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Beyond.com Buys Job Board, Career Fair Operator
Beyond.com acquired Human Capital Solutions LLC, which does business as JobCircle.com, a job board that serves the mid-Atlantic area and has more than 1.3 million registered members.
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Younger Workers Taking a Pass on Taking Over the Business
So-called NextGen financial advisers are reluctant to buy into the business. The trend is potentially troublesome for owners of financial advisory firms who have been banking on selling their businesses to junior advisers.
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Michigan Bill Aims to Keep Businesses From Seeking Online Passwords
The bill would outlaw the practice of employers requiring prospective hires to turn over their passwords to social networking sites as a condition of employment. It also pertains to educational institutions and prospective students.
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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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Facebook Launches Social Jobs App
The app provides a central location where recruiters post open positions sorted by industry, location and skills. The app launched yesterday with more than 1.7 million employment opportunities provided by BranchOut, DirectEmployers, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com.
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Robert Half Survey: Shopping at Work OK
Thirty-three percent of chief information officers said their companies block access to online shopping sites, down from 60 percent last year.
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Facebook the Preferred Social Media Choice for Job-Seekers
A new Jobvite survey found that 52 percent of job seekers used Facebook to help find a job in 2012, up from 48 percent in 2011.
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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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The Last Word: Taking the Road Less Traveled—to Work
It's hard to believe, but a Deloitte study notes that 46 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds would choose Internet access over owning a car.
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Study: Generational Job Seekers Not Using All Their Tools
Recruiters take note: Baby boomers, Gen X and millennials are spending almost all their time job searching online instead of offline. Boomers turn to LinkedIn first, while Gen X and millennials are first using Google and Google Plus.
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Crain Buys Stake in Internet Week New York
Crain Communications Inc. expands its Web presence by taking over the management of the weeklong festival featuring the best of the Web.
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Move Over, Millennials
When many people envision digital startups, they think of young, would-be Mark Zuckerbergs in hoodies and T-shirts spending late nights coding at a company with a name that's missing a vowel. There is, however, a small but growing number of over-forties trying their hand at Web 2.0 entrepreneurship.
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Journalism School Grads Turn to Startup Scene
There's a small but growing number of recent journalism-school graduates who are eschewing conventional career paths to newspapers, magazines and even internships and choosing instead to launch their own digital startups.
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76% of IT Decision-Makers Predict Cloud Applications Will Be Breached
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Take This Job and Love It: Financial Planners, HR Leaders Rank as Top 5 Jobs
At an average midcareer salary of $104,000, financial planners out-earn the rest of the top 10 professions. Those in HR leadership positions average just over $99,000.
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Study: Internal Sites, Referrals Key to Finding New Hires
A new study finds nearly two-thirds of recent hires actually found their positions through such internal sources as company career sites and referrals.
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How to Find the Right IT Help
Is outsourcing your IT upkeep right for your company—and if so, how can you find the right consultant? Here are some key questions to consider.
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Gen Y Execs Shake Up Office Culture
Young, tech-savvy CEOs are transforming the workplace at New York startups.
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Teleworking Has Come a Long Way for Workers
National Telework Week, slated to start Monday, recognizes the financial and employee retention benefits of working remotely.
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Siri Says: It's Time to Get to Work
As companies warm up to Apple's voice-controlled assistant, apps are appearing on iTunes, and rival software from Google and Microsoft are in the works.
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Five Ways to Use Siri at Work
The iPhone 4S voice-activated assistant can make calls, schedule appointments and a lot more.
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IT Employment Hits All-Time High
On an annual basis, IT jobs were up 3.4 percent in 2011, more than double the rate of growth that IT employment experienced in 2010 of 1.5 percent.
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Selling Cars Online Is More than a Typical Sales Job
Moving from the showroom to the Internet desk can be a tough transition for a salesperson. Internet car sales require a different skill set from showroom car sales. But if a salesperson succeeds, the payoff is sizable.
