Candidate Sourcing
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Inaugural Virtual Career Fair for Veterans Gets a Salute from Employers
Chicago-based energy provider Exelon was among the 24 companies across the United States that participated in the October event. About 1,100 veterans visited Exelon during the job fair, 205 of whom were in states where Exelon has openings.
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Social Referrals Could Be the Best Hire Money Can Buy
Recruiters across industries know that referrals generally deliver the best candidates, and now thanks to social media sites, they are cheaper and easier to find.
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Recruiting Software Goes Social
Over the past several months, software vendors across the industry have announced social-recruiting releases and acquisitions.
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Screen Savior
In the quest for the perfect candidate, many companies rely too much on software to weed out applicants, experts say. It could be one reason qualified candidates are being overlooked for good jobs.
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Awarding Companies for Engaging Candidates
In 2011, the TalentBoard, a San Francisco not-for-profit founded by talent management experts, released its first set of Candidate Experience Awards, recognizing companies with model recruiting programs, and the board is in the process of selecting a second set of winners for 2012.
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Multiskilled Web Designers Flying High on Recruiters' Radar
With the national unemployment rate for Web designers at just 3 percent, demand for their skills in animation, graphics, social media, apps design and video is at an all-time high, says one staffing firm executive.
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Survey: Workforce Strategy Not a Priority
About 78 percent of employers lack a workforce strategy to garner hard-to-find talent, according to the survey conducted by the ManpowerGroup's Strategic Workforce Consulting business.
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For GM, a Different Kind of Worker
Until now, in recent decades, General Motors has peopled its new factories mostly from banks of laid-off workers and employee transfers from other locations. GM is now forecasting enough manufacturing expansion to require large-scale employee recruitment.
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'Cool' Factor a Key to Manufacturing's People Pipeline
A recent study finds that while 86 percent of adults agree manufacturing is important for the country, only one-third would encourage their children to pursue manufacturing careers.
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Companies Find Fruitful Results When Hiring Autistic Workers
It's not a charity program, one executive cautions. And supervisor buy-in is crucial. But workers with autism can provide a dedicated, focused workforce in the right setting.
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Making the Business Case for Hiring Autistic Workers
One advocate did a year's worth of homework before presenting the economic benefits to the board of her company.
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Special Report on RPO: An Improving Economy, In-House Recruiting Cuts Are Driving Demand
'Companies want flexibility. RPO provides that flexibility and not the fixed cost of a permanent recruiting department,' says Rajesh Ranjan, a vice president at Everest Group, a consultancy.
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RPO Goes Global
'It's very difficult to find the talent needed, so companies need to look globally for people,' says Kate Donovan, managing director of ManpowerGroup Solutions.
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Search for the Perfect Job Candidate an Imperfect Strategy
In many cases, 'good enough' is just fine; an over-reliance on software programs for job applicants also can weed out highly qualified hopefuls because the qualifications are unrealistic or simply not needed for the positions.
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Tech Firms Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit
Agreements made between companies that restrict competition between their employees may violate antitrust laws.
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LinkedIn Tops Social Sites for Recruiting: Report
Seventy-seven percent of job openings are shared on LinkedIn, followed by Twitter at 54 percent. Facebook came in third with 25 percent.
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Veterans Unprepared for Career Transition, Report States
Just 29 percent of veterans were confident about finding work that suited them, notes a May index released by Monster, down from 44 percent in November.
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Manufacturing Firms Scour Schools, Military for Future Workforce
Enticing newcomers into the field often means teaming up with community colleges to offer training programs while some manufacturers are turning to military veterans to fill the void.
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Alternative Recruiting Strategies Employed by Companies Vying for Top Tech Talent
One company has taken its guerrilla recruitment beyond mere social media with its popular Code Foo challenge—a 'no résumés allowed' recruitment program aimed at finding extraordinary coding talent regardless of educational background, college degree or experience.
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Code Foo Challenge Punches a Hole Through Résumés
The six-week program hires coders based on skill, passion and eagerness to learn rather than résumé and experience.
