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Social Media – 6 Rules for engaging passive candidates
While there are literally hundreds of social networking tools available, using them to craft a solid strategy to precisely pinpoint and truly engage passive candidates requires persistence, patience, and an understanding of six classic rules of engagement, described in more detail below: First and foremost, think like the passive job candidate Don’t ever stalk community … Continue reading
Professionals and Job Search – 75 percent of professionals identify themselves as passive candidates finds ERE
We recently completed our largest survey to date on job seeking (more than 18,000 professionals in 26 countries) to shed light on the workforce’s attitude toward job satisfaction, new opportunities, and career evaluation. We discovered that while 75 percent of professionals identify themselves as passive candidates, only 15 percent are “super passives,” or folks who … Continue reading
Quirky interview questions / A bad hiring practice hitting female candidates
Such hiring practices also disadvantage women. They hurt the employer by limiting the talent pool. They fortify the male dominated frat-boy culture that Silicon Valley is increasingly being criticized for. Telle Whitney, CEO of Anita Borg Institute, which is working on getting more women to study computer science and have more women fully engaged in … Continue reading
Bullying in the Workplace / It costs a lot
According to a new report prepared by consulting firm Executive Confidante, workplace bullying is costing organizations worldwide millions of dollars in turnover, absenteeism, decreased productivity, retaliation, and more. The report, Bullying Bosses: A Full Cost Accounting, provides an extensive summary of the available research, helping organizations see the true costs of turning a blind eye … Continue reading
It’s great to be the boss pool finds
It pays to be the boss, in more ways than one Continue reading
Google / The Objectives and Key Results Ranking System (OKR)
When Google was less than a year old, John Doerr, one of its investors, made a presentation pitching the company on using a organizational system called Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs. The OKR system came from Intel. Google took to OKRs pretty much immediately and has been using it ever since.OKRs are a simple … Continue reading
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge, skills, and abilities (aka KSAs) are three different things. And it’s important to know the difference – even though the difference can be subtle. Knowledge is the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. For example, an employee might have knowledge of the ADDIE model used in instructional design. This doesn’t mean the employee … Continue reading
US / The 5.6 M working in HR and Recruitment
the Bureau of Labor statistics report from 2010 that there are 5.6 million professionals in the United States who work in HR Continue reading
Google+ / A Recruiter’s Advantage
Most likely you’re already using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, but what many recruiters don’t know is that Google+ is starting to make an impact Continue reading
Hiring in India / Job portals are the most popular
Print media has lost its popularity as a preferred hiring channel and there is a heavy reliance on job portals who account for a majority of the overall hiring among Indian organisations, a survey says. According to a People Matters-CareerBuilder survey, among the channels used by Indian recruiting organisations, 82 per cent of Indian employers … Continue reading
Older employees have lower health risks study finds
Despite being twice as old as those in their 30s, 60 year-old employees have lower health risks, findings from PruHealth suggest Continue reading
Go to Sleep / Roughly thirty percent of working Americans survive on less than six hours of unconscious rest a day
The two largest time commitments for most adults on this planet — sleep and work — too often make uneasy bedfellows. The proliferation of nonstandard work schedules and, for many, the outright abandonment of schedules have made traditional daytime-weekday patterns less common. Continue reading
Job Searchers vs Recruiters / A widening gap finds DeVry University’s study
Seventy-two percent of job seekers are confident they know how to present their skills and experience. Yet, just 15 percent of hiring managers say nearly all or most job seekers have the skills and traits their companies are looking for Continue reading
Working At Google / It’s hard when it’s standard to be awesome
It’s hard to get promoted quickly, since the person above you as well as at your level both have great educations and strong work ethics Continue reading
Job Search with Mobile Devices / 30% of Simply Hired Traffic
A new Simply Hired® study details how people are using mobile devices in their job search. The analysis crunches data on more than 30 million job seekers to deliver new insight into how and why people are using mobile devices as compared to traditional online job search. The data paints a new picture of the mobile … Continue reading
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