If you recruit in Italy, don’t check the social networks when you background a candidate. In Spain, you can monitor the time your workers spend on … Read more
More Employers Than Ever Recruit on Social Networks
No longer just the shiny new object in the toolbox, social media recruiting has become an integral part of sourcing and hiring. A Jobvite survey out this … Read more
Steady But Cautious Hiring Ahead For U.S.
Manpower says the U.S. can expect to steady, if cautious, hiring in the third quarter of the year. Based on what the approximately 18,000 U.S. employers … Read more
Dice Survey: Tech Demand Pushing Up Salaries, Fill Time
Tech hiring is tough and it’s only going to get tougher, says a new report from Dice.com. The IT specialty job board said its survey of IT employers … Read more
And the Award for Best Candidate Experience Goes To…
If you don’t care a whit about candidate experience, then you aren’t likely to be much interested in being recognized for it. For everyone … Read more
100 Best Companies List Has Many Familiar Names
Fortune magazine is out with its annual list of 100 Best Companies To Work For and the names there are recognizable to anyone keeping track. SAS, the North … Read more
Frustrated, but not Giving Up, Job Seekers Call in for Help
For two days last week, counselors with Challenger, Gray, & Christmas fielded calls from more than 1,500 job seekers seeking advice on everything from … Read more
Unemployment Claims Take Big Drop As Seesaw Year Nears End
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to their lowest level in two years last week, offering some good news to close out a year marked by roller-coastering … Read more
Glassdoor Lists the Best (Yes, Really!) Places to Work
From a site best known as the home of the disgruntled worker comes “The 50 Best Places to Work” list. It’s true. It’s true. … Read more
Predictions Are for Hiring Improvement in 2011
Hiring predictions for 2011 are starting to come in and what they say is that we can expect more jobs next year, though there’ll be no partying like … Read more
Employers Think Vets Are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them
Amidst the rah-rah news yesterday about the drop in unemployment claims, little notice was paid to another one of the data points in the weekly report … Read more
More Cell Phones Than Computers Means You Can’t Ignore Mobile
At every HR trade show, demo, product announcement, or webinar technology vendors of every stripe talk about their mobile interfaces. Even if it never … Read more
Drink Up in Honor of Coffee Day
When you lift that first cup o’ Joe this morning, give thanks to Kaldi the Ethiopian goat herder who made graveyard shifts possible. Without his … Read more
Mancession Taking a Toll On Dad
Dad could use a little TLC this Father’s Day. Whether employed or one of the 8.6 million men out of work, fathers are feeling stressed, fatigued, and … Read more
Reasons for Canadian Worker Loyalty Depend on Language
Here’s a curious tidbit from the Great North: money is important to all workers, but French Canadians say “interesting/challenging work” … Read more
Free Job Board Demos? It Happens In The U.K.
Imagine 70 or so of the largest job boards in the U.S. volunteering to disclose their site demographics and user details and have all the data made … Read more
Surveys Show Workers Are Ready To Make Changes
A raft of recent surveys shows that the recession is having a profound impact on workers and employment trends worldwide. Even though they measure … Read more
Father’s Day Survey: Dads Prefer Work To Kids
New age dads are embracing some old-school ideas about gender roles, according to a CareerBuilder survey out just in time for Father’s Day. More than … Read more
Recruiters Amping Up Interest In Social Media
ERE’s first Social Recruiting Summit gets underway Monday, appropriately enough, at Google world headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley. That … Read more
New York Workers Say They Are More Stressed Than Anyone Else
Pity those poor New Yorkers. Slammed by Wall Street’s meltdown, alarmed by a photo shoot for a presidential plane, and struggling with more cases of … Read more