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Monster Posts Sale Signs as Numbers Continue to Tumble
Assault from niche boards and social sites are gobbling up bigger bites of the once-mighty job board industry.
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Auto Dealer Finds Recruiting Success by Offering Workers 'Bounty' to Bring in Talent
For dealer Frank Allocca, finding service technicians is not a problem.
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Great Expectations: Survey Finds New Grads Have High Hopes on First Job
Despite spending most of their college years at the depths of the Great Recession, new graduates have high expectations of their earning power. About 40 percent said they expect a starting salary of $50,000 to $75,000 for their first job out of college.
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Survey: 37% Use Social Media to Check Candidates
Thirty-four percent of hiring managers and human resources professionals said they found information on social media that caused them not to hire a candidate.
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Median Salary for Grads Climbs 4.5 Percent
Graduates earning math and science degree received a median salary of $40,939, up 2.5 percent from the previous year. Computer sciences grads' starting salaries rose to $56,383, up 2.4 percent.
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Manpower Survey: Filling Key Roles More Difficult This Year
Some 27 percent of firms reported they 'often' find it hard to fill key positions, compared to 23 percent a year ago.
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Military Veterans Finding a Niche Among Auto Dealers
Not only can dealers get one-time tax credits ranging from $2,400 to $9,600 for hiring veterans, but recruiters and dealers say many veterans have attributes that make them strong job candidates.
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Colorado Auto Dealers' Recruiting Plight Reflects National Trend
Across the country, dealers face a similar challenge, especially in attracting young people who embrace technology. Dealers want experienced or educated people who want a career in the auto industry.
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Hiring Plans Forecast to Reach 2008 Levels
Hiring plans of U.S. employers for the second quarter are the highest since 2008, according to the new employment outlook survey released today by ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), one of the world's largest staffing firms.
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New York City Ordered to Pay $128M to Minority Firefighter Applicants
The lawsuit originally was filed in 2007. In July 2009, Judge Garaufis ruled that the New York City Fire Department's reliance on two written exams constituted employment discrimination against minorities in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Labor Department Guide Helps Women Find Green Jobs
The guide focuses on helping workers learn about a range of in-demand and emerging jobs, as well as job training opportunities and career development tools, the agency said.
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Why Sears is Going the Extra Mile to Recruit Veterans
An interview with Christina Dibble, a program manager for military talent acquisition for Sears Holdings Corp.
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Facebook: The New Recruit in the Recruiting Game
Watch out LinkedIn: a raft of new recruiting apps help companies better scout for talent from inside Facebook, the 800 million member social network.
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Surveys Focus on Veterans' Employment
A CareerBuilder survey found that 20 percent of employers plan to actively recruit U.S. veterans over the next 12 months while a separate survey by Monster.com found that 69 percent of firms found that veterans perform their job functions 'much better' than non-veterans.
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Returning Veterans Unarmed for Job Searches
Face long odds in finding employment; have trouble translating their experience into work skills.
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Tech Tools for Hiring Disabled Candidates
Here are some handy tools when considering hiring disabled workers.
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Experts Still Warn to Beware of Information from Social Media when Hiring
There is 'so much information that's available out there' that the employer has to filter out the information to be sure it does not learn about issues it should not know about, such as religion and politics, panel contends.
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New Tool Gauges Cost Benefits When Hiring Disabled Workers
The tool focuses on three federal tax incentive programs: the Work Opportunity Credit, which can provide a maximum $2,400 tax credit; the Disabled Access Credit, which helps small businesses defray the cost of providing special equipment; and the Architectural Barrier Removal Tax Deduction, which...
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Building a Sales Team Starts With the First Impression
Success is the bottom line, but before the first call, experts say look at a candidate's appearance and pay attention to your initial reaction. Once they're on the team, train, train and train some more.
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Almost Half of All New Doctors Get 100 Job Offers
Despite the favorable job market, some new doctors are unhappy about their choice of profession. The survey found that 28 percent said they would select another field if they had to do their education over again.
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Trader Scandal May Hamstring UBS' Recruiting
The $2.3 billion loss the London-based trader allegedly managed to accumulate will make things difficult for the bank's wealth management business, recruiters said.
