Coming off of a year of layoffs, pay and hiring freezes, bankruptcies, and bailouts, one would think it’s not the year for a recruiting award. Think again. ERE Recruiting Excellence Award applicants found creative ways to redeploy employees, including recruiters, avoiding layoffs and saving money. Others used the recession to redo their career websites, build a new... [full article »]

Monster CEO Sal Iannuzzi, who was in a breakout session at the recent White House jobs summit, is telling the Administration that employers should get help to mitigate the expense of bringing on a new employee. While such help could vary, Iannuzzi gives the example of a job candidate currently getting $15,000 annually in unemployment benefits.... [full article »]

Yahoo, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Hyatt each handled the recession and the prospect of layoffs differently. Hyatt, says branding/culture speaker Lizz Pellet in the video interview below, deserves a big thumbs-down. [full article »]

A new study from Watson Wyatt has pretty good news for employees who miss their old salaries and 401(k) matches, and shows that employers are just as worried about keeping people as they were before everything went all haywire on us. Let’s start with retention. Take the percentage of surveyed employers (26%) who now say they... [full article »]

Companies are getting “very comfortable” with the idea that they don’t need to spend a lot of recruiting dollars, says Bayard’s Ann Troxell, in the video below. Troxell says this comfort stems from the “frightening” belief among senior management that turnover will stay low. [full article »]

U.S. EEOC Assistant Legal Counsel Carol Miaskoff brought up a few points in her Florida presentation (see video, below) that raised questions among ERE members. I caught up with her on the phone to go over a few of those questions. Mary Kay Mauren, senior attorney advisor, was also on the call. [full article »]

Steven Toole doesn’t seem as high on social media recruiting as we are. But he is upbeat about employment, saying that a “perfect storm” is brewing for recruiters in 18-24 months as Americans begin a game of job-hopping musical chairs. Below, Toole talks about these job-market trends, and the upcoming need for a lot of recruiters... [full article »]

Kristen Carroll, of Elliot Health System, provides six questions to ask yourself about the role of human resources in your organization. We don’t have a scorecard on us, but suffice it to say if you give yourself a zero, that could be a bad sign. Does your top HR leader report to the CEO? Are HR reports... [full article »]

David Szary says financial services companies are hiring — a lot. Here, he talks about hiring and retiring in the banking sector and in healthcare. [full article »]

Some old standbys used to attract and keep execs are not being relied upon as frequently, according to an ExecuNet survey of 476 search firm consultants and corporate human resources professionals. Here’s the data comparing this year and last. [full article »]

Just a little buzz floating around sticky Hollywood, Florida: Amazon is live with a new talent acquisition system, courtesy of iCIMS. Cytiva, whose product is SonicRecruit, says its third quarter will be the best of the year, and says it is seeing a “definite loosening of budgets.” JobTarget has bought Career Liaison, a company that’ll help it keep... [full article »]

You’ve heard that employment is a proverbial “lagging indicator.” Companies wait to hire until they’re sure an economic recovery is underway. Actually, that’s not true, says Stephen Lowisz, founder and CEO of Qualigence. [full article »]

Chris Forman of AIRS talks about the economy, how his company is doing, and what’s going on with the recruitment outsourcing business. [full article »]

Though so many recruiters have been laid off, hiring still goes on, with maybe 3 million U.S. jobs open. Jeremy Eskenazi talks about who’s doing the recruiting work now, and who might be doing it in a year or two. [full article »]

A select group of interns, dubbed with unfortunate corniness FUNterns, are putting in 15 hours a week with Nestle as ambassadors for the Butterfinger brand while working full-time jobs or keeping busy elsewhere. It’s an innovative program which kills two Nestle birds with one stone: using social media (online user-generated videos) to market candy, and providing... [full article »]

Still waiting on Adidas. Meanwhile, Fidelity has gone live with a new careers site, which has been many months in the making. It’s most proud of the “Meet Our People” section of videos; there’s a link to that part at the bottom middle of the site. Let me know what you think of it. [full article »]

Adidas will be going live at the end of August with a corporate careers site it’s convinced will be an “industry disruptor.” It took a year and a half for adidas to put its new site together, with help from Carat (which is now Freestyle Interactive). Steve Fogarty, adidas North America Recruiting Captain, was the project... [full article »]

The list of companies offering resume writing, enhancement, and tracking continues to grow faster than you can say LinkedIn, with new vendors entering the market this summer. [full article »]

SHRM had employees use a 4-point scale to indicate what’s “very unimportant” (that’s a 1) or “very important” (that’s a 4). The percentages below indicate how many people gave the item a 4, meaning “very important.” The 601 full- or part-time employees were randomly selected from the U.S. telephone population. [full article »]

Years ago, John Sullivan was doing some consulting work for W.L. Gore, the makers of Gore-Tex. “You guys are the best story never told,” he said to them. Not any more. Gore will be telling scientists, engineers, and other prospective employees its story by launching a new global branding campaign from Arizona to China with a... [full article »]