top six posts about iRecruit from 2011!
Save on New Hires with the Work Opportunity Tax Credit
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/01/save-on-new-hires-in-2011.html
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/01/save-on-new-hires-in-2011.html
CMS Announces New Social Media Sharing for iRecruit
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/09/cms-announces-irecruit-social-media.html
iRecruit Customer Testimonials
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/03/irecruit-customer-testimonials.html
Quote from new customer:
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/quote-from-new-customer.html
CMS Announces new iRecruit to support Enterprise Marketplace
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/irecruit-enterprise-recruiting.html
Make New Hires Feel At Home
http://irecruitsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/07/make-new-hires-feel-at-home.html
Look for more educational and informative posts from iRecruit in 2012. Follow our RSS Feed, find us on Facebook or Twitter.
About iRecruit
iRecruit is a cloud-based recruiting and applicant tracking software application that allows you to track and report on all of your job applicants and positions. Find out more and take a quick screenshot tour on our website at http://www.irecruit-software.com/ or join a demo on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 2pm. Call iRecruit at 1-800-517-9099 if you have any questions.
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