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Blog Post: The Beauty and Benefits of Gig Economy Jobs: Recent statistics from StandOut CV have estimated that around 1.7 million workers make up the UK gig economy…; Added by Alicia Walker at 3:44am on July 9, 2024

Blog Post: Is “Be Our Guest” Really the New Employment Paradigm?

You’re looking for exceptional candidates who have either just…

Added by Randy Levinson at 11:56pm on March 6, 2016

Topic: 5 Symptoms of Applicant Tracking Software Disease: f resumes efficiently is a huge lifeline to hiring professionals, allowing them to institute more efficient and better-directed processes. However, like any computer program, an applicant tracking system can become weak, infected and outdated over time. The job market is changing, along with the expectations from both employers and candidates. To meet shifting demands, hiring experts need advanced tools designed to meet today’s challenges while finding opportunities to make more and better candidate matches. Consider whether your current recruitment system is at risk by looking for these five symptoms. 1. Your matches have no pulse “Tools that draw on artificial intelligence enable smarter, faster decisions.” Applicant tracking systems are designed to pick out keywords, ranking candidates on the basis of the skills and experience they have listed on their resumes. While this approach is far more efficient than searching through each document by hand, it also has limitations. If you’re having trouble finding people who possess the right combination of education and on-the-job background in the field, the next generation of staffing software may be the cure. Tools that draw on artificial intelligence and machine learning enable smarter, faster decisions. Applying a broader range of criteria to your searches while drawing distinctions between the essential skills and the qualifications that you’d like to see in a candidate will reveal exciting possibilities for your next hire. 2. Scheduling new hires makes you fatigue Preparing calendars for employees across multiple sites can become a complex and difficult process for staffing professionals. For those who find themselves spending hours working out how to meet the needs of employers while also taking into account any requests for adjustments, new software may provide an answer. Auto-scheduling simplifies your workflow and maximizes worker utilization. 3. Employees suffer from tardiness Not every employee can be counted on to show up on time each day, and it’s important for hiring professionals to know if someone is missing hours. With enhanced visibility, you can find out when someone is consistently late due to a long commute or some other reason and take appropriate steps. A real-time mapping feature allows staffers and recruiters to check on the location of workers and ensure that they arrive at the worksite on time. 4. Hiring passive candidates gives you the fever Sometimes, a potential new hire is comfortable in a current position and not actively searching for a new one. It often takes extra effort to locate and place one of these individuals into a new role that fits his or her top-level background. However, software that’s specifically designed to aid a social recruiting strategy by discovering the best person for a job and getting in touch keeps this process running far more smoothly without an uncontrollable change in body temperature. 5. Payroll and compliance headaches When it comes to managing temporary and contingent labor, hiring professionals may find themselves with a heavy migraine. It’s a heavy load of responsibility to ensure all workers have the necessary training, they are not spending too much time in hazardous conditions and they promptly receive the correct payment. A system that erases the manual paperwork like Hiring Logistics in payroll and compliance frees up hiring professionals to focus on their other important duties.…; Added by Kevin Ko at 4:01pm on July 5, 2017

