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“Um, What Company is this Again?” Candidates’ Most Cringe-Worthy Interview Mistakes

Employers know as well as job seekers do that it’s still tough out there, and it seems they would be kind to overlook job seekers’ most innocent of mistakes, like spilling coffee on the boss’s suit, or letting it slip that “snugglebear” was one’s childhood nickname, or calling the hiring manager “Dad” in a moment of flustered introductions (No? Continue reading

By in Interviewing, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Mature worker lost in thought

Is Traditional Retirement Disappearing? How Older Workers Are Redefining Their Careers

“Hey, remember when retiring was a ‘thing’? Those were the days.” While hearing that phrase might sound odd now, the fading out of traditional retirement not be so far off the mark: Fifty-seven percent of workers ages 60 and older said in a new Harris Interactive© study they would look for a new job after retiring from their current company–a sign that these days, retirement doesn’t necessarily mean the end of someone’s career. Continue reading

By in Economy, Generational Hiring, Retention, Survey Results

Employee Survey

Stability and Culture Top Workers’ ‘Most Wanted’ Lists

A new survey sheds light on how employers can overcome their top staffing challenges.

Forty-three percent of hiring managers and human resource professionals are concerned top workers will leave their organizations this year, according to a new CareerBuilder survey. Continue reading

By in Insights & Trends, Survey Results

Opportunities in Staffing -- Health Care Sector

What Do Workers Really Think About Your Health Care Staffing Firm?

If you were on CareerBuilder’s recent webinar (you can still listen here) about 2011′s Opportunities in Staffing report findings, you’re already privy to many interesting details about the state of the staffing industry today, what your candidates, employees and clients think of your firm, and how you can make a bigger impact in your recruitment efforts. Continue reading

By in Industries, Staffing & Recruiting, Survey Results

Worker packing for relocation

Relocation Nation 2012: How Workers and Employers Are Making a Move

We’ve talked recently about how voluntary turnover is on the rise this year. As it turns out, many of those workers may not be remaining anywhere near their own backyard when they leave their current job.

A whopping 44 percent of workers say they’ll relocate this year for the right job, according to a new CareerBuilder survey conducted by Harris Interactive© among more than 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals and nearly 8,000 U.S. Continue reading

By in Economy, Infographic, Insights & Trends, Survey Results

On a personal call with the state governor

“I Had a Personal Call from the Governor”: Employees’ Strangest Late-to-Work Excuses

Just when we thought we’d heard it all — employees getting locked in the car trunk, dogs swallowing cell phones, and Botox appointments taking longer than expected — the results of this year’s CareerBuilder survey on employees’ unusual excuses for arriving late to work arrived — and we saw that this year, even a state governor was involved in an employee’s excuse for being late (more details about that one below). Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Insights & Trends, Survey Results

Gen Y on Facebook

Gen Y on Facebook: Where Work and Personal Habits Collide

As we’ve talked about before, many members of Generation Y look at work a little bit differently than other generations.  ”I love my job, but I love my life more” is something you might hear Gen Yers say. Although members of Gen Y (the generational group comprised of those 18 to 29 years of age) have no problem with working hard, as a general rule, their job will never be the whole of their identity. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Generational Hiring, Insights & Trends, Social Media, Sourcing, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Ready and able workers

36% of Companies Are Leaning on Temporary Workers to Support Slim Staffs

It’s 2012. The year of presidential elections; the year of the world’s end, if you ask some; and, according to the results of a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive© of more than 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals, the year of the temporary and contract worker?! Continue reading

By in Economy, Insights & Trends, Survey Results

Bad hires cost employees money

What’s the True Cost of a Bad Hire?

They may not have experienced the type of PR nightmares that Netflix experienced from its ill-conceived decision to launch Qwikster or Yahoo! Inc. saw after firing CEO Carol Bartz over the phone, but two-thirds of American companies say they’ve made business mistakes this year they wish they could take back. Continue reading

By in Insights & Trends, Survey Results

Employee surrounded by falling gifts at the office

Office Holiday Cheer Outlook: More Merry, More Bright for 2011

The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means: A lot of wide-eyed excitement, crackling fires, fresh-baked treats, gatherings with loved ones, snowball fights, and more perks at work like bonuses, parties and gifts.

Wait, what was that last part? Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Infographic, Insights & Trends, Survey Results

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