Featured Blog Posts – May 2014 Archive (74)

Happiness Vs Engagement

I recently gave a presentation on this topic as I often feel that much of the HR vernacular is always around employee engagement and should be much more about employee happiness. Now my written word is about as eloquent as a line backer ice skating but try to bear with me!

 

I asked the audience the question “Can you be…

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Added by Chris Bailey on May 22, 2014 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Actions have Consequences, choose wisely

The source for many of my posts over the years has been the local churches announcing their upcoming sermons for the Sunday services and this one is no different. Originally I thought about this in a different context but the events of the past week have changed my focus.

We are involved in an ever-changing world and these changes require that we change our focus and approaches in order to successfully deal with those changes.  They require us to change our corporate culture. Newton’s…

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Added by Daniel T. Bloom on May 22, 2014 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

The 5 Most Avoidable Hiring Mistakes

You’ll never hit the mark 100% of the time, but it is important to always look back and reflect on your hiring successes and failures to identify their common traits. We have been in the recruiting and hiring business for a while now and have identified some common hiring mistakes that are totally avoidable.

Stop hiring resumes and start hiring…

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Added by Sean Pomeroy on May 22, 2014 at 10:00am — No Comments

Should I Invest in Onboarding?

YES! A big, fat “yes” is the answer. Retention is such a powerful metric in business because of the ridiculously high cost of turnover. Retained employees represent a great return on the many investments that employers make on their workforce, and onboarding is a solid, yet often overlooked aspect of those investments.

According to a …

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Added by Raj Sheth on May 22, 2014 at 9:30am — No Comments

What’s Your Mobile Recruiting Strategy?

LinkedIn is always good for a survey on the latest recruiting and HR trends! Recently they polled 800 professionals and over 13,000 talent acquisition leaders to gauge the importance of mobile recruiting today.

I wasn’t surprised to see just how high…

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Added by Julie Salerno on May 22, 2014 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Why I Don't Connect With Other Recruiters on LinkedIn

Like almost every agency recruiter out there, I've been using LinkedIn for a while now. It has become an integral part of our business model here at Sun Recruiting and while we don't rely on it - it is certainly one of our more important tools. Back when I started using LinkedIn several years ago, I put some thought into how I wanted to use it. I understood how it worked and…

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Added by Adam Krueger on May 21, 2014 at 1:30pm — 17 Comments

Is Health Insurance Holding You Back from Getting the Best Employees?

Other than satisfactory salaries, employers also need to offer good employee benefits in order to attract and retain the best talent.

One of the types of employee benefits that are regarded as important by job seekers and employees is health insurance.

As the cost of health care continues to rise, it is becoming increasingly necessary for employees to…

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Added by Dave on May 21, 2014 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

Why Paying Employees More Is A Great Way To Save Money

An assembly line at a Ford plant. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

In 1914, Henry Ford did something dramatic, to the point it made headlines in newspapers across the country – he increased pay from $2.25 a day to $5 a day for his factory workers.

Not that the $5 was guaranteed. Workers got $2.25 daily and the other…

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Added by Paul Petrone on May 21, 2014 at 9:00am — 15 Comments

Jack of All Trades, Master of None

I’ve recently had a call from a good client of mine, asking if I was able to run a new training programme for them.

Sounds great doesn’t it? Well, ordinarily yes, but in this instance I wasn’t sure.

Like most people I love being asked to do more work for my clients, but the problem was that what they were asking for wasn’t really my main area of expertise.

It was something that I touch on in other courses…

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Added by james nathan on May 21, 2014 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

What is Monster doing now? And will it work?

Once, in a world far, far away (i.e., the 1990s), Monster beat its chest and claimed to be the biggest and best source for online jobs in the world, bar none.

Then, last week, Monster - diminished, no longer for sale, and facing significant declines in revenue - once again beat its chest and said that it would…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on May 20, 2014 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

Amazon Has the Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Service - Can it Keep the Lead?

After experiencing rising stock prices for the past 5 years, Amazon shares decreased 21% in 2014, according to Yahoo!…

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Added by Ashley Zito Rowe on May 20, 2014 at 9:30am — No Comments

Big Recruiting Conventions: Good for Recruiters?

PROBLEM:

Most major recruiting conventions aren't for regular, workaday recruiters like US.

I've been to a few major recruiting conventions (and was even a panelist at one), but not many. Most of the people there seemed to be mainly senior corporate, staffing and recruiting professionals, aka, THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE AND OVERSEE THE PROBLEMS THAT WE IN RECRUITING AND HAVE TO SOLVE. Their companies paid thousands of dollars (if you include travel and accommodations) to be…

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Added by Keith Halperin on May 20, 2014 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Life, Interrupted

This is the hardest blog post I’ve ever written. Some will say it’s too personal, and they’re probably right. My regular readers know this blog is a diary of sorts, I generally write about whatever is top of mind and damn the consequences. Others may feel sorry for me. A few might even understand, having gone…

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Added by Amy Ala Miller on May 19, 2014 at 10:51pm — 18 Comments

The Day We Walked Away from $25,000

There were two candidates remaining. One of them was represented by A Sales Guy Recruiting. We felt good about  our chances; our guy was strong and articulate. He understood the space, he faired well in the phone interviews and he was confident.  He was a good fit on paper AND in person – or so we thought.

The two candidates were flown in on the same day. They were to…

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Added by Robye Nothnagel on May 19, 2014 at 4:23pm — 6 Comments

25 Funniest Résumés of ALL TIME

I really can't improve upon the work of the author who put this together - which one is your…

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Added by Steve Levy on May 18, 2014 at 1:24pm — 4 Comments

Your Resume: The Key To New Opportunities

Your resume, think of it as the key to opening doors to new possibilities and opportunities.  So given it is the key, you should probably learn how to write a great resume. First there are 3 main styles of resumes:…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on May 16, 2014 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Galactic Confederacy: Why LinkedIn Is Stealing The Legal Playbook from Lord Xenu

In January, LinkedIn filed a 17 page complaint targeting unknown defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.  This move was designed explicitly to force Amazon Web Services to discover, under subpoena,…

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Added by Matt Charney on May 15, 2014 at 9:01am — 2 Comments

How Will Retail Beat Out Other Industries for E-Commerce Talent?

According to Business Insider, e-commerce is capturing a larger share of retail sales than ever before. Media, sporting, and hobby goods and electronics and appliances account for the largest percentage of online retail sales. BI expects these categories to experience steep increases in sales between 2014 and 2020. Is this…

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Added by Ashley Zito Rowe on May 15, 2014 at 9:00am — No Comments

Employee Engagement. How far is too far?

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As Barry Flack opens with in his excellent blog The slow death of employee engagement, there are few people who think that having an engaged and motivated workforce isn’t a good thing.

The problem is, as Barry points out, the concept is very new and with the exception of a few…

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Added by Mitch Sullivan on May 15, 2014 at 5:00am — 4 Comments

10 Interview Questions That Sound Weird but have Great Value

You may have all the right degrees that can get you through a job interview, if the interviewer decides to stay to the questions that relate job and how well you think you can perform it. But it has been noticed that employers like Apple, Yahoo! and more try to judge a person through some weird and tricky questions. Here are some examples of top 10 weird interview questions…

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Added by Akansha Arora on May 15, 2014 at 1:30am — 6 Comments

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