With the turning of the seasons comes a new budget for many companies – nongovernment organizations receive their new budgets in October after the beginning of the fiscal year. With a rearranged or increased budget, there’s a good chance you’ll have the opportunity to create a new position. At the very least you’ll be able to reallocate money to a position you had to remove due…

Did you know that from late 2009 to 2012 the number of temporary workers in the workforce increased by 29%? I think we can call that a rapidly growing sector of the workforce, especially when you consider that private jobs grew by less than 1% in the same time period. It’s certainly a big enough jump to keep managers and executives alike up at night considering how to manage it…

What comes to mind when the word “teleworker” comes up in discussion? You may think of an entry-level 20-something parent sitting on the sofa with their laptop on the coffee table and a little one running around singing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” Truth is, the …

The UK’s new digital curriculum doesn’t mirror the whole current digital jobs market according to the niche jobs board Bubble Jobs.

The jobs board, which specialises in advertising digital vacancies, claims that while the new syllabus will help to prepare students for some areas of the industry such as coding and web development – it fails to cover a number of the other skills that are currently in demand.

Earlier this month, the UK became the first country to make computer…

It has been a while since your company took a look at their employer brand. Unfortunately, it falls under the radar for many. They’ve become utterly sluggish in creating a new strategy for the outdated brand. The workforce that’s leaving their college internships for employment with benefits isn’t drawn to the same marketing and recruiting techniques as the…

Colorful Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher believes in hiring for attitude, training for skill.

Traveling on Southwest Airlines has the potential to be a pretty miserable experience.

There are no assigned seats and no first class, so it is always a bum rush to get A or B seating.…

At Great Rated, we recently analyzed 50,000 confidential employee surveys to create our list of People’s Picks: 20 Great Workplaces in Technology. For human resources professionals, the no.1 organization in the large-companies category offers a telling example of the practices that help create a true sense of connection between team members and their organization.    …

During the last two decades, company managers encouraged their employees so that they can be career self-reliant.

They want their employees to take charge of their careers without relying on guidance from within the organization. Company managers must implement five key procedures to ensure that each employee has a successful…

Up until recently, search results in LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) and in (any) personal account were the same. LIR provides more results available for viewing for a given search and better results visibility (and also some facets that are not available in a personal search).

This has changed dramatically.

If you have a LinkedIn Recruiter account, you must read on.

Here are three examples of searches, compared side-by-side for a personal vs a LIR…

Yesterday I posted a disturbing article aboutChick-fil-A demoting a breast cancer survivor after she took medical leave for having double mastectomy. That demotion cut her hours which caused her to lose her healthcare coverage.…

I often comment about the reliance recruitment firms have on traditional sourcing strategies, but recently I’ve also noticed that website search engine optimisation (SEO) is also still perceived by a lot of agencies as being the most important form of branding outside of job boards.

I get this, it makes sense to have a high ranking website on Google so that people find you when they type in terms relating to your business. This blog isn’t focused on SEO but just quickly if you are…

We'll make this quick - there's more expo floor and happy hours to see.

Recruiting technology is trying to make recruiters better marketers.

For example, the tools are starting to build automated e-mail follow-ups because…

Don’t complain when you are the cause!!

So once again we will be taking a break from the series on lesser site, however rest assured we will continue it.

I am getting so so tired of all the hiring managers and recruiters complaining  about the supposed lack of talent. …

One of the biggest costs a company can incur is replacing employees or adding new people as the business grows.

While it is exciting to see companies do well, the increase in salaries and other costs associated with new employees can also impact a budget. It is important that the company look for the best ways to find the right employees while staying within…

Technology is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Electronic health records, payment models, consumer health applications, radiology barcoding applications, patient portals (which are intended to facilitate communication among providers, patients and healthcare organizations), telehealth, wearables, and robotics are just some examples of technological advancements being used by healthcare organizations and patients. IT professionals in healthcare are required to analyze,…

Over the last 20 years, technology has completely changed the recruitment industry, with the introduction of mobile, big data and social media all influencing the way recruitment agencies operate. In fact, the recruitment technology industry is expected to grow to £5 billion by 2015 (Tower Watson, 2013), highlighting how valuable technology has become in recruitment. This article looks at some of the most useful tools and technologies recruiters can access to make their lives…

At Great Rated, we're truly excited to share our recent People's Picks: 20 Great Workplaces in Technology, based entirely on the results of confidential employee surveys. Not only do these companies offer fantastic benefits and opportunities for advancement. They've also created magnetic work cultures within a sector that can be particularly challenging for recruiters because the…

We all hear about how critical it is to make a good first impression. An important study recently showed that first impressions are eerily accurate and frustratingly arbitrary. Rest assured, though, there is hope for the awkward. A 2009 study…

Today we had the great Steve Levy - @LevyRecruits - on The Recruiting Animal Show.

Sometimes it's hard to tell what the show is like while you're doing it but I just listened to half of this one and it was a lot of fun and I didn't even get to what I thought (during the show) was the best part.

Levy…

Like him or not, Bill O’Reilly is one of the most watched commentators in the USA. Credit: Justin Hoch, Wikipedia Commons

Love them or hate them, here is a fact about Fox News that no pundit could dispute: they are killing the competition.

The New York-based, Rupert Murdoch–owned news…