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Contingent Labor Contracts: Do It Right, Save Millions; Do It Wrong, Spend Millions
As the labor market becomes more global, contingent workforces will become even more strategic to an organization’s operations, thereby driving increased flexibility and the need for proactive management and automation.
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Jobs' Hush-Hush Succession Plan Unveiled as Apple CEO Steps Down
Tim Cook, who took over Apple’s day-to-day operations after Steve Jobs went on his third leave of absence because of ongoing health problems, gets Jobs’ recommendation for the company’s top post.
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New Tools Cast a Wider Social Network for Recruiters
With the launch of BranchOut in July 2010 and BeKnown and Google Plus, which made their debuts in June, recruiters are trying to decide how to best use a dizzying array of tools to find top talent.
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Qualified Applicant Pool Fills Fast When Employers Use the Right Keywords
To increase a job’s likelihood of being noticed, HR practitioners must first research what keywords are commonly used as it relates to that position.
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Basic Chemistry? Paid Internships Tend to Yield Full-Time Jobs
A recent study found that over half of student interns returned to their employers for permanent positions.
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Headhunter Firm Taps Insider Trina Gordon for CEO
She succeeds Chris Clarke, who stepped down in December after 11 years with Boyden World Corp. The firm also named Gerhard Raisig to chairman from interim chairman and managing partner of Boyden Germany.
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Marriott Hopes to Win With Facebook Game
The novel interactive game, called My Marriott Hotel, was born out of the mega-hospitality corporation’s quest to fill 50,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2011.
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Job Market Slowly Easing as College Grads Trade Books for Briefcases
Google, like thousands of companies both large and small, is finding their ‘great people’ on college campuses nationwide in bigger numbers than in the past two years, career counselors say. Certainly the recession hit hard across all campuses but the uptick in hiring has been noticeable, they add.
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Aon Alleges Employee, Client Poaching by Another Firm
In a chancery suit filed June 15 in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, Aon Risk Services Cos. Inc. and Aon Risk Insurance Services West Inc. alleged that the former executives violated their employment agreements with Aon.
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Where to Draw the Line on Revealing Who's Next in Line
Retention is the main advantage of telling potential successors they're on the fast track.
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Companies Look to Capitalize on Viral Voices
Thanks in part to the explosion of social media, more employers are capitalizing on the credibility and power of employee word-of-mouth.
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Financial Firms Looking to Hire, but Candidates Lack Key Skills
There’s growing frustration over prospective hires’ professionalism, honesty and compensation demands; managers also see a ‘deficient passion for the industry.’
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NASA's Mission: Launching More Young Careers
Because of a big recruitment surge in the mid-1980s, followed by a hiring freeze lasting through most of the 1990s, the average employee age at NASA exceeded 47 by 2007 and less than 20 percent of the federal agency’s workers were under 40.
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Survey Shows Talent Shortage Grows Despite High Unemployment
The annual Talent Shortage Survey shows that 52 percent of U.S. employers are experiencing difficulty filling key positions within their organizations, up from 14 percent in 2010.
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Richard as 'Rick' or 'Dick': One Charming, the Other Cantankerous
Nicknames also can play a role in personality traits. The full name may be a signal of formality, while a nickname offers a different side of that person.
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It's No Game When Screening Résumés by a Name
Although most recruiters aren't formally trained in onomatology, studies have shown that—consciously or not—candidates are sometimes assessed on the basis of a name.
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Is There a Bias Against Hiring the Jobless?
Experts contend that employers increasingly discriminate against jobless Americans in hiring decisions, and such practices could violate equal opportunity laws.
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Five Things to Consider When Developing a Social Media Strategy
HR managers can help their organizations utilize these sites while mitigating risk by creating a detailed policy for employees to follow and giving them the training they need to use the sites correctly.
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Home Improvement Retailers Staff Up for Their Holiday Season
As the snow melts and days get longer, the home improvement bug hits homeowners every spring, which in turn spurs retailers such as the Home Depot and Lowe’s to go on a seasonal hiring binge as customers mend broken fences, and spruce up their lawns and gardens.