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Former Groupon Employees Countersue Over Contract Terms
The countersuit, filed Jan. 25, reveals an increasingly testy relationship between two high-profile Internet players: Google, the king of search advertising, based in Mountain View, California, and Chicago-based Groupon, the leader in the new online-advertising business with daily deals.
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Nurse's Wrongful Termination Based on Facebook Post May Proceed, District Court Rules
An employee's complaints about working conditions, even where made public such as on a Facebook post, may be protected by state law and form the grounds for wrongful discharge.
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2012 HR Technology Forecast
The new year will usher in more cloud-based apps, 'bring your own device' policies and merger and acquisition deals for tech vendors.
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HCM Vendor Scene Heats Up
Industry watchers predict a year of HR tech vendor deals in the wake of SAP's SuccessFactors acquisition.
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Retiring Minds Want to Know: Technology Helps Assess Retirement Benefits
Interactive online tools such as videos, chats and blogs designed to encourage employees to invest more than the default minimum in their 401(k) plans have become increasingly common.
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Survey: Crowd Sourcing a Second Job for Many
Crowd sourcing can involve breaking up a large task such as validating data or translation into many small tasks and farming them out to numerous workers online instead of hiring a single worker or small number of workers to do the single large task.
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Six Facebook Recruiting Apps
Use these tools to advertise job openings and mine the social network for prospects.
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Wealth After an IPO Can Cause Employees to Go
On an individual level, employees who have suddenly gone from Joe Blow to King Midas may have serious problems coping with the change. Experts call it ‘sudden wealth syndrome.'
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Is ‘Giganomics' the Future of Your Online Workforce?
Gigwalk is the latest entry in the slowly growing field of online labor exchanges. Services like this only may work well for certain kinds of jobs and tasks, but if the fit is right, it offers an opportunity for predictable and high-quality work.
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Employee Facebook Complaints Protected by NLRA
The NLRB has received an increasing number of charges related to social media in the past year, but this is the first case involving Facebook that resulted in an administrative law judge's decision after a hearing.
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ADP Acquisition of RightThing Bolsters Position in HR Software
Recent deals, rollout of new suite of products helping to bring the company out its traditional back-office operations.
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ADP Bets Big on HR Software by Adding Suite of Services
The traditional back-office service provider joins the likes of Oracle, SAP and SuccessFactors in a crowded HR management software field with the unveiling of Vantage HCM.
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Video Interviewing Cuts Costs, but Bias Worries Linger
One recruiter says that since incorporating online interviews she has cut spending from about $10,000 per search to roughly $500. Yet an employment lawyer advises clients to proceed with caution when using it.
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Security, Trust Are Among Top Concerns for Growing Mobile Workforce
Although telework is becoming commonplace in the corporate world—including in small and medium-size businesses—there are obstacles to conquer. These include management mistrust, worker isolation and data security.
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Securing a Virtual Workforce
Citrix Systems has avoided many of the pitfalls companies have faced with a remote workforce by implementing a solid plan.
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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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Unemployed Applicants in the Hiring Process: Ensuring Proper Treatment and Documentation
Suppose unemployed applicants charge that they were not hired because of their unemployment status. They could allege that, despite the absence of any written policy, hiring managers abide by an unwritten policy to exclude unemployed applicants.
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Tech Tools Add a Dose of Transparency to Cut Health Care Costs
As technology continues to mesh with medicine, industry leaders—especially Howard McClure—contend that transparency will cut costs while building a stronger, more responsive health care system.
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Many Firms Find Social Media Workplace Misuse Problematic Study
Of 120 employer respondents, 43.4 percent said social media network misuse has been an issue for them, and 31.3 percent said they have had to take disciplinary action against an employee because of misuse, according to the survey.
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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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Out of Site: Remote Possibilities
More employers are benefiting from a mobile workforce through improved productivity, increased employee satisfaction and reduced costs, but they also face new management challenges.
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Tips for Managing Mobile Workers
From collaboration to prepping the tech help desk at the home office, constant communication is the key to successfully managing a mobile workforce.