Comment on: Topic 'Recruiting Scientists News': rved to highlight what a fantastic resource we have here in Wales. Welsh coal can provide affordable and reliable energy for years to come, helping to prevent over reliance upon imported fuels. With carbon capture and storage promising to become a reality in the near future, Welsh coal could be crucial to keeping the nation’s lights on. The Welsh mining industry also provides highly-skilled and well-paid employment to thousands of people. We at Celtic Energy alone employ 290 people, with countless jobs then provided through contractors and in local shops where our employees spend their wages. At a time when the economy is under severe pressure, mining has the capacity to grow, helping to deliver prosperity to communities across South Wales. The UK needs a mix of energy sources. Gas and renewable energy also have roles to play. But with energy supply looking like one of the major issues of the 21st century, what is clear is that Welsh coal can and must have a vital role to play in powering our homes and the economy. RICHARD WALTERS Managing director, Celtic Energy, Caerphilly Energy dangers SIR – With 80% of Russian gas exports to the EU crossing Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s decision to reduce gas exported to Ukraine highlights the dangers of relying on imported energy. Russia has declining cash reserves and its economy is heavily reliant on its trade in gas, yet the risk of shortages because of Mr Putin’s geopolitical games is something we can all do without. Other countries manage to insure themselves against external shocks to their energy needs; while the UK’s market- driven approach has proven entirely inadequate. The New Labour Government has taken a decade to recognise the need to increase storage capacity – France can store 122 days of gas, Germany 99 and the UK only 15 days. Westminster and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should work with the Irish Government to make these islands entirely self-sufficient, via renewable non-market- driven energy resources. JONATHAN T CLARK Plaid Cymru, Monmouth Constituency, Westminster Parliamentary Candidate Nuclear puzzle SIR – On the issue of nuclear waste storage, two of your readers (Letters, Dec 23) seek to assure us that everything is OK and perfectly tickety-boo, as all the highly-toxic nuclear waste we have produced up until now is “safely stored in specialised containers in deep caverns”. Phew, no need to worry then. That must however mean that the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management isn’t correct in stating that the only geological disposal facility in the world is in the US and that it only takes US defence-related waste? It’s also not correct then that most of the UK’s nuclear waste is distributed among numerous surface storage tanks, with most of it stashed at the Sellafield site? Perhaps they’ve got the problem sorted in France, as one of the letters confidently predicts? Maybe non! They still haven’t found a permanent home for their growing pile of highly radioactive waste either. The waste sits in heavily guarded storage at nuclear company Areva’s La Hague reprocessing plant in Normandy. So how much would a high-level geological disposal facility in the UK cost? Estimates are currently around £12bn for one facility but a discussion paper produced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change indicates a second cannot be ruled out. That’s on top of the £73bn that the National Audit Office estimates it would cost to decommission the UK’s existing ageing nuclear power stations, never mind building a new load. Perhaps we should start a whip-round! BLEDDYN LAKE Bathford, Bath Cultural chance SIR – Following the success (several years ago) of Scotland’s second city (Glasgow) being the European Capital of Culture, and last year’s success of Liverpool doing the same thing for England, isn’t it time that Wales followed suit? There is so much going on in the www.swansea2020.com campaign, that I think it is the ideal time for our second city to show its hand and apply for the honour. I did hear a rumour that Cardiff had already applied, but isn’t it the case that a country’s capital city is exempt? PETER JONES Battersea, London Woolies memories SIR – I am putting together a manuscript, hopefully for publication, regarding Woolworths stores. This is planned to be a social history of this famous name, which unfortunately is no longer with us. Everybody has a story to tell regarding Woolies and I would like to invite recollections from former staff members and shoppers alike from any UK store for inclusion in the book. Photographs taken of the inside and outside of the shops, especially in former years, would be most useful, especially during the 1960s and beyond when each department had its own counter and cash till. So if you were a Saturday girl or regular member of staff or a shopper who can recall their days in Woolworths, then please send or e-mail your memories and/or photographs (which will be carefully handled and returned). DEREK PHILLIPS Whitcross, Barwick, Somerset, BA22 9TQ or email: derekphillips507@googlemail.com Morally insane SIR – Stuart Walters in his letter (Dec 31) said that the Welsh were sensitive about jokes made about them and they should shrug them off. He did not explain for what purpose or why the English, and no-one else, make denigrating jokes about the Welsh. Some of his list of what was wrong with the Welsh “nationalist” (which he could not describe as Quislings, traitors, fifth columnist etc) were: “Never lived out or worked outside the country, obsessed with cultural and national identity, no sense of humour, suspicious villagers distrustful of outsiders, babbling an incomprehensible language” – which shows how some English monoglots have been neutered from understanding the language that they use. It is ironic that some clowns say that we should be proud of being “British”, when the Welsh are kept legally deprived and inferior in their own country in order to make the English the master race in Wales. History has shown that those who have laws for others which they would not have for themselves are judged by history to be morally insane. RT JONES Penygroes, Gwynedd Disability muddle SIR – The Government’s proposal to make people on disability benefit work for it is ludicrous. Much like their proposal to pay individuals and companies up to £50,000 to employ one person on disability is unworkable. Being on disability allowance myself, I recently applied for help to get back into work at my local Jobcentre (Neath) and was told that I would have to wait five weeks to see a (disability to work) adviser, as they only employed one adviser part time. NIGEL BILLS Swansea Global warning SIR – A regular reader of these letters pages might be led to believe that the recent cold spell casts doubt on the science of climate change. It does not. According to the Met Office, the global temperature for 2000 to 2008 now stands almost 0.20°C warmer than the average for the decade 1990-1999. As carbon dioxide levels have risen, so have global temperatures. The variations that occur from year to year are significantly influenced by the cooling (La Niña) and warming (El Niño) events in the tropical Pacific. Last year was, as predicted by the Met Office, cooler as a result of a strong La Niña, while 1998 was particularly warm as a result of a strong El Niño. The fact that 1998 is the warmest year on record does not mean that the world is cooling. Ten of the warmest years on record have, in fact, occurred since 1997. The trend is, as predicted by climate scientists, definitely upwards. Scientists have recently reported temperature rises of up to 50°C in the Arctic, with ice melting much faster than anticipated. The real concern today is that we are under-estimating the threat posed by climate change and failing to implement polices to address it. GORDON JAMES Friends of the Earth Cymru, Cardiff Costly windmills SIR – The Duke of Beaufort pockets more than £250,000 from Swansea ratepayers. All above board and legal and for a bridge that does bring some benefit to the city. But let us get this into perspective. This sum is chicken feed compared with what the Duke will get from us, via our electricity bills, if he is allowed to desecrate Mynydd y Gwair with his virtually useless windmills. ALUN JOHN RICHARDS Swansea…; Added by Melissa Furtwengler to Wanted Scientists, Energy experts, Engineers at 10:16am on January 12, 2009

Blog Post: Big 3 Recruiting Mistakes: Even in this market some operations are having a hard time attracting talent. If this is you I am going to share with you the Big 3 reasons why you might not be attracting the talent you are hoping…; Added by Corey Harlock at 11:51am on January 18, 2010

Blog Post: Does Your CQ match Your EQ? Who Cares?: Tonight, on #hrhappyhour @SteveBose and @HR_Minion hosted, and Grant McCracken appeared. This post is not about him, nor is it about his book Chief Culture Officer. He was an intelligent, and…; Added by Margo Rose at 12:32am on January 29, 2010

Blog Post: Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics: Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired…; Added by Dmitry at 8:50pm on November 20, 2009

Blog Post: How to Get a Better Commute: In the last two years, both work and fashion have changed. Together, it would seem unsurprising that workwear has also changed. Previous attire codes and workplace inflexibility have been…; Added by Adam Johnson at 11:35am on April 28, 2022

Blog Post: Sustainability – An Employer Must in 2020

Back in 2015, representatives from nations all around the world met to sign an initiative that would help combat the damaging effects of climate change.

This very first globally collective…

Added by Caitlin Purvis at 11:31am on October 5, 2020

Blog Post: Stop the Snooze: Benefits of Working Out in the Morning: There is no denying that exercising works wonders for our wellbeing. Going for a jog, lifting a couple of weights or enjoying a yoga class are all activities that can actively help keep our…; Added by Jake Holyoak at 10:22am on June 28, 2022