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Proper Planning Can Make Summer Internships a Warm Experience
As their host employer, there is one simple thing you can do to assist them with this transition and in turn benefit from a more engaged and productive intern: commit to conducting an effective onboarding and orientation plan.
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McDonald's Announces Plans to Hire 50,000 People
While the campaign’s primary goal is to change the perception of working at McDonald’s and recruit prospective employees, it comes at a time when more marketers, including the likes of Pizza Hut, Overstock.
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Four HR Skills Critical in Turning Around a Crappy Culture
If creating or fixing a company culture that delivers true employee experience were easy, everyone would be doing it. It’s hard, and it requires the commitment of your C-level executives and HR pros who can do more than process transactions or plan the next company outing.
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Niche Sites Gain Monster-Sized Following
Today, some 100,000 Internet job boards vie for listings and résumés, double the number in 2000, and the job specific nature of the websites is becoming even more granular.
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Who Knows What Talent Lurks in the Heart of the Web?
Part sleuth, part stalker, sourcers are researchers who use both traditional means to find job candidates and more unconventional ways, such as social media networking.
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Coca-Cola Division Refreshes Its Talent With Diversity Push on Campus
Hired during the spring of their senior year, Coca-Cola Refreshments' new hires, who are known as 'leadership associates,' can specialize in human resources, business, sales, supply chain, or finance.
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Not-for-Profits Woo Veteran Executives
As executives are laid off or choose to leave the corporate world, not-for-profit organizations are taking advantage of a rare opportunity to snap up some of the best talent to be had.
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U.S. Automakers Comb Colleges to Engineer Industry's Future
General Motors and Chrysler commit to hiring 1,000 engineers apiece, but the finding and managing that talent will come at a steep price.
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Virtual Job Fairs Becoming More of a Reality
For job seekers, virtual career fairs are appealing because they’re a way to get your foot in the door without having to walk out the door.
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Edward Jones Sets Aggressive Targets for Hiring New Reps
With the brokerage business finally returning to normal, its 2011 recruitment drive could be a tough slog. The recruiting environment has gotten far more difficult as the worst of the financial crisis fades into memory.
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Companies Again Giving It the Old College Try
Campus recruiting for both internships and full-time positions is on the rise at top MBA programs, and students such as French face a much friendlier job market than those who graduated in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.
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Social Recruiting Survey
The survey was answered by 265 recruiters and recruiting managers and 134 senior recruiting officials.
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5 Questions With Erich Origen Super Powers and the Powers That Be
The co-author of The Adventures of Unemployed Man wrote the graphic novel with Gan Golan to satirize today’s economy and corporate work world—including the role of HR.
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LinkedIn Referral Policies Could Raise Legal Rift
LinkedIn recommendations are a Catch-22 for companies: preventing employees from writing them could lead to dissent but allowing them raises legal concerns.
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Study: Insurance Industry More Optimistic About Hiring
Of the top reasons given for anticipated staff increases during the next year, 30 percent cited business expansion, 26 percent cited anticipated increases in volume and 23 percent said they are understaffed.
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Goin' Mobile
In today’s high-tech world, recruiting is a 24/7 proposition. Mobile apps are helping recruiters stay ahead of the game and keep movin’ toward the best candidates.
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Tire Maker Looking for a Few Good Students—1,500 or So
Continental plans to recruit primarily engineering and natural science majors as well as some graduates in business and economics.
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Small Banks Make Change in Layout, Job Descriptions
Many financial institutions have changed their hiring and training practices. At Bank of Georgetown in Washington, D.C., the teller window has been replaced with desks and comfortable chairs for customers. And all branch employees are known as customer service representatives.
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The Bait Debate
While some folks are hooked on using social media for getting top recruits to bite, others say the concept is overhyped and old-fashioned methods still reel in the best candidates.
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Despite the Downturn, Infosys Focuses on Full-Time Staff for the Long Term
The decision to honor hiring commitments made to thousands of new college graduates and to avoid layoffs of existing staff stems largely from the company’s goal to be an employer of choice over the long haul.
