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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Branding

Do You Need to Define Your Employment Brand? Five Tests

Pop quiz: Does your organization have an employment brand? No? Wrong answer. Every organization has an employment brand. Whether it’s defined or not: That is the question – the answer to which could either put you way ahead of the competition when it comes to recruitment… or leave you way behind. Continue reading

By in Employment Branding, Talent Acquisition

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Discover a New Recruitment Fact Every Monday With Talent Factor, Powered by CareerBuilder

Get access to cutting-edge recruitment statistics and labor market indicators every Monday that will help drive your talent acquisition, engagement and retention strategies with CareerBuilder’s Talent Factor. Check out the newest statistic on The Hiring Site every Monday, or subscribe via email below. Continue reading

By in Insights & Trends, Talent Factor

Athletes in the workplace

Why Hiring an Athlete Can Be a Victory for Your Team

Today’s modern-day workforce is extremely competitive. The 12 million people unemployed and eight percent national unemployment rate affirms this. On top of the volatile economy, employees are becoming better educated, more agile, highly tech-savvy and adaptable within their work environments.

Certainly there are those with desireable traits who can deter a questionably combative workforce. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Selection

Road rage on the way to work

Is Road Rage Affecting Your Employees’ Work Performance?

 As if those emails piling into your inbox on an hourly basis isn’t enough, there’s construction on your route to work, that guy who was texting while driving just cut you off, the person in the left lane in front of you is going so slooooooowwww, oh wow — you just got cut off again. Continue reading

By in Employee Wellness, Insights & Trends, Survey Results

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Big Data: An ‘Easy Button’ for Recruiting? Why It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an ‘easy button’ when it came to recruiting? A way to pinpoint exactly where the candidates you need are hiding? A litmus test to predict which candidates will be successful in your organization? A navigation device to show you where you need to focus your recruiting efforts and what message you need to send to bring in a better quantity and quality of applicants? Continue reading

By in Innovation, Technology, Trends

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Survey: WTF is Up with Swearing at Work?

Does swearing at work curse you professionally? A new CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,000 hiring managers and 3,800 workers nationwide sheds light on how employers and employees view cursing in the workplace. Continue reading

Who’s Got the Biggest Potty Mouth?

By in Survey Results

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“Creating Effective Job Postings that Attract the Best Talent”: A Recap

Last week, many of us listened, asked questions, and tweeted with the #betterjobs hashtag as David Clark, senior manager of product operations and job optimization at CareerBuilder, and Victor Gipson, manager for client support, shared their insights and tips on how hiring managers can create and enhance their job postings for search engine optimization (findability) and context (more compelling and clear content) in CareerBuilder’s “Creating Effective Job Postings that Attract the Best Talent. Continue reading

By in Free Tools You Can Use, Selection, Webinars

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Thirty-Seven Percent of Organizations Use Social Media to Research Job Candidates

Nearly two in five companies (37 percent) use social networking sites to research job candidates, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder. Of the employers who do not research candidates on social media, 15 percent said their company prohibits the practice. Continue reading

By in Social Media, Talent Factor

Training and re-skilling at Accenture

‘We Put a Tremendous Focus on Reskilling’ | How Accenture Empowers Employment

Accenture recently committed to equipping 250,000 people worldwide with the skills they need to find a job or build a business. But that’s only one of the ways this company is doing its part to empower employment. Learn more about how this company is reaching out to address the skills gap and help more Americans get back to work in the following Q&A with Jill Smart, Accenture’s Chief Human Resources Officer. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Leadership Series, Empowered by CareerBuilder

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‘Rich History’ of Hiring Veterans Points to Bright Future | Q&A with Humana’s Director of Talent Acquisition

Last August, health care company Humana, Inc. pledged to hire 1,000 military veterans and/or their spouses over a three-year period as part of President Obama’s nationwide veterans hiring challenge. Less than a year later, Humana is already ahead of schedule. As of this month, they’re already at 46 percent of their goal. Continue reading

By in Corner Office, Economy, Empowered by CareerBuilder

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