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Small, Midsize Firms Overlook Social Media Risks, Legal Experts Say
Small and midsize businesses rarely purchase social media coverage, several experts say. It’s usually the largest companies that purchase such protection.
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SuccessFactors Research Ties Performance Management to Stock Market Success
The report, based on 153 publicly traded SuccessFactors customers, is part of a growing body of research quantifying the link between particular people management practices and business results.
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Employers Ending the Paper Chase by Communicating Benefits Online
The days of distributing paper insurance contracts and summary plan descriptions are dying out as virtual fairs and quirky videos inform employees and their families about their benefits options.
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HR Tech Goes Social
Recruiting led the way. Now software for employee recognition, collaboration, even wellness is being integrated into Facebook and other online networks, or mimicking them behind the company firewall.
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HR Software Feels a Shift Following SuccessFactors, Lawson Deals
The moves signal the rise of publicly traded SuccessFactors as a comprehensive talent management technology provider while also ending Lawson's run as an independent vendor of human resources and other business software.
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Legal Experts Stress That Social Media Background Checks Create Risks
Performing an Internet search on a job applicant is akin to interviewing them, according to a lawyer who spoke at a session on social media at the annual Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. conference in Vancouver.
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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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Focusing on the Core
New players are shaking things up in the human resource management software world by challenging traditional ‘core HR’ powerhouses with systems that some say add functionality and, in many cases, cost less.
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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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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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Investment Advisers Fear Factor Spikes Amid SEC Social Media Sweep
Regulators’ ramped-up scrutiny regarding the use of social networking sites is seen as unsettling; ‘specific guidelines’ are sought.
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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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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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Settlement Reached in Firing Over Facebook Post
A Connecticut woman was fired in December 2009 after disagreements between her and her supervisor culminated in the woman’s posting of negative remarks about the supervisor on her personal Facebook page.
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Monitoring Communications Know Legal Pitfalls
Lawyers say case law is still developing in this area as courts struggle to adapt longstanding law to new technology with regard to employees’ expectations of privacy.
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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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Software as a Service May Ease Adoption of Online Employee Benefit Administration
Because of health care reform, companies will face increased reporting requirements, new regulations, changes to their benefits plans and other legislative demands that will create new challenges for their human resources personnel. A way to meet those demands is to move benefits management online.
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Companies Grapple With Viral Vents
A case filed with the NLRB has many employees and employers wondering what crosses the line when it comes to posting comments on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, especially when comments are made during off-hours and on an employee’s personal electronic device.
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Study Finds 90 Percent of Marketers Use Social Media for Professional Purposes
Those marketers use such social networking tools as Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and wikis for professional purposes.
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Electronic Misconduct What Liability Exists for Employers
A lawyer suggest steps employers should take to regulate workplace Internet access and avoid liability for failing to prevent its more egregious misuses.
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Spate of Acquisitions Cuts Across Talent Management Software Firms
The merger of software vendors can be a plus for customers in the form of a more financially stable supplier and superior products. It also can result in headaches as vendors steer clients to software they didn’t choose.
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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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Avoid These Hurdles to Adopting HR Mobile Apps
Companies must decide how they'll secure corporate data on mobile devices and integrate mobile apps with existing HR information technology infrastructure. If they're thinking of developing their own app, they must select an outside contractor to work with.
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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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A Game Plan for Networking
Rob Howard, founder and chief technology officer of Telligent, offers tips to help companies make their decision about establishing a corporate social networking site.
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Social Work
To satisfy employees' need to feel connected, a growing number of companies are developing their own social networks.
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Weighing the Risks of Social Networking
Doing research in advance and putting ground rules in place before launching a corporate social networking site can ease fears and minimize risks.
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E-Recruiting Software Providers
Listed in alphabetical order
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Innovation Contest Draws HR Tech Ideas
In a sign that people management is a priority these days, three of the 10 finalist entries in a business innovation contest co-sponsored by the Wharton School involve human resources.