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Firms Tally the Value in Values-Based Recruiting
The philosophy of corporate culture as a source of competitive advantage—along with a defined mission and adherence to values—has existed for several decades. Yet many companies have struggled to implement these concepts and create mission statements or value propositions to just hang on a wall.
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Ad Firm Turns to Twitter for Intern Applications
The shop moved the application process onto Twitter to demonstrate that it’s thinking about the marketing world through a digital and social media lens, the agency said.
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Stark Surroundings, Specialized Industry a Challenge to Texas Firm's Recruiters
B&W Pantex recruiters had to convince candidates that there is a bright future in the rather unglamorous field of nuclear weapons storage, and that living in the dusty, remote panhandle of Texas is a destination rather than a career stopover.
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Employee Referrals Remain a Recruiters Best Friend
Companies continue the push to make current employees their top source of new talent.
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Recruiters May Not Get What They Seek When Screening Candidates
Here's the Catch-22 about checking credit: An applicant who has been unemployed for months may have no choice but to rack up debt and fall behind in paying bills.
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A Need for Speed as 'Fast HR' Catches On
A budding movement calls on organizations to accelerate people management to match the pace of the business world.
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Recruiters and Their Résumés: How Do They Sort Through Them All?
Despite the daunting figures from a recent survey, recruiters insist they try to carefully review most, if not all, of the résumés they receive. What's the main thing that draws a recruiter's attention? Proof that they can do the job.
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Recruiters Look to Be Big Man on Campus
Employers try to put the best face on their organization as they recruit on campus this fall in search of fresh talent.
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H(app)y Days
As the smart phone market heats up, mobile apps are spicing up the HR industry with tantalizing options.
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Survey Up to 25 Applications Reviewed Per Job
Thirty-eight percent of human resource managers said they spend less than a minute reviewing a resume, and 18 percent said they spend less than 30 seconds.
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Tips for Fast Hiring Turnaround
The author shares ideas for quick staffing, including use of social media.
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Social Networking Proves a Savior in Staffing 'Pop-Up' Store
Commentary: One of the biggest challenges of pop-up stores—outlets that open for a few peak weeks or months and then fade away—is staffing them quickly, and my store was no exception. In my desperation, however, I discovered the power of social networking. For me, Facebook saved the day.
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Staffing Firms Still Getting Work Despite Push for Federal Insourcing
Citing the rise in federal contract spending to more than $500 billion in 2008, the Obama administration issued a memorandum to all federal executive departments and agencies in March 2009.
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Employers Are Still 'in the Driver's Seat' on Pay and Benefits
An entrepreneur might want to hire more employees but would rather not incur the expense of additional salaries. That seems like an either/or proposition, but some are finding that they can have it both ways thanks to an unlikely ally—the recession.
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Government Hiring May Be Moving to the Fast Lane
Aside from the problem of defining inherently governmental functions, the difficulty with returning jobs to civil servants is that there aren’t nearly enough of them.
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For Startups, Often the Only Option in a Recession Is to Keep on Hiring
Hiring a team can be a perilous process for recent startups because they don't have a track record to rely on in projecting either the revenue needed to pay new employees or the business demand that the additional hires would help meet.
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Hiring an All-Star Employee Can Involve Tightening Your Own Belt
With unemployment still high, the job market is loaded with candidates, including plenty of blue-chip prospects, to tempt CEOs who may or may not be able to afford them.
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Small Businesses Are Being Touted as the New Job-Growth Engine
Those who sense opportunity in the marketplace now also realize that there will be intense competition to capitalize on it. This is good news for job seekers, because some small businesses are beginning to hire again.
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How Many Round Pegs Do You Need
In today's flooded talent market, small shifts in hiring strategy can strengthen teams, anticipate growth and mitigate departmental weaknesses.
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Company Believes It Has Cracked the Code on Millennials Job-Seeking Habits
Part job board and part social network, Bay Area-based Koda is built on the premise that Millennials are Internet-savvy social animals who’d rather bookmark one online destination for scanning open positions and swapping job-hunting stories than troll individual company career centers or